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

The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher by Lewis ThomasAnticipates the kind of writing that will appear more frequently as scientists take on poetic language in order to communicate human truths too mysterious for old fashioned commonsense. Elegant, suggestive & clarifying, Thomas' humane vision explores the world & examines the complex interdependence of all things. Extending beyond the usual limitations of biological science & into a vast world of hidden relationships, this book explores in personal,

or flights of fancy

But he can’t pull it off alone

A Gentleman in Moscow immerses us in another elegantly drawn era with the story of Count Alexander Rostov

but a living nightmare

Yusuf is thrown into the complexities of precolonial urban East Africa - a fascinating world in which Muslim black Africans

The Tattoo Murder is one of Japan’s most ingenious and legendary whodunits

translated and published in English in 2017

Amadea Morningstar

Over the past decade

Humans are the only species that can systematically harness energies outside their bodies

passion and violence

Wood learned that the students had few books in their library