The puzzle of left-handedness
Record details
- ISBN: 9781780230436 (HB)
- ISBN: 1780230435 (HB)
- ISBN: 9781780230436 (PB)
- ISBN: 1780230435 (PB)
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Physical Description:
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304 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 22 cm - Publisher: London : Reaktion Books, 2012.
Content descriptions
General Note: | Translation of the Dutch edition published in 2010, which was a revised and expanded edition of an earlier edition entitiled De linkshandige picador, published in 1993 by Nijgh en van Ditmar. |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Malice and misunderstanding -- The left-handed Picador -- Opposites and contradictions -- Taboos, sex and handicrafts -- Lovers of the left -- Magic and superstition -- The true nature of left and right -- Strange creatures in the uncanny valley -- Witchcraft and pogroms -- Factionalism -- The ideal warrior -- The polymorphism of one-sidedness -- The heart of the matter -- The power of small differences -- How Freud found his right side and Pooh didn't -- Why a running rabbit doesn't tear itself apart -- Tintin's law -- Dead men and voluptuous women -- Mary's little troublemaker and other portraits -- Little Johnny cries to the left, Little Johnny smiles to the left -- The circle dance of the alphabet -- The weight of the liver -- The morbid views of Abram Blau -- Thwacking and hurling -- Thinking about brains -- Animal crackers -- Other asymmetries and preferences -- Tallying up -- Genetic left-handedness -- Hormonal left-handedness -- How even detrimental characteristics can survive -- Left-handers as undercover twins -- The consequences: contrary, perverse and sick -- Two left hands: the Ford scale -- The things that things make us do -- Writing and other useful handiwork -- The myth of high left-handed mortality -- Creative, musical, brilliant and famous! |
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Subject: | Left- and right-handedness Functional Laterality Hand |
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Kirtland Community College Library | GN 233 .S65 2011 | 30775305490345 | General Collection | Available | - |