I, personally, loved reading this book! it is up to date and written for the western world (particularly for condensed places like cities). There are many moments where I would hold in laughter while reading it on the bus on the way to my job, so I resorted to reading it only at home haha I really praise how Amy Alkon backs up quite a bit of her reasoning with history and/or scientific experiments that have been published in other books, which relates to psychology. There are a lot of ideas discussed in the book that I never really thought about because I haven't been put in that position yet, and now I know how to approach it with grace and get what I am trying to say across without any arguments when the situation arrives. As Amy Alkon is strong willed and witty, reading about her examples are very funny! like getting people to stop acting like drunken idiots and trashing your front lawn or public side walk/park by publicly exposing them (running after them with a camera and hanging the photo of them on street light posts around your area to inform anyone else that they could be the next ones in the photo) or putting them on youtube like what a lot of people already do. She has a motif of rudeness that runs through her book, which made the book smooth to read. The whole first few pages are about rudeness and why we are rude. There are some opinions that I question as other books that I have read contradict it, like when it comes to the dating game, but that is related to her experiences and strong will. Over all, it was really funny and informative. It is not an instruction manual of what to do and how to do it, it is more about what we do and why we do it ^_^ I feel I have become a better person by the end of reading it haha