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Bodytalk: The Meaning of Human Gestures

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For anyone interested in human gestures as hobby or for their work, this is an excellent sorce of information. It is set up like a dictionary, with all the gestures you can think of plus their meanings and where the gesture has been sited. It's a very useful and interesting book for anyone wanting to study the human animal.

This book is useless. Anyone who has spent time aorund other humans is already aware of the body language descriptions in this book. It is basically a picture book of gestures that are so obvious. Dont waste your money.

This book is really a poor book ! Read in less than two hours, it may have an interest for people who have not the slightest idea about that subject... There is no science in that book ! I regret the few bucks I have paid for it...

If you read French and you want a really good book on non-verbal communication, try Jacques Corraze "Les communications non-verbales" that is a top level book !

There is, generally, an off-the-top-of-the-head quality to this book. But I base my harsh judgment specifically on his remarks about gestures in Greece. I've spent enough time, the better part of a year, in Greece to have my own ideas about it, and in fact, I was there around the time he published this book. Some quite prominent gestures, differing from the Anglo-American lot, are left unnoted, and others are mis-interpreted. I don't believe he did any "research" in Greece. Was he even there?

In another of his books, he states authoritatively that men who are attracted to women with small breasts are homosexuals, whether they want to admit it or not. What book was it, you ask? Ah, some book or other, not this one ... Some book or other, he's written ... oh, never mind.