Up Front: E-Book Best Sellers

By THE EDITORS

Published: February 11, 2011

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This week we introduce our revamped best-seller lists, the result of many months of planning, research and design.

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There are two entirely new lists in our print edition. One consists of rankings (fiction and nonfiction) that combine print and e-book sales; the other is limited exclusively to e-book sales (fiction and nonfiction). All the other lists, though presented in reworked formats, will be familiar to readers. There is one additional change, however: beginning this week the children’s best-seller lists, which had appeared in print once a month, will be published each week. Readers will find the Book Review’s related columns — TBR: Inside the List, Editors’ Choice and Paperback Row, all written by Book Review editors ­— in their accustomed places. On the Web, a third new list will track combined print sales (hardcover and paperback) in fiction andnonfiction. Extended rankings, a full methodology and a list archive are also available online.

As before, The Times’s News Surveys department, which directs the paper’s polling operations, including its political and election polls, will collect and analyze the data reflected in each list.

A version of this article appeared in print on February 13, 2011, on page BR4 of the Sunday Book Review.

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'J. D. Salinger: A Life'

By KENNETH SLAWENSKI
Reviewed by JAY McINERNEY

The great achievement of Kenneth Slawenski's reverent biography, coming just a year after Salinger's death, is its evocation of the horror ofhis experiences in World War II. his experiences in World War II.

'Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother'

By AMY CHUA
Reviewed by SUSAN DOMINUS

Amy Chua preaches tough love and high expectations in a memoir about the lengths she went to in pushing her daughters to excel.

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'Osama bin Laden'

By MICHAEL SCHEUER
Reviewed by FOUAD AJAMI

An ex-C.I.A. bin Laden hunter worries about U.S. complacency.

'The Gospel of Anarchy'

By JUSTIN TAYLOR
Reviewed by DAN KOIS

The rise and fall of an anarchist collective is the subject of Justin Taylor's first novel.

'Henry's Demons'

By PATRICK COCKBURN and HENRY COCKBURN
Reviewed by DARIN STRAUSS

A father reports on, and a son describes, the experience of schizophrenia.

'I Think I Love You'

By ALLISON PEARSON
Reviewed by ALEXANDRA JACOBS

In this novel, a teenager's crush on David Cassidy helps shape the rest of her life.

'The Second Son'

By JONATHAN RABB
Reviewed by TARA McKELVEY

A German detective searches for his son during the Spanish Civil War.

'Wild Bill Donovan'

By DOUGLAS WALLER
Reviewed by JENNET CONANT

A biography of William J. Donovan, the head of the World War II intelligence service that preceded the C.I.A.

'The Revenge of the Radioactive Lady'

By ELIZABETH STUCKEY-FRENCH
Reviewed by JINCY WILLETT

This novel's heroine, 77, was poisoned in a cold war medical experiment.

Books About Nelson Mandela

Reviewed by J. M. LEDGARD

New books tell of Mandela's birth to a royal court, his struggle to adapt to racist South Africa, and the peace he maintained in prison.

'Virtually You' and 'Reality Is Broken'

By ELIAS ABOUJAOUDE and JANE McGONIGAL
Reviewed by WILLIAM SALETAN

Two views: the Internet is leading us to temptation, or perhaps teaching us how to be good.

'Triumph of the City'

By EDWARD GLAESER
Reviewed by DIANA SILVER

A Harvard economist acclaims the environmental virtues of cities.

'In the Valley of the Shadow'

By JAMES L. KUGEL
Reviewed by JUDITH SHULEVITZ

A biblical scholar uses his encounter with death to investigate the state of mind in which one intuits something on the order of God.

'13, Rue Thérèse'

By ELENA MAULI SHAPIRO
Reviewed by MAX BYRD

A novel reimagines a real Frenchwoman's lusty life from her unclaimed belongings.

'Endgame'

By FRANK BRADY
Reviewed by DYLAN LOEB McCLAIN

A biography of the admired chess master and reviled eccentric Bobby Fischer.

'House of Prayer No. 2'

By MARK RICHARD
Reviewed by SARAH SHUN-LIEN BYNUM

A memoir of growing up disabled in the South, becoming a writer and embracing faith.

Children's Books

'The Steps Across the Water'

By ADAM GOPNIK
Reviewed by DAVID BARRINGER

Adam Gopnik's children's fantasy is a multilayered tribute to both the real and the mythic New York.

'Forge'

By LAURIE HALSE ANDERSON
Reviewed by JERRY GRISWOLD

Laurie Halse Anderson's new novel about the American Revolution and colonial-era slavery is a sequel to her prize-winning "Chains."

'The Boy in the Garden'

By ALLEN SAY
Reviewed by ROGER SUTTON

A young Japanese boy mistakes the real and imaginary in this picture book from Allen Say.

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Are Doctors Too Quick to Cut?

Does the American medical culture rely too heavily on surgical treatments?

Where Culture Comes In

February 9, 2011

Barron H. Lerner, professor of medicine and public health at Columbia University Medical Center, is the author of “The Breast Cancer Wars: Hope, Fear and the Pursuit of a Cure in Twentieth-Century America” and “When Illness Goes Public: Celebrity Patients and How We Look at Medicine.”

“A chance to cut is a chance to cure.” “Heal with steel.” “Cut well, tie well, get well.” These phrases may simply sound like clever aphorisms, but they speak to important cultural understandings of surgery.

The acceptance or rejection of various treatments may well depend on who is promoting the therapies, the type of technology used and how much publicity it gets.

Prior to the mid-20th century, few effective treatments for disease existed. There were no pills for high blood pressure, no antibiotics for infections and no chemotherapy for cancer. Radiation therapy was just being introduced. Operations, to fix broken bones and to remove tumors and kidney stones, were among the few effective interventions available to physicians.

After World War II, many surgeons who had performed lifesaving operations on the battlefield came back emboldened by what they believed that surgery could achieve. Thus, in the 1940s and 1950s, tens of thousands of tonsillectomies were done for indications ultimately shown to be dubious. In this same era, Dr. Alexander Brunschwig of New York’s Memorial Hospital devised a “brutal and cruel procedure,” pelvic exenteration — the removal of the ovaries, uterus, bladder and even rectum — to treat women with advanced gynecological cancers.

Meanwhile, neurosurgeons performed lobotomies to treat schizophrenia and other mental illnesses.
The new fascination with surgery struck a chord with the public and the media. A 1963 Time magazine cover article was entitled “Surgery: The Best Hope of All.” A tagline read, “If they can operate, you’re lucky.”

Despite its scientific basis, medicine is influenced by the surrounding culture. The acceptance or rejection of various treatments may have less to do with the data than with who is promoting the therapies, what type of technology is being used and how much publicity there is.

Based on what we have learned about cancer in the past several decades — that it spreads early in its course — the JAMA study showing that removal of cancerous lymph nodes does not improve survival is not surprising. The question is whether we can incorporate these new findings into a cultural environment that has placed so much hope and faith on cancer surgeons’ ability to “get it all.”

Change can occur. We no longer perform needless tonsillectomies, pelvic exenteration or lobotomies. But it will take time. 

Topics: Health, doctors, health care, surgery

La Jornada: Lanzan en español monumental novela de Haruki Murakami

La Jornada: Lanzan en español monumental novela de Haruki Murakami

El lenguaje médico y quirúrgico

Cirugía Española

El lenguaje médico y quirúrgico

El lenguaje médico adolece de numerosos vicios. Uno de ellos es el uso de voces cultas o elegantes sin conocer su correcto significado. Un segundo error es el recurso a extranjerismos, sobre todo anglicismos, tanto en su grafía original (extranjerismo crudo) como castellanizada (voz adaptada); un modo solapado de extranjerismo lo constituyen los llamados ¿calcos¿. En tercer lugar está el uso de vocablos inexistentes en castellano, los palabros. Finalmente, no siempre se acentúa correctamente las palabras. En el presente trabajo se muestra algunos ejemplos de dichos errores, y se orienta sobre el uso adecuado del lenguaje.

Cir Esp. 2008;84:10-5.

Palabras clave: Léxico. Vocabulario. Gramática. Lenguaje.

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Un equipo investiga sistemas para establecer terapias personalizadas contra el cáncer Desarrollar un sistema de diagnóstico y tratamiento del cáncer que se adapte a las características de cada paciente para fijar una terapia más personalizada y con más posibilidades de éxito. En este objetivo trabajarán el investigador de la Universidad de Columbia y director del centro Herbert Irving (EE.UU.), Carlos Cordón-Cardo, la Consejería de Salud y las empresas Indra y Althia. FUENTE | El País Digital 11/02/2011

El proyecto, denominado Sistema experto de tratamiento y diagnóstico oncológico personalizado para enfermos de cáncer, tendrá una duración de tres años y requerirá una inversión de siete millones de euros. El equipo tendrá su sede en el Centro Pfizer-Universidad de Granada-Junta de Andalucía de Genómica e Investigación Oncológica, Genyo, y se centrará principalmente en los cánceres de mama, pulmón y colon.  El sistema pretende facilitar una gestión individualizada de la información clínica, histológica, molecular y genética de cada persona afectada por el cáncer, elevar la calidad y la eficacia de la terapia y promover un uso más racional de los recursos del sistema de salud.  En el programa colaboran los hospitales universitarios San Cecilio y Virgen de las Nieves, la Red de Banco de Tumores de Andalucía, el Registro del Cáncer de Granada de la Escuela Andaluza de Salud Pública, Genyo, el Centro de Investigación Príncipe Felipe y Lorgen.  Un fin último de esta investigación es abrir una nueva vía hacia el desarrollo efectivo de la medicina personalizada en otros entornos y áreas de conocimiento.  Autor:   R. R.