Ebook: Zero Decibels: The Quest for Absolute Silence

Have our noise-soaked lives driven us mad? And is absolute silence an impossible goal-- or the one thing that can save us? A lively tale of one man's quest to find the grail of total quiet.;The Broadway train -- Quest for total sound -- City noise, urban quiet -- A brief history of silence -- Quest for silence: the country -- Art of silence, silence in art -- "The quietest place in the universe": scientific silence -- Can we hear "nothing"? Silence and physiology -- The silence of the sea: how hearing evolved -- Why Apaches don't talk -- The silence of the disappeared -- The death of quiet: coping with overload -- The quietest place on earth -- The monks of Cîteaux: silence as absolute -- Tinnitus! -- The farmhouse.