On Looking: Eleven Walks with Expert Eyes (Record no. 85362)
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| fixed length control field | 01761 a2200181 4500 |
| 008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION | |
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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9781439191262 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 158.1/ |
| Cutter | Hor |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Horowitz, Alexandra |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | On Looking: Eleven Walks with Expert Eyes |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc | 2013 |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc | Scribner Book |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc | New York |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Number of Pages | ix; 309p. |
| Dimensions | 9x6 |
| 520 ## - Remark | |
| Summary, etc | 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. |
| 546 ## - LANGUAGE NOTE | |
| Language note | ENG |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Self-actualization (Psychology) |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Environmental psychology |
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| Item type | Book |
| Withdrawn status | Lost status | Damaged status | Not for loan | Collection code | Permanent location | Current location | Shelving location | Date acquired | Cost, normal purchase price | Full call number | Barcode | Date last seen | Cost, replacement price | Koha item type |
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| Book | HBCSE | HBCSE | Psychology | 2017-03-29 | 852.00 | 158.1/ Hor | 23891 | 2017-03-29 | 852.00 | Book |