On Looking: Eleven Walks With Expert Eyes

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Eleven perspectives on the unseen everyday world.

If you delight in discovering the extraordinary in the ordinary, you'll savor Alexandra Horowitz's "On Looking." It's like a series of mini-adventures through familiar settings, each chapter revealing how much we overlook in our daily lives. Horowitz, with her expertise in cognitive science, turns a simple walk down the street into a series of revelations. Engaging experts in various fields, she peels back layers of the environment we think we know, inviting you to experience the world with fresh senses. It's a book that will change how you perceive your daily surroundings long after you've turned the last page.

  • William James Book Award Nominee (2014)
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On Looking: Eleven Walks With Expert Eyes

Regular price $11.90
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ISBN: 9781439191262
Publisher: Scribner
Date of Publication: 2014-04-15
Format: Paperback
Goodreads rating: 3.51
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On Looking begins with inattention. It is not meant to help you focus on your reading of Tolstoy; it is not about how to multitask. Rather, it is about attending to the joys of the unattended, the perceived "ordinary." Horowitz encourages us to rediscover the extraordinary things that we are missing in our ordinary activities. Even when engaged in the simplest of activities-taking a walk around the block-we pay so little attention to most of what is right before us that we are sleepwalkers in our own lives. So turn off the phone and portable electronics and get into the real world, where you'll find there are worlds within worlds within worlds.
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Eleven perspectives on the unseen everyday world.

If you delight in discovering the extraordinary in the ordinary, you'll savor Alexandra Horowitz's "On Looking." It's like a series of mini-adventures through familiar settings, each chapter revealing how much we overlook in our daily lives. Horowitz, with her expertise in cognitive science, turns a simple walk down the street into a series of revelations. Engaging experts in various fields, she peels back layers of the environment we think we know, inviting you to experience the world with fresh senses. It's a book that will change how you perceive your daily surroundings long after you've turned the last page.

  • William James Book Award Nominee (2014)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.