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A Fantastical Journey Around Your Head
Raymond Tallis
ISBN: 9781843546696
Format: Hardback
Publisher:Atlantic Books
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The Kingdom of Infinite Space is a journey around the part of our anatomy with which we most closely identify: our heads. Tallis explains the social history of blushing…
"The Kingdom of Infinite Space" is a journey around the part of our anatomy to which we feel most attached: our heads. In this unique combination of biological science and philosophical interrogation, Raymond Tallis takes the head apart, piece by piece, in search of the place where our souls, and consciousness, reside.From the act of blushing and the amount of manganese in our tears (tears of pain contain more than tears of distress) to the curiousness of a kiss, "The Kingdom of Infinite Space" explores the astonishing range of activities that go on inside our heads, most of which are entirely beyond our control. After escorting his readers on a fantastic voyage through every chamber of the head and brain, Raymond Tallis demonstrates that not only does consciousness not reside between our ears, but that our heads are infinitely cleverer than we are.
| ISBN | 1843546698 | | DEWEY edition | DC22 | | ISBN13 | 9781843546696 (What's this?) | | Pages | 400 | | Publisher | Atlantic Books | | Published in | London | | Imprint | Atlantic Books | | Height (mm) | 234 | | Format | Hardback | | Width (mm) | 156 | | Publication date | 01 Apr 2008 | | Academic level | General | | DEWEY | 128.2 | |
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| 1 | | Facing Up to the Head | | 1 | | 2 | | The Secreting Head | | 16 | | | | First Explicitly Philosophical Digression: Being My Head | | 45 | | 3 | | The Head Comes To | | 51 | | 4 | | Airhead: Breathing and Its Variations | | 65 | | 5 | | Communicating With Air | | 90 | | | | Second Explicitly Philosophical Digression: Enjoying and Suffering My Head | | 99 | | 6 | | Communicating Without Air | | 102 | | 7 | | Notes on the Red-Cheeked Animal: The Geology of a Blush | | 116 | | 8 | | The Watchtower | | 129 | | 9 | | The Sensory Room | | 156 | | | | Third Explicitly Philosophical Digression: Having and Using My Head | | 180 | | 10 | | Head Traffic: Eating, Vomiting and Smoking | | 186 | | 11 | | Head on Head: Notes on Kissing | | 202 | | 12 | | Headgear | | 211 | | | | Fourth Explicitly Philosophical Digression: Caretaking My Head | | 222 | | 13 | | In the Wars | | 226 | | 14 | | The Dwindles | | 236 | | | | Final Explicitly Philosophical Digression: Knowing (and Not Knowing) My Head | | 257 | | 15 | | Head and World | | 260 | | 16 | | The Thinking Head | | 274 | | | | Epilogue: Heading Off | | 288 | | | | Notes | | 293 | | | | Index | | 313 |
"'Tallis has a range of expertise that would leave Jonathan Miller gasping.' Sunday Times 'Riveting' The Times 'Professor Tallis is a brilliant man' Sunday Telegraph 'This is a brilliant tract against the times' Frank Field, Spectator"  Be the first to write a customer review
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