Late Night Thoughts On Listening To Mahler S Ninth Symphony
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Late Night Thoughts On Listening To Mahler S Ninth Symphony
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Author : Lewis Thomas
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 1995-05-01
Late Night Thoughts On Listening To Mahler S Ninth Symphony written by Lewis Thomas and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995-05-01 with Science categories.
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
Late Night Thoughts On Listening To Mahler S Ninth Symphony
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Author : Lewis Thomas
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 1995-05-01
Late Night Thoughts On Listening To Mahler S Ninth Symphony written by Lewis Thomas and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995-05-01 with Science categories.
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
The Lives Of A Cell
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Author : Lewis Thomas
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 1978-02-23
The Lives Of A Cell written by Lewis Thomas and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1978-02-23 with Science categories.
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 Youngest Science
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Author : Lewis Thomas
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 1995-05-01
The Youngest Science written by Lewis Thomas and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995-05-01 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
From the 1920s when he watched his father, a general practitioner who made housecalls and wrote his prescriptions in Latin, to his days in medical school and beyond, Lewis Thomas saw medicine evolve from an art into a sophisticated science. The Youngest Science is Dr. Thomas's account of his life in the medical profession and an inquiry into what medicine is all about--the youngest science, but one rich in possibility and promise. He chronicles his training in Boston and New York, his war career in the South Pacific, his most impassioned research projects, his work as an administrator in hospitals and medical schools, and even his experiences as a patient. Along the way, Thomas explores the complex relationships between research and practice, between words and meanings, between human error and human accomplishment, More than a magnificent autobiography, The Youngest Science is also a celebration and a warning--about the nature of medicine and about the future life of our planet.
Fragile Species
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Author : Lewis Thomas
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 1996-11
Fragile Species written by Lewis Thomas and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996-11 with Science categories.
The author's insights about a variety of natural phenomena contribute to our understanding of some of the great medical puzzles of the era. -- Back cover.
The Medusa And The Snail
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Author : Lewis Thomas
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 1995-01-01
The Medusa And The Snail written by Lewis Thomas and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995-01-01 with Science categories.
The medusa is a tiny jellyfish 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 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.
Gustav Mahler S Symphonic Landscapes
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Author : Thomas Peattie
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2015-04-06
Gustav Mahler S Symphonic Landscapes written by Thomas Peattie and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-04-06 with History categories.
In this study Thomas Peattie offers a new account of Mahler's symphonies by considering the composer's reinvention of the genre in light of his career as a conductor and more broadly in terms of his sustained engagement with the musical, theatrical, and aesthetic traditions of the Austrian fin de siècle. Drawing on the ideas of landscape, mobility, and theatricality, Peattie creates a richly interdisciplinary framework that reveals the uniqueness of Mahler's symphonic idiom and its radical attitude toward the presentation and ordering of musical events. The book goes on to identify a fundamental tension between the music's episodic nature and its often-noted narrative impulse and suggests that Mahler's symphonic dramaturgy can be understood as a form of abstract theatre.
Scales To Scalpels
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Author : Lisa Wong
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2021-11-15
Scales To Scalpels written by Lisa Wong and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-11-15 with Music categories.
A Simon & Schuster eBook. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every reader.
After Mahler
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Author : Stephen Downes
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2013-09-19
After Mahler written by Stephen Downes and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-09-19 with Music categories.
The music of Gustav Mahler repeatedly engages with Romantic notions of redemption. This is expressed in a range of gestures and procedures, shifting between affirmative fulfilment and pessimistic negation. In this groundbreaking study, Stephen Downes explores the relationship of this aspect of Mahler's music to the output of Benjamin Britten, Kurt Weill and Hans Werner Henze. Their initial admiration was notably dissonant with the prevailing Zeitgeist – Britten in 1930s England, Weill in 1920s Germany and Henze in 1950s Germany and Italy. Downes argues that Mahler's music struck a profound chord with them because of the powerful manner in which it raises and intensifies dystopian and utopian complexes and probes the question of fulfilment or redemption, an ambition manifest in ambiguous tonal, temporal and formal processes. Comparisons of the ways in which this topic is evoked facilitate new interpretative insights into the music of these four major composers.
Et Cetera Et Cetera
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Author : Lewis Thomas
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000
Et Cetera Et Cetera written by Lewis Thomas and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with English language categories.
One of the best writiers of short essays in English.--Newsweek