The sound book : the science of the sonic wonders of the world / Trevor Cox.
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TextPublisher: New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Company, 2014Edition: First American editionDescription: 331 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0393239799; 9780393239799; 0393350584; 9780393350586Uniform titles: Sonic wonderland Subject(s): Sounds -- Popular works | Noise -- Popular works | Noise -- Popular works | Noise | Noise -- Popular works | Popular works | Sounds -- Popular works | Noise | Sounds | Geräusch | Sounds | NoiseGenre/Form: Popular works. | Popular works.DDC classification: 550.1/534 | 534 LOC classification: QC225.3 | .C69 2014Other classification: O42-49 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Notes | Date due | Barcode |
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"Published in Great Britain by The Bodley Head under the title 'Sonic wonderland : a scientific odyssey of sound'"--Title page verso.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-311) and index.
The most reverberant place in the world -- Ringing rocks -- Barking fish -- Echoes of the past -- Going round the bend -- Singing sands -- The quietest places in the world -- Placing sound -- Future wonders.
"With forays into archaeology, neuroscience, biology, and design, Cox explains how sound is made and altered by the environment, how our body reacts to peculiar noises, and how these mysterious wonders illuminate sound's surprising dynamics in everyday settings, from your bedroom to the opera house"--Amazon.com.
A professor of acoustic engineering provides a tour of the world's most amazing sound phenomena, including creaking glaciers, whispering galleries, stalactite organs, musical roads, humming dunes, seals that sound like alien angels, and a Mayan pyramid that chirps like a bird.
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