Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Science & Technology

1998 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Science & Technology WinnerBlood: An Epic History of Medicine and CommerceDouglas StarrEssence and emblem of life--feared, revered, mythologized, and used in magic and medicine from earliest times--human blood is now the center of a huge, secretive, and often dangerous worldwide commerce. It is a commerce whose impact upon humanity rivals th...Amazon1998 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Science & Technology ShortlistMendel's DwarfSimon MawerAmazonPhantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human MindV.S. Ramachandran, Sandra BlakesleeAmazonTaking Wing: Archaeopteryx and the Evolution of Bird FlightPat ShipmanAmazonThe Baltimore Case: A Trial of Politics, Science, and CharacterDaniel J. KevlesAmazon

1997 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Science & Technology WinnerHow the Mind WorksStephen Pinker"A model of scientific writing: erudite, witty, and clear." —New York Review of Books In this Pulitzer Prize finalist and national bestseller, one of the world's leading cognitive scientists tackles the workings of the human mind. What makes us rational—an...Amazon1997 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Science & Technology ShortlistDeadly Feasts: Tracking the Secrets of a Terrifying New PlagueRichard RhodesAmazonThe Fabric of Reality: The Science of Parallel Universes and Its ImplicationsDavid DeutschAmazonThe Trouble With Testosterone And Other Essays On The Biology Of The Human PredicamentRobert M. SapolskyAmazonVenus Revealed: A New Look Below the Clouds of Our Mysterious Twin PlanetDavid Harry G...

1996 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Science & Technology WinnerThe Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the DarkCarl SaganA prescient warning of a future we now inhabit, where fake news stories and Internet conspiracy theories play to a disaffected American populace “A glorious book . . . A spirited defense of science . . . From the first page to the last, this book is a mani...Amazon1996 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Science & Technology ShortlistFermat's Last Theorem: Unlocking the Secret of an Ancient Mathematical ProblemAmir D. AczelAmazonFire in the Mind: Science, Faith, and the Search for OrderGeorge JohnsonAmazonHome from Nowhere: Remaking Our Everyday World for the 21st CenturyJames Howard KunstlerAmazonThe Dying of the TreesCharles E. LittleAmazonThe Forgotten PollinatorsS...

1995 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Science & Technology WinnerNaturalistEdward O. WilsonThe author, a professor of entomology at Harvard, looks back on his life, education, and career, and discusses his work....Amazon1995 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Science & Technology ShortlistAn Anthropologist on Mars: Seven Paradoxical TalesOliver SacksAmazonDescartes' Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human BrainAntonio R. DamasioAmazonThe Alchemy of the Heavens: Searching for Meaning in the Milky WayKen CroswellAmazonThe Moral Animal: Why We Are, the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary PsychologyRobert WrightAmazon

1994 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Science & Technology WinnerThe Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our TimeJonathan WeinerWinner of the Pulitzer Prize Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize On a desert island in the heart of the Galapagos archipelago, where Darwin received his first inklings of the theory of evolution, two scientists, Peter and Rosemary Grant, have spent ...Amazon1994 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Science & Technology ShortlistSigns of Life: The Language and Meanings of DNARobert PollackAmazonThe End of EvolutionPeter WardAmazonUncommon Sense: The Heretical Nature of ScienceAlan CromerAmazonWhy Zebras Don't Get UlcersRobert M. SapolskyAmazon

1993 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Science & Technology WinnerFuzzy Logic: The Revolutionary Computer Technology That Is Changing Our WorldDaniel McneillExplains the concept of fuzzy logic, tells how it was developed in the United States, but only exploited in Japan so far, and describes products of the future that will feature fuzzy logic...Amazon1993 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Science & Technology ShortlistAI: The Tumultuous History of the Search for Artificial IntelligenceDaniel CrevierAmazonBad Science: The Short Life and Weird Times of Cold FusionGary TaubesAmazonGenius: The Life and Science of Richard FeynmanJames GleickAmazonThe Diversity of LifeEdward O. WilsonAmazon

1992 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Science & Technology WinnerThe Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human AnimalJared DiamondThe Development of an Extraordinary Species We human beings share 98 percent of our genes with chimpanzees. Yet humans are the dominant species on the planet -- having founded civilizations and religions, developed intricate and diverse forms of communicat...Amazon1992 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Science & Technology ShortlistArtificial Life: A Report from the Frontier Where Computers Meet BiologySteven LevyAmazonBlinded By The Light: New Theories About the Sun and the Search for Dark MatterJohn GribbinAmazonConsciousness ExplainedDaniel C. DennettAmazonThe Left-Hander Syndrome: The Causes & Consequences of Left-HandednessStanley CorenAmazon

1991 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Science & Technology WinnerThe Truth About ChernobylGrigori MedvedevThis is an account of the events leading up to the worst nuclear disaster in history. It also examines the subsequent cover-up at which both politicians and technicians connived....Amazon1991 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Science & Technology ShortlistLonely Hearts of the Cosmos: The Story of the Scientific Quest for the Secret of the UniverseDennis OverbyeAmazonThe Ascent of Mind: Ice Age Climates and the Evolution of IntelligenceWilliam H. CalvinAmazonThe Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius RamanujanRobert KanigelAmazonWalking With the Great Apes: Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, Biruté GaldikasSy MontgomeryAmazon

1990 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Science & Technology WinnerPatenting the Sun: Polio and the Salk VacineJane S. SmithCaptures the intensity that characterized the race to 'conquer' the dreaded, crippling disease of polio. Smith volunteered to try the experimental Salk vaccine; this is her personal essay on the interplay among medicine, politics, psychology, culture & col...Amazon1990 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Science & Technology ShortlistDiscovering: Inventing and Solving Problems at the Frontiers of Scientific KnowledgeRobert Scott Root-BernsteinAmazonGreen Rage: Radical Environmentalism and the Unmaking of CivilizationChristopher ManesAmazonSonoran Desert SummerJohn AlcockAmazonThe Control of NatureJohn McPheeAmazon