Lewis Thomas

20 books

Et Cetera, Et Cetera: Notes of a Word-Watcher by Lewis Thomas

Et Cetera, Et Cetera: Notes of a Word-Watcher

Lewis Thomas

197 pages • first pub 1990 (editions)

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Granta 16: Science by Bill Buford

Granta 16: Science

Granta #16

Bill Buford

256 pages • first pub 1985 (editions)

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The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing by Lewis Thomas, Richard Gregory, Francis Crick, Sydney Brenner, J.B.S. Haldane, George Gaylord Simpson, Arthur Stanley Eddington, Jonathan Kingdon, Nikolaas Tinbergen, Matt Ridley, Edward O. Wilson, Ronald A. Fisher, Robert Trivers, Loren Eiseley, Alister Hardy, Steven Pinker, David Lack, Jacob Bronowski, Freeman Dyson, Maitland Armstrong Edey, Fred Hoyle, Peter Atkins, D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson, James Watson, Stephen Jay Gould, Richard E. Leakey, Roger Lewin, Mark Ridley, Lewis Wolpert, Colin Blakemore, John Maynard Smith, John Tyler Bonner, Steve Jones, Richard Fortey, George C. Williams, Max F. Perutz, Martin J. Rees, Jared Diamond, Oliver Sacks, Theodosius Dobzhansky, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Richard Dawkins, P.B. Medawar, George Gamow, Rachel Carson, Helena Cronin, C.P. Snow, Donald C. Johanson, James Hopwood Jeans, Barbara Gamow, Nicholas Humphrey

The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing

Lewis Thomas, Richard Gregory, Francis Crick, Sydney Brenner, J.B.S. Haldane, George Gaylord Simpson, Arthur Stanley Eddington, Jonathan Kingdon, Nikolaas Tinbergen, Matt Ridley, Edward O. Wilson, Ronald A. Fisher, Robert Trivers, Loren Eiseley, Alister Hardy, Steven Pinker, David Lack, Jacob Bronowski, Freeman Dyson, Maitland Armstrong Edey, Fred Hoyle, Peter Atkins, D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson, James Watson, Stephen Jay Gould, Richard E. Leakey, Roger Lewin, Mark Ridley, Lewis Wolpert, Colin Blakemore, John Maynard Smith, John Tyler Bonner, Steve Jones, Richard Fortey, George C. Williams, Max F. Perutz, Martin J. Rees, Jared Diamond, Oliver Sacks, Theodosius Dobzhansky, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Richard Dawkins, P.B. Medawar, George Gamow, Rachel Carson, Helena Cronin, C.P. Snow, Donald C. Johanson, James Hopwood Jeans, Barbara Gamow, Nicholas Humphrey

419 pages • first pub 2008 (editions)

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The Atheist and the Holy City: Encounters and Reflections by Lewis Thomas, George Klein, Theodore Friedmann, Ingrid Friedmann

The Atheist and the Holy City: Encounters and Reflections

Lewis Thomas, George Klein, Theodore Friedmann, Ingrid Friedmann

223 pages • first pub 1990 (editions)

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The Eloquent Essay: An Anthology of Classic & Creative Nonfiction by Lewis Thomas, W.H. Auden, I.F. Stone, Edward Abbey, Edward Abbey, Amy Tan, Amy Tan, Barbara Kingsolver, Pico Iyer, George Orwell, Leo Marx, Opal Palmer Adisa, Ellen Ullman, Ann S. Causey, Martin Luther King Jr., Joan Didion, Bruno Bettelheim, Carl Sagan, Eudora Welty

The Eloquent Essay: An Anthology of Classic & Creative Nonfiction

Lewis Thomas, W.H. Auden, I.F. Stone, Edward Abbey, Edward Abbey, Amy Tan, Amy Tan, Barbara Kingsolver, Pico Iyer, George Orwell, Leo Marx, Opal Palmer Adisa, Ellen Ullman, Ann S. Causey, Martin Luther King Jr., Joan Didion, Bruno Bettelheim, Carl Sagan, Eudora Welty

192 pages • missing pub info (editions)

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Fragile Species by Lewis Thomas

Fragile Species

Lewis Thomas

208 pages • first pub 1992 (editions)

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The Fragile Species by Lewis Thomas by Lewis Thomas, Lewis Thomas
The Fragile Species by Lewis Thomas
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Lewis Thomas, Lewis Thomas

The Fragile Species by Lewis Thomas

Lewis Thomas, Lewis Thomas

missing page info • first pub 1992 (editions)

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Late Night Thoughts on Listening to Mahler's Ninth Symphony by Lewis Thomas

Late Night Thoughts on Listening to Mahler's Ninth Symphony

Lewis Thomas

176 pages • first pub 1983 (editions)

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A Life in Medicine: A Literary Anthology by Lewis Thomas, Alice Ilgenfritz Jones, Kirsten Emmott, Mikhail Bulgakov, Anne Fadiman, David Hilfiker, William Carlos Williams, Alyson Porter, Randy-Michael Testa, Veneta Masson, Judy Schaefer, Sheryl Feldman, Rosalind Warren, Joseph O'Connell, Audre Lorde, Robert Coles, Terry Tempest Williams, Theodore Deppe, Shūsaku Endō, Anton Chekhov, Abraham Verghese, Lucia Cordell Getsi, Robert Jay Lifton, Albert Schweitzer, Jeffrey R. Botkin, Jack Coulehan, Sarah Lentz, Jerome Lowenstein, Timothy J. Fisher, Raymond Carver, Walt Whitman, Lorrie Moore, Jeanne Bryner, Susan Onthank Mates, Lawrence Grouse, Matt Dugan, Penny Armstrong, M. Brownell Anderson, John Stone, Cortney Davis, Hart Crane, Rachel Naomi Remen, Constance Meyd, Eric J. Cassel, Michael Weingarten, David B. Nash, Rafael Campo, Lori Alviso Alvord, Bernard Pomerance, James Wright, Jean-Dominique Bauby

A Life in Medicine: A Literary Anthology

Lewis Thomas, Alice Ilgenfritz Jones, Kirsten Emmott, Mikhail Bulgakov, Anne Fadiman, David Hilfiker, William Carlos Williams, Alyson Porter, Randy-Michael Testa, Veneta Masson, Judy Schaefer, Sheryl Feldman, Rosalind Warren, Joseph O'Connell, Audre Lorde, Robert Coles, Terry Tempest Williams, Theodore Deppe, Shūsaku Endō, Anton Chekhov, Abraham Verghese, Lucia Cordell Getsi, Robert Jay Lifton, Albert Schweitzer, Jeffrey R. Botkin, Jack Coulehan, Sarah Lentz, Jerome Lowenstein, Timothy J. Fisher, Raymond Carver, Walt Whitman, Lorrie Moore, Jeanne Bryner, Susan Onthank Mates, Lawrence Grouse, Matt Dugan, Penny Armstrong, M. Brownell Anderson, John Stone, Cortney Davis, Hart Crane, Rachel Naomi Remen, Constance Meyd, Eric J. Cassel, Michael Weingarten, David B. Nash, Rafael Campo, Lori Alviso Alvord, Bernard Pomerance, James Wright, Jean-Dominique Bauby

352 pages • first pub 2002 (editions)

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The Lives of a Cell by Lewis Thomas, Lewis Thomas
The Lives of a Cell
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Lewis Thomas, Lewis Thomas

The Lives of a Cell

Lewis Thomas, Lewis Thomas

180 pages • first pub 1974 (editions)

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