Product Description: What does your body language say about you? From strangers on the street, to your closest friends and family – even if you're not speaking, you're saying a lot with your body. Body Language explores the way we use our bodies to communicate, the way we hold ourselves, the way we sit, stand, and point our hands, feet and eyes can all reveal how we are feeling in any given situation...read more

Product Description: Master the art of Mian Xiang with this guide to face reading for self-defence, or the art of avoiding fighting. Known as the 'Urban Daoist', Serge Augier explains how to read people and threatening situations quickly, to either avoid fights or respond in the most effective manner...read more

Product Description: Now available in board book format with revised content for even the youngest children. Featuring engaging photographs of young children and sweet rhyming text, this fun read-aloud teaches little ones about nonverbal communication from a kiss and a clap to a wave and a yawn.

As a highly readable and thought-provoking introduction to nonverbal communication, Nonverbal Communication in Everyday Life offers comprehensive coverage and contemporary research in an engaging and accessible presentation. This text provides balanced coverage of the functions, channels, and applications of nonverbal communication. Organized into three parts to allow for greater flexibility, Part I: “Functions” presents the basic codes, primary functions, and development of nonverbal communication, and Part II: “Channels” takes an integrative approach and shows how each channel serves a primary function. Part III: “Applications” then offers sound applications of nonverbal communication, grounded in the best and latest theory and research, to help students achieve success in various common, everyday situations.

Product Description: Most self-improvement programs train people to identify and solve problems by grappling with them endlessly, often to no avail. Executive coach Steve Sisgold, however, knows that the body--not the mind--is the most reliable and effective pathway to realizing your innermost desires and achieving success...read more

Throughout his career, the influential new media theorist Vilém Flusser kept the idea of gesture in mind: that people express their being in the world through a sweeping range of movements. He reconsiders familiar actions—from speaking and painting to smoking and telephoning—in terms of particular movement, opening a surprising new perspective on the ways we share and preserve meaning. A gesture may or may not be linked to specialized apparatus, though its form crucially affects the person who makes it.These essays, published here as a collection in English for the first time, were written over roughly a half century and reflect both an eclectic array of interests and a durable commitment to phenomenological thought. Defining gesture as “a movement of the body or of a tool attached to the body for which there is no satisfactory causal explanation,” Flusser moves around the topic from diverse points of view, angles, and distances: at times he zooms in on a modest, ordinary movement such as taking a photograph, shaving, or listening to music; at others, he pulls back to look at something as vast and varied as human “making,” embracing everything from the fashioning of simple tools to mass manufacturing. But whatever the gesture, Flusser analyzes it as the expression of a particular form of consciousness, that is, as a particular relationship between the world and the one who gestures.

Product Description: - Bank Street College Best Children's Books of the Year - 2015 "Alone, the tip to mimic a superhero's stance to build confidence makes the title a worthwhile investment.   . . . gift a copy to your child or child's teacher; help this extraordinary resource make the rounds...read more

Product Description: Words can be lies, but body language always tells the truth They say actions speak louder than words, but what are those actions really saying? Body Language Quick & Easy shows you how to use the hidden communication of the body to improve your relationships, build confidence, understand your friends and colleagues, and even be able to tell when people are lying...read more

Product Description: This book is an interdisciplinary guide to empirical research on nonverbal behaviour. It focuses on tools and procedures to investigate body movement and gesture and the relation to cognitive, emotional, and interactive processes...read more

Product Description: This book considers how language users express and understand literal and metaphorical spatial meaning not only in language but also through gesture and pointing. Researchers explore the ways in which theoretical developments in language and cognition, new empirical techniques, and new computational facilities have led to a greater understanding of the relationship between physical space and mental space as expressed in human communication...read more

Product Description:  “People come to us for help. They come for health and strength.” With these simple words David Mendel begins Proper Doctoring, a book about what it means (and takes) to be a good doctor, and for that reason very much a book for patients as well as doctors—which is to say a book for everyone...read more