What makes men tick?

"Stud, dud, thud.' It is through this triumvirate of virility, senility and death that Richard Bribiescas summarises the life history of men. This book aims to redress an imbalance: while in the age of feminism much insightful work has been done on women's life history, we poor chaps have been rather overlooked. Essentially, the book asks: 'What makes a man a man?' And at its heart is an attempt to find out why males, who make up 50 per cent of the population, account for 85 per cent of violent crime."