Author: Judith MartinPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0743244176
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
Provides advice on etiquette from prekindergarten to post-graduate status for parents and children.
Miss Manners' Guide to Excruciatingly Correct Behavior (Freshly Updated)
Author: Judith MartinPublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393079090
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 859
Book Description
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.
Star-Spangled Manners: In Which Miss Manners Defends American Etiquette (For a Change)
Author: Judith MartinPublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393342166
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
"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.
Raising Respectful Children in a Disrespectful World
Author: Jill RigbyPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1476718784
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
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.
Letitia Baldrige's Complete Guide to the New Manners for the 90's
Author: Letitia BaldrigePublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0892563206
Category : Etiquette
Languages : en
Pages : 680
Book Description
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
Author: Judith MartinMiss Manners on Painfully Proper Weddings
Author: Judith MartinPublisher: Crown
ISBN: 9780517701874
Category : Wedding etiquette
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
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.
Miss Manners Minds Your Business
Author: Judith MartinPublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393081362
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
A witty guide to managing a real life wisely in a work-centered world. What do your colleagues, overlords, underlings, clients, and customers have in common? Not knowing how much they annoy you. Not to mention how much you may be annoying them. The route from cubicle to corner office is strewn with etiquette landmines. And now that the boundaries that once cleanly separated work from personal life are blurred, even polite people don’t recognize the difference between professional and social manners. What do you say to a colleague who has just been fired? How do you maintain a family-friendly office without discriminating against singles? What’s the difference between showing romantic interest and sexual harassment? Which colleagues should be invited to family weddings? When should you be unavailable, at or away from work? Don’t convene a focus group or appeal to Human Resources—consult Miss Manners! With wit and wisdom, Miss Manners restores civility, guiding you around your coworker’s messy cubicle, past your overly prying boss, around the bridal shower for the new temp, and through tedious staff meetings. In Miss Manners Minds Your Business, Judith Martin and her son, executive Nicholas Ivor Martin, equip readers with the practical, pertinent, and utterly correct advice necessary to win the job, keep the job, and leave the job with sanity and dignity intact.
Miss Manners' Guide to Domestic Tranquility
Author: Judith MartinPublisher: Three Rivers Press
ISBN: 9780609805398
Category : Etiquette
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
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.
