The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World

ISBN-13: 9780300245929 Publisher: Yale University Press Publication date: 03/26/2019 Edition description: Second Edition, New Expanded Edition Pages: 616 Sales rank: 33,346 Product dimensions: 5.70(w) x 8.50(h) x 1.70(d) A pioneering exploration of the differences between the brain’s right and left hemispheres and their effects on society, history, and culture—“one of the few contemporary works deserving classic status” (Nicholas Shakespeare, Times, UK)  “Persuasively argues that our society is suffering from the consequences of an over-dominant left hemisphere losing touch with its natural regulative ‘master’ the right. Brilliant and disturbing.”—Salley Vickers, a Guardian Best Book of the Year  “I know of no better exposition of the current state of functional brain neuroscience.”—W. F. Bynum, Times Literary Supplement   Why is the brain divided? The difference between right and left hemispheres has been puzzled over for centuries. Drawing upon a vast body of brain research, the ren