For most of our millennium, the few advice books for women were likely to be religious or moral.

This is the kind of advice books don't give you.

It is one of the most highly regarded career advice books in print.

For another thing, they never come right out and state that this is an advice book on what to do with yourself after you've been retired.

Which just goes to illustrate the limitations of advice books.

If an advice book doesn't empower you, there's no reason to use it.

The advice book, however, was written several years ago, while I was still a bachelor without children.

Just look at the avalanche of advice books for business people the publishing industry produces every year.

More than half the advice books on the best-seller lists are about getting rich.

So, like many wives before me, I ignored a library of advice books and set about improving him.