Published by Doubleday, NY, 1959. Scarce First Edition. Book and jacket are Near Fine. Book has mild wear to edges of spine o/w Fine. Clean text. Price intact. Jacket has no tears. Clean. Scarce first edition hard copy w/ Jacket. In The Silent Language (1959), Hall coined the term "polychronic" to describe the ability to attend to multiple events simultaneously, as opposed to "monochronic" individuals and cultures who tend to handle events sequentially.