How to Read a Person Like a Book by Gerard Nierenberg

Product Description

Decipher the unspoken vocabulary of body language. A tilt of the head, the crossing of legs, the buttoning and unbuttoning of a jacket, and other gestures can speak volumes about what a person is thinking or feeling. By learning to spot hidden emotional, social, and sexual messages, you can tell how a person is reacting to you, respond appropriately, and influence the outcome of any situation. Detect and send messages of friendliness and flirtation. Gain and maintain the upper hand in negotiations and arguments. Determine whether someone is lying, recognize boredom, and overcome defensiveness. By interpreting nonverbal behavior, you can improve your control over job interviews, business meetings, parties, chance encounters, and other everyday situations.

Product Details

* Amazon Sales Rank: #232462 in Books
* Published on: 1990-11-15
* Number of items: 1
* Binding: Mass Market Paperback
* 192 pages

Editorial Reviews

From the Publisher
I took a road trip in January, drove from Dallas to New York City with one of my best friends. One problem we knew we would face was music. Where I tend to lean towards singers who hold a bottle of whiskey while singing, he enjoys the smooth sounds of R&B.

AudioBooks were the solution.

After listening to How to Read a Person Like a Book somewhere between Memphis and Nashville, every single gesture was analyzed, and in a small way, still is. And now I'm very conscious of what my body language is and I don't sit in meetings with my arms folded in front of me.
-Carrie, Random House AudioBooks Publicity

From the Inside Flap
1 cassette / 40 minutes
A multi-voice production

Explore the language that exists beyond words - the language of the body and its gestures.

Whether conscious or not of our bodies' movements, we express our feelings, attitudes, and motives through gestures that are often vague and frequently ignored. How to Read a Person Like a Book teaches you how to "decode" and reply to nonverbal signals from strangers, friends, and business associates, allowing you to:

* Gain command of business and social situations
* Sharpen your negotiating skills
* Recognize signals of affection and attraction
* Enrich your knowledge of body language.

Learn the clues that make reading people easy. Gerard Nierenberg's proven techniques for gaining control of negotiations, detecting lies, or recognizing signals of affection and sexual attraction will dramatically improve your understanding of others, giving you the advantage of added insight into all social and business situations.

About the Author
Gerard Nierenberg, dubbed by Forbes "The Father of Negotiation Training" and by The Wall Street Journal one of the "Eight Wise Men", has written more than 20 books about negotiation and improving interpersonal skills. His bestseller, The Art of Negotiation is also available from Random House AudioBooks.
Customer Reviews

terrible book1
You would be better off googling "how to read body language" and reading a couple paragraphs. Most of it is common sense or can be found in any magazine article. Save your money.

Very good informations5
I wish I would have had this book a long time ago. It really helps to get an idea of what the other person is thinking when you are talking with them. I have learned to watch for tell tale signs now, and I know when to shut up or perhaps take a different approach.

How to Read a Person3
This book left me with mixed feelings. I've read other books on the same subject and the information is old but it still works. Like the other books this was a fast and easy read. Again it is very useful if you're in sales. Always a helpful tool to have. This book will get you started and sharpening your sales skills. Always good to know when you can sell someone and when to give up.

Play in Child Development and Psychotherapy: Toward Empirically Supported Practice (Lea's Personality and Clinical Psychology) by Sandra Walker Russ

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Child psychotherapy is in a state of transition. On the one hand, pretend play is a major tool of therapists who work with children. On the other, a mounting chorus of critics claims that play therapy lacks demonstrated treatment efficacy. These complaints are not invalid. Clinical research has only begun.

Extensive studies by developmental researchers have, however, strongly supported the importance of play for children. Much knowledge is being accumulated about the ways in which play is involved in the development of cognitive, affective, and personality processes that are crucial for adaptive functioning. However, there has been a yawning gap between research findings and useful suggestions for practitioners.

Play in Child Development and Psychotherapy represents the first effort to bridge the gap and place play therapy on a firmer empirical foundation. Sandra Russ applies sophisticated contemporary understanding of the role of play in child development to the work of mental health professionals who are trying to design intervention and prevention programs that can be empirically evaluated. Never losing sight of the complex problems that face child therapists, she integrates clinical and developmental research and theory into a comprehensive, up-to-date review of current approaches to conceptualizing play and to doing both therapeutic play work with children and the assessment that necessarily precedes and accompanies it.
Product Details
Amazon Sales Rank: #615842 in Books
Published on: 2003-09-01
Number of items: 1
Binding: Hardcover
200 pages
Editorial Reviews

Review

This text compliments the author's previous work on affect, creativity, and play in children, and like that text, brings our attention to the importance of emotions and imagination in the child's experience.
—Imagination, Cognition and Personality Journal

An important integration of the literature on the role of play in child development and play therapy. This book will enable those in the helping professions to work better with children.
—Charles Schaefer, Ph. D.
Fairleigh Dickinson University

By integrating developmental research on play processes with clinical perspectives on therapeutic play, Sandra Russ has provided a new, empirically grounded foundation for play therapy. In this model, play takes its place alongside coping and problem-solving as resources for healthy adaptation. This book should lead child therapists and child therapy researchers to reconsider the role of play in child treatment.
—Stephen Shirk, Ph. D.
University of Denver

Play therapy for children has usually been carried out within a narrow, unevaluated clinical domain such as the Freudian, Kleinian, or Rogerian approaches outside the mainstream of basic psychological research. In this exciting new work Sandra Russ brings together current cognitive, emotional and social research on child development and the adaptive role of imaginative play. She thus establishes an empirical foundation for outlining how play therapy can reflect the natural development of children. By linking solid research to practice she opens new research avenues for establishing empirical support for clinical practice. This is a delightful and challenging 'read' for professionals and students.
—Jerome L. Singer, Ph. D.
Yale University