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  • Hands

  • What We Do with Them - and Why
  • By: Darian Leader
  • Narrated by: Darian Leader
  • Length: 3 hrs and 14 mins
  • 4.8 out of 5 stars (5 ratings)

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Hands

By: Darian Leader
Narrated by: Darian Leader
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Penguin presents the unabridged downloadable audiobook edition of Hands, written and read by Darian Leader.

A fresh, thought-provoking and wide-ranging study of how mankind uses its hands. Why do zombies walk with their arms outstretched? How can newborn babies grip an adult finger tightly enough to dangle unsupported from it? And why is everyone constantly texting, tapping and scrolling?

For anyone curious about how human beings work, the answers are hidden in plain sight: in our hands. From early tools to machinery, from fists to knives to guns, from papyrus to QWERTY to a swipeable screen, the history of civilisation is a history of what humans do with their hands. We have always kept our hands occupied, and if mankind's story is marked out by profound changes in how we use our hands, it is also marked by underlying patterns that never change. And as much as the things we do with our hands reflect our psychological state, they can also change that state profoundly....

Drawing examples from popular culture, art history, psychoanalysis, modern technology and clinical research, Darian Leader presents a unique and fascinating odyssey through the history of what human beings do with their hands - and why.

©2016 Darian Leader (P)2016 Penguin Audio
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It’s Alive! Hands, Hands, Hands!

Darian Leader in his own voice explained how our hands unbeknownst to us are something that is both alien and intimate to us as tools of action or something that helps us imitate mother’s affection.

Recommend as a light listen for those interested in Popular Psychoanalysis. I enjoyed it greatly; just wish Darian would voice other of his books; What is Madness? Or Why Women write more letters than they post?

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