Eavesdropping: An Intimate History

by John L. Locke

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Who among us hasn't eavesdropped on a stranger's conversation in a theater or restaurant? Indeed, scientists have found that even animals eavesdrop on the calls and cries of others. In Eavesdropping, John L. Locke provides the first serious look at this virtually universal phenomenon. Locke's entertaining and disturbing account explores everything from sixteenth-century voyeurism to Hitchcock's "Rear Window"; from chimpanzee behavior to Parisian caf?...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0199236135

ISBN13:9780199236138

Release Date:July 2010

Publisher:Oxford University Press, USA

Length:288 Pages

Weight:1.25 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 6.6" x 9.5"

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