David W. Koerner, Author, Simon LeVay, Author, Simon LeVay, Joint Author Oxford University Press, USA $30 (272p) ISBN 978-0-19-512852-9
Exobiology (or cosmic biology), the scientific search for life beyond Earth, ""resembles a brainstorming session, with many discordant voices,"" according to this up-to-date report that mirrors that ferment. Koerner, a planetary scientist, and LeVay,
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Curt Freed, Author, Simon LeVay, Author, Simon LeVay, Joint Author . Times Books $26 (288p) ISBN 978-0-8050-7091-0
Freed, director of the neuroscience and neurotransplant programs at the University of Colorado, organized some of the earliest American fetal tissue transplant experiments on Parkinson's Disease patients in 1995. Here, he collaborates with...
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Simon LeVay, Author . Plume $15 (287p) ISBN 978-0-452-28932-1
Experimental brain surgery goes horribly awry; a dam fails catastrophically; a geologist leads an ill-equipped party to its doom in the mouth of an active volcano: these are the amazing and sometimes horrific stories of technical errors and...
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Simon LeVay, Oxford Univ., $27.95 (432p) ISBN 978-0-19-973767-3
The nature vs. nurture wars over the development of homosexuality have been pretty definitively decided in favor of nature. In this survey of what makes people gay, lesbian, bi, or straight, neuroscientist LeVay (When Science Goes Wrong) brings...
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Simon LeVay, Author MIT Press (MA) $27 (374p) ISBN 978-0-262-62119-9
The second book by the recent novelist and author of The Sexual Brain explores the politics of research into sexual differences. (Sept.)
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Simon LeVay, Author MIT Press (MA) $20 (184p) ISBN 978-0-262-62093-2
LeVay's controversial analysis of the biological origins of sexuality features a new afterword addressing recent genetic research. (Sept.)
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Simon LeVay, Author Masquerade Books $20.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-56333-518-1
LeVay is a neurobiologist best known for his research into the biological differences between straight and gay men (The Sexual Brain). He has also explored the uses and abuses of medical research into homosexuality (Queer Science). Here, he utilizes
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Simon LeVay, Author MIT Press (MA) $26 (184p) ISBN 978-0-262-12178-1
Neuroanatomist LeVay's expert, drily written, often technical account of the biological basis of human sexual behavior and orientation is likely to be as controversial as his 1991 Science article describing a difference in the hypothalamic brain...
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Simon LeVay, Author MIT Press (MA) $45 (364p) ISBN 978-0-262-12199-6
LeVay (City of Friends), best known for his 1991 study on differences in the brains of straight and gay men, here chronicles the history of the myriad attempts to explain possible biological origins of homosexuality. Most interesting is his survey...
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Simon LeVay. CreateSpace/Lambourn Books, $16.95 paper (425p) ISBN 978-1-4701-3215-6
LeVay (When Science Goes Wrong) provides an intriguing look at eighth-century Rome and a critique of the complexities of historical truth in this fictional account of the creation of one of the seminal documents in European history: the Donation of...
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Simon LeVay, Author, Elisabeth Nonas, With MIT Press (MA) $67.5 (468p) ISBN 978-0-262-12194-1
The subtitle is overly modest, for the book opens with a discussion of homosexuality throughout history and continues with a treatment of the role of science in interpreting its etiology, including its occurrence in other mammals and even insects....
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Simon LeVay. Columbia Univ, $32 (296p) ISBN 978-0-231-20450-7
“Why have sex?” asks neuroscientist LeVay (Gay, Straight, and the Reason Why) in this stimulating survey of the science of sexual desire. Admitting that there’s no simple answer, he explores the perspectives and research of neuroscientists,...
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