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Nika Hazelton has written The Unabridged Vegetable Cookbook (Evans, $14.95). All the four-letter vegetables are included. Available now at your neighborhood bookstore.

December Titles: Peter Townshend’s The Last Emperor: An Intimate Account of George VI and the Fall of His Empire (Simon & Schuster, $9.95) traces the decline of the most potent force for the spread of civilization ever seen in the modern world Upton Sinclair, Ralph Bunche, Aldous Huxley, Richard Henry Dana, and Edmund Brown are among the contributors to an anthology called Los Angeles: Biography of a City (University of California, $14.95) by John and LaRee Caughey. … According to Michael Perkins’ The Secret Record: A Critical History of Modern Erotic Literature (Morrow, $7.95), the theme of erotic writing is ego transcendence. . . . We had forgotten, until we read Geronimo: The Man, His Place, His Time (University of Oklahoma, $14.95) by Angie Debo, that the old Indian served for a time as a tourist attraction in Florida. . . . Anna Mahler, a sculptress and the daughter of the com poser Gustav Mahler, has written an essay on her art to accompany Anna Mahler—Her Work (Abner Schram, $30). There is an introduction by Ernst H. Gombrich. … Catherine L. Albanese, in her book Sons of the Fathers: The Civil Religion of the American Revolution (Temple University, $12.50), writes that the American Revolution was a religious experience. Which makes sense, because Miss Albanese also believes that secularism is the national religion of the United States.

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Nika Hazelton has written The Unabridged Vegetable Cookbook (Evans, $14.95). All the four-letter vegetables are included. Available now at your neighborhood bookstore.

December Titles: Peter Townshend’s The Last Emperor: An Intimate Account of George VI and the Fall of His Empire (Simon & Schuster, $9.95) traces the decline of the most potent force for the spread of civilization ever seen in the modern world Upton Sinclair, Ralph Bunche, Aldous Huxley, Richard Henry Dana, and Edmund Brown are among the contributors to an anthology called Los Angeles: Biography of a City (University of California, $14.95) by John and LaRee Caughey. … According to Michael Perkins’ The Secret Record: A Critical History of Modern Erotic Literature (Morrow, $7.95), the theme of erotic writing is ego transcendence. . . . We had forgotten, until we read Geronimo: The Man, His Place, His Time (University of Oklahoma, $14.95) by Angie Debo, that the old Indian served for a time as a tourist attraction in Florida. . . . Anna Mahler, a sculptress and the daughter of the com poser Gustav Mahler, has written an essay on her art to accompany Anna Mahler—Her Work (Abner Schram, $30). There is an introduction by Ernst H. Gombrich. … Catherine L. Albanese, in her book Sons of the Fathers: The Civil Religion of the American Revolution (Temple University, $12.50), writes that the American Revolution was a religious experience. Which makes sense, because Miss Albanese also believes that secularism is the national religion of the United States.