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Royal Society Science Books Prize Winners ("Popular Science")
2 participants (25 books)
Overview
This challenge is to encourage reading popular science books! In this case, the Royal Society award-winning ones from 2000 onwards.
From Wikipedia:
The Royal Society Science Books Prize is an annual £25,000 prize awarded by the Royal Society to celebrate outstanding popular science books from around the world.[1] It is open to authors of science books written for a non-specialist audience, and since it was established in 1988 has championed writers such as Stephen Hawking, Jared Diamond, Stephen Jay Gould and Bill Bryson. In 2015 The Guardian described the prize as "the most prestigious science book prize in Britain".[2]
From Wikipedia:
The Royal Society Science Books Prize is an annual £25,000 prize awarded by the Royal Society to celebrate outstanding popular science books from around the world.[1] It is open to authors of science books written for a non-specialist audience, and since it was established in 1988 has championed writers such as Stephen Hawking, Jared Diamond, Stephen Jay Gould and Bill Bryson. In 2015 The Guardian described the prize as "the most prestigious science book prize in Britain".[2]
Royal Society Science Books Prize Winners ("Popular Science")
2 participants (25 books)
Overview
This challenge is to encourage reading popular science books! In this case, the Royal Society award-winning ones from 2000 onwards.
From Wikipedia:
The Royal Society Science Books Prize is an annual £25,000 prize awarded by the Royal Society to celebrate outstanding popular science books from around the world.[1] It is open to authors of science books written for a non-specialist audience, and since it was established in 1988 has championed writers such as Stephen Hawking, Jared Diamond, Stephen Jay Gould and Bill Bryson. In 2015 The Guardian described the prize as "the most prestigious science book prize in Britain".[2]
From Wikipedia:
The Royal Society Science Books Prize is an annual £25,000 prize awarded by the Royal Society to celebrate outstanding popular science books from around the world.[1] It is open to authors of science books written for a non-specialist audience, and since it was established in 1988 has championed writers such as Stephen Hawking, Jared Diamond, Stephen Jay Gould and Bill Bryson. In 2015 The Guardian described the prize as "the most prestigious science book prize in Britain".[2]
Challenge Books
1
The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory
Brian Greene
2
Mapping the Deep: The Extraordinary Story of Ocean Science
Robert Kunzig
3
The Universe in a Nutshell
Stephen Hawking
4
Right Hand, Left Hand: The Origins of Asymmetry in Brains, Bodies, Atoms and Cultures
Chris McManus
5
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Bill Bryson
6
Critical Mass: How One Thing Leads to Another
Philip Ball
7
Electric Universe: How Electricity Switched on the Modern World
David Bodanis
8
9
Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet
Mark Lynas
10
The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science
Richard Holmes
11
Life Ascending: The Ten Great Inventions of Evolution
Nick Lane
12
