The author turns several ideas on their heads on the way to developing this argument.
Were successful contrarian investors like Warren Buffett dropped on their heads as babies?
Folk patted a couple of teammates on their heads as they swarmed toward him.
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Evacuees waded through flowing muddy waters, a few prized possessions perched on their heads.
Its members protested outside the school with whimsy, turning up with sieves and toys on their heads.
Carrying their belongings on their heads and on bicycles, they have set up camp on the farms.
That is correct, assuming that those observing the moon in the southern hemisphere do so standing on their heads.
Egg roulette involves competitors breaking a choice of six eggs on their heads with the loser finding the single uncooked one.
Parishioners are few, mostly elderly women found with veils on their heads.
Among the bicyclists there are pretty girls, their hair dressed high on their heads in what seems to be the current mode here.
And once everyone is walking around with something on their heads, the micro-distinctions between corrective lenses or the volume turned to 11 become socially-insignificant.
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As I watched Topher Grace and Dennis Quaid "standing on their heads" I couldn't help but draw some comparisons to Microsoft's upside-down WMV strategy.
The workers can do a six-week strike standing on their heads.
He was convicted of killing Marsha McDonnell, 19, in February 2003 and Amelie Delagrange, 22, in August 2004, by striking them on their heads with a blunt instrument.
Sometimes they would wear things on their heads, like turbans.
With that, General Nkunda's columns of Tutsi fighters plodded back into the green hills outside the town, carrying suitcases on their heads and driving herds of cattle before them.
African farmers without adequate road networks are condemned to grow not what they can eat, but what they can carry on their heads and eat quickly before pests destroy it.
The girls in a group are divided into ten ''kraljevi'' (kings), who wear sabres and men s hats, and about five ''kraljice'' (queens), who wear white garlands on their heads like brides.
On the face of it, the 30, 000-strong community looks like any cluster of Indian villages, with its fields, ponds and young women gliding here and there with pitchers of water balanced on their heads.
There was a burst of shouting from across the street, and the doors of a dark-shingled flat-roofed building opened, letting loose several men, who were jamming caps on their heads and banging lunch buckets against their thighs.
The crowns sit heavy on their heads.
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Tanned little boys darted past me on bicycles, wearing mesh baseball caps propped high on their heads, in mimicry of the fathers and uncles who crowded around workbenches, bent over vehicles, their belts buckled off center to avoid scratching the paint.
The children of today, he wrote, were missing out on "falling into ponds, eating poisonous berries, contracting stomach ache from under-ripe stolen apples, getting lost, being bitten by dogs, fighting and starting fires, sitting in cowpats and acquiring bumps the size of a duck egg on their heads".
Sustainable development is a term that was crafted by diplomats hoping to get diametrically opposed environmental and economic ministers from more than 100 countries to agree on something their heads of state could sign on to before the end of a summit.
Low-earning groups tend to spend more proportionally on shelter than top earners, but on the whole, the average American household spends about one third of their yearly budget on the roof over their heads.
While locals complain of living costs, Australian households on average spend 19% of their disposable income on keeping a roof over their heads, below the OECD's average of 21%.
In Amsterdam, the capital of the Netherlands, most of the hundreds of thousands of people who'd gathered in the Museumplein square to watch the game on a giant screen filtered out in stunned silence after the final whistle, leaving behind trampled orange hats and a smattering of tearful people sitting on crates with their heads in their hands.
The falcons sit like silent sentries, eerily still on wooden perches, their heads encased by hoods.
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