Right Hand, Left Hand
The multiple award-winning true life scientific detective story
$27.99
- Paperback
480 pages
- Release Date
1 February 2004
Summary
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?
- 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…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780753813553 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0753813556 |
| Author: | Chris McManus |
| Publisher: | Orion Publishing Co |
| Imprint: | Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 480 |
| Release Date: | 1 February 2004 |
| Weight: | 378g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 128mm x 32mm |
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Critics Review
A fascinating and immensely readable exploration of the whole topic– New Scientist
A fascinating and immensely readable exploration of the whole topic * NEW SCIENTIST *
A scientific detective story, a brilliant cross between Edgar Allan Poe and Gray’s anatomy * NEW STATESMAN BOOKS OF THE YEAR *
Limpidly written, dryly witty and extraordinarily wide-reaching, this is surely the most inclusive and erudite popular account of asymmetry yet produced * SPECTATOR *
A fascinating study of the origins of asymmetry in life, culture and myth * TLS *
Spanning disciplines from genetics to folklore, McManus’s account of ‘handedness’ must be one of the most intellectually capricious science books this year * SCOTLAND ON SUNDAY *
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 * NATURE *
An excellent mix of hard science and engaging games and tricks, and a treasury of anecdotes – Margaret Drabble
About The Author
Chris McManus
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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