Hands

by John Russell Napier

Book Overview

Intended for all readers--including magicians, detectives, musicians, orthopedic surgeons, and anthropologists--this book offers a thorough account of that most intriguing and most human of appendages: the hand. In this illustrated work, John Napier explores a wide range of absorbing subjects such as fingerprints, handedness, gestures, fossil remains, and the making and using of tools.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0394507835
• ISBN13: 9780394507835
• Release Date: January 1980
• Publisher: Pantheon Books
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 1.53 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Exceptional science and witty writing

As a physician and ergonomist I found this book to be stimulating, fun, informative, and very useful. The hand is too often overlooked or treated shabbily in our work and daily living. Though it connects us to our world, we tend to take it for granted. This book helps all of us to overcome that error. Get the book, enjoy it. It is worth the money and the time reading it.

hands-down the best book on hands

This is a great book for anyone who loves hands, and appreciates how perfect a perfect hand can be. There is nothing like it on the market. In the evening, when I'm done reading Friedrich Hoelderlin, I like to relax with this book. It really helps me understand hands.

Outstanding!

This is a beautifully written book that I would definitely recommend to others without hesitation.

Good hands

This book is a fascinating account of the most "human" parts of the human body, the hands. Worth owning.