On looking : eleven walks with expert eyes / Alexandra Horowitz.

Main entry:

Horowitz, Alexandra, author.

Title & Author:

On looking : eleven walks with expert eyes / Alexandra Horowitz.

Edition:

First Scribner hardcover edition.

Publication:

New York : Scribner, 2013.

Description:

vii, 308 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-294) and index.
Amateur eyes -- Inanimate city : the material of the landscape. Muchness ; Minerals and biomass ; Minding our Qs ; Into the fourth dimension -- Animate city : everything that won't stand still. Flipping things over ; The animals among us ; A nice place (to walk) ; The suggestiveness of thumb-nails -- Sensory city : things that hum, smell, or vibrate. Seeing/not seeing ; The sound of parallel parking ; A dog's-nose view ; Seeing it.

Summary:

On Looking begins with inattention. 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 like 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.

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ISBN:

1439191255 (hbk.)
9781439191255 (hbk.)
(pbk.)
1439191263
9781439191262
(ebook)
1439191271
9781439191279
9781440000000
144000000X
9781440000003

Subject:

Self-consciousness (Awareness)
Self-actualization (Psychology)
Perception.
Cognition.
Awareness.
Environmental psychology.
Consciousness.
Environmental Psychology
Conscience de soi.
Prise de conscience.
Psychologie de l'environnement.
Conscience.
cognition.
environmental psychology.
Theory of knowledge.

Form/genre:

Nonfiction.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 285062
Call No.: BIB 224404
Status: Available

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