The Cannibal painter, famous for chewing her canvases and leaving lovebites in the paint, recalls the comic years before dementia. When little Coco accidentally sliced the tip of her baby brothers pinky, she tasted it. When she saw Michelangelos DAVID naked on a calendar, she ate him. When she attended art school, she discovered her talent for eating boyfriends. When she went to Italy to see the original DAVID, she may have knifed and eaten small parts of a young sculptor. When she hid in Par...

Isabel Archer, an insurance investigator in San Francisco, investigates her mothers death at Lockleigh Castle. Isabel suspects murder. Her mother offered to sell one kidney to Isabels anglophile uncle, a shady billionaire dying of kidney disease. Her uncle purchased Lockleigh Castle from Lord Warburton. Isabel meets the castles snarky residents. Each one seems capable of murder. She questions genial Lord Warburton. He finds the American girl cheeky, but attractive. Isabel finds herself wonder...

Hanna, 18, wants to take care of Harold, but Harold, 44, wants her mother to take her home, but Hanna stays with him, but she joins the Army to escape from him, but they eat pizza and get married, but twelve years of trying pass before Hanna gets pregnant, but Harold worries hell die during surgery for prostate cancer, but happily, he lives, but Hanna is not happy taking care of their baby alone while Harold writes poetry in the attic, but Harold takes care of his mother, 89, who has Alzheime...

An American couple drives from Paris to Rome in a hearse. A baker in Paris chases a tourist with a breadknife. A shoe wanders from hotel to hotel. And a landlady shows her lodger with pride how she torments her pets. In the Sistine Chapel in Rome, a wife discovers to her horror that her blind husband can actually see Michelangelo’s frescoes.

Hermaphrodeity is the seriously comic tale of Millie/Willie, a girl who has no idea until shes sixteen that besides being fully female, she was born with undescended male organs. And she now stubbornly refuses to let surgeons make her single-sexed. Millie/Willie isnt transsexual. Shes double-sexed. In a visionary comedy Millie/Willie battles, inch by inch, from sensitive girlhood . . . to tough punk in a boys gang . . . to Harvard freshman who impregnates himself . . . to goddess seized fo...

Androgyny is destiny. "Miss, you're also a boy!" a gynecologist harrumphs in Hermaphrodeity, a grand comedy of gender surprises. Boy or girl--choose one. Millie or Willie. This legendary autobiography of M. W. Niemann earned nomination for the National Book Award. It's a comic epic of sex, a subversive saga of love. The mythic author's double-trouble organs--female and male both--inspire a battle, inch by inch, from sensitive girlhood to tough punk in a boys gang, from geeky Harva...

“Friedman has drawn a vivid picture of the Times Square area and its denizens. He writes about the porn palaces with live sex shows, and the men and women who perform in them, prostitutes and their pimps, the runaways who will likely be the next decade's prostitutes, the clergymen who fight the smut merchants and the cops who feel impotent in the face of the judiciary.”—Publishers WeeklyThis classic account of the ultra-sleazy, pre-Disneyfied era of Times Square is now the...

America was the shining city on a hill. It was the country at the forefront of the world democratic order, the global policeman, the might of its military matched only by the depth of its financial reserves. America was the one the world listened to, whether it wanted to or not. So, what happened?Well, a lot of things. In this searing account, Alan Friedman shows how, from the disastrous Vietnam War to Barack Obama's bungled response to the Arab Spring, American intervention has ce...

This book is the first to introduce empirically informed yet empathically framed language for MMPI-3 users communicating findings to clients. It integrates interpretive guidance with evidence-based therapeutic strategies and structured self-help recommendations, thereby enriching the clinical utility of the instrument in therapeutic assessment.Therapeutic Feedback and Treatment Planning with the MMPI-3 provides a clear set of guidelines for using this comprehensive persona...

Shakespeare’s Returning Warriors – and Ours takes its primary inspiration from the contemporary U.S. Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) crisis in soldiers transitioning from battlefields back into society. It begins by examining how ancient societies sought to ease the return of soldiers in order to minimize PTSD, though the term did not become widely used until the early 1980s. It then considers a dozen or so Shakespearean plays that depict such transitions at the start, focus...

This third edition apprises users of the MMPI-2/MMPI-2-Restructured Form (RF) for the ever-changing landscape of this dynamic personality/psychopathology instrument and its expanding utility in a variety of contexts. Two new chapters addressing the RC scales and the MMPI-2-RF are included in this updated text. Additionally, over 450 new references have been incorporated into the book, with information gathered and organized for practical clinical and forensic applications. The codetype int...

What has happened to America, and what's become of the American dream?Behind the self-confident image of world's most influential country, we now see a nation tearing itself apart. The United States may be arguably the world's only superpower, but its internal tensions are a symptom of suffering and division, a condition only exacerbated by the election of President Donald Trump.In this searing account, expatriate journalist Alan Friedman returns after thir...