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If you are a city dweller, a factory worker, a teenager or a fifty-year old, you may be becoming deafer by the day. If you live by a jetport, it may already be too late. It is all too apparent that sound can be used or abused – to allow communication or noise. In this thoroughly illustrated volume, Graham Chedd explains why these differences exist: what sound is, how we speak and hear, the principles of acoustics as employed in building design, the properties of sound underwater, ultra-sound, and what noise is and how it can and must be controlled. Mr. Chedd’s descriptions of some of the more unusual uses of sound, such as to clean jewelry, seem more like science fiction; his survey of the problems of sound as an aspect of human biology are enlightening reading for everyone concerned about one of our major environmental pollutants.