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Summary: Interesting book, a little lacking on content
Review: "How to Read a Person Like a Book" is an interesting book about reading a person's body language in order to interpret what they are feeling. This concept is obviously interesting to all of us as beening able to determine when a person is communicating to you non-verbally has a lot of potential uses.
The book unfortunately is quite old. While body language is unlikely to change much over the years, the language used is obviously older. The book does a good job of explaining that you can't just take one signal and immediately translate it into a message, but rather you have to look for groups of signals.
The organization of the book is acceptable, but I wish the formatting were better in order to reference it better. While the pictures included were good and helpful, I wish there were more of them. I also wish there were a few pictures in an index in order to practice.
The content of the book however is good and very informative. I recommend this book. 4 out of 5 stars.
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Summary: A book everyone needs
Review: A treasure in the trashbin. I bought this book on the bargain table and am glad I did. Filled with easily digestible chapters describing gesture clusters, illustrated with dozens of drawings to provide visual examples of the topic.In my line, I need to read people and their responses to my ideas. This book helps me to do just that. It also gives ways of taking charge in a situation by using body gestures. If you know the gestures, you can resist someone else trying to dominate you.
It's worth the price. Everyone who deals with other people needs this book.
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Summary: reading body language
Review: a very basic fast reaqd of the mannerisms of people and how to reflect upon yourself whats pointed out in the book
an interesting read
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Summary: A Book with Common Sense
Review: As a professor here in London University, this book is something to consider only if you have some left-over changes in your pocket or some extra money left on your account. With the cassette and the book i have purchased, the cassette lasts only 40 minutes and offers some common sense that everyone should have. However, you will find the book with more information and has a better value once you decide to spend the extra money you have.
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Summary: Readers Have Nothing to Lose
Review: Is that guy with the open jacket trustworthy and open-minded? Is the person with locked ankles worried or tense? What about that cute girl stroking her hair- or who just removed her glasses while you were speaking? All these gestures-and more- are examined in "How to Read a Person Like a Book". Mr. Nierenberg's work reminds me of Norman Vincent Peale's "The Power of Positive Thinking". Both are virtually useless if read as novels and put away. But I believe both can be vital if kept and referred back to from time to time. Mr. Nierenberg's main message is to watch other's body language: Do they show their hands or hide them? Do they look you in the eye or look away? Do they keep swallowing or clearing their throat? This is all very interesting and potentially useful. The author issues a caveat: We must be on guard for false or accidental signals. Perhaps the cute girl stroking her hair can't stand the sight of you. The guy clearing his throat may be the honest man in town-with a bad cold. Others (who have also read the book) could be "manipulating the system" and using it against you! A former boss springs to mind. I intend to try using the principles in "How to Read" in real life and watching the results. After all, the reader can use these principles on others! Taken with a grain of salt, what do we have to lose for $5.99? I refer back periodically to Dr. Peale and intend the same with Nierenberg. There is definite potential value here. Life's experience will be the ultimate teacher.
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Summary: Too basic
Review: My impression was that this tape contained the most basic ideas that author's in this subject matter have ever presented. For eg., "People crossing hands in front of their chest means that they aren't accepting what you are telling them." That is the most typical statement I have ever heard, and this tape is full of them. There is nothing enlightening, nothing that makes you glad that you bought and listened to the tape. I felt it was not good use of time or money. For
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Summary: Common Sense? or merely perceptive?
Review: This book is a decent introduction to body language. It is basic, and really won't shatter any of your preconceptions of how to read body language. If you consider yourself to be perceptive, or if you have studied other books on body language, you probably will not find anything earth-shattering or new here, but for a newbie, trying to pick up basics, this is a quick intro.
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Summary: Common Sense? or merely perceptive?
Review: This book is a decent introduction to body language. It is basic, and really won't shatter any of your preconceptions of how to read body language. If you consider yourself to be perceptive, or if you have studied other books on body language, you probably will not find anything earth-shattering or new here, but for a newbie, trying to pick up basics, this is a quick intro.
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Summary: Useful body- language book
Review: This book is filled with useful information about reading gestures and body- language.
It also contains diagrams showing various postures and how to read them.
Among the wise words on the subject it collects are:
"Watch out for the man whose stomach doesn't move when he laughs." Cantonese proverb
"The eyes of men converse as much as their tongues,with the advantage that the ocular diet needs no dictionary,but is understood the world over. Ralph Waldo Emerson.
It does at time evidence banality." A husband slamming a door and turning his back on his wife is heralding a significant message"
But to be fair I will cite a typically instructive passage from the book. " With few exceptions, most of us dislike having anyone point his finger at us. We dislike it even more when we are jabbed like a dummy in bayonet practice,and asked " You get what I mean?" In heated arguments it is very common to see people using their fingers against each other almost as epees in a fencing match.Some people use their eyeglasses as an extension of their index-finger, pointing them in a gesture of reprimand or admonishment ,or for emphasis. Since people in a quandary do not cooperate as those who are relaxed and comfortable,it behooves us not to point our index finger at anyone lest he become hostile at us or "turn off"...You can communicate effectively and not use this gesture which antagonizes others"
Ideally , then a reading of this book may help us improve our communication with and cooperative action with others.
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Summary: A Great Beginning Book
Review: This is a great beginner's book to body language. It provides clearly-written descriptions and illustrations about how our actions and movements as humans can speak more loudly than our words can. This knowledge can be used to help determine if someone is being honest with you, agrees with you, is interested in purchasing your products, is attracted to you, etc.
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