Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Science & Technology

2008 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Science & Technology WinnerThe Black Hole War: My Battle with Stephen Hawking to Make the World Safe for Quantum MechanicsLeonard SusskindWhat happens when something is sucked into a black hole? This question has implications for the most fundamental laws of the universe. The scientific battle to prove the answer would change the course of physics....Amazon2008 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Science & Technology ShortlistMicrocosm: E.Coli and the New Science of LifeCarl ZimmerAmazonOnly a Theory: Evolution and the Battle for America's SoulKenneth R. MillerAmazonWhat the Nose Knows: The Science of Scent in Everyday LifeAvery GilbertAmazonWorlds Before Adam: The Reconstruction of Geohistory in the Age of ReformMartin J.S. RudwickAmazon

2007 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Science & Technology WinnerI Am a Strange LoopDouglas R. HofstadterCan thought arise out of matter? Can self, soul, consciousness, “I” arise out of mere matter? If it cannot, then how can you or I be here? I Am a Strange Loop argues that the key to understanding selves and consciousness is the “strange loop”—a special kin...Amazon2007 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Science & Technology ShortlistAnimal Architects: Building and the Evolution of IntelligenceJames L. Gould, Carol Grant GouldAmazonFaust in Copenhagen: A Struggle for the Soul of PhysicsGino SegrèAmazonOn Deep History and the BrainDaniel Lord SmailAmazonThe First Word: The Search for the Origins of LanguageChristine KenneallyAmazon

2006 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Science & Technology WinnerIn Search of Memory: The Emergence of a New Science of MindEric R. Kandel...Amazon2006 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Science & Technology ShortlistThe Creation: An Appeal to Save Life on EarthEdward O. WilsonAmazonThe First Human: The Race to Discover Our Earliest AncestorsAnn GibbonsAmazonThe First Scientific American: Benjamin Franklin and the Pursuit of GeniusJoyce ChaplinAmazonThis Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human ObsessionDaniel J. LevitinAmazon

2005 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Science & Technology WinnerBefore The Fallout: From Marie Curie to HiroshimaDiana PrestonSpanning fifty years, Before the Fall-Out tells the full story of how an exhilarating quest to unravel the secrets of the material world produced the knowledge of how to destroy it.And of how a scientific adventure shared openly between nuclear physicists ...Amazon2005 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Science & Technology ShortlistDescent: The Heroic Discovery of the AbyssBrad MatsenAmazonEndless Forms Most Beautiful: The New Science of Evo DevoSean B. CarrollAmazonIce: The Nature, the History, and the Uses of an Astonishing SubstanceMariana GosnellAmazonThe Republican War on ScienceChris MooneyAmazon

2004 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Science & Technology WinnerThe Whale and the Supercomputer: On the Northern Front of Climate ChangeCharles WohlforthIn The Whale and the Supercomputer, scientists and natives wrestle with our changing climate in the land where it has hit first--and hardest A traditional Eskimo whale-hunting party races to shore near Barrow, Alaska--their comrades trapped on a floe drift...Amazon2004 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Science & Technology ShortlistHis Brother's Keeper: A Story from the Edge of MedicineJonathan WeinerAmazonOn the Wing: To the Edge of the Earth with the Peregrine FalconAlan TennantAmazonOpening Skinner's Box: Great Psychological Experiments of the Twentieth CenturyLauren SlaterAmazonThe Proteus Effect: Stem Cells and Their Promise for MedicineA...

1989 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Science & Technology WinnerPeacemaking Among PrimatesFrans de WaalExamines how simians cope with aggression, and how they make peace after fights....Amazon

2002 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Science & Technology WinnerRosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNABrenda MaddoxIn 1962, Maurice Wilkins, Francis Crick, and James Watson received the Nobel Prize, but it was Rosalind Franklin's data and photographs of DNA that led to their discovery. Brenda Maddox tells a powerful story of a remarkably single-minded, forthright, and ...Amazon2002 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Science & Technology ShortlistLove at Goon Park: Harry Harlow and the Science of AffectionDeborah BlumAmazonOf Moths and Men: An Evolutionary TaleJudith HooperAmazonSalt: A World HistoryMark KurlanskyAmazonThe Demon in the Freezer: A True StoryRichard PrestonAmazon

2001 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Science & Technology WinnerThe Invention of CloudsRichard HamblynAn extraordinary yet little-known scientific advance occurred in the opening years of the nineteenth century when a young amateur meteorologist, Luke Howard, gave the clouds the names by which they are known to this day. By creating a language to define st...Amazon2001 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Science & Technology ShortlistA Different Nature: The Paradoxical World of Zoos and Their Uncertain FutureDavid HancocksAmazonIn Code: A Mathematical JourneySarah Flannery, David FlanneryAmazonThe Seven Daughters of Eve: The Science That Reveals Our Genetic AncestryBryan SykesAmazonUncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical BoyhoodOliver SacksAmazon

2000 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Science & Technology WinnerThe Rise and Fall of Modern MedicineJames Le FanuThe medical achievements of the post-war years rank as one of the supreme epochs of human endeavour. Advances in surgical technique, new ideas about the nature of disease and huge innovations in drug manufacture vanquished most common causes of early death...Amazon2000 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Science & Technology ShortlistA Rum Affair: A True Story of Botanical FraudKarl SabbaghAmazonE = mc2: A Biography of the World's Most Famous EquationDavid BodanisAmazonEinstein in Love: A Scientific RomanceDennis OverbyeAmazonGenome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 ChaptersMatt RidleyAmazon

1999 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Science & Technology WinnerGalileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and LoveDava SobelFrom the international best-selling author of Longitude, Galileo’s Daughter is the fascinating story of the relationship between the great Italian scientist Galileo and his daughter, Virginia....Amazon1999 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Science & Technology ShortlistLucy's Legacy: Sex and Intelligence in Human EvolutionAlison JollyAmazonMind of the Raven: Investigations and Adventures With Wolf-BirdsBernd HeinrichAmazonThe Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum CryptographySimon SinghAmazonThe River: A Journey to the Source of HIV and AIDSEdward HooperAmazon