The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher - Paperback
by Lewis Thomas
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Languages:EnglishPublisher:Penguin BooksISBN-13:9780140047431ISBN-10:140047433UPC:9780140047431Book Category:ScienceBook Subcategory:Essays, Life SciencesBook Topic:Biology, Cell BiologySize:7.75 x 5.02 x 0.47 inchesWeight:0.3109Product ID:SCKH498VB7
Elegant, suggestive, and clarifying, Lewis Thomas's profoundly humane vision explores the world around us and examines the complex interdependence of all things. Extending beyond the usual limitations of biological science and into a vast and wondrous world of hidden relationships, this provocative book explores in personal, poetic essays to topics such as computers, germs, language, music, death, insects, and medicine. Lewis Thomas writes, "Once you have become permanently startled, as I am, by the realization that we are a social species, you tend to keep an eye out for the pieces of evidence that this is, by and large, good for us."
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Penguin BooksISBN-13:9780140047431ISBN-10:140047433UPC:9780140047431Book Category:ScienceBook Subcategory:Essays, Life SciencesBook Topic:Biology, Cell BiologySize:7.75 x 5.02 x 0.47 inchesWeight:0.3109Product ID:SCKH498VB7
Lewis Thomas was a physician, poet, etymologist, essayist, administrator, educator, policy advisor, and researcher. A graduate of Princeton University and Harvard Medical School, he was the dean of Yale Medical School and New York University School of Medicine, and the president of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Institute. He wrote regularly in the New England Journal of Medicine, and his essays were published in several collections, including The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher, which won two National Book Awards and a Christopher Award, and The Medusa and the Snail, which won the National Book Award in Science. He died in 1993.
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