BOOKS

Please note that many of the below mentioned books have been suggested to us. Unfortunately we did have the opportunity to read them all ourselves yet. We can therefore not accept claims on the quality of subject books. However we do hope that it will help you to find what you are looking for.

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• Butling
• Household Management
• Protocol & Etiquette
• Communication and Self Management
• Food & Wine
• Table and Event management
• General Interest
• Literature

Butling

• The Butler 's Guide to clothes care, manage the table, running the home, and other graces, Stanley Ager, 1982
• A Butler 's Life , Christopher Allen, 1997
• The Duties of Servants, Jan Barnes, 1993
• The Rise and Fall of the British Nanny, Jonathan Gathome-Hardy, 1972, ISBN 0-09-9091402
• Not in front of the Servants, Frank Dawes, 1973, ISBN 85340-287-6
• Upstairs and Downstairs, Edward Hayward, 1998, 0-85372-871-2
• Crane's Blue Book of Stationery, Steven L Feinberg, 1989
• The 85 Ways to Tie a Tie, Thomas Fink, 2001
• A Gentleman's Guide to Appearance, Clinton T.,Greenleaf, 2000
• Achieving Excellence in Guest Service, Josephine Ive, 2002, ISBN 1-86250-484-9
• Butlers and Household Managers, Steven Ferry, 2001, ISBN 1-59109-603-6
• The Gentleman, Bernard Roetzel, 1999, ISBN 3-8290-2031-7
• Ties , Avril Wolfman, 1998
• Director's and Officer's Complete Letter Book, J.A. Twinn, 1983
• How to be a Gentleman, John Bridges, 1998
• The Handcrafted Letter, Diane Martin, 2001
• Speeches and Toasts, Ivor Spencer, 1980
• Be the Ultimate Assistant, Bonnie Low-Krame

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Household Managment

• Speed cleaning, Jeff Campbell, 1991, ISBN 0-440-50374-4
• Emily Post on Entertaining, Elizabeth L. Post, 1987
• All about entertaining, Corinth and Mary Sargent
• Tea & Etiquette, taking tea for business and Pleasure, Dorothea Johnson, 2002, ISBN 1-931868-00-X
• Clean & green, Annie Berthold-Bond, 1994, ISBN 1-886101-01-9
• Executive Housekeeping-the business of managing your home, Auren Uris,
• Linen and Lace, Tricia Foley
• Setting Household Standards, Mrs, Starkey, 2000
• Mrs Beetons's Book of Cookery & Household Management
• Home Comforts, Cheryl Mendelson,
• Behind the Domestic Arrangements in Historic Homes, Christina Hardymeant, 1997, 0-7078 0282-2
• Executive Housekeeping, Auren Uris
• The Domestic Circle , Rev. John Thomas, 1878
• Caring for your Family Treasures, Jane S. Long and Richard W. Long
• A Gracious Welcome, Etiquette and Ideas for Entertaining Houseguests, Amy M. Nebens, 2004, ISBN 0-8118-4083-2

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Protocol and Etiquette

• Debrett's new guide to etiquette and modern manners, John Morgan, 1996, SBN 0-7472 -771
• Debrett's correct form, 1999, ISBN 0-7472-6251-9
• Everyday Etiquette, Peggy Post Emily Post's Etiquette, Peggy Post, 1997, ISBN 0-06-270078-2
• Emily Post's Teen Etiquette, Elizabeth L Pettigrew, 1995
• Tiffany's Table Manners for Teens, Walter Hart, 1989
• Charm School , M., Swartz, 1991
• Protocol, Mary Jane Maurer-Mathison, Pauline Innes
• Twenty-first century etiquette, Charlotte Ford, 2001
• Vogue's Book of Etiquette, Milicent Fenwick, 1948
• Protocol, Mary Jane Maurer-Mathison, 1997
• Common Courtesy, Judith Martin, 1985
• Dear Ms. Demeanor - Young person's Etiquette Guide, Mary Milne, 1994
• Complete Guide to Executive Manners, Letitia Baldridge, 1985
• Corporate Event Project Management, William O'Tool, 2002, ISBN 0-471-40240-0
• Business Protocol, David Robinson
• The Global Etiquette Guide to Asia , Dean Foster, 2002, ISBN 0-471-36949-7

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Communication and (self)management

• 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, Stephen R. Covey, ISBN 0-671-70863-5
• Communication, Judith MacFarlane, 1997
• Boundary Power, Mike S. O'Neil and Charles E. Newbold
• When Cultures Collide, Richard D. Lewis, ISBN 1-85788-087-0
• Multicultural Communication, New rules of Etiquette for a changing Society, 1996, ISBN 0-471-11819-2

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Food and Wine

• The Art & Science of Wine, James Halliday & Hugh Johnson, 2000, ISBN 1 85732 4226
• Smaak, Peter Klosse, 1998, ISBN 90-5121-662-9
• The art of Dining, Sara Paston-Williams

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Table- and event management

• Let's set the table, Elizabeth Lounsbery
• The art of the table, Suzanne von Drachenfels
• Entertaining with elegance, Genevieve Antoine Dariaux

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General Interest

• The Natural History of The Rich, Richard Conniff, 2003, ISBN 0-434-00955-5

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Literature

• Portrait in Sepia, Isabel Alliende, 2000
• The Hotel, Jeffery Robinson
• The Remains of the Day, Kazuo Humphry, 1989

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