Category - Science
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The Sound Book: The Science of the Sonic Wonders of the World
PaperbackOriginal price $17.95 - Original price $17.95Original price $17.95$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /"A lucid and passionate case for a more mindful way of listening to and engaging with musical, natural, and manmade sounds." —New York Times In t...
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Physics of Waves
PaperbackOriginal price $35.00Original price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /Because of the increasing demands and complexity of undergraduate physics courses (atomic, quantum, solid state, nuclear, etc.), it is often impo...
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Waves: A Very Short Introduction
PaperbackOriginal price $11.95 - Original price $11.95Original price $11.95$13.99$13.99 - $13.99Current price $13.99| /We live in a world of waves. The Earth shakes to its foundations, the seas and oceans tremble incessantly, sounds reverberate through land, sea, ...
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This Is the Voice
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /A New York Times bestselling writer explores what our unique sonic signature reveals about our species, our culture, and each one of us. Finally,...
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Introduction to Modern Optics
PaperbackOriginal price $22.95Original price $22.95 - Original price $22.95Original price $22.95Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /This incisive text provides a basic undergraduate-level course in modern optics for students in physics, technology and engineering. The first ha...
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An Introduction to Acoustics
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /No branch of classical physics is older in its origins yet more modern in its applications than acoustics. Courses on acoustics very naturally be...
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What the Ear Hears (and Doesn't): Inside the Extraordinary Everyday World of Frequency
PaperbackOriginal price $16.99 - Original price $16.99Original price $16.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /"You'll never listen to the world the same way again. A truly ear-opening experience!" —Chris Ferrie, award-winning physicist and author of Where...
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Principles of Underwater Sound, third edition
PaperbackOriginal price $80.00 - Original price $80.00Original price $80.00$101.99$101.99 - $101.99Current price $101.99| /Product DetailsISBN-13: 9780932146274 Media Type: Paperback Publisher: Peninsula Publishing Publication Date: 06-15-2013 Pages: 442 Product Dimensi...
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Psychoacoustics: Facts and Models / Edition 3
HardcoverOriginal price $89.99 - Original price $89.99Original price $89.99$102.99$102.99 - $102.99Current price $102.99| /Psychoacoustics offers a unique, comprehensive summary of information describing the processing of sound by the human hearing system. The third e...
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How to Speak Whale: The Power and Wonder of Listening to Animals
HardcoverOriginal price $29.00Original price $29.00 - Original price $29.00Original price $29.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /What if animals and humans could speak to one another? Tom Mustill--the nature documentarian who went viral when a thirty-ton humpback whale breach...
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Tuning the World: The Rise of 440 Hertz in Music, Science, and Politics, 1859-1955
HardcoverOriginal price $55.00 - Original price $55.00Original price $55.00$66.99$66.99 - $66.99Current price $66.99| /Tuning the World tells the unknown story of how the musical pitch A 440 became the global norm. Now commonly accepted as the point of reference fo...
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Sounds Wild and Broken: Sonic Marvels, Evolution's Creativity, and the Crisis of Sensory Extinction
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /Finalist for the 2023 Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction and the 2023 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing AwardWinner of the Acoustical Soci...
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This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /In this groundbreaking union of art and science, rocker-turned-neuroscientist Daniel J. Levitin explores the connection between music--its performa...
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Principles of Underwater Sound
HardcoverOriginal price $90.00 - Original price $90.00Original price $90.00$112.99$112.99 - $112.99Current price $112.99| /Principles of Underwater Sound by Robert J. Urick is the most widely used book on underwater acoustics and sonar published today. For more than thr...
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The Voices of Nature: How and Why Animals Communicate
HardcoverOriginal price $32.00 - Original price $32.00Original price $32.00$45.99$45.99 - $45.99Current price $45.99| /Songs, barks, roars, hoots, squeals, and growls: exploring the mysteries of how animals communicate by sound What is the meaning of a bird's song, ...
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Aspects of Music
HardcoverOriginal price $52.99Original price $52.99 - Original price $52.99Original price $52.99Current price $45.99$45.99 - $45.99Current price $45.99| /This study focuses on a continued evaluation and integration of Schenker's work, specifically the role of his ever-deepening understanding of count...
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Sound Healing: How to Use Sound to Beat Stress and Anxiety
PaperbackOriginal price $17.95 - Original price $17.95Original price $17.95$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /An accessible guide to the next big thing in self-care: sound healing. Taking a science-based approach, it provides lessons and exercises to beat...
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Giza: The Tesla Connection: Acoustical Science and the Harvesting of Clean Energy
PaperbackOriginal price $24.00Original price $24.00 - Original price $24.00Original price $24.00Current price $21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /Reveals how the pyramids of Egypt were sophisticated generators of clean energy• Explains how the pyramids harmonized seismic energy, which enabl...
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Between the Lines: Concepts in Sound System Design and Alignment
PaperbackOriginal price $29.99Original price $29.99 - Original price $29.99Original price $29.99Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Between the Lines is a book about tuning sound systems for live events, but more importantly, it's a book about making decisions. Beginning with an...
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Why You Like It: The Science and Culture of Musical Taste
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99Original price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /From the chief architect of the Pandora Radio’s Music Genome Project comes a definitive and groundbreaking examination of why we respond to music...
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Whale Music: Thousand Mile Songs in a Sea of Sound
PaperbackOriginal price $27.95Original price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /The marvelous sonic world of whales, from the perspective of music and science. Whale song is an astonishing world of sound whose existence no one ...
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The Sounds of Life: How Digital Technology Is Bringing Us Closer to the Worlds of Animals and Plants
PaperbackOriginal price $21.95Original price $21.95 - Original price $21.95Original price $21.95Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /An amazing journey into the hidden realm of nature’s soundsThe natural world teems with remarkable conversations, many beyond human hearing range...
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