Eavesdropping: An Intimate History

by John L. Locke

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"