{"product_id":"book-bso2","title":"The Emperor of All Maladies","description":"\u003cp\u003eWinner of the Pulitzer Prize, and now a documentary from Ken Burns on PBS, \u003ci\u003eThe Emperor of All Maladies\u003c\/i\u003e  is a magnificent, profoundly humane \"biography\" of cancer-from 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom  the Persian Queen Atossa, whose Greek slave may have cut off her  diseased breast, to the nineteenth-century recipients of primitive  radiation and chemotherapy to Mukherjee's own leukemia patient, Carla, \u003ci\u003eThe Emperor of All Maladies \u003c\/i\u003eis  about the people who have soldiered through fiercely demanding regimens  in order to survive-and to increase our understanding of this iconic  disease. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster Audio","offers":[{"title":"Audio CD","offer_id":49347500179760,"sku":"10bso2","price":65.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49347500146992,"sku":"BDbso2","price":29.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/bso2-cover.jpg?v=1765588186","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-bso2","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}