Emily Post's Etiquette, 17th Edition (Thumb Indexed)

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For the first time in its history, this American classic has been completely rewritten. Peggy Post gives us etiquette for today's times. Read by millions since the first edition was published in 1922, Emily Post—the most trusted name in etiquette—has always been there to help people navigate every conceivable social situation. The tradition continues with this 100 percent revised and updated edition, which covers the formal, the traditional, the contemporary, and the casual.

Based on thousands of reader questions, surveys conducted on the Emily Post Institute and Good Housekeeping Web sites, and Peggy's travels across the country, the book shows how to handle the new, difficult, unusual, and everyday situations we all encounter. The definition of etiquette—a code of behavior based on thoughtfulness—has not changed since Emily's day. The etiquette guidelines we use to smooth the way change all the time.

This new edition resolves hundreds of our key etiquette concerns: dealing with rudeness, netiquette, noxious neighbors, road rage, family harmony, on-line dating, cell phone courtesy, raising respectful children and teens, and travel etiquette in the post-9/11 world...to name just a few.

Emily Post's Etiquette, 17th Edition also remains the definitive source for timeless advice on entertaining, social protocol, table manners, guidelines for religious ceremonies, expressing condolences, introductions, how to be a good houseguest and host, invitations, correspondence, planning a wedding, giving a toast, and sportsmanship.

Peggy Post's advice gives us the confidence of knowing we're doing the right thing so we can relax and enjoy the moment and move more easily through our world. Emily Post's Etiquette, 17th Edition will be the resource of choice for years to come.

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For the first time in its history, this American classic has been completely rewritten. Peggy Post gives us etiquette for today's times. Read by millions since the first edition was published in 1922, Emily Post -- the most trusted name in etiquette -- has always been there to help people navigate every conceivable social situation. The tradition continues with this 100 percent revised and updated edition, which covers the formal, the traditional, the contemporary, and the casual.

Based on thousands of reader questions, surveys conducted on the Emily Post Institute and Good Housekeeping Web sites, and Peggy's travels across the country, the book shows how to handle the new, difficult, unusual, and everyday situations we all encounter. The definition of etiquette -- a code of behavior based on thoughtfulness -- has not changed since Emily's day. The etiquette guidelines we use to smooth the way change all the time.

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Wounderful .......2007-10-17

This is a wounderful gift for people who have no etiquette! It really teaches alot, I bought it for a family member, and hopefully she reads it beacuse she needs it.

Emily Post Book just what i wanted........2007-03-10

The book i ordered was in perfect condition and was just what i needed. Thank you for the quick delivery and the wonderful book.

Emily Post's Etiquette, 17th edition.......2007-02-17

This is a great reference, handy and easy to use. I bought it for home, but it wound up in my office. My co-workers continually come in to quickly leaf through for advice. I highly recommend it.

Emily Post's Etiquette, 17th Edition(Thumb Indexed).......2007-01-31

For Christmas 2006, upon my daughter's suggestion, I purchased this book for each one of my four grandsons. The first one to open the book began to complain, but when I looked at the other three, their heads were buried in the books, and soon the complainer did too. All four boys are college age, and have the book with them away at school or close at hand. It is the perfect life-long etiquette reference for 19 and 21 year-old boys, and even for me!

Grand Ma Ma's Gift.......2007-01-13

After observation for the past sixty years or so of present day human group contact and serving as a teacher of young children during a great deal of that time, I have come to the realization that many of my generation did a poor job in equipping their children with the necessary tools to teach their own children how much more civilized our civilized world can be when we are aware of each other and strive to make all contact as pleasant as possible. Concern and respect for all whose lives you touch makes your own life happier and more worth while. Knowing how to conduct oneself in a given situation allows you to concentrate on those around you rather than worry about yourself.
On a slightly different note, a simple walk in any mall brings to light people seemingly oblivious to strangers around them. In most cases they are not deliberately rude; they are unaware. They are so focused on themselves and their current needs that they allow their children to run unchecked and they themselves proceed across the paths of others without any realization that they have cut someone off. This, of course, doesn't just happen at the malls. It happens everywhere. I can attest to this after almost falling down 20 steps in Reed Arena while at a basketball game, when a child of five or six didn't realize that the elderly woman in front of him using a cane to walk down might be dislodged as he ran passed her. I might add, that I never heard a word to guide him by his father nor of apology to me.
Your Emily Post's Etiquette from Amazon may have already arrived. If not, it will come soon. I have decided that this year I will send this book to all of the grandchildren on their birthday. This is not because any of you are rude, uncaring young people. All of you are quite the opposite. This is simply to help you guide your own children. Although this Biblical quotation means something quite different in the Bible, I think that it also applies here. "Ye shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free."

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The third book in an exciting and inspiring new series from national bestselling author ReShonda Tate Billingsley

Only one girl will be chosen....

In the year since Camille, Alexis, Jasmine, and Angel joined Rachel Jackson's church youth group, the four best friends have bonded over boys, pitched in on community projects, and shared their deepest secrets. There's nothing they don't know about each other -- or is there? When a special guest arrives at Rachel's group and announces auditions for a television talk show, the girls will come to know a side of each other they never knew existed. And they may not like what they see.

Will the four friends become enemies?

The race to find the perfect host for KRCP's Teen Talks is heating up -- the competition is fierce, and so are the lies the girlfriends tell about each other in order to win the coveted spot. But more painful than any lies they can concoct is the cold, hard truth: none of them will reach their ultimate dreams if cutting each other down is how they choose to get ahead. Is winning a place in the spotlight worth losing their friendship?

Includes a reader's group guide!

Be sure to read the previous novels in ReShonda Tate Billingsley's fresh and fun series that looks at the Ten Commandments in a whole new light: Nothing But Drama and Blessings in Disguise -- now available!

ReShonda Tate Billingsley is a general assignment reporter for KRIV-TV, the Fox affiliate in Houston, Texas. She is the author of the nonfiction book Help! I've Turned Into My Mother! and three previous adult novels: My Brother's Keeper, for which she received the prestigious Gold Pen Award for Best New Author from the Black Writer's Alliance and the Nova Lee Nation Award from the Greater Dallas Writing Association; the national bestseller Let the Church Say Amen, chosen for Library Journal's Best of 2004 list for Christian fiction; and I Know I've Been Changed, a Main Selection of the Black Expressions Book Club. Her previous Christian teen novels are Nothing But Drama and Blessings in Disguise, both available from Pocket Books. She is also a contributor to the story anthology Have a Little Faith. Visit her website at www.reshondatatebillingsley.com.

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The New and Improved Babysitters Club or SweetValley High.......2007-07-23

APOOO Rating: 4

With Friends Like These is the third book in a series of young adult books by ReShonda Tate Billingsley. Billingsley presents characters Alexis, Camille, Jessica, and Angel that have joined together to create the church youth group, the Good Girlz. When Rachel, the group's founder, introduces a new member to the group, as well as presents the girls with an opportunity for one of them to host the new talk show Teen Talks, trouble is definitely in the future for the girls.

In the midst of the competition for the spot as talk show host, the girls start to realize that they do not know as much about each other as they thought. Issues such as interracial relationships, teenage boosters, and divorce are addressed in this compelling book.

Billingsley does a great job bringing the characters to life. She creates a storyline that is full of insight into what the youth of today are really going through. It is the new and improved Babysitters Club or SweetValley High. I highly recommend this for young girls of today.

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What About Your Friends?.......2007-07-11

WITH FRIENDS LIKE THESE is the third installment in Reshonda Tate Billingsley's young adult series featuring Camille, Jasmine, Alexis, and Angel. This time around the girls are also joined by Tameka, Rachel's niece. In the novel, the girls are all trying to win a position as the hostess of a new show called Teen Talks. The competition amongst them is fierce and some are willing to do whatever it takes to get the job; even if it means double-crossing their friends. Lying and stealing are only part of the plan to make sure the position belongs to them. Along the way, they are forced to question whether or not the bond they share is real and will last once the contest is over.

Not only does Billingsley address friendship in this novel, she also explores dating relationships. Camille meets a young man with whom she quickly becomes involved. Yet, just when she thinks things are going great she receives opposition from his mother and surprisingly from another source who she thought would always support her. Not only that, someone from Camille's past returns only to escalate the drama in her relationship. Alexis is also involved in a relationship with an unlikely character. When her relationship ends, there is a chance that one of her friendships might come to an end too.

The third installment in Billingsley's series is another well-written novel meant to teach lessons about friendship and loyalty. Once again she brings her characters to life, placing them in situations that allow her to use the Ten Commandments and a biblical background to teach without being preachy. Teens are not the only ones who will enjoy this novel though; it's entertaining for readers of all ages. WITH FRIENDS LIKE THESE has a well-developed plot with intriguing twists and turns the reader will not expect. If you enjoy novels that make you laugh, pull you into the characters' lives, make you shake your head in disgust, and teach you a lesson all at the same time, this is the book for you. Also, if you're looking for a book to read with your child, then pick this one up. You might even want to check out the first two books in the series, Nothing But Drama and Blessings in Disguise.

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With Friends Like These...: An Amanda Pepper Mystery

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Designed To Make The Reader Feel Good
A Must Read Book!!!!
Ah, the Amanda Pepper I remember fondly!

With Friends Like These...: An Amanda Pepper Mystery
Gillian Roberts
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ASIN: 0345377834
Release Date: 1993-06-29

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"Gillian Roberts is a mystery reader's dream come true." Lia Matera
By the Anthony Award-winning author of "I'd Rather Be in Philadelphia," another Amanda Pepper mystery. Well-known Broadway playwright and TV producer Lyle Zacharias is throwing himself a lavish birthday party in his hometown of Philadelphia. Guests include his current wife, ex-wives, friends, former partners -- not to mention Amanda Pepper and her own irrepressible mother, Bea. Yet when Lyle drops dead in the middle of a speech, it appears the likely perpetrator is none other than Bea, whose gift was fifty delicious, but apparently poisoned, tarts!
It's up to Amanda to clear her mother's name and find the real murderer . . . before he or she strikes again! But Amanda herself may be the next target! Who says teaching isn't exciting? With any more excitement, Amanda will have to retire before she hits thirty-one . . . if she lives that long!

From the Paperback edition.

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Designed To Make The Reader Feel Good.......2002-07-13

Broadway playwright and TV producer Lyle Zacharias drops dead at his own birthday party. Amanda's mother Bea becomes the prime suspect after the police realize that Bea made the poisoned tarts which caused Lyle's untimely death. Amanda's big task now is to prove her mother's innocence by solving the case. WITH FRIENDS LIKE THESE is a mystery story designed to make the reader feel good.

A Must Read Book!!!!.......1999-03-11

This is a truly great book. A little bit of mystery and a whole lot of fun. Amanda Pepper and crew are so funny. The whole series is wonderful and this is one of the best.

Ah, the Amanda Pepper I remember fondly!.......1998-12-11

With Friends Like These is a return to the Amanda Pepper I became enchanted with, the wonderful mystery series, not the heavy handed social commentary of How I Spent My Summer Vacation.

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12 excellent short stories

With Friends Like These...
Alan Dean Foster
Manufacturer: Del Rey
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ASIN: 0345323904
Release Date: 1984-11-12

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Willie Whitehorse could have been just another boozed-up guitarist, if it hadn't been for his songs. Somehow they were different -- they reached out and grabbed people's souls. Now agent Sam Parker wanted a piece of the action. But when he had it, Sam knew he'd made a terrible mistake...a mistake it was much too late to correct...

With Friends Like These...

The aliens had returned to Earth after centuries because they needed allies. But after hundreds of years, they had no idea what they would be getting the universe into...and they soon found out!

Dream Done Green

Pericles was a poet and a genius, who also happened to be a horse!

Why Johnny Can't Speed

A father could teach his son a lot of important things, but combat on the freeways wasn't one of them...not when the kid was eighteen and too full of himself to survive. But revenge did have its compensations!

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12 excellent short stories.......2002-04-11

Few of the stories herein are set in the (currently) known Humanx Commonwealth, and Pip and Flinx do not appear. Don't let that distract you; this is good stuff.

"Dream Done Green" (1974) Far in the future, humanity has spread across the galaxy, dragging other species in its wake. To use another author's term, many (possibly all) of the other surviving animal species once native to Earth have been 'uplifted' to become sapient. The stallion Pericles is not content with the lot of the 'mals', however. He approaches rich, bored young Casperdan on the day before she comes of age, to persuade her to help him make his dream a reality - a life's work. See if you can figure out the details of his dream before the author reveals them.

"The Emoman" (1972) The 'emoman' in question deals in mysterious drugs - the buyer asks for a particular emotion and gets it. Although his full name isn't given in the story, Sawbill the emoman is Sawbill September, brother of Skua September.

"The Empire of T'ang Lang" (1973) A day in the life (and from the perspective) of the warrior T'ang Lang - have fun identifying the various species and objects he encounters. (T'ang Lang himself is a cat, incidentally.)

"He" (1976) A *really* big sea monster (Foster considers Jaws a minnow by comparison). :)

"A Miracle of Small Fishes" (1974) Reminds me of Hemingway's _The Old Man and the Sea_. Josefa prays for her grandfather to make one last good catch of sardines before the cough takes him - but in this day and age, the sardine schools are manipulated by controlled releases of nutrients, and are intercepted far north of Josefa's hometown...

"Polonaise" (1975) An alternate history, in which Poland was not partitioned in 1772, but rose to become a great world power, lending assistance to the American Revolutionary War.

"Some Notes Concerning a Green Box" (1971) Foster's first professional sale, originally just a Lovecraftian fan letter to August Derleth.

"Space Opera" (1973) Captain Cleve has been ordered to take a major newscaster along on the first mission to contact an alien race - and fears that the mission may be jeopardized for the sake of ratings.

"Why Johnny Can't Speed" (1971) What if Congress opted to pay for a nationwide mass transit system by eliminating highway patrols, and the Supreme Court ruled that attempts to regulate interstate highway systems were in violation of the 1st Amendment? Machine guns and rocket launchers built into cars, that's what. Frank Irwin, learning of the death of his only son in a lane change dispute, prepares to exact payback.

"With Friends Like These" (1971) The Yops, who prey on all other species for food, have driven the remaining strength of the united galaxy to violate the Edict forbidding contact with the most feared race in known space, left trapped on their own planet for centuries: the humans of Earth.

IRRELEVANT NOTE: The paperback edition's Michael Whelan cover painting, taken from the title story (introducing the alien visitors to chocolate chip cookies and ice cream), includes a self-portrait of the artist.

"Wolfstroker" (1977) "Sam Parker...was an agent. Not undercover, but theatrical, which was harder on body and soul." After a disastrous incident with a talent who worked with trained dogs, Sam is due for luck - and finds it, in the form of Willie Whitehorse, who can play his audience's emotions as he plays his guitar.

"Ye Who Would Sing" (1976) Caitland, having just killed a man for his employers, crashes in an isolated forest - the only place anywhere on Chee, or anywhere else, that more than four of its priceless chimer trees still sing. But Katie, the solitary woman studying the trees who rescues him from the wreck, must be crazy - she hasn't staked a claim or sold a single seedling.

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"Your destroyers and those who lay you waste shall come forth from your midst."

With Friends Like These: The Jewish Critics of Israel

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"Your destroyers and those who lay you waste shall come forth from your midst.".......2007-10-07

Last year during the Israel-Hezbullah War, after Hezbullah had attcked Israel from Lebanon, and while Jewish children were hiding terrified in bomb shelters, something was done in South Africa that really revolted me.

A group of about 40 'South Africans of Jewish descent': mainly academics, media people and partisans of the ruling Marxist-Leninist ANC signed a petition in the country's major newspapers, viciously condemmning Israel, acusing her of war crimes and genocide and muttering dark threats that support for Israel threatened the moral and physical survival of the Jewish people.
The phenomenon of Jews who side with Israel's genocidal enemies has been with us for decades, but these characters have become particularly brazen and vicious since Arafat launched the simultaneous propaganda and terror war against Israel in September, 2000.

This book was first published 7 years before the Rosh ha Shana War that I have mentioned, at a time when fewer Jews where willing to denounce Israel in the vicious and genoicdal terms that we are observing today.

Then it was the PLO that they expressed such overt sympathy and support for. Today it is Hamas, Hezbullah and the Ahmadinejad and Assad regimes in Iran and Syria.

This book deals with both murderous Israel-haters like Noam Chomsky who make their desire for the destruction of Israel and their support for the PLO (now Hamas, Hezbullah, Iran and Syria) quite clear, and also
with Jews like Thomas Friedman and Anthony Lewis who believe that they must be cruel to ber kind to Israel, and that supporting pressure on Israel is a necesary prelude to peace or at least the "purification' of Israel's soul".
As Alexander points out: ' Jews who sympathize with the aimes of the PLO are few in number, but exercise a tyranny over the majority in the prominence they command in public discourse and in their influence on public decisions.
The ease with which such "display Jews" vault to international prominence is not hard to explain. They are like the proverbial dog dancing on hind legs. It is not done well, but people are surprised to find it done at all. Surprise guarantees attention.'
Observing that these so-clled critics aim to play the role of Biblical prophets "it is the aim of thios book to strip away these long robes and reveal the naked hatred and self-love they often feel".
In the introduction the editor refers to the story by the Yiddish writer IL Peretz called "The Shabbos Goy". The story concerns a Chelm Rabbi adept at explaining away the brutality of a non-Jewish servant towards a Jew named Yankele. The Rabbi eventually concludes that Yankele's very existance and preference of living over dying is a provocation to murder. He banishes Yankele from the town and increases the raise and liquor rations of the gentile servant.
Referring to diaspora Jews who say that Israel must dissapear because it is an embarassment to them in their circles (Tony Judt comes to mind) Alexander concludes with reference to "The Shabbos Goy": "We will not consent that Yankele should be asked to leave Zion just so that his co-religionists should be at ease in exile."
In the chapter entitled "anti-Semitism Israeli-style" Edward Alexander refers to the repulsive and evil strategy of transforming, in the popular imagination, "Jews into Nazis and Arabs into Jews".
He refers to the resentment by Palestinian Arabs 'that Jews should monopolize all that beautiful holocaust suffering which they would very much like, ex post facto, to share. Freud spoke of a scikness he called "penis envy". Palestinian Arabs suffer from what might be called "Holocaust envy", a feeling so strong that it prevents them from seeing that their compulsive desire to appropriate a history that is not their own is itself powerful proof of just how contrived and artificial is the Palestinian sense of national identity. A movement that can concieve of itself only as a mirror of it's Jewish enemy is an anti-nation that deserves it's whole purpose and meaning from the desire to destroy a living nation'.
One of the contributors to this digest, David Bar-Illan, demolishes the myths by anti-zionist American journalist and pro-Arab propagandist Milton Viorst., while Werner Cohn reveals in the "The Hidden Alliances of Noam Chomsky", Chomsky's close association with Neo-Nazis and Holocaust deniers, in his vicious jihad against Israel. Usually left-wingers are very sensitive about Neo-Nazis, but they will mkake an aception for their idol and ideological mentor Noam Chomsky.
Cohn quotes Chomsky who wrote the following:
"I see no anti-Semitic implications in denial of the gas chambers or even denial of the Holocaust.
The editor even reveals how pro-Arab and anti-Israel Jewish propagandists like Israel Shahak and Michael Lerner have been praised by the USA's top Neo-Nazi and rightwing anti-Semite Pat Buchanan.
The contributors to this book demolish the myths put forward by Jewish anti-Zionists, exposing them as the moral charlatans and hate-mongers that they are, and blow away the covers that tehy use to concela their cowardice.
The editor quotes Isaiah's warning that "Your destroyers and those who lay you waste shall come forth from your midst."

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With Writers Like These ...
Hugely entertaining, savvy thriller.

With Friends Like These
Nicholas Coleridge
Manufacturer: Orion mass market paperback
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With Writers Like These ..........1999-10-16

... who needs books? A complete waste of a novel that stretches the credulity of even the lowliest reader (which I consider myself). Would you believe ... that you can see into the back seats of limos? that the cops would not check the answering machine? ... that the secretary just HAPPENS to be the goddaughter of a suspect? that the hero progressively falls more and more in love with the victim after her death (from afternoon rollerblading dates to "the love of my life)? There's more that left me shaking my head in disbelief, but it's integral for what passes for a a plot in this ego-driven mess. The name-dropping and product-dropping isn't even interesting, effective or even accurate. I only kept reading to see how bad it would get.

Hugely entertaining, savvy thriller........1998-03-05

I thoroughly enjoyed Nicholas Coleridge's literate thriller. It's beautifully written, with rarely a slack section. Coleridge displays awesome insider's knowledge of the publishing and fashion industries, and his action scenes similarly reveal detailed familiarity with locales in Europe, New York and Hong Kong. No wonder. The author is a well-traveled writer whose previous books dealt with the fashion industry, and international publishing tycoons. "With Friends Like These" is an immensely enjoyable book, with enough action and romance, and suspense, to make it a page-turner.

With Friends Like These: A Selective History fo the Ryder Cup

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With Friends Like These: A Selective History fo the Ryder Cup
Martin Vousden
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WITH FRIENDS LIKE THESE: AN AMANDA PEPPER MYSTERY

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With Friends Like These, Who Needs Enemies?

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With Friends Like These, Who Needs Enemies?
Angela Shelf Medearis
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With Friends Like These...: Marxism and Gay Politics (Listen Up!)

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With Friends Like These...: Marxism and Gay Politics (Listen Up!)
Simon Edge
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3 PBs by Gillian Roberts, Amanda Pepper: Philly Stakes, I'd Rather Be in Philadelphia, With Friends Like These (Amanda Pepper)

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3 PBs by Gillian Roberts, Amanda Pepper: Philly Stakes, I'd Rather Be in Philadelphia, With Friends Like These (Amanda Pepper)
Gillian Roberts
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