Levay

Just as cultural attitudes toward criminality were undergoing profound shifts in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, modernist authors became fascinated by crime and its perpetrators, as well as the burgeoning genre of crime fiction. Throughout the period, a diverse range of British and American novelists took the criminal as a case study for experimenting with forms of psychological representation while also drawing on the conventions of crime fiction in order to imagine new ways of conceptualizing the criminal mind. Matthew Levay traces the history of that attention to criminal psychology in modernist fiction, placing understudied authors like Wyndham Lewis, Dorothy Sayers, Graham Greene, and Patricia Highsmith in dialogue with more canonical contemporaries like Joseph Conrad, Henry James, Dashiell Hammett, and Gertrude Stein. Levay demonstrates criminality's pivotal role in establishing quintessentially modernist forms of psychological representation and brings to lig

What causes a child to grow up gay or straight? In this book, neuroscientist Simon LeVay summarizes a wealth of scientific evidence that points to one inescapable conclusion: Sexual orientation result

In the middle of the eighth century, the decaying city of Rome lies defenseless against the advance of the warmongering Lombards. The new Pope, Stephen II, appeals for help from the Eastern Emperor, b

What causes a child to grow up gay or straight? In this book, neuroscientist Simon LeVay summarizes a wealth of scientific evidence that points to one inescapable conclusion: Sexual orientation result

In this update of the 2009 edition, LeVay (neuroscientist/science writer) and Baldwin (sociologist, U. of California, Santa Barbara) cover the biological, medical, and sociocultural aspects of the gam

"This book is the best available summary of the science of sexual orientation. I was struck reading it how much has happened in the field since LeVay's last book, Queer Science. It will be useful both

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 bring

What makes people gay, lesbian, bisexual, or heterosexual? And who cares? Written byone of the leading scientists in the research of sexual orientation, Queer Science looks at howscientific discoverie

City of Friends offers a practical, intelligent, and well-informed overview of what it means to be gay or lesbian. The authors seek to help gay men and women, as well as their families and friends, to

What makes people gay, lesbian, bisexual, or heterosexual? And who cares? These are the twin themes of Queer Science, a scientific and social analysis of research in the field of sexual orientation. W

City of Friends offers a practical, intelligent, and well-informed overview of what it means to be gay or lesbian. The authors seek to help gay men and women, as well as their families and friends, to

Written with the same clarity, directness, and humor that have made Simon LeVay oneof the most popular lecturers at Harvard Medical School and at the University of California, SanDiego, The Sexual Bra

In this textbook, Simon LeVay and Janice Baldwin aim to help students understand the diversity of human sexual expression as well as the diversity of perspectives from which sexuality can be studied.

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

Sandhogs are miners 800 feet below the streets of?Manhattan, tunneling bedrock to construct the largest?unified infrastructure project in New York City history—the?60-mile-long City Water Tunnel #3. T

Time, space and a telescope: Hubble’s most magnificent imagesOn the 25th anniversaryof the Hubble Telescope first being launched into low earth orbit, TASCHEN brings together some of its most breathta