Noise Pollution : : The Unquiet Crisis / / Clifford R. Bragdon.
In this handbook on a growing public menace, Clifford R. Bragdon applies acoustical engineering and social science to the least understood-yet one of the most serious-environmental hazards of modern society. This book is a precision tool; it gives facts and figures, precise scientific measurements,...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Pennsylvania Press Package Archive 1898-1999 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2016] ©1972 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Edition: | Reprint 2016 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Anniversary Collection
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (304 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- Preface
- I. Community Noise as a Social Problem
- II. What is Noise?
- III. The Nuisances and Hazards of Noise
- IV. The Design of the Community Noise Survey
- V. The Metropolitan Philadelphia Noise Survey: Analysis of Sound and Its Sources
- VI The Metropolitan Philadelphia Noise Survey: Analysis of Community Response
- VII. Quieting the Crisis: Some Solutions
- Appendix A. Community Questionnaire
- Appendix B. National Advertising of Consumer Products
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index