| Description |
304 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits, facsimile ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
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! |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 286-296) and index. |
| Language |
Translated from a revised and expanded 2010 Dutch ed. of the original 1993 ed. |
| Subject |
Left- and right-handedness.
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Functional Laterality.
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Hand.
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| Added Author |
Smits, Rik, 1953-
De linkshandige picador. 1993.
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| Added Title |
Raadsel van linkshandigheid. English
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| ISBN |
9781861898739 |
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1861898738 |
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