Late Night Thoughts on Listening to Mahler's Ninth Symphony

Name: Late Night Thoughts on Listening to Mahler's Ninth Symphony
Brand: Penguin Publishing Group
SKU: 9780140243284-G
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By Lewis Thomas

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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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Binding:: Paperback
Edition:: 1
Number of Pages:: 178
Release Date:: 1995-05-25
Publication Date:: 1995-05-01
Publisher:: Penguin Publishing Group
Languages:: Original: English
ISBN10:: 0140243283
ISBN13:: 9780140243284
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:: [email protected]
Weight:: 218 g
Height:: 12.9 cm
Width:: 19.7 cm
Thickness:: 1.1 cm

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