This was a great read, I had never heard of Newton Arvin before reading this and I can't say since reading it I've become a fan of his work - literary criticism isn't the lightest of reading - but it is his story that is interesting. The heart of this book is describing the lengths some will go to d...
Beautiful illustrations show what we look like from the inside out. Especially memorable are the comparative photos where one can see how like tree bone is, for instance, or how like moss-covered rocks are the cells inside the liver. Nature is parsimonious, and once something works it gets used and ...