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335 pages ; 23 cm
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English
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"As a teenager, Harriet Shawcross stopped speaking for almost a year, retreating into herself and communicating only when absolutely necessary. As an adult, she became fascinated by the limits of language and in Unspeakable she asks what makes us silent." -- Dust jacket.
3) The silence
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398 pages ; 18 cm
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English
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"In the darkness of a underground cave system, cut off from the world for millennia, blind creatures hunt by sound. Then there is light, there are voices, and they feed. Swarming from their prison, they multiply and thrive. To scream, even to whisper, is to summon death. Deaf for many years, Ali knows how to live in silence. Now, it is her family's only chance of survival. To leave their home, to shun others, to find a remote haven where they can...
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viii, 368 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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"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"--
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English
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In her late forties, after a noisy upbringing as one of six children and adulthood as a vocal feminist and mother, Sara Maitland found herself living alone in the country and, to her surprise, falling in love with silence. In this fascinating, intelligent, and beautifully written book, Maitland describes how she began to explore this new love, spending periods of silence in the Sinai desert, the Scottish hills, and a remote cottage on the Isle of...
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143 pages : color illustrations ; 19 cm
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English
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"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 experience and discussing the observations of poets,...
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English
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"The first half of this book is a ... wide-ranging yet concise survey of the idea of silence in Christian theology and in the practices of all kinds of Christians through the centuries. In the second half, different kinds of quiet in Christian history come under scrutiny"--Review, Sunday Times (London).
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249 pages ; 23 cm
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English
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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...
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 cm
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Français
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"Le matin, quand les oiseaux se mettent à chanter et le bébé se réveille, le Bruit frappe à la porte et entre bruyamment. Et le Silence s'en va discrètement. Mais le Silence reviendra quand tu le réclameras, quand tu en auras besoin. Même quand le Bruit est là, au milieu du vacarme."--Back cover.
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color illustrations ; 23 x 29 cm
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English
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Yoshio delights in the everyday sounds of Tokyo, but when a musician tells him that her favorite sound is ma, the Japanese word for silence, Yoshio sets out to hear this sound for himself among the hustle and bustle of the city. Includes information on the Japanese concept of ma.
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252 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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"A desperately needed wake-up call for a world that demands we keep tweeting, posting, and podcasting that proves the most important thing might be to shut up! By identifying the six types of overtalkers and the six principles to cure our babbling ways, STFU empowers us to become better at nearly every facet of our daily lives and in our most treasured relationships"--
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153 pages ; 23 cm
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English
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"The tranquility of order is a dynamic tranquility, the stillness of a flame burning in perfect calm, of a wheel spinning so fast that it seems to stand still. Silence in this sense is not only a quality of the environment, but primarily an attitude, an attitude of listening. ... Let us give to one another that gift of silence, so that we can listen together and listen to one another. Only in this silence will we be able to hear that gentle breath...
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1 videodisc (96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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The Abbott family must now face the terrors of the outside world as they fight for survival in silence. Forced to venture into the unknown, they realize that the creatures that hunt by sound are not the only threats that lurk beyond the sand path.
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366 pages ; 24 cm
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Español
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Karl es un niño con un oído extraordinario que se siente abrumado por el ruido que tiene que soportar al estar con más gente. Ya de bebe no aguanta ni estar cerca del latido del corazón de su madre. Poco a poco, este niño peculiar que vive en el sótano y prácticamente no sale de casa descubrirá que matar es la única manera de liberar a la gente de sus penas y preocupaciones. Matar se convierte en el mayor acto posible de amor y en la única...
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290 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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"By all appearances, Frank and Maggie share a happy, loving marriage. But for the past six months, they have not spoken. Not a sentence, not a single word. Maggie isn't sure what, exactly, provoked Frank's silence, though she has a few ideas ... Then Frank finds Maggie collapsed in the kitchen, unconscious, an empty package of sleeping pills on the table. Rushed to the hospital, she is placed in a medically induced coma while the doctors assess the...
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