Science now confirms what we all instinctively knew to be true: chocolate enhances human sexual performance. Based on scores of medical studies which now link the chemicals in cacao - the bean from which chocolate is derived - with improved cardiovascular health, this book discusses the links between the consumption of dark cacao chocolate and an enhanced sex life. This is the first book that answers fundamental questions, such as: Which chocolate is associated with better sex? Which chocolate increases blood flow to the genitals? Which chocolate is associated with more vigorous orgasms?...

In an ambitious new translation of Diego de Landa's Account of the Things of Yucatan (Relacion de las cosas de Yucatan), the editor revises and updates the language for the contemporary reader of English. In the process he captures the narrative power and intensity, the nuances and subtleties of meaning and the emotions of Landa's history of Yucatan at the time of Spanish arrival, conquest, and settlement of the peninsula. Landa's observations speak of his intellectual curiosity about and of his respect for the First Peoples of Yucatan. For instance, he credits the vast architectural legacy,...

What tale would your cat tell? What secrets would your cat disclose about you? What stories would your cat share with the world? From around the world and across the ages cats now speak, tell the history of the world-and the human condition-from the perspective of meticulous feline observers. Andy Warhol, in the 1950s, created a series of cat illustrations that were subsequently published as 25 Cats Named Sam and One Blue Pussy. In occasional conversations over the years, speculating what a cat would say about his or her human companion was a theme in which he indulged: "Someone should rescue...

The catalog of Mexican artist Jose Luis Loria Mendez's exhibition of feline art, "The Fraternity of the Eyes," which opened at the Fernando Garcia Ponce-MACAY Museum in Merida, Yucatan, Mexico in April 2014. El catalogo de la exposicion del pinto mexicano Jose Luis Loria Mendez, "La cofradia de los ojos," que se inauguro en el Museo Fernando Garcia Ponce-MACAY en Merida, Yucatan, Mexico en abril de 2014."

A dark comedy in one act about the Clinton administration. On January 26, 1998, President Bill Clinton tells the American people, "I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky." Monica Lewinsky, twenty-one years old when she first arrived at the White House, becomes the center of a political storm. Disclosure of this extramarital affair results in an investigation that leads the U.S. House of Representatives to impeach the president later that year. After a twenty-one day trial by the Senate, Mr. Clinton is acquitted of the charges of perjury and obstruction of justice. This...

Mark Hopkinson, a jewelry salesman at Bergdorf Goodman, lavishes attention on his favorite client, Joan Rivers. That is, until he becomes sick with a series of diseases that, in 1988, are still dismissed as the "gay plague," although the syndrome has a name: AIDS. When he becomes too ill to work, Joan Rivers confronts the staff at Bergdorf Goodman, demanding they give her his telephone number. It is only after she makes a scene on the sales floor that they relent just to get her out of the store. Mark Hopkinson, who quickly comes down with full-blown AIDS, is treated like a pariah by...