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Lives of a Cell

Notes of a Biology Watcher

Notes of a Biology Watcher

By Lewis Thomas

By Lewis Thomas

By Lewis Thomas

By Lewis Thomas

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Category: Science

Category: Science

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Feb 23, 1978 | ISBN 9780140047431

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Feb 23, 1978 | ISBN 9781101667057

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    About Lives of a Cell

    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.”

    About Lives of a Cell

    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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    About Lewis Thomas

    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… More about Lewis Thomas

    About Lewis Thomas

    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… More about Lewis Thomas

    Product Details

    Category: Science

    Paperback | $17.00
    Published by Penguin Books
    Feb 23, 1978 | 160 Pages | 5-1/16 x 7-3/4 | ISBN 9780140047431

    Category: Science

    Ebook | $13.99
    Published by Penguin Books
    Feb 23, 1978 | 160 Pages | ISBN 9781101667057

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    Table Of Contents

    The Lives of a Cell
    Thoughts for a Countdown
    On Societies as Organisms
    A Fear of Pheromones
    The Music of This Sphere
    An Earnest Proposal
    The Technology of Medicine
    Vibes
    Ceti
    The Long Habit
    Antaeus in Manhattan
    The MBL
    Autonomy
    Organelles as Organisms
    Germs
    Your Very Good Health
    Social Talk
    Information
    Death in the Open
    Natural Science
    Natural Man
    The Iks
    Computers
    The Planning of Science
    Some Biomythology
    On Various Words
    Living Language
    On Probability and Possibility
    The World’s Biggest Membranes
    Reference Notes

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