More than money, power, and even happiness, silence has become the most preciousa??and dwindlinga??commodity of our modern world.A A 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. A In Pursuit of Silence gives contextA to our increasingly desperateA sense that noise pollution is, in a very real way, an environmental catastrophe.A Listening to doctors, neuroscientists, acoustical engineers, monks, activists, educators, marketers, and aggrieved citizens, George ProchnikA 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. A He shows us the benefits of decluttering our sonic world.A A As Prochnik travels across the United States and overseas, we meet a rich host of characters: an idealistic architect who is pioneering a new kind of silent architecture in collaboration with the Deaf community at Gallaudet...

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