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Based on her experiences as a stripper in a city she calls Laurelton—a southeastern city renowned for its strip clubs—anthropologist Katherine Frank provides a fascinating insider’s account of the personal and cultural fantasies motivating male heterosexual strip club "regulars." Given...

Are you scared? Are you afraid of public speaking, heights, flying, change, or any number of inexplicable things? You're not alone. The level of fear in this country has never been higher than it is right now. But it isn't run-through-the-streets-screaming fear. It's not terror. Rather, this new...

An affectionate look at the strange, charming, tortured and often nonsensical English, known as Japlish. On a pencil-case - "Spanking! By the Sea!" Outside an adult video shop in Tokyo - "IF EASY TAKE A FENCE PLEASE DISPER" The owners’ manual of a Japanese motorcycle recommends...

Here Simon Cawford takes a candid look at how addictive our technology has actually become. Have you become a prisoner of technology ? Can you survive a week without your phone? Does your iPad or tablet mean more to you than family or friends? Are you constantly texting or e mailing? Is...

On a sunny morning in June, the dean of St Swithan’s Hospital Medical School is struggling to avoid hypocrisy as he writes the obituary for his fearsome sparring partner, Sir Lancelot Spratt. Yet far from being a funereal and moribund tale, Doctor on the Brain is a fast-moving, hilarious comedy...

(This guide is also available in the bundle "The Collected BABU Guides: Volume One") Has this happened to you? You run your nation’s “intelligence” office, or it’s “security” office. You’re a spy. You do well, and you start gathering intelligence on the citizens of...

Biff America is a wonderfully funny mix of Andy Rooney and Garrison Keillor.From low-flow toilets to prostate pride, knee surgery to avalanche fatalities, gay marriage to schoolyard bullies, Biff America poignantly writes what the American people need to know. Through it all, Biff America has...

For those wondering how they came to be, why there's something rather than nothing and why an infinite number of birds would have to be Brazilian birds, ex-priest Frånk Non's opus, "Am: A Hare-brained Assault on the Godhead from the Portals of Existence to the Foothills of Infinity," offers theories...

There are thousands of wives' tales we hear at random times, especially when we are young, and we tend to believe them as adults, and pass them on again to children... an endless cycle of false facts being passed through generations.  This book puts a stop to this! We know people offer...

A comedy dictionary of new and bizarre future words. About the Author A very multi-talented man, Jay has been writing since a very young age. In addition to being a poet, painter, wordsmith and actor, he enjoys stock market technical analysis and currently works for a premier mortgage...

It’s exhausting, being Irish. The constant self-flagellation is enough to put anybody off their breakfast. Why are we so hard on ourselves? Is it the post-colonial overhang following centuries of oppression at the hands of a litany of foreign invaders? Or is it collective guilt for sending Westlife...

The first Karen Finley book to be published since 2006, this collection of the first ten years of the millennium shows an artist engaged in the deepest political and cultural issues of her time. Kathleen Hanna, the former lead singer of Bikini Kill and Le Tigre, is known widely to a generation...

This is a thin book on a large subject. A headbook as a handbook. This How To book is a wild compilation of silly scientific studies and ridiculous expert opinion trying to help the general reader to find him or her self. Or not. With many wondrous illustrations.   It's...

Men are ruled by their peckers, and yet, the role of the penis in human history (and also herstory) has been greatly underrated and understudied. There may be a hundred biographies and ten million words written about the life of a President or a king, and nothing at all about the pecker that ruled...