Shrinking Violets: A Field Guide to Shyness | Joe Moran

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Condition
Secondhand
Location
South Africa
Product code
AM2134
Bob Shop ID
596245810
Author: Joe Moran
Publisher: Profile Books (2012)
ISBN-10: 1781252637
ISBN-13: 9781781252635
Condition: As New
Binding: Hardcover with dust jacket
Pages: 280
Dimensions: 22.3 x 14.2 x 2.5 cm
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by Joe Moran
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Shyness is a pervasive human trait: even most extroverts know what it is like to stand tongue-tied at the fringe of an unfamiliar group or flush with embarrassment at being the unwelcome center of attention. And yet the cultural history of shyness has remained largely unwritten-until now. With incisiveness, passion, and humor, Joe Moran offers an eclectic and original exploration of what it means to be a "shrinking violet."

Along the way, he provides a collective biography of shyness through portraits of such shy individuals as Charles Darwin, Charles Schulz, Garrison Keillor, and Agatha Christie, among many others. In their stories often both heartbreaking and inspiring and through the myriad ways scientists and thinkers have tried to explain and "cure" shyness, Moran finds hope. To be shy, he decides, is not simply a burden; it is also a gift, a different way of seeing the world that can be both enriching and inspiring.

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