Format:
Book
Author:
Horowitz, Alexandra.
Title:
On looking : eleven walks with expert eyes / Alexandra Horowitz.
Edition:
1st Scribner hardcover ed.
Publisher, Date:
New York : Scribner, 2013.
Description:
vii, 308 p., [4] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.
Summary:
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.
Subjects:
Self-consciousness (Awareness)
Self-actualization (Psychology)
Perception.
Cognition.
Awareness.
Environmental psychology.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-294) and index.
Contents:
Amateur eyes -- Muchness -- Minerals and biomass -- Minding our Qs -- Into the fourth dimension -- Flipping things over -- The animals among us -- A nice place (to walk) -- The suggestiveness of thumb-nails -- Seeing : not seeing -- The sound of parallel parking -- A dog's-nose view -- Seeing it.
ISBN:
* 9781439191255
* 1439191255
Other Number:
823575398
System Availability:
1
Current Holds:
0
Control Number:
753264
Call Number:
153.7
Course Reserves:
0
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