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Author Horowitz, Alexandra, author

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

Edition First Scribner hardcover edition

Publisher New York : Scribner, 2013
LOCATION CALL NO. STATUS
 Wallace Library - Main Collection (1st Floor)  BF311 .H646 2013    DUE 07-29-24
ISSN/ISBN 1439191255 (hbk.)
9781439191255 (hbk.)
1439191263 (pbk.)
9781439191262 (pbk.)
1439191271 (ebook)
9781439191279 (ebook)
Descript vii, 308 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Content text
Media unmediated
Carrier volume
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
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
DONATED: This book is a gift of the Class of 1968 Endowment Fund.
Subject Self-consciousness (Awareness)
Self-actualization (Psychology)
Perception
Cognition
Awareness
Environmental psychology