Listening to doctors, neuroscientists, acoustical engineers, monks, activists, educators, marketers, and aggrieved citizens, George Prochnik examines why we began to be so loud as a society, what it is that gets lost when we can no longer find quiet, and what are the benefits of decluttering our sonic world.

"From a mindfulness expert and a leadership coach, a book that looks at the science, psychology, philosophy, and spirituality of silence by giving new context to the noise all around us--physical and metaphorical--to change the way we hear and experience the world"--

In a time when technology penetrates our lives in so many ways and materialism exerts such a powerful influence over us, Cardinal Robert Sarah presents a bold book about the strength of silence. The modern world generates so much noise, he says, that seeking moments of silence has become both harder and more necessary than ever before. Silence is the indispensable doorway to the divine, explains the cardinal in this profound conversation with Nicolas...

Mara is a simultaneous interpreter who moves to a provincial town in Argentina in order to speak as little as possible for a year. Steeled with the ten rules of silence set out in her manual of rhetoric, she takes a job as a guard in the local museum. The advantages of her work are threatened when she's asked to assist in the re-embalming of the museum's pride and joy: two horses-of great national and historical significance-are disintegrating and...

"In this illustrated picture book, a young child learns to find comfort in silence when the world becomes too noisy."--

In 1993, Norwegian explorer Erling Kagge spent fifty days walking solo across Antarctica, becoming the first person to reach the South Pole alone, accompanied only by a radio whose batteries he had removed before setting out. In this book. an astonishing and transformative meditation, Kagge explores the silence around us, the silence within us, and the silence we must create. By recounting his own experiences and discussing the observations of poets,...

Offers a history of silence as a powerful shaper of the human mind, specifically in Eastern State Penitentiary and the monastic world of Medieval Europe.

Albert wants a quiet place to read, but his friends just want to play and now everyone has to figure out how to have fun together.

"La ansiedad, la angustia, el insomnio o la ira - cada vez más frecuentes - nos atrapan en estados de inquietud, miedo o desesperanza, una sensación de vacío que nuestra mente insiste en llenar de amenazas. Encarcelados por los pensamientos negativos, vamos haciendo ajustes disfuncionales que perpetúan el sufrimiento. Sin embargo, tenemos la capacidad de adquirir sabiduría y habilidad en el adiestramiento mental, para transitar ese dolor, aliviarlo...

Find all the sounds of everyday in the story's colorful illustrations, then find out how to switch them off.