Multiple Book Review: Four Perspectives on Human Natures: Genes,Cultures, and the Human Prospect. Paul R. Ehrlich. Washington,DC: Island Press, 2000, 531 pp.

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Book Review Guns,Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies. Jared Diamond. New York: W.W. Norton, 1997, 480 pp.

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Book Review: The Human Relationship with Nature: Development and Culture. Peter H. Kahn,Jr. Cambridge,MA: The MIT Press, 1999. Hardbound, 252 pages including appendices

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Book Review: Inuit,Whaling, and Sustainability. Milton M.R. Freeman,Lyudmila Bogoslavskaya,Richard A. Caulfied,Ingmar Egede,Igor J. Krupnik,and Marc. G. Stevenson. Walnut Creek,CA: Altamira Press, 1998. 208 p. $25.00 (hard cover), $24.95 (paperback)

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Gays, lesbians, and the media: a selected bibliography.

The focus of this selected bibliography is on print, aural, and visual resources dealing with gay males, lesbians, and the mass media. Listings were selected on the basis of their perceived value to scholarly researchers and interested members of the more general public. Individual news stories, reviews of specific films or television programs, and coverage of gay males and lesbians in the theatre and arts are not included. While references to popular music were sought, only a few items were located and are included. There were two major obstacles confronted when compiling this bibliography. First, much of the media of the gay and lesbian communities in the United States is not indexed. Second, very few libraries subscribe to many of the more popular and important print resources (e.g., Advocate, Gay Community News) on the topics of focus. Even more inaccessible are regional publications and literature that focus on erotica but often include valuable items on the gay and lesbian communities as well.     

Book Review: Eugenics: A Reassessment. Richard Lynn. Westport,CT: Praeger, 2001, 367 pp. (hardbound), $85.00

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Ski Hunter. Lesbian and Gay Couples: Lives,Issues, and Practice

It is said that the study of Psychopathology in the elderly ultimately led to the understanding of normal a eing. In our paper, the authors interest focused on the attitudes of ti emented patients towards dolls and tried to understand the meaning of those attitudes. In this paper, dolls were regarded as playing a role to reduce or eliminate existence anxiety. The authors pointed out the importance of understanding the way elderly dementia patients insisted on the existence of themselves in the background of attitudes which are commonly superficially regarded as childish phenomena.     

Book Reviews National Research Council. The New Americans: Economic,Demographic, and Fiscal Effects of Immigration. Washington,D.C: National Academy Press, 1997. Pages 434. Free on request

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Book Review: Sustainable Development and Decision Making. Craig Dilworth. Uppsala,Sweden: Uppsala University, 1996. 165 pp. (paper)

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Nonreproduction, homosexuality, transsexualism, and intelligence: I. A systematic literature search

The relationship between various forms of nonreproduction (especially homosexuality) and intelligence (as measured by IQ and other tests) is investigated by a systematic review of the literature, selecting studies without regard to the direction of their findings. Most studies found the more homosexual subject groups' scores to be higher than those of the more heterosexual controls, and all exceptions to this trend are concentrated in one subgroup: prisoners. Moreover, the more representative the sample studied, and the less subject to challenge the methodology used, the clearer and more statistically significant was the superiority in intelligence of the more homosexual over the more heterosexual group.