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The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals | 
 enlarge | Authors: Charles Darwin, Paul Ekman
Creator: Phillip Prodger
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Category: Book
List Price: $45.00
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Rating:  9 reviews
Sales Rank: 590596
Media: Paperback
Edition: 3
Pages: 512
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.4
Dimensions (in): 8.5 x 5.5 x 1.3
ISBN: 0195158067
Dewey Decimal Number: 590
EAN: 9780195158069
ASIN: 0195158067
Publication Date: December 19, 2002
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Amazon.com Review
"Even cows, when they frisk about from pleasure, throw up their tails in a ridiculous fashion." So writes Charles Darwin in his magnum opus on how humans and animals display such emotions as fear, anger, disdain, and pleasure; it is work that has in most respects been sustained by later scientific research. First published in 1872, Darwin's greatest work was never issued in quite the shape its author intended: bits and pieces were left out of subsequent printings, most of them released after Darwin's death, and later editors made additions to suit the intellectual fashion of their times. This definitive edition, heavily annotated, brings us the book that Darwin would have wanted, and it is essential to any naturalist's library.
Product Description
In his study of infants and children (including observations of his own baby's smiles and pouts), of the insane, of painting and sculpture, of cats and dogs and monkeys, and of the ways that people in different cultures express their feelings, Darwin's insights have not been surpassed by modern science.
This definitive edition of Darwin's masterpiece contains a substantial new Introduction and Afterword by Paul Ekman. Ekman also provides commentaries that use the latest scientific knowledge to elaborate, support, and occasionally challenge Darwin's study. For this edition, Ekman has returned to Darwin's original notes in order to produce for the first time a corrected, authoritative text illustrated by drawings and photographs positioned exactly as its author intended.
"This new edition of Darwin's extraordinary book is a major event in the human sciences."-Steven Pinker
"This new comprehensive edition of Expression will introduce a new generation of readers to Darwin's masterpiece, undiminished and intensely relevant even 125 years after publication."-Oliver Sacks
"Ekman's contribution to his edition of Darwin's 1872 monograph can count as a book in its own right."-Ian Hacking, Times Literary Supplement
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| Customer Reviews: Read 4 more reviews...
 Amazon, please remove this item June 25, 2008
S. W. Wood (Newbury Park, CA)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I am very disappointed by Amazon advertising such a poor quality book. This is a cheaply produced facsimile that omits the illustrations. Because reviews of all editions of the book are included together, I believed I was buying Paul Ekman's excellent edition. Beware! Don't make the same mistake I did. I had to waste shipping costs to return this item.
Crappy edition May 15, 2008
Joacim Sprung (Sweden)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
This edition is difficult and almost impossible to read because of the total lack of any readable lay out. Fotnotes are inserted into the main text without any change of letter size. The quality is very poor - a photocopy of the original is much better. Do not buy this crappy edition. If you want to save money visit the Internet Archive instead for a free pdf.
Don't buy this edition! February 9, 2008
K. Driscoll (New York, NY United States)
7 out of 8 found this review helpful
OK, so clearly I was fooled by Amazon's practice of listing all reviews of a particular book regardless of edition. My mistake. The positive reviews this book has received are no doubt deserved, but this copy is unreadable. It is, as far as I can tell, a print-out of the public domain text, cheaply bound and so minimally formatted that italics are represented by _underscores_ and the right-hand margin is not even justified. The cover image isn't even correctly proportioned, which, given the original image, is pretty shocking in and of itself.
I can't believe Amazon are even selling this thing. It's a disgrace. I could have produced a better copy myself for less money! The text is in the public domain, so if you don't care what format it's in, just download it for free and print it out. Otherwise, go for the new edition which got such good reviews.
Worst Publishing company EVER November 14, 2007
J. W. Edenfield (seattle)
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
The book is absolutely fascinating. I just started reading it 2 days ago and am half way through it but the publisher left out some very significant stuff. For example: where are all the pictures that go with the material?? Nowhere to be found!!!! They've also omitted several passages from the text! How much? I have no idea! They break off in mid sentence to give notes and never come back to the sentence they were on!!!
I strongly recomend picking this book up just not from bibliobazar
 An enriching reading! March 3, 2006
Hiram Gomez Pardo (Valencia, Venezuela)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
This is the main contribution to interdisciplinary studies that converge in psychology and biology. It is a key piece inside Darwin `s work. If the well known decay of the compared psychology at the early years of the XX Century- when the evolutionism followers forgot about the behaviors and the psychologists did without anatomy and physiology- diminished briefly influence to the actual contributions, the culmination of the modern etiology has acted in favor for rediscover this extraordinary and even singular text.
What Darwin considers as true expressions are precisely, the reflexes and instincts that suppose not only the innate capacity to react of a determined way, but also the innate acknowledgement of that expression in the others.
A fundamental and unfairly not so known book that deserves to be recognized with major value.
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