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Manwatching. A Field Guide to Human Behavior
Manwatching A Field Guide to Human Behavior Author:Desmond Morris Actions speak louder than words. Are you getting th emessage? — This is a book about actions, about how actions become gestures and about how gestures transmit messages. Psychologists have long studied what makes people tick. Now Desmond Morris reveals what makes people twitch, stare, grimace, point, poke and shrug. Here is a complete and fas... more »cinating catalog of human behavior, closely examined in Morris' lively text and hundreds of telling photographs, drawings and hisorical prints. In this captivating anthology of body language are the postures, hand gestures, and facial expressions that accompany our true feelings, often hidden under the mask of convention. Here is how we pantomime the meaning beneath our outward behavior in the whole range of social situations - mating, hunting, leadership, status, territorial and ritual.« less