Zero Decibels: The Quest for Absolute Silence

by George Michelsen Foy

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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.--- " I don't know at what point noise became intolerable for me," George Michelsen Foy writes as he recalls standing on a subway platform in Manhattan, hands clamped firmly over his ears, face contorted in pain. But only then does Foy realize how overwhelmed he...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:1416599592

ISBN13:9781416599593

Release Date:May 2010

Publisher:Scribner Book Company

Length:196 Pages

Weight:0.60 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 5.7" x 8.8"

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