published by Jonathan on Mon, 03/20/2006 - 21:03
From a story in the BBC News, the candidates for the Aventis Prize for popular science writing have been announced:
- Electric Universe - How Electricity Switched on the Modern World, by David Bodanis (Little Brown)
- Collapse - How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive, by Jared Diamond (Penguin Allen Lane)
- The Elements of Murder - A History of Poison, John Emsley (Oxford University Press)
- The Gecko's Foot - Bio-inspiration - Engineering New Materials from Nature, by Peter Forbes (Fourth Estate)
- The Silicon Eye - How a Silicon Valley Company Aims to Make All Current Computers, Cameras, and Cell Phones Obsolete, by George Gilder (WW Norton)
- Parallel Worlds - The Science of Alternative Universes and our Future in the Cosmos, by Michio Kaku (Penguin)
- Power, Sex, Suicide - Mitochondria and the Meaning of Life, by Nick Lane (Oxford University Press)
- Venomous Earth - How Arsenic Caused the World's Worst Mass Poisoning, by Andrew Meharg (Macmillan)
- Empire of the Stars - Friendship, Obsession and Betrayal in the Quest for Black Holes, by Arthur I. Miller (Little Brown)
- Seven Deadly Colours - The Genius of Nature's Palette and how it Eluded Darwin, by Andrew Parker (Simon & Schuster)
- The Truth About Hormones - What's Going on when we're Tetchy, Spotty, Fearful, Tearful or Just Plain Awful, by Vivienne Parry (Atlantic Books)
- Stalking the Riemann Hypothesis - The Quest to Find the Hidden Law of Prime Numbers, by Dan Rockmore (Jonathan Cape)
- The Fruits of War - How War and Conflict have Driven Science, by Michael White (Simon & Schuster)