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Dating Tips For Dummies
Joy Browne So you've had a few nightmare dates in your
life? Dating can be great, or it can be the absolute pits. With a
little help from Dating For Dummies, or as some people call
it Dating "tips" for dummies, discover how to turn
what could be a disastrous date into a good time (and a fabulous
relationship). Author Dr. Joy Browne guides, "tips", you through preparing for
your first date to going on the date itself to creating a productive
and long-term relationship.
 
Dating For Dummies
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From the Publisher |
| Say good-bye to clammy hands, stammering, and
butterflies in your stomach! This essential companion for singles
escorts you through the intriguing -- and sometimes intimidating
-- world of dating and relationships. Through sound advice and
thoughtful tips, you discover how to get more satisfaction from
your dating life. Just trade in those awful pickup lines -- for
Dating For Dummies! |
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Synopsis |
| So you've had a few nightmare dates in your
life? Dating can be great, or it can be the absolute pits. With a
little help from Dating For Dummies, discover how to turn
what could be a disastrous date into a good time (and a fabulous
relationship). Author Dr. Joy Browne -- licensed clinical
psychologist, best-selling author, and recipient of the Best
Female Talk Show Host for 1997 award -- guides you through
preparing for your first date to going on the date itself to
creating a productive and long-term relationship.
With
Dating For Dummies, you discover
ways to increase your confidence, polish your social skills,
figure out what you want, and find out where the best places are
to meet your future mate.
Full of essential tips and dating wisdom,
Dating For Dummies covers everything a single person in search
of a date should know, including
- Selecting the right place for your first date
- Finding the best places to meet people
- Discovering how to protect yourself and
understanding the myths and facts about date rape
- Ditching your date (politely) and exiting
with style
- Finding dating tips for single parents,
seniors, or those involved in office romances and long-distance
relationships
- Discovering ways to make every day like
Valentine's day
With
Dating For Dummies, you have everything you need to make
the dating game work for you! |
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From The Critics |
Library Journal
While you wouldn't want to be caught dead reading either of these
titles on the subway, they offer a study in contrasts. Baber and
Spitznagel seem to have set out to produce a humorous look at
dating and mating, but they deliver a boorish effort that will
confirm a lot of women's worst fears about male dating behavior.
While some might think that the "humor book" caveat makes
everything okay, the overall Beavis-and-Butthead approach to the
subject, which is, less dating and more sex in these authors'
minds provides little in the laughs department. Men and women
should avoid this book like a blind date with a cold sore, and
libraries can pass.
By contrast and in keeping with the excellent
For Dummies treatment of complicated subjects, psychologist
Browne's book offers a professional, insightful, and very readable
examination of dating. Browne covers every aspect of the basic
mechanics of dating in the 1990s, from making your own personal
inventory to help you discover who you are and what you want, to
finding appropriate people to date, to actually conducting dates
at various stages of relationship development. Nothing seems to be
missed by Browne: she tackles breaking up, sex, and even the
darker sides of dating, like rape and stalking. This excellent
book's biggest drawback for libraries is its numerous "work form"
sections, an invitation to certain patrons to make it their own.
But
Dating for Dummies is worth the risk; recommended for all
public libraries
. David M. Turkalo, Suffolk Univ. Law Sch.
Lib, Boston. |
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