num_pages: 180
description: 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."
language: English
title: The Lives of a Cell
titlecomplete: The Lives of a Cell
genres: Medical, Biology, Science, Nature, Essays, Philosophy, Science Nature, Health, Medicine, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 10131
series: Notes of a Biology Watcher
awards: awardedAt: 157795200000
name: National Book Award
category: Arts and Letters & The Sciences
publisher: Bantam Books