From the writer of the #1 New York Times bestseller Within a Dog, this “elegant and entertaining” (The Boston Globe) description of how humans perceive their conditions “does more than open up our eyes…starts our hearts and minds, too, gently awakening us to a world-in fact, many worlds-we’ve been lacking” (USA TODAY).

Alexandra Horowitz displays us how to see the spectacle from the ordinary-to practice, while Sir Arthur Conan Doyle place it, “the observation of trifles.” Structured around a string about On Searching: Eleven Walks with Expert Eye of eleven walks the author takes, mainly in her Manhattan neighborhood, On Searching features experts on a diverse range of subjects, including an metropolitan sociologist, the well-known artist Maira Kalman, a geologist, a physician, and a sound developer. Horowitz also walks with a kid and a puppy to start to see the globe as they perceive it. What they find, how they view it, and why the majority of us never start to see the same items reveal the startling power of human being attention and the cognitive areas of what this means to become a specialist observer.

Page by page, Horowitz shows how much more there is certainly to see-if only we would really look. Qualified as a cognitive scientist, she discovers a feast of interesting detail, all described with her good humor and self-deprecating firmness. So turn off the phone and other electronic devices and become in the true world-where strangers communicate by geometry because they walk toward one another, where noises reveal shadows, where position can screen humility, and the lower of the leaf unveils a Lilliputian universe-where, certainly, you can find worlds within worlds within worlds.