What Every BODY is Saying: An Ex-FBI Agent's Guide to Speed-Reading People

It's nice book.

Must read. Delivery on time.

Great book

Very nice book about body language! I gave this as a gift, it’s the second I buy!

Je le recommend a 100%

YES SIR! Amazing book!

It's good book to read, actually i haven't read it yet Fully but quite good.

Enjoy reading this book. All the topics are presented very explicit, with examples. It is a very good guide if someone's work is with people. The author is a former FBI agent , so , most of his examples are from his arina of expertise.

"What every body is saying" teaches you to read and decipher body language, based on the experience of the author as a former FBI agent. I got interested in this after getting involved in research about frauds, fraudsters and scam victims. Author Joe Navarro tells us how, as a boy exile from Cuba who had to relocate to the US with no knowledge of English, he quickly had to learn to read facial expressions as vital survival cues that enabled him to predict whether strangers would be friendly or hostile to him. Having developed this skill to a remarkable degree he was recruited as an FBI agent in his early twenties and served for 25 years, interviewing suspects and developing and validating his insights into the coherent and scientifically founded framework that he presents in the book. Navarro goes through the whole spectrum of non-verbal expression, dedicating a chapter of his book to each body part: feet and legs, torso, arms, hands and face. Far from a dull lookup table listing merely that "this gesture means that", the book is rich with insights from evolutionary biology and explains how and why the limbic system, a more ancient part of the brain compared to the neocortex that allows humans to think, is primarily responsible for these involuntary gestures that happen subconsciously in response to emotions and outside stimuli. The author is very careful not to allow the reader to take shortcuts and assume that, for example, a certain gesture means that the subject is lying. In almost all cases, he explains, all that can be accurately inferred from observing the gesture is that the person is under stress; other factors must then be taken into account to establish whether the stress comes from lying, from the mere fact of being questioned, from medical reasons or from yet other causes. The book is well written and nicely illustrated with a wealth of clear photographs that really add value to the descriptions. The main text is complemented by over 50 "boxes" with memorable anecdotes from the author's FBI career that exemplify and demonstrate the principles described in the book. Up to date references to scientific research are scattered throughout the text. A very informative, readable and entertaining introduction to the topic, by an author who clearly masters the subject. Recommended.