Word: tomes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Freedom in the Making of Western Culture--Harvard Sociology Professor Orlando Pattersonwill discuse his latest book. Cambridge Forum, 3 Church St. Tuesday, Feb. 12, 8 p.m. Free. For more information, call 876-9644. So he won some National Book Award for this tome. (check award) Social Studies still kicks Sociology...
...with doctors last year, the newest version of the Physicians' Desk Reference lets you look up dosages, warnings, contraindications and adverse reactions on all 1,700 prescription drugs listed in the 1992 paper version of this tome. Medical Economics Data/SelecTronics...
...speaker -- at nonstop, sewing-machine speed -- is Camille Paglia, contrarian academic and feminist bete noire, and her 1990 book, Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (Yale University Press), is the most explosive tome to emerge from academe in quite some time. The book is about many things -- paganism, pop culture, androgyny, sexual conflicts -- but what has drawn the media with magnetic force is the author's contempt for modern feminists. Paglia writes with freshness and blithe arrogance, and she does not hesitate to hurl brazen insults. She accuses author Germaine Greer, for example, of becoming...
WOMEN ON TOP by Nancy Friday (Simon & Schuster; $22). In reviewing the responses to her latest questionnaire, Friday discovered that women are undergoing another sexual revolution. She notes that at the time of her 1973 tome, My Secret Garden, women fantasized about submission and about being victims of rape and other sexual offenses. Now they dream of being aggressors, and are "on top" in sexual posture and every other...
California's Big Green, a tome-like-referendum, would have given that state the toughest, most progressive environmental policy in the world. Its architects hoped that California's economic power would force corporations to adopt such stringent regulations everywhere. But Big Green was tough, radical and 800 pages long. Some places it probably went too far. But that was not what killed...