I got my author copies yesterday, so if you pre-ordered from Amazon you should be getting the book any time now.

Amongst other singular features, this is probably the only book about algebra ever to include a picture of a naked woman (the plate facing page 184). The book also explains the mnemonic “All hairy guys [or girls, according to taste] have big feet,” tells you why the number 57 (which is not a prime) is known as “Grothendieck’s prime,” gives the rule of signs as a poem in medieval Italian, tells you what the inhabitants of a 2-dimensional universe taste like, and shows you where you can go with 2+2=1. Oh, it includes a brief course in cuneiform script, too.