A complete manual for those who desire to understand the rules of good breeding, the customs of good society, and to avoid incorrect and vulgar habits. Such as: Clear and Comprehensive Directions for Correct Manners, Dress, and Conversation; Instructions for Good Behavior at Dinner Parties, and the Table, with Hints on the Art of Carving and Taking Wine at Table Together with the Etiquette of the Ball and Assembly Room, Evening Parties Deportment in the Street and when Traveling And the Usages...
Entrepreneur and one-time rapper (under the name Jesse Jaymes) Jesse Itzler's life is bold and risky until he realizes he's ready for a major change. He decides to take up residence with the New Skete monks, a Russian Orthodox religious order in upstate New York. What he learns about the monks-- and himself-- is the focus of this memoir.
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Scott Sherman has taken it upon himself to compile a list of 50 Oy-vey inducing members of the tribe - from politics, entertainment and white collar crime - who make it tougher than it already is to be a Jew these days. Notables include: Barbara Streisand: Mere presence convinces every untalented Jew they can become a star...and too much with the politicking! Who elected you? Judge Judy: Who thought it was a good idea to give a Jewish grandmother a television show in which her opinions are legal...
Richard is a middle-aged Englishman who runs a B&B in the fictional Val de Follet in the Loire Valley. Nothing ever happens to Richard, and really that’s the way he likes it. One day, however, one of his older guests disappears, leaving behind a bloody handprint on the wallpaper. Another guest, the exotic Valérie, persuades a reluctant Richard to join her in investigating the disappearance. Richard remains a dazed passenger in the case until things become really serious and someone murders Ava...
Every encounter begins with a greeting. Be it a quick ‘Hello!’ or the somewhat longer and gracious ‘Sula manchwanta galunga omugobe!’ shaking hands or shaking, well, rather more private parts of our anatomy, we have been doing it many times daily for thousands of years. It should be the most straightforward thing in the world, but this apparently simple act is fraught with complications, leading to awkward misunderstandings and occasionally even outright violence. In the illuminating and entert...
National Bestseller One of Newfoundland's funniest and most beloved storytellers offers his cure for the Covid blues. Is there a more sociable province than Newfoundland and Labrador? Or anywhere in Canada with a greater reputation for coming to the rescue of those in need? At this time of Covid, singer, songwriter and bestselling author Alan Doyle is feeling everyone's pain. Off the road and spending more days at home than he has since he was a child hawking cod tongues on the wharfs of Pet...
This book contains 250 anecdotes about music, including these: 1) Before Emmylou Harris became a famous country singer, she wrote Pete Seeger and said that she wanted to be a folk singer but she was afraid that she had not suffered enough. Ms. Harris said, "He wrote back to say life would come back and hit me hard soon enough." 2) Band leader Doc Severinsen, most famous as the band leader on Johnny Carson's "Tonight Show," and his wife, Emily, were fighting and screaming in a hotel room when he...
'It's remarkable that I'm able to write this at all. I'm surprised that those lefty hate groups haven't kicked down my door and stolen my keyboard and thrown it into a creek. I suspect the only thing stopping them is the thought of having to put in an honest day's work of vigilante justice and the environmental impact of the gesture...' Peter Chudd, Real Australian.Move over Alan Jones and Andrew Bolt, Australia's leading conservative privileged white man has arrived. And even better, he's writt...
Cambodia and the Year of UNTAC, Russian language edition
by Thomas Riddle