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Summary: Amazing
Review: Mac Fulfer's book is truly Amazing. His class was amazing also. I am a counselor for young children. His information has been very useful in dealing with the kids AND their parents. Great book, great class if you can go.
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Summary: This book is offensive and dangerous
Review: Most people today would not claim that a person whose eyes are close together is untrustworthy. Although this book does not make that association, it makes hundreds of others which are on the same level. When I purchased this book, I expected that it would explain gestures, expressions and other controllable aspects of a person's appearance. Unfortunately, only one section out of four which discuss personal characteristics discusses such attributes, with the rest considering, among other things, how close together a person's eyes are. I can accept that some traits, such as facial lines, may indicate something meaningful about a person's personality. However, I cannot accept that, for example, very small nostrils indicate a person who is "Thrifty and conservative" or has "Fear of scarcity," as this book indicates. In the Forward to the book, Dean Schlect attempts to defend the validity of the author's face reading technique by saying "He is also currently pursuing the possibility of controlled scientific testing of face reading..." Even phrenology, which the author disparages, has had more than "the possibility" of real testing (and has been shown to be bogus). If someone is going to make claims relating genetic characteristics to personal characteristics, that person needs to show some pretty solid evidence. This book is, at best, offensive and very dangerous for the way it lightly presents supposed relationships between genetic characteristics and personal characteristics. One star is too many for this book.
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Summary: Amazing
Review: One reviewer said this was total bunk, but they must not like their face - or something, because I thought it was fantastic. It was VERY accurate, I took it to work and we all read each other's faces on break, everyone LOVED it! Now, even when I get a bad first impression; I read people's faces, especially their lines and wrinkles, and find them kind. Anyone can have a bad day; reading faces has helped me to understand people's motivations a little better. There are traits my friends and I had always hated about our faces, (for example; gaps in front teeth, a wide forehead, a bump on the bridge of my nose) which now mean something that IS true about us, and usually is good. Even if you have an unfortunate feature, and we ALL do have flaws; if you look, the other features on your face usually compensate a bit. Everyone has a beautiful face!
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Summary: It really is amazing!
Review: One reviewer said this was total bunk, but they must not like their face - or something, because I thought it was fantastic. It was VERY accurate, I took it to work and we all read each other's faces on break, everyone LOVED it! Now, even when I get a bad first impression; I read people's faces, especially their lines and wrinkles, and find them kind. Anyone can have a bad day; reading faces has helped me to understand people's motivations a little better. There are traits my friends and I had always hated about our faces, (for example; gaps in front teeth, a wide forehead, a bump on the bridge of my nose) which now mean something that IS true about us, and usually is good. Even if you have an unfortunate feature, and we ALL do have flaws; if you look, the other features on your face usually compensate a bit. Everyone has a beautiful face!
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Summary: Fascinating? Definitely! Real Science? Maybe....
Review: Sometimes I like to supplement my studies of psychology and "personality typing" by picking up a book that falls outside the mainstream framework. Mac Fulfer's "Amazing Face Reading" caught my eye while I was looking for something completely different, and I have thoroughly enjoyed it.Face reading-- also known as physiognomy-- is the 2,000+ year old "soft science" of learning about people and their personality from looking at, and understanding, their facial features. The author is an attorney and jury consultant who studied 1,000s of people through his work and established correlations between certain physical characteristics, behavior and personality. After 20 years of study, he summarized his findings in this informative, interesting and easy-to-read book. The book is richly illustrated with 200+ high quality pencil drawings, accompanied by concise paragraphs about each facial characteristic. After covering the basics of face reading, Fulfer includes a section on different applications for what you have learned-- as applied to the fields of Sales and Jury Selection-- and also includes brief coverage of reading facial expressions and body language. Is "Face reading" a science? Well, I'll leave that for someone else to decide. Does it have merit? From what I have learned, Fulfer's principles seem almost uncannily accurate-- although I expect they are best used in conjunction with other psychological tools. To those who dismiss face reading out of hand, I do have to point out that many of the principles draw on pretty well researched fields such as NLP and reading body language. There's also a large component of intuition and common sense involved. For example, it doesn't take a degree in rocket science to conclude that someone with laugh lines at the coroner of their eyes are more likely to have a sense of humor than someone with frown lines. We ARE the sum total of our experiences in life, and we "wear" the effects of many of those experiences-- trauma, stress, joy, anger, etc.-- on our faces. Final thoughts: Recommended (8.5 out of a possible 10 bookmarks) but keep in mind that this is not an "exact science." However, the book *will* teach you to pay more attention to people, and it has the potential to help you understand others' motivitions during your daily life.
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Summary: Fascinating? Definitely! Real Science? Maybe....
Review: Sometimes I like to supplement my studies of psychology and "personality typing" by picking up a book that falls outside the mainstream framework. Mac Fulfer's "Amazing Face Reading" caught my eye while I was looking for something completely different, and I have thoroughly enjoyed it. Face reading-- also known as physiognomy-- is the 2,000+ year old "soft science" of learning about people and their personality from looking at, and understanding, their facial features. The author is an attorney and jury consultant who studied 1,000s of people through his work and established correlations between certain physical characteristics, behavior and personality. After 20 years of study, he summarized his findings in this informative, interesting and easy-to-read book. The book is richly illustrated with 200+ high quality pencil drawings, accompanied by concise paragraphs about each facial characteristic. After covering the basics of face reading, Fulfer includes a section on different applications for what you have learned-- as applied to the fields of Sales and Jury Selection-- and also includes brief coverage of reading facial expressions and body language. Is "Face reading" a science? Well, I'll leave that for someone else to decide. Does it have merit? From what I have learned, Fulfer's principles seem almost uncannily accurate-- although I expect they are best used in conjunction with other psychological tools. To those who dismiss face reading out of hand, I do have to point out that many of the principles draw on pretty well researched fields such as NLP and reading body language. There's also a large component of intuition and common sense involved. For example, it doesn't take a degree in rocket science to conclude that someone with laugh lines at the coroner of their eyes are more likely to have a sense of humor than someone with frown lines. We ARE the sum total of our experiences in life, and we "wear" the effects of many of those experiences-- trauma, stress, joy, anger, etc.-- on our faces. Final thoughts: Recommended (8.5 out of a possible 10 bookmarks) but keep in mind that this is not an "exact science." However, the book *will* teach you to pay more attention to people, and it has the potential to help you understand others' motivitions during your daily life.
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Summary: This book made such an impact on me, it changed my life.
Review: Soon after Mac Fulfer read my face I began reading his book. I was interested in knowing everything that my face could tell me about myself. I found the page on "eye puffs" personally challenging because I had moderate eye puffs and I could see from the description of the "severe eye puffs", where I was heading. It was a wake up call that began making major changes in the way I moved through the world. Then using this Encyclopedia also gave me a way of knowing more about other people and opened up an avenue of connection and communication that I had never known before. The information in this book gave me a way to trust my intuition. It is a Dictionary of literally everyone on the planet. In fact, I have taken this book with me all over the world and read faces in Red Square in Russia, The Museum of History in Cairo, the London Tube and many other places. Simply stated, the book is worth its weight in gold.
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Summary: Great Illustrations and Overall Accuracy
Review: The best part of this book, and what makes it unique compared to other books on Face Reading is the amount and quality of illustrations featured throughout. The illustrations are very professional compared to other books and show a diverse range of people, young and old, and of different origins. It makes it easier to learn the topic. If you're going to buy just on book on face reading - make it this one.
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Summary: Good book,
Review: This book does not give detailed information about what each facial feature means, but it does cover the basics...I have found that it does agree mostly with the other books I have read. I have found the book to be worthwhile and helpful in understanding face reading.
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Summary: Discrimination for Dummies
Review: This book is incredibly acurate, not by fact, but by the discriminatory nature of (...) like the authors who wrote it. I only read the book for anti-discrimination purposes. I think that all of the authors should be (...) for teaching people how to discriminate. I encourage people to pick it up at garage sale or read it in a book store to learn how bad they have unknowingly been sabotaged.
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