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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
13
The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
James Gleick
14
The Particle at the End of the Universe: How the Hunt for the Higgs Boson Leads Us to the Edge of a New World
Sean Carroll
15
Stuff Matters: The Strange Stories of the Marvellous Materials that Shape Our Man-made World
Mark Miodownik
16
Adventures in the Anthropocene: A Journey to the Heart of the Planet We Made
Gaia Vince
17
The Invention of Nature: Alexander Von Humboldt's New World
Andrea Wulf
18
Testosterone Rex: Myths of Sex, Science, and Society
Cordelia Fine
19
Inventing Ourselves: The Secret Life of the Teenage Brain
Sarah-Jayne Blakemore
20
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
Caroline Criado Pérez
21
Explaining Humans: What Science Can Teach Us about Life, Love and Relationships
Camilla Pang
22
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
Merlin Sheldrake
23
A (Very) Short History of Life on Earth: 4.6 Billion Years in 12 Pithy Chapters
Henry Gee, Henry Gee
24