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Explaining how to restore manners to domestic life, the etiquette expert and author of Miss Manners Rescues Civilization offers advice on how to bring civility back into one’s daily life and into one’s relationships with family, friends, and neighbors. 

Review: Miss Manners books are refreshing in their honesty. Where many current works of “etiquette”, which take modern rudeness and trends, assume they are correct, and only amplify them, Miss Manners has a genuine approach of courtesy. I’d like to place this volume on the shelf of 90% of the people I meet.

The good sense in the “manners” is clear and delightful. Miss Manners deals with genuine social interaction – not the “advertising” that much supposedly social communication is today. It would be a much more pleasant world if, in accordance with Miss Manners directives, people stopped the “public service announcements.”

Nonetheless, for a fan of Judith Martin’s writing such as I am, I’ve noticed that the great wit shown in such previous works as the “Guide to Excruciatingly Correct Behaviour” has declined. This book does not have anything to match the humour of previous ones.

NOTE: This is an original  book from the library gathered by the famous Cambridge Don, computer scientist, food and wine connoisseur, Jack Arnold LANG. Note: Jack founded the Michelin Guide ‘Midsummer House’- Cambridge’s paramount restaurant. This dining experience is hidden amongst the grassy pastures and grazing cattle of Midsummer Common and perched on the banks of the River Cam. The Midsummer House experience is imaginatively curated to delight and amaze, so the surprise set menu changes regularly and is ‘Midsummer’s’ playground to showcase.

In 2008, Jack was one of the co-founders of the Raspberry Pi Foundation, alongside other members of the Department, and acted as the Foundation’s Chair. The project’s original goals were modest: to build and distribute low-cost computers for prospective applicants to our Computer Science degree. Initially the project was a “success disaster”, as Jack would say, as demand far outstripped the low-scale manufacturing plans. Ultimately the Raspberry Pi became the UK’s most successful computer with more than 60 million sold to date. Jack was drawn to the educational possibilities of the Raspberry Pi, its potential uses in emerging economies and the way it could support self-directed learning.