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Condition: Good. Minor creasing to front cover, light spine wear consistent with age, interior toning to pages. Early Pocket Books printing with the distinctive photographic cover showing open and closed body language poses a hallmark of the books 1970s cultural moment.
In accessible, example-rich chapters, they classify gestures into categories of openness, defensiveness, confidence, and deception, showing how such signals can guide anyone from the business professional to the everyday conversationalist. Illustrated sequences demonstrate body talk in action, offering readers the tools to recognize subtle shifts in attitude and emotion.
Far from a mere curiosity, the book helped establish body language as a mainstream field of study in psychology and communication prefiguring later works by Allan Pease and Joe Navarro. It became a staple in sales training, management courses, and popular self-improvement circles through the 1970s and 1980s.
