The Lives of a Cell
by Lewis Thomas | 
The Flight of the Iguana
by David Quammen | 
The Richness of Life
by Stephen Jay Gould | 
The Beauty of the Beastly
by Natalie Angier | 
Natural Acts
by David Quammen | 
The Flamingo's Smile
by Stephen Jay Gould | 
Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes
by Stephen Jay Gould | 
Wonders of Life
by Brian Cox | 
The Panda's Thumb
by Stephen Jay Gould | 
Ever Since Darwin
by Stephen Jay Gould | 
Resurrection Science: Conservation, De-Extinction and the Precarious Future of Wild Things
by M. R. O'Connor | 
Monkeyluv
by Robert M. Sapolsky |
The Unexpected Universe
by Loren Eiseley | 
The Tangled Tree
by David Quammen | 
Life at the Extremes
by Frances Ashcroft | 
Death by Black Hole
by Neil deGrasse Tyson | 
The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing
by Richard Dawkins | 
Darwin and Modern Science
by A. C. Seward | 
The Fragile Species
by Lewis Thomas | 
The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat
by Oliver Sacks |
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.