Book Description
Through fascinating case studies of notables from ancient to modern times, Ed Wright explains the secret of lefty success.
Author : Ed Wright
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 21,79 MB
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 9781740458108
Through fascinating case studies of notables from ancient to modern times, Ed Wright explains the secret of lefty success.
Author : I. C. McManus
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 27,89 MB
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674016132
McManus considers evidence from anthropology, particle physics, the history of medicine, and the notebooks of Leonardo to answer questions like: Why are most people right-handed? Why does European writing go from left to right, while Arabic and Hebrew go from right to left? And how do we know that Jack the Ripper was left-handed?
Author : Ed Wright
Publisher :
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 26,35 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Left and right (Psychology)
ISBN : 9781741960532
About 10 percent of the population is left-handed. However 16 percent of American presidents have been lefties. In fact, a disproportionately high number of left-handers factor in influential moments through history from Julius Caesar to Bill Gates. Through fascinating case studies of notables from ancient to modern times, Ed Wright explains the secret of lefty success. Psychology meets history in this popular look at being left-handed and its effects on our world.
Author : Melissa Roth
Publisher : Government Institutes
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 35,44 MB
Release : 2005-07-25
Category : Science
ISBN : 1590771516
This book demystifies the place left-handness has held in society, shedding new light on this controversial discussion.
Author : Ed Wright
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 36,94 MB
Release : 2011-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781742664149
By exploring the defining characters traits of these and other famous lefties, we uncover what the world can learn by viewing life from another angle.
Author : Howard I. Kushner
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 45,94 MB
Release : 2017-09-25
Category : Medical
ISBN : 1421423340
Does being left-handed make a person different in any way that matters? Since the late Stone Age, approximately 10 percent of humans have been left-handed, yet for most of human history left-handedness has been stigmatized. In On the Other Hand, Howard I. Kushner traces the impact of left-handedness on human cognition, behavior, culture, and health. A left-hander himself, Kushner has long been interested in the meanings associated with left-handedness, and ultimately with whether hand preference can even be defined in a significant way. As he explores the medical and cultural history of left-handedness, Kushner describes the associated taboos, rituals, and stigma from around the globe. The words “left” and “left hand” have negative connotations in all languages, and left-handers have even historically been viewed as disabled. In this comprehensive history of left-handedness, Kushner asks why left-handedness exists. He examines the relationship—if any—between handedness, linguistics, and learning disabilities, reveals how toleration of left-handedness serves as a barometer of wider cultural toleration and permissiveness, and wonders why the reported number of left-handers is significantly lower in Asia and Africa than in the West. Written in a lively style that mixes personal biography with scholarly research, On the Other Hand tells a comprehensive story about the science, traditions, and prejudices surrounding left-handedness.
Author : James T. De Kay
Publisher :
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 37,35 MB
Release : 1994
Category : American wit and humor
ISBN : 9780965383868
A hilarious look at the inside-out world of left-handers.
Author : Iris E. C. Sommer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 16,19 MB
Release : 2009-04-16
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0521882842
Illustrates important fundamental aspects of cerebral lateralization, explaining how decreased language lateralization can facilitate psychotic symptoms in the human brain.
Author : Rik Smits
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 47,46 MB
Release : 2011-10-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 1861899742
Ronald Reagan and Barack Obama have both signed bills into law with their left hands. And being left-handed certainly did not hold back the artistic achievements of Michelangelo or Raphael. And the dexterous guitar playing of Jimmi Hendrix may only have been aided by his southpaw tendencies. Left-handedness, in fact, would appear to be no big deal. Yet throughout history, it has been associated with clumsiness and generally dubious personality traits like untrustworthiness and insincerity. Even the Latin word for left, sinister, has ominous connotations. In The Puzzle of Left-handedness, Rik Smits uncovers why history has been so unkind to our lefthanded forebears. He carefully puts together the pieces of the puzzle, presenting an array of historical anecdotes, strange superstitions, and weird wives’ tales. Smits explains how left-handedness continues to be associated with maladies of all kinds, including mental retardation, alcoholism, asthma, hay fever, cancer, diabetes, insomnia, depression, and criminality. Even in the enlightened twenty-first century, left-handedness still meets with opposition—including from one prominent psychologist who equates it with infantile negativism, similar to a toddler’s refusal to eat what’s on his plate, and another who claims that left-handed people have average lifespans that are nine years shorter than those who favor the right hand. As Smits reminds us, such speculation is backed by little factual evidence, and the arguments presented by proponents of right-handedness tend to be humorously absurd. The Puzzle of Left-handedness is an enlightening, engaging, and entertaining odyssey through the puzzles and paradoxes, theories and myths, of left-handed lore. Chock full of facts and fiction, it’s a book to be read with both hands.
Author : John P. Mason
Publisher : Nap/Vellum
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 41,36 MB
Release : 2017-01-25
Category :
ISBN : 9780998147710
This is the memoir of an American anthropologist living in the Arab world with his family. His stories derive from across a number of different societies and time frames, and bring into play the larger Middle East context from 1968 to 2012.