Lewis Thomas

16 books

The Eloquent Essay: An Anthology of ClassicCreative Nonfiction by John Loughery, Amy Tan, Ellen Ullman, I.F. Stone, Edward Abbey, Ann S. Causey, Martin Luther King Jr., Bruno Bettelheim, George Orwell, Joan Didion, W.H. Auden, Opal Palmer Adisa, Eudora Welty, Pico Iyer, Carl Sagan, Lewis Thomas, Leo Marx, Barbara Kingsolver

The Eloquent Essay: An Anthology of ClassicCreative Nonfiction

John Loughery, Amy Tan, Ellen Ullman, I.F. Stone, Edward Abbey, Ann S. Causey, Martin Luther King Jr., Bruno Bettelheim, George Orwell, Joan Didion, W.H. Auden, Opal Palmer Adisa, Eudora Welty, Pico Iyer, Carl Sagan, Lewis Thomas, Leo Marx, Barbara Kingsolver

nonfiction classics essays informative reflective medium-paced

192 pages | first published 2000

Et Cetera, Et Cetera: Notes of a Word-Watcher by Lewis Thomas

Et Cetera, Et Cetera: Notes of a Word-Watcher

Lewis Thomas

nonfiction science challenging informative reflective slow-paced

197 pages | first published 1990

The Fragile Species by Lewis Thomas

The Fragile Species

Lewis Thomas

nonfiction essays science informative reflective medium-paced

193 pages | first published 1992

Granta 16: Science by Bill Buford

Granta 16: Science

Bill Buford with Oliver Sacks (Contributor), Dorothea Lynch (Contributor), Eugene Richards (Contributor), Thomas McMahon (Contributor), Italo Calvino (Contributor), Lewis Thomas (Contributor), William Broad (Contributor), Primo Levi (Contributor), Stephen Jay Gould (Contributor), Tim O'Brien (Contributor), Mary Gordon (Contributor), David Mamet (Contributor), Darryl Pinckney (Contributor), Ryszard Kapuściński (Contributor), Germaine Greer (Contributor), David Hare (Contributor), Christopher Hitchens (Contributor)

nonfiction essays literary science short stories informative medium-paced

256 pages | first published 1985

The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing by Rachel Carson, Colin Blakemore, George C. Williams, Steve Jones, D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson, Oliver Sacks, George Gaylord Simpson, C.P. Snow, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Sydney Brenner, Stephen Jay Gould, Helena Cronin, Theodosius Dobzhansky, Richard Dawkins, Maitland Armstrong Edey, Arthur Stanley Eddington, Edward O. Wilson, Richard Fortey, Freeman Dyson, Alister Hardy, Lewis Wolpert, Matt Ridley, J.B.S. Haldane, Martin J. Rees, David Lack, George Gamow, Jacob Bronowski, Peter Atkins, Loren Eiseley, Jared Diamond, Richard E. Leakey, Jonathan Kingdon, Robert Trivers, Fred Hoyle, Nicholas Humphrey, Steven Pinker, Barbara Gamow, Donald C. Johanson, Lewis Thomas, Francis Crick, Max F. Perutz, Nikolaas Tinbergen, John Tyler Bonner, Mark Ridley, John Maynard Smith, Richard Gregory, James Hopwood Jeans, Ronald A. Fisher, Roger Lewin, Peter Medawar, James Watson

The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing

Rachel Carson, Colin Blakemore, George C. Williams, Steve Jones, D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson, Oliver Sacks, George Gaylord Simpson, C.P. Snow, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Sydney Brenner, Stephen Jay Gould, Helena Cronin, Theodosius Dobzhansky, Richard Dawkins, Maitland Armstrong Edey, Arthur Stanley Eddington, Edward O. Wilson, Richard Fortey, Freeman Dyson, Alister Hardy, Lewis Wolpert, Matt Ridley, J.B.S. Haldane, Martin J. Rees, David Lack, George Gamow, Jacob Bronowski, Peter Atkins, Loren Eiseley, Jared Diamond, Richard E. Leakey, Jonathan Kingdon, Robert Trivers, Fred Hoyle, Nicholas Humphrey, Steven Pinker, Barbara Gamow, Donald C. Johanson, Lewis Thomas, Francis Crick, Max F. Perutz, Nikolaas Tinbergen, John Tyler Bonner, Mark Ridley, John Maynard Smith, Richard Gregory, James Hopwood Jeans, Ronald A. Fisher, Roger Lewin, Peter Medawar, James Watson

nonfiction essays science challenging informative slow-paced

419 pages | first published 2008

The Atheist and the Holy City: Encounters and Reflections by George Klein, Theodore Friedmann, Lewis Thomas, Ingrid Friedmann

The Atheist and the Holy City: Encounters and Reflections

George Klein, Theodore Friedmann, Lewis Thomas, Ingrid Friedmann

nonfiction informative reflective medium-paced

223 pages | first published 1990

Fragile Species by Lewis Thomas

Fragile Species

Lewis Thomas

nonfiction essays science challenging informative reflective medium-paced

208 pages | first published 1992

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

Late Night Thoughts on Listening to Mahler's Ninth Symphony

Lewis Thomas

nonfiction essays music science informative medium-paced

176 pages | first published 1983

A Life in Medicine: A Literary Anthology by Albert Schweitzer, Michael Weingarten, Rafael Campo, James Wright, Theodore Deppe, Randy-Michael Testa, Rachel Naomi Remen, Jerome Lowenstein, Cortney Davis, Robert Jay Lifton, Constance Meyd, David Hilfiker, Jeanne Bryner, Kirsten Emmott, Susan Onthank Mates, Veneta Masson, Robert Coles, Penny Armstrong, Mikhail Bulgakov, Abraham Verghese, David B. Nash, Terry Tempest Williams, Eric J. Cassel, Bernard Pomerance, Matt Dugan, Sheryl Feldman, Timothy J. Fisher, Alice Ilgenfritz Jones, Lorrie Moore, Audre Lorde, Rosalind Warren, John Stone, Raymond Carver, Lucia Cordell Getsi, Alyson Porter, Hart Crane, Walt Whitman, Lewis Thomas, Jeffrey R. Botkin, Judy Schaefer, Anne Fadiman, Lori Alviso Alvord, Shūsaku Endō, William Carlos Williams, Lawrence Grouse, Sarah Lentz, Anton Chekhov, Jean-Dominique Bauby, Joseph O'Connell, M. Brownell Anderson, Jack Coulehan

A Life in Medicine: A Literary Anthology

Albert Schweitzer, Michael Weingarten, Rafael Campo, James Wright, Theodore Deppe, Randy-Michael Testa, Rachel Naomi Remen, Jerome Lowenstein, Cortney Davis, Robert Jay Lifton, Constance Meyd, David Hilfiker, Jeanne Bryner, Kirsten Emmott, Susan Onthank Mates, Veneta Masson, Robert Coles, Penny Armstrong, Mikhail Bulgakov, Abraham Verghese, David B. Nash, Terry Tempest Williams, Eric J. Cassel, Bernard Pomerance, Matt Dugan, Sheryl Feldman, Timothy J. Fisher, Alice Ilgenfritz Jones, Lorrie Moore, Audre Lorde, Rosalind Warren, John Stone, Raymond Carver, Lucia Cordell Getsi, Alyson Porter, Hart Crane, Walt Whitman, Lewis Thomas, Jeffrey R. Botkin, Judy Schaefer, Anne Fadiman, Lori Alviso Alvord, Shūsaku Endō, William Carlos Williams, Lawrence Grouse, Sarah Lentz, Anton Chekhov, Jean-Dominique Bauby, Joseph O'Connell, M. Brownell Anderson, Jack Coulehan

nonfiction challenging informative medium-paced

352 pages | first published 2002

Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher by Lewis Thomas

Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher

Notes of a Biology Watcher #1

Lewis Thomas

nonfiction essays science challenging informative reflective slow-paced

160 pages | first published 1974