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The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher (Paperback)

by Lewis Thomas (Author)
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  • Paperback: 160 pages
  • Publisher: Penguin Books Australia; New edition edition (Dec 1996)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0140047433
  • ISBN-13: 978-0140047431
  • Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 13 x 1.5 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 312,574 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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A physician and cancer researcher shares his personal observations on the uniformity, diversity, interdependence, and strange powers of the earth's life forms.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Stimulating Thoughts about biology and medicine, 10 Feb 1998
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I enjoyed reading these short essays. Thomas has an endearing way of presenting little known facts and sharing unusual analogies that bring unusual insight into the behavior and society of humans and their diseases. This is no hum-drum collection of nearly identical articles, but a widely varied set of essays that incorporates good humor and generous praise of the wonderful world in which we live.
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5.0 out of 5 stars An excellent book., 14 Aug 1999
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This book is excellent. It is thought provoking and reads well. In particular, it represents the some of the most interesting thought I have read on Man's place in the world. Lewis Thomas impressed me with his ability to project, through short dialogs, many aspects of how we connect to the world and create a single concept of complete attachment with the planet. If we think a little more on how we are of the world, maybe our behavior will change for the better.
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1.0 out of 5 stars horribly boring and confusing, 9 Aug 1999
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i despise books like this one. All it is is people trying to make sense of something they really don't and can't understand. Allthe terrific reviews i've heard don't represent this book at all. If this is considered poetry i must be confused about the meaning of the word poetry. There is no way to read this book without5 haveing a large knowledge of science or a dictionary. Does he think using big words evry sentence will make it a good book? First of this a college level book and even then you would have trouble reading this. I would never recomend this book to anyone and if you are thinking of reading this save yourself the time and the suffering.
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1.0 out of 5 stars If I was in Hell's waiting room...
...then I imagine there would be no magazines - only copy upon copy of this book. Perhaps it's the fact that I'm rather sleep-deprived at the moment (I doubt it). Read more
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5.0 out of 5 stars incorporates poetry and philosophy into science.
Even though this book is completely of science one need not be steeped in knowledge or vocabulary of science to thoroughly become entranced in the writing of Lewis Thomas. Read more
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5.0 out of 5 stars Exceptionally elegant musings on life
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5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent!
The essays contained in this book are wonderful. It may be a science book, but the writing is very poetic. Beautiful!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Science and Poetry
Sure science and poetry aren't supposed to mix right ? Wrong this book proves that they do mix the way Thomas Present's his thoughts on differint things ( Death, Medicine,... Read more
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