Download or read book Reading and the Body written by Thomas Mc Laughlin and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-08 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Literary theory has been dominated by a mind/body dualism that often eschews the role of the body in reading. Focusing on reading as a physical practice, McLaughlin analyzes the role of the eyes, the hands, postures and gestures, bodily habits and other physical spaces, with discussions ranging from James Joyce to the digital future of reading.

Download or read book The Complete Idiot s Guide to Reading Body Language written by Susan Constantine and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-04-02 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using both photos and line art, The Complete Idiot's Guide® to Reading Body Language reveals and explains the visual tells to be found in faces, eyes, and lips; the positions of hands, arms, and legs; stances; gestures; the uses of everyday objects; and more. Additionally, strategies to elicit body language are detailed as well.

Download or read book What Every BODY is Saying written by Joe Navarro and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: OVER 1 MILLION COPIES SOLD Joe Navarro, a former FBI counterintelligence officer and a recognized expert on nonverbal behavior, explains how to "speed-read" people: decode sentiments and behaviors, avoid hidden pitfalls, and look for deceptive behaviors. You'll also learn how your body language can influence what your boss, family, friends, and strangers think of you. Read this book and send your nonverbal intelligence soaring. You will discover: The ancient survival instincts that drive body language Why the face is the least likely place to gauge a person's true feelings What thumbs, feet, and eyelids reveal about moods and motives The most powerful behaviors that reveal our confidence and true sentiments Simple nonverbals that instantly establish trust Simple nonverbals that instantly communicate authority Filled with examples from Navarro's professional experience, this definitive book offers a powerful new way to navigate your world.

Download or read book Reading for the Body written by Jay Watson and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2012-08-01 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVJay Watson argues that southern literary studies has been overidealized and dominated by intellectual history for too long. In Reading for the Body, he calls for the field to be rematerialized and grounded in an awareness of the human body as the site where ideas, including ideas about the U.S. South itself, ultimately happen. Employing theoretical approaches to the body developed by thinkers such as Karl Marx, Colette Guillaumin, Elaine Scarry, and Friedrich Kittler, Watson also draws on histories of bodily representation to mine a century of southern fiction for its insights into problems that have preoccupied the region and nation alike: slavery, Jim Crow, and white supremacy; the marginalization of women; the impact of modernization; the issue of cultural authority and leadership; and the legacy of the Vietnam War. He focuses on the specific bodily attributes of hand, voice, and blood and the deeply embodied experiences of pain, illness, pregnancy, and war to offer new readings of a distinguished group of literary artists who turned their attention to the South: Mark Twain, Jean Toomer, Zora Neale Hurston, William Faulkner, Richard Wright, Katherine Anne Porter, Bobbie Ann Mason, and Walker Percy. In producing an intensely embodied U.S. literature these writers, Watson argues, were by turns extending and interrogating a centuries-old tradition in U.S. print culture, in which the recalcitrant materiality of the body serves as a trope for the regional alterity of the South. Reading for the Body makes a powerful case for the body as an important methodological resource for a new southern studies./div

Download or read book BodyReading Visual Assessment and the Anatomy Trains written by Thomas Myers and published by . This book was released on 2017-08 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a bright new easy-to-follow guide to building great visual assessment skills. Compiled from a Massage & Bodywork article series, Tom has updated the articles and added illustrations to allow the concepts to be easily understood.The first chapters outline the method and the way it can be successfully integrated into your practice, including charting and making the client feel comfortable with it. Each subsequent chapter deals with the Anatomy Trains lines, giving visual assessment and strategy points for each with diagrams, model photos, and more.

Download or read book My Body Keeps Your Secrets written by Lucia Osborne-Crowley and published by Black Spot Books. This book was released on 2021-09-02 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her first full-length book, Lucia Osborne-Crowley, author of the acclaimed Mood Indigo essay I Choose Elena, writes about the secrets a woman's body keeps, from puberty to menstruation to sexual pleasure; to pregnancy or its absence; and to darker secrets of abuse, invasion or violation. Through the voices of women around the world and her own deeply moving testimony, My Body Keeps Your Secrets tells the story of the young woman's body in 2021. Moving from girlhood and adolescence to young womanhood, Osborne-Crowley establishes her credentials as a key feminist thinker of a new generation with this widely researched and boldly argued work about reclaiming our bodies in the age of social media.

Download or read book Body Language Secrets written by Michael C. Anthony and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-07-21 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Did you know your body speaks much louder than your words? The way you move your eyes, mouth, head, arms and legs—it all has meaning. When you practice the techniques in this book you will not only use your body in a brand new way, but you'll have the skills to read the body language of others and know what they are really thinking.Body Language Secrets is a fun to read, brilliantly illustrated book that gives you a real world, unfair advantage both personally and professionally.

Download or read book Technologies of the Gendered Body written by Anne Marie Balsamo and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book looks at the representation of the body in culture from a feminist perspective. Subjects covered include bodybuilding, cosmetic surgery, and cyberculture.

Download or read book The Body Book written by Cameron Diaz and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2015-12-29 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cameron Diaz shares her formula for becoming happier, healthier, and stronger in this positive, essential guide grounded in science and inspired by personal experience, a #1 New York Times bestseller. Throughout her career, Cameron Diaz has been a role model for millions of women. By her own candid admission, though, this fit, glamorous, but down-to-earth star was not always health-conscious. Learning about the inseparable link between nutrition and the body was just one of the life-changing lessons that has fed Cameron’s hunger to educate herself about the best ways to feed, move, and care for her body. In The Body Book, she shares what she has learned and continues to discover about nutrition, exercise, and the mind/body connection. Grounded in science and informed by real life, The Body Book offers a comprehensive overview of the human body and mind, from the cellular level up. From demystifying and debunking the hype around food groups to explaining the value of vitamins and minerals, readers will discover why it’s so important to embrace the instinct of hunger and to satisfy it with whole, nutrient-dense foods. Cameron also explains the essential role of movement, the importance of muscle and bone strength and why we need to sweat a little every day. The Body Bookdoes not set goals to reach in seven days or thirty days or a year. It offers a holistic, long-term approach to making consistent choices and reaching the ultimate goal: a long, strong, happy, healthy life.

Download or read book Body Feng Shui written by Chao-Hsiu Chen and published by Inner Traditions / Bear & Co. This book was released on 1999-09 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Generously illustrated with more than 100 drawings that explain the meaning of distinctive physical characteristics, "Body Feng Shui" teaches readers how to explore their own and others' destinies by reading the truths of the soul as they appear on the human body. 168 line drawings.

Download or read book Body Reading Plain Simple written by Sasha Fenton and published by Hampton Roads Publishing. This book was released on 2016-08-01 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We all know that hands can reveal character and destiny, but what about other parts of the body? With this basic guide, learn how your body features can reveal health, relationship, and behavior attributes and how to spot these in others. Divination expert, Sasha Fenton covers the waterfront of body reading in 15 short accessible chapters. Topics covered include faces, heads, hands, eyes, teeth, nails, feet, colors, moles, and itches. Generously illustrated with line drawings and graphs, this primer is a splendid introduction and guide to body secrets. Fun facts found here: Hair reflects one's health and one's state of mind. Moles suggest stomach trouble, relationship problems, or possibly an ill partner. A high bony nose suggests failure in business. Downwardly sloping eyebrows suggest a lack of energy and a tendency to whine. People with inward-leaning incisors are selfish, antisocial, and don't mind hurting others. Based on interviews, exhaustive research, and years of close observation, this practical guide is filled with fascinating facts and insight that will be greeted eagerly by all who are interested in a variety of divination systems.

Download or read book Human Lie Detection and Body Language 101 written by Vanessa Van Edwards and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2013-02-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Do you want to know when someone is lying to you? In this book, you will learn both body language and lie detection. In a ten minute conversation you are likely to be lied to two to three times. Learn how to spot those lies. If you have ever interacted with another person, this book will be useful to you because our everyday interactions are filled with secret nonverbal cues just waiting to be uncovered. Whether you are a business owner, parent, spouse, employee, human resources director, teacher or student, this book will change the way you interact with those around you"--Amazon.com.

Download or read book The Busy Body Book written by Lizzy Rockwell and published by Knopf Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2012-11-28 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A celebration of the amazing human machine and a life on the move! Your amazing body can jump, sprint, twist, and twirl. Your body is built to move. Lizzy Rockwell explains how your bones and muscles, heart and lungs, nerves and brain all work together to keep you on the go. Kids walk and skate and tumble through these pages with such exuberance that even sprouting couch potatoes will want to get up and bounce around—and that’s the ultimate goal. Studies show that American kids are becoming more sedentary and more overweight and that they carry these tendencies with them into adolescence and adulthood. Experts agree that we need to help kids make physical activity a life-long habit. Through education, information, and encouragement, this book aims to inspire a new generation of busy bodies!

Download or read book Body Reading written by Gopesh Kumar Ojha and published by Motilal Banarsidass. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The art of Body Reading will enable you to know your personality as well as of others from the shape, form and build of the various parts of the body. Through it you will discover the potentials of your personality as projected by your body and win happiness and success in love, career, business, social affairs etc. Also, learn to read the true nature of the people around you - your friends and your enemies.

Download or read book You Say More Than You Think written by Janine Driver and published by Harmony. This book was released on 2011-01-04 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now You’re Talking! Do you want to be bulletproof at work, secure in your relationship, and content in your own skin? If so, it’s more important than ever to be aware of what your body is saying to the outside world. Unfortunately, most of what you’ve heard from other body language experts is wrong, and, as a result, your actions may be hurting, not helping, you. With sass and a keen eye, media favorite Janine Driver teaches you the skills she used every day to stay alive during her fifteen years as a body-language expert at the ATF. Janine’s 7-day plan and her 7-second solutions teach you dozens of body language fixes to turn any interpersonal situation to your advantage. She reveals methods here that other experts refuse to share with the public, and she debunks major myths other experts swear are fact: Giving more eye contact is key when you’re trying to impress someone. Not necessarily true. It’s actually more important where you point your belly button. This small body shift communicates true interest more powerfully than constant eye contact. The “steeple” hand gesture will give you the upper hand during negotiations and business meetings. Wrong. Driver has seen this overbearing gesture backfire more often than not. Instead, she suggests two new steeples that give you power without making you seem overly aggressive: the Basketball Steeple and the A-OK Two-Fingered Steeple. Happy people command power and attention by smiling just before they meet new people. Studies have shown that people who do this are viewed as Beta Leaders. Alpha leaders smile once they shake your hand and hear your name. At a time when every advantage counts—and first impressions matter more than ever—this is the book to help you really get your message across.

Download or read book Understand body language learn and apply Reading body language perfecting body language recognizing lies more successful through perfected body language written by Erik Klingenschild and published by Jurij Statjow. This book was released on 2023-07-08 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the secrets of body language and learn the art of reading, understanding and using non-verbal signals! In my book, Understand Body Language, I reveal the fascinating world of body language and show you how to perfect it to be more successful and spot lies. Here are some of the exciting topics that await you: Introduction to Body Language: dive into the basics and learn how nonverbal signals affect our communication. The Feet: Discover the importance of foot positions and movements and how to interpret their alignment. The Torso: Learn how to recognize tension and relaxation in the upper body and interpret the meaning of open versus closed postures. The Arms: Understand different arm and hand movements and how to use them to enhance your communication. Discover the impact of crossed arms and open gestures. The Face: Learn the meaning of different facial expressions and how to recognize facial expressions and emotions to expose lies and deceptions. The Voice: Learn how pitch, volume, and rate of speech affect our body language and how to recognize emotional nuances in the voice. Avoiding Faulty Body Language: Discover typical mistakes and learn how to avoid nervous gestures, poor posture, and nonverbal signals of insecurity and inauthenticity. Tricks for better body language: get valuable tips and techniques to improve your body language and appear more confident. The importance of eye contact: Interpret the direction of the eyes and the effect of eye contact. Learn strategies to make eye contact confidently and authentically. Magnetic Body Language: Discover the secrets of charismatic body language and how to attract people through clever non-verbal signals. Perception: Train your observation skills and learn the art of intuitive body language interpretation. Recognize subtle signals in different situations. This is just a small sample of what you can expect in my book. "Understand Body Language" offers you practical exercises, techniques and reflection methods to improve your body language and strengthen your self-awareness. Become a master of nonverbal communication and achieve greater success in all areas of your life! Are you ready to unlock the secrets of body language? Buy "Understand Body Language" now and get excited about the fascinating possibilities of nonverbal communication! Click "Add to Cart" now and discover the power of body language!

Download or read book How to Analyze People written by Bradley Fairbanks and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-01-24 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How to Analyze People Reading People, Body Language Recognizing Emotions & Facial Expressions Learning how to analyze people is a very worthwhile and important pursuit that most people should undertake. When you know how to read people, an entirely new world of possibilities opens up before you. Human psychology is a subject that is somewhat shrouded in mystery, but understanding a few simple facts about body language will greatly improve your skills in reading people. Here are some key points you will learn in this guide: Why does Body Language Matter? For someone who is new to this subject, it might be a mystery why body language matters very much. After all, we developed speech in order to communicate, and that's all we need, right? Actually, speech is only a tiny part of communication, and most of what we say is done nonverbally. Someone can say one thing, for example, in a tone that communicates something entirely different. Learning the difference is of crucial importance in life. Before you Analyze People: It's exciting to start learning how to read people's cues, but there are some things you need to know about before diving in. For example, are the conditions right for reading someone? Do you have any biases that may color what you are observing and interpreting? Have you established a baseline for that person's personality? If you don't know what this means, don't worry, you will learn in chapter three. All of these are worth considering before you start trying to analyze the people in your life. Foolproof Techniques for Reading Body Language: After you have gone through the motions of preparing to read someone, how do you actually do it? What do certain movements of the eyes, legs, and arms mean? What does it mean if someone is blinking a lot? Every motion means something different. When someone Likes you or is Lying: Who hasn't wanted to be able to know when someone they like returns their feelings? Who hasn't been curious about being able to tell when someone is lying or being truthful? Taking it upon yourself to learn how to analyze people and read their nonverbal cues will help you in this area, as well as in many others. In the last couple of chapters of this book, you will get a quick and simple guide to being able to tell when someone thinks favorably of you, as well as signs that they are not being honest with you. Other topics we will cover in this book: Body Language Facial Expressions Hand Gestures Reading People Reading Minds Body expression People Reading How to Read People Recognizing Emotions How to Analyze People Mind Reading Analyzing people Whether you are trying to read a stranger or someone you know, the tips and techniques in this guide will help you along the way. If you've ever wanted to know when someone likes you, or know how to spot someone telling lies using simple methods of reading facial expressions and nonverbal cues, this book is for you. The sooner you learn this valuable information, the sooner you can put it into practice and start benefiting from it. Once you learn these techniques, the cues will start to be obvious to you, and you will find it much less common that you're mystified by the actions or facial expressions of people around you.