The Hand - How Its Use Shapes the Brain, Language, and Human Culture inline James Gilleard has a style

James Gilleard has a style that is at once retro and futuristic

enjoying the hide-and-seek fun with Thumper

still with the circus but stuck in an abusive marriage

Even the most ordinary life makes a terrible noise

Tommen's cheekiest lad

The Hand - How Its Use Shapes the Brain, Language, and Human Culture inline James Gilleard has a style"A startling argument . . . provocative . . . absorbing." The Boston Globe "Ambitious . . . arresting . . . celebrates the importance of hands to our lives today as well as to the history of our species." The New York Times Book Review The human hand is a miracle of biomechanics, one of the most remarkable adaptations in the history of evolution. The hands of a concert pianist can elicit glorious sound and stir emotion; those of a surgeon can perform