2010 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Science & Technology Winner
The Price of Altruism: George Price and the Search for the Origins of Kindness
Oren Harman
Describes the intellectual journey of eccentric American genius George Price, who tried to answer the evolutionary riddle of why people are nice, and eventually gave away all his belongings and took his own life in a squatter’s flat….
2010 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Science & Technology Shortlist
Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming
Naomi Oreskes, Erik M. Conway
Radioactive: Marie & Pierre Curie: A Tale of Love and Fallout
Lauren Redniss
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
Siddhartha Mukherjee
