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The third edition of the best, funniest father's guide to having a baby, What to Expect When Your Wife Is Expanding, is now thoroughly revised and updated, but it's still packed with information, advice, and attitude distinctively for guys. Originally conceived as a little parody, just something funny and helpful for the expectant man, the book is now a classic gift, passed knowingly from one generation of first-time papas to the next.
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How to Be a 21st Century Man is more than just a how-to guide; it is an essential life-tool that every man should have at his disposal. With timesaving, life-improving tips, it is the premier guide to manliness. Featured within are sections on incredibly important issues in a man's life, including:
-How to Read Lights On Your Car's Dashboard
-How to Buy a Suit
-How to Tell if a Woman Likes You
-How to Mix a Martini Like James Bond
-How to Live Forever
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The Man's Playbook is more than just a how-to guide; it's a way of life. Learn timesaving, life-improving, woman-impressing tips that will last a lifetime. Want the sleek charm of James Bond? Inside, you'll find out how to shake a martini just like he would. Got a crush on your favorite waitress? Learn the best lines to get her talking. Heading out to a black-tie event? Check in with The Man's Playbook on how to properly wear a tuxedo. Carry this...
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The author of Bike Snob helps bike commuters transcend common obstacles and handle cars, pedestrians, and other cyclists with grace.
The joys of commuting by bike attract scores of new converts every year. But, as fresh-faced cyclists fill the roads, they also encounter their share of frustrations-careless drivers, wide-flung car doors, zoned-out pedestrians, and aggressive fellow cyclists, to name a few.
In this follow-up to Bike Snob, BikeSnobNYC...
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"The Tell-All Guide to Airbnb Hosting is very insightful. Deborah Voll really does "tell it all" and shares delightful details, tips, tricks, and tales of hosting..."
-Debbie & Michael Campbell, The Senior Nomads, Authors of Your Keys, Our Home
The ultimate guide to creating a profitable home sharing experience for traveling guests.
In this tell-all guide, Deborah Voll takes the reader through her journey of successfully launching a hosting...
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If you've just graduated, or if you haven't--if you're going to advanced school, or if you aren't--if you're setting things in motion to strike out on your own--or if you blew the first or second go at liberty and having your own living space--you're in the right place. If you are serious about rules and guidelines and closets and all the details, go see Martha. If you'd prefer some easy-going, mildly cynical guidance, I'm Free, I'm Free, I'm Free:...
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While the practical aspects of new adulthood can be nerve-wracking--dating, job-hunting, money-managing--the most important task of all is figuring out who you are and where you fit in the world. Author and comedian Sara Benincasa, now in her mid-thirties, had an absolutely harrowing early twenties and now, on the other side, she has a LOT of hard-earned wisdom and common sense to share.
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A collection of the authors' favorite life hacks and mini-upgrades, such as craft cocktails on the cheap or tips for a perfectly planned staycation. Sometimes it takes as little as nine dollars to turn your life around. How to find simple pleasures in a pricey, wellness-obsessed world.
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This practical and humorous guide helps readers learn appropriate manners so they can enjoy the pleasures of good food, good drink, and good company without worrying about what behavior is proper. Chapters cover how to be a good host, how to be a good guest, and how to behave at business events, cocktail parties, formal dinners, and restaurants. There is also a unique chapter discussing pet peeves and how to handle them with grace, civility, and appropriate...
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You're off to college-it's gonna be life-changing! Follow this book's advice to make it amazing! This bittersweet and humorous guide to college life features practical tips combined with funny, full color illustrations. You'll learn:
• How to survive orientation
• Why to choose courses that you'll love
• How TAs can save your brain
• Why flip flops are a must
• How often to change your sheets
• Where to make new friends
• How to balance...
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Originally published in 1827, Roberts' Guide for Butlers and Other Household Staff was a handbook for servants to perform their duties more efficiently and thoughtfully. Roberts gives a plethora of information about household duties of a butler like:
• How to dress suitably for work
• Regulations for the dinner table
• Directions for cleaning tea trays
• Giving Britannia metal a brilliant polish
• Preserving fruits for the year
• Addressing...
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Here are hundreds and hundreds of real people's most common complaints and the proper responses to them. Written by an eminent etiquette expert, it is a guide to how to behave well and, more importantly, how to respond to bad behavior. What are the right rules for the coffee machine at work? Why do husbands always drink from the milk carton? Why are so many retail clerks rude? This book answers all-and, more importantly, explains the proper responses...
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In Beverly Hills, fame and wealth can buy everything-except class, grace, and sophistication. In Beverly Hills Manners, Lisa Gaché offers a behind-the-scenes look at the unique social dilemmas of the residents of the hills of Beverly through the eyes of an etiquette expert tasked with transforming her awkward, boorish, and sometimes challenging clients into social virtuosos.
From Saudi princesses to Oscar winners, talent agents to intelligence operatives,...
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First published in 1922, Etiquette has served for generations as the premiere guide to manners and decorum. It details the nuances of various social settings as well as how to act within them, so as not to offend any parties present.
Different settings often call for different conduct. In addition to covering general forms of communication, salutations, greetings, and conversation, this classic manual also details what behaviors and topics are socially...
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Are you young, eager, smart, and heading off to LA to make it big in the entertainment business? Time for a reality check: Leave your diploma at home, put your grandiose dreams on hold (where hopefully they'll get tired and hang up), and start by repeating the first rule of the industry: Who you work for is more important than who you are. Then leapfrog over everyone else by reading The Hollywood Assistants Handbook.
Written by two very sharp and...
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A complete manual for those who desire to understand the rules of good breeding, the customs of good society, and to avoid incorrect and vulgar habits. Such as:Clear and Comprehensive Directions for Correct Manners, Dress, and Conversation;Instructions for Good Behavior at Dinner Parties, and the Table, with Hints on the Art of Carving and Taking Wine at TableTogether with the Etiquette of the Ball and Assembly Room, Evening PartiesDeportment in the...
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"This classic guide to gentlemanly behavior is a veritable mine of information and indispensable advice for aspiring gentlemen. No matter if a man finds himself at home, in the street, or in a place of amusement, he has but to leaf through this book to learn how best to behave, and indeed how not to behave. And if he can find time between his numerous invitations to balls and hunting parties, he could benfit from a perusal of the sections on gentlemanly...
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Imagine you have entered the best ice cream shop in the world. An appetizing universe of incredible and original flavors unfolds before you: passion fruit, chocolate fudge, peanut butter, mocha . . . Then finally you get to the front and you ask for a simple vanilla ice cream.
Sex is an ice cream shop. You can continue with the routine-conventional and boring (a vanilla lover)-or you can dare yourself to change, experiment, and spice things up....
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Soothe your spirit and relax your body by learning the art of the holistic massage.
In The New Art of Massage, renowned practitioner of massage therapy Guillermo Ferrara explains the art of the holistic massage in easy-to-follow steps. Follow his guidance as he presents the theory of each approach and then the successful practice for each one. More than three hundred color photographs and seventy color illustrations provide step-by-step instructions...
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