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The Dance of Life: The Other Dimension of Time

by: Edward T. Hall

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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 115
EAN: 9780385192484
ISBN: 0385192487
Label: Anchor
Manufacturer: Anchor
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 250
Publication Date: March 09, 1984
Publisher: Anchor
Release Date: February 09, 1984
Studio: Anchor

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First published in 1983, this book studies how people are tied together and yet isolated by hidden threads of rhythm and walls of time. Time is treated as a language, organizer, and message system revealing people's feelings about each other and reflecting differences between cultures.

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- A must-have for understanding cultural perceptions of time.
This book blew my mind back when it was first released, and on third or fourth read, there is still so much information to be gleaned from it.
Issues discussed:
Appointments by time vs. being late because a friend in need is more important.
Queueing for the bus vs. pushing and shoving to the front of the line.
Needing closure vs. pigeon-holing a half-completed but unimportant task, often for months or even years.
But most importantly, the book goes in great detail into how ... Read More

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- stone-headed stormtroopers
I am a scientist. how these reviewers in "prestige" journals bother normal researchers with their remarks like "seldom bothers to document" or "has constructed a system and world view which bears little relationship to accepted" and their "qualitatitive musings" of the humanitarian social sciences. Or natural sciences. Then they,perhaps, submit THEIR grants with YOUR ideas however...
It is greed, greed of greed and only greed and nothing else as greed. ... Read More

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- Irritating Methodology, Extraordinary Insights
Hall seldom bothers to document, presents his musings as given, has constructed a system and world view which bears little relationship to accepted qualitatitive research in the social sciences. . . so why read this book? Because every chapter has an idea with unusual parallels either to developments in cognitive research, to human-computer interaction, or to linguistics, all of which came about post-publication! Astounding intuitions, oftentimes annoyingly documented.

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