On Looking

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 serie