The Body Language Advantage: Maximize Your Personal and Professional Relationships with this Ultimate Photo Guide to Deciphering What Others Are Secretly Saying, in Any Situation

by Lillian Glass

Discover the Hidden Signals People Are Sending You! The Body Language Advantage is your secret weapon to understanding and using nonverbal communication, speech patterns, and vocal tones to spot and head off problems in your relationships, succeed professionally, recognize deception, and determine what people really mean. Written by world-renowned communication and body language expert Lillian Glass, Ph.D., this book will show you how to quickly and accurately analyze a person’s behavior and character, so in no time at all, you’ll know more about that complete stranger across the room than his friends and family probably do—and he’ll be none the wiser! And you can use your skills anywhere—from the interview room, to business meetings, to social events, to your own home. Through more than 95 full-color photos and accessible instructions, Dr. Glass teaches you how to expertly examine all aspects of body language, from facial expression and movement, to body posture and behavior, to voice tone and speech content, so you can get the whole picture quickly and efficiently, and use it to inform your own reactions and decisions. She also shows you how to recognize the top ten toxic types of people—so you can effectively deal with such individuals in your life.

Genres: Psychology, Business, Self Help

176 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 2012

About the author

Dr. Lillian Glass is an international communication and body language expert, media commentator and author of a dozen books, including Toxic People, He Says She Says, and a body language book, I Know What You're Thinking. She has a monthly body language column in Cosmopolitan Magazine. She also is actively involved as a jury consultant.

Reviews

[Kayla · Rating 3 out of 5]

Couldn't finish because I realized I don't want to put time into deciphering people's internal world......I am not perceiving 😊

[Derrick · Rating 3 out of 5]

Finished the book this morning. It was a pretty decent book. A lot of the stuff the book talked about I felt like I already was aware of.

I did pay more attention to folks while reading the book and came across one interesting time of a discussion between my two coworkers. I wasn't involved so I just sat back and read their body language. They were both leaning in towards each other and their feet were pointed towards each other. However they were on their toes with their heels raised. It was also interesting to observe the lower "ranking" guy made himself smaller. Knowing that relationship I found that part particularly interesting. They were having a casual conversation and seemed to like each other which on a personal level I think they do. It seemed based on their heels being raised neither wanted to continue the conversation. It was a work discussion I'm sure which turned casual and maybe the work discussion was uncomfortable, I don't know.

The book was good particularly towards the end when the author talked about the top ten most toxic people. I found myself thinking; "is this me?"

I felt the book focused too much on negative aspects of body language. Watch out for these types of things and these types of people. This stance or someone doing this or that means you are unsafe and should get away. I would've liked to see either more neutral tone in the book or at least some aspect of, if you see someone doing this, a genuine smile, and warmth, and other good characteristics then approach that person. They are safe they are good for you and will help you out in life.

The very last section of the book I felt just went on a tangent though. It started talking about how watching body language can protect you and keep you alive. As a male I felt that last section of book made men predators and women and children victims. Everything had a tone of, "if a man is doing this to you, run or get your kids away from him". The rest of the book seemed much more neutrally based between male and female actions and characters. The last section also seemed to add a lot of new information that was not previously discussed and put less emphasis on body language itself and more everything else. The book didn't need that chapter and it took away from the rest of the book, it should be edited out.

It was a good book, I want to compare it to the other body language books out there to see similarities, differences, and get other perspectives on the entire thing. What I was hoping to get was how my body language might be interpreted by others and how to affect and change my body language to more effectively communicate to people. I feel like this book was a solid step in the right direction.

[Asiuol K · Rating 2 out of 5]

I’m not sure what to think about this book. Most of the statements were either obvious to me or made little sense. I mean, how can your feet be pointing at someone if you’re standing next to them? In fact, the only thing I learned is that locking your ankles is a sign that you’re hiding something (Princess Diaries lied to me). However, what is obvious to me is a mystery to a lot of people. There were still problems with the writing. Sometimes it came off as a tad condescending, which is a huge issue for me. Also, the constant changing between he and she pronouns irritated me. Once she changed it to all of them being 'They', the book was so much easier to read. I’ll give it about 4.8/10.

[Joshua Late · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a great go to guide for a beginner like myself to read when I need the basics of how to read people's body language with an overall broad stroke of simplicity. Its a fast read and a great book to keep with you at all times to refer back to. I'll have to grab myself a copy.

[Ietrio · Rating 1 out of 5]

This is a book long advert from one of the scores of experts selling their advice. Boring.

[A_vinash · Rating 1 out of 5]

the book lacked real life examples and situations. I found another body language book by Alan Pease way better than this.

[Iang95ify . · Rating 4 out of 5]

Nice visuals to keep me engaged. Author does highlight in detail the meanings behind people's body movements which are all signals to their underlying feelings. Book is comprehensive as it covers from the face all the way to the feet. Author believes our instincts are generally right and shows that the way people stand indicates their mutual relationship - closeness. There is a part on toxic people that we should avoid - from very vocal and angry to the timid and weak, a detailed description into the behaviour and how we should counter them.

[Cory · Rating 3 out of 5]

Decent book that tells you what the do's and don'ts are of body language... Focuses a lot on the don'ts rather than the do's though.