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Hardback. Condition: Fair. This magnificent collection of essays by scientist and National Book Award-winning writer Lewis Thomas remains startlingly relevant for today's world. Luminous, witty, and provocative, the essays address such topics as The Attic of the Brain, Falsity and Failure, Altruism, and the effects the federal government's virtual abandonment of support for basic scientific research will have on medicine and science. Profoundly and powerfully, Thomas questions the folly of nuclear weaponry, showing that the brainpower and money spent on this endeavor are needed much more urgently for the basic science we have abandoned--and that even medicine's most advanced procedures would be useless or insufficient in the face of the smallest nuclear detonation. And in the title essay, he addresses himself with terrifying poignancy to the question of what it is like to be young in the nuclear age. If Wordsworth had gone to medical school, he might have produced something very like the essays of Lewis Thomas.--TIME No one better exemplifies what modern medicine can be than Lewis Thomas.--The New York Times Book Review. …

Hardback. Condition: Good. This magnificent collection of essays by scientist and National Book Award-winning writer Lewis Thomas remains startlingly relevant for today's world. Luminous, witty, and provocative, the essays address such topics as The Attic of the Brain, Falsity and Failure, Altruism, and the effects the federal government's virtual abandonment of support for basic scientific research will have on medicine and science. Profoundly and powerfully, Thomas questions the folly of nuclear weaponry, showing that the brainpower and money spent on this endeavor are needed much more urgently for the basic science we have abandoned--and that even medicine's most advanced procedures would be useless or insufficient in the face of the smallest nuclear detonation. And in the title essay, he addresses himself with terrifying poignancy to the question of what it is like to be young in the nuclear age. If Wordsworth had gone to medical school, he might have produced something very like the essays of Lewis Thomas.--TIME No one better exemplifies what modern medicine can be than Lewis Thomas.--The New York Times Book Review. …

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Condition: Good. [ No Hassle 30 Day Returns ][ Ships Daily ] [ Underlining/Highlighting: NONE ] [ Writing: NONE ] [ Edition: reprint ] Publisher: Viking Press Pub Date: 11/7/1983 Binding: Hardcover Pages: 168 reprint edition.

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Condition: Fair. [ No Hassle 30 Day Returns ][ Ships Daily ] [ Underlining/Highlighting: NONE ] [ Writing: SOME ] [ Torn pages: YES ] [ Edition: reprint ] Publisher: Viking Press Pub Date: 11/7/1983 Binding: Hardcover Pages: 168 reprint edition.

Hardback. Condition: Good. This is a collection of more than 250 wishes to make on a falling star. The authors claim that we have forgotten how to wish. We may make wishes on birthdays or on holidays, but adulthood steals our grand dreams of a better world. An excess of reason tempers our thoughts and deeds. Shoooting stars are there to help us. They look no bigger than our fingertips, yet their power is so great. Whatever we wish the moment we see them fall will surely come to pass. This book is filled with wishes gathered from school children across Germany and is intended to inspire everyone to wish on a star.…

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. This is a collection of more than 250 wishes to make on a falling star. The authors claim that we have forgotten how to wish. We may make wishes on birthdays or on holidays, but adulthood steals our grand dreams of a better world. An excess of reason tempers our thoughts and deeds. Shoooting stars are there to help us. They look no bigger than our fingertips, yet their power is so great. Whatever we wish the moment we see them fall will surely come to pass. This book is filled with wishes gathered from school children across Germany and is intended to inspire everyone to wish on a star.…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. When you're lying awake at 4 am, it's the perfect time for those deep and intrusive thoughts to surface. For Davia and S.P., it's the opportune time for self-reflection and immersive imagination. In their first collaboration, authors Davia Chin and S.P. Burrell introduce you to their innermost, late-night thoughts in this riveting poetry collection.…

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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. It is the end of an historical epoch, but to an old professor of physics, Victor Jakob, sitting in his unlighted study, eating dubious bread with jam made from turnips, it is the end of a way of thinking in his own subject. Younger men have challenged the classical world picture of physics and are looking forward to observational tests of Einstein's new theory of relativity as well as the creation of a quantum mechanics of the atom. It is a time of both apprehension and hope. In this remarkable book, the reader literally inhabits the mind of a scientist while Professor Jakob meditates on the discoveries of the past fifty years and reviews his own life and career--his scientific ambitions and his record of small successes. He recalls the great men who taught or inspired him: Helmholtz, Hertz, Maxwell, Planck, and above all Paul Drude, whose life and mind exemplified the classical virtues of proportion, harmony, and grace that Jakob reveres. In Drude's shocking and unexpected suicide, we see reflected Jakob's own bewilderment and loss of bearings as his once secure world comes to an end in the horrors of the war and in the cultural fragmentation wrought by twentieth-century modernism. His attempt to come to terms with himself, with his life in science, and with his spiritual legacy will affect deeply everyone who cares about the fragile structures of civilization that must fall before the onrush of progress.…

Paperback. Condition: Good. It is the end of an historical epoch, but to an old professor of physics, Victor Jakob, sitting in his unlighted study, eating dubious bread with jam made from turnips, it is the end of a way of thinking in his own subject. Younger men have challenged the classical world picture of physics and are looking forward to observational tests of Einstein's new theory of relativity as well as the creation of a quantum mechanics of the atom. It is a time of both apprehension and hope. In this remarkable book, the reader literally inhabits the mind of a scientist while Professor Jakob meditates on the discoveries of the past fifty years and reviews his own life and career--his scientific ambitions and his record of small successes. He recalls the great men who taught or inspired him: Helmholtz, Hertz, Maxwell, Planck, and above all Paul Drude, whose life and mind exemplified the classical virtues of proportion, harmony, and grace that Jakob reveres. In Drude's shocking and unexpected suicide, we see reflected Jakob's own bewilderment and loss of bearings as his once secure world comes to an end in the horrors of the war and in the cultural fragmentation wrought by twentieth-century modernism. His attempt to come to terms with himself, with his life in science, and with his spiritual legacy will affect deeply everyone who cares about the fragile structures of civilization that must fall before the onrush of progress.…