You're Not Very Important

Almost-Dr. Douglas Texter takes his readers on a whirlwind tour of the practice of self-betterment throughout the ages in this biting parody of self-help literature. He carefully explores the Big 12 myths of self-improvement, and at the same time, delivers a devastating, sardonic social and political commentary.See:--how Tiffany Johnson secures the 2000-student adoption of the outrageously expensive textbook "To Market, To Market" by using the techniques she learned in "Ninety Seven Habits of Really Rapacious People"--behind the scenes at Ishmael?s Caffeine Machine, America?s hottest new high-end coffee retailer. Peeking out from behind the flaps of the sweat lodge that CEO Martha Little Sympathy has built, you?ll witness the birth of the Moby Dick Product Line--the way in which belief in God enables medieval pickpocket Raoul---who faces a choice between a hanging and a holy war--to find the courage to lead fifteen thousand mercenaries on the First CrusadeAnd MUCH MUCH MORE!