Informationen zum Autor Tom Parker is an author and illustrator who has written three volumes of Rules of Thumb ! which The Wall Street Journal called a "brilliantly successful sample of our hidden intellectual resource." He is an IT specialist at Cornell University! a contributing writer for Make magazine! and a flight instructor. He lives in Ithaca! New York. Klappentext A mix of folk wisdom! common sense! shared experience! and the advice of experts! this compendium contains 1!000 general principles that apply to every facet of life. Collected by Parker for over 25 years! these rules are practical! quirky! and as entertaining to read as they are relevant to the reader. Zusammenfassung There's a rule of thumb for just about every subject imaginable - money, marriage, cooking, health, weather, cars, gardening, restaurants, travel. This is the priceless knowledge that's accumulated not from reading, but from living. Not sure how to choose a puppy? Pick one whose tail wags in sync with its walk - a sign of calmness.

Autorentext
Tom Parker is an author and illustrator who has written three volumes of Rules of Thumb, which The Wall Street Journal called a "brilliantly successful sample of our hidden intellectual resource." He is an IT specialist at Cornell University, a contributing writer for Make magazine, and a flight instructor. He lives in Ithaca, New York.

Klappentext

A mix of folk wisdom, common sense, shared experience, and the advice of experts, this compendium contains 1,000 general principles that apply to every facet of life. Collected by Parker for over 25 years, these rules are practical, quirky, and as entertaining to read as they are relevant to the reader.

Zusammenfassung
There's a rule of thumb for just about every subject imaginable - money, marriage, cooking, health, weather, cars, gardening, restaurants, travel. This is the priceless knowledge that's accumulated not from reading, but from living. Not sure how to choose a puppy? Pick one whose tail wags in sync with its walk - a sign of calmness.