Skip to main content
Swap Used Books - Buy New Books at Great Prices!
How To Swap Books
Sign Up
Search 
Kiosk
PBS Market (New Books)
Book Browser
Advanced Search
Books Posted Today
Member Book Reviews
Award Winning Books
NYT Best Sellers
Amazon Best Sellers
Most Traveled Copies
Club Wish List
Login
Community
Discussion Forums
Book Lists
Blog
Donations
Box-O-Books
Maps
The Eclectic Pen
Fun Stuff
Top 100
Pulse of PBS
Spread The Word
Photo Gallery
Recipes
Club Tag Cloud
Member Testimonials
Help Center
Kiosk
PBS Market (New Books)
Go Shopping
Buy Credits
Buy PBS Money
Upgrade Membership
Gift Certificates
Transfer Credits
Search -
Book of Modern Manners
Book of Modern Manners
Author:
The Definitive Book on Style and Status in a Changing Society — America's First Lady of elegance and etiquette tells you how to maintain the tradition of gracious living while recognizing the realities of today. Here's what the traditional etiquette books don't tell you about... — Everyday Manners in Publ... more »: introducing couples who live together; evading personal questions; changing the subject; helping the disabled; splitting the check; breaking dates; smokers' and nonsmokers' rights.
Entertaining: last-minute invitations; dinner guests on a special diet; dealing with latecomers; calling it a night.
The Business World: office romances; who gets the coffee; Christmas gifts; telephone courtesy; letters of reference; business entertaining.
Weddings: telling your parents (when you're afraid they'll be less than delighted); announcements; broken engagements; marrying again.
Children: birth and adoption announcements; disipline in public; traveling with children; teenage dating; allowances; curfew.
Divorce: telling people; handling gossip; living alone again; your dates and your children; maintaining friendships.
And much more.
Charlotte Ford takes a frank, open and comprehensive look at modern manners and mores. How to feel at ease with family, friends, new acquaintances and yourself--and make all your relationships pleasant, courteous and personally satisfying.
Author:
The Definitive Book on Style and Status in a Changing Society — America's First Lady of elegance and etiquette tells you how to maintain the tradition of gracious living while recognizing the realities of today. Here's what the traditional etiquette books don't tell you about... — Everyday Manners in Publ... more »: introducing couples who live together; evading personal questions; changing the subject; helping the disabled; splitting the check; breaking dates; smokers' and nonsmokers' rights.
Entertaining: last-minute invitations; dinner guests on a special diet; dealing with latecomers; calling it a night.
The Business World: office romances; who gets the coffee; Christmas gifts; telephone courtesy; letters of reference; business entertaining.
Weddings: telling your parents (when you're afraid they'll be less than delighted); announcements; broken engagements; marrying again.
Children: birth and adoption announcements; disipline in public; traveling with children; teenage dating; allowances; curfew.
Divorce: telling people; handling gossip; living alone again; your dates and your children; maintaining friendships.
And much more.
Charlotte Ford takes a frank, open and comprehensive look at modern manners and mores. How to feel at ease with family, friends, new acquaintances and yourself--and make all your relationships pleasant, courteous and personally satisfying.
ISBN-13: 9780671457693
ISBN-10: 0671457691
Publication Date: 10/22/1982
Pages: 509
Rating: 1
ISBN-10: 0671457691
Publication Date: 10/22/1982
Pages: 509
Rating: 1
2 stars, based on 1 rating
Genres:
- Reference >> Etiquette >> Rules of Order
