The sound book : the science of the sonic wonders of the world / Trevor Cox.
"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.
Record details
- ISBN: 0393239799 (hardcover)
- ISBN: 9780393239799 (hardcover)
- ISBN: 0393350584 (paperback)
- ISBN: 9780393350586 (paperback)
- Physical Description: 331 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
- Edition: First American edition.
- Publisher: New York, NY : W. W. Norton & Company, 2014.
Content descriptions
General Note: | "Published in Great Britain by The Bodley Head under the title 'Sonic wonderland : a scientific odyssey of sound'"--Title page verso. |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-311) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | 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. |
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Subject: | Sounds > Popular works. Noise > Popular works. |
Available copies
- 1 of 1 copy available at Kirtland Community College.
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Kirtland Community College Library | QC 225.3 .C69 2014 | 30775305503840 | General Collection | Available | - |
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