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


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Chris McManus's dazzlingly written debut takes familiar, almost childish, questions and for the first time for a popular audience answers them: Why are most people right-handed? Do left-handers behave differently to right-handers? Why is the heart on the left-hand side of the body (and why is it related to the fact that most people are right handed)? 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? Why are human bodies symmetrical on the outside, but not on the inside? Why don't identical twins always have the same dominant hand? What is the relationship between handedness and speech disorders, such as stuttering? Why are male testicles unbalanced? Right Hand, Left Hand uses sources as diverse as the paintings of Rembrandt and the sculpture of Michelangelo, the behaviour of Canadian cichlid fish, the orig ins of medieval iconography, the history of medicine 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. The book answers wonderfully deep and simple questions about why the universe, the human body and our minds and cultures are so full of distinctions between left and right.

About the Author :
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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A fascinating and immensely readable exploration of the whole topic A scientific detective story, a brilliant cross between Edgar Allan Poe and Gray's anatomy Limpidly written, dryly witty and extraordinarily wide-reaching, this is surely the most inclusive and erudite popular account of asymmetry yet produced A fascinating study of the origins of asymmetry in life, culture and myth Spanning disciplines from genetics to folklore, McManus's account of 'handedness' must be one of the most intellectually capricious science books this year Wonderful book...He has done a marvellous job of summarising and integrating a wide range of findings from various disciplines addressing questions on the nature of right and left An excellent mix of hard science and engaging games and tricks, and a treasury of anecdotes


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781780226712
  • Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
  • Publisher Imprint: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
  • Edition: Digital original
  • Sub Title: The multiple award-winning true life scientific detective story
  • ISBN-10: 1780226713
  • Publisher Date: 25 Jul 2013
  • Binding: Digital download
  • Language: English


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