The unwanted sound of everything we want : a book about noise /

Noise is usually defined as unwanted sound: loud music from a neighbor, the honk of a taxicab, the roar of a supersonic jet. But as Garret Keizer illustrates in this probing examination, noise is as much about what we want as about what we seek to avoid. It has been a byproduct of human striving sin...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Keizer, Garret
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : PublicAffairs, ©2010.
Edición:1st ed.
Temas:
Noise > Psychological aspects.
Sound > Psychological aspects.
Human information processing.
Noise.
Sound.
Mental Processes
Noise
Sound
Son > Aspect psychologique.
Traitement de l'information chez l'être humain.
Bruit.
Son.
noise.
sound (acoustics)
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Environmental Policy.
SCIENCE > Environmental Science.
Human information processing
Noise > Psychological aspects
Sound > Psychological aspects
Lawaai.
Geluid.
Psychologische aspecten.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Noise is interested in you
  • The unwanted sound of everything we want
  • The noise of political animals
  • What the Python said: prehistory to the eve of the industrial age
  • What Laura heard: the industrial age to the present
  • Their world too: noise today
  • Loud America
  • Sustainability and celebration
  • The most beautiful sound in the world.

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