Boys will be boys at the bookstore

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'Arriving in stores this month are "The Boys' Book of Survival: How to Survive Anything, Anywhere" and "The Girls' Book of Glamour: A Guide to Being a Goddess."

This newfound embrace of "la difference," as the French say, can be traced to the astonishing international success of 2006's "The Dangerous Book for Boys" by British authors Conn and Hal Iggulden.

The book - which instructs boys in manly pursuits such as building treehouses, skipping stones and learning Latin - was catnip for conservative critics with ears for Christina Hoff Sommers' argument in "The War Against Boys: How Misguided Feminism Is Harming Our Young Men" that modern American educational theory is inordinately troubled by blossoming masculinity, with the practical consequence that boys are disadvantaged in classrooms.'