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Author:
McGilchrist, Iain.
Title:
The master and his emissary : the divided brain and the making of the Western world / Iain McGilchrist.
Publisher:
Yale University Press,
Copyright Date:
2010, c2009
Description:
ix, 534 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 20 cm.
Subject:
Cerebral dominance.
Civilization, Western.
Notes:
Originally published: 2009. Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 the Reformation -- The Enlightenment -- Romanticism and the Industrial Revolution -- The modern and post-modern worlds.
ISBN:
0300168926 (pbk.)
9780300168921 (pbk.)
OCLC:
(OCoLC)632079712
Locations:
OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

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