Articles and reviews from Zach

Η γλώσσα του σώματος   Body language B + A Pease  This book is surely the best   among the books I have   read so far mentioned for   body language   with ca 4 70 pages I have the Greek version edited /published 2006 . The   book is very detailed with many pictures and diagrams and   analyzes   it from many aspects including cultural differences , smoking , better office design , and a final chapter with examples to   analyze bunches of   nearly all    referred in the book Στα Ελληνικά  Μαζί με το βιβλίο Collins gem το βιβλίο των   Pease & Pease   είναι ένα από τα άριστα βιβλια   στο χώρο της γλώσσας του σώματος   μέχρι στιγμής που εχω διαβάσει . Μέσα   σε περίπου 470 σελίδες οι Pease περιγράφουν πολύ   αναλυτικά   τα περσότερα   χαρακτηριστικά που διέπουν   τις ανθρώπινες   μη λεκτικές επικοινωνίες .  Πλήθος   παραδείγματα   και διευκρινιστικές εικόνες Μόνο για το θεμα της χειραψίας σαν παράδειγμα   αναλύεται     σε περίπου 10 σελίδες

This book is a   bad quality   reprint   specifically as a   add on for a newspaper this year . The book uses   a rather bad paper , poor   gray scale   photos and is rather hard to   read because of these reasons. Moderate level of subject makes me    a   bit indifferent in what they write in it , as many of them already known to me. And Collins gem   is much   better any way Η γλώσσα του σώματος Το βιβλίο το βρήκα   μέσα σε προσφορά εφημερίδας. Η ποιότητα του χαρτιού είναι πολύ χαμηλή δημιουργώντας   μικρή αντίθεση με το   σχετικά αχνο μαύρο μελάνι της   εκτύπωσης      Ευτο   συνεπάγεται   δυσκολία στην ανάγνωση . Επίσης προσθέστε   ότι   το κείμενο   καλύπτει   σχεδόν ολ την σελίδα > σαν αποτέλεσμα   αυτό ακόμη περισσότερο με δυσκολεψε      στην ανάγνωση του βιβλιου (η ολη λογική    θυμίζει κάπως βιπεριστικα   βιβλία   για ένα θέμα   που θα απαιτούσε καλύτερο   είδος χαρτιού και εκτύπωσης ) Το κείμενα από την αλλη   αντι να με βοηθήσει ακόμη πε

Nasty People Aka the invalidator  by Jay carter “The invalidator” as it was to be called  is a small 100 page book written by  Jay Carter 20 years ago and is specialized to  what some would call cyclothymiac or people who say this time  something now and after sometime  refute  As rather all these  people are like Hitler , ie little  Hitlers  who always try to find ways n how to manipulate you and  then you feel no only bad but also  lose your temper  mood and finally  you get into demise and get sometimes into suicide at least  psychologically. This book  uses a rather  strange and “ill mannered” language . in several cases  you may think that you are also a  nasty person  as the persons he describes …  The wording in most is rather simple though in the start  of the book  I had about 5-7 unknown words in a rather sparse text Here is a  short description of the book . If you are interested  in more in depth analysis you can see here http://stuffiwannashare.blogspot.gr/2

A old collective  book I m not 100 sure on when i bought it but  seems at least since 2000 , at last the  time it was republished and  bought   that time from  the local market of a  cost of ca 2500 drs  or 8.5 Eu .(price listed is GBP 5.5 ) This a a  8.8 x 11 cm  pocket book. This book is highly a  pictorial with  nearly full of pictures in its nearly 200 pages Its size is very practical and always handy to use. Very nice  text and  easy to understand. The pictures as you see help the  user very much and simplify  him to get the message immediately. Here is a description of the chapters included  . There are  also two : guide to actions and list by emotions Discover body language Expression and gestures Getting together Meetings and parting Being positive Being negative Signs of conflict Domination and defensiveness Tension  relaxation Concerning deceit Animal gestures

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Coping With Difficult People by Arlene Matthews Uhl As usually  these series of idiot guides  are determined  to use a rather funny language . However this book is  rather not so funny , unless  you read  in a different  way and laugh a bit This book instead of the book of Glass  seems as like a …dissertation. His language is rather complex and sophisticated that made me lost much time to identify the unknown words which are about 6-8 per page in  a text of ca 700 words per page . The author is a psychiatrist who tries to explain a story in rather simple way but still  for me my vocabulary is rather  poor as already noticed In the text  there are not only definitions inside the text but also found at the end of the book before the word index The text boxes   has nearly the usual  form of Idiot’s  , this time as: Disarmer (maneuvers ) Man hole (alerts) Tactics (mini stories  pf help ) Definitions (explanations ) But anyway the i

Toxic people This is another book found in my self-help collection from the older times. Mr Glass in this book makes a partial remake or possibly follow up of her  Verbal Self defense  but seems more specific regarding to the other book as it goes closely to toxic persons  that defending in general ON the start  the book  deals with all characteristics (more  than 120! )that  imply in a toxic person then it analyses  the behavior and on how you can understand of a person is toxic  from the discussions you may have.  The techniques it describes  are identical to the other book  with possibly less wording and then on how to cope with them , using a series of strategies referred in the previous chapter (8) All remain chapters on the end ,which are  mostly  for motivation,  seem  not to have any relation with the defense book but hey seem to me quite interesting as well as  moving . What  I loved in this book are  he stories  she noticed. Some of them  are relatively funny  b

The tower  room By Adele Geras This is the second book   Daphne Lee s   ‘Malaysian tales’   is   based or inspired for he Malay team to write the  Malay tales retold and remixed As   I found in the net , Adele Geras   , writes books   aimed for children . This book is loosely   based on the Rapunzel story. 3   teens   living in a room in a tower describing their   adventures .   Till the   main character of the story   finds the love and then ….(you many read the book   for more! ) This book   uses    easy and simple language   though on the start about 7 words out of 500 were unknown to me (but thanks to the tablet   the task   was   quite easy )and the pages   were easily read in less than 10 minutes per page together   with the translation . On the start od the story I was   checking mostly the language   but near to the end   as the story goes   to the   top of the interest , I was then based nearly stopped looking at the text and followed by the  st

The bloody chamber BY Angela carter This book   is the one of the two books of Daphne Lee inspired to write together with a team of   good Malaysian writers the book Malaysian tales remixed and retold   ( http://zliangas.blogspot.gr/2014/05/malaysian-tales-retold-and-remixed.html ) The book   is like a remix of older mostly known tales as red riding hood , snow white    in a total   of 8 mini stories in  a very different way than the original It is noticed by revidewers that the stries here set   a new position on the young females , in a rather wining form .carter also noticed that she was a feminist Unfortunately   the language   is very difficult . For example a text of just 70 lines  has abt 40 unknown lemmas . That made me lose abt   30 minutes to   identify   all these   lemmas and lose finally the text .And ten i had to read the tex t about two times agin to get the meaning of the story I have   found a site   that used relatively   easier langua