The Experts' Guide to 100 Things Everyone Should Know How to Do
The Experts' Guide to 100 Things Everyone Should Know How to Do
Compiled by Samantha Ettus
Published by by Clarkson/Potter Publishers, 2004.
This is a cute, 5.5" by 7" pale yellow hardbound book running to 326 pages.
Classified in TX in our library, which is where books on the kinds of things that used to be called "home economics" are held, this handy volume provides simple, basic instructions on how to do 100 things that "everyone should know how to do." Divided into sections called "Morning Life," "Home Life," "Weekend Life," and "The Big Life," the how-to's are of a much wider range than you usually see in books like this. Not only do you find instructions on things like how to sew a button, make a bed, tie a bow tie, use chopsticks, and change your oil, but you also find brief, practical advice on how to eat right, how to manage your time, how to flirt, how to tell a story, how to deliver bad news, how to save money, how to be a good houseguest, and how to relax.
These instructions are usually given in two to four of the book's smallish pages, so there's not much there. However, the book also points to other resources in the sense that each section credits an author who is usually the author of one or more self-help or do-it-yourself book related to what's being discussed, and those books are either cited fully or referred to as a body. At the same time, it is impressive how much useful information about these subjects can be communicated in a few pages.
I would more expect to see this book in a personal collection than a library because of how it's designed, but it would also be useful in a library reference collection.
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