Late Night Thoughts on Listening to Mahler's Ninth Symphony - Softcover

Thomas, Lewis

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9780553345339: Late Night Thoughts on Listening to Mahler's Ninth Symphony

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ISBN 10: 0553345338 ISBN 13: 9780553345339

Publisher: Bantam Dell Pub Group, 1990

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A third collection of the physician-writer's essays explores the government's abandonment of support for scientific research, the folly of nuclear weaponry, and other topics of significance

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Lewis Thomas was a physician, poet, etymologist, essayist, administrator, educator, policy advisor, and researcher. A graduate of Princeton University and Harvard Medical School, he was the dean of Yale Medical School and New York University School of Medicine, and the president of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Institute. He wrote regularly in the New England Journal of Medicine, and his essays were published in several collections, including The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher, which won two National Book Awards and a Christopher Award, and The Medusa and the Snail, which won the National Book Award in Science. He died in 1993.

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