An edition of The Master and his Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of The Western World (2009)

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An edition of The Master and his Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of The Western World (2009)

The master and his emissary

the divided brain and the making of the Western world

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Yale University Press, Brand: Yale University Press
Language
English
Pages
608

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Subjects
History, Cerebral Dominance, Social Change, Cerebrum, Western World, Cultural Evolution, Physiology, Social evolution, Cerebral dominance, Western Civilization, Consciousness, Social change, Civilization, western, Brain, physiology

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Table of Contents

Asymmetry and the brain
What do the two hemispheres 'do'?
Language, truth, and music
The nature of the two worlds
The primacy of the right hemisphere
The triumph of the left hemisphere
Imitation and the evolution of culture
The ancient world
The Renaissance and Reformation
The Enlightenment
Romanticism
Modernism and postmodernism.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
612.8/25
Library of Congress
QP385.5 .M36 2009, QP385.5.M36 2009

The Physical Object

Pagination
p. ;
Number of pages
608

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL23192441M
ISBN 13
9780300148787
LCCN
2009011977
OCLC/WorldCat
317249497, 542902137
Library Thing
9272928
Goodreads
6968772

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