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Tato série esejů se ponořuje do hlubin přírodního světa s fascinující zvědavostí a lidským vhledem. Zkoumá složité vzájemné vztahy mezi všemi formami života, rozšiřuje hranice tradiční biologie. Autor s poetickou citlivostí pojednává o široké škále témat, od mikrobů po lidskou společnost, a hledá skrytá spojení, která nás všechny ovlivňují. Je to oslava úžasu nad komplexností existence a hluboké propojenosti vesmíru.

The Lives of a Cell
The Medusa and the Snail

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    The medusa is a tiny jellfish 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 a 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.

    The Medusa and the Snail