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First published in the United States of America as Subtext by Viking Penguin,
a division of Penguin Books USA Inc., 1991
Published in Penguin Books 1994
357910864
Copyright © The Philip Lief Group, Inc., and Julius Fast, 1991
All rights reserved
Grateful acknowledgment is made for permission to reprint
"Prologue: The Birth of Architecture" from "Thanksgiving for a Habitat"
from W. H. Auden: Collected Poems by W. H. Auden.
Copyright ©1963 by W. H. Auden. Reprinted by permission of Random House, Inc.
THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS HAS CATALOGUED THE HARDCOVER AS FOLLOWS:
Fast, Julius.
Subtext: Making body language work in the workplace/Julius Fast.
p. cm.
Includes index.
ISBN 0-670-83238-3 (he.)
ISBN 0 14 01.7815 5 (pbk.)- Communication in personnel management.
2. Interpersonal communication. I. Title.
HF5549.5C6F37 1991
650.1-3—dc20 90-
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