The Mind and Body Shop — Frank Parkin

"SPINOZA IN THE JACUZZI, SCHOPENHAUER IN THE SHOPPING HOUR, AND KIERKEGAARD A-GO-GO..."

A sleepy British university has just been booted into the crass commercial world of the 1980s. A private corporation has taken over the campus and is determined to make education pay -- or else. Now tweedy philosophy professor Douglas Hambro is in big trouble. He's got one semester to keep Aristotle and friends from being sent to the shredder. Hambro's sensational solution -- the Mind and Body Shop. Set up in the town's red-light district, it will use sex and great bodies to sell ideas and great minds -- and to teach an unforgettable lesson to us all.

Zany black comedy that probes higher education's growing concern for funding and fat profits, this is satire at its finest -- filled with searing truth.