Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer

The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer

By Siddhartha Mukherjee

"This edition includes a new interview with the author"--P. [4] of cover.

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Publisher: Scribner Book Company
Publish Date: 11/16/2010
Pages: 592
ISBN-13: 9781439107959
ISBN-10: 1439107955
Language: English

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April 19, 2011

Seth Godin wrote last October that, "If there's justice, [Kevin Kelly's What Technology Wants] will win the Pulitzer Prize. And, while I think there remains some justice in the world regardless of the fact that it did not, we would agree that it deserved at least a nomination in the general nonfiction category (something another of our favorite books, Nicholas Carr's The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brain, did happily receive). But, I'm sure that the book that won the category—Siddhartha Mukherjee's The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer—is not at all undeserving. READ FULL DESCRIPTION

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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, and now a documentary from Ken Burns on PBS, The Emperor of All Maladies is a magnificent, profoundly humane "biography" of cancer--from its first documented appearances thousands of years ago through the epic battles

About the Author

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.

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