Late Night Thoughts on Listening to Mahler's 9th Sympho

Late Night Thoughts on Listening to Mahler's Ninth Symphony - by Lewis Thomas.

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A collection of provocative essays by the bestselling author of The Lives of the Cell and The Youngest Science.

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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 of 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.

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If you are looking for a short, exquisite book about humanity and life and science (and the connection among all three) look no further. Lewis Thomas gives just the right touch, always keeping the writing at the educated layman's level.

Starting with an outdated plea for peace (the USSR was still semi-viable at this time) he touches on human senses - sight, smell, hearing, touch, language - and inserts a brilliant little chapter on his own Seven Modern Wonders. Essays on altruism, music in all its splendored forms and the brain follow. The last chapter is a requiem for life and the loss of life.

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A Penguin Paperback - 1995.

Cover as shown in the scanned pictures above.

Condition of book is 9/10 - some tiny stain dots on front cover..
Dog-eared - No
Yellow Sides - light even yellow.
Spline - very good - gently read once.

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