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Hardcover Silence: A Social History of One of the Least Understood Elements of Our Lives Book

ISBN: 0544702484

ISBN13: 9780544702486

Silence: A Social History of One of the Least Understood Elements of Our Lives

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From the author of the "dazzling epic"* Brilliant, a compelling history of silence as a powerful shaper of the human mind--in prisons, in places of contemplation, and in our own lives

Through her evocative intertwined histories of the penitentiary and the monastery, Jane Brox illuminates the many ways silence is far more complex than any absolute; how it has influenced ideas of the self, soul, and society. Brox traces its...

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