Between a bottle of Epsom salts or a ten-year-old cognac, which would you choose? Would you prefer to spend your holidays with an eighty-year-old leper or with Demi Moore? Do you prefer to be sprayed with wild red insects or share a bed with Claudia Schiffer?

From the famous author of "The Name of the Rose," this is an astonishing volume of advice that offers the right answers to these and many other important questions. Tackling topics as diverse as the coffee maker from hell, airplane food, how not to use a mobile phone, and recognizing pornography films, Umberto Eco guides us with all his usual wit and brilliance through the complexities of the modern world.

• Pages: 240
• Dimensions: 13x13cm