On Looking - A Walker's Guide to the Art of Observation (Paperback)

From the author of the #1 "New York Times" bestseller "Inside of a Dog," this "elegant and entertaining" ("The Boston Globe") explanation of how humans perceive their environments "does more than open our eyes...opens our hearts and minds, too, gently awakening us to a world--in fact, many worlds--we've been missing" ("USA TODAY").
Alexandra Horowitz" "shows us how to see the spectacle of the ordinary--to practice, as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle put it, "the observation of trifles." Structured around a series of eleven walks the author takes, mostly in her Manhattan neighborhood, "On Looking" features experts on a diverse range of subjects, including an urban sociologist, the well-known artist Maira Kalman, a geologist, a physician, and a sound designer. Horowitz also walks with a child and a dog to see the world as they perceive it. "What "they see, "how "they see it, and why most of us do "not "see the same things reveal the startling power of human attention and the cognitive aspects of what it means to be an expert observer.
Page by page, Horowitz shows how much more there is to see--if only we would really look. Trained as a cognitive scientist, she discovers a feast of fascinating detail, all explained with her generous humor and self-deprecating tone. So turn off the phone and other electronic devices and "be "in the real world--where strangers communicate by geometry as they walk toward one another, where sounds reveal shadows, where posture can display humility, and the underside of a leaf unveils a Lilliputian universe--where, indeed, there are worlds within worlds within worlds.

General

Imprint:	Scribner Book Company
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	April 2014
First published:	April 2014
Authors:	Alexandra Horowitz
Dimensions:	222 x 145 x 21mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	308
ISBN-13:	978-1-4391-9126-2
Categories:	Books > Sport & Leisure > Natural history, country life & pets > General Promotions
LSN:	1-4391-9126-3
Barcode:	9781439191262

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A book worth engaging with

Tue, 10 Jan 2017 | Review by: GUINIVERE P.

I thought I'd sit back, read, enjoy and move on. I didn't expect to land up living this book. Every chapter inspired an exploration of sorts and ignited my curiosity in the topics covered in the book and more. Buy this book and savor it.

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