Emily Post's Etiquette, 17th Edition (Thumb Indexed)
by Peggy Post
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Author: Peggy PostEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2004-11-01
ISBN: 0066209579
Number of pages: 896
Publisher: Collins Living
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Book Review: Helpful guide for handling grieving, funerals, condolences and memorial services
Summary: 5 Stars
Emily Post's Etiquette, a well-respected book on manners,includes a chapter called Grieving and Condolences that addresses related protocols. The chapter covers topics such as notifying others of a death, funeral and memorial-service arrangements, eulogies, online memorials, flowers and donations, guest registers, appropriate clothing for funerals, various religious customs, and sympathy notes. Very helpful to refer to for many areas of life. Excellent guides for people not familiar with death, funeral and memorial service protocols. -- Author of the multi-award winning resource guide-- Mom Minus Dad: The Essential Resource Guide for Busy Adults with a Newly Widowed Parent
Summary of Emily Post's Etiquette, 17th Edition (Thumb Indexed)
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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