On Looking: Eleven Walks With Expert Eyes [Audiobook] download free by Alexandra Horowitz
- Listen audiobook: On Looking: Eleven Walks With Expert Eyes
- Author: Alexandra Horowitz
- Release date: 2014/12/24
- Publisher: SCRIBNER BOOK COMPANY
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Natural History
- ISBN: 9781439191262
- Rating: 7.54 of 10
- Votes: 828
- Review by: Myles Carlisle
- Review rating: 8.32 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/11/13
- Duration: 3H54M48S in 256 kbps (61.6 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-09-08
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: FLAC, WMA Lossless, MP3, WAV, MPEG4, MPEG-4 DST, OPUS, WMA (compression CPIO, ARC, ZIP, RAR, TZO, ALZ)
- Total pages original book: 308
- Includes a PDF summary of 36 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 26M30S (7.2 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: From the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Inside of a Dog, this 'elegant and entertaining' (The Boston Globe) 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' (USA TODAY). Alexandra Horowitz shows 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, On Looking 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. What they see, how they see it, and why most of us do not see the same things reveal the startling power of human attention and the cognitive aspects of what it means to be an expert observer. Page 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 be in 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.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Anthropology, Cognition & Cognitive Psychology, Natural History Books
- Download servers: Volafile, MEGA, FileServe, Uploaded, Woelkli, 4Shared, Torrent, Dropbox, JustBeamit. Compressed in CPIO, ARC, ZIP, RAR, TZO, ALZ
- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 19.17 USD
- Dimensions: 142x221x23mm
- Weight: 408g
- Printed by: Not Available
- Published in: United States
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