SONIC WONDERLAND: A SCIENTIFIC ODYSSEY OF SOUND(US TITLE: THE SOUND BOOK: THE SCIENCE OF THE SONIC WONDERS OF THE WORLD)

Book ID/图书代码： 13000511B49889

English Summary/英文概要： A celebration of the science of sound, by a top researcher and broadcaster who has studied why people hate the noise of fingernails scraping on a chalkboard, constructed the world’s largest whoopee cushion and disproved the old saying that a duck’s quack produces no echo.

Creaking glaciers, whispering galleries, stalactite organs, musical roads, squeaking beaches, groaning waterwheels, frogs that croak in Mexican waves, Mayan pyramids that produce echoes that chirp like a bird – these are just a sample of the impressive, strange and surprising sounds that the acoustic engineer Trevor Cox has tracked down in his search for the ’sonic wonders of the world’.

In Laboratory of Sound, he uses his experiences of visiting sewers, caves, tidal bores, burial mounds, sand dunes, concert halls and more to explore how sound is made and altered by the environment, how our body hears, perceives and reacts to peculiar sounds, and how sounds and acoustics have inspired musicians, artists and writers.

Ranging across a dizzying array of realms including literature, classical music, history, archaeology, psychology, neuroscience, geology, physics, biology and ecology, the book is an original and compelling tour of the world’s most amazing acoustic phenomena and the sometimes even stranger people behind them – and a passionate plea for a deeper appreciation of and respect for our shared sonic landscapes.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 一位探索为何人们厌恶指甲划过黑板发出的声音的顶级研究者和播音员创办了一场声音科学庆典，庆典呈现了世界上最大的人坐上去会发出声响的坐垫，这驳斥了一句俗话“鸭子的叫声是不会产生回音的。”

冰川破裂发出嘎吱嘎吱的声响，美术馆里人们的窃窃私语，道路上音乐般的声音，踩在海滩上的吱吱声，水车车轮转动时的呻吟声，在墨西哥湾水花中瓜瓜叫的蛙声以及仿佛鸟鸣般的玛雅金字塔里的回声---这些声音打动人心、奇异陌生、不可思议，让声学工程师特福雷??考克斯在其中寻觅“世间声音的奇迹”。

在《声音的实验室》一书中，特福雷??考克斯结合自己参观下水道、山洞、潮涌、坟墓、沙丘、音乐厅等地方的经历，探索声音是在环境中是怎样产生和发生变化，我们的身体如何听到，阐释不同的声音，并对它们做出反应的，以及它们是如何启发我们的音乐家、艺术家和作家的。

本书独具匠心、引人入胜，内容涉及五彩缤纷的世界，包括文学、古典音乐、历史、考古学、心理学、神经学、地质学、生物学和生态学，带领读者游览世间最令人惊异的声音世界，甚至还会碰到这些声音背后的奇怪之人---同时，我们也会对这个人类共享的声音世界有着更好的欣赏和更高的尊敬。(兼职翻译-XMM)

Awards/获奖情况："A riveting ear-opener, Trevor Cox describes in lyrical detail a range of sonic events and new ways of listening that can only brighten our experience of the acoustic world around us. A must-read for sound-lovers of all stripes." --Bernie Krause, author of The Great Animal Orchestra

About the Author/作者介绍： 特福雷??考克斯1967年出生，是索尔福德大学声学工程教授，并任声学研究所主席。十五年来，他一直通过学校工作，皇家艾尔伯特音乐厅的表演及有关鸭子嘎嘎叫的媒体故事向公众传递着科学知识。到目前为止，特弗雷已经为英国广播公司制作了十五部纪录片，这包括《拯救我们的声音》（获得了无线电奥斯卡奖）和常常在电视节目中播放的《绿色的耳朵》。与此同时，他还为《新科学家》杂志创作文章，也是英国广播四台竞赛节目《那么你想成为一名科学家》的发起人和评委之一，这一档节目旨在寻找到英国最出色的业余科学家。

Trevor Cox was born in 1967. He is Professor of Acoustic Engineering at Salford University and President of the Institute of Acoustics. For 15 years, he has been communicating science to the public, ranging from work with schools, through shows at the Royal Albert Hall, to media stories about duck quacks. He has presented 15 science documentaries for BBC radio including ‘Save Our Sounds’ (which won a Radio Academy Award) and ‘Green Ears’, appeared frequently on television and written for New Scientist. He was a co-originator and judge of BBC Radio 4’s ‘So You Want To Be A Scientist?’, a competition to find Britain’s best amateur scientist

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