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science book prize

The shortlist for the Aventis science book prize has just been announced:

  • Homo Britannicus by Chris Stringer (Penguin Allen Lane)
  • In Search of Memory by Eric R. Kandel (WW Norton & Co)
  • Lonesome George by Henry Nicholls (Macmillan)
  • One in Three by Adam Wishart (Profile Books)
  • Stumbling on Happiness by Daniel Gilbert (Harper Press)
  • The Rough Guide to Climate Change by Robert Henson (Rough Guides)

    • I'll have to admit I haven't read any of them, not even from the longlist. So I am entirely clueless as to who might win or who deserves to win. There was a time when the smart money was placed on any author named Steve (or Steven, Stephen, as in Pinker, Jones, Hawking), but this year there isn't even a Steve in the shortlist :)

    Note, however that showbiz credentials failed to propel either Brian May or Dr Who into the shortlist.

    General Prize Longlist 2007

    Full details:

    http://www.royalsoc.ac.uk/page.asp?id=6222&tip=1

    Tim Radford's comment in The Guardian:

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,2065441,00.html

    2007-04-26 13:42:05 GMT


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