Leonard Shlain: 3 books
Leonardo's Brain
Understanding Da Vinci's Creative Genius
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2014
Best-selling author Leonard Shlain explores the life, art, and mind of Leonardo da Vinci, seeking to explain his singularity by looking at his achievements in art, science, psychology, and military strategy and then employing state of the art left-right brain scientific research to explain his universal...
Sex, Time, and Power
How Women's Sexuality Shaped Human Evolution
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2004
As in the bestselling The Alphabet Versus the Goddess, Leonard Shlain’s provocative new book promises to change the way readers view themselves and where they came from.
Sex, Time, and Power offers a tantalizing answer to an age-old question: Why did big-brained Homo sapiens suddenly emerge...
The Alphabet Versus the Goddess
The Conflict Between Word and Image
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1999
This groundbreaking book proposes that the rise of alphabetic literacy reconfigured the human brain and brought about profound changes in history, religion, and gender relations. Making remarkable connections across brain function, myth, and anthropology, Dr. Shlain shows why pre-literate cultures...