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    A POCKET HISTORY OF SEX IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY

    MARCH 1, 2009

BIOGRAPHY & MEMOIR

A POCKET HISTORY OF SEX IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY

by Jane Vandenburgh

Effectively employing the author’s fiction-writing talents to tell her life story, this memoir will likely cause readers to... Full review >

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    EMERGENCY SEX AND OTHER DESPERATE MEASURES

    JUNE 1, 2004

CURRENT EVENTS & SOCIAL ISSUES

EMERGENCY SEX AND OTHER DESPERATE MEASURES

by Kenneth Cain ; Heidi Postlewait & Andrew Thomson

A modest contribution to the literature of humanitarian aid, joining such recent superior efforts as Philip Rieff’s A Bed... Full review >

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    HOW SEX WORKS

    MAY 1, 2009

NONFICTION

HOW SEX WORKS

by Sharon Moalem

An accessible presentation of sex not just as a necessary means to protect our species, but also a vital part of a culture... Full review >

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  • NONFICTION

    SEX AND THE RIVER STYX

    APRIL 1, 2011

NONFICTION

SEX AND THE RIVER STYX

by Edward Hoagland

In this outstanding collection, 78-year-old Hoagland (Early in the Season, 2008, etc.) culls 13 years of magazine writing,... Full review >

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  • NONFICTION

    THE BEST AMERICAN SEX WRITING 2004

    FEB. 1, 2005

CURRENT EVENTS & SOCIAL ISSUES

THE BEST AMERICAN SEX WRITING 2004

edited by Dan Savage

Technology-enslaved, boring, all-American: this is pretty dispiriting stuff. Thank goodness Erica Jong is there to remind... Full review >

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  • NONFICTION

    THE X IN SEX

    MARCH 1, 2003

NONFICTION

THE X IN SEX

by David A. Bainbridge

A fine demonstration of science made accessible. (4 line drawings) Full review >

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  • NONFICTION

    DR. TATIANA’S SEX ADVICE TO ALL CREATION

    AUG. 14, 2002

NONFICTION

DR. TATIANA’S SEX ADVICE TO ALL CREATION

by Olivia Judson

Consider inviting Tatiana to your next dinner party—most assuredly there’ll never be a dull moment. Full review >

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  • NONFICTION

    A BILLION WICKED THOUGHTS

    MAY 5, 2011

NONFICTION

A BILLION WICKED THOUGHTS

by Ogi Ogas Sai Gaddam

An enjoyable, exhaustive and often insightful look at what turns us on—sure to excite readers. Full review >

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