How Do You Work This Life Thing?: Advice for the Newly Independent on Roommates, Jobs, Sex, and Everything That Counts你如何应对这些日常事?
分類: 图书,进口原版书,经管与理财 Business & Investing ,
作者: Lizzie Post著
出 版 社: 音像供货
出版时间: 2007-4-1字数:版次: 1页数: 285印刷时间:开本: 16开印次: 1纸张:I S B N : 9780060823757包装: 精装编辑推荐
作者简介:
Lizzie Post is the great-great-granddaughter of Emily Post and the daughter of best-selling author Peter Post. She is the first member of the fourth generation of Posts to write a book on etiquette. A University of Vermont graduate with a bachelor of science in art education, she lives and works in Burlington, Vermont.
内容简介
You're on your own—and it's great! Except when problems crop up: roommate hassles, dating dilemmas, work stuff, social stuff, and just stuff. Finally, expert help is here. In How Do You Work This Life Thing? Lizzie Post, great-great-granddaughter of Emily Post, shows how to navigate the pleasures and perils of independent life, offering advice on everything from getting along with roommate(s) and dating to getting the job you want.
Highlights include Prospective Roommate Checklist . . . Romance, Dating, and Sex at Your Place . . . The Get-It-Together Party Prep List . . . What to Wear When . . . Cell Tips: What to Do Where . . . Top Ten Table Manners . . . Dating 101 . . . Tipping 101 . . . Landing the Perfect Job
Lizzie's down-to-earth style and tales from personal experience, coupled with sound advice in the Emily Post tradition, makes this a real-life guide you can trust.
目录
INTRODUCTION: Why This Book?
PART ONE:HOME SWEET HOME
CHAPTER 1: How to Avoid Killing Your Roommate (and Others): The "Three C's" Approach to Building Better Relationships
CHAPTER 2: Your New Place
CHAPTER 3: Top Five Potential War Zones at Home
CHAPTER 4: Hello, Neighbor
CHAPTER 5: Welcome to My Home: Hanging Out,the Etiquette of Couch Crashing, and How to Be the Ideal Houseguest
CHAPTER 6: Significant Others, One-Night Stands, and Things That Go Bump.in the Night: Romance, Dating, and Sex at Your Place
CHAPTER 7: Entertaining: From Wine Tasting to Beer Pong, and Everything in Between
PART TWO:THE REST OF THE WORLD AND YOU
CHAPTER 8: Steppin' Out: What You're Telling the World
CHAPTER 9: Errands
CHAPTER 10: The Cell Phone
CHAPTER 11: Dining: A Night Out With Friends
CHAPTER 12: Dining: The Mechanics of It All
CHAPTER 13: Socializing: From Etiquette With Friends to Meeting New People
CHAPTER 14: Dating: For Real
CHAPTER 15: Let the Games Begin! The Etiquette of Sports and Fitness
CHAPTER 16: Driver's Ed-iquette
CHAPTER 17: Four Times When You've Got to Get It Right
PART THREE:WORK PAID AND UNPAID
CHAPTER 18: Landing the Perfect Job
CHAPTER 19: On the Job
CHAPTER 20: When School Is Your Job
INDEX