It’s safe to say that today’s young woman is exposed to more opportunities than any generation of women in history, and these essential guidelines will help parents ensure that their daughters grow up to succeed in any situation. It’s a topic that has been simmering for years, and Lynne Truss says it’s now reached the boiling point.

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She puts the English national character under her anthropological microscope, and finds a strange and fascinating culture, governed by complex sets of unspoken rules and byzantine codes of behaviour. Though it may require ingenuity to reconcile their actions with the Decalogue—the ingenuity is always forthcoming. The well-mannered get invited to more dinner parties, see their career aspirations blossom, and have a wider array of friends and eligible suitors.She’s liberated but chic, impeccably mannered but never a snob, confident but compassionate, full of verve instead of vanity. With The Fabulous Girl’s Guide to Decorum, Izzo and Marsh have written the etiquette guide for the new millennium and created the ultimate icon of style for the 21st century: The Fabulous Girl. In The Book of the Courtier (1528), Baldesar Castiglione, a diplomat and Papal Nuncio to Rome, sets out to define the essential virtues for those at Court.

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A perfect gift for the young men in your life, readers learn how to conduct themselves both in real life and on social media through valuable lessons and humor. In this refreshingly entertaining etiquette guide, Myka combines her passion for etiquette and love of humor to share tips that are sure to give you a competitive edge in both your social and professional life. Josephine Ross has written a number of books including, most recently, Jane Austen: A Companion, published in England by Austen's original publisher John Murray. Lessons in the art of espionage aboard Mademoiselle Geraldine's floating dirigible have become tedious without Sophronia's sootie Soap nearby.This illustrated book explores the true stories behind our society's biggest social graces, from why we say thank you to wedding traditions. A Kids' Guide to Manners goes beyond saying please and thank you with fun, practical lessons that bring manners into the modern world. The guide is also filled with activities, learning games, and recipes designed to get the entire family involved. Written in a how-to, relatable, we’ve-all-been-that-deer-in-the-headlights kind of way, There Is No Good Card for This isn’t a spiritual treatise on how to make you a better person or a scientific argument about why compassion matters. On the other hand, the blunt, unpolished hero of melodrama and romantic fiction has lifted brusqueness and pushfulness to a pedestal not wholly merited.