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The only reason this book receives so few stars for the most part is that the reader is trying to apply this as a today's science and it does not work. The first printing was in 1970 and it was a novelty at the time. Now there are books upon books upon books on the subject and today it is still subjective. All you have to do is find out which book the other person is reading and practice the signals you want to make that person think that he/she has some sort of insight. In the mean time this book is fun to read to see what over two million people read and what they must have thought.

It uses what looks like personal experiences to explain the ins and outs of body language in different cultures and situations.

Here is what it promises:

. How to make advances without taking chances!

. How to read shoulders. (Is the person in a good mood? Angry? Frightened?)

. Body language between sex partners. How to communicate feeling and need without words.

. How to enter a room full of strangers, inventory body positions, and tell who the "important" people are.

. How to use body language to assume leadership of a group.

. How you can use the "new" language to defeat language.

As Rene Belloq said in [Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark], "...We are simply passing through history; This *is* history."

Fast, Julius. Body Language. New York: M. Evans and Company Inc, 1970.

Julius Fast, the author of Body Language, a former senior editor at Medical News, and previous teacher of Body Language at The New School For Social Research and at Connecticut State College, throughout this book refers to many psychologists opinions and research. Some include Dr. Arnold Buchheimer, Dr. Albert E. Scheflen, and Michael Wolff. The information that is discussed gives the reader a good understanding about the basis of the study of kinesics, the study of body language. Many different areas such as posture, space, and masking are all combined allowing you to recognize what a person is really thinking, putting light upon a unique area of the study of language. Although this 1970 edition, published by M. Evans and Company Inc., and the second publication, released in 1988, are both somewhat outdated, the ideas and opinions discussed provide a good understanding for the reader that is uneducated in this topic and still well represents the ideas that have since then been further developed in a logical order. The book at the time of release received positive reviews, the Daily News saying, "Julius Fast's fascinating book tells how social scientists are discovering that your body cannot lie!" The book still remains in print today.

I've noticed a lot of negative reviews for this book. They seem to be written by people who think there is some mysterious science, or set of "tricks" that can be deployed using body language.

This is not a book of tricks. It will not teach you any weird occultic secrets or mystical rites. If you're looking for the "unfair advantage" that gets so heavily hyped on the Web, it's not here. It's not anywhere else, either (lol).

This IS, however, a great book for understanding the essential science of nonverbal communication through body language. It is an awesome introduction to the science and, frankly, none of the books that have followed have done much to improve on it.

A couple of specifics...If you want to know if a woman is interested in you, that section of this book is pretty good. If you want to learn how to communicate your interest in a woman, without having to say a word, read the chapter about "Mike." It's dynamite. I've used it many times to express attraction for a woman. It works like magic.

And the wild thing is, these techniques also create attraction in women when you use them.

So don't believe the "short cut" seekers who have blasted this book. It's a cool, wise, intriguing read.

This was the first Fast book that I've read. I agree with the majority of the reviews that the story line and characters were thin. I was glad to finish the book so I could read something good by another author.

A book that can easily be read in one sitting, Greenwich is the intertwining stories of residents of Greenwich over several days. The characters are predictable, and easily put into their places in the plot. Fortunately, Howard fast makes them likable, or fleshes them out enought o have it all make sense. It moves very quickly and is a great book to sit by the pool with.

This book is about a murder of a lady in a town called Greenwich. The police are trying to find out who murdered her, but there are not any clues. But then all of a sudden the police find one small but important clue that really helped there them to solve their case. I like this book because I like mysteries and I also like Howard Fast's book. This was a very well written book because of all of the description, but because of all the descriptio0n the investigation part was very slow. The beginning and end to the book are very good.