Lewis Thomas

The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher -- Lewis Thomas, Paperback

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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.

Author: Lewis Thomas
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 02/23/1978
Pages: 160
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.31lbs
Size: 7.75h x 5.02w x 0.47d
ISBN: 9780140047431
Age Range: 18-UP

About the Author
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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Biology, Biology - Philosophy, Cell Biology, Essays, Lewis Thomas, Life Sciences, Paperback, Penguin Books, Science, Young Adult

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