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Tooth Imprints On a Corn Dog

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By: Mark Leyner

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Tooth Imprints On a Corn Dog

Author of Et Tu, Babe and My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist Extra-Special Bonus:

By: Mark Leyner

A fiendishly innovative young writer ups the ante on his cult classics Et Tu, Babe and My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist with a book so funny that it ought to be a controlled substance. "With his pumped-up prose and steroidal satire . . . You could call him the Quentin Tarantino of cult fiction."--Newsweek.

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0307766047

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9780307766045

Et Tu, Babe

By: Mark Leyner

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Et Tu, Babe

By: Mark Leyner

In this fiendishly original new novel, Mark Leyner is a leather-blazer-wearing, Piranha 793-driving, narcotic-guzzling monster who has potential rivals eliminated by his bionically enhanced bodyguards, has his internal organs tattooed, and eavesdrops on the erotic fantasies of Victoria's Secret models -- which naturally revolve around him. Leyner's jet-propelled roller derby through the cultures of celebrity, cyberpunk, and rabid egotism is exhilaratingly bizarre, exhaustingly funny -- and you'd better hope it's just fiction.

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Vintage

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0307801888

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9780307801883

A Shimmering, Serrated Monster!

The Mark Leyner Reader

By: Mark Leyner

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A Shimmering, Serrated Monster!

The Mark Leyner Reader

By: Mark Leyner

An all-access ticket to the celebrated and wholly original mind of Mark Leyner, “one of the smartest and funniest humans since Aristophanes” (Jay McInerney) Praised as “chaotic and vibrant” (Charles Yu), “visionary” (Sam Lipsyte), and “supremely original” (John Cusack), the work of Mark Leyner has inspired a generation of contemporary novelists and has long deserved its place of recognition among the literary superstars of the seismic postmodernism-influenced movement of the early 21st century. A Shimmering, Serrated Monster!: The Mark Leyner Reader samples the staggering highlights from Leyner’s extraordinary career in all of its bizarre and infatuating glory, with excerpts spanning from his groundbreaking early novels My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist (1990) and Et Tu, Babe (1992) to his modern masterpieces The Sugar-Frosted Nutsack (2012) and The Last Orgy of the Divine Hermit (2021). Appreciations from modern masters introduce each novel and the book includes original pieces in Leyner’s irrepressible voice, including a timeline (“The Story So Far”) and a new Afterword (“The Highlighted Passages”). This comprehensive volume is the perfect entry point for readers attracted to mind-expanding prose, and a bouquet of delights for those who have loved any of his past works.

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Little, Brown

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031659167X

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9780316591676

The Sugar Frosted Nutsack

By: Mark Leyner

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The Sugar Frosted Nutsack

By: Mark Leyner

Modern gods and goddesses wreak havoc on an unemployed butcher from New Jersey.

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0316192791

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My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist

A novel

By: Mark Leyner

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My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist

A novel

By: Mark Leyner

Welcome to Mark Leyner's America, where you can order gallium arsenide sushi at a roadside diner, get loaded on a cocktail of growth hormones and anabolic steroids, and support your habit by appearing on TV game shows. Welcome to a wildly post-Einsteinian fictional universe where the locals include a speech pathologist with a waterbug fetish, a kamikaze airline pilot, and the lead singer for Brazil's most notoriously nihilistic samba band.

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Vintage

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0307819612

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9780307819611

Why Do Men Have Nipples?

Hundreds of Questions You'd Only Ask a Doctor After Your Third Martini

By: Mark Leyner,Billy Goldberg, M.D.

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Why Do Men Have Nipples?

Hundreds of Questions You'd Only Ask a Doctor After Your Third Martini

By: Mark Leyner,Billy Goldberg, M.D.

Is There a Doctor in the House? Say you’re at a party. You’ve had a martini or three, and you mingle through the crowd, wondering how long you need to stay before going out for pizza. Suddenly you’re introduced to someone new, Dr. Nice Tomeetya. You forget the pizza. Now is the perfect time to bring up all those strange questions you’d like to ask during an office visit with your own doctor but haven’t had the guts (or more likely the time) to do so. You’re filled with liquid courage . . . now is your chance! If you’ve ever wanted to ask a doctor . . . •How do people in wheelchairs have sex? •Why do I get a killer headache when I suck down my milkshake too fast? •Can I lose my contact lens inside my head forever? •Why does asparagus make my pee smell? •Why do old people grow hair on their ears? •Is the old adage “beer before liquor, never sicker, liquor before beer . . .” really true? . . . then Why Do Men Have Nipples? is the book for you. Compiled by Billy Goldberg, an emergency medicine physician, and Mark Leyner, bestselling author and well-known satirist, Why Do Men Have Nipples? offers real factual and really funny answers to some of the big questions about the oddities of our bodies.

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Crown Archetype

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0307337049

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9780307337047

Why Do Men Fall Asleep After Sex?

More Questions You'd Only Ask a Doctor After Your Third Whiskey Sour

By: Mark Leyner,Billy Goldberg, M.D.

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Why Do Men Fall Asleep After Sex?

More Questions You'd Only Ask a Doctor After Your Third Whiskey Sour

By: Mark Leyner,Billy Goldberg, M.D.

The Doctor Is In . . . Again! Did the mega-bestselling Why Do Men Have Nipples? exhaust your curiosity about stuff odd, icky, kinky, noxious, libidinous, or just plain embarrassing? No, you say? Well, good, because the doctor and his able-bodied buddy are in! Again! Mark Leyner and Billy Goldberg, M.D., now take on the differences between the sexes—those burning questions like Why doesn’t my husband ever listen? or Why does my wife ALWAYS have to pee? And of course, Why do men fall asleep after sex?, plus plenty of others to keep you fully informed. Full of smart and funny answers to an onslaught of new questions, all in a do-ask-we’ll-tell spirit that entertain and teaches you something at the same time, Why Do Men Fall Asleep After Sex? offers the real lowdown on everything everyone wants to know about all things anatomical, medical, sexual, nutritional, animal, and mineral, but would only ask a physician after a few too many, like: • Why do you have a “bionic” sense of smell when you’re pregnant? • Does peeing in the shower cure athlete’s foot? • Is a dog’s mouth clean? • Can you breastfeed with fake boobs? • Does thumb sucking cause buckteeth? • Do your eyebrows grow back if shaved? Bigger, funnier, and better than ever, Why Do Men Fall Asleep After Sex? proves that in the battle of the sexes, as in most things, a little Q&A is a safe, effective, minimally invasive remedy. Also available as an eBook

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0307352714

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9780307352712

Et Tu, Babe

By: Mark Leyner

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Et Tu, Babe

By: Mark Leyner

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0307801888

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Last Orgy of the Divine Hermit

By: Mark Leyner

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Last Orgy of the Divine Hermit

By: Mark Leyner

A brilliant and utterly original new novel from Mark Leyner about a father and his intense and devout relationship with his daughter and with alcohol. An anthropologist and his daughter travel to Kermunkachunk, the capitol of Chalazia, to conduct research for an ethnography on the Chalazian Mafia Faction (a splinter group of the Chalazian Children's Theater). The book takes place over the course of a night at the Bar Pulpo, Kermunkachunk's #1 spoken-word karaoke bar, where conversations are actually being read from multiple karaoke screens arrayed around the barroom. Moreover, it's Thursday, "Father/Daughter Nite," when the bar is frequented by actual fathers and daughters as well as couples cosplaying fathers and daughters. Last Orgy of the Divine Hermit is a book about the deep pleasures of reading and drinking, the tumultuous reign of a cabal of mystic mobsters, and, of course, the transcendent love of a father for his daughter.

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Little, Brown

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0316560480

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9780316560481

Let's Play Doctor

The Instant Guide to Walking, Talking, and Probing Like a Real M.D.

By: Mark Leyner,Billy Goldberg

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Let's Play Doctor

The Instant Guide to Walking, Talking, and Probing Like a Real M.D.

By: Mark Leyner,Billy Goldberg

The authors of the bestselling series that includes "Why Do Men Have Nipples?" and "Why Do Men Fall Asleep After Sex?" are back with a hilarious look at what it takes to look, act, and talk like a real doctor.

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Three Rivers Press (CA)

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030734598X

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9780307345981

I Smell Esther Williams

By: Mark Leyner

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I Smell Esther Williams

By: Mark Leyner

A community theater's production of Special Yearnings triggers a string of underground nuclear explosions from St. Louis to Worcester, Massachusetts. A man frantically swats at the blaze that his girlfriend has ignited in his trousers, while her family tries to figure out whether his agonized sign language means "Under the Volcano" or "No Time for Sergeants." Charo, Marianne Faithfull, and Napoleon's sister swap glittering witticisms and pornographic come-ons with languid aesthetes and unhinged suburbanites. Such scenarios are just par for the course in this gloriously disorienting volume by Mark Leyner, author of My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist and Et Tu, Babe, and a writer who plays the English language the way Jimi Hendrix played the guitar: at blinding speed, dangerous volume, and with a perfect mixture of lyricism and sheer menace.

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Vintage

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0307819604

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Tooth Imprints On a Corn Dog

Author of Et Tu, Babe and My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist Extra-Special Bonus:

By: Mark Leyner

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Tooth Imprints On a Corn Dog

Author of Et Tu, Babe and My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist Extra-Special Bonus:

By: Mark Leyner

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0307766047

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Last Orgy of the Divine Hermit

By: Mark Leyner

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Last Orgy of the Divine Hermit

By: Mark Leyner

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I Smell Esther Williams

By: Mark Leyner

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0679750452

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My Life as an Artificial Creative Intelligence

By: Mark Amerika

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My Life as an Artificial Creative Intelligence

By: Mark Amerika

A series of intellectual provocations that investigate the creative process across the human-nonhuman spectrum. Is it possible that creative artists have more in common with machines than we might think? Employing an improvisational call-and-response writing performance coauthored with an AI text generator, remix artist and scholar Mark Amerika, interrogates how his own "psychic automatism" is itself a nonhuman function strategically designed to reveal the poetic attributes of programmable worlds still unimagined. Through a series of intellectual provocations that investigate the creative process across the human-nonhuman spectrum, Amerika critically reflects on whether creativity itself is, at root, a nonhuman information behavior that emerges from an onto-operational presence experiencing an otherworldly aesthetic sensibility. Amerika engages with his cyberpunk imagination to simultaneously embrace and problematize human-machine collaborations. He draws from jazz performance, beatnik poetry, Buddhist thought, and surrealism to suggest that his own artificial creative intelligence operates as a finely tuned remix engine continuously training itself to build on the history of avant-garde art and writing. Playful and provocative, My Life as an Artificial Creative Intelligence flips the script on contemporary AI research that attempts to build systems that perform more like humans, instead self-reflexively making a very nontraditional argument about AI's impact on society and its relationship to the cosmos.

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Stanford University Press

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1503631710

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9781503631717

Teaching Multiwriting

Researching and Composing with Multiple Genres, Media, Disciplines, and Cultures

By: Robert L. Davis,Mark F Shadle

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Teaching Multiwriting

Researching and Composing with Multiple Genres, Media, Disciplines, and Cultures

By: Robert L. Davis,Mark F Shadle

Formulaic ways to train students in composition and rhetoric are no longer effective, say authors Robert L. Davis and Mark F. Shadle. Scholar-teachers must instead reinvent the field from the inside. Teaching Multiwriting: Researching and Composing with Multiple Genres, Media, Disciplines, and Cultures presents just such a reinvention with multiwriting, an alternative, open approach to composition. Seeking to open the minds of both writers and readers to new understandings, the authors argue for the supplanting of the outdated research paper assignment with research projects that use multiple forms to explore questions that cannot be fully answered. This innovative volume, geared to composition teachers at all levels, includes sixteen helpful illustrations and provides classroom exercises and projects for each chapter.

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SIU Press

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0809387654

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Hard Rock Epic

Western Miners and the Industrial Revolution, 1860-1910

By: Mark Wyman

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Hard Rock Epic

Western Miners and the Industrial Revolution, 1860-1910

By: Mark Wyman

The most comprehensive and interpretive study of the mining industry available to historians. . . . It is a book that will stand the test of time." -W. Turrentine Jackson, Technology and Culture "Mark Wyman's sympathetic account of the Western metal miners includes graphic details of their bitter struggle for unpaid wages, for industrial safety legislation, for corporate liability in the event of mine accidents and for workmen's compensation. . . . Throughout the book one finds the compassion and understanding that mark works in the best tradition of historical scholarship." -Milton Cantor, The Nation "Wyman has looked at miners in the larger context of American industrialization during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In doing so, he has produced a stimulating, informative account of how this group of workingmen responded to changes in the work place brought on by changes in technology, corporate capitalism, and the shifting labor forces of the day." -James E. Fell, Jr., Pacific Northwest Quarterly "Wyman's compassionate and thoughtful study is an important contribution to the social history of western mining. Hard Rock Epic is also a significant addition to the literature on the process of industrialization. It amply demonstrates that no group in the American West was so deeply affected by the Industrial Revolution as the hard rock miners." -Jeffrey K. Stine, The Midwest Review "Hard Rock Epic is both a descriptive and analytical study of the impact of technology on the life of metalliferous miners of the West. It is thoroughly researched, drawing heavily upon primary sources and the most relevant recent scholarship concerning the hardrock men. The study is judicious and balanced. . . . [and] fits well into the growing body of scholarship on Western metal mining. Historians of labor and the American West will find this volume instructive and definite contribution to their fields of study." -George C. Suggs, Jr., The American Historical Review This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1979. "The most comprehensive and interpretive study of the mining industry available to historians. . . . It is a book that will stand the test of time." -W. Turrentine Jackson, Technology and Culture "Mark Wyman's sympathetic account of the Western metal mine

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0520340876

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9780520340879

The Routledge Concise History of Science Fiction

By: Mark Bould,Sherryl Vint

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The Routledge Concise History of Science Fiction

By: Mark Bould,Sherryl Vint

The term ‘science fiction’ has an established common usage, but close examination reveals that writers, fans, editors, scholars, and publishers often use this word in different ways for different reasons. Exploring how science fiction has emerged through competing versions and the struggle to define its limits, this Concise History: provides an accessible and clear overview of the development of the genre traces the separation of sf from a broader fantastic literature and the simultaneous formation of neighbouring genres, such as fantasy and horror shows the relationship between magazine and paperback traditions in sf publishing is organised by theme and presented chronologically uses text boxes throughout to highlight key works in sf traditions including dystopian, apocalyptic and evolutionary fiction includes a short overview and bullet-pointed conclusion for each chapter. Discussing the place of key works and looking forward to the future of the genre, this book is the ideal starting point both for students and all those seeking a better understanding of science fiction.

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Routledge

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113682040X

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9781136820403

Mines Around Silverton

By: Karen A. Vendl and Mark A. Vendl with the San Juan County Historical Society

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Mines Around Silverton

By: Karen A. Vendl and Mark A. Vendl with the San Juan County Historical Society

Silverton is located in the heart of the San Juan Mountains, which have been described by H.H. Bancroft as "the wildest and most inaccessible region of Colorado, if not North America." The region has a long and colorful mining history, dating back to the Spanish exploration of the area in the 18th century. For the past 250 years, men have sought gold and silver in these mountains. However, full-scale mining did not begin until the 1870s, and for more than a century, mining was the lifeblood of Silverton and the surrounding area. The San Juan Mountains have been called one of the four great mining areas of Colorado, in a state known for its mining heritage. This is not only the story of the mines but also of the men and women who worked and lived in these rugged mountains.

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Arcadia Publishing

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1467132861

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9781467132862

I Must Not Think Bad Thoughts

By: Mark Dery

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I Must Not Think Bad Thoughts

By: Mark Dery

The author explores the darkest corners of the American psyche--including the sexual fantasies of Star Trek fans, the hidden agendas of IQ tests, the homoerotic subtext of professional football, the poetic aspects of spam email and much more.

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U of Minnesota Press

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0816677735

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9780816677733

Why Do Men Have Nipples?

Hundreds of Questions You'd Only Ask a Doctor After Your Third Martini

By: Mark Leyner,Billy Goldberg, M.D.

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Why Do Men Have Nipples?

Hundreds of Questions You'd Only Ask a Doctor After Your Third Martini

By: Mark Leyner,Billy Goldberg, M.D.

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Crown

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1400082315

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Why Do Men Fall Asleep After Sex?

More Questions You'd Only Ask a Doctor After Your Third Whiskey Sour

By: Mark Leyner,Billy Goldberg, M.D.

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More Questions You'd Only Ask a Doctor After Your Third Whiskey Sour

By: Mark Leyner,Billy Goldberg, M.D.

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0307352714

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Pourquoi les hommes s'endorment-ils après l'amour ?

By: Billy Goldberg,Mark Leyner

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Pourquoi les hommes s'endorment-ils après l'amour ?

By: Billy Goldberg,Mark Leyner

Tout ce que vous avez toujours voulu savoir sur la guerre des sexes sans avoir jamais osé le demander ! Les hommes sont-ils plus doués pour les maths que les femmes ? Pourquoi n'écoutent-ils jamais ? Les femmes bien en chair sont-elles plus fertiles que les autres ? Est-il vrai que les hommes ronflent plus que les femmes ? Et pourquoi ces dernières n'ont-elles pas de pomme d'Adam ? L'écrivain satiriste Mark Leyner et l'urgentiste Billy Goldberg abordent avec leur verve scientifique et leur sens de l'humour dévastateur une série de questions portant en majorité sur la différence entre les sexes. Outre une batterie de thèmes plus sexuellement incorrects les uns que les autres, le livre aborde sur un mode léger, mais scientifiquement exact, quelques autres sujets sérieux... et moins sérieux. Est-ce que les animaux se suicident ? Est-il vrai que les cafards peuvent survivre à une explosion atomique ? Vos sourcils repousseront-ils si vous les rasez ? Mais pourquoi les pieds sentent-ils mauvais ? Chaque fois, une réponse étayée et détaillée vous est donnée. Et au fait, savez-vous pourquoi les hommes s'endorment après l'amour ?

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Robert Laffont

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2221144414

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