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The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer - Hardcover

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Availability:Out of StockContributor:Siddhartha MukherjeePublish date:2010-11-16Pages:592
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Scribner Book CompanyISBN-13:9781439107959ISBN-10:1439107955UPC:9781439107959Book Category:MedicalBook Subcategory:Oncology, HistoryAward:2010 National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist - Nonfiction Award|2010 L.A. Times Book Prize Finalist - Science/Technology Award|2010 Discover Great New Writers Third Place - Nonfiction Award|2010 Books for a Better Life Winner - First Book Award|2011 Indies Choice Book Awards Finalist - Debut Author Award|2011 Pulitzer Prize Winner - Nonfiction Award|2011 Lukas Prize Project Finalist - Nonfiction Award|2011 Literary Award Winner - Science Award|2012 ALA Notable Books Winner - Nonfiction Award|2011 Guardian First Book Award Winner - First Book AwardSize:9.50 x 6.50 x 1.50 inchesWeight:1.9621Product ID:SC8NNZTDVS
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, adapted as a documentary from Ken Burns on PBS, this New York Times bestseller is "an extraordinary achievement" (The New Yorker)--a magnificent, profoundly humane "biography" of cancer.

Physician, researcher, and award-winning science writer, Siddhartha Mukherjee examines cancer with a cellular biologist's precision, a historian's perspective, and a biographer's passion. The result is an astonishingly lucid and eloquent chronicle of a disease humans have lived with--and perished from--for more than five thousand years.

The story of cancer is a story of human ingenuity, resilience, and perseverance, but also of hubris, paternalism, and misperception. Mukherjee recounts centuries of discoveries, setbacks, victories, and deaths, told through the eyes of his predecessors and peers, training their wits against an infinitely resourceful adversary that, just three decades ago, was thought to be easily vanquished in an all-out "war against cancer." The book reads like a literary thriller with cancer as the protagonist.

Riveting, urgent, and surprising, The Emperor of All Maladies provides a fascinating glimpse into the future of cancer treatments. It is an illuminating book that provides hope and clarity to those seeking to demystify cancer.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Scribner Book CompanyISBN-13:9781439107959ISBN-10:1439107955UPC:9781439107959Book Category:MedicalBook Subcategory:Oncology, HistoryAward:2010 National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist - Nonfiction Award|2010 L.A. Times Book Prize Finalist - Science/Technology Award|2010 Discover Great New Writers Third Place - Nonfiction Award|2010 Books for a Better Life Winner - First Book Award|2011 Indies Choice Book Awards Finalist - Debut Author Award|2011 Pulitzer Prize Winner - Nonfiction Award|2011 Lukas Prize Project Finalist - Nonfiction Award|2011 Literary Award Winner - Science Award|2012 ALA Notable Books Winner - Nonfiction Award|2011 Guardian First Book Award Winner - First Book AwardSize:9.50 x 6.50 x 1.50 inchesWeight:1.9621Product ID:SC8NNZTDVS
Siddhartha Mukherjee is the author of The Gene: An Intimate History, a #1 New York Times bestseller; The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer, winner of the 2011 Pulitzer Prize in general nonfiction; and The Laws of Medicine. He is the editor of Best Science Writing 2013. Mukherjee is an associate professor of medicine at Columbia University and a cancer physician and researcher. A Rhodes scholar, he graduated from Stanford University, University of Oxford, and Harvard Medical School. He has published articles in many journals, including Nature, The New England Journal of Medicine, Cell, The New York Times Magazine, and The New Yorker. He lives in New York with his wife and daughters. Visit his website at: SiddharthaMukherjee.com.
Publisher: Scribner Book Company

Awards

🏆 2010 National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist - Nonfiction Award|2010 L.A. Times Book Prize Finalist - Science/Technology Award|2010 Discover Great New Writers Third Place - Nonfiction Award|2010 Books for a Better Life Winner - First Book Award|2011 Indies Choice Book Awards Finalist - Debut Author Award|2011 Pulitzer Prize Winner - Nonfiction Award|2011 Lukas Prize Project Finalist - Nonfiction Award|2011 Literary Award Winner - Science Award|2012 ALA Notable Books Winner - Nonfiction Award|2011 Guardian First Book Award Winner - First Book Award

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