Right Hand, Left Hand: The multiple award-winning true life scientific detective story - Brossura

McManus, Chris

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0753813556 ISBN 13: 9780753813553

Casa editrice: W&N, 2003

Riassunto

Winner of the Aventis Science Book Prize. 'A scientific detective story, a brilliant cross between Edgar Allan Poe and Gray's anatomy' J G Ballard, New Stateman Books of the Year

- Why are most people right-handed? Do left-handers behave differently from right-handers?
- Why is the heart on the left-hand side of the body?
- Why is each side of the human brain so different?
- Why do the British drive on the left? Why do European languages go from left to right, while Arabic ones read the other way?
- Why do clocks go clockwise?
- What is the relationship between handedness and speech disorders, such as stuttering?

RIGHT HAND, LEFT HAND uses sources as diverse as the paintings of Rembrandt and the sculpture of Michelangelo, the behaviour of Canadian cichlid fish and the story of early cartography. Modern cognitive science, the history of the Wimbledon tennis championship and the biographies of great musicians are also used to explain the vast repertoire of 'left-right' symbolism that permeates our everyday lives.

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Winner of the Aventis Science Book Prize. 'A scientific detective story, a brilliant cross between Edgar Allan Poe and Gray's anatomy' J G Ballard, New Stateman Books of the Year

L'autore:

CHRIS MCMANUS is Professor of Psychology and Medical Education at University College, London. He is the author of the leading textbook Psychology in Medicine and is the co-editor of The Cambridge Handbook of Psychology, Health and Medicine. He is one of the world¿s foremost experts on handedness and lateralization.

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• Editore: W&N
• Data di pubblicazione: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0753813556
• ISBN 13: 9780753813553
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 480