THE LIVES OF A CELL : Notes of a Biology Watcher
by Lewis Thomas
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- Hardcover
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Pomona, New York, United States
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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."
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- Rare Book Cellar (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 182694
- Title
- THE LIVES OF A CELL : Notes of a Biology Watcher
- Author
- Lewis Thomas
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- First Edition; Second Printing
- Publisher
- Viking
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1974
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