Book Description
Provides advice on etiquette from prekindergarten to post-graduate status for parents and children.
Author : Judith Martin
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 26,24 MB
Release : 2002-05-17
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0743244176
Provides advice on etiquette from prekindergarten to post-graduate status for parents and children.
Author : Judith Martin
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 859 pages
File Size : 20,67 MB
Release : 2011-02-07
Category : Reference
ISBN : 0393079090
An indispensable manual to navigating life from birth to death without making a false move. Your neighbor denounces cellular telephones as instruments of the devil. Your niece swears that no one expects thank-you letters anymore. Your father-in-law insists that married women have to take their husbands' names. Your guests plead that asking them to commit themselves to attending your party ruins the spontaneity. Who is right? Miss Manners, of course. With all those amateurs issuing unauthorized etiquette pronouncements, aren't you glad that there is a gold standard to consult about what has really changed and what has not? The freshly updated version of the classic bestseller includes the latest letters, essays, and illustrations, along with the laugh-out-loud wisdom of Miss Manners as she meets the new millennium of American misbehavior head-on. This wickedly witty guide rules on the challenges brought about by our ever-evolving society, once again proving that etiquette, far from being an optional extra, is the essential currency of a civilized world.
Author : Judith Martin
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 19,4 MB
Release : 2003-11-17
Category : Reference
ISBN : 0393342166
"Wonderfully wicked....A bracingly sensible guide to living peaceably together."—Francine Prose, Elle In this "wryly perceptive, historically informed" (BookPage) new book, America's leading expert on civility reminds her Gentle Readers that when the Founding Fathers created a revolution in the name of individual liberty and equality, they also took a stand against hierarchical European etiquette in favor of simplicity over ceremony, and personal dignity over obsequiousness to our rulers. Hailed by George Will as "The National Bureau of Standards," Judith Martin, who has "made etiquette writing an exercise in wit" (Book), recounts here how Americans fashioned this etiquette of egalitarian respect—a fascinating story that spans from the misunderstood origins of our table manners to the much overlooked legacy of African slaves to etiquette.
Author : Jill Rigby
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 31,53 MB
Release : 2013-08-06
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 1476718784
Provides a guide for parents that recommends an alternative approach that encourages respect for the self and others, in a reference that explains how to foster such values in children as thankfulness and unselfishness.
Author : Letitia Baldrige
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 680 pages
File Size : 48,26 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Etiquette
ISBN : 0892563206
These are new times, and here is the new encyclopedia of manners geared to guiding us confidently and correctly through the rapidly changing maze of new lifestyles, customs, and ways of relating that epitomize this era.
Author : Judith Martin
Publisher :
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 10,83 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Etiquette
ISBN : 9781888173062
Author : Judith Martin
Publisher : Crown
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 38,32 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Reference
ISBN :
She shows the crucial role of etiquette in such contemporary issues as political correctness, multiculturalism, sexual harassment, educational failure and freedom of speech.
Author : Judith Martin
Publisher : Three Rivers Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 21,67 MB
Release : 2000-10-17
Category : Etiquette
ISBN : 9780609805398
Whether your family is nuclear, blended, extended or unrelated; whether you are single, divorced, living together or married; at a family dinner or dinner party; engaged in combat with the neighbors or the relatives -- there is simply no substitute for the core of civility that must reside at the heart of every house, condo or apartment if it is truly to be a home. With her trademark wit and insight, Miss Manners knocks household discourteousness off its foundation by revealing the secrets of: Getting the housework done when you can't complain about the servant problem -- because the servant is you Kindling warm memories rather than heated conflict at family occasions Making use of common rooms instead of turning them into a mess or a museum -- while everyone huddles in their respective allotted upstairs spaces alone Reviving the art of entertaining to make friends who will love you for yourself (it beats staying home alone watching TV) Being pleasant enough to the neighbors so you're not afraid to walk out your own front door Refusing to recognize that the harried household cannot meet proper standards of behavior, especially since all households are now harried, Miss Manners explains how to return a sense of propriety -- and most of all, tranquility -- to domestic life.
Author : Therese Oneill
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 39,64 MB
Release : 2019-04-16
Category : History
ISBN : 0316481890
From the author of the "hysterically funny and unsettlingly fascinating" New York Times bestseller Unmentionable, a hilarious illustrated guide to the secrets of Victorian child-rearing (Jenny Lawson). Feminist historian Therese Oneill is back, to educate you on what to expect when you're expecting . . . a Victorian baby! In Ungovernable, Oneill conducts an unforgettable tour through the backwards, pseudoscientific, downright bizarre parenting fashions of the Victorians, advising us on: How to be sure you're not too ugly, sickly, or stupid to breed What positions and room decor will help you conceive a son How much beer, wine, cyanide and heroin to consume while pregnant How to select the best peasant teat for your child Which foods won't turn your children into sexual deviants And so much more. Endlessly surprising, wickedly funny, and filled with juicy historical tidbits and images, Ungovernable provides much-needed perspective on -- and comic relief from -- the age-old struggle to bring up baby.
Author : Judith Martin
Publisher : Crown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 30,57 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Wedding etiquette
ISBN : 9780517701874
Presents advice on weddings discussing the responsibilities and obligations of friends and family, and covering subjects such as the engagement, shower, gifts, and the reception.