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...host of domestic problems--including, if they finally get married, divorce. "Cohabiting unions tend to weaken the institution of marriage and pose clear and present dangers for women and children," states the report, which culled the results of recent studies on nonmarital cohabitation as well as--yikes!--that tome of scholarly erudition, The Rules...
...ultra-nationalist Liberal Democratic Party. Last month his colleagues banned him from the Duma floor after he called for the communists "to be shot." But things may be picking up with the publication of his latest book, The ABCs of Sex. At a publicity event for the 222-page tome, the self-proclaimed "sexual knight of all the girls of Russia" proposed a new domestic sex industry as the panacea for the country's economic ills...
...German findings are collected in a 685-page tome called The Complete German Commission E Monographs, which the American Botanical Council in Austin, Texas, recently published in English. It tells which herbs have proved safe and beneficial but warns against side effects and other risks. It advises pregnant and nursing women not to take kava, for example, and notes that some people may become sensitive to sunlight when using St. John's wort. It approves standardized doses of ginkgo extract but rejects nonstandard preparations made from whole leaves as untested and potentially hazardous. At the same time, it turns thumbs...
...Honest Herbal and Herbs of Choice (Haworth Press; $40-$50). For a more folksy but still informative survey, try James Duke's The Green Pharmacy (Rodale; $30). Hard-core herbalists can delve into the first English translation of The Complete German Commission E Monographs ($190), a 685-page scientific tome just published by the American Botanical Council. It will soon be joined by the American Pharmaceutical Association Practical Guide to Natural Medicines (William Morrow; $35) and a PDR for Herbal Medicines (Medical Economics...
...running modern philosophical commentary by the articulate and learned Calasso ("Is there any part of literary history Calasso isn't familiar with?", you may ask yourself by the end of this book) on the bizarre and sometimes grotesque events of the stories. Two birds are killed with one tome (groan), in a sense: on the one hand there is the excitement of these ancient and unusual non-Western tales; on the other hand, there is that intriguing way of approaching the tales that a Western end-of-the-millenium audience can't help but love...