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...year-old girlfriend and wonders whether justice was truly served. The very fact that an author might ask such questions led many publishers to pass on the book. Levine says one publishing house called her manuscript "radioactive"; another told her it lacked the "comforting messages" of a parenting tome. The book's timing, coming as the sex-abuse scandal in the Roman Catholic Church unfolds, has not helped its cause. Robert Knight, director of Concerned Women for America's Culture and Family Institute, calls it an "academic cover for child molesters." Though the University of Minnesota said in a statement...
...word crock-pot may conjure bad memories of mystery stews, but slow cookers are back. Embraced by busy people and sophisticated chefs, slow cooking has grown about 6% in each of the past five years. The Fix-It and Forget It Cookbook, a tome of slow-cooker recipes, has been on best-seller lists for six months. And sales of conical, clay Moroccan pots called tagines, left, are up. Behind the Crock-Pot's popularity: groovy new models (Michael Graves designed one for Black & Decker) and the fact that slow cooking requires less fat. "I can put the ingredients...
Over the course of this half-hour conversation with Gould, he divulges many details that range from his dislike of being photographed to tidbits about his latest contribution to the scientific and literary fields—The Structure of Evolutionary Theory. At 1,433 pages, it is a majestic tome that marks 20 years of devoted work. It’s clear that Gould is satisfied with the book; he jokes that “I haven’t even found a typo.” I ask him for a 100-page abridged version. He suggests the first...
...Momos” (traditional Tibetan dumplings) and the “Ying Yang milkshake” (vanilla ice cream and carrot juice), as well as the ever-popular “Perpetual Breakfast.” Be sure not to spill on a yet-to-be-purchased tome about Eastern philosophy...
...career that spanned 60 years, Berlin wrote all kinds of songs, about 1,250 of them, which are now collected in "The Complete Lyrics of Irving Berlin" (Knopf, 530 pp., $65), a handsome tome edited by Robert Kimball and Berlin's second daughter Linda Emmet. The volume - fourth in an invaluable series that previously collected the pop poetry of Cole Porter, Ira Gershwin and Lorenz Hart - supplements all of Berlin's musical words with biographical data, short essays on the most important songs and several hundred unpublished works. It's a book you could live in, happily, for weeks...