It would seem "how to" books full of advice have been around for hundreds of years and here might just be the best of best: Ask the Past: Pertinent and Impertinent Advice from Yesteryear, by Elizabeth P. Archibald. Learn how to party like a scholar (1558), how to whiten your teeth (1686), or how to slim down in just fourteen days (1579). Sounds familiar, doesn't it! Quite fun!

Here's a fun book, the kind with short entries I enjoy reading during ads on TV: Learn Something New Every Day: 365 Facts to Fulfill Your Life, by Kee Malesky. (Actually, there are 366 facts as February 29 is included). Well researched (author is a librarian for NPR) and nicely written, I didn't read just one a day!

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