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*Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction 2016* The Gene is the story of one of the most powerful and dangerous ideas in our history, from bestselling, prize-winning author Siddhartha Mukherjee. Spanning the globe and several centuries, The Gene is the story of the quest to...

WINNER OF THE GUARDIAN FIRST BOOK AWARD 2011 WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2011 ‘Profound, eloquent and searching’ SUNDAY TIMES ‘Essential reading’ INDEPENDENT ‘Masterly’ GUARDIAN ‘Extraordinary’ NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW Riveting, audacious and now more urgent...

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE * A NEW YORK TIMES TOP 100 BOOK OF THE CENTURY * A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR * A TIME ALL-TIME 100 NONFICTION BOOK Updated with FOUR NEW MAJOR CHAPTERS illuminating the new developments in cancer detection, prevention, treatment, and...

2017 Audie Award Finalist for Non-Fiction The #1 NEW YORK TIMES Bestseller The basis for the PBS Ken Burns Documentary The Gene: An Intimate History From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Emperor of All Maladies—a fascinating history of the gene and “a magisterial account of how...

Essential, required reading for doctors and patients alike: A Pulitzer Prize-winning author and one of the world’s premiere cancer researchers reveals an urgent philosophy on the little-known principles that govern medicine—and how understanding these principles can empower us all. Over a...

Com a precisão de um biólogo, a visão de um historiador e a paixão de um biógrafo, o oncologista Siddhartha Mukherjee traça uma biografia detalhada do câncer, do primeiro registro às mais avançadas pesquisas, últimas descobertas e expectativas para o futuro, abrindo caminho para a desmitificação dessa doença tão temida.

Oncologist and cancer gene hunter Theo Ross delivers the first authoritative go-to for people facing a genetic predisposition for cancer. This book empowers listeners to face their genetic heritage without fear and to make decisions that will keep them and their families healthy.

Code Gray is a “provocative and meaningful” (Theresa Brown, New York Times bestselling author of Healing) narrative-driven medical memoir that places you directly in the crucible of urgent life-or-death decision-making, offering insights that can help us cope at a time when the world around...

Krebs ist ein Überlebenskünstler: Er verändert sich, er passt sich an, er entwickelt sich weiter, er wächst. Er ist uns biologisch so nahe, dass wir uns oft selbst zerstören, wenn wir ihn vernichten. Die Suche nach der "Heilung" von Krebs hat sich allmählich zum Maßstab unseres wissenschaftlichen und medizinischen Fortschritts entwickelt. In seinem bahnbrechenden und preisgekrönten Werk erzählt der renommierte Onkologe Siddhartha Mukherjee die faszinierende Geschichte der Beziehung zwischen Mensch und Krebs.

A groundbreaking book about the past, present, and future of pandemics, and a behind-the-scenes portrait of the intrepid and innovative community of scientists working tirelessly to stop the next one before it starts In 1955, the vaccine that eliminated polio was celebrated as a “planned...