The Hand: How its Use Shapes the Brain, Language and Human Culture

Frank Wilson

This book is about more than the hand. It is about fascinating, remarkable, outstanding people who have found their role in life, love it and are successful at it, and owe it all to the use of their hands. "The Hand is my candidate for the best book of the decade." (William Stokoe). The book suggests the ways in which our hands have shaped our development, cognitive, linguistic, and psychological, in light of the research done in anthropology, neuroscience, linguistics and psychology. Paperback pages 400 1998

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