{"product_id":"late-night-thoughts-on-listening-to-mahlers-ninth-symphony-isbn-9780140243284","title":"Late Night Thoughts on Listening to Mahler's Ninth Symphony","description":"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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eProfoundly 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “If Wordsworth had gone to medical school, he might have produced something very like the essays of Lewis Thomas.”—\u003ci\u003eTIME\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “No one better exemplifies what modern medicine can be than Lewis Thomas.”—\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003eLate Night Thoughts on Listening to Mahler's Ninth Symphony - Lewis Thomas       The Unforgettable Fire\u003cbr\u003eThe Corner of the Eye\u003cbr\u003eMaking Science Work\u003cbr\u003eAlchemy\u003cbr\u003eClever Animals\u003cbr\u003eOn Smell\u003cbr\u003eMy Magical Metronome\u003cbr\u003eOn Speaking of Speaking\u003cbr\u003eSeven Wonders\u003cbr\u003eThe Artificial Heart\u003cbr\u003eThings Unflattened by Science\u003cbr\u003eBasic Science and the Pentagon\u003cbr\u003eScience and \"Science\"\u003cbr\u003eOn the Need for Asylums\u003cbr\u003eAltruism\u003cbr\u003eFalsity and Failure\u003cbr\u003eOn Medicine and the Bomb\u003cbr\u003eThe Problem of Dementia\u003cbr\u003eThe Lie Detector\u003cbr\u003eSome Scientific Advie\u003cbr\u003eThe Attic of the Brain\u003cbr\u003eHumanities and Science\u003cbr\u003eOn Matters of Doubt\u003cbr\u003eLate Night Thoughts on Listening to Mahler's Ninth Symphony\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cb\u003eLewis Thomas\u003c\/b\u003e was a physician, poet, etymologist, essayist, administrator, educator, policy advisor, and researcher. A graduate of Princeton University and Harvard Medical School, he was the dean of Yale Medical School and New York University School of Medicine, and the president of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Institute. He wrote regularly in the \u003ci\u003eNew England Journal of Medicine\u003c\/i\u003e, and his essays were published in several collections, including \u003ci\u003eThe Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher,\u003c\/i\u003e which won two National Book Awards and a Christopher Award, and \u003ci\u003eThe Medusa and the Snail,\u003c\/i\u003e which won the National Book Award in Science. He died in 1993.","brand":"Penguin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46299816591589,"sku":"NP9780140243284","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780140243284.jpg?v=1767731186","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/late-night-thoughts-on-listening-to-mahlers-ninth-symphony-isbn-9780140243284","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}