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Many nonverbal behaviors--smiling, blushing, shrugging--reveal our emotions. One nonverbal behavior, gesturing, exposes our thoughts. This book explores how we move our hands when we talk, and what it means when we do so.

Susan Goldin-Meadow begins with an intriguing discovery: when explaining their answer to a task, children sometimes communicate different ideas with their hand gestures than with their spoken words. Moreover, children whose gestures do not match their speech are particularly likely to benefit from instruction in that task. Not only do gestures provide insight into...

The idea that the language we speak influences the way we think has evoked perennial fascination and intense controversy. According to the strong version of this hypothesis, called the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis after the American linguists who propounded it, languages vary in their semantic partitioning of the world, and the structure of one's language influences how one understands the world. Thus speakers of different languages perceive the world differently.

Although the last two decades have been marked by extreme skepticism concerning the possible effects of language on thought,...

We find that the story of Abraham and Isaac rises almost spontaneously in the mind of one generation after another.... Constantly past and present react to and upon each other, and life is given an order, a coherence, by the themes which govern the Holy Scriptures and the reinterpretations of those themes.
from the Introduction by Judah Goldin

Shalom Spiegel s classic examines the total body of texts, legends, and traditions referring to the Binding of Isaac and weaves them together into a definitive study of the Akedah as one of the central events in all of human...

»Ein Weckruf für mehr  Chancengleichheit«
DHI-Präsident Marcel Fratzscher über den Nobelpreis für Claudia Goldin

Es war ein Paukenschlag aus der Stockholmer Akademie für Wissenschaften: Eine Frau erhält den Wirtschaftsnobelpreis, und sie arbeitet über - Frauen. Seit Jahrzehnten und auf der Grundlage von über 200 Jahre zurückreichenden Daten forscht Claudia Goldin zu der großen Gerechtigkeitslücke, an der viele gutausgebildete Frauen und Mütter bis heute scheitern. Warum übernehmen sie den größten Teil der Care-Arbeit?...