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Desmond Morris – Peoplewatching: The Desmond Morris Guide to Body LanguageDaily Mirror‘This is the kind of book you pick up idly and put down very reluctantly’The Times‘A clear and careful introduction to an involved subject’Observer’The naked ape will be a wiser and better hominid by the time he has thumbed his way through to the end’Book DescriptionPeoplewatching is the culmination of a career of watching people – their behaviour and habits their personalities and their quirks. Desmond Morris shows us how people, consciously and unconsciously, signal their attitudes, desires and innermost feelings with their bodies and actions, often more powerfully than with their words.Product DescriptionConsisting of his timeless classic Manwatching, completely revised and updated, with much new material gathered since the book’s original publication, and for the first time incorporating the text of Bodywatching, this new edition is set to become the definitive ‘body language bible’. Lavishly illustrated throughout with line drawings and two 16pp colour plate sections, Peoplewatching is a handsomely designed and fitting tribute to one of the most thought-provoking and popular scientists of his day. About the AuthorDesmond Morris was born in Wiltshire in 1928. After gaining a degree in zoology from Birmingham University, he obtained his D. Phil. from the University of Oxford. He became curator of mammals at London Zoo in 1959, a post he held for eight years. He was already the author of some fifty scientific papers and seven books before completing The Naked Ape in 1967, which was to sell over 10 million copies throughout the world and be translated into almost every known language. Desmond Morris has made many television programmes and films on human and animal behaviour, his friendly and accessible approach making him popular with both adults and children, and he is now one of the best known presenters of natural history programmes. He is also an accomplished artist.