Sound Book The Science of the Sonic Wonders of the World

Name: Sound Book The Science of the Sonic Wonders of the World
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ISBN: 9780393239799

ISBN-10: 0393239799

ISBN-13: 9780393239799

Edition: 2014

Authors: Trevor Cox

List price: $26.95

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Trevor Cox is on a hunt for the sonic wonders of the world. A renowned expert who engineers classrooms and concert halls, Cox has made a career of eradicating bizarre and unwanted sounds. But after an epiphany in the London sewers, Cox now revels in exotic noises-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. 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…

Book details

List price: $26.95
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 2/10/2014
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 304
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.342

Trevor Cox is Professor of Acoustic Engineering at the University of Salford and President of the Institute of Acoustics. He has presented numerous science radio documentaries and has written for the New Scientist. He is an associate editor for an international journal of acoustics. Twitter: @trevor_cox