How to Behave: A Guide to Modern Manners for the Socially Challenged

Is there any polite way to “shush” a chatty person at the movies? Should roller bladers be passed on the left side or the right side? When is it unacceptable to answer your cell phone? And why doesn’t anyone in your grocery store seem to understand the basic rules of shopping cart navigation and right-of-way?

If you’ve ever pondered these kinds of questions, How to Behave is the book you’ve been waiting for: a hip, irreverent, but entirely practical guide to proper behavior in the twenty-first century. Here are dozens of fascinating skills that Emily Post wouldn’t even think to mention—like the best ways to:

• Share elbow space on an airplane armrest
• Contend with road rage
• Position yourself when boarding a crowded elevator
• Observe basic e-mail etiquette
• Speak on a cell phone without enraging others . . . plus dozens of other essential survival techniques.

Much more than a simple etiquette book, How to Behave is a real-life guide to living in the real world.

Reviews

Tiger taps into the varied interpersonal crises of contemporary culture and schools you on how to handle them with as much grace as possible, modern-day Miss Manners style. Every single person in this country perpetrates some combination of the subtle atrocities she details. If you think you don’t, then this book will help you cope with the jerks who do.” —New York Daily News

Even a blind squirrel finds a nut now and again. And sometimes among the little advice books, there’s one that actually has useful advice. ‘How to Behave: A Guide to Modern Manners for the Socially Challenged’ is one of those good ones.” —Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Here’s a book that should be on everyone’s shelf.” —Arizona Daily Star

Tiger readies us to meet the mooncalves with an army of retorts and reactions that are often helpful, intermittently clever, and unfailingly amusing….How to Behave is a reassuring read for those who believe they’re the only ones driven to madness by the incivility of others.” —Washington City Paper

…it’s not the usual Emily Post rules (like we really care which bloomin’ fork we use at a fancy scoff). No, this is geared more to everyday situations such as subway seating, road-rage survival, crowded-elevator positioning, movie-theatre behaviour and shopping cart navigation. It’s well-written, hip and cute, but it really does offer a lot of sensible advice on how to comport yourself in countless different situations.” —Toronto Sun

Move over, Emily Post: Caroline Tiger’s new book, How to Behave (Quirk Books; $12.95), addresses very millennial problems like Competitive Taxi Hailing, Confronting the Mass Transit Sneezer/Cougher, and Yoga Class Etiquette…” —New York Magazine – “Best Bets”

These quick-witted new reference books reinterpret etiquette for modern society…This witty exposition on 21st-century decorum addresses sticky wickets such as how to confront the impostor in the express lane. “—Time Out New York

This book is refreshingly light, offering up a great range of advice in a very humorous kind of way. I always wondered who got right-of-way with their shopping cart in the supermarket aisle, and as Caroline Tiger points out…” —MSN

Mini Manners—No room in your Birkin for an etiquetter tome? Never fear, two new books on 21st-century comportment are here…Tiger’s book guides us through the most trying of contemporary situations, from obnoxious public cellphone use to winner-take-all shopping…” —Andrew Sessa, Town & Country

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How To Behave: Dating & Sex

Is it ever okay to “embellish” your dating profile? What’s the best way to deal with close-talkers? How can you handle a date who shows too much PDA? Discover the answers to these and other burning questions in Caroline Tiger’s guide to modern love, How to Behave: Dating and Sex. You’ll learn the proper etiquette for:

• Ditching your date with aplomb
• Accepting rejection gracefully
• Avoiding scratchy stubble face-burn
• Negotiating “ex sex”

With more than 60 scenarios that run the gamut from flirting to first date etiquette to sex, this refreshingly new take on social manners deals with the real-life etiquette questions everyone wonders about . . . but has been afraid to ask.

Reviews

Tiger is comprehensive in her quest to educate daters. She’s not afraid to broach any subject,… Tiger’s book is helpful, wide-ranging and an asset to those trying to navigate the modern world of love.” —McClatchy Tribune

Of the scores of books that come to the Guy Page, only a few really hit the mark with good advice. “How to Behave: Dating and Sex” (Quirk Books, $14.95) is one such book.”—”The Guy Page”, Chicago Tribune

Baby brush up on your dating game! … It’s a scary world out there, but with Tiger’s help, you could be awash in red roses and chocolates this time next year. Grade: A-” —Philadelphia magazine

Clever and saucy…” —The Financial Post, Canada

In response to a dating world that’s too often approached with the expectation of failure, Caroline Tiger’s How to Behave stitches the humour back into disaster, the excitement back into the unexpected and the gosh-darn hilarity into our ridiculous, yet adorable, idiosyncrasies.” —Filly.ca, “the chick website”

Wittily written and a quick read…you’ll find information other authors shy away from.”—The Dating Goddess