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" Heaviest BookAtlas of Human Anatomy and Surgery, by J.M. Bourgery and N.H. Jacob (Taschen, $200), the massive anatomy book in which we found the images for this month&amp;#039;s Better Man package. (As seen inside the print edition of the magazine.) Created over twenty-four years in the mid-nineteenth century, the 725 color plates within it constitute one of the world&amp;#039;s first illustrated anatomical and surgical guides. Most Disappointing Idiom &amp;quot;The phrase &amp;#039;The virgin pulls the plow&amp;#039; did not mean that in Ferrytown the young unmarried women were put to work in the fields, but that a pure girl would be worth a pair of horses or a team of oxen in a marriage contract. You wouldn&amp;#039;t get a brace of rabbits for a girl who&amp;#039;d drifted.&amp;quot;From The Pesthouse (Doubleday, $25), a new book by British novelist Jim Crace about a newly barren and deserted postapocalyptic America "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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