{"product_id":"on-looking-a-walkers-guide-to-the-art-of-observation","title":"On Looking: A Walker's Guide to the Art of Observation","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom the author of the #1 \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestseller \u003ci\u003eInside of a Dog \u003ci\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Year of the Puppy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e, this \"elegant and entertaining\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Boston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e) 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\" (\u003ci\u003eUSA TODAY\u003c\/i\u003e). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAlexandra Horowitz\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eshows 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, \u003ci\u003eOn Looking\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003ci\u003eWhat \u003c\/i\u003ethey see, \u003ci\u003ehow \u003c\/i\u003ethey see it, and why most of us do \u003ci\u003enot \u003c\/i\u003esee the same things reveal the startling power of human attention and the cognitive aspects of what it means to be an expert observer. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePage 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 \u003ci\u003ebe \u003c\/i\u003ein 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.\u003cdiv style=\"display:none\"\u003eISBN-10: 1439191263\u003cbr\u003eISBN-13: 9781439191262\u003cbr\u003eAuthor: Horowitz, Alexandra, N\/A, N\/A\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Scribner Book Company\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Scribner Book Company","offers":[{"title":"Paperback (Apr 2014)","offer_id":45657928859845,"sku":"9781439191262","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0708\/6414\/2533\/files\/9781439191262.jpg?v=1768896230","url":"https:\/\/www.inveni.store\/products\/on-looking-a-walkers-guide-to-the-art-of-observation","provider":"Inveni","version":"1.0","type":"link"}