Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books
The winner of this year's Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books is Gaia Vince's Adventures in the Anthropocene. She is the first woman to win this prestigious award. Previous winners include Stephen Hawking, Stephen Jay Gould, Jared Diamond, James Gleick and Bill Bryson.
Congratulations to the 2015 winner:
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The changes humans made in recent decades have altered the world beyond anything it has experienced. Gaia Vince travels the world to explore what all these changes really mean. She found ordinary people solving severe crises in ingenious, effective ways. Gaia looks at how humanity's changes are reshaping our living planet, transforming our relationship with the natural world and explores how we might engineer Earth for our future. Read the first chapter (PDF) |
| Adventures in the Anthropocene |
Here are the shortlisted books for 2015:
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Bestselling author Alex Bellos takes you on a journey of mathematical discovery with his signature wit, engaging stories and limitless enthusiasm. As he narrates a series of eye-opening encounters with lively personalities all over the world, Alex demonstrates how numbers have come to be our friends, are fascinating and extremely accessible and how they have changed our world. Read the first chapter (PDF) |
| The Grapes of Math |
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Bringing together first-hand experience of science at the cutting edge with unparalleled gifts of exposition and explanation, Jim Al-Khalili and Johnjoe Macfadden reveal the hitherto missing ingredient of life's dynamic to be quantum mechanics and the strange phenomena that lie at the heart of this most mysterious of sciences. Read the first chapter (PDF) |
| Life on the Edge | |
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A story of the discovery and cracking of the genetic code, the thing that ultimately enables a spiraling molecule to give rise to the life that exists all around us. Read the first chapter (PDF) |
| Life's Greatest Secret | |
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In this captivating fusion of science, history and personal memoir, David Adam explores the weird thoughts that exist within every mind and how they drive millions of us toward obsession and compulsion. Read the first chapter (PDF) |
| The Man Who Couldn't Stop | |
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The discovery of the Higgs boson made headlines around the world. This book is the first popular inside account of the hunt for the Higgs boson. It is a story of incredible scientific collaboration, inspiring technological innovation and ground-breaking science. It is also the story of what happens when the world's most expensive experiment blows up, of neutrinos that may or may not travel faster than light, and the reality of life in an underground bunker in Switzerland. Read the first chapter (PDF) |
| Smashing Physics |
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