RIGHT HAND, LEFT HAND: THE ORIGINS OF ASYMMETRY IN BRAINS, BODIES, ATOMS AND CULTURES
Book ID/图书代码： 10010010B43561
English Summary/英文概要： - 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. 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
Chinese Summary/中文概要： —為什麼大多數人習慣用右手? 是否左撇子的行為不同於習慣於用右手的人？—為何我們的心臟位於身體的左邊？— 人類的兩側大腦有何不同？— 為什麼英格蘭國內是靠左行駛？為什麼歐洲的語言是從左至右，而阿拉伯語的閱讀卻是從右至左？— 為什麼時鐘的指針是順時針方向運行？— 左撇子和右撇子與語言障礙兩者有何關聯，諸如口吃？《RIGHT HAND, LEFT HAND》（左右手）鑒用倫勃朗的油畫和米開朗基羅的雕塑，加拿大六間魚的生活習性以及早期的繪圖故事。現代認知科學，溫布頓網球錦標賽的歷史記錄和世界上偉大音樂家的傳記全都解釋了大量慣用“左手 - 右手”的象徵意義，直至這一現象滲透至我們的日常生活中。(Sandy)
Awards/获奖情况：’limpidly written, drily witty and extraordinarily wide-reaching ... surely the most inclusive and erudite popular account of asymmetry yet produced’ ---The Spectator, 13 April 2002 ’McManus’s account of ’handedness’ must be one of the most intellectually capricious science books this year’ ---Scotland on Sunday
New ’a fascinating and immensley readable exploration ... even football gets a mention’ ---Scientist, 29 June 2002
’well worth reading’ ---Nature, 6 June 2002
About the Author/作者介绍： CHRIS MCMANUS是倫敦大學醫學院和心理學的教授。他是醫學心理學界裡主要教材的作者，他還是《The Cambridge Handbook of Psychology》（劍橋心理學手冊）、《Health and Medicine》（健康和醫療）這兩本書的合著者。他是世界上慣用手和語言方面最重要的專家。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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