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What Your 1st Grader Needs to Know (Doubleday; $15) asks youngsters, among other things: What did Little Miss Muffet sit on? What does a stomach do? Which is the biggest continent? Who was Louis Armstrong? The second-grade volume advances to questions about Robin Hood, the Great Wall of China, counting to 100 and the human sperm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Does a Stomach Do? | 9/30/1991 | See Source »

...entire first printing of 600,000 had been shipped; by week's end 925,000 copies were in print. Said Simon & Schuster publisher Jack McKeown: "Booksellers are telling us it's the fastest-selling book they've ever experienced." Enthused Matthew Goldberg, merchandise manager for the Doubleday chain: "It's not only hot, it's supernova...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The First Lady And the Slasher | 4/22/1991 | See Source »

From her exile, the scorned theologian then produced a sweeping indictment of clerical attitudes toward sex that soared to the top of the 1989 nonfiction best-seller list in Germany. Last week Eunuchs for the Kingdom of Heaven (Doubleday; $21.95) hit U.S. bookstores amid a squall of controversy. In a nutshell, the author contends that Catholicism "strives to impose its own moral dictatorship without regard to the welfare of married people, a dictatorship based on pleasure-hating, celibate contempt for marriage and a maniacal cult of virginity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Fury of A Feminist Scorned | 12/17/1990 | See Source »

VOICES IN THE MIRROR by Gordon Parks (Doubleday; $22.95). In this latest memoir, filmmaker-photographer Parks produces a fast narrative of a career that took him from playing the piano in Kansas brothels to the staff of LIFE, where, as the magazine's first black staff photographer, he distinguished himself with coverage of crime, poverty and the upheavals of the counterculture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Voices: Dec. 10, 1990 | 12/10/1990 | See Source »

...Doubleday; 237 pages...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Dancing Tales | 10/1/1990 | See Source »

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