What Every Body is Saying: An Ex-FBI Agent’s Guide to Speed-Reading People by Joe Navarro This book is yet another book on how to read body language that purports to teach you how to read people by reading their bodies. Like all of these books, I find it more of a refresher course on stuff …
Category: Book Review
Oct 09
Book Review: Opening the Door of Your Heart
Opening the door of your heart and other Buddhist tales of happiness by Ajahn Brahm This book contains 108 tales, many of them retellings of old fables and teaching parables, some others personal, which illustrate Buddhist fundamental teachings. A talkative tortoise gets a chance to fly by holding on to a stick held by swans. …
Oct 04
Book Review: Meditations on Violence
Meditations on Violence: A Comparison of Martial Arts Training & Real World Violence by Rory Miller This book was recommended on Amazon for people who liked THE GIFT OF FEAR, and since my library didn’t have it, I took a chance and bought a copy. Wow. It’s completely changed the way I feel about my …
Oct 01
Book Review: On Second Thought
On Second Thought: Outsmarting Your Mind’s Hard-Wired Habits by Wray Herbert I’ve read so much pop science on neurology that I’m always skeptical that a book will surprise and delight me with new information, and I’m delighted to say that this book does. Herbert wins by focusing on heuristics, an important idea that is usually …