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	Bulk Discounts Buy... Save... 25 - 99 40% 100 - 249 45% 250 - 499 47% 500 - 999 50% 1000 or more 55% List Price: $23.95 Our Price: $14.37 for 25 - 99 copies You save $9.58! Published: October 2005 ISBN: 0306814153, 9780306814150 Format Hardcover Publisher: Da Capo Press Carton Quantity: 28 (Minimum order):  25 Availability:: Usually Ships in 24 to 72 Hours Product Code: 9780306814150 Buy It New: Bulk savings applied automatically at checkout. Orders typically ship in 1 to 4 business days, subject to inventory on hand and quantity ordered. Please call us if you have any questions or special needs. Qty:

Description   Are Southpaws really more creative, or is that just a myth? Is there a gene for left-handedness? David Wolman--a lefty, and proud of it--sets out to answer these and other questions on a journey through the world of the left-hander. Traveling from the halls of history to the halls of science, Wolman explores a Scottish castle designed for left-handed swordfights, visits a Paris museum to inspect nineteenth-century brains that hold clues to this biological puzzle, consults an Indian palm reader, subjects his own brain to research in a basement laboratory in California, and sits with a primatologist in Atlanta whose chimpanzees may hold the key to the evolutionary mystery of left-handedness. Along the way, Wolman meets fellow left-handers who share his sense of kinship and help him uncover the essence of Southpaw. There is sinister Diabolos Rex, follower of the Left Hand Path; left-handed handwriting analysts; and John Evans, an amputee whose left hand was reattached to his right arm. In Japan, Wolman tees off with the National Association of Left-Handed Golfers, and seeks wisdom from a left-handed baseball legend and a world renowned biologist. A seamless blend of science, travel, culture, and humor, this inquisitive exploration of all things Southpaw is sure to be the perfect book for lefties and the righties who love them.   Related Products... The Man Who Invented Rock Hudson: The Pretty Boys Fish: A Memoir of a Boy in a Man's Prison (Hardco A Different Life: Growing Up Learning Disabled an Faith of Our Sons: A Father's Wartime Diary (Hard Our Price: $16.17 for 25 - 99 copies Add Our Price: $14.97 for 25 - 99 copies Add Our Price: $14.97 for 25 - 99 copies Add Our Price: $15.00 for 25 - 99 copies Add Just One More Thing: Stores from My Life (Hardcov Man Killed by Pheasant: And Other Kinships (Hardc McCartney: (Hardcover) On Broken Glass: Loving and Losing John Gardner ( Our Price: $16.17 for 25 - 99 copies Add Our Price: $15.00 for 25 - 99 copies Add Our Price: $16.17 for 25 - 99 copies Add Our Price: $15.00 for 25 - 99 copies Add

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