By American Psychological Association: Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association Sixth (6th) Edition

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The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer

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.

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 result is an astonishingly lucid and eloquent chronicle of a disease humans have lived with—and perished from—for more than five thousand years.

The 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. From the Persian Queen Atossa whose Greek slave cut off her malignant breast to the nineteenth-century recipients of primitive radiation and chemotherapy to Mukherjee’s own leukemia patient Carla The Emperor of All Maladies is about the people who have soldiered through fiercely demanding regimens in order to survive—and to increase our understanding of this iconic disease.

Riveting urgent and surprising The Emperor of All Maladies provides 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.

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Dream Psychology: Psychoanalysis for Beginners

Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) is commonly referred to as "the father of psychoanalysis" and his work has been highly influential popularizing such notions as the unconscious the Oedipus complex defense mechanisms Freudian slips and dream symbolism.[]

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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

Her name was Henrietta Lacks but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her slave ancestors yet her cells—taken without her knowledge—became one of the most important tools in medicine. The first “immortal” human cells grown in culture they are still alive today though she has been dead for more than sixty years. If you could pile all HeLa cells ever grown onto a scale they’d weigh more than 50 million metric tons—as much as a hundred Empire State Buildings. HeLa cells were vital for developing the polio vaccine; uncovered secrets of cancer viruses and the atom bomb’s effects; helped lead to important advances like in vitro fertilization cloning and gene mapping; and have been bought and sold by the billions.

Yet Henrietta Lacks remains virtually unknown buried in an unmarked grave.

Now Rebecca Skloot takes us on an extraordinary journey from the “colored” ward of Johns Hopkins Hospital in the 1950s to stark white laboratories with freezers full of HeLa cells; from Henrietta’s small dying hometown of Clover Virginia—a land of wooden slave quarters faith healings and voodoo—to East Baltimore today where her children and grandchildren live and struggle with the legacy of her cells.

Henrietta’s family did not learn of her “immortality” until more than twenty years after her death when scientists investigating HeLa began using her husband and children in research without informed consent. And though the cells had launched a multimillion-dollar industry that sells human biological materials her family never saw any of the profits. As Rebecca Skloot so brilliantly shows the story of the Lacks family—past and present—is inextricably connected to the dark history of experimentation on African Americans the birth of bioethics and the legal battles over whether we control the stuff we are made of.

Over the decade it took to uncover this story Rebecca became enmeshed in the lives of the Lacks family—especially Henrietta’s daughter Deborah who was devastated to learn about her mother’s cells. She was consumed with questions: Had scientists cloned her mother? Did it hurt her when researchers infected her cells with viruses and shot them into space? What happened to her sister Elsie who died in a mental institution at the age of fifteen? And if her mother was so important to medicine why couldn’t her children afford health insurance? 
          
Intimate in feeling astonishing in scope and impossible to put down The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks captures the beauty and drama of scientific discovery as well as its human consequences.

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Then Again

Mom loved adages quotes slogans. There were always little reminders pasted on the kitchen wall. For example the word THINK. I found THINK thumbtacked on a bulletin board in her darkroom. I saw it Scotch-taped on a pencil box she’d collaged. I even found a pamphlet titled THINK on her bedside table. Mom liked to THINK.
 
So begins Diane Keaton’s unforgettable memoir about her mother and herself. In it you will meet the woman known to tens of millions as Annie Hall but you will also meet and fall in love with her mother the loving complicated always-thinking Dorothy Hall. To write about herself Diane realized she had to write about her mother too and how their bond came to define both their lives. In a remarkable act of creation Diane not only reveals herself to us she also lets us meet in intimate detail her mother. Over the course of her life Dorothy kept eighty-five journals—literally thousands of pages—in which she wrote about her marriage her children and most probingly herself. Dorothy also recorded memorable stories about Diane’s grandparents. Diane has sorted through these pages to paint an unflinching portrait of her mother—a woman restless with intellectual and creative energy struggling to find an outlet for her talents—as well as her entire family recounting a story that spans four generations and nearly a hundred years.
 
More than the autobiography of a legendary actress Then Again is a book about a very American family with very American dreams. Diane will remind you of yourself and her bonds with her family will remind you of your own relationships with those you love the most.

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