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If you're prepared to weather bad jokes about working in your tighty-whities and freelancing in your frillies, this book will provide useful advice for working at home--avoiding the online scams being peddled, for example, and making sure the at-home lifestyle is a good fit for you. According to the husband-and-wife authors, there are up to 26 million Americans, mainly in professional, sales and technical jobs, who "e-work" and "create a better balance between work and life." That number will probably grow, thanks to the recession.