The art of being a good wife is not an easy one. This little guide was written for the middle classes of the 1930s who were reading one of the first modern self-help books. Illustrated with contemporary line-drawings it contains advice by turns delightfully arcane & timelessly true for example: It is a wife's duty to look her best. If you don't tidy yourself up when you have done the bulk of the day's work don't be surprised if your husband begins to compare you unfavourably with the typist at the office. Don't forget that a wife can always set the standard of behaviour for the home. If she allows laxities of dress or conversation at the table she will soon find that they become a fixed procedure. Don't forget that very true remark that while face powder may catch a man baking powder is the stuff to hold him. Don't criticise the food at your own table when you are entertaining & especially refrain from doing so before the servants. After all is said & done husbands are not terribly difficult to manage. ...

Marta & Hector have been married for a long time -- so long that she finds it difficult to remember her life before him. He has always taken care of her & she has always done everything she can to be a good wife. But when Hector comes home with a secret their ordered domestic life begins to unravel. In the shadows there is a blonde girl that only Marta can see. & she is trying to tell her something.. . ...

Graphic designers constantly complain that there is no career manual to guide them through the profession. Design consultant & writer Adrian Shaughnessy draws on a wealth of experience to provide just such a handbook. Aimed at the independent-minded it addresses the concerns of young designers who want to earn a living by doing expressive & meaningful work & avoid becoming a hired drone working on soulless projects. It offers straight-talking advice on how to establish your design career & suggestions
- that you wont have been taught at college
- for running a successful business. This revised extended edition

Includes:: all-new chapters covering professional skills the creative process & global trends including green issues ethics & the rise of digital culture. The book contains all-new imagery & the previous interviews have been replaced with new ones each focusing on a specific issue of importance to graphic designers.



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Much has been written about what to expect of your child in the first year of its life how to tame toddlers & raise children. In an age prone to overparenting the time is right for the UKs largest online parenting organisation to put the emphasis back on a mothers needs. Often the pressure to be the perfect mother can add to a mothers worries
- especially first time around. Forget the Yummy Mummy phenomenon that says its possible to look after a newborn baby keep your house spic & span cook gourmet family dinners & still manage to put your lipstick & heels on. Life isnt really like that. This practical handbook looks at the elements of parenting that can make a mother unhappy & offers information & advice on how to cope. Most importantly this is real advice for real women from real women
- the 250 000 members of netmums.com together with advice from the experts.

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THE STORY CONTINUES in the second volume of Hiccup's How to Train Your Dragon memoirs.. . Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III was an awesome sword-fighter a dragon-whisperer & the greatest Viking Hero who ever lived. But it wasn't always like that. Hiccup's memoirs look back to when Hiccup was just an ordinary boy & finding it very hard to be a Hero. Can Hiccup find Grimbeard the Ghastly's treasure before Alvin the Treacherous gets his sneaky hands on it? & if Hiccup opens a box that says DO NOT OPEN will he live to tell the tale? How to Train Your Dragon is a Dream Works film starring Gerrard Butler America Ferrera & Jonah Hill out on DVD in October 2010 adapted from the best selling How to Train Your Dragonseries by Cressida Cowell. Read the rest of Hiccup's exploits in the How to Train Your Dragon series in How to Train Your Dragon How to Speak Dragonese How to Cheat a Dragon's Curse How to Twist a Dragon's Tale A Hero's Guide to Deadly Dragons How to Ride a Dragon's Storm & How to Break a Dragon's Heart. Check out the all-new Hiccup website at www.howtotrainyourdragonbooks.com It's the place to go for games downloads activities & sneak peeks! Read all about Hiccup & all of your favourite characters learn to speak Dragonese & train your own Dragon to do tricks! ...

How To Be a Victorian
- travel back in time with the BBC's Ruth Goodman Step into the skin of your ancestors... We know what life
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It's a good time to be a woman: we have the vote & the Pill & we haven't been burnt as witches since 1727. However a few nagging questions do remain... Why are we supposed to get Brazilians? Should we use Botox? Do men secretly hate us? & why does everyone ask you when you're going to have a baby? Part memoir part rant Caitlin answers the questions that every modern woman is asking. ...

Glamour isn't just about having the right handbag
- it's about having the right personality too & many of the world's most adorable
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Passionate independent-minded nonfiction from the international bestselling author of The Corrections. Jonathan Franzens Freedom was the literary sensation of 2010 whilst The Corrections was the best-loved & most written-about novel the previous decade. How to be Alone is a collection of the personal essays & painstaking often humorous reportage that have earned Franzen a wide & loyal readership including what has come to be known as The Harpers Essay Franzens controversial 1996 look at the fate of the novel. From the sex-advice industry to the way a supermax prison works from his fathers struggle with Alzheimers disease to a rueful account of Franzens brief tenure as an Oprah Winfrey author each piece wrestles with Franzens familiar themes: the erosion of civic life & private dignity & the hidden persistence of loneliness in postmodern imperial America. These collected essays record what Franzen calls a movement away from an angry & frightened isolation toward an acceptance -- even a celebration -- of being a reader & a writer. They voice a wry distrust of the claims of technology & psychology the love-hate relationship with consumerism & the subversive belief in the tragic shape of the individual life that help make Franzen one of the sharpest toughest-minded & most entertaining social critics at work today. ...

This eighth edition of the best selling How to be an Even Better Manager" covers 50 essential topics across the three key areas in which any manager needs to be competent: managing people; managing activities & processes; & managing & developing yourself. Thoroughly revised & updated with nine new chapters providing timely advice on topics such as benchmarking cost cutting improving organizational capability & recovering from setbacks this is an invaluable handbook for current & aspiring managers. " How to be an Even Better Manager" provides sound guidelines that will help you to develop a broad base of managerial skills & knowledge. Even the most experienced manager needs to keep abreast of new developments & brush up on essential competencies so this new edition will continue to be an invaluable aid." ...