The chapters deal with a specific aspect of sex in movies, and the author has dug deep to pull out some great and obscure movies. The book is richly endowed with many black and white pictures of memorable scenes and stars. Material is presented from the first on film kiss up to the free-for-all sex romps of the 70's. Very entertaining and the pictorial content alone is worth it.

This book is in a way the "Laertus" of botanical explorers, full of information and gossip, descriptions of the historical periods in which the explorations took place, and the technologies and economics driving the field forward. All of this in a great, slightly sarcastic tone that makes it a real page turner.

One note: for the most part, the book only discusses the actual plants in passing...a bit of botanical background might be useful. On the other hand, I'm sure it would be just as good a read without the background knowledge, as the book is more about people than plants.

This guide truly covers all the bases. It takes the time to cover you all of the extra bonuses and side trips; something that has become not so common in the last year or to.

I am completely enthralled by this wonderful volume. Rational Phytotherapy discusses general information about the pharmaceutical aspects of phytotherapy, and specific information about the pharmacokinetic and pharmacodymic effects of herbal medicines. There are references galore, although relatively few, as Dr. Tyler points out, are listed in Medline; many are from the German literature. Any health care professional who is just starting to learn about herbal medicines, either for personal interest, or to assist interested patients, must have this book. (I only wish I could use underlining, italics, sound, etc. to convey how helpful this book has already been to me.) I wish I could give it a zillion stars!

We picked this book up at a thrift type store and my 4 year old daughter loves it. She loves looking at the easy to look at pictures and they font they used is so simple for anyone to read. She is learning to read and recognize numbers so quickly after picking up this book. I am actually trying to find all of the books listed on the back....

This book was reviewed on the front page of the New York Times Book Review section when first published, and Tyler was hailed as a writer comparable to Graham Greene or John Le Carre. It is a classic novel of espionage set in the newly emerging nations of Africa in the 1960's. Tyler writes elegant, compact prose with fine plotting and character development. He also writes with the authenticity that comes from a career working for the State Department in Africa. It is a pity that this book and his book Ants of God are both unavailable

Rrose Is a Rrose Is a Rrose is a valuable contribution to any gender study or discourse. Complete with gender-conscious commentaries and gender-awareness raising photography, Rrose establishes itself as one of the forerunners in photography regarding this seldom considered, but often accessed, aspect of human life, sex, and sexuality.

Rrose... highlights most of the key issues within gender discourse as depicted through photography: gender hierarchy, origination of gender, androgyny and indifferentiation, and gender tension (both masculine and feminine manifestations).

Especially provocative are the works of Matthew Barney. However, all the works included provide a strong case for the necessity of higher states of gender-consciousness.

This book cannot, and should not, be easily dismissed.

It's a shame this book is out of print. This book has been the best pocket reference guide I've ever used. Even though I have many other grammer and writing guide books, this is the one I keep going back to and the one that keeps getting passed around the office. The book gives easy-to-comprehend explanations and usage examples for nearly all grammer questions. The 'Use It Right' section of the book is great when you can't remember when to use lie or lay.

If you can find it, I recommend you buy it.

From the back...
Police Detective Marc Dalton had always secretly loved his best friend's wife. Now Ginny was his best friend's widow and trying to raise her baby alone amidst the troubling allegations surrounding her husband's death. Knowing he could no longer stand by in silence, Marc decided to offer Ginny his help...and his heart.
Ginny had always seen Marc as a friend-a waonderful man who should already have settled down with a wife and children. But now Marc was confessing he'd always been crazy about her, that he wanted to be a second father to her little girl. How could Ginny resist such a tempting offer? How could she betray her memories and succumb to another man's embrace?

In my Opinion...
This book starts off with the scene where an officer gets killed in the previous book 'Temporary Family'. The officer that gets killed is Joe-Ginny's husband and Marc's partner. Detective Marc Dalton is the one that shows up at Ginny's doorstep to tell her that her husband is dead. Almost a year later, Ginny is raising a daughter alone, a daughter that her husband never knew about. Ginny was crushed when her husband was killed and the only thing that kept her going was her pregnancy and then the arrival of her daughter Hannah. But, now she has time to start asking questions and she wants to know what happened to Joe. She turns to the one person that she knew she could trust, her childhood friend, Marc. Marc is also asking questions about his partners death. Marc is being pressured by Internal Affairs to find out whether or not Joe was a dirty cop. Marc has always loved Ginny and has fallen in love with her daughter as well. To Joe's family's dismay, Marc and Ginny start spending a lot of time together. Ginny feels guilty, but her feelings for Marc are to strong to be denied. As they get closer to the truth, regarding Joe's death, the more danger that they are in. Fortunatly, for Ginny and Hannah, they have a man like Marc on their side. I really enjoyed this book. Everything was there, from Ginny's guilt over having feelings for another man (not to mention that he was her husband's partner), to the pressure from her dead husband's family, to the real bond that develops between Ginny, Hannah, and Marc. I highly recommend this book and the next book by Sally Tyler Hayes, 'Wife, Mother...Lover' which is the story of Marc's new partner Mitch.

It's good to see this fascinating book still in print after all these years. I believe the original 1974 edition went up to 8 or 9 printings. Where Parker Tyler found his material is anyone's guess. Jammed-full of photographs from obscure and well-known films, both Hollywood produced and from foreign countries, this book is casually laid-out which makes it great for thumbing through. Everytime I open the pages I find new and interesting facts I didn't know. Each picture carries a short caption identifying the film and the book is divided into chapters of sexual preference or deviation, like "Bedroom and Bath", "The Bosom and the Bottom" and "The Gay Sexes." (Hollywood didn't miss a thing!) The chapters describe every era of filmmaking and the fight with censors, eventually bringing us to 70's and Black Exploitation Films. Highly Recommended!