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24 alternatives to The Emperor of Maladies

Riveting book on the progress of cancer research.

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. The Emperor of Maladies launched in 2016; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    Medicine and What Matters in the End

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    A brief history of humankind

    2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

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    Scientist disccuses her cancer research & scientific journey

    2016 · content.libsyn.com · its alternatives →

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    Ridding the world of diseases forever?

    2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

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    How Science Will Shape Human Destiny and Our Daily Lives by

    2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

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    My genome: My life

    2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

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    The Google For Genomic Data

    2014 · onecodex.com · its alternatives →

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    When humans transcend biology

    2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

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    Humanity is on the cusp of an exciting longevity revolution

    2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

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    Genome▲78

    The autobiography of a species in 23 chapters

    2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

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    A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work & Think

    2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

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    A dazzling clutch of scientific minds caught in mid-thought.

    2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

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    The impact of the highly improbable

    2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

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    Wait▲74

    The art and science of delay

    2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

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    Transform Culture, Empower People, and Shape the Future

    2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

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    Head-snapping ambition and heart-stopping power

    2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

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    An amazing chronicle of how human beings can change.

    2015 · stevenpinker.com · its alternatives →

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    A must-read book for anyone interested in Stoicism

    2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

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    How we dream up things that change the world

    2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

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    Practical tools we can use to track and improve our biology

    2016 · thequantifiedbody.net · its alternatives →

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    Exploration of the Nature and Progress of Knowledge

    2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

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    A book for anyone interested in the human heart

    2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

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    The remarkable story of risk

    2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

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    Health, wealth, and the origins of inequality

    2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

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