https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk Henley-on-Thames Fri, 05 Nov 2021 13:17:19 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/cropped-Bell-Background-Blue-32x32.png https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk 32 32 https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/product/the-handshake/ Thu, 02 Sep 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/product/the-handshake/ ‘It’s a little book of wonder, it’s fantastic’ Chris Evans’A fabulously sparky, wide-ranging and horizon-broadening little study … joyously unboring’ Sunday TimesFriends do it, strangers do it and so do chimpanzees – and it’s not just deeply embedded in our history and culture, it may even be written in our DNA. The humble handshake, it turns out, has a rich and surprising history.So let’s join palaeoanthropologist Ella Al-Shamahi as she embarks on a funny and fascinating voyage of discovery – from the handshake’s origins (at least seven million years ago) all the way to its sudden disappearance in March 2020. Drawing on new research, anthropological insights and first-hand experience, she’ll reveal how this most friendly of gestures has played a role in everything from meetings with uncontacted tribes to political assassinations – and what it tells us about the enduring power of human contact.Because the story of the handshake … is far from over.

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