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
Price: 24.03 USD
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Author: Lewis Thomas
ISBN: 9780140243284

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Lewis Thomas

9780140243284

Penguin Publishing Group

English

tapa blanda

5/1/1995

168 pages

19.7 x 12.9 x 1 cm

180 g

Synopsis of Late Night Thoughts on Listening to Mahler's Ninth Symphony

«Late Night Thoughts on Listening to Mahler's Ninth Symphony» is Lewis Thomas's collection of essays, published by Penguin, in paperback (168 pages).

Scientist and writer Lewis Thomas brings together essays on science, medicine, and society, such as 'The Attic of the Brain' and 'Altruism'. He criticizes the abandonment of federal support for basic research and spending on nuclear weapons; the title essay addresses youth in the nuclear age.

Work originally published in 1983; this 1995 paperback edition is in English. Lewis Thomas also wrote The Lives of a Cell, winner of the National Book Award.

For readers of scientific and philosophical essays, interested in the relationship between science, medicine, and society and in the work of Lewis Thomas.