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"With the entire nation screaming for a return to civility, Miss Manners, the highest authority, takes matters into her own properly gloved hands and puts etiquette where it belongs - on the public agenda. Miss Manners Rescues Civilization is a wise, witty and startling examination of how the breakdown of etiquette is contributing to the disintegration of our society." "Even the government finds itself battered by our national epidemic of rudeness,...
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In her fabulously witty style, Miss Manners reacquaints us with the proper use of implements for navigating nourishment from plate to mouth and gives specific, practical advice on all manner of mealtime issues: serving takeout food; how to fillet a fish, pound (pop open) a crab, and cope with the mysteries of the mango, the artichoke, a thick, juicy steak, and that long stringy glop of cheese, atop French onion soup; safely feeding children in restaurants;...
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Though we may think that technology has overtaken human behavior, Miss Manners is here to rescue us from the tyranny of telephones, faxes and E-mail. In her famously arch and witty style, Miss Manners tells us everything we need to know about communicating with others in the technological age, from phone tag to flaming.
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"Anglo-Americans wrestled with some profound cultural contradictions as they shifted from the hierarchical and patriarchal society of the seventeenth-century frontier to the modern and fluid class democracy of the mid-nineteenth century. How could traditional inequality be maintained in the socially leveling environment of the early colonial wilderness? And how could nineteenth-century Americans pretend to be equal in an increasingly unequal society?"...
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"Grieving the loss of a loved one, friend or colleague is an important process - one that can be made unnecessarily awkward if you're not familiar with the religious tradition in which the grieving tradition takes place, and end up feeling uncertain about how to behave. You want to be sure that you know what to do and what to expect. There's no need to enter an unfamiliar atmosphere unprepared, wondering: Are flowers appropriate? Is there anything...
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John F. Kasson writes of the deep tensions created by the demands of democracy, the pressures of an expanding market economy, and the desire for social distinction. He re-creates the deferential and often coarse society of colonial years, then its transformation as aspirations and social forms earlier restricted to the gentry became popularized. The rapidly industrializing economy most intensively affected the booming cities. Etiquette advisers sought...
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"In Esteemed Colleagues: Civility and Deliberation in the U.S. Senate, leading congressional scholars address the extent to which civility has declined in the Senate and how that decline has affected the national political system. Contributors analyze the relationships between senators, shaped by increased levels of both individualism and partisanship. They also examine how these trends have driven the deliberation of issues before the chamber, including...
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"Everybody loves a wedding, and in All Dressed in White, Carol McD. Wallace celebrates the delicious history and the eternal allure of our favorite rite of passage. In the past 150 years the wedding has gone from discreet private ceremony to elaborate public event, yet the fundamentals remain the same - weddings are the only social events in America where matters of money, sex, and class are brought to the fore. The growth of the middle class and...
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Catcalls, wolf whistles, verbal slurs, pinches, stalking -- virtually every woman has experienced some form of unwanted public attention by men. Off the street, in semi-public places such as restaurants and department stores, women often suffer the insult of being passed over by employees eager to serve men. How pervasive is this behavior? How dangerous can it be? What, if anything, should be done about it?
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