Your first choice is How to Use Your Eyes by James Elkins, which looks at how we can use our eyes more efficiently.Įlkins is a writer on art and art history. I would never have noticed these before, but they are actually part of a large network across the US of these little topographic landmarks. They are set in concrete or embedded in soil. For example, I live in New York and I have been seeing things like geodetic survey marks – small brass discs that are planted at a particular latitude and longitude. Mostly I have seen that when we bother to stop and look, there is an enormous amount of surprising material right under our noses. In the course of your research, what unexpected observations have you made about some well-known places?
I am very interested in getting different perspectives on what we consider to be an ordinary, well-known landscape. I am taking a series of walks, through the city of New York and other cities as well, with people whose expertise or in some cases physical condition allows them to see something about the city that I might not see. Yes, I am writing a book that is about observation – in particular, observations done in an “ordinary” context. You are currently working on a project that involves this theme. Foreign Policy & International Relationsīefore we look at your five book choices, I want to put them in context.And, as The Boston Globe says about Being a Dog, “becoming more doglike, not surprisingly, can make anyone’s life a little more vivid. Readers will finish this book feeling that they have broken free of their human constraints and understanding smell as never before that they have, for however fleetingly, been a dog. In addition to speaking to cognitive researchers and smell experts, Horowitz visits detection-dog trainers and training centers she meets researchers working with dogs to detect cancerous cells and anticipate epileptic seizure or diabetic shock and she even attempts to smell-train her own nose.Īs we come to understand how rich, complex, and exciting the world around us is to the canine nose, Horowitz changes our perspective on dogs forever. Guided by her own dogs, Finnegan and Upton, Horowitz sets off on a quest through the cutting-edge science behind the olfactory abilities of the dog. In her “fascinating book…Horowitz combines the expertise of a scientist with an easy, lively writing style” ( The New York Times Book Review) as she imagines what it is like to be a dog. From the #1 bestselling author of Inside of a Dog and The Year of the Puppy-“an incredible journey into the olfactory world of man’s best friend” ( O, The Oprah Magazine), Alexandra Horowitz’s follow-up to her New York Times bestseller explains how dogs experience the world through their most spectacular organ-the nose.
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