Three in Love is a who's who of menage history. Its a merry romp down menage a' trois lane with the rich and famous of history who lived and loved in threes.  From Adam and Eve and the Snake, to Dracula and Lucy's saviors, to Heinreid, Bergman, and Bogart, you will learn who shared their hearts, lives, and beds with two others. -- Zane Mason

Bowing to the expected abuse of "anthropomorphising" biology, the authors eschew "adultery" in favor of EPC [Extra Pair Copulation] in describing the common practice in nature. They show the distinction between "social" and "sexual" pairing. Social pairing includes nest building, territorial defense, raising offspring and other "family matters." Copulation itself, they show, has many more factors involved than simply insemination. Mates must be available, attractive or both. Age, health, even "marital status" may be taken into consideration. -- Stephen Haines

This is an eye-opening memoir of what it was like for a young girl, who later herself became a "celestial" (polygamous) bride of a much older man, to grow up in a Canadian community of the [ FLDS ... ]  It is clear that having multiple brides is a recipe for men to behave arrogantly and selfishly, and for women to struggle with inevitable jealousy and resentment. [ ... ] it is a long memoir that does not even take the reader up to the point where the author, Debbie Palmer, finally leaves the community. I would have liked to have learned how this came about. But written in this way, you get a day-by-day account of what it is like to be a young girl in such a community.  -- Gordon Neufeld

In this revised and updated edition, Richard Van Wagoner's Mormon Polygamy: A History continues to be a truly informative, totally engaging, candid and comprehensive history of the practice of plural marriage (commonly called polygamy) in the history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (Mormons). From its inception under the founding prophet Joseph Smith, Mormon fundamentalist splinter groups continued the practice after the mainstream church abandoned the practice under federal political and military pressures. Mormon Polygamy: A History is an objective, "reader friendly", highly recommended, descriptive study that will be of continuing interest and value to students of polygamy within the framework of Mormon theology, sociology, and church history..  -- Midwest Book Review

IAn alternative to the predominate view of Islaamic polygyny as an oppressive, archaic marital practice, Polygynous Blessings: Musings of a Muslim Wife provides an intimate look into the life of MizAzeez, a Muslim wife who lives in a polygynous marriage. A compilation of 7 months of blog entries exploring MizAzeez’s struggle being a plural wife and her ultimate embracing of an otherwise stigmatized marital practice, Polygynous Blessings: Musings of a Muslim Wife includes personal reflections, excerpts from the Qur’aan and Sunnah (statements and actions of the Prophet of Islaam, Muhammad, peace and blessings be upon him), and religious verdicts by renowned Muslim scholars.  -- lulu.com