Celebraciones de la Vida

by René Dubos

Estudio cientifico de lo que la vida es y testimonio sobre la existencia del ser humano. El autor se remite a su propia vida y transfiere su experiencia explicando lo que sabe y lo que siente acerca de ciertos lugares y acontecimientos que han afectado particularmente su existencia. Analisis de las relaciones del ser humano con su ambiente, con los recursos materiales o con la evolucion biologica.

Genres: Nonfiction

421 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1981

About the author

René Jules Dubos was an American microbiologist, experimental pathologist, environmentalist, and humanist. He is credited as an author of the maxim, "Think globally, act locally".

Reviews

[Daniel · Rating 3 out of 5]

Rene Dubos was known for discovering the first proto-antibiotic, and in this book he coined the phrase "think globally, act locally." A brilliant, polymathic guy who offers readers a number of insights on biology, environmentalism, technology and its impact on our culture and happiness, and some eclectic reading recommendations (ranging from John Ruskin and Henry Adams, to Sartre and Camus, to Nicholas Rescher, others). In general, however, you have to be patient and really, uh, strip-mine this book for the nuggets of gold: they're in there, but the book is otherwise uneven and repetitive.