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Notities van een biologie-watcher Reeks

Deze essayreeks duikt met diepe nieuwsgierigheid en humanistisch inzicht in de complexiteit van de natuurlijke wereld. Het onderzoekt de onderlinge afhankelijkheid van alle levende wezens, en verlegt de grenzen van de traditionele biologie. De auteur gebruikt poëtische en persoonlijke reflecties om een breed scala aan onderwerpen te onderzoeken, van microben tot de menselijke samenleving, en onthult de verborgen verbanden die ons allemaal verbinden. Het viert het wonder van het bestaan en onze diepe plaats in het universum.

The Lives of a Cell
The Medusa and the Snail

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    The Lives of a Cell

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    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
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    The Medusa and the Snail

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    The medusa is a tiny jellfish that lives on the ventral surface of a sea slug found in the Bay of Naples. Readers will find themselves caught up in the fate of the medusa and the snail as a metaphor for eternal issues of life and death as Lewis Thomas further extends the exploration of a man and his world begun in "The Lives of a Cell." Among the treasures in this magnificent book are essays on the human genius for making mistakes, on disease and natural death, on cloning, on warts, and on Montaigne, as well as an assessment of medical science and health care. In these essays and others, Thomas once again conveys his observations of the scientific world in prose marked by wonder and wit.

    The Medusa and the Snail