11 books found
by Carl Beitel Bender, Charles Sanderson Cathcart, George Willard Martin, Gunnar Giöbel, J. Richards Nelson, Leon Augustus] [Hausman, Ray Hutson, Thomas J. Headlee
1926
An "elegant and eloquent" (New York Times) exploration of the frontiers of noise and silence, and the growing war between them. Between iPods, music-blasting restaurants, earsplitting sports stadiums, and endless air and road traffic, the place for quiet in our lives grows smaller by the day. In Pursuit of Silence gives context to our increasingly desperate sense that noise pollution is, in a very real way, an environmental catastrophe. Traveling across the country and meeting and listening to a host of incredible characters, including doctors, neuroscientists, acoustical engineers, monks, activists, educators, marketers, and aggrieved citizens, George Prochnik examines why we began to be so loud as a society, and what it is that gets lost when we can no longer find quiet.
by Aubrey Clare Hildreth, August Leroy Strand, Carle Clark Zimmerman, Frederick James Alway, George Augustus Pond, Harry Burgess Roe, Henry Schmitz, Melville Harrison Hatch, R. E. Lubbehusen, William Robinson, George Henry Nesom
1926
by Bruce Lester Warwick, Edmond Joseph Delwiche, Edwin Broun Fred, George Wannamaker Keitt, Gordon Thayer Nightingale, Harley Frost Wilson, Hugo Henry Sommer, John Harrison Kolb, Lewis Ralph Jones, Ray Harland Roberts
1925
by Bristow Adams, Furman Lloyd Mulford, George Pugh Williams, Howard Ross Tolley, Philip Luginbill, Raymond R. Pailthorp, William Stuart, Harold Willis Samson
1923
by Arthur Vance Swarthout, Benton Early Rothgeb, Carl Joseph West, Emily Florence Alger Hoag Sawtelle, Frederick William Kressman, George Alfred Collier, Harry B. McClure, Harry Nelson Vinall, John Andrew Bexell, Robert Ellsworth Getty
1928
by Dan Hansen, Eugene Merritt, George Thomas Ratliffe, Harry Vanghn Harlan, John Enos Graf, Orator Fuller Cook, Tyōzaburō Tanaka, Wilfred Wickes Ballard
1921
by Charles Gardner Rogers, George David Hubbard, Samuel Robinson Williams, Elsie May Lewis
1916