Aventis Prize 2006 General Prize shortlist 2006
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Channel: The Royal Society · 2009 · Science & Technology
The shortlist of the 2006 Aventis Prize for Science Books, descriobed by the judging panel. The shortlist: Electric Universe - How Electricity Switched on the Modern World - David Bodanis (Little, Brown Book Group) Collapse - How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive - Jared Diamond (Penguin Allen Lane) Parallel Worlds - The Science of Alternative Universes and our Future in the Cosmos - Michio Kaku (Penguin) Power, Sex, Suicide - Mitochondria and the Meaning of Life - Nick Lane (Oxford University Press) Empire of the Stars - Friendship, Obsession and Betrayal in the Quest for Black Holes - Arthur I. Miller (Little, Brown Book Group) The Truth About Hormones - What's Going on when we're Tetchy, Spotty, Fearful, Tearful or Just Plain Awful - Vivienne Parry (Atlantic Books) The judges: Nick Ross, journalist and broadcaster (chair) Johnny Ball, broadcaster and author Steve Jones, Professor of Genetics and winner of the 1997 Michael Faraday Prize Anjula Mutanda, Consultant psychologist for This Morning and Big Brother Fiammetta Rocco, Literary Editor at the Economist
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