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

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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".