On Looking: Eleven Walks with Expert Eyes by Alexandra Horowitz

By Alexandra Horowitz

Book Details:

ISBN: 1439191255
EAN: 9781439191255
ASIN: 1439191255
Publisher: Scribner
Publication Date: 2013-01-08
Number of Pages: 320
Website: Amazon, LibraryThing, Google Books, Goodreads

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From the writer of the large #1 New York occasions bestseller Inside of a puppy comes an both clever, pleasant, and startling exploration of ways we understand and become aware of our global.

Alexandra Horowitz's really good On taking a look: 11 Walks with professional Eyes shows us tips to see the spectacle of the ordinary-to perform, as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle placed it, "the remark of trifles." On taking a look is based round a chain of 11 walks the writer takes, as a rule in her ny local, with specialists on a various variety of topics, together with an city sociologist, the well known artist Maira Kalman, a geologist, a doctor, and a valid clothier. She additionally walks with a toddler and a puppy to determine the area as they understand it. What they see, how they see it, and why so much folks do not see an analogous issues show the startling strength of human cognizance and the cognitive elements of what it ability to be knowledgeable observer.

As the million-plus readers of Inside of a puppy have stumbled on, Alexandra Horowitz is charmingly adept at explaining the mysteries of human belief. proficient as a cognitive scientist, she discovers a banquet of attention-grabbing element, all defined along with her beneficiant humor and self-deprecating tone. On having a look presents an analogous enticing mixture, this time in provider to realizing how people come upon their day-by-day worlds and every different.

Page by means of web page, Horowitz exhibits how even more there's to see-if in simple terms we'd quite glance. On having a look is food for the thought of existence, serving as a provocative reaction to our relentlessly digital  consciousness. So flip off the telephone and different digital units and be in the true world-where strangers converse through geometry as they stroll towards each other, the place sounds show shadows, the place posture can show humility, and the bottom of a leaf unveils a Lilliputian universe-where, certainly, there are worlds inside worlds inside of worlds.

Alexandra Horowitz's On having a look confirms her position as considered one of today's so much illuminating observers of our infinitely advanced world.

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Author Name: Alexandra Horowitz

Author Description: Alexandra Horowitz teaches psychology at Barnard collage, Columbia college. sooner than her clinical occupation, Horowitz labored as a lexicographer at Merrian-Webster and served at the employees of the recent Yorker. She and her husband dwell in manhattan urban with Finnegan, a puppy of indeterminate parentage and determinate character.

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A. Norrie in many early societies the ruling classes decided that only they were worthy of such benefits and kept wine to themselves’ ( Johnson 1989, p. 12). Mesopotamia Armenian wine sellers to the south of Georgia spread the knowledge of wine down the River Euphrates to the cities of Uruk, Ur and later Babylon and Kisk (today’s Iraq) where the Sumerian culture began around 5000 BC. Here, in part of the fertile crescent – an arc of land from the Zagros Mountains in Iran in the east to southern Israel and Jordan in the west – domestication of animals and plants began, thus allowing people to settle in the one place permanently and hence develop cities.

The term theriaca comes from therian, a wild beast which later became a venomous serpent; thus, theriaca was about the symptoms and treatment of venomous bites and The history of wine as a medicine 31 animal stings. Alexipharmaca is from the Greek alexein meaning to ward off; thus alexipharmaca was about antidotes to poisons in food and drink. Both terms were first used by Nicander (190–130 BC), a poet and physician. The next great advocate of these antidote medicines was King Mithradates the Great (132–63 BC).

195) using wine, and wine was also one of the drugs used for the treatment of coughing (seryt in Ancient Egyptian). Most remedies for cough are in Ebers 190, 305–25, Berlin 29, 31–4, 36–47 and Hearst 61 (Lucia 1963, p. 161). Grape wine was used extensively in prescriptions for anorexia (Skovenborg 1990, p. 7) because it would stimulate the appetite and be a good source of nutrition. 24 P. A. e. act as an uplifting agent (McGovern et al. 2000, p. 229). Wine was also used in salves, in enemas and in bandaging to prevent infection.

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