Title:
Good manners for nice people who sometimes say f*ck / Amy Alkon.
ISBN:
9781250030719
Personal Author:
Edition:
First edition.
Publication Information:
New York : St. Martins Griffin, 2014.
Physical Description:
x, 289 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Contents:
I don't care where you put the fork -- We're rude because we live in societies -- Communicating -- The neighborhood -- The telephone -- The Internet -- Dating -- Going places -- Eating, drinking, socializing -- Friends with serious illnesses -- The apology -- Trickle-down humanity.
Summary:
To lead us out of the miasma of modern mannerlessness, science based and bitingly funny syndicated advice columnist Amy Alkon rips the doily off the manners genre and gives us a new set of rules for our twenty first century lives. With wit, style, and a dash of snark, Alkon explains that we now live in societies too big for our brains, lacking the constraints on bad behavior that we had in the small bands we evolved in. Alkon shows us how we can reimpose those constraints, how we can avoid being one of the rude, and how to stand up to those who are. Foregoing prissy advice on which utensil to use, Alkon answers the twenty first century's most burning questions about manners.
OCLC Number:
ocn857982231
Availability:
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