This groundbreaking book proposes that the rise of alphabetic literacy reconfigured the human brain and brought about profound changes in history...more details Format:Hardback Pages:480
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ISBN:9781574535693
Is it sheer coincidence that the European witch hunts quickly followed the invention of the printing press? In his groundbreaking work The Alphabet Versus the Goddess...more details Format:CD
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Leonard Shlain
ISBN:9780061227974
Art interprets the visible world. Physics charts its unseen workings. The two realms seem completely opposed. But consider that both strive to reveal truths for which there are no words--with physicists using the language of mathematics and artists using visual images. In Art & Physics...more details Format:Paperback Pages:480
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Leonard Shlain
ISBN:9780670032334
No clear and compelling explanation currently exists for the sudden emergence of big-brained Homo sapiens 150,000 years ago. Here, Leonard Shlain proposes an original thesis that argues that profound changes in female sexuality hold the key to this mystery. According to Shlain...more details Format:Hardback Pages:368
Theorizes about a profound change in prehistoric female sexuality that gave way to the emergence of Homo sapiens 150,000 years ago, citing evolutionary circumstances that led to the development of religion...more details Format:Paperback Pages:448
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ISBN:9781574535631
Key Notes- A provocative new book that explores the mystery of human courtship, love and monogamy and challenges your views of human sexuality.- This audiobook will be a simultaneous August 2003 release with the Viking Press hardcover edition...more details Format:CD
This groundbreaking book proposes that the rise of alphabetic literacy reconfigured the human brain and brought about profound changes in history...more details Format:Paperback Pages:464
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Leonard Shlain;Charmaine Surls JamesLocke
ISBN:9780978740702
This provocative book, which accompanies an exhibition of the same name, explores the forces that bifurcate our society along gender lines. In its quest for balance--or...more details Format:Hardback Pages:101