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Rosemary West wrote 10 April 2007
This book was inspired by a letter the author received from Dr. Oliver Sacks in 1999 advising that the story contained in these pages needed to be told in a book length account. “Hidden Handedness” treats an untouched subject; the story of what really happens when a child’s natural handedness is reversed, and the incredible consequences of making the return journey as an adult. The premise of the book is that millions of humans are neurologically “detoured” by handedness reversals – that they become something that they would not otherwise be – submergees. The author tells what it was like to return from the submergee state by becoming left-handed again, to become an emergee. In addition to experiencing a wonderful “awakening” of body and mind, the search for others with similar histories and resources turned into the quest, one that led to the challenge from Sacks and other professionals who heard the story, and asked that this book be written.
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Rosemary West wrote 13 December 2005
David Wolman traveled around the world to encounter every possible aspect of left-handedness. He visited a Scottish castle built to be defended by left-handed swordsmen, studied palm reading and handwriting analysis, met a man whose left hand was grafted onto his right arm, golfed in Japan with the National Association of Left-Handed Golfers, visited brain researchers, chimpanzees, a satanist, and the town of Left-Hand, West Virginia.
Besides having a lot of fun, Wolman debunked a few myths, verified some surprising facts, and uncovered the latest and most exciting research in the field of handedness. This book is both entertaining and enlightening, and a must-read for anyone with an interest in how our hands – and our brains – work together.
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Rosemary West wrote 10 June 2005
Loving Lefties : How to Raise Your Left-Handed Child in a Right-Handed World: Parents of the more than 400,000 lefties born annually in the United States have had no resource that deals seriously with the learning difficulties their children face — until now. Loving Lefties is the first ever guide to address all the issues pertinent to left-handedness: the biology, the physiology, and the psychological and practical effects of being a left-handed child. An essential aid for parents, teachers, and professionals, it covers the history and mythology of the left-handed brain, and offers sound advice. Filled with resource lists, guidelines, quick tips, answers to frequently asked questions, case studies, and anecdotes, Loving Lefties is the essential guide for raising a happy, healthy southpaw.
Lefty: A Handbook for Left-Handed Kids: It’s bound on the right!
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Rosemary West wrote 3 June 2005
Handedness and Brain Asymmetry: Brain asymmetry for speech is moderately related to handedness but what are the rules?
Are symmetries for hand and brain associated with characteristics such as intelligence, motor skill, spatial reasoning or skill at sports? The theory proposes that handedness in humans and our non-human primate relations depends on chance but that chance is weighted towards right-handedness in most people by an agent of right-hemisphere disadvantage. It argues for the existence of a single gene for right shift (RS+) that evolved in humans to aid the growth of speech in the left hemisphere of the brain. The Right Shift Theory has possible implications for a wide range of questions about human abilities and disabilities, including verbal and non-verbal intelligence, educational progress and dyslexia, spatial reasoning, sporting skills and mental illness. This will make fascinating reading for students and researchers in psychology and neurology, educationalists, and anyone with a keen interest in why people have different talents and weaknesses.
When Opposites Attract: Right Brain/Left Brain Relationships and How to Make Them Work
Biological Asymmetry and Handedness: This multidisciplinary book, the first on this topic for twenty years, discusses models for the inheritance of anatomical asymmetry and for the inheritance of human handedness. Morphological asymmetry occurs in most types of living organisms, often with a systematic bias towards either right-handed or left-handed forms. The predominance of L-amino acids can be explained thermodynamically; their characteristics determine secondary structure in proteins but the information is lost at the next stage of protein assembly. Left-right asymmetry in animals arises early in embryogenesis: the mechanism is unknown but examples from a range of organisms—including ciliates, molluscs, Caenorhabditis, Xenopus and mammals—provide several clues.
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Rosemary West wrote 24 April 2005
Right Brain Learning in 30 Days: Ever since Betty Edwards wrote Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain (now over a million copies in print), Americans have discovered the advantages of tapping into right-brain thinking. Now, the team of Keith Harary and Pamela Weintraub present the first absolutely accessible guide to the wonders of right-brain learning that produce results in less than a month.
Workout for a Balanced Brain: A fun exercise regimen for the brain’s weaker hemisphere-right or left. With quick-and-easy tests readers can discern how the brain works and where it needs improvement, and then build their own personalized brain workouts using exercises and puzzles to balance their brains.
Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain: A revised and expanded edition of the classic drawing-instruction book that has sold more than 2,500,000 copies. When Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain was first published in 1979, it hit the New York Times bestseller list within two weeks and stayed there for more than a year. In 1989, when Dr. Betty Edwards revised the book, it went straight to the Times list again. Now Dr. Edwards celebrates the twentieth anniversary of her classic book with a second revised edition. Translated into thirteen languages, Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain is the world’s most widely used drawing-instruction guide. People from just about every walk of life–artists, students, corporate executives, architects, real estate agents, designers, engineers–have applied its revolutionary approach to problem solving. The Los Angeles Times said it best: Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain is “not only a book about drawing, it is a book about living. This brilliant approach to the teaching of drawing . . . should not be dismissed as a mere text. It emancipates.”
The Dominance Factor: How Knowing Your Dominant Eye, Ear, Brain, Hand, & Foot Can Improve Your Learning
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Rosemary West wrote 18 April 2005
Left-Handed Guitar : The Complete Method: Attention all Southpaws: it’s time to turn your playing around! We’re proud to announce that our groundbreaking guitar method solely devoted to lefties is now available with a CD! Complete with photos, diagrams and grids designed especially for the left-handed player, this book/CD pack teaches fundamentals such as: chords, scales, riffs, strumming; rock, blues, fingerpicking and other styles; tuning and theory; reading standard notation and tablature; and much more! Now with CD!
Left-Hand Guitar Chord Chart: A handy chord reference guide showing basic major and minor chords in all keys. Relative and secondary minor chord relationships shown on principal chords. All forms are fingered for the left-handed guitarist. Also shown is a guitar fingerboard with all the corresponding notes on a guitar strung for a left-handed performer.
Picture Chord Encyclopedia for Left Handed Guitarists: At long last, the ultimate reference for left-handed guitarists! This amazing book features photos and diagrams for over 2600 chords specifically shown for the left-handed player. It includes easy-to-read chord grids, easy-to-see photos, basic chord theory, basic fingering principles, open chords and barre chords, partial chords and broken-set forms.
Guitar Case Guide to Left-Handed Chords: The ultimate left-handers’ guitar case chord book. All the chords you use most often, in a handy guitar case size. With clear diagrams and helpful hints and tips for easy reference.
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Rosemary West wrote 18 April 2005
Left-Handed Sewing: For those who sew left-handed: practical tips on how to adapt easily to right-handed diagrams, tools and instructional materials. Includes detailed material on basic tools for hand sewing, basic hand stitches, dealing with hooks and eyes, snaps, hand-rolled hems, darning and sewing on feathers, sequins and beads. The final section introduces basic tailoring hand stitches such as the buttonhole, chainstitch, cross stitch and French tack. Nearly 100 line drawings illustrate Sally Rowan’s thoughtful instructions.
Left Handed Stitchery: Forty varieties of stitches
A Primer of Left-Handed Embroidery
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Rosemary West wrote 18 April 2005
This section will list books relating to left-handedness and other subjects of interest. If I have not reviewed these books myself, I will include information from Amazon.com, and if you have read them you are encouraged to leave your comments.
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