silence
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A Book of Silence Sara Maitland 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,…
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Silence and Listening as Rhetorical Arts Cheryl Glenn & Krista Ratcliffe In Silence and Listening as Rhetorical Arts, editors Cheryl Glenn and Krista Ratcliffe bring together seventeen essays by new and established scholars that demonstrate the value and importance of…
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In Pursuit of Silence: Listening for Meaning in a World of Noise George Prochnik A brilliant, far-reaching exploration of the frontiers of noise and silence, and the growing war between them. Between iPods, music-blasting restaurants, earsplitting sports stadiums, and…
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Unspoken: A Rhetoric of Silence Cheryl Glenn In our talkative Western culture, speech is synonymous with authority and influence while silence is frequently misheard as passive agreement when it often signifies much more. In her groundbreaking exploration of silence as…
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Silence: The Power of Quiet in a World Full of Noise Thich Nhat Hanh The Zen master and one of the world’s most beloved teachers returns with a concise, practical guide to understanding and developing our most powerful inner resource—silence—to…
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The Mysticism of Sound and Music (Shambhala Dragon Editions) Hazrat Inayat Khan Music, according to Sufi teaching, is really a small expression of the overwhelming and perfect harmony of the whole universe—and that is the secret of its amazing power…