{"product_id":"9781439191262","title":"On Looking: A Walker's Guide to the Art of Observation","description":"From the author of the #1 \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestseller \u003ci\u003eInside of a Dog\u003c\/i\u003e, this “elegant and entertaining” (\u003ci\u003eThe Boston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e) 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” (\u003ci\u003eUSA TODAY\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003cp\u003eAlexandra Horowitz\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eshows 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, \u003ci\u003eOn Looking\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003ci\u003eWhat \u003c\/i\u003ethey see, \u003ci\u003ehow \u003c\/i\u003ethey see it, and why most of us do \u003ci\u003enot \u003c\/i\u003esee the same things reveal the startling power of human attention and the cognitive aspects of what it means to be an expert observer.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePage 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 fascinating detail, all explained with her generous humor and self-deprecating tone. So turn off the phone and other electronic devices and \u003ci\u003ebe \u003c\/i\u003ein the real world—where strangers communicate by geometry as they walk toward one another, where sounds reveal shadows, where posture can display humility, and the underside of a leaf unveils a Lilliputian universe—where, indeed, there are worlds within worlds within worlds.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Scribner","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47042827878640,"sku":"9781439191262","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781439191262_p0.jpg?v=1769904569","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781439191262","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}