![]() ![]() 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 story of cancer is a story of human ingenuity, resilience, and perseverance, but also of hubris, paternalism, and misperception. 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. 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 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 in the twentieth century to cure, control, and conquer it to a radical new understanding of its essence. An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found here and here. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() I'm glad I'm one of the few that picked up the book for what it was about and knew nothing about Ester. If someone inspires you to write a book about them then I'm all for that, but this just seemed weird. Yes, he wrote a great introduction but reading about how he used Ester to write his own book turned me right off. The only thing that turned me off is finding out the stuff about John Green. Well obviously I felt I had to read it right then and I did! I found this book and realized it was about a girl that died of cancer. I have had the hardback forever! I felt like God (yeah, GOD!) sent me back to that shelf for one more go around. I started getting mad and just grabbing a lot of books for mom to sell Monday before we go in the afternoon to get a mold of my pelvis. I have been trying to read as many as possible before my own fight against cancer begins in a week. I have had this book and hundreds of books on my shelves forever. This book made me cry in places and smile in others. I have sat here forever trying to figure out what to say. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It's the second book in the Bennett Sisters Series. Open Hearts is a full-length contemporary novel by critically acclaimed author Eve Dangerfield. Definitely not the hot guy crashing with her sister Julia while he ‘sorts some things out.’īut maybe she can still have a little fun until she finds a donor. Nothing is going to stop Ash from getting what she wants. Awesome Talent.” USA Today bestselling author Amy Andrews “Well, Eve Dangerfield did it again! Kept me up until 2am and in bed till midday reading Open Hearts. ![]() No, she’s ready to start her family and if she can’t find a respectable, self-sufficient man to do it with then she’ll just do it by herself. No more dating disasters, no more wannabe Prince Charmings. “Romantic comedy gold with the added bonus of being f**k hot.” New York Times bestselling author Tessa BaileyĪshley Bennett knows what she wants. So why does the girl of his dreams keep insisting he’s not ‘the one?’ Dean Sherwood is the sweetest, kindest, most ditzy Himbo you’ll ever meet. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() There's no doubt that the author of Les Miserables knew how to tell a story. It's no wonder the movie was so good: Dark or not, it was still based on a Victor Hugo novel. But somehow, Disney gave them the green light, and they went on to make one of the greatest musical masterpieces of all time. Throw in the whole plotline where Judge Frollo is driven to insanity and burns down Paris because of his lust for the gypsy Esmeralda, and it seems like an easy "nope" from any children's studio.Įven the directors and production team for the film doubted whether it would work as a Disney movie when they pitched it. ![]() It was a strange choice for sure: A story about a corrupt priest (who Disney turned into a judge to avoid upsetting the church) raises a deformed gypsy child in a church attic while making it his life mission to extinguish all gypsies from the city of Paris, doesn't exactly sound like a good story to make for kids. ![]() There's no accounting for why Disney decided to make an animated version of a Victor Hugo novel where everyone dies at the end. ![]() ![]() A man named Ferdyshchenko also rents a room in the apartment. He shares the apartment with Ganya and Ganya's family, including his sister Varya, his mother Nina, his teenage brother Kolya, and his father General Ivolgin. Nastasya is Totsky's mistress and, due to her sullied reputation, Totsky has promised Ganya a large sum of money if he marries Nastasya and averts the scandal. Not only is the ambitious Ganya actually in love with Aglaya, but he must also deal with an aristocrat named Totsky. As the General and Ganya talk, Myshkin overhears Ganya discuss his plans to marry Nastasya Filippovna. Myshkin rents a room from the General's assistant, Ganya. He meets Madame Epanchin and their three daughters: Alexandra, Adelaida, and Aglaya. Myshkin visits the Epanchin home and charms his way into a job with the family patriarch, General Epanchin. Rogozhin explains his plan to use his new wealth to seduce a young woman named Nastasya Filippovna. On the train, Myshkin meets Rogozhin, who has recently inherited a fortune, and a young clerk named Lebedev. He rides the train to Saint Petersburg to visit the Epanchin family, distant relatives whom he hopes will be able to help him. After spending several years in Switzerland to receive treatment for epilepsy, he returns to Russia as a penniless, pitiable figure. ![]() Prince Lev Myshkin is a young man from one of Russia's oldest, most aristocratic families. ![]() ![]() ![]() Wilbur Smith was born in Central Africa in 1933. Taita must be set free, Utteric must be stopped, and Egypt must be reclaimed. To a good man like Rameses, there is no choice. With Taita's imprisonment, Rameses is forced to make a choice: help Taita escape and forsake his brother, or remain silent and condone Utteric's tyranny. Pharaoh Utteric is young, weak, and cruel, and threatened by Taita's influence within the palace- especially his friendship with Utteric's younger and worthier brother, Rameses. Tamose is dead and a poisonous new era has begun. ![]() ![]() But upon his victorious return to Luxor, Taita is seized and branded a traitor. With the timely arrival of an old ally, the tide is turned and the Egyptian army feasts upon its retreating foe. The ex-slave, now general of Tamose's armies, is never more ingenious than when all hope is dashed. Taita prepares for the enemy's final, fatal push. ![]() ![]() ![]() While a painting, even one that meets photographic standards of resemblance, is never more than the stating of an interpretation, a photograph is never less than the registering of an emanation (light waves reflected by objects) - a material vestige of its subject in a way that no painting can be. ![]() Such images are indeed able to usurp reality because first of all a photograph is not only an image (as a painting is an image), and interpretation of the real, it is also a trace, something directly stenciled off the real, like a footprint or a death mask. the images that have virtually unlimited authority in a modern society are mainly photographic images and the scope of that authority stems from the properties peculiar to images taken by cameras. ![]() ![]() ![]() Today's statistics show that women find only 4.5% of men attractive…attractive enough to initiate a dialogue with them. The average guy is overweight, underemployed, low-or-no education, rudderless and purposeless in life and love. Game is a craft that sets Players apart from Average men. We need a Players Handbook to guide the practice of all Game.ĭrawing on over 20 years of evolutionary psychology, biology, sociology, and anthropology, The Players Handbook fluidly addresses the natures of men and women’s intersexual dynamics. We need a reference manual for all dating coaches, relationship experts, as well as married men and would-be Players. ![]() We need a modern Game textbook based on empirical, 21st-century data, not emotional hopefulness. While the rapid conditions of that marketplace are in constant change, the human-machine does not. Game is an adaptive set of social skills and best practices in navigating intersexual dynamics in a modern sexual marketplace. ![]() It’s not an instruction manual – it is the missing textbook on Game and understanding intersexual dynamics. ![]() The Players Handbook is not a "how-to" book, it's a "why-it-works" book. In this final master-work of The Rational Male Series, Rollo Tomassi breaks down the fundamental mechanics of Game, intersexual social skills, and the nuts & bolts psychology that makes it work. The Rational Male – The Players Handbook ![]() ![]() As their lives entwine, unravel and erupt - as myth merges with reality - both Ren and the soldier are forced to confront what they regret, what they love, and what they fear. But when a young soldier comes to the mountains in search of a legendary creature, Ren is inexorably drawn into an impossible mission. ![]() High on the forest slopes, she survives by hunting and trading - and forgetting. It's sad and satisfying.' The times Ren lives alone on the remote frontier of a country devastated by a coup. Economy and grace, the rain Heron is a timeless and poignant meditation on our fragile relationship with the natural environment.' guardian 'arnott's eco-fable, set in a politically broken near future, explores the constant push-pull that exists between our capacity for enchantment and our need to exploit what we find. ![]() ![]() The other is a new killer, one who just started murdering people in Jazz's own town. One is the protagonist's father, Dear Old Dad, who killed over 120 people and is now in prison. Barry Lyga created a fun friendship, a believable relationship (and interracial, which is exciting to note as interracial relationships are few and far between in YA), and two pretty darn scary serial killers. So it was with a certain excitement that I started reading I Hunt Killers. This is the stuff nightmares are made of. Ed Gein dug up dead bodies and made a belt out of nipples. Ted Bundy kept the decapitated heads of his victims in his house as mementos. Elizabeth Báthory allegedly bathed in the blood of virgins to retain her youth. I am perpetually fascinated by the stories that seem too far-fetched to be true. I love reading about and researching serial killers. ![]() |