{"product_id":"on-looking-a-walkers-guide-to-the-art-of-observation-paperback","title":"On Looking: A Walker's Guide to the Art of Observation - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAlexandra Horowitz\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlexandra Horowitz is the author of the #1 \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestseller \u003ci\u003eInside of a Dog: What Dogs See, Smell, and Know\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eBeing a Dog: Following the Dog into a World of Smell\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eOur Dogs, Ourselves: The Story of a Singular Bond\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eThe Year of the Puppy: How Dogs Become Themselves\u003c\/i\u003e. She teaches at Barnard College, where she runs the Dog Cognition Lab. She lives with her family of \u003ci\u003eHomo sapiens\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eCanis familiaris\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eFelis catus\u003c\/i\u003e in New York City.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 320\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 8.7 x 5.6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 15, 2014\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53336993169773,"sku":"9781439191262","price":26.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1001\/0823\/9213\/files\/bW5aVFF0cnFhYWhSWnFYZFEwVTBFZz09.webp?v=1778922830","url":"https:\/\/cleanfreaklab.myshopify.com\/products\/on-looking-a-walkers-guide-to-the-art-of-observation-paperback","provider":"Clean Freak Lab","version":"1.0","type":"link"}