Etiquette category: 653 books
Miss Manners: On Placid Pregnancy
A Miss Manners Guide
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2015
Pregnancy is a time for happiness, serenity, and discovery, as well as a time for inappropriate tummy touching and over sharing by friends and relatives. Is it acceptable to give parenting advice to your daughter-in-law? To a stranger on the bus? Must one endure co-worker baby showers? Entertaining as...
by John Bowden
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2010
How to face the big occasion with confidence and carry it off with style. So you will be saying a few words on the Big Day. The problem is, we don t get much practice, do we? That s why this practical book will prove so useful to you. Whether you are the best man, the bridegroom, the father of the...
How To Be a Man
A Guide To Style and Behavior For The Modern Gentleman
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2011
The ultimate sartorial and etiquette guide, from the ultimate life and style guru. By turns witty, sardonic, and always insightful, Glenn O’Brien’s advice column has been a must-read for several generations of men (and their spouses and girlfriends). Having cut his teeth as a contributor at Andy...
Miss Conduct's Mind over Manners
Master the Slippery Rules of Modern Ethics and Etiquette
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2009
A witty, sophisticated guide to the new principles of modern social behavior, by a psychologist and popular alternative-etiquette-and-ethics guru
This is no rule book about forks and calling cards. As a child, Robin Abrahams was bitterly disappointed when her parents forced her to have a lemonade...
How to Be a Perfect Stranger, 6th Edition
The Essential Religious Etiquette Handbook
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2015
It’s increasingly common to be invited to a wedding, funeral or other religious service for someone of a different faith. This easy-to-read religious etiquette guidebook helps the well-meaning guest feel comfortable and participate as fully as possible.
Everything Else You Need to Know When You're Expecting
The New Etiquette for the New Mom
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2000
Can you ask your friends to do your baby's laundry? When should you tell your boss you're pregnant? How do you let your mother-in-law know that you're not naming the baby after her? And what if your water breaks in public? Everything Else You Need to Know When You're Expecting is the complete guide...
A Short History of Rudeness
Manners, Morals, and Misbehavior in Modern America
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2015
A funny and provocative cultural history of class, manners, and the decline of civility
In his smart and thought provoking new book, literary/social critic Mark Caldwell gives us a history of the demise of manners and charts the progress of an epidemic of rudeness in America. The breakdown...
by Nella Henney
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
"The business man is the national hero of America, as native to the soil and as typical of the country as baseball or Broadway or big advertising. He is an interesting figure, picturesque and not unlovable, not so dashing perhaps as a knight in armor or a soldier in uniform, but he is not without the...
A Gentleman at the Table
A Concise, Contemporary Guide to Table Manners
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2004
Gain the knowledge you need to maneuver any dining situation - from a casual meal of fried chicken at mom's house to a seven-course dinner at the finest restaurant in the world.
A Gentleman at the Table will give any man the knowledge he needs to maneuver any dining situation - from a casual...
by Edith B. Ordway
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
"The customs of social life need frequent restating and adaptation to new needs. They are customs because they are the best rules of conduct that have been garnered from the experiences of succeeding generations under common conditions. To know them, to catch their spirit, and to follow them in an intelligent...
How to Set a Table
Inspiration, Ideas, and Etiquette for Hosting Friends and Family
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2017
This hip, fabric-covered guide includes creative ways to style a table--whether for a sit-down dinner, cocktail party, brunch buffet, picnic in the park, and other fun get-togethers
Whether you live in a small apartment or sprawling suburban kitchen, How to Set a Table features stylish, modern...
by Toni Dupree
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2016
Whose Fork Is It Anyway? is a dining etiquette book for tweens and teens. Readers will learn appropriate dining techniques, how to properly set the table for a quality dining experience, proper dining, conversation, and phone etiquette, napkin placement, special dos and donts of dining, proper posture, and more!
Rude!
Socially Inconsiderate Behavior: What It Is, What Contributes To It, and What We Can Do About It
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2013
SOME PEOPLE ARE JUST PLAIN RUDE!
We're constantly confronted by the rude behavior of others. It's a universal problem and it's getting harder to ignore. Here are just a few examples of the problem:
"Neighbors from hell" who generate an endless amount of noise
Cell phone conversations...
Art of the Deal in China
A Practical Guide to Business Etiquette and the 36 Martial Strategies Employed by Chinese Businessmen and Officals in China
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2011
Extremely useful to newcomers and old china hands alike, this Chinese business guide explains how Chinese history and classical literature play a huge role in negotiating in China.
Negotiating a deal in China requires patience-a wellknown Confucian virtue; persistence-something which comes...