On Looking by Alexandra Horowitz
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.Alexandra Horowitz unterrichtet Psychologie, Tierverhaltenskunde und Kognition des Hundes am Barnard College der New Yorker Columbia University. Sie hat an der University of California in San Diego in Kognitionswissenschaft promoviert und Menschen, Nashorner, Bonobos und Hunde erforscht. Vor ihrer wissenschaftlichen Laufbahn arbeitete sie als Lexikographin bei Merriam-Webster und fur den New Yorker. In New York City unternimmt sie oft Spaziergange mit ihrem Ehemann, dem Schriftsteller Ammon Shea, ihrem Sohn und zwei groen Hunden, die nicht bei Fu gehen. Horowitz ist die Autorin des Bestsellers Inside of a Dog (deutsch: Was denkt der Hund?) und unterstreicht mit ihrem zweiten Buch erneut, dass sie zu den gewitztesten Beobachtern unserer so unendlich komplizierten Welt gehort.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| EAN | 9781442359321 |
| Title | On Looking |
| Release date | 2013-01-08 |
| Format | Audiobook Unabridged |
| Studio | Simon & Schuster Audio |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Note | Unavailable |
| By (author) | Alexandra Horowitz |
| Read by | Alexandra Horowitz |