My word, it just gets worse and worse doesn't it? Collapsing banks, collapsing countries, massive government cuts, rising debt, inflation and a double dip recession. It's amid all this uncertainty that the already embattled modern man needs the best advice he can get about how to be the best he can.

Keep Calm for Chaps offers the same pearls of life wisdom, inspirational quotes, proverbs and mantras as Keep Calm and Carry On, but especially for males at their wits' end. A pocket bible for today's man.

'Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway' John Wayne

'A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials' Lucius Annaeus Seneca

'When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her' Sacha Guitry

'Rule number one is, don't sweat the small stuff. Rule number two is, it's all small stuff' Robert Eliot

'If you think your boss is stupid, remember: you wouldn't have a job if he was any smarter' Albert A Grant