Showing results for "The Language of Silence" in Politics & Social Sciences

Nobody in the family talks about Ellen's grandmother Lola, who was swallowed up by the circus and emerged as a woman who tamed tigers and got away scot-free for killing her husband. When Ellen's husband Wayne beats her nearly to death, she runs to the only place she knows where a woman can completely disappear - the same Big Top that once sheltered her grandmother. Though the circus moves from one town to the next, Wayne tracks it, and Ellen, relentlessly.

In the modern world, we are assaulted on all sides by noise; but silence can change your life and this book explains why and how. Silence is a mysterious and unfathomable realm, perhaps the most under-used of all resources, and one our modern culture has all but obliterated by turning up the volume control. Graham Turner explores the power that can be found in silence through interviewing monastics, religious leaders, composers, actors, psychotherapists, prisoners and peace workers about their experiences of practicing silence.

Tout commence par une vibration. Dans la main d’abord, puis dans le bras, enfin dans tout le corps. À 12 ans, comme beaucoup de jeunes filles de son âge, Titouane commence l’apprentissage de la musique. Sauf que Titouane est sourde profonde. Comment perçoit-elle les sons ? Comment va-t-elle pouvoir apprendre à jouer d’un instrument ? Peut-on être mélomane, quand on est atteint de surdité ? C’est à toutes ces questions que tente de répondre La musique du silence, une série documentaire réalisée par Louise Régent. Quatre épisodes, pour accompagner pas à pas les ...