by Rik Smits
4 Taboos, Sex and Handicrafts
5 Lovers of the Left
6 Magic and Superstition
7 The True Nature of Left and Right
8 Strange Creatures in the Uncanny Valley
9 Witchcraft and Pogroms
10 Factionalism
11 The Ideal Warrior
12 The Polymorphism of One-sidedness
13 The Heart of the Matter
14 The Power of Small Differences
15 How Freud Found his Right Side and Pooh Didn’t
16 Why a Running Rabbit Doesn’t Tear Itself Apart
17 Tintin’s Law
18 Dead Men and Voluptuous Women
19 Mary’s Little Troublemaker and Other Portraits
20 Little Johnny Cries to the Left, Little Johnny Smiles to the Left
21 The Circle Dance of the Alphabet
22 The Weight of the Liver
23 The Morbid Views of Abram Blau
24 Thwacking and Hurling
25 Thinking About Brains
26 Animal Crackers
27 Other Asymmetries and Preferences
28 Tallying Up
29 Genetic Left-handedness
30 Hormonal Left-handedness
31 How Even Detrimental Characteristics Can Survive
32 Left-handers as Undercover Twins
33 The Consequences: Contrary, Perverse and Sick
34 Two Left Hands: The Ford Scale
35 The Things That Things Make Us Do
36 Writing and Other Useful Handiwork
37 The Myth of High Left-handed Mortality
38 Creative, Musical, Brilliant and Famous!
BIBLIOGRAPHY
PHOTO ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
INDEX