Today’s Face Out is a two-title theme set pulled from Powell’s Books’ 2012 Staff Top 5s feature. Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking by Susan Cain. “One-third of the world’s population are introverts, and we are quietly going to take over the world while you extroverts are busy yapping it up and …
“As a self-proclaimed introvert, I couldn’t pass up reading this book. Quiet by Susan Cain contains a fascinating history of our culture’s extrovert ideal, psychology and brain science comparing introverts and extroverts and, most inspiring, case studies of successful introverts. Without introverts we wouldn’t have Apple computers or iPods, Harry Potter or the Cat in …
