On Looking On Looking

On Looking

A Walker's Guide to the Art of Observation

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Publisher Description

The #1 New York Times–bestselling author’s “elegant and entertaining” look at how humans perceive their environments—and what they’re missing (The Boston Globe).

In this eye-opening book, Alexandra Horowitz takes a series of simple walks—mostly through her Manhattan neighborhood—with experts on various subjects, including a sociologist, an artist, a geologist, a physician, and a sound designer, as well as her own son. On each excursion, she shows us how to see the spectacle of the ordinary—to practice, as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle put it, “the observation of trifles.”

By shining a light on what her companions see—as well as how they see it and why most of us do not see the same things—Horowitz reveals the startling power of human attention and the cognitive aspects of expert observation. With her background in cognitive science, she discovers a feast of fascinating detail, all explained with her generous humor and self-deprecating tone.

On Looking invites you to turn off the phone and be in the 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.

“[On Looking] 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

GENRE
Health, Mind & Body
RELEASED
2013
January 8
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
321
Pages
PUBLISHER
Simon & Schuster
SELLER
OpenRoad Integrated Media, LLC
SIZE
10.1
MB
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