ANATOMY OF COMMUNICATION

ANATOMY OF COMMUNICATION reveals the fascinating details of how we use our minds, emotions, voices, eyes, facial muscles, body gestures, dress, life style – in short, everything we are – to send and receive hundreds of messages every day. We have evolved so many subtle techniques for exchanging messages that we are seldom aware of them. This book shows how a thorough knowledge of these techniques not only improves our ability to project our own ideas, feelings and intentions, but our skill at Interpreting and handling the messages beamed at us.

ANATOMY OF COMMUNICATION shows you how to: compromise with a minimal amount of pain and maximum of success; use your outer self to convey your Inner self; open new avenues of communication, mend lines that have broken down, end cut off ones that only threaten disaster; disagree without being disagreeable; use body language to state or reinforce your meaning; put forth your own views in small groups; and cope with real one from the various types of people; plus scores of other practical ways to implement your day-to-day communication.

Designed so that you can note your own experiences and reactions as you read, this exciting book also sets up sample simulations with which you can practice the suggestions offered throughout. Written with warmth and wit, it is a living example of the power of everything within its covers.

Having served on the faculty of several universities for decades, Professor Eisenberg’s academic persona was best captured by one book reviewer: “Eisenberg is not dull.” Eisenberg strongly contends that what makes a textbook readable and comprehensible to students is more a matter of  writing style than  actual content.

Professor Eisenberg  sees himself as a teacher who writes, rather than a writer who teaches.   At the heart of his teaching philosophy is the axiom: “Students are lamps to be lit, not vessels to be filled.”  In this work,  he  successfully makes  a  smooth transition from  theory to practice and, by so doing,  fulfills the prophecy that ideas do have consequences.

Likening communication to  spokes on a wheel,  the professor  seeks to gently rotate the reader’s mind from spoke to spoke and make the anatomy of communication a dynamic and meaningful interpersonal and intercultural tool.

Lastly, the author  insists that knowing and doing speak two different languages; knowing the alphabet doesn’t mean that  people can spell, nor does having a million-word vocabulary mean that they can  write an essay. Hence, the author offers  up the contents of  this book as a toolbox containing the means with which to  bridge the communication gap that persistently threatens  the quality of life on this  planet.