2011 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Science & Technology Winner and Nominees

Grand Pursuit: The Story of Economic Genius

Sylvia Nasar

Traces how the works of Charles Dickens and Henry Mayhew reflected the poor majority in mid-nineteenth-century London, citing the achievements of such influential figures as John Maynard Keyes, Paul Samuelson, and Amartya Sen….

A Hole at the Bottom of the Sea: The Race to Kill the BP Oil Gusher

Joel Achenbach

Blood Work: A Tale of Medicine and Murder in the Scientific Revolution

Holly Tucker

The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood

James Gleick

Unnatural Selection: Choosing Boys Over Girls, and the Consequences of a World Full of Men

Mara Hvistendahl