A unique look at noise and its positive and negative effects throughout human history. \'A spectacularly good book\' }New Scientist{.
It also considers how new science and ideas in the future may change the way our world will sound.
It explains how our scientific understanding of sound and hearing has developed, looks at noise in nature, and at how it has changed with the increase of urbanization.
A unique look at noise and its positive and negative effects throughout human history