{"product_id":"book-ah01","title":"On Looking","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).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\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.","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster Audio","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49347967254832,"sku":"BDah01","price":23.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio CD [40]","offer_id":49347967418672,"sku":"40ah01","price":34.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/107067-ah01-Square.jpg?v=1734210606","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-ah01","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}