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Miss Manners: On Placid Pregnancy

A Miss Manners Guide

By: Judith Martin,Jacobina Martin

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Miss Manners: On Placid Pregnancy

A Miss Manners Guide

By: Judith Martin,Jacobina Martin

Pregnancy is a time for happiness, serenity, and discovery, as well as a time for inappropriate tummy touching and over sharing by friends and relatives. Is it acceptable to give parenting advice to your daughter-in-law? To a stranger on the bus? Must one endure co-worker baby showers? Entertaining as well as brutally honest, Miss Manners likens pregnant women to low-tier celebrities, and offers not advice but pronouncements on the proper etiquette of behavior to and by moms-to-be in this e-book original. Winner of the National Humanities Medal for her social discourse in etiquette, Miss Manners transforms respectful behavior into a tool for everyday life. Go ahead and let your mother-in-law visit the hospital when the baby is born and resist correcting your best friend when she nicknames your unborn child “Nat-Nat.” After all, Miss Manners reminds us, in a few months, you may need a babysitter.

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Andrews McMeel Publishing

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ISBN 10

1449470939

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9781449470937

Miss Manners' Guide to a Surprisingly Dignified Wedding

By: Jacobina Martin,Judith Martin

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Miss Manners' Guide to a Surprisingly Dignified Wedding

By: Jacobina Martin,Judith Martin

Bride and mother-of-the-bride rebel against today’s monster weddings and explain how weddings can be charming, affordable—and excruciatingly correct. Today’s brides are bombarded with wedding advice that promises perfection but urges achieving it through selfishness (“It’s your wedding, and you can do whatever you like”), greed (choosing the presents that guests are directed to buy), and showing off (“This is your chance to show everyone what you’re about”). Couples wishing to resist such pressure see elopement or a slapdash wedding as the only alternatives to a gaudy blowout. But none of these choices appealed to a bride who happened to have been brought up by Miss Manners. Judith Martin and her newlywed daughter, Jacobina, explain how to have a dignified ceremony and delightful celebration without succumbing to the now-prevalent pattern of the vulgar, money-draining wedding that exhausts families and exploits friends.

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320

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393077152

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9780393077155

Miss Manners' Guide to Contagious Etiquette

By: Judith Martin,Nicolas Martin,Jacobina Martin

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Miss Manners' Guide to Contagious Etiquette

By: Judith Martin,Nicolas Martin,Jacobina Martin

From how to connect when we’re physically distant to the most effective way to advocate for better public health practices in your community (hint: it is not by yelling at jogging neighbors), Miss Manners guides readers through the unprecedented circumstances of the current global pandemic with humanity and wit.

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