Leer el rostro (The Power of Face Reading) Book

Bozo Sapiens bills itself as a book that is about the science behind the many ways that humans make mistakes. Unfortunately, what it turns out to actually be is a random collection of somewhat interesting stories and studies about human beings and the brain.

None of the chapters in the book are particularly BAD - no claims are made that aren't backed up by some studies. It's not that it is scientifically weak, it is that it is thematically disjoint. The authors jump from random topic to random topic, completely unrelated to each other and only barely related to the book's central thesis.

None of the sections seem to really go in depth. The main point here seems to be breadth, but the net is cast too wide, and the authors frequently left me wondering "what the hell does this have to do with the rest of the book" over and over again.

Particularly disappointing was that this, in virtually every section I found stories, studies, and anecdotes that I am familiar with from having read other, more in-depth books about the subject of that section. This felt like an introduction more than anything else. "Understanding How The Brain Is Kind Of Strange And Interesting: For Dummies."

I can't really recommend it. Each chapter in this book is really better as part of an entire book devoted to the subject.