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Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Science & Technology
Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
Robert M. Sapolsky
Patient H.M.: A Story of Memory, Madness, and Family Secrets
Luke Dittrich
The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt’s New World
Andrea Wulf
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
Elizabeth Kolbert
Countdown: Our Last, Best Hope for a Future on Earth?,
Alan Weisman
Breasts: A Natural and Unnatural History
Florence Williams
Grand Pursuit: The Story of Economic Genius
Sylvia Nasar
The Price of Altruism: George Price and the Search for the Origins of Kindness
Oren Harman
The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Quantum Genius
Graham Farmelo
The Black Hole War: My Battle with Stephen Hawking to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics
Leonard Susskind
I Am a Strange Loop
Douglas R. Hofstadter
In Search of Memory: The Emergence of a New Science of Mind
Eric R. Kandel
Before The Fallout: From Marie Curie to Hiroshima
Diana Preston
The Whale and the Supercomputer: On the Northern Front of Climate Change
Charles Wohlforth
Protecting America’s Health: The FDA, Business, and One Hundred Years of Regulation
Philip J. Hilts
Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA
Brenda Maddox
The Invention of Clouds
Richard Hamblyn
The Rise and Fall of Modern Medicine
James Le Fanu
Galileo’s Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love
Dava Sobel
Blood: An Epic History of Medicine and Commerce
Douglas Starr
How the Mind Works
Stephen Pinker
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
Carl Sagan
Naturalist
Edward O. Wilson
The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time
Jonathan Weiner
Fuzzy Logic: The Revolutionary Computer Technology That Is Changing Our World
Daniel Mcneill
The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal
Jared Diamond
The Truth About Chernobyl
Grigori Medvedev
Patenting the Sun: Polio and the Salk Vacine
Jane S. Smith
Peacemaking Among Primates
Frans de Waal
