{"product_id":"miss-manners-guide-to-domestic-tranquility-the-authoritative-manual-for-every-civilized-household-however-harried-9780517701652","title":"Miss Manners' Guide to Domestic Tranquility: The Authoritative Manual for Every Civilized Household, However Harried","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMiss Manners' Guide to Domestic Tranquility: The Authoritative Manual for Every Civilized Household, However Harried\u003c\/strong\u003e by Martin, Judith. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780517701652.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAmericas leading civility expert knocks household discourteousness off its foundations.\n\nAs the rudeness rampant in Americas streets sends its citizens fleeing inside to bolt the doors and draw the shades, they are finding what was once the relative safety of the hearth threatened by an unwelcome addition to their living space--the same rudeness presumably left behind when they stepped across their own cozy thresholds.\n\nWith the keen wit and insight that distinguishes her column and previous books, Judith Martins newest work equips residences everywhere with the tools to return manners to domestic life. Refusing to recognize that the harried household cannot meet her standards of propriety--especially since all households are now harried--Miss Manners explains how this is done.\n\nWhether your family is nuclear, blended, extended, or unrelated; whether you are single, divorced, living together, or married; at a family dinner or dinner party; engaged in combat with the neighbors or with the relatives--there is simply no substitute for the core of civility that must reside at the heart of every house, condo or apartment if it is truly to be a home.\n\nMiss Manners is prepared to sweep through your house and get rid of those lurking traces of rudeness that you were pretending not to notice.\nYou know you are not going to be able to enjoy a pleasant and peaceful household until these few chores are done.\n\nTable of Contents\nChapter One--The People\nAllotting due space and respect to parents, children, roommates, relatives--and whoever those\nother people are whom one of them must have brought home\n\nChapter Two--The Place\nMaking use of the rooms instead of turning them into a mess or a museum, while everybody huddles upstairs\n\nChapter Three--The Rules\nNegotiating compromises without having to leave home for Domestic Dispute Court\n\nChapter Four--The System\nKeeping track of where everybody is, where they are supposed to be, and what they are supposed to be doing (if they remember)\n\nChapter Five--The Help\nGetting the housework done when you cant complain about the Servant Problem--because theservants are you and the people in the phone book who may be there sometime today\n\nChapter Six--The Visitors\nOffering hospitality without surrendering your privacy or your resources to the thankless\n\nChapter Seven--Entertaining: The Social Contract\nReviving the art of not-for-profit entertaining to make friends who will love you for yourself\n\nChapter Eight--Entertaining: The Social Event\nLearning to give a variety of parties, formal and informal--because it beats staying home alone watching TV\n\nChapter Nine--Entertaining: The Relatives\nKindling warm memories rather than heated conflict at family occasions\n\nChapter Ten--The Community\nBeing pleasant enough to the neighbors so youre not afraid to walk out your own front door\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"CROWN","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44960931184693,"sku":"ByrdShop_0517701650","price":26.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780517701652_ffa5bc1f-21a1-4fb4-87c0-1d94eba050c0.jpg?v=1781316000","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/miss-manners-guide-to-domestic-tranquility-the-authoritative-manual-for-every-civilized-household-however-harried-9780517701652","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}