Publisher:
The Author
Edition / Year:
1965 
Physiognomical Follies
Moles and Their Meaning
Posted by Alfred Armstrong
Sat, 01/19/2008 - 17:59
Publisher:
Pearson
Edition / Year:
1909 
This little book is something of a classic of its kind. It first came to my notice through Ash and Lake's Bizarre Books (1985, 1998), an admirable publication which I strongly recommend, though its authors take a fairly light-hearted approach to their material, eschewing any more profound analysis, such as you will find here.
Crime and the Man
Posted by Alfred Armstrong
Sat, 01/19/2008 - 17:59
Publisher:
Harvard University Press
Edition / Year:
1939 This large and very seriously intended publication from one of America's major academic presses explored the supposed connection between crime and physiognomy. Of course, the notion that criminals might have different facial features or shape of head was far from a new one, even back in the 1930s: folklore has long had it that someone whose eyes are “too close together” is not to be trusted, for example.
The Selling Compass
Posted by Alfred Armstrong
Sat, 01/19/2008 - 17:59
Publisher:
Compass Sales Corporation
Edition / Year:
1929 
Sales people are notoriously always looking for a way to get an advantage - over their customers, their competitors, and their co-workers alike. The most able seller can almost read the minds of prospects and understand their hidden motivations, their needs, their fears, but most are not so gifted. Hence the continuing market for works which purport to teach such skills.
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