How to Read People Like a Book: 50 Uncommon Tips You Need to Know

by Murray Oxman

Book Overview

Through personality quirks, eye contact, word choice and exposed feelings this volume teaches readers how to spot trouble immediately. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1402206933
• ISBN13: 9781402206931
• Release Date: January 2006
• Publisher: Sourcebooks
• Length: 86 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.1" x 6.4"

Customer Reviews

Easy to read and apply

Here is everything you need to know about people. The clear and wise "tips" are so good, I keep the book in my purse for instant review. Thank you, thank you, Murray Oxman.

A Little Book Packed with Many Layers

This like book turned out to be a pleasant little surprise. Normally I would not have picked up a book like this because the title advertises itself as a potential tool to manipulate people, but as a teacher, I thought maybe it would help me understand where some of my students are coming from. On one level, the book does exactly what it advertises by describing and cataloging behaviors observed in others. On another level, the book teaches you to recognize when others are trying to manipulate you. On a much deeper level, the true beauty of this book lies in the fact that it holds up a mirror to see ourselves. It collects a vocabulary to label traits we observe in others, and in turn, we recognize them in ourselves. In discovering how others attempt to manipulate others, we discover how we try to manipulate others, often unconsciously to protect our own hidden needs and fears. In the end, this little book provides a few tools to help dig through the many layers of tarnish the false self builds up so that we may risk being our true self.

Viewing the World from the Inside Out

This book was not what I thought it would be. That was a pleasant surprise. I bought the book thinking it would be a self-help book about reading other people and characterizing them. It turns out, the book is more about self-evaluation - what you project outwards and what you allow in. "How to Read People..." is a thought-provoking book. It is short. Many of its chapters are short. The ideas presented are short. None of the means it is it is not meaningful or helpful, however. This is the type of book that can be read over and over. In fact, in the beginning of the book, it advises the reader to do so. Each reading will produce another revelation depending on the frame of mind the reader has at the time of the reading. The ideas and philosophy professed in the book are almost Eastern mysticism. The book teaches "wholeness" with the Universe and obeying the practice of being oneself by following one's true feelings. The book is very portable. It is a small hardcover. It can easily fit into a jacket pocket or purse.