How To Be Cool

How To Be CoolCool can't be taught. That's the received wisdom, yet this wry, entertaining compendium by Thomas W. Hodgkinson (author of the indispensable How to Sound Cultured) shows that, on the contrary, anyone can increase their cool quotient by learning from the masters and the methods of the past. It's never an easy journey. But to set yourself on the path to true cool, you'll need this invaluable roadmap.

From an early age

a young autistic boy lives on his parents' farm among the salt flats

and watch a master at work

Two decades in the writing

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teas and more

Mind Your Body shows you how

Presented in alphabetical order

She can "throw" her voice so it seems to come from anywhere

who makes her feel free for the first time: free to doubt

Maren races against the clock and around the country from palatial estates with twisted labyrinths to famous cathedrals with booby-trapped subterranean crypts to stay ahead of the enemy and find a cure

-carried their young in their mouths like jawfish do