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Give please a chance
\"In this illustrated book written by bestselling authors Bill O'Reilly and James Patterson, a collection of artists each contribute a piece of art demonstrating why the word 'please' makes all the difference in the world\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Taking tea with Frau von Papen
Yet with all the elegance and charm of th parks and streets nothing could hide the fact that every morning, as we set out from our lodgings, there would be a gaggle of hungry small children at the gate waiting for the bread rolls which my mother would take from the breakfast table to hand out. Middle class etiquette was still observed and my mother was often invited out for coffee. After reading law at Kings College London he worked in the executor and trustee department of a bank until retiring in Exeter where he wrote a history of the local trade unions
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Manners with technology
\"A young monster who takes her sister's tablet computer without asking gets a lesson in online etiquette and appropriate use of electronics\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Yucky Mucky Manners
Prize-winning Sam Lloyd's large format picture-story book contains a feast of extravagantly bold and comic illustrations.
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Would it kill you to stop doing that? : a modern guide to manners
\"We all know bad manners when we see them,\" author Henry Alford observes. But what do good manners look like in our day and age? When someone answers their cell phone in the middle of dining with you, or you enter a post-apocalyptic public restroom, the long-revered wisdom of Emily Post can seem downright prehistoric. So Alford studies how things might look if people were on their best behavior more often. He travels to Japan to observe its collective politesse. He interviews etiquette experts likely (Judith Martin, Tim Gunn) and unlikely (a former prisoner, an army sergeant). He volunteers as a tour guide to foreigners visiting New York City in order to study cultural divides. He also finds time to teach Miss Manners how to steal a cab, and designates the World's Most Annoying Bride. Ultimately, by tackling etiquette questions of our age, he presents a seriously entertaining book about grace, civility, and how we can simply treat each other better.--From publisher description.
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Informalization
\"This book shows that manners, far from being superficial adornments of behaviour, are thoroughly interwoven with our personalities and the structures of our societies. The concept of 'informalization' provides both an invaluable addition to Norbert Elias's theory of civilizing processes and a most useful tool for understanding how changes in manners are related to shifts in the balances of power between social classes, sexes, and generations\" - Johan Goudsblom, University of Amsterdam \"Cas Wouters stakes out a powerful theory about changes in human relationships in the Western world over the past twelve decades... essential reading for anyone interested in the contemporary human condition.\" - Theory and Society \"It is written in clear, unequivocal language, abounds with detail and replaces many normative statements about the alienating state of contemporary, capitalist, mass-consumption-oriented bureaucracy... A nuanced, subtle and theoretically informed analysis of the sometimes quite chaotic civilising process of the last century' - Figurations This original book explains the sweeping changes to twentieth-century regimes of manners and self. Broad in scope and deep in analytic reach, it provides a wealth of empirical evidence to demonstrate how changes in the code of manners and emotions in four countries (Germany, Netherlands, England and the US) have undergone increasing informalization. From the growing taboo toward the displays of superiority and inferiority and diminishing social and psychicogical distance between people, it reveals an 'emancipation of emotions' and the new representation of emotion at the centre of personality. This thought-provoking book traces: The increasing permissiveness in public and private manners, such as introductions, the use of personal pronouns, social kissing, dancing, and dating. The ascent and
integration of a wide variety of groups - including the working classes, women, youth and immigrants - and the sweeping changes this has imposed on relations of social inferiority and superiority. Shifts in self-regulation that require manners to seem 'natural', at ease and authentic. Rising external social constraints towards being reflexive, showing presence of mind, considerateness, role-taking, and the ability to tolerate and control conflicts. Growing interdependence and social integration, declining power differences and the diminishing social and psychic distance between people. Continuing the analysis of Sex and Manners (SAGE, 2004), this book is a dazzling work of historical sociology.
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Emily Post's etiquette : manners for a new world
Addresses such contemporary issues as Facebook etiquette, e-mail and texting, and covering tattoos and piercings before interviews, as well as such classic conundrums as names and titles, official forms of address, and dress codes.
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WED 026 ‘creating a neurological exam template for acute medical admissions’
IntroductionThere is sub optimal documentation of neurological exam findings in patient’s hospital records. Documented Neurological findings are often incomplete, omitted or scattered in various places in the clinical notes. This is important in the setting of acute neurological emergencies, where accurate documentation is vital in gauging potential deterioration/improvement in a patient’s condition.MethodA chart review was performed on 80 patients referred to the Neurology consult service in St James’s Hospital between January-February 2018. All aspects of the Neurological exam findings documented in these charts were noted. A gold standard template for accurate recording of Neurological exam findings was then created and circulated to all Hospital NCHD’s. A repeat chart review was performed on 80 patients referred to Neurology Consults between March-May 2018 (following the circulation of this template) and results were compared.DiscussionRecord keeping varied according to different clinical parameters, being lowest for speech at just over 20% and highest for muscle power at over 70%. Globally there was a small but significant improvement (P Value<0.001) in the documentation rates of neurological exam parameters following circulation of the template. We plan to apply this template to all acute medical admissions in St James’s Hospital.
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