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On Looking: A Walker's Guide to the Art of Observation by Alexandra Horowitz is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is On Looking: A Walker's Guide to the Art of Observation about?
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 Horowitzshows 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 fasc
Who reads On Looking: A Walker's Guide to the Art of Observation?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Alexandra Horowitz
- Publisher
- Scribner
- Published
- 2013
- Language
- EN
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Social Science, Science, Social Sciences
- Rating
- 3.46 / 5 (100 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14