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The Essential Difference
  • Published: 22 August 2012
  • ISBN: 9780241961353
  • Imprint: Penguin Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 288
  • RRP: $24.99

The Essential Difference

Men, Women and the Extreme Male Brain

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4 Mar 2004
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22 Aug 2012
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A new look for this classic text, to match the paperback look of the follow-up, Zero Degrees of Empathy

Men and women have always seemed to think in entirely different ways, from conversation and communication to games and gadgets. But are these differences created by society, or do our minds come ready-wired one way or another, with female brains tending towards interaction and male towards organisation? And could this mean that autism - rather than being a mental anomaly - is in fact simply an extreme male brain?

Why are female brains better at empathasing? How are male brains designed to analyse systems? And what really makes men and women different? Simon Baron-Cohen explores list-making, lying and twenty years of research in a ground-breaking examination of how our brains can be male or female but always completely fascinating.
  • Published: 22 August 2012
  • ISBN: 9780241961353
  • Imprint: Penguin Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 288
  • RRP: $24.99
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Praise for The Essential Difference

This is no Mars/Venus whimsy, but the conclusion fron twenty years of experiment

Evening Standard

This is a fascinating, thought-provoking book. Women will want to talk about it. Men will sit silent and brood over its details

Observer

Compelling... the book's final and probably most controversial argument is a treat for those who simply enjoy a good idea

Guardian

A thought-provoking take on the minds of men and women

Evening Standard

A devastating new contribution to the gender debate...dynamite

Mail on Sunday

The minds of men and women are very different - and here at last is the scientific proof... scholarly but never dry, this will definitely provoke lively discussion

Daily Mail