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In a quiet country village near Reims, the lives of four young friends, Julien, Charles, Philippe, and Louis are about to change profoundly.The world they had known since their childhood is about to be overwhelmed.Their stories will be intertwined with the course of History between the 1920s and World War II, and with the bursting development of science and technology through the discoveries of physics and mathematics.Hand in hand, the Lagardère sisters will mark their existences, imprinting a decisive turning point on each of them.Love and affection, unexpected mourning and sudden joys alternate in an eternal blending of events.The unchanging rural landscape of Champagne serves as a backdrop to the struggle between freedom and dictatorship, pitting the ideals of democracy against the fanaticisms of totalitarianism.

The pursuit of the vain hopes of success and the total invisibility of entire segments of the population are the two complementary visions that characterize the protagonists of this novel.Seven stories, separated in places and environments, meet only on a chronological level, leaving each immersed in anonymity, the only possible solution between an unattainable affirmation and a tragedy not consonant with the characteristics of contemporary society.

Power, intrigue, love and crime intertwine following more than fifty years of history in the Republic of Aurora, a South American state suspended between agricultural traditions and industrial progress.The epic of one family, the Coronado, traverses the stages of development of this state and alternates with the social rise of a single person until the final showdown between landowners and drug traffickers, military and revolutionaries, entrepreneurs and politicians.

"Wandering Lives" is the exciting tale of seven women who intersect their existences with History and the events characterizing their endless wandering.Maria, Jana and Agnes, by a strange will of chance, brush past each other's experiences without noticing each other.Brought together by the tragic course of the 20th Century, they have not lost hope in the future.Evelyn, Dafina, and Serena find themselves overwhelmed by contemporary society that forces them not to anchor themselves in the past.Alone in the impetuosity of the present, they will manage to work out personal responses.All the women will find their own dimension only after going through a series of trials and after finishing a journey that will lead them to the discovery of the self and the other.Alongside them, there will be a common witness that the reader will discover page after page.Closing the writing, a timeless figure, a mysterious female entity, will bring each tale and each thought back to a longed-for eternity.

The following topics are presented in this book:introduction to waves and their propertiesacoustic waveshuman acoustics and phonometric systemsroom acoustics and hints of building acoustic design