The essential difference
Baron-Cohen, Simon2004
Book
Men and women have always seemed to think in entirely different ways, from conversation and communication to games and gadgets. But are these differences created by society, or do our minds come ready-wired one way or another, with female brains tending towards interaction and male towards organisation? And could this mean that autism rather than being a mental anomaly is in fact simply an extreme male brain? Why are female brains better at empathasing? How are male brains designed to analyse systems? And what really makes men and women different? Simon Baron-Cohen explores list-making, lying and two decades of research in a ground-breaking examination of how our brains can be male or female but always completely fascinating.
Main title:
The essential difference / Simon Baron-Cohen.
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Imprint:
London : Penguin, 2004, c2003.
Collation:
xiii, 263 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Notes:
Cover subtitle: Men, women and the extreme male brain.Originally published: London: Allen Lane, 2003.Includes bibliographical references and index.Originally published London : Allen Lane, 2003.
Shelving notes:
22613 0000006843 1 07-03-2012 99 nyctro 29-03-2012 7
ISBN:
9780241961353
Dewey class:
155.33
Language:
English
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BRN:
209036
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