You’ll Think Twice About Shaking Hands after Reading Dangerous Hands: Shake the Handshake!

HAMPSTEAD, Md. - July 9, 2013 - PRLog -- There are few scenarios in which a handshake would seem to have any sort of negative implication or impact. Unless, of course, the exchange failed to live up to the American cultural standard: a firm grasp followed by several short pumps lasting no more than three to four seconds and carried out while looking your partner confidently in the eye. Yet, in her newly released non-fiction, Gayle Westmoreland warns of more than just the dangers of a simple social faux pas. Handshaking, while a standard and fairly comfortable exchange for social and formal situations alike, carries with it a number of health risks more detrimental than a missed job opportunity. Westmoreland addresses these health and other social concerns when guiding her readers to think about the harmful effects of handshaking.

To an American, a handshake denotes the offering of congratulations, the making of acquaintances, the settling of an agreement, or the bidding of goodbye. In both social and business situations, the coming together of two hands signifies the camaraderie between two people who have, in some way, made an important connection. However, not every connection has a positive lasting effect. The hands carry with them thousands of germs that, through either direct or indirect contact transmission, can be attributed to causing any number of diseases. In ridding the handshake from American cultural practice, lives would be saved and people given an equal opportunity in both business and social exchanges to make accurate first impressions.

From beginning to end, this book educates the reader not only about the health and social dangers of handshaking but also gives insight into the way that connections are made. In encouraging people to “shake the handshake”, this book will make you think about how people can come together in more meaningful ways than an often impersonal – yet far from sterile – handshake. This book is educational, shocking, and thought-provoking, with well-researched insight into our hands and what people do with them.

This book and many other Maple Creek Media titles are available from most major online book retailers such as Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Powell’s, Books-A-Million, and others. You can also order directly and conveniently from the Maple Creek Media Bookstore.

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