Alexandra Horowitz: On Looking

On Looking


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From the author of the giant No. 1 New York Times bestseller Inside of a Dog comes an equally smart, delightful, and startling exploration of how we discover our world. Alexandra Horowitz's brilliant On Looking: Eleven Walks with Expert Eyes shows us how to see the spectacle of the ordinary-to practice, as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle put it, "the observation of trifles." On Looking is structured around a series of eleven walks the author takes with experts on a diverse range of subjects, including an urban sociologist, an artist, a geologist, a physician, and a sound designer. She 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. As the million-plus readers of Inside of a Dog have discovered, Alexandra Horowitz is charmingly adept at explaining the mysteries of human perception. On Looking confirms her place as one of today's most illuminating observers of our infinitely complex world.

This includes: * Yoga and health * Yoga as part of daily life * Childhood and parenthood * Love * Death * Faith - hope and spirituality * Teachers and teaching Venetian Commissario Guido Brunetti's hopes of escaping the sweltering heat of Venice in August for a refreshing family holiday in the mountains are dashed when a gruesome discovery is made in a field in Marghera--a body so badly beaten the face is completely unrecognizable. The victim appears to be a transsexual prostitute. Brunetti searches Venice--including the red-light district--for someone who can identify the corpse, but he is met with a wall of silence. Then he receives a phone call promising tantalizing information, provided he meets with the caller under a bridge outside of town in the middle of the night. This dangerous rendezvous leads to On Looking free epub more senseless murders, but despite the danger, Brunetti remains determined to uncover the truth. "Dressed for Death," the third novel in this international best-selling series is classic Brunetti.


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Author: Alexandra Horowitz
Number of Pages: 375 pages
Published Date: 01 Aug 2013
Publisher: SIMON & SCHUSTER
Publication Country: United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9781476727790
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