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2010, Ellen Goodman, Paper Trail: Common Sense in Uncommon Times:
The Rules is a veritable compost heap of do's and (mostly) don't's for a woman—oops, girl—who wants to master the fine art of womanipulation. It's a how-to book: how to make a man desperate to marry a girl
Translations
that gives advice or instruction on a particular topic — see also tutorial
Hebrew: הדרכה(he)f(hadrakhá)(noun—like an adjective when used with another noun in the construct state, which it modifies, e.g. ספרי הדרכה "how-to books"), מעשיm(ma'así) Literally, “practical”
Tibetan: ལམ་སྟོན(lam ston) Literally, “showing the way”, སློབ་ཁྲིད(slob khrid); ཚུལ(tshul)("how to, manner” particle), སྟངས(stangs)("way of" particle) (these two particles are not used alone, but after the task that they describe, e.g. "cooking how-to" is either of ཁ་ལག་བཟོ་ཚུལ or ཁ་ལག་བཟོ་སྟངས)