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Alexandra Horowitz

Alexandra Horowitz
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Alexandra Horowitz

Alexandra Horowitz teaches psychology at Barnard College, Columbia University. Before her scientific career, Horowitz worked as a lexicographer at Merrian-Webster and served on the staff of The New Yorker. She and her husband live in New York City with Finnegan, a dog of indeterminate parentage and determinate character.

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New York Times, December 30, 2011
...tell you where the sidewalk ends, where the wild things are and how the Grinch actually stole Christmas. Alexandra Horowitz is the author of “Inside of a Dog: What Dogs See, Smell and Know.” Ammon Shea is the author of “The Phone Book: The Curious...
Oregonian, December 21, 2011
...teach us about looking past our differences. Inside of a Dog: What Dogs See, Smell and Know by Alexandra Horowitz(Scribner, $27). Shows us what the world looks like from a dog's point of view. A Dog's Purpose – A Novel for Humans by W. Bruce Cameron...
Zimbio, November 8, 2011
...what dogs know and how they think, now in paperback.The answers will surprise and delight you as Alexandra Horowitz, a cognitive scientist, explains how dogs perceive their daily worlds, each other, and that other quirky animal, the human. Horowitz...
Scott Berkun, October 16, 2011
...less kind to footnotes.  Some e-book creation services, like bookbaby, relegate footnotes to endnotes, which few people read. Alexandra Horowitz has a good article in the NYTimes about the history, and the future, of the footnote. She writes: The...
Stranger, October 13, 2011
...Footnote? " discusses how many e-books turn footnotes into endnotes, which may or may not be hyperlinked. Author Alexandra Horowitz laments, "Few of these will be read, to be sure." She also tells a story about how the footnotes being separated from the...
New York Times, October 7, 2011
...least worth flipping through for its footnotes on footnotes on footnotes, including one traversing 165 pages. 1 2 Alexandra Horowitz is the author of “Inside of a Dog: What Dogs See, Smell and Know...
Arizona Daily Sun, July 24, 2011
...Christopher McDougall. Vintage, $15.95 24. Life. Keith Richards. LB/Back Bay, $16.99 25. Inside of a Dog. Alexandra Horowitz. Scribner, $16 �...
The Stranger, Seattle's Only Newspaper, October 13, 2011
...the Footnote?" discusses how many e-books turn footnotes into endnotes, which may or may not be hyperlinked. Author Alexandra Horowitz laments, "Few of these will be read, to be sure." She also tells a story about how the footnotes being separated from...
Historiann, October 12, 2011
...Alexandra Horowitz blames e-books , but footnote-killing is a longstanding trend among non-virtual academic book publishers for at least twenty years.  Most university presses and tradey U-press lines use endnotes, period.  (And who other than...
ACRLog, October 11, 2011
...This week’s New York Times Book Review includes an essay by Alexandra Horowitz straightforwardly-titled Will the E-Book Kill the Footnote? , in which she laments that footnotes become endnotes when books move from paper to screen. Horowitz suggests...
Beattie's Book Blog - unofficial ho, October 8, 2011
...By ALEXANDRA HOROWITZ - Published: October 7, 2011CWhen my my dog, Pumpernickel, first found a stray grape on my kitchen floor, she licked at it, tumbled it around in her mouth and spat...
To Try a New Sword on a Chance Wayfarer, September 27, 2011
...Mr. Punch, Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean ****19. Inside of a Dog: What Dogs See, Smell, and Know, Alexandra Horowitz ***18. The Count of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas ****17. The Science of Kissing: What Our Lips Are Telling Us, Sheril Kirshenbaum ***16....
War Room, September 26, 2011
...Economist FiveBooks David Spiegelhalter on Statistics and Risk Kenan Malik on Morality Without God Brett Wigdortz on Leadership Alexandra Horowitz on the Art of Observation Jasmin Darznik on Modern Iran Editors note: The following is an interview with...
A Striped Armchair, September 18, 2011
...Blow Me Away or Books that had Great Points Counterbalanced by Not-Great OnesRead Inside of a Dog by Alexandra Horowitz if...you enjoy reading slightly fluffy books about dogs, with a few scientific facts thrown in.Books I Finished but Wish I’d...