Word: tomes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...early-modern human societies. Cave art provides little more than an impressive visual supplement to this. I wonder whether we really are better off having discovered it. Eventually, this cave will be virtually closed up in order to preserve it. There will be a large, glossy tome in book shops, but we will still be in the dark about what it all means. The cave will retain its secrets...
Some library buffs actually like to navigate the stacks in search of that elusive tome...
...that perhaps their best weapon lies almost unused right under their noses. At about the same time that Murray threw his Curve, Princeton University Press put out The History and Geography of Human Genes by population geneticists Luca Cavalli-Sforza, Paolo Menozzi and Alberto Piazza. Not only is the tome physically hefty (1,000 pages, 7 1/2 lbs.), but the evidence it contains may carry enough weight to flatten Murray's thesis once...
Scarlett the telefilm is slightly more salacious than Scarlett the tome but ultimately no more compelling or fun. Margaret Mitchell's estate stipulated that a sequel to her 1936 novel not contain any explicit sex. The TV producers, spared this constraint, show Scarlett and Rhett disrobing each other frantically in a fisherman's hut. Moreover, the character of Lord Fenton (Sean Bean), with whom Scarlett has an affair, is given far more prominence than he enjoyed in the book. He is a secret rapist-murderer who beats Scarlett when she dismisses him. "I am not accustomed to sudden onsets...
...full results of the new survey are scheduled to be published next week as The Social Organization of Sexuality (University of Chicago; $49.95), a thick, scientific tome co-authored by Laumann, two Chicago colleagues - Robert Michael and Stuart Michaels - and John Gagnon, a sociologist from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. A thinner companion volume, Sex in America: A Definitive Survey (Little, Brown; $22.95), written with New York Times science reporter Gina Kolata, will be in bookstores this week...