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Sure, everyone gets sick sometimes, but do you realize that plenty of those folks also die slow, unpleasant deaths from diseases that stumped even the experts at top-notch (still privately run) hospitals? That's right: There are plenty of illnesses that even physicians have never heard about. Nodding Disease, Alice in Wonderland Syndrome, and Cutaneous Horn (yes, you grow a horn) are all featured here in pithy, energetic entries. You won't have to worry about socialized medicine if you have this book....

A sharp and prescient novel about women in the workplace, the power of Big Tech, and the looming threat of foreign espionage from Kathy Wang, “a skilled satirist of the northern California dream” (Harper’s Bazaar) In 2006 Julia Lerner is living in Moscow, a recent university graduate in...

Sometimes Bone King cannot go through doors. He has no physical impairment, but at times his brain and muscles simply can't recall how to walk him through them. Perhaps it has something to do with his being distracted thinking about grammar and etymology all the time, or maybe it's anxiety that his wife is having an affair with the yardman. But then renowned neurologist Arthur Limongello offers a diagnosis as peculiar as the ailment: Bone's self is starting to dislodge from his brain.

Der Deutsche neigt zu skurrilen Verhaltensweisen. Von der Kanzlerin hat er die Schnauze voll, wählt sie aber fleißig wieder. Er wundert sich über das Aussterben der Innenstädte, fährt aber regelmäßig mit seinem SUV ins Outlet-Center nach Venlo. Er träumt heimlich von Anarchie, weiß aber nicht, bei welchem Amt man dafür einen Antrag stellen muss. Und wenn er mal leidenschaftlich wird, dann sind die Benzinpreise zu hoch, ist die Bahn zu spät oder die Fernsehtalkshow zu überflüssig.