“richard smith”

An examination of the different ways that gay men use pop music, as producers and consumers and how, in turn, pop music uses gay men. From Erasure 'being boring' to 'little town flirt' Suede, the essays and interviews look at how pop is a platform to explore, articulate, conform to or contest notion... More

Move over South Beach, Atkins, and the Zone. Here's the real secret to losing weight and keeping it off: "The Dieter's Guide to Weight Loss Before, During, and After Sex. Bigger and better and more indispensable than ever, it's Richard Smith's tongue-in-cheek humor classics in a brand new format per... More

"Fathoming the Cosmos and Ordering the World" is the first full-length study in any Western language of the development of the "Yijing" in China from earliest times to the present. Drawing on the most recent scholarship in both Asian and Western languages, Richard J. Smith offers a fresh perspective... More

A humor classic, this tongue-in-cheek diet plan bases calorie counts on sexual activity and charts the exact number of calories burned."You and your friends can read this book aloud while sitting on the beach and shed a combined total of ten thousand calories in thirty-three minutes. Yes, it's that ... More

This 256-page soft-cover book gives a complete and illustrated history of the development of Rickenbacker instruments from 1931 to the present. Rickenbacker is the only book of its kind to chronicle the history of the company who in 1931 introduced electric instruments to the world. The book provide... More