{"product_id":"9781439170915","title":"The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer (Pulitzer Prize Winner)","description":"\u003cb\u003eSelected as One of the Best Books of the 21st Century by \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the Pulitzer Prize, adapted as a documentary from Ken Burns on PBS, this \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestseller is “an extraordinary achievement” (\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e)—a magnificent, profoundly humane “biography” of cancer.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePhysician, 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThe 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eRiveting, urgent, and surprising, \u003ci\u003eThe Emperor of All Maladies \u003c\/i\u003eprovides 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.","brand":"Scribner","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42371241967677,"sku":"9781439170915","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/0838\/9949\/files\/9781439170915_p0.jpg?v=1771585466","url":"https:\/\/www.tatteredcover.com\/products\/9781439170915","provider":"Tattered Cover","version":"1.0","type":"link"}