Lewis Thomas

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

The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing

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

419 pages • first pub 2008 (editions)

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

The Atheist and the Holy City: Encounters and Reflections

George Klein, Theodore Friedmann, Lewis Thomas, Ingrid Friedmann

223 pages • first pub 1990 (editions)

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

The Eloquent Essay: An Anthology of Classic & Creative Nonfiction

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

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

A Life in Medicine: A Literary Anthology

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

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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Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher by Lewis Thomas

Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher

Notes of a Biology Watcher #1

Lewis Thomas

160 pages • first pub 1974 (editions)

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