This book helps students to understand the diversity of human sexual expression as well as the many perspectives from which it can be studied, and includes high-quality presentation of biological aspects. It features a new co-author, sociologist Janice Baldwin. The book features high-quality presentation of biological aspects of human sexuality; ...
Noted scientist LeVay offers the hypothesis that sexual behavior is biologically determined, or at least influenced, by the size of the interstitial nucleus of the anterior hypothalamus.
This alternative version of LeVay and Baldwin's acclaimed text Human Sexuality is more accessible to students with a limited background in biology, but maintains the evidence-based approach and readability of the original. The language and terminology throughout are more comprehensible, making it suitable for interdisciplinary study.
The discovery of life on other planets would be perhaps the most momentous revelation in human history, more disorienting and more profound than either the Copernican or Darwinian revolutions, which knocked the earth from the centre of the universe and humankind from its position of lofty self-regard. In Here Be Dragons, astronomer David Koerner ...
This book is geared towards helping gay men and women, as well as their friends and families, understand the gay community. LeVay and Nonas begin by defining the words "homosexual," "gay," "lesbian," and "bisexual." Subsequent topics include the various patterns of homosexuality in different cultures, the history of the gay and lesbian community ...
This book is geared towards helping gay men and women, as well as their friends and families, understand the gay community. LeVay and Nonas begin by defining the words "homosexual," "gay," "lesbian," and "bisexual." Subsequent topics include the various patterns of homosexuality in different cultures, the history of the gay and lesbian community ...
In this handy primer, Sieh and LeVay explore the scientific issues surrounding such matters as making buildings and roadways earthquake-tolerant, noting that the behavior of seismic energy cannot be reliably forecast "because the rupture is not a small focus of energy like a light bulb but an event that propagates across a large surface over an ...
What makes people gay, lesbian, bisexual, or heterosexual? And who cares? These are the twin themes of this title, a scientific and social analysis of research in the field of sexual orientation. The author argues that the question of causation should not be the crucial issue in the gay-rights debate, but that science does have an important ...
It is only recently that advances in chemistry, physics, and biology and in their application to space and the space sciences, have provided scientists with the tools to make accurate and well-informed predictions about the possibility of life on other planets. In this book, the authors summarize and present the scientific search for life in the ...
In 1995 Curt Freed coordinated an extensive and risky research experiment for the treatment of Parkinson's disease--a study which required the implantation of fetal dopamine cells in the brains of patients. The controversy of using fetal cells coupled with the logistical difficulties of the study itself made this an unparalleled neurological ...
This book is geared towards helping gay men and women, as well as their friends and families, understand the gay community. LeVay and Nonas begin by defining the words "homosexual," "gay," "lesbian," and "bisexual." Subsequent topics include the various patterns of homosexuality in different cultures, the history of the gay and lesbian community ...
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