The Lives of a Cell

Notes of a Biology Watcher

De: Lewis Thomas

Narrado por: Grover Gardner

In The Lives of a Cell, Dr. Lewis Thomas opens up to the listener a universe of knowledge and perception that is perhaps not wholly unfamiliar to the research scientist; but the world he explores is also one of men and women, of complex interrelationships, old ironies, peculiar powers, and intricate languages that give identity to the alienated and direction to the dependent. This remarkable work offers a subtle, bold vision of humankind and the world around us - a sense of what gives life - from a writer who seems to draw grace and strength from the very substance of his subject, a man of wit and imagination who takes pleasure in and gives meaning to nearly everything he beholds.

Lewis Thomas was chairman of the Department of Pathology and Dean at Yale Medical School and president of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City. The Lives of a Cell won a National Book Award in 1974.

©1974 Lewis Thomas (P)1995 Blackstone Audiobooks

Sublime

Magnificent. Straight from mind of an extraordinary human beings to your ears. I cannot imagine any other content that is more enriching and thought provoking.

Amazing

The little and big miracles of our world. I couldn’t stop reading it! This book was recommended to me by a friend. I will get all his other books.

Fantastic musings from a profound thinker

Well narrated and covers a wide range of topics From medicine to paleontology to sociology

So enlightening and enjoyable!

This book had so many more topics related to the cell than simply a discourse on a little unit of physiology.

The author coneyed similarities between a cell as a unit of physiology as well as groups of beings that, as a collective, act as a cell.

I have listened twice and I'll listen again because each time I hear it, my perspectives on life and existence are enhanced.

Hard to believe this gem was published in 1974

The narration is up to Grover Gardner’s usual high standard. The book is beautifully written and full of amazing observations about our world and it’s inhabitants .Thomas presents his “wholistic” view in twenty eight succinct chapters that are informative
and engaging. The acclaim that greeted this publication in 1974 remains well deserved, this read
is time well spent.