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Alexandra Horowitz
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Alexandra Horowitz

Alexandra Horowitz is the author of the bestselling Inside of a Dog: What Dogs See, Smell and Know. She teaches psychology, animal behaviour and canine cognition at Barnard College, Columbia University. She earned her PhD in Cognitive Science at the University of California. She lives in New York City with her husband, the writer Ammon Shea, her son, and two dogs.

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IBNLive India News, May 8, 2013
...of our surroundings or rather what we do not see. "On Looking: Eleven Walks with Expert Eyes" by Alexandra Horowitz is a book that maybe does not teach you how to look, but definitely provides some refreshing perspectives on the subject. The premise of...
Bozeman Daily Chronicle, April 11, 2013
...t believe what you are reading, but it’s all true. “On Looking: Eleven Walks with Expert Eyes” by Alexandra Horowitz This book explores attending to the joys of the unattended, the perceived “ordinary.” Even when engaged in the simplest...
AARP, March 28, 2013
...Discover how Alexandra Horowitz’s walks in the same Manhattan neighborhood with different "experts" changed her world view...
Scientific American, March 21, 2013
...the human part of Dog Spies. I’m a canine behavioral researcher, science writer and lecturer. I manage Alexandra Horowitz’s Dog Cognition Lab at Barnard College in New York City. If you live with a dog in the NYC area, you can sign up to join one of...
On The Wight, March 19, 2013
...Tale: Memoir of Churchill’s youngest child David LOADES The Boleyns: Rise & Fall of a Tudor Family Alexandra HOROWITZ Inside of a Dog : What dogs see, smell and know. Evelyn PRENTIS A Nurse in Action : My life as a nurse during the second world...
PublishersWeekly.com, March 18, 2013
...Stephen M.R. Covey. Free Press (101,171) Inside of a Dog: What Dogs See, Smell, and Know. Alexandra Horowitz. Scribner (100,662) *Sisterhood Everlasting. Ann Brashares. Random House Freakonomics. Steven D. Leavitt. Morrow (100,353) The Heaven Answer...
Examiner.com, March 1, 2013
...on the subjects of canine cognition and behavior and dog training in general.Inside of a Dog by Alexandra Horowitz (Amazon) is a great...
IBNLive India News, May 8, 2013
...of our surroundings or rather what we do not see. "On Looking: Eleven Walks with Expert Eyes" by Alexandra Horowitz is a book that maybe does not teach you how to look, but definitely provides some refreshing perspectives on the subject. The premise of...
Seattle Times, May 4, 2013
...part of being a dog scientist is acknowledging up front how little we know about their cognition,” said Alexandra Horowitz, a dog-cognition expert at Barnard College. “I’d like to see a company which tries to strengthen relationships between dogs...
Nigeria Punch, May 2, 2013
...part of being a dog scientist is acknowledging up front how little we know about their cognition,” said Alexandra Horowitz, a dog cognition expert at Barnard College. “I’d like to see a company which tries to strengthen relationships between dogs...
Austin American Statesman, April 27, 2013
...part of being a dog scientist is acknowledging up front how little we know about their cognition,” said Alexandra Horowitz, a dog cognition expert at Barnard College. “It would be honest to admit how mysterious this other mind really is.” Hare...
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, April 24, 2013
...of being a dog scientist is acknowledging up front how little we know about their cognition," said Alexandra Horowitz, a dog cognition expert at Barnard College. "I'd like to see a company which tries to strengthen relationships between dogs and people...
United States Marine Corps, April 19, 2013
...that it can detect a teaspoon of sugar in a million gallons of water, according to dog researcher Alexandra Horowitz of Barnard College, part of Columbia University. The military working dogs’ superior sense of smell is crucial in executing their...
International Business Times Canada, April 16, 2013
...could sniff out a teaspoon of sugar diluted in a million gallons of water, Barnard College dog researcher Alexandra Horowitz told NOVA. If there’s some evidence that manufactured explosives were used in the Boston attack, these might be traced...