The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher - Softcover

Thomas, Lewis

 
9780140047431: The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0140047433 ISBN 13: 9780140047431
Verlag: Penguin, 1978

Inhaltsangabe

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."

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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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Verlag
Penguin
Erscheinungsdatum
1978
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0140047433
ISBN 13 
9780140047431
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
160
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ISBN 10:  0670434426 ISBN 13:  9780670434428
Verlag: Viking Pr, 1974
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