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 new edition has been thoroughly updated, with new pedagogical features, illustrations, FAQs, and more.

Product Description: Brilliant scientific successes have helped shape our world, and are always celebrated. However, for every victory, there are no doubt numerous little-known blunders. Neuroscientist Simon LeVay brings together a collection of fascinating, yet shocking, stories of failure from recent scientific history in When Science Goes Wrong...read more

Product Description: On the morning of May 18, 1980, the Mount St. Helens volcano in the forests of Washington State exploded. First, months of building interior pressure triggered a massive landslide, removing the entire north face of the mountain. This avalanche was followed immediately by a violent eruption that ultimately expelled over a quarter-billion cubic yards of magma...read more

Documents the 1995 experiment by which Parkinson's disease sufferers were treated by grafting human stem cells onto their brains, tracing the events that unfolded in the months afterwards, including a heated moral debate over embryonic stem-cell medicine. Reprint. 12,500 first printing.

In Here Be Dragons, astronomer David Koerner and neurobiologist Simon LeVay offer a scientifically compelling and colorful account of the search for life beyond Earth. The authors survey the work of biologists, cosmologists, computer theorists, NASA engineers, SETI researchers, roboticists, and UFO enthusiasts and debunkers as they attempt to answer the greatest remaining question facing humankind: Are we alone? From their "safe haven of skepticism" the authors venture into the "rough seas of speculation," where theory and evidence run the gamut from hard science to hocus pocus. Arguing that the universe is spectacularly suited for the evolution of living creatures, Koerner and LeVay give us ringside seats at the great debates of Big Science. The contentious arguments about what really happens in evolution, the acrimonious UFO controversy, and the debate over intelligence versus artificial intelligence shed new light on the wildly divergent claims about the universe and life's place in it.

Product Description: ¿Por qué existe el sexo? Simon Levay defiende en esta obra que sólo puede encontrarse la respuesta a esta pregunta en el estudio del cerebro y de su evolución. El cerebro sexual examina las raíces biológicas de la conducta sexual humana con claridad, valentía y sentido del humor...read more

Compiles information gathered from biologists, cosmologists, NASA engineers, roboticists, SETI researchers, and UFO followers, regarding the question of whether life exists on other planets. (view table of contents)

Explains the basic physics and geology behind earthquakes and volcanoes and explores the broad impact they have had on America's landscape

Product Description: From the man behind the controversial "gay brain" studies comes a chilling tale of medical experimentation run amok. Dr. Roger Cavendish, one of America's leading researchers into the mysteries of sexuality and the mind, finds himself faced with a medical mystery straight out of his worst nightmares...read more

Argues scientific research shows homosexuality is not merely a set of behaviors anyone might show, but that homosexuals are a distinct group of people, and discusses the social implications (view table of contents)

Examines the biological roots of human sexual behavior, examining the brain's role in sexual feelings, what determines sexual orientation, and why humans are sexual animals