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Late Night Thoughts on Listening to Mahler's Ninth Symphony by Lewis Thomas (1995, Uk-B Format Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherPenguin Publishing Group
ISBN-100140243283
ISBN-139780140243284
eBay Product ID (ePID)48059
Product Key Features
Book TitleLate Night Thoughts on Listening to Mahler's Ninth Symphony
Number of Pages176 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicPhilosophy & Social Aspects, Inspiration & Personal Growth, Life Sciences / Biology, Essays
Publication Year1995
GenreBody, Mind & Spirit, Science, Literary Collections
AuthorLewis Thomas
FormatUk-B Format Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.6 in
Item Weight5.2 Oz
Item Length7.8 in
Item Width5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
Dewey Edition19
Grade FromTwelfth Grade
Dewey Decimal081
Grade ToUP
Table Of ContentLate Night Thoughts on Listening to Mahler's Ninth Symphony - Lewis Thomas The Unforgettable Fire The Corner of the Eye Making Science Work Alchemy Clever Animals On Smell My Magical Metronome On Speaking of Speaking Seven Wonders The Artificial Heart Things Unflattened by Science Basic Science and the Pentagon Science and "Science" On the Need for Asylums Altruism Falsity and Failure On Medicine and the Bomb The Problem of Dementia The Lie Detector Some Scientific Advie The Attic of the Brain Humanities and Science On Matters of Doubt Late Night Thoughts on Listening to Mahler's Ninth Symphony Notes
SynopsisThis magnificent collection of essays by scientist and National Book Award-winning writer Lewis Thomas remains startlingly relevant for today's world. Luminous, witty, and provocative, the essays address such topics as "The Attic of the Brain," "Falsity and Failure," "Altruism," and the effects the federal government's virtual abandonment of support for basic scientific research will have on medicine and science. Profoundly and powerfully, Thomas questions the folly of nuclear weaponry, showing that the brainpower and money spent on this endeavor are needed much more urgently for the basic science we have abandoned--and that even medicine's most advanced procedures would be useless or insufficient in the face of the smallest nuclear detonation. And in the title essay, he addresses himself with terrifying poignancy to the question of what it is like to be young in the nuclear age. "If Wordsworth had gone to medical school, he might have produced something very like the essays of Lewis Thomas."-- TIME "No one better exemplifies what modern medicine can be than Lewis Thomas."-- The New York Times Book Review, This magnificent collection of essays by scientist and National Book Award-winning writer Lewis Thomas remains startlingly relevant for today's world. Luminous, witty, and provocative, the essays address such topics as "The Attic of the Brain," "Falsity and Failure," "Altruism," and the effects the federal government's virtual abandonment of support for basic scientific research will have on medicine and science. Profoundly and powerfully, Thomas questions the folly of nuclear weaponry, showing that the brainpower and money spent on this endeavor are needed much more urgently for the basic science we have abandoned-and that even medicine's most advanced procedures would be useless or insufficient in the face of the smallest nuclear detonation. And in the title essay, he addresses himself with terrifying poignancy to the question of what it is like to be young in the nuclear age. "If Wordsworth had gone to medical school, he might have produced something very like the essays of Lewis Thomas."- TIME "No one better exemplifies what modern medicine can be than Lewis Thomas."- The New York Times Book Review
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Ideas and Connection of Ideas
Although most on the content was written in 1979, I had an "ah ha" moment on every essay I read. Each of those moments led to further understanding as well as fresh ideas for today's world.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
