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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

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Author

Prochnik George.; Overdrive Inc

Publisher

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Published

2010

Language

EN

ISBN

9780385533263

Category

social science

Subjects

Psychology, Self Help, Sociology

Rating

3.47 / 5 (358 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14