Cover: Hearing Gesture: How Our Hands Help Us Think, from Harvard University PressCover: Hearing Gesture in PAPERBACK

Hearing Gesture

How Our Hands Help Us Think

Product Details

PAPERBACK

Print on Demand

$31.00 • £26.95 • €28.95

ISBN 9780674018372

Publication Date: 10/31/2005

Trade

304 pages

6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches

25 line illustrations, 2 tables

Belknap Press

World

Add to Cart

Media Requests:

Related Subjects

  • Preface
  • I. A Window on the Mind
    • 1. Gesture Is Everywhere
    • 2. Not Just Hand Waving
    • 3. Giving Our Thoughts Away
    • 4. Who Is Ready to Learn?
    • 5. Only the Hands Know for Sure
  • II. Communicating
    • 6. Everyone Reads Gesture
    • 7. Understanding Speech
    • 8. In the Classroom
    • 9. Learning by Gesturing to Others
  • III. Thinking
    • 10. Gesturing in the Dark
    • 11. Gesturing Helps
    • 12. Gesturing Leads to Change
  • IV. When There Is Only Gesture
    • 13. Gesture within a Community
    • 14. Gesture by a Child
    • 15. Gesture on the Spot
  • Conclusion: Talking and Thinking with Gesture
  • References
  • Credits
  • Index

From Our Blog

The Burnout Challenge

On Burnout Today with Christina Maslach and Michael P. Leiter

In The Burnout Challenge, leading researchers of burnout Christina Maslach and Michael P. Leiter focus on what occurs when the conditions and requirements set by a workplace are out of sync with the needs of people who work there. These “mismatches,” ranging from work overload to value conflicts, cause both workers and workplaces to suffer…