The Hand

Author : Frank R. Wilson
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1999-09-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780679740476

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The Hand by Frank R. Wilson Pdf

"A startling argument . . . provocative . . . absorbing." --The Boston Globe "Ambitious . . . arresting . . . celebrates the importance of hands to our lives today as well as to the history of our species." --The New York Times Book Review The human hand is a miracle of biomechanics, one of the most remarkable adaptations in the history of evolution. The hands of a concert pianist can elicit glorious sound and stir emotion; those of a surgeon can perform the most delicate operations; those of a rock climber allow him to scale a vertical mountain wall. Neurologist Frank R. Wilson makes the striking claim that it is because of the unique structure of the hand and its evolution in cooperation with the brain that Homo sapiens became the most intelligent, preeminent animal on the earth. In this fascinating book, Wilson moves from a discussion of the hand's evolution--and how its intimate communication with the brain affects such areas as neurology, psychology, and linguistics--to provocative new ideas about human creativity and how best to nurture it. Like Oliver Sacks and Stephen Jay Gould, Wilson handles a daunting range of scientific knowledge with a surprising deftness and a profound curiosity about human possibility. Provocative, illuminating, and delightful to read, The Hand encourages us to think in new ways about one of our most taken-for-granted assets. "A mark of the book's excellence [is that] it makes the reader aware of the wonder in trivial, everyday acts, and reveals the complexity behind the simplest manipulation." --The Washington Post

Author : Raoul Tubiana
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Hand
ISBN : 0721689078

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The Hand by Raoul Tubiana Pdf

Author : Ellen Goldberg,Dorian Bergen
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2016-02-06
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781620551554

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The Art and Science of Hand Reading by Ellen Goldberg,Dorian Bergen Pdf

A comprehensive guide to the inner psychology revealed by the hand • Details how to interpret the entire hand--the shape of the palm and fingers, mounts, lines, fingerprints, flexibility, nails, and skin texture • Reveals the personality archetypes, strengths, and weaknesses connected with each of the seven mounts and how the rest of the hand modifies these traits • Explains how lines change and the decisive influence of the person’s own mind in healing defects found on the lines Palmistry is a science and a universal language. The hand tells a story about your talents, relationships, health, and how you feel about yourself. It reveals periods of ease or challenge in your life, and it speaks about your weaknesses and the traits you need to develop. As you change, so do your hands, reflecting the progress you have made. In this comprehensive guide to hand reading, based on Ellen Goldberg’s 40 years of teaching palmistry and the Western Mystery tradition, the authors make the powerful insights of the hand accessible in an inviting and user-friendly manner. The book presents the character traits and personality archetypes associated with each of the seven mounts of the palm and shows how to determine which are most influential in the nature of the individual. The mount archetypes reveal the lifestyle, love,sex, and marriage preferences; the best career choices; and the unique strengths and weaknesses for each person. The book also examines other factors that enhance the qualities revealed by the mount types, including the flexibility of the hand, texture of the skin, and the shapes of the fingers, fingertips, and nails. The meaning of each major and minor line is described in detail as well as the influence the person’s own mind has in healing defects and obstacles found on their lines. The authors also provide accurate timing guides for each line, making it possible to locate specific events and to see how your lines change over time. Presenting the hand as a guide to self-fulfillment, The Art and Science of Hand Reading incorporates correspondences to other mystical sciences such as astrology, Kabbalah, the Hermetic teachings, and archetypal psychology. It also includes practical examples and more than 600 illustrations to show how to integrate the meanings of each part of the hand to form a complete picture of your inner psychology and your ever-changing destiny.

Author : Miryam Z. Wahrman
Publisher : University Press of New England
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05-03
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781611689556

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The Hand Book by Miryam Z. Wahrman Pdf

Handwashing, as part of basic hygiene, is a no-brainer. Whenever there's an outbreak of a contagious disease, we are advised that the first line of defense is proper handwashing. Nonetheless, many people, including healthcare workers, ignore this advice and routinely fail to wash their hands. Those who neglect to follow proper handwashing protocols put us at risk for serious disease - and even death. In this well-researched book, Wahrman discusses the microbes that live among us, both benign and malevolent. She looks at how ancient cultures dealt with disease and hygiene and how scientific developments led to the germ theory, which laid the foundation for modern hygiene. She investigates hand hygiene in clinical settings, where lapses by medical professionals can lead to serious, even deadly, complications. She explains how microbes found on environmental surfaces can transmit disease and offers strategies to decrease transmission from person to person. The book's final chapter explores initiatives for grappling with ever more complex microbial issues, such as drug resistance and the dangers of residing in an interconnected world, and presents practical advice for hand hygiene and reducing infection. With chapters that conclude with handy reference lists, The Hand Book serves as a road map to safer hands and better hygiene and health. It is essential reading for the general public, healthcare professionals, educators, parents, community leaders, and politicians.

Author : Charles Bell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1834
Category : Electronic
ISBN : ONB:+Z156191007

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The Hand, Its Mechanism and Vital Endowments as Evincing Design by Charles Bell Pdf

Author : Sarah M. Cradit
Publisher : Sarah M. Cradit
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2024-02-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Hand and the Heart by Sarah M. Cradit Pdf

Two fractured souls. One heart-stopping legacy. Escape into this breathtaking tale of two passionate young men who have lived their lives for everyone but themselves. Pesha and Fen have shouldered the grief, pain, and fear for the people they love for as long as they can remember. Fen as his sister’s protector and handler, and Pesha as his brother’s trusted right hand. Neither has given thought to their own happiness, because a life of crisis only allows for chaos. Contentment is an affliction neither can afford. When Pesha embarks on a desperate, risky journey to a homeland he’s never been to, in a final attempt to save his dying sister, Fen doesn’t hesitate to come along to help the man he’s been slowly falling in love with. But Pesha’s bewildering, escalating hostility on the road leaves him rejected and confused. Making matters far worse, their “welcome” to the Territory of Asgill is far from warm. They are both descendants of the Forsaken, a faction who waged a violent uprising against their Medvedev leader almost three decades earlier. Though neither have any knowledge of those days, they’re branded as seditionists and stripped of freedoms. Pesha’s sister is taken away for healing, but if her treatment isn’t successful, the end for her is death. To save her, and themselves, they will need to learn to do the impossible: accept they need as much help as they have always offered others. Fen and Pesha will either break this chain... Or die trying. ___ The Hand and the Heart is a friends to lovers romance set in the Kingdom of the White Sea universe, featuring characters first introduced in The Melody and the Master. It is the second story in the Darkwood Cycle of The Book of All Things trilogy. The final book is The Wulf and the Witchling. The Book of All Things is a series of fantasy romance tales set in the vibrant, epic world first introduced by USA Today Bestselling Author Sarah M. Cradit in the Kingdom of the White Sea trilogy.

Author : George Jacob HOLYOAKE
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1846
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0022442066

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The Hand-Book of Grammar by George Jacob HOLYOAKE Pdf

Author : S. Butler
Publisher : Рипол Классик
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2024-05-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9785875138294

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The Hand-Book for Australian Emigrants by S. Butler Pdf

The Hand-Book for Australian Emigrants: Being a Descriptive History of Australia, and Containing an Account of the Climate, Soil and Natural producktions of New Soufh Wales, south Australia, and Swan River Settlement.

Author : Raymond Tallis
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2019-08-07
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781474473019

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Hand by Raymond Tallis Pdf

A philosophical examination and celebration of the human hand.

Author : Fred Gettings
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Occultism
ISBN : 0600004333

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The Book of the Hand by Fred Gettings Pdf

Author : Tomaž Šalamun
Publisher : Counterpath Press
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781933996127

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There's the Hand and There's the Arid Chair by Tomaž Šalamun Pdf

Poetry. Poems born in "a time of abrupt needs," this collection catalogs those individual and imperative fancies that, in the cosmos of Tomaz Salamun, eternity aims to replace: A genealogy of dressmakers and songbirds. A biography that locates the poetic "I" as, at once, a primordial being and a tamer of beasts, a monster and a guardian angel. With uncanny and sometimes harrowing grace, Salamun plumbs every reach of the imagination in search of a space where we can delight in and mourn the disintegration of the body. The nine translators who collaborated to bring out this new book by a "major Central European poet" (The New Yorker) include Thomas Kane, Peter Richards, Phillis Levin, Joshua Beckman, Ana Jelnikar, Christopher Merrill, Matthew Rohrer, Brian Henry, and Anselm Hollo.

Author : Zdravko Radman
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2013-05-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780262313544

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The Hand, an Organ of the Mind by Zdravko Radman Pdf

Theoretical and empirical accounts of the interconnectedness between the manual and the mental suggest that the hand can be understood as a cognitive instrument. Cartesian-inspired dualism enforces a theoretical distinction between the motor and the cognitive and locates the mental exclusively in the head. This collection, focusing on the hand, challenges this dichotomy, offering theoretical and empirical perspectives on the interconnectedness and interdependence of the manual and mental. The contributors explore the possibility that the hand, far from being the merely mechanical executor of preconceived mental plans, possesses its own know-how, enabling "enhanded" beings to navigate the natural, social, and cultural world without engaging propositional thought, consciousness, and deliberation. The contributors consider not only broad philosophical questions—ranging from the nature of embodiment, enaction, and the extended mind to the phenomenology of agency—but also such specific issues as touching, grasping, gesturing, sociality, and simulation. They show that the capacities of the hand include perception (on its own and in association with other modalities), action, (extended) cognition, social interaction, and communication. Taken together, their accounts offer a handbook of cutting-edge research exploring the ways that the manual shapes and reshapes the mental and creates conditions for embodied agents to act in the world. Contributors Matteo Baccarini, Andrew J. Bremner, Massimiliano L. Cappuccio, Andy Clark, Jonathan Cole, Dorothy Cowie, Natalie Depraz, Rosalyn Driscoll, Harry Farmer, Shaun Gallagher, Nicholas P. Holmes, Daniel D. Hutto, Angelo Maravita, Filip Mattens, Richard Menary, Jesse J. Prinz, Zdravko Radman, Matthew Ratcliffe, Etiennne B. Roesch, Stephen V. Shepherd, Susan A.J. Stuart, Manos Tsakiris, Michael Wheeler

Author : Timothy Shay Arthur
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1859
Category : Electronic
ISBN : WISC:89087925434

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The Hand But Not the Heart, Or, The Life-trials of Jessie Loring by Timothy Shay Arthur Pdf

Author : Samuel BUTLER (Settler in Australia.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1849
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0026381337

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The Hand-Book for Australian Emigrants; Being a Descriptive History of Australia, and Containing an Account of the Climate, Soil and Natural Productions of New South Wales, South Australia, and Swan River Settlement, Etc by Samuel BUTLER (Settler in Australia.) Pdf

Author : David Sudnow
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0262691612

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Ways of the Hand by David Sudnow Pdf

This is David Sudnow's classic account of how his hands learned to improvise jazz on the piano. David Sudnow is the author of Passing On and editor of Studies in Social Interaction. Since writing this book, he has developed a piano training method based on its insights.