Book Description

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.


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Customer Reviews:

A sequel as good as the first.......2007-09-11

Despite my bad experience with many sequels, I still had high expectation of this. I had not been disappointed. This is still "funny, interesting, entertaining, and "helpful"!" as the first, and in particular I like some authentic answers to some of my life long doubts as follows:-

Why do men fall asleep after sex?
How does aspirin find the pain?
Why does sucking on helium make your voice sound funny?
Why do Asians turn red after consuming alcohol?

plus over one hundred other questions I am interested in their answers. In short, it's knowledgeable and entertaining. A great resource for chat, too. Dont miss it.

Great entertainment .......2007-09-07

I found this book to be sooo funny, I am glad I came accross it by accident. The humor is everywhere and although this type of humor is not for everybody, if you do not like the IM conversation you can skip through them and still get some of the witty humor. I loved the comment "if Dr. Phil can't do it, why couldn't the authors?" I reccommend it! If you are skeptical because the bad press got to you first, start with reading the questions that are interesting to you and you'll soon be hooked.

Good idea, not so good turnout........2007-08-25

Some of the questions are rediculous, for example: If I swallow a watermelon seed, will a watermelon grow in my stomach?

I hate to believe that enough people were seriously that concerned about something so rediculous that they had to print it in the book.

As for half of the other questions, you got roundabout answers that weren't really answered, but fluffed to take up room.

Not worth the buy. My suggestion is to go to your boostore, find it, flip through the questions and read the answers you are honestly curious about and save your money.

Awesome.......2007-05-14

This book is not only informative about many myths and queries we have all heard, but it is funny too!!! I have learned some very funny and quirky facts so far. I highly recommend this book to anyone who likes interesting, funny facts.

Fun for everyone.......2007-04-13

I really enjoyed reading this book. A lot of questions I always wondered about have now been answered. And, it's in a very easy to read format.

Average customer rating: Review by Josh Stevens A wry flashing Everyday events take new meaning. Thank Heaven that the poets hate him a great read

Sailing Alone Around the Room: New and Selected Poems Billy Collins Manufacturer: Random House Trade Paperbacks ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback 20th Century | Poetry | United States | World Literature | Literature & Fiction | Subjects | Books General | Poetry | United States | World Literature | Literature & Fiction | Subjects | Books Anthologies | Poetry | Literature & Fiction | Subjects | Books General | Poetry | Literature & Fiction | Subjects | Books United States | Single Authors | Poetry | Literature & Fiction | Subjects | Books Similar Items: The Trouble with Poetry: And Other Poems Billy Collins Live: A Performance at the Peter Norton Symphony Space Nine Horses: Poems 180 More: Extraordinary Poems for Every Day Poetry 180: A Turning Back to Poetry ASIN: 0375755195 Release Date: 2002-09-17

Book Description

Sailing Alone Around the Room, by America’s Poet Laureate, Billy Collins, contains both new poems and a generous gathering from his earlier collections The Apple That Astonished Paris, Questions About Angels, The Art of Drowning, and Picnic, Lightning. These poems show Collins at his best, performing the kinds of distinctive poetic maneuvers that have delighted and fascinated so many readers. They may begin in curiosity and end in grief; they may start with irony and end with lyric transformation; they may, and often do, begin with the everyday and end in the infinite. Possessed of a unique voice that is at once plain and melodic, Billy Collins has managed to enrich American poetry while greatly widening the circle of its audience.

Customer Reviews:

Review by Josh Stevens.......2007-06-02

What I appreciated most about Collins poetry was its accessibility in both language and universality of content. He talks of love, of life, of sex, of death, and of rebirth. He talks about dogs barking, clouds moving across the sky, of hats and waitresses. Some have commented that he is `playing it safe', but I think it goes beyond that into the shared commonality of all men and women: life. There are certain things we all can relate to, and others we can't -- this is what separates Collins works from his contemporaries more than any other aspect of his works: the appeal to your average Joe who has not studied poetry, but knows what he likes. We see this same path taken by other great poets as well: Wordsworth, Blake, Frost -- taking the ordinariness of life and making it extraordinary.
From his musing on the past in poems such as Nostalgia, Splitting Wood and The Waitress with their longing for the past, to the more philosophical The Butterfly Effect and Days focusing on the implications of actions on life and their varied outcomes, to the more prosaic Tuesday, June 4, 1991 in which he gives us a guided tour of his day, Collins views on life are as varied as life itself. In his beautiful and humorous poem, Afternoon with Irish Cows, we are ushered by Collins into the mind of both the poet and the subject -- in this case, a cow -- and see both in the eternal scheme of life as playing a very similar role. As Collins says when he hears one of them crying:

Yes, it sounded like pain until I could see
the noisy one, anchored there on all fours,
her neck outstretched, her bellowing head
laboring upward as she gave voice
to the rising, full bodied cry...

As Collins watches and listens, he no longer feels pity, but a sense of wonder and awe at the life of this other creature whom he sees as having the same goal and motivations as himself:

...I knew that she was announcing
the large, unadulterated cowness of herself,
pouring out the ancient apologia of her kind
to all the green fields and the gray clouds...

The role of the subject and the poet are the same: to show the world who they are, and the necessity of self in the grand scheme of life -- even if only as a herald of self existence. This `life for life's sake' approach to his poetry brings us into a sense of ease and to an endearment of his texts if merely for the lack of morbidity or futility found in many of today's poets. In the majority of Collins works as presented in this collection, we see that life is pleasant, with wonder in every breath we take and syllable we utter. It is in the living of life that we find ourselves at peace; it is simply in being who and what we are that we find contentment and solace.
When critiquing the poetry of this great poet -- one who served as the Poet Laureate of the United States for two consecutive terms and who is a professor of English at not one, but two colleges, it seems best to remember that he is, after all, human. In point of fact, it is this humanity that endears Billy Collins to his readers: the universality of topic and the poetic vernacular language he utilizes bring the ethereal down to the common man.

A wry flashing.......2007-01-08

If a poet's service to others is to wipe off our eyes and then join us as we admire the way the smears distort our pet illusions and how the truth still shines through, then Mr Collins has succeeded masterfully. These might be your words when the mind is quiet enough to be allowed to bump along the ceiling like a lost helium balloon, no direction and no fear of seeing the simple, glorious dance all around us. A delightful tickle and cold water on the inside of your face.

Everyday events take new meaning........2006-12-12

A wonderful collection of poems for those on your list to whom you wish to introduce poetry. This collection of poems reads easily with "first-read" understanding and pleasure as they describe those everyday occurances,viewing them with irregular insight. Nothing long, nothing tedius - just glimpses into our lives sure to bring a wry smile to the reader. Highly recommended.

Thank Heaven that the poets hate him.......2006-11-29

I'm told that most modern poets don't like Billy
Collins. Good. Collins tells little stories of
the inside and outside world, composes jokes small
and large, points to the obvious, leaves some
interesting part unsaid, tickles the daylights out
of you and makes everything seem new again.

The title is, I guess, a reference to the wonderful
book Sailing Alone Around the World by Captain Joshua
Slocum and to the quirky but ultimately disappointing
Journey Around my Bedroom by Javier de Maistre. In
fact, Collins himself refers to the armchair nature
of his adventures several times in the poems.

Thanks to him, I am, like other reviewers of this
collection reading poetry again. But mostly I'm living
some bits of it and writing little poems to my kid.

Thanks, Billy. Especially for The Nightclub.

--Lynn Hoffman, author of THE NEW SHORT COURSE IN WINE and
the forthcoming novel bang BANG from Kunati Books.ISBN 9781601640005

a great read.......2006-11-18

It helped articulate more clearly some of my long held questions about Christ. After further ponderance, I felt an affirmation in NOT knowing the answers to many of life's hard questions. Additionally, I felt a sense of celebration in living with the tension of a life of mystery in following Christ. I highly reccommend this book for those who wish to pursue God in a deeper way in a world that may be hostile or ignorant of the Journey.

Michale Marion

Average customer rating: Living By Faith Tender, wise, and fatherly Great inspirational book How to Live a Biblical Life A Wonderful Handbook

The Journey: Living by Faith in an Uncertain World Billy Graham Manufacturer: Thomas Nelson ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Discipleship | Christian Living | Christianity | Religion & Spirituality | Subjects | Books Faith | Christian Living | Christianity | Religion & Spirituality | Subjects | Books General | Christian Living | Christianity | Religion & Spirituality | Subjects | Books General | Evangelism | Christianity | Religion & Spirituality | Subjects | Books Charismatic | Worship & Devotion | Christianity | Religion & Spirituality | Subjects | Books General | Religion & Spirituality | Subjects | Books Inspirational | Spirituality | Religion & Spirituality | Subjects | Books Graham, Billy | ( G ) | Authors, A-Z | Religion & Spirituality | Subjects | Books Similar Items: Angels JUST AS I AM; THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF BILLY GRAHAM The Holy Spirit: Activating God's Power in Your Life Death and the Life After The Key to Personal Peace ASIN: 0849918324 Release Date: 2006-03-07

Book Description

Billy Graham is respected and loved around the world. And this work is his magnum opus, the culmination of a lifetime of experience and ministry!

Chapter by chapter, Graham leads us on a journey in faith. We learn about God and his purpose for our lives; who Jesus is and what he has done for us. We are reminded of the things God has given us to live successfully: the Bible, the privilege of prayer, fellowship and the church, and the Holy Spirit. We learn to deal with challenges along the way: temptation; wrong thoughts and motives; emotions that can defeat us; habits that destroy our spirit, and what to do when life turns against us. And we are given practical advice on knowing God's will, making right decision, strengthening our marriages, being wise parents, and using our gifts to share Christ with others.

With insight that only comes from a life spent with God, The Journey is filled with wisdom, encouragement, hope, and inspiration for anyone who wants to live a happier, more fulfilling life.

Customer Reviews:

Living By Faith.......2007-09-21

Tha Journey: Living by Faith in an Uncertain World has been a blessing in my life. When I was given this book I had thought "Oh boy another Billy Graham Book" and I love Billy Graham BUT this book is so much more. It is a guide for living and is full of RICHNESS that you can turn to in any situation and receive GLORIOUS advise. Blly Graham is an instrument from God and I believe God speaks right through him. I EVEN GAVE A COPY TO MY DAUGHTER WHEN I LEFT HER FOR HER FIRST DAY/YEAR OF COLLEGE. I keep it close at hand to always look up answers for my life. GET IT, READ IT, GIVE IT!!!!!

Tender, wise, and fatherly.......2007-09-15

All of Billy Graham's books are annointed with the power of God Almighty. He himself is saturated with Christ. What a desperately needed blessing he has been to our world! He will go on having the same impact on this weary planet even after he has gone to be with our Lord.

Carrie Lynn Jones
Author of It All Began... When Jesus Gave Me Sneakers

Great inspirational book.......2007-08-27

Wonderful insight into the mind of Billy Graham and his unswerving faith and devotion to salvation thru Jesus Christ.

How to Live a Biblical Life.......2007-08-22

The Reverend Billy Graham explains his understanding of the meaning and purpose of God, Jesus, the Bible, and the Holy Spirit and their role in daily life. He describes ways to deal with challenges and temptations and offers practical advice on living joyously.

A Wonderful Handbook.......2007-06-12

Billy Graham is ever the true believer but never an ideologue. He understands sin, Satan, and our Savior. His ability to interpret the Bible to form the rationale for good living is nothing short of miraculous. He points to his own trials, failures, and triumphs as well as those of others. Whatever is wrong with America now, we need to look at what was right to produce Billy Graham. He often references his mother and her knowledge of the Bible. Therein must lay a principal source of his knowledge, strength, and faith. Yet like John Paul, his is never rigid about the value of families in themselves. God has his plan for all of us, Graham reiterates. We need only start from here and go forward.

Average customer rating: Charlie McLeod is the middle-aged anti-hero A wonderful read Excellent read Passionate Like Getting Good Wood

The Back Nine Billy Mott Manufacturer: Knopf ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Contemporary | General | Literature & Fiction | Subjects | Books Literary | General | Literature & Fiction | Subjects | Books Sports | Genre Fiction | Literature & Fiction | Subjects | Books General | United States | World Literature | Literature & Fiction | Subjects | Books Similar Items: The Edict: A Novel from the Beginnings of Golf The Scorecard Always Lies: A Year Behind the Scenes on the PGA Tour Tales from Q School: Inside Golf's Fifth Major Tommy's Honor: The Story of Old Tom Morris and Young Tom Morris, Golf's Founding Father and Son Amen Corner ASIN: 0307265366 Release Date: 2007-03-27

Book Description

Golf: it’s that simple, and that bedeviling, and that’s what it comes down to when Charlie McLeod—having fled unspecified disaster back East—turns up at a golf club near San Francisco and is entranced again by a game that had defined him until, years ago, he had to give it up. Now he begins caddying, a job that respects every privacy and motivation, while wrestling with those things that had exiled him not only from the sport but from life itself.

In the profane, reassuring yet competitive world of the caddy shack, lost souls jostle for position, sometimes among well-heeled members, men whose passion for golf is often perverted by their own frustrations. What they revere in common, though, is the player whose mastery defies all understanding—and in this role Charlie will either find a new start or shatter everything once more.

A story of love, challenge, and redemption, a thrilling debut and an immediate classic of golf writing.

Customer Reviews:

Charlie McLeod is the middle-aged anti-hero.......2007-05-30

Writing a good sports novel requires an author who can traverse the delicate path between constructing a book for the rabid fan and one that appeals to the reader who simply appreciates fine writing. On occasion they successfully accomplish that task, and books such as SHOELESS JOE by William Kinsella and THE GREATEST PLAYER WHO NEVER LIVED by J. Michael Veron are the result. But more often than not, writers have difficulty maintaining that fine balance. This doesn't mean that the novels produced are not worthwhile; indeed my shelves are lined with many sports books that were simply enjoyable and entertaining reading experiences.

THE BACK NINE by Billy Mott comes a long way towards attaining that precise balance, though in the end, Mott tells his readers a little too much about golf and not quite enough about life.

Charlie McLeod is the middle-aged anti-hero searching for the lost glory of his youth. A quarter of a century ago the young man was a golfing prodigy, bringing the legendary Oakmont Country Club golf course (the site of the 2007 U.S. Open) to its knees. We meet Charlie as he arrives in San Francisco deciding that he can earn some money toiling as a caddy at an exclusive country club.

Mott is a part-time actor and full-time caddy, and his writing establishes both his respect for those who tote golf bags and his knowledge of the work involved. Through his eyes and pen we meet some veteran caddies and country club golfers, all of whom perfectly fit the stereotype of the social milieu they occupy.

We learn about Charlie and the events that shaped his life, but Mott tells readers very little about what life has done to the enigmatic main character. Charlie's father made him a golfer and a freak injury destroyed his career before it really began, but that's about all the pedigree we learn. You can't appreciate what a man accomplishes unless you know a bit more about the adversity that shapes his life. That history is missing from THE BACK NINE.

A sports novel requires as its bete noir, the ultimate contest, the climatic battle between teams or individuals that capture for readers the struggle that is life. Here, the contest is an 18-hole golf match between Charlie and the legendary Larry Siegel, a golf hustler who certainly would have been portrayed by the late Jackie Gleason in the movie version of this book. Before the match, however, Charlie must rekindle his skill and love for golf, and find some romance and tragedy to hone his character for the novel's denouement.

The match itself is spectacularly chronicled. Mott shows his love of golf and appreciation of what the game entails. Readers, even non-golfers, will appreciate the drama of the titanic struggle between golfers of great skill. It is eerily reminiscent of the battle between Tom Watson and Jack Nicklaus at the 1977 British Open Championship in Turnberry, Scotland.

Golf fans will appreciate and hopefully understand many of Mott's subliminal historical golf references. But non-golfers also will appreciate a well-written and endearing novel that mixes elements of Rocky, Hoosiers and Field of Dreams. I am neither an entertainment authority nor a gambler, but I am willing to place a small wager that we will see THE BACK NINE at a movie theater near us in very short order.

--- Reviewed by Stuart Shiffman

A wonderful read.......2007-05-27

It takes Mott only 1 page to set the stage and draw the reader into his great story. He develops his charaters quickly, and masterfully...a simply wonderful read !

Excellent read.......2007-04-18

I thoroughly enjoyed Mott's story telling and his realistic characters. Mott has a skill for developing a sense of place, whether it is San Francisco, Pittsburgh or on the golf course.

Passionate.......2007-04-16

Successful debut from a novelist who has created real, flawed people worthy of our attention. A good read, and an interesting glimpse at an unfamiliar world. A tip of the cap to Billy Mott and The Back Nine.

Like Getting Good Wood.......2007-04-05

Terrific first novel from a man who obviously knows a lot about golf and about life.

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