Take a wonderfully crazed excursion into the demented heart of a tropical paradise—a world of cargo cults, cannibals, mad scientists, ninjas, and talking fruit bats. Our bumbling hero is Tucker Case, a hopeless geek trapped in a cool guy's body, who makes a living as a pilot for the Mary Jean Cosmetics Corporation. But when he demolishes his boss...more
A provocative work that explores the evolution of emotions and personal relationships through diverse cultures and time. "An intellectually dazzling view of our past and future."--Time magazine
A second edition of the nutrition classic takes a hard look at the average American's diet and the health problems it can cause, describes the methods used in raising and slaughtering animals for our meat and poultry, and suggests healthful alternatives. Reprint.
"Somewhere," muses Noah Calhoun, while sitting on his porch in the moonight, "there were people making love." The Notebook, a Southern-fried story of love-lost-and-found-again, revolves around a single time-honored romantic dilemma: will beautiful Allison Nelson stay with Mr. Respectability (to whom she happens to be engaged), or will she choose No...more
Absurdist comic author Christopher Moore returns to the theme of vampirism (BLOODSUCKING FIENDS) in this 2007 outing. His teenage slacker hero, Tommy, is inducted into the sunless world of the undead by his acerbic girlfriend Jody, and though the sex is supernaturally good and the nightlife is freaky and fun, there are a lot of drawbacks to being a...more
Between your full-length mirror and high-school biology class, you probably think you know a lot about the human body. While it's true that we live in an age when we're as obsessed with our bodies as we are with celebrity hairstyles, the reality is that most of us know very little about what chugs, churns, and thumps throughout this miraculous, sci...more
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