(DOWNLOAD) "On Looking" by Alexandra Horowitz # Book PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: On Looking
- Author : Alexandra Horowitz
- Release Date : January 08, 2013
- Genre: Psychology,Books,Health, Mind & Body,Science & Nature,Nature,Nonfiction,Social Science,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 8232 KB
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From the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Inside of a Dog, this āelegant and entertainingā (The Boston Globe) explanation of how humans perceive their environments ādoes more than open our eyes...opens our hearts and minds, too, gently awakening us to a worldāin fact, many worldsāweāve been missingā (USA TODAY).
Alexandra Horowitz shows us how to see the spectacle of the ordinaryāto practice, as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle put it, āthe observation of trifles.ā 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 seeāif 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 worldāwhere 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 universeāwhere, indeed, there are worlds within worlds within worlds.
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