Intended for all readers--including magicians, detectives, musicians, orthopedic surgeons, and anthropologists--this book offers a thorough account of that most intriguing and most human of appendages: the hand. In this illustrated work, John Napier explores a wide range of absorbing subjects such as fingerprints, handedness, gestures, fossil remains, and the making and using of tools.
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A physician who specialized in hands, Napier draws on a variety of disciplines to give his account of our crucial appendages.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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Maybe Newton was right about the thumb [that it was evidence of God's existence], but there is far more to arouse wonder in the hand than he knew, and Dr. Napier indicates its scope with authority and imagination. -- The New York Times Book Review
[John Napier's] book is deliberately 'not too technical,' light and full of wit. . . . Fingerprints, gestures, nerves, bone, hand hair--all are given attention . . . in this interesting survey. -- Scientific American
Each fascinating chapter in this book is a conjured mixture of anecdote, entertainment, and instruction. -- Annals of Human Biology --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
[John Napier's] book is deliberately 'not too technical,' light and full of wit. . . . Fingerprints, gestures, nerves, bone, hand hair--all are given attention . . . in this interesting survey. -- Scientific American
Each fascinating chapter in this book is a conjured mixture of anecdote, entertainment, and instruction. -- Annals of Human Biology --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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As a physician and ergonomist I found this book to be stimulating, fun, informative, and very useful. The hand is too often overlooked or treated shabbily in our work and daily living. Though it connects us to our world, we tend to take it for granted. This book helps all of us to overcome that error. Get the book, enjoy it. It is worth the money and the time reading it.
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This book was a great read. It has a wide variety of applications (law enforcement, anthropology, medical etc) and is suitable for even a novice reader.On the hand, I purchased my book "new" from Amazon. I received a book with a dog-earred page and highlighting. Because I needed this book for a college assignment, I could not just send it back. Afterwards, I found another person interested in my marked up book and bought another for myself (to keep for later reading/reference). I've recently purchased yet another item from Amazon that was used and is being sold as new. I called their support (well they call you after you request a call) and complained. I ended up getting a refund (only for items under $40 they say) and didn't have to return my item.
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In our erotic touch technique series and couples massage videos, we show how to use your hands for maximum pleasure - the hands are the most dexterous, sensitive part of the human body and our best tool for giving pleasure! This book was absolutely inspiring, tracing the evolutionary and biological origins of our amazing human hands. For anybody interested in the human hand, this book is an essential resource, that will give you more information than you ever thought possible about this amazing part of being human!
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HANDS is a book about the anatomy, function, and evolution of the human hand, but since we are not a one-off product of nature but a species with close nonhuman relatives it is also about the hands of monkeys and apes. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
opposability index, hypothenar pad, palmar pads, papillary ridges, flexure lines, precision grip, lateral preference, power grip, saddle joint, simian crease, middle phalanges Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New World, Ridge Ending, Old World, Wood Jones, Olduvai Gorge, Jane Goodall, South American, Desmond Morris, Leonardo da Vinci, South Africa, The Clactonian, The Gardners New!
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HANDS is a book about the anatomy, function, and evolution of the human hand, but since we are not a one-off product of nature but a species with close nonhuman relatives it is also about the hands of monkeys and apes. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
opposability index, hypothenar pad, palmar pads, papillary ridges, flexure lines, precision grip, lateral preference, power grip, saddle joint, simian crease, middle phalanges Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New World, Ridge Ending, Old World, Wood Jones, Olduvai Gorge, Jane Goodall, South American, Desmond Morris, Leonardo da Vinci, South Africa, The Clactonian, The Gardners New!
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- Primate Evolution (Selected Proceedings of the Tenth Congress of International Primatological Society) by Phyllis C. Lee in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- On the Origin of Species (Penguin Classics) by Charles Darwin on page 9, and page 109
- The Origin Of Species: 150th Anniversary Edition by Charles Darwin on page 9, and page 109
- On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin on page 9, and page 109
- The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin on page 9, and page 109
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