How long does it take to read Body Language?
how to read others' thoughts by their gestures
Body Language by Allan Pease takes about 3 hours 51 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 3 hours 51 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1984. 210 pages, about 57,750 words.
8 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 6 hours 25 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 3 hours 51 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 24 minutes |
The page count is the median across 5 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
What people say is often very different from what they think or feel. The new, definitive updated version of the million-selling classic BODY LANGUAGE helps you to read others' thoughts by their gestures, with the help of newly commissioned illustrations. It is a scientific fact that people's gestures give away their true intentions. This authoritative guide, written with great humour and insight, reveals all the secrets of body language to give you more confidence and control in any situation. Learn how to: choose the right partner get others to cooperate make yourself likeable and approachable tell if someone is lying read between the lines of what is being said how to use body language to get what you want.
Subjects: Non-verbal communication, Gesture, Nonverbal communication, Relations humaines, Psychologie, Communication
