I am a student of Neuro Semantics (check out L.Michael Hall "The Frames Game") and NLP which are cutting edge studies of how our lives and personalities are dictated by the language we use (and choose) the copy I got of "Language Within Language: Immediacy, a Channel in Verbal Communication" was an old public library copy copywrite 1968 and it is a juicy jewel. I have several other of Mehrabians books and he is an easy to understand professor and
a genius. Once he points out the destinction between conversation with immediacy and similar discussion without immediacy, you immediately get twice as much from every conversation you have and with a stretch, more about the way you use your own mind. BOOK OF THE YEAR I WILL READ MEHRABIAN WHEREVER I CAN FIND HIM

we were looking for a baby name book that was a little deeper than what a name meant in French, Irish or whatever. this book is interesting in that it gives you some background as to how various names are perceived -- i.e., a woman named Katherine is likely to be perceived as being more successful than a person named Lois. It is an interesting book and the author has impressive credentials. The book is, however, also full of typographical errors -- enough that it makes me wonder how quickly the whole thing was thrown together & whether the research is really solid. Seems like a very minor thing, but I think it draws questions to the validity of the entire publication. Definitely worth a couple of bucks, though.

The best baby name book I have read. The author is a professor at UCLA and has done an ingenious job in writing this book.