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Books by Edward T. Hall

THE SILENT L A N G U A G E THE HIDDEN DIMENSION H A N D B O O K FOR PROXEMIC RESEARCH THE FOURTH DIMENSION IN ARCHITECTURE: The Impact of Building on Man's Behavior (with Mildred Reed Hall) THE DANCE OF LIFE: The Other Dimension of Time HIDDEN DIFFERENCES: Doing Business with the Japanese (with Mildred Reed Hall) BEYOND CULTURE

ANCHOR BOOKS EDITIONS, 1969, 1990 Copyright © 1966, 1982 by Edward T. Hall All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by Anchor Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto. Originally published in hardcover in the United States by Doubleday in 1966. The Anchor Books edition is published by arrangement with Doubleday, a division of Random House, Inc. Anchor Books and colophon are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc. All photographs were taken by the author, with the following exceptions: Plate 1, Sven Gillsater; Plate 3, H. Hediger; Plate 5, Bud Daley, Chicago Daily News; Plate 8, Serge Boutourline; Plate 2 1 , Howard F. Van Zandt; Plate 23, Judith Yonkers; Plate 25, Hedrich-Blessing. Grateful acknowledgment is made for permission to use excerpts from copyrighted material, as follows: From The Painter's Eye by Maurice Grosser. Copyright © 1951 by Maurice Grosser. Reprinted by permission of Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc. From Language, Thought, and Reality, selected writings of Benjamin Lee Whorf, by permission of The M.I.T. Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Copyright © 1956, by The Massachusetts Institute of Technology. From The Making of the President ig6o by Theodore H. White. Copyright © 1961 by Atheneum House, Inc. Reprinted by permission of the publishers. From "Prologue: The Birth of Architecture," Copyright © 1965 by W. H. Auden. Reprinted from About the House, by W. H. Auden, by permission of Random House, Inc. Library of Congress

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