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Cambridge : Cambridge University, 1994

ISBN 0-521-31759-2

000025694

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Contents // Thanks vii Notes to the user 2 // People and personalities // 1 Doodles 6 // 2 Money is the only home 10 // 3 Shielding Brooke 14 // Food and drink // 4 The good picnic guide 18 // 5 Down and Out in Paris and London 22 // 6 A family lunch in Beirut 26 // Houses and safety at home // 7 House for sale 30 // 8 Burgled seven times 36 // 9 Sissinghurst Castle 40 // Jobs and employment // 10 24 hours in the life of the City 44 // 11 How to write a winning résumé 48 // 12 All Greek to me 52 // Shopping, consumer affairs, advertising // 13 Shopping basket psychology 56 // 14 Mr Hornby’s casebook 60 // 15 Commercial break 64 // Travel // 16 This way for suite dreams 72 // 17 Clearing customs 76 // 18 Getting China cracked 80 // Wildlife and the environment // 19 Thecapybara 84 // 20 Savethe jungle-save the world 88 // 21 Beware the dirty seas 92 // Medicine and physical condition // 22 The sword that can heal 96 // 23 How to live to be a hundred 100 // 24 How to help the hard of hearing 104 // Transport // 25 Sorry sir, sorry, sorry 108 // 26 Go steady on the gas! 114 // 27 The Trans-Siberian Express 120 // The arts and leisure activities // 28 On show 124 // 29 Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom 130 // 30 An away win 136 // The media // 31 Should the Press be human? 140 // 32 Pregnant Di still wants divorce! 144 // 33 How do you feel? 150 // Formal and informal education // 34 Childhood: pathways of discovery 154 // 35 Village voice 158 // 36 Boys are teachers’pets

162 // Taste, fashion and design // 37 Good taste, bad taste 166 // 38 Shot at dawn 172 // 39 Absolute musts 176 // Legal systems, law enforcement, crime // 40 Trials and errors 182 // 41 Arresting scenes in Bombay 188 // 42 Streetwise 194 // Racism, ageism, right or wrong // 43 When a sense of nationhood goes off the rails... // 44 Lucy Rowan’s mother 204 // 45 Looking on the bright side 208 // 200 // Acknowledgements 212