- Alphabet, History, Language and culture, Literacy
Making remarkable connections across a wide range of subjects including brain anatomy and function, anthropology, history, and religion, Shlain argues that, with the advent of literacy, the very act of reading an alphabet reinforced the brain's left hemisphere - linear, abstract, predominantly masculine at the expense of the right holistic, concrete, visual, feminine.
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- Author
- Leonard Shlain
- First published
- 1998
- Pages
- 480
- Publisher
- Viking, Allen Lane, Audio Literature
- Editions
- 9
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781574535693
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