The Medusa and the Snail: More Notes of a Biology Watcher - Hardcover

Thomas, Lewis

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0670465682 ISBN 13: 9780670465682

Publisher: Viking Pr, 1979

Synopsis

Astute observations on the fates of the medusa, a parasitical jellyfish, and the sea slug to which it attaches itself touch upon eternal issues of life and death

About this title

Product Description:

175 pages. Book and Jacket are both in Good condition. There is some light shelf and reading wear, but still a presentable copy.

About the Author:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Viking Pr
• Publication date: 1979
• ISBN 10: 0670465682
• ISBN 13: 9780670465682
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 175