How to Read a Person Like a
Book
Gerard I. Nierenberg and Henry H. Calero
Copyright © 1971 by Gerard I. Nierenberg and Henry H. Calero
Digital Imagery © Jonnie Miles / PhotoDisc / PictureQuest
This edition published by Barnes & Noble Digital, by arrangement with Gerard I. Nierenberg and Henry
H. Calero
All rights reserved. No part of this eBook may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without the written permission of the Publisher.
2001 Barnes & Noble Digital
ISBN 1-4014-0192-9
To Juliet and Barbara
FOREWORD
THISbook is a handbook of types of nonverbal communication that will give you insights into the significance of gestures — factors of ordinary experiences that are all too often only vaguely understood if not entirely ignored.
The material has been arranged so that the parts make up a meaningful whole: the gestures making clusters of gestures that make up attitudes dealing with relationships involved in life situations. We hope we have added an important tool in the continuing search for a way to make man better understood by his fellow men and to promote understanding among all men. The process of communication, which continues to confound us, will be enhanced by the understanding and analysis of gestures.
Our function as human beings is to increase our expertise and to become so human that we see ourselves in all other people.
G. I. N.
CONTENTS
FOREWORD
1. ACQUIRING THE SKILLS FOR READING GESTURES
Life, the True Testing Ground
Gestures Come in Clusters
How You Can Benefit by Understanding Gestures
