Everything But the Kitchen Sink
eBook - ePub

Everything But the Kitchen Sink

What Every Modern Woman Needs to Know

  1. 208 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Everything But the Kitchen Sink

What Every Modern Woman Needs to Know

About this book

Twenty-first-century women are called upon to perform any manner of tasks, recall even the most random bits of information, and all the while carry on a charming conversation. Thankfully, from historian and British television personality Francesca Beauman comes this indispensable and authoritative survival guide that will allow women to tackle any problem and work any party with ease, style, and grace. Everything But the Kitchen Sink is a compendium of delightfully witty facts, figures, diagrams, lists, charts, quotes, and practical advice. True, you may not ever need to know how to roast a hedgehog, treat a shark bite, or say "No, thank you. Please leave me alone" in Russian. But isn't it good to know you can?

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Information

Publisher
Gallery Books
Year
2007
eBook ISBN
9781416958949

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Contents
  4. Preface
  5. Everywoman
  6. Useful Phrases
  7. The Most Popular Girls’ Names over the Past One Hundred Years
  8. All Hail Vinegar
  9. Women in Malawi
  10. Winners of a “Best Actress” Oscar
  11. Personal Advertisements
  12. Ten Good Ideas
  13. Getting Married
  14. Mathematics
  15. Voting
  16. Bras
  17. Group Sex
  18. How to Buy a Bathing Suit
  19. Memorable Film Lines of the 1930s Through the 1970s
  20. The Personality of a Beehive
  21. In Case of a Genuine Emergency
  22. Chocolate
  23. The Terminology of Sleeves
  24. How to Clean a Pearl Necklace
  25. Pets
  26. Drink Myths
  27. Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation
  28. Martinis
  29. The Blues
  30. Low Spirits
  31. Cars
  32. Carbon Emissions (or, How to Murder One’s Grandchildren)
  33. How to Drive in Snow
  34. Ballet
  35. The Global AIDS Epidemic
  36. How to Eat a Pineapple
  37. What to Drink When
  38. How to Put Up a Tent in the Dark
  39. The Constellations
  40. Major Foreign Aid Donors
  41. New Year’s Eve
  42. Tattoos
  43. Shoes
  44. Animal Stings, Bites, or Otherwise Unfriendly Approaches
  45. The Approximate Caloric Value of Various Foodstuffs
  46. Nobel Peace Prize Winners
  47. Placing a Bet at the Horse Races
  48. What to Cook for a “Wild” Dinner Party
  49. What to Cook for a Slightly Less “Wild” Dinner Party
  50. A Selection of the World’s Largest Cut Diamonds
  51. Homeopathy
  52. Therapy
  53. The Thank-You Letter
  54. How to Make an Abode Gemütlich in Just Three-quarters of an Hour (or, “A Daffodil in a Glass Jar”)
  55. Rain
  56. Diets
  57. How Humans Spread
  58. The Drinks Party
  59. The Muses
  60. How to Deliver a Baby
  61. How to Use a Compass
  62. A Few World War II Heroines
  63. Long-Term Investing
  64. Sailing
  65. The Window Box
  66. Philosophy
  67. Toward Helen of Troy
  68. How to Get Rid of Guests at the End of a Dinner Party
  69. American Literature over the Past Three Hundred and Fifty Years
  70. The Origin of “Woman”