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Every year, the booksellers at Powell’s submit their Top Fives: their five favorite books that were released in 2023. It’s a list that, when put together, shows just how varied and interesting the book tastes of Powell’s booksellers are. I highly recommend digging into the recommendations — we would never lead you astray — but today...
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Emperor of All Maladies A Biography of Cancer
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Siddhartha Mukherjee
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, January 02, 2011
Dr. Mukherjee has filled a noticeable & frustrating gap in the cancer literature, which, except for a few books like Susan Love's book on breast cancer, seems to encompass two poles: popularly written "think positive" pep talks, and indecipherable (to the layperson)medical literature. Reading this book, I realized, for instance, why leukemia's over-production of white cells does not assist (as white cells usually do) the body's fight against infection--because these are immature white cells incapable of therapeutic function. Dr. M. also strikes a good balance between optimism about what cancer researchers may come up w/ in the future, in the way of new therapeutic & preventive drugs, and a warning about the thus-far intractable nature of cancer (its power of mutation). As a survivor now undergoing chemotherapy for the third time, I have no illusions about my ability to "get over" cancer, but I do appreciate the dedication of my doctors & all the researchers over the years whose struggles are so clearly & patiently chronicled by Dr. Mukherjee. He is that rare combination--a compassionate physician, a careful researcher, and a good writer.
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Stuff Of Thought Language as a Window Into Human Nature
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Steven Pinker
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, November 15, 2007
Once you read this book, you will never again (I hope!) dismiss an opponent's argument as "mere semantics." Not only does Pinker prove that shades of meaning among words are important (hardly a revolutionary insight), but he also shows how the meanings attached to certain words reveal structures in the brain that have nothing to do with language or the words we use--and this IS revolutionary! If you've ever wondered how human beings managed to think for nearly 3 million years before language was invented, this book will make that clear.
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