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Late Night Thoughts on Listening to Mahler's Ninth Symphony

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Late Night Thoughts on Listening to Mahler's Ninth Symphony

This magnificent collection of essays by scientist and National Book Award-winning writer Lewis Thomas remains startlingly relevant for todayâ€™s world. Luminous, witty, and provocative, the essays address such topics as â€œThe Attic of the Brain,â€ â€œFalsity and Failure,â€ â€œAltruism,â€ and the effects the federal governmentâ€™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 abandonedâ€”and that even medicineâ€™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.

â€œIf Wordsworth had gone to medical school, he might have produced something very like the essays of Lewis Thomas.â€â€”TIME

â€œNo one better exemplifies what modern medicine can be than Lewis Thomas.â€â€”The New York Times Book Review
Country USA
Brand Penguin Books
Manufacturer Penguin Publishing Group
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 51586
Color Silver
ReleaseDate 1995-05-01
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780140243284

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