Alexandra horowitzs excellent new book, on looking. From the author of the numberone new york times megabest seller inside of a dog comes an equally smart, delightful, and startling exploration of how we perceive and discover our world. On looking book by alexandra horowitz official publisher page. We use cookies to give you the best possible experience. On looking by alexandra horowitz, 9781471126208, available at book depository with free delivery worldwide. You are missing most of what is happening around you right now. Since im at least as avid a reader as i am a walker, i was delighted to discover that the cognitive psychologist alexandra horowitz has given much thought to the issue of urban walking in her book. Eleven walks with expert eyes by alexandra horowitz isbn. In her new book, horowitz, who teaches and runs the dog cognition lab. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read on looking. This creative and enlightening book is structured around 12 walks around the block in new york city.
Imagine encountering a strange, brighteyed jaguar at dusk in the forest, and looking squarely in its eyes looking squarely into yours. Inside of a dog helped us to imagine the worlds of our beagles, collies, greyhounds and mutts. Alexandra horowitz inside of a dog helped us to imagine the worlds of our beagles, collies, greyhounds and mutts. Dog enthusiast and researcher horowitz inside of a dog. Alexandra horowitz shows us how to see the spectacle of the ordinaryto practice, as sir arthur conan doyle put it, the observation of trifles. Our ability to focus on one activity and screen out everything else is useful for staying on task, but it also. Jonathan weiner author of beak of the finch jonathan weiner author of beak of the finch undoubtedly one of the most stimulating books of the year, if not the decade, and the most enchanting thing ive read in ages.
Eleven walks with expert eyes public library one of the best books of 20 and among the most. Alexandra horowitzs on looking confirms her place as one of todays most illuminating observers of our infinitely complex world. On looking also teaches us that alexandra horowitz is a writer to watch. A walkers guide to the art of observation, is a book about paying attention. Read on looking a walkers guide to the art of observation by alexandra horowitz available from rakuten kobo. Take a walk around the block and look around what do you see.
Find all the books, read about the author, and more. Alexandra horowitz discusses her book, our dogs, ourselves, at politics and prose. She teaches at barnard college, where she runs the dog cognition lab. A walkers guide to the art of observation ebook written by alexandra horowitz. Horowitz, a cognitive psychologist and avid walker, suggests i need to go outside, sometimes with a companion, to get a fresh perspective. What dogs see, smell and know, 2010 takes readers on multiple walks, showing us what we fail to spot when we dont pay attention. Alexandra horowitz rebroadcast take a walk around the block and look around what do you see. She lives with her family and two large, highly sniffy dogs in new york city. Alexandra horowitz describes dogs as anthropologists among us, and in this engaging book, her first, she studies them with the same intensity.
Round and round the blocks of new york city, horowitz psychology, animal behavior, and. Alexandra horowitz is the author of three previous books, being a dog. Eleven walks with expert eyes shows us how to see the spectacle of the ordinaryto practice. Cognitive scientist alexandra horowitz says that most of us fail to see a lot of the world around us. Alexandra horowitz is the author of the bestselling inside of a dog. Alexandra horowitz does more than open our eyes in on looking.
Eleven walks with expert eyes by horowitz, alexandra isbn. Inside of a dog by alexandra horowitz the new york times. On lookingteaches us that the world is just as rich, strange and charmed when seen through the eyes of our local artists, doctors, architects andtoddlers. Horowitz begins by pointing our attention to the incompleteness of our.
Eleven walks with expert eyes by alexandra horowitz, introduces us to a deeper awareness of how our brain perceives the world around us each day. The bestselling book that asks what dogs know and how they think, now in paperback. Inside of a doghelped us to imagine the worlds of our beagles, collies, greyhounds and mutts. Alexandra horowitz nonfiction book, on looking, encourages just that. For my book club collaboration with the dish, andrew sullivans online oasis of intelligence and idealism, i had the pleasure of sitting down with cognitive scientist alexandra horowitz to discuss her immeasurably wonderful on looking. But by making your way through this book by merely picking it up, perhapsyou, reader, are in a new culture, one that values looking. On her first walk, horowitz notices five standpipes on her street and she is confronted by a crazylooking stranger. She teaches psychology, animal behavior, and canine cognition at barnard college, columbia university. This engrossing book takes on not just canine noses, but what we can do with our ownwith a little experience and a good guide. Alexandra horowitz on looking a walkers guide to the art. On looking by alexandra horowitz, 9781439191262, available at book depository with free delivery worldwide.
Eleven walks with expert eyes library binding large print, april 1, 20. Eleven walks with expert eyes, is an unexpected and soothing balm for our inflamed. Alexandre sacha horowitz 24 march 1904 1982 was a belgianborn dutch technical engineer and inventor alexandre sacha horowitz was born in 1904 in antwerp, belgium to parents of easteuropean jewish heritage, and lived from 1914 in the netherlands until his death in 1982. Alexandra horowitz on looking a walkers guide to the art of observation. On looking inspires rumination on the influence of perspective. A walkers guide to the art of observation by alexandra. On looking teaches us that the world is just as rich, strange and charmed when seen through the eyes of our local artists, doctors, architects and toddlers.
This book is about that walk around the block, and how to rediscover the extraordinary things that we are missing in our ordinary activities. In new york city, alexandra walks with her husband, the writer ammon shea, her son, and two large, nonheeling dogs. 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. On looking ebook by alexandra horowitz rakuten kobo. In these eleven accounts of walks, the barnard psychology professor and author of inside of a dog shows how richly textured an ordinary experience truly isa. The answers will surprise and delight you as alexandra horowitz, a cognitive. Eleven walks with expert eyes by alexandra horowitz. Alexandra horowitz audio books, best sellers, author bio. The unbelievable strata of trifling, tremendous things to observe are there for the observing. Eleven walks with expert eyes alexandra horowitz isbn.
Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. The authors intent is to look for what she misses in this place she traverses every day. Grab your headphones and follow along as she leads you on 11 illuminating walks to show you. Alexandra horowitzs new book is as wonderful as her first. No ones mind will be changed by karls book, but its a valuable report from the scene of an ongoing train wreck. Her young son sees green triangles, trucks and his own shadow, among other things.