Never Trust a Calm Dog: And Other Rules of Thumb [Hardcover]

Tom Parker (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 255 pages
• Publisher: Harpercollins; 1st edition (May 1991)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0060552654
• ISBN-13: 978-0060552657
• Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 7.4 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.8 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,383,058 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Tom Parker is an author and illustrator who lives in Ithaca, N.Y., and works for Cornell University. He has written and illustrated Rules of Thumb volumes 1 and 2, In One Day, Never Trust a Calm Dog, and Le Livre du Bon Sens, a French translation which even he can't understand. Trained as a biologist (Earlham College) Parker spent fifteen years as the cover editor and a contributing writer for American Demographics Magazine. His writing and illustrations have appeared in text books, children's books and a long list of other publications including The Wall Street Journal, Audubon, National Wildlife, Glamour Magazine, and The Whole Earth Catalog/CoEvolutionQuarterly. Parker and his books have appeared on Late Night with David Letterman, The Tonight Show, The Today Show and on the CBS Evening News. When he is not collecting rules of thumb, Parker is a flight instructor and flies a 1956 Cessna 180 bush plane. He is currently a contributing writer for MAKE Magazine.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Rules of thumb in codified form, August 13, 2007

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This is a fun reference book containing several hundred rules-of-thumb in a reasonable, usable format. The rules are separated into twenty topic categories arranged along the margins. You can spend hours flipping back and forth exploring the different categories. I learned a lot from exploring this book. Did you know you can use a paper match as a feeler gauge for setting ignition points in an old car? Did you know that you need to have 100 albums in your record collection to effectively avoid getting bored by repetition? Did you know you should never trust a calm dog because they're the ones most likely to bite you?