Body Language

This classic book, which has sold over three million copies, was the first to features the phrase 'body language'. It introduces 'kinesics', the science of non-verbal communication, which is used to analyse the common gestures we use and observe every day, gestures which reveal our deepest feelings and hidden throughout to total strangers -- if they know how to read them.

The Body is the Message

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A Science Called Kinesics

A New Signal from the Unconscious

How to Tell the Girls Apart

To Touch or Not to Touch

A Touch of Loneliness

Of Animals and Territory

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The Symbolic Battle

Can We Inherit Language?

``The Territorial Imperative''

How Much Space Does a Man Need?

How We Handle Space

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A Space to Call Your Own

A Science Called Proxemics

Social and Public Space

How Different Cultures Handle Space

The Western World's Way with Space

When Space is Invaded

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Defending Body Zones

Advice for Status Seekers

How to be a Leader

The Space We Hold Inviolate

Of Space and Personality

Sex and Non-Persons

Ceremonies and Seating

The Masks Men Wear

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The Smile that Hides the Soul

Take off the Mask

The Mask that Won't Come Off

When is a Person Not a Person

The Masochist and the Sadist

How to Drop the Mask

The Wonderful World of Touch

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Come Hold My Hand

The Crippling Masks

You are What You Feel

How to Break Out of a Shell

The Silent Cocktail Party

Playing Games for Health's Sake

The Silent Language of Love

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Stance, Glance and Advance

Is She Available?

Is the Face Worth Saving?

Pickups, AC and DC

Choose Your Posture

Semi-Sexual Encounters

Positions, Points and Postures

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A Cry for Help

What Does Your Posture Say?

Different Places, Different Postures

The Movement and the Message

Postures and Presentations

Jockeying for Position

Three Clues to Family Behavior

Winking, Blinking and Nods

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The Stare that Dehumanizes

A Time for Looking

The Awkward Eyes

Bedroom Eyes

Other Cultures, Other Looks

A Long Look at Oneself

How Long is a Glance?

An Alphabet for Movement

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Is There a Language of Legs?

The ABC of Body Language

Labeling the Kines

Culture and Kinesics

Follow the Leader

Body Language: Use and Abuse

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Let's Talk to the Animals

Symbols in a World Without Sound

Mental Healing Through Body Language

Faking Body Language

Putting it all Together

Selected References

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