Left-Handed History of WorldAllen & Unwin, 2007 - 256 من الصفحات About 10 percent of the population is left-handed. However 16 percent of American presidents have been lefties. In fact, a disproportionately high number of left-handers factor in influential moments through history from Julius Caesar to Bill Gates. Through fascinating case studies of notables from ancient to modern times, Ed Wright explains the secret of lefty success. Psychology meets history in this fascinating and popular look at being left-handed and its effects on our world. |
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JOAN OF ARC | 44 |
MICHELANGELO | 62 |
ISAAC NEWTON | 80 |
BEETHOVEN | 100 |
LEWIS CARROLL | 124 |
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE | 140 |
MARIE CURIE | 156 |
CHARLIE CHAPLIN | 176 |
ALAN TURING | 194 |
PAUL MCCARTNEY | 210 |
NAVRATILOVA AND MCENROE | 231 |
FURTHER READING | 250 |
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الصفحة 147 - What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not an end: what can be loved in man is that he is an overture and a going under.
الصفحة 88 - His peculiar gift was the power of holding continuously in his mind a purely mental problem until he had seen straight through it. I fancy his pre-eminence is due to his muscles of intuition being the strongest and most enduring with which a man has ever been gifted.
الصفحة 88 - Anyone who has ever attempted pure scientific or philosophical thought knows how one can hold a problem momentarily in one's mind and apply all one's powers of concentration to piercing through it, and how it will dissolve and escape and you find that what you are surveying is a blank. I believe that Newton could hold a problem in his mind for hours and days and weeks until it surrendered to him its secret. Then being a supreme mathematical technician he could dress it up, how you will, for purposes...
الصفحة 143 - But I reckon I got to light out for the .Territory ahead of the rest, because Aunt Sally she's going to adopt me and sivilize me and I can't stand it. I been there before.
الصفحة 147 - Man is a rope stretched between the animal and the Superman — a rope over an abyss.
الصفحة 108 - ... speak louder, shout, for I am deaf. Ah how could I possibly admit an infirmity in the one sense which should have been more perfect in me than in others, a sense which I once possessed in highest perfection, a perfection such as few...
الصفحة 139 - ... death, the ablest minds in France, and answered them out of an untaught wisdom which overmatched their learning, baffled their tricks and treacheries with a native sagacity which compelled their wonder, and scored every day a victory against these incredible odds and camped unchallenged on the field. In the history of the human intellect, untrained, inexperienced, and using only its birthright equipment of untried capacities, there is nothing which approaches this. Joan of Arc stands alone, and...
الصفحة 93 - Admiral," he said in a subsequent letter, "will never again be considered as useful ; therefore the sooner I get to a very humble cottage the better, and make room for a sounder man to serve the State.