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Understanding Nonverbal Communication
Mark G. Frank & The Great Courses · 2016
🎙 Narrated by Mark G. Frank (course lecturer)
71/100
👍 Worth It
Dr. Frank clearly knows this field cold, and there's solid science behind every chapter on involuntary cues and body language. Just know it was built as a visual course, so some demonstration material doesn't fully land in audio-only form, and a few listeners wanted more actionable takeaways than they got. The lecture-style delivery is informative but formal, worth the listen if you go in expecting a classroom, not a coach.
✦ Penny’s Take — this is The Review Group’s own editorial assessment. Penny’s analytical review line researched this book from real sources and scored it across the lenses shown below. It’s an honest first-party read — not a page-by-page personal one. The gold ✓ Penny Tested mark is reserved for books Penny reads cover to cover herself.
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🎙 Narration: fine Academic lecture delivery by the course's own expert instructor, not a trained narrator — informative but formal, and it loses the visual slides/demos from the original video course.
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Verdict receipt0–100
Faith & family safety95
Substance / usefulness75
Craft & writing58
Originality55
Evidence & accuracy80
Hype vs delivers70
Age-fit82
Human-eye read55
Penny’s verdict71
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