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Part visual reference, part tongue-in-cheek survival manual, this small, sturdy book gathers hundreds of step-by-step diagrams borrowed from old instruction manuals, how-to volumes, and product labels. Each picture explains a task with little more than a few arrows and a handful of words, covering far more ground than ordinary common sense does, from practical everyday skills to plenty of things few readers will ever need to learn.

The book shows how to handle chopsticks, breakdance, knot a garbage bag, put a diaper on a baby, and parallel park. Other lessons teach the proper way to perform a cartwheel, floss, drive a nail with a hammer, and cut a loaf of bread. It also settles the question of whether you are walking correctly.

Organized into chapters on manners and grooming, home and family, health and safety, sports and exercise, and science and the wider world, this pocket-sized guide makes the case that it is the only practical handbook a reader will need.