The Power of Non-Verbal Communication: What You Do Is More Important Than What [Paperback]

Henry H. Calero (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 10, 2005 | Series: Taking Control

Anyone who can successfully read people can communicate and hold power. It's human nature to make decisions quickly, based on subconscious impressions of how a person looks and acts. Police officers and poker players often look for non-verbal cues in the people they deal with. They call these cues 'tells' -- and pride themselves on seeing 'tells' where ordinary people don't. Here are practical tips for understanding the inner motivations of others, and for controlling your own message to the world. Non-verbal communcation isn't about beauty or fashion or external first impressions. It is the sum total of ones' vocal inflections, facial expressions, gestures, posture and physical demeanor when communicating with others.

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About the Author

Henry H. Calero has been writing about communications and negotiation for 30 years. He is an independent scholar of non-verbal communication, consultant and writer for professional, academic and technical publications. He is co-author of the bestselling How to Read a Person Like a Book.

Product Details

• Paperback: 320 pages
• Publisher: Silver Lake Publishing (May 10, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1563437880
• ISBN-13: 978-1563437885
• Product Dimensions: 10 x 8 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,737,271 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2.0 out of 5 stars Fails to deliver, December 20, 2007

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This review is from: The Power of Non-Verbal Communication: What You Do Is More Important Than What (Paperback)

If you have already read three or four book on non-verbal communications, then you may skip this one. If you have only read one and looking for another, a better choice will be "The Definitive Book of Body Language" by Barbara Pease and Allan Pease. This book's title is very eye-catching but the book's presentation of ideas and anecdotes was fragmented. Indeed, there is a lot of detail --- Chinese offering rice to the dead (contrast to flowers being planted on graves), or Pres Bush taking to a red tie after 09/11 (and the mistake when he wore the same red tie when giving a speech after the Madrid bombing), or white elephant as a gift the king will give to someone he wants to impoverish, and elephants communicating at under-20Hz, or earrings with mention of Agassi and Barry Bonds, a section on nonverbal communications from the future self to the current self via pre-cognitive dreams, and a section on what a good host should do to deal with introverts(hold their hand, coax them) and extroverts(don't let them monopolize conversations) --encyclopedic, maybe, but a number of the details (whales?????) became unrelated clutter of little value to "Non-Verbal Communications".