Siddhartha Mukherjee:The Emperor of All Maladies
- Paperback 2011, ISBN: 9780007250929
Winner of the Guardian First Book Award 2011 Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Non-fiction 2011 Shortlisted for the Duff Cooper Prize 2011 Shortlisted for the Wellcome Trust Book Prize In … More...
Winner of the Guardian First Book Award 2011 Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Non-fiction 2011 Shortlisted for the Duff Cooper Prize 2011 Shortlisted for the Wellcome Trust Book Prize In The Emperor of All Maladies, Siddhartha Mukherjee, doctor, researcher and award-winning science writer, 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, arrogance and misperception, all leveraged against a disease that, just three decades ago, was thought to be easily vanquished in an all-out 'war against cancer'. Mukherjee recounts centuries of discoveries, setbacks, victories and deaths, told through the eyes of predecessors and peers, training their wits against an infinitely resourceful adversary. From the Persian Queen Atossa, whose Greek slave cut off her malignant breast, to the nineteeth-century recipient of primitive radiation and chemotherapy and Mukherjee's own leukemia patient, Carla, The Emperor of All Maladies is about the people who have soldiered through toxic, bruising, and draining regimes to survive and to increase the store of human knowledge. Riveting and magesterial, The Emperor of All Maladies provides a fascinating glimpse into the future of cancer treatments and a brilliant new perspective on the way doctors, scientists, philosophers and lay people have observed and understood the human body for millennia. Bücher > Fremdsprachige Bücher > Englische Bücher > Preisgekrönte Bücher > Sachbuch;Bücher > Fremdsprachige Bücher > Englische Bücher > Sach- & Fachbücher > Naturwissenschaften & Technik;Bücher > Fremdsprachige Bücher > Englische Bücher > Sach- & Fachbüch 12.8 cm x 19.8 cm x 4.1 cm mm , HarperCollins, Taschenbuch, HarperCollins<
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Mukherjee, Siddhartha:The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
- Paperback 2011, ISBN: 9780007250929
4th Estate, London, 2011. First Edition. Softcover. Fine Condition. Seventh impression. Size: Small Octavo. 585 pages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, un… More...
4th Estate, London, 2011. First Edition. Softcover. Fine Condition. Seventh impression. Size: Small Octavo. 585 pages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Pages are lightly toned throughout. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. In fine unread condition. The book is available and will be PACKAGED professionally, DISPATCHED promptly and a TRACKING NUMBER will be advised by Australia Post.. The Emperor of All Maladies is a magnificent, profoundly humane "biography" of cancerfrom its first documented appearances thousands of years ago through the epic battles in the twentieth century to cure, control, and conquer it to a radical new understanding of its essence. 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 withand perished fromfor 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. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Science & Technology; Biology; United States; Modern; History. ISBN: . ISBN/EAN: 9780007250929. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 10387. . 9780007250929, 4th Estate, 2011, 5<
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Mukherjee, Siddhartha:The Emperor of All Maladies
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Winner of the Guardian First Book Award 2011 Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Non-fiction 2011 A magnificent, beautifully written biography of cancer -- from its first documented appearan… More...
Winner of the Guardian First Book Award 2011 Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Non-fiction 2011 A magnificent, beautifully written biography of cancer -- from its first documented appearances thousands of years ago through the epic battles to cure, control and conquer it, to a radical new understanding of its essence. In The Emperor of All Maladies, Siddhartha Mukherjee, doctor, researcher and award-winning science writer, 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, arrogance and misperception, all leveraged against a disease that, just three decades ago, was thought to be easily vanquished in an all-out 'war against cancer'. Mukherjee recounts centuries of discoveries, setbacks, victories and deaths, told through the eyes of predecessors and peers, training their wits against an infinitely resourceful adversary. From the Persian Queen Atossa, whose Greek slave cut off her malignant breast, to the nineteeth-century recipient of primitive radiation and chemotherapy and Mukherjee's own leukemia patient, Carla, The Emperor of All Maladies is about the people who have soldiered through toxic, bruising, and draining regimes to survive and to increase the store of human knowledge.Riveting and magesterial, The Emperor of All Maladies provides a fascinating glimpse into the future of cancer treatments and a brilliant new perspective on the way doctors, scientists, philosophers and lay people have observed and understood the human body for millennia. Buch, Fourth Estate / HarperCollins UK<
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Mukherjee, Siddhartha:The Emperor of All Maladies | Siddhartha Mukherjee | Taschenbuch | 586 S. | Englisch | 2011 | Harper Collins Publ. UK | EAN 9780007250929
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[ED: Taschenbuch], [PU: Harper Collins Publ. UK], Paperback edition of the history of cancer, from its first documented appearances thousands of years ago through the epic battles to cure, control and conquer it, to a radical new understanding of its essence. 'The notion of 'popular science' doesn't come close to describing this achievement. It is literature.' "Observer", DE, [SC: 0.00], Neuware, gewerbliches Angebot, 573, [GW: 444g], PayPal, [CT: Sonstiges / Sonstiges]<
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