James Gleick wins Royal Society Winton Science Prize
On November 26, The Royal Society Winton Science Prize was presented to James Gleick for his book The Information: a History, a Theory and a Flood. The prize is awarded for science books that are "accessible, interesting and compelling accounts of the world around us or inside us". Gleick's book describes the ways information has been transmitted throughout history, how methods of communication have developed and how information itself has driven civilization.
The Information: a History, a Theory and a Flood is available in these formats:
• Regular Print
• Audiobook
• eAudiobook
• eBook
The other books on this year's shortlist were:
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The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence has Declined by Steven Pinker
• Audiobook
• eBook
The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos by Brian Greene
• Audiobook
• eAudiobook
• eBook
• Talking Book (restricted to Print Disabled patrons)
Moonwalking with Einstein: the Art and Science of Remembering Everything by Joshua Foer
• eAudiobook
• eBook
• Large Print
My Beautiful Genome: Exposing our Genetic Future, One Quirk at a Time by Lone Frank
Viral Storm: the Dawn of a New Pandemic Age by Nathan Wolfe
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