Cover of The Alphabet Versus the Goddess

The Alphabet Versus the Goddess

by Leonard Shlain

1998 464 pages eng

Making remarkable connections across a wide range of subjects including brain anatomy and function, anthropology, history, and religion, Shlain argues that, with the advent of literacy, the very act of reading an alphabet reinforced the brain's left hemisphere - linear, abstract, predominantly mascu…

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