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- The art and science of body language
- Listeners will learn some of the same skills the best interrogators and detectives use to evaluate spies, criminals, and witnesses, interpreting body language, mannerisms and other non-verbal communications. This is primarily a self-help audio that will help you learn to communicate with your own face and body to your best advantage and put these skills to use in everyday life.
- 2008-03-18, 0 of 0 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- Be a Military Interrogator in less than 300 pages!!
- This book, didn't really grab me, not after reading "The Definitive Book of Body Language" by Pease and Pease.
This book, while well written, just really doesn't teach you anything. How can you have a body language book without that many pictures? He talks a lot about interrogating people and whatnot. I'm in the Army, and that's well and good, but not really meant for people in every day situations. He goes off on A LOT of tangents that left me scratching my head. When he talks about cultural influences, he goes back to the Middle East a lot. His examples, once again, leave the reader going "Huh?!" You want me to find the IED maker??
I used "The Definitive Book of Body Language" as a base in my studies and used this book as a way to reinforce the information I already knew. I'd recommend this book as a second reading after reading something else. If you want to interrogate someone, this may be the book for you. It was helpful, but not in a significant way.
The class he offers is probably a lot better. - 2008-01-29, 3 of 3 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- Difficult to read... but with worthwhile nuggets
- I found the author's writing style difficult. The author works with a four-point "R-E-A-D" outline; such an outline should result in a smooth-flowing book, but this was not the case. [One outcome - this is not a book I send to anyone as a gift). However, if you find this book in a public library, then borrow it. The book contains a number of useful nuggets. In particular, his anecdote (p. 191) on "false cognates" is a red-alert. We are reminded that we don't exactly answer a question. Our answer is to our understanding of the question(and our feelings about the question and the environment (e.g. the interrogator)). This can be troublesome. [The anecdote demonstrates someone admitting, across a language-divide, to child rape because of innocuous "false cognate" words used by the interrogator.]
- 2007-12-13, 6 of 7 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- Arrogant and Overly General
- My first B.A. was in Interpersonal Communication, a large part of which involved nonverbal communication (aka body language). That was decades ago. Now I enjoy reading more recent information to get different opinions and updated theories.
This book is a huge disappointment. If you remove the generalized information such as making sure you understand what is normal for any given person before attempting to read his/her body language, you are unfortunately left with the author's egomaniacal biography. You even get to know how he has his hair cut (military flat top) and what kind of cowboy boots he wears (steel-toed), although neither applies to reading someone like a book. The author just really seems to want to talk about himself.
In one section, the reader is shown a photo of a man, woman, and child. You know, due to the author's own "baseline," that this is a family photo. Instead of simply explaining what the nonverbal communication in the picutre means, the author goes on for several pages describing the lives of each of the people in the photo. There is no reason for this; it has nothing to do with the point theoretically being made. We even get to hear about the "estranged grandfather." After the brief explanation of his posture, we are told that Grandpa "at the age of 35, went ashore on D-Day, with the 29th Infantry Division; to some extent, that earned him the right to look cocky." Huh? Do you want to hear that subjective bit of information, much less need to read it?
I'm sure Gregory Hartley really is a big ol' beer-guzzling macho guy who intimidates the daylights out of those he so proudly interrogates, but I personally find him so annoying I can only give very little credibility to the information in his book.
I've got a degree in the subject. I've taught the subject on campus and in seminars. There are other books out there for those who want to read the latest on nonverbal communication. Don't bother with this one unless you're prepared to wade through the details of Mr. Hartley's personal information. - 2007-11-09, 55 of 61 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- I Can Read You Like A Book
- Just like the book, How To Spot A Liar, this book is very dry reading, I don't know if I will finish this book either. I wanted to be able to learn some things about people that I work with.
- 2007-11-07, 4 of 5 people found this review helpful, Rated:
