« previous 1 2 next » sort by « previous 1 2 next » Note: these are all the books on Goodreads for this author. shelved 616,092 times Showing 30 distinct works. Yes, some of the sections do sag - the middle chunk is a retread of my undergraduate courses biochemistry and biophysics - but the book comes back to life in the final third, where all of its wonderful traits are on full display. Books by Siddhartha Mukherjee (Author of The Emperor of All Maladies) Books by Siddhartha Mukherjee Siddhartha Mukherjee Average rating 4.32 The author describes Gregor Mendel, a meticulous monk who used plants to investigate the secrets of heredity, as “a man of habits among men in habits” who was brave enough to “give peas a chance” and throws in references to decidedly unscientific sources: Lady Gaga, X-Men, even Snoop Dogg. Few people can make human evolution funny, but apparently Mukherjee is one of them. , ***½ out of four stars), we see something different: humor. In Emperor a quiet rage suffuses the text - anger at the dirty tricks of the tobacco industry, sadness wrought by the devastating effects of an unrelenting disease - but in The Gene (Scribner, 608 pp. Is it fair to compare Siddhartha Mukherjee's new book The Gene: An Intimate History to The Emperor of All Maladies, his 2010 masterpiece tracing the history of cancer? Both beautifully navigate a sea of complicated medical information in a way that is digestible, poignant, and engaging there is consistency in scope and structure between the two.
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