{"product_id":"the-lives-of-a-cell-isbn-9780140047431","title":"The Lives of a Cell","description":"Elegant, suggestive, and clarifying, Lewis Thomas's profoundly humane vision explores the world around us and examines the complex interdependence of all things.  Extending beyond the usual limitations of biological science and into a vast and wondrous world of hidden relationships, this provocative book explores in personal, poetic essays to topics such as computers, germs, language, music, death, insects, and medicine.  Lewis Thomas writes, \"Once you have become permanently startled, as I am, by the realization that we are a social species, you tend to keep an eye out for the pieces of evidence that this is, by and large, good for us.\"The Lives of a Cell\u003cbr\u003eThoughts for a Countdown\u003cbr\u003eOn Societies as Organisms\u003cbr\u003eA Fear of Pheromones\u003cbr\u003eThe Music of \u003ci\u003eThis\u003c\/i\u003e Sphere\u003cbr\u003eAn Earnest Proposal\u003cbr\u003eThe Technology of Medicine\u003cbr\u003eVibes\u003cbr\u003eCeti\u003cbr\u003eThe Long Habit\u003cbr\u003eAntaeus in Manhattan\u003cbr\u003eThe MBL\u003cbr\u003eAutonomy\u003cbr\u003eOrganelles as Organisms\u003cbr\u003eGerms\u003cbr\u003eYour Very Good Health\u003cbr\u003eSocial Talk\u003cbr\u003eInformation\u003cbr\u003eDeath in the Open\u003cbr\u003eNatural Science\u003cbr\u003eNatural Man\u003cbr\u003eThe Iks\u003cbr\u003eComputers\u003cbr\u003eThe Planning of Science\u003cbr\u003eSome Biomythology\u003cbr\u003eOn Various Words\u003cbr\u003eLiving Language\u003cbr\u003eOn Probability and Possibility\u003cbr\u003eThe World's Biggest Membranes\u003cbr\u003eReference Notes\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":46303776211173,"sku":"NP9780140047431","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780140047431.jpg?v=1767740285","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-lives-of-a-cell-isbn-9780140047431","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}