The Secrets of Body Language ─ An Illustrated Guide to Knowing What People Are Really Thinking and Feeling

Do you ever feel thatsomeone's gestures are telling you something different than the words they aresaying? Has a cashier asked you how you are without glancing up from the itemshe or she is scanning? Have youever felt that the firmness of your words is undermined by your feeble bodylanguage? Although spoken and written language may seem like our primarymethods of communicating with one another, body language plays a strikinglyprominent role, making up more than 90 percent of communication.

In the first English translation of Philippe Turchet’s The Secretsof Body Language, readers can discover all the ways they have beeninadvertently communicating negative, positive, neutral, or mixed messages withthe simple body movements they habitually make without even thinking about it.Turchet makes us aware of the true importance of body language in all contexts,relationships, and encounters, and explains how body language embedded in ourgenetic makeup has the remarkable ability to transcend the language barriersand communicate universal meaning. In this enlightening book, find out whatyour own body language is telling other people, how you can read the signs of others'bodies, and how to most effectively utilize your own body movements to "say" what you really mean.