LA Times Book PrizeFinalistScience & Technology

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Andere Namen: Los Angeles Times Book Prize (Engels)
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The Los Angeles Times has awarded a set of book prizes annually since 1980. Eligibility for the prizes requires a book to have its first United States publication between January 1 and December 31 toon meer of any given year. This American publication must be in English; however, English does not have to be the original language of the work. Authors may be of any nationality. They should be alive at the time of their book’s qualifying U.S. publication although eligibility is also extended to significant new translations of the work of deceased writers. Books by current employees of the Los Angeles Times, by current employees of Tribune Company or any of its other affiliates, by currently serving judges of the Los Angeles Times Book Prizes, or by immediate family members of these groups are not eligible. toon minder
Stages:
Alle, Winner (364), Finalist (1,601)
Categorieën:
Alle, Science & Technology (159)
Jaren:
Alle, 2023 (5), 2022 (5), 2021 (5), 2020 (1), 2019 (5), 2018 (5), 2017 (5), 2016 (5), 2015 (5), 2014 (5), 2013 (5), 2012 (5), 2011 (5), 2010 (5), 2009 (5), 2008 (5), 2007 (5), 2006 (5), 2005 (5), 2004 (5), 2003 (4), 2002 (5), 2001 (5), 2000 (5), 1999 (5), 1998 (5), 1997 (5), 1996 (7), 1995 (5), 1994 (5), 1993 (4), 1992 (1), 1991 (5), 1990 (1), 1989 (1)
Aangekondigd:
april 19: Winnaar2023 Recent
februari 21: Finalist2023 Recent

Finalist 159

WerkJaar
Is Math Real?: How Simple Questions Lead Us to Mathematics’ Deepest Truths door Eugenia Cheng2023
The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet door Jeff Goodell2023
The Possibility of Life: Science, Imagination, and Our Quest for Kinship in the Cosmos door Jaime Green2023
A Book of Noises: Notes on the Auraculous door Caspar Henderson2023
A City on Mars: Can we settle space, should we settle space, and have we really thought this through? door Kelly Weinersmith2023
How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures door Sabrina Imbler2022
Life on the Rocks: Building a Future for Coral Reefs door Juli Berwald2022
Fresh Banana Leaves: Healing Indigenous Landscapes through Indigenous Science door Jessica Hernandez Ph.D.2022
Beyond Measure: The Hidden History of Measurement from Cubits to Quantum Constants door James Vincent2022
An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us door Ed Yong2022
The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred door Chanda Prescod-Weinstein2021
Saving Us: A Climate Scientist's Case for Hope and Healing in a Divided World door Katharine Hayhoe2021
Wild Souls: Freedom and Flourishing in the Non-Human World door Emma Marris2021
God, Human, Animal, Machine: Technology, Metaphor, and the Search for Meaning door Meghan O'Gieblyn2021
A World on the Wing: The Global Odyssey of Migratory Birds door Scott Weidensaul2021
The Smallest Lights in the Universe: A Memoir door Sara Seager2020
Figuring door Maria Popova2019
Bottle of Lies: The Inside Story of the Generic Drug Boom door Katherine Eban2019
Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster door Adam Higginbotham2019
Onzichtbare vrouwen door Caroline Criado Perez2019
Superior: The Return of Race Science door Angela Saini2019
Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America door Beth Macy2018
Timefulness: How Thinking Like a Geologist Can Help Save the World door Marcia Bjornerud2018
Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America door Eliza Griswold2018
What the Eyes Don't See: A Story of Crisis, Resistance, and Hope in an American City door Mona Hanna-Attisha2018
Nine Pints: A Journey Through the Money, Medicine, and Mysteries of Blood door George Rose2018
Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst door Robert M. Sapolsky2017
Making Sense of Science: Separating Substance from Spin door Cornelia Dean2017
A Crack in Creation: Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution door Jennifer A. Doudna2017
Life 3.0 : being human in the age of artificial intelligence door Max Tegmark2017
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams door Matthew Walker2017
Patient H.M.: A Story of Memory, Madness, and Family Secrets door Luke Dittrich2016
Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War door Mary Roach2016
Pandemic: Tracking Contagions, from Cholera to Ebola and Beyond door Sonia Shah2016
Light: A Radiant History from Creation to the Quantum Age door Bruce Watson2016
De microben in ons door Ed Yong2016
De uitvinder van de natuur door Andrea Wulf2015
Machines of Loving Grace: The Quest for Common Ground Between Humans and Robots door John Markoff2015
The Evil Hours: A Biography of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder door David J. Morris2015
How to Clone a Mammoth: The Science of De-Extinction door Beth Shapiro2015
Rust : the longest war door Jonathan Waldman2015
Het zesde uitsterven hoe de mens even catastrofaal is als de asteroïde die de dinosauriërs wegveegde door Elizabeth Kolbert2014
Cosmigraphics door Michael Benson2014
De beestjes in ons het belang van bacteriën door Martin J. Blaser2014
No time. Verander nu, voor het klimaat alles verandert door Naomi Klein2014
Dataclysm: Who We Are* *When We Think No One's Looking door Christian Rudder2014
Countdown: Our Last, Best Hope for a Future on Earth? door Alan Weisman2013
Social: why our brains are wired to connect door Matthew D. Lieberman2013
Animal Wise: The Thoughts and Emotions of Our Fellow Creatures door Virginia Morell2013
Scatter, Adapt, and Remember: How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction door Annalee Newitz2013
Brainwashed: The Seductive Appeal of Mindless Neuroscience door Sally Satel2013
Breasts: A Natural and Unnatural History door Florence Williams2012
Stil : de kracht van introvert zijn in een wereld die niet ophoudt met kletsen door Susan Cain2012
Turing's Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe door George Dyson2012
The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human door Jonathan Gottschall2012
The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail — but Some Don't door Nate Silver2012
De wil tot welvaart het verhaal van geniale economen door Sylvia Nasar2011
A Hole at the Bottom of the Sea: The Race to Kill the BP Oil Gusher door Joel Achenbach2011
Informatie van tamtam tot internet door James Gleick2011
Unnatural Selection: Choosing Boys Over Girls, and the Consequences of a World Full of Men door Mara Hvistendahl2011
Blood Work: A Tale of Medicine and Murder in the Scientific Revolution door Holly Tucker2011
The Price of Altruism: George Price and the Search for the Origins of Kindness door Oren Harman2010
De keizer aller ziektes een biografie van kanker door Siddhartha Mukherjee2010
Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming door Naomi Oreskes2010
Radioactive: Marie & Pierre Curie: A Tale of Love and Fallout door Lauren Redniss2010
Het onsterfelijke leven van Henrietta Lacks door Rebecca Skloot2010
The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Mystic of the Atom door Graham Farmelo2009
The Day We Found the Universe door Marcia Bartusiak2009
Cold: Adventures in the World's Frozen Places door Bill Streever2009
Koken over de oorsprong van de mens door Richard Wrangham2009
Naming Nature: The Clash Between Instinct and Science door Carol Kaesuk Yoon2009
The Black Hole War: My Battle with Stephen Hawking to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics door Leonard Susskind2008
What the Nose Knows: The Science of Scent in Everyday Life door Avery Gilbert2008
Only a Theory: Evolution and the Battle for America's Soul door Kenneth R. Miller2008
Worlds Before Adam: The Reconstruction of Geohistory in the Age of Reform door Martin J. S. Rudwick2008
Microcosm: E. coli and the New Science of Life door Carl Zimmer2008
Ik ben een vreemde lus door Douglas Hofstadter2007
Animal Architects: Building and the Evolution of Intelligence door James L. Gould2007
The First Word: The Search for the Origins of Language door Christine Kenneally2007
Faust in Copenhagen: A Struggle for the Soul of Physics door Gino Segrè2007
On Deep History and the Brain door Daniel Lord Smail2007
In Search of Memory: The Emergence of a New Science of Mind door Eric R. Kandel2006
The First Scientific American: Benjamin Franklin and the Pursuit of Genius door Joyce Chaplin2006
The First Human: The Race to Discover Our Earliest Ancestors door Ann Gibbons2006
Ons muzikale brein de wetenschap van een menselijke obsessie door Daniel J. Levitin2006
The Creation: An Appeal to Save Life on Earth door Edward O. Wilson2006
Before The Fallout: From Marie Curie to Hiroshima door Diana Preston2005
Endless Forms Most Beautiful: The New Science of Evo Devo door Sean B. Carroll2005
Ice: The Nature, the History, and the Uses of an Astonishing Substance door Mariana Gosnell2005
Descent: The Heroic Discovery of the Abyss door Brad Matsen2005
The Republican War on Science door Chris Mooney2005
The Whale and the Supercomputer: On the Northern Front of Climate Change door Charles Wohlforth2004
The Proteus Effect: Stem Cells and Their Promise for Medicine door Ann B. Parson2004
De box van Skinner door Lauren Slater2004
On the Wing: To the Edge of the Earth with the Peregrine Falcon door Alan Tennant2004
Zijn broeders hoeder. Hoe Jamie zijn broer Stephen van een zeldzame ziekte probeert te genezen door Jonathan Weiner2004
Protecting America's Health: The FDA, Business, and One Hundred Years of Regulation door Philip J. Hilts2003
The Beast in the Garden: The True Story of a Predator's Deadly Return to Suburban America door David Baron2003
Pionier in het imperium van de geur parfum en de werking van het reukvermogen door Chandler Burr2003
Merchants of Immortality: Chasing the Dream of Human Life Extension door Stephen S. Hall2003
Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA door Brenda Maddox2002
Love at Goon Park: Harry Harlow and the Science of Affection door Deborah Blum2002
Of Moths and Men door Judith Hooper2002
Zout een wereldgeschiedenis door Mark Kurlansky2002
The Demon in the Freezer: A True Story door Richard Preston2002
De taal van de wolken door Richard Hamblyn2001
In Code: A Mathematical Journey door Sarah Flannery2001
A Different Nature: The Paradoxical World of Zoos and Their Uncertain Future door David Hancocks2001
Oom Wolfraam en mijn chemische jeugd autobiografie door Oliver Sacks2001
De zeven dochters van Eva van welke oermoeder stammen wij af ? door Bryan Sykes2001
The Rise and Fall of Modern Medicine door James Le Fanu2000
E =mc2 de biografie van de formule die de wereld veranderde door David Bodanis2000
Einstein verliefd zijn gecompliceerde leven en revolutionaire werk door Dennis Overbye2000
Genoom het recept voor een mens door Matt Ridley2000
A Rum Affair: A True Story of Botanical Fraud door Karl Sabbagh2000
De dochter van Galilei een verhaal over wetenschap, geloof en liefde door Dava Sobel1999
Mind of the Raven: Investigations and Adventures with Wolf-Birds door Bernd Heinrich1999
The River door Edward Hooper1999
Lucy's legacy : sex and intelligence in human evolution door Alison Jolly1999
Code de wedloop tussen makers en brekers van geheime codes en cijferschrift door Simon Singh1999
Bloed een geschiedenis van het rode goud door Douglas Starr1998
The Baltimore Case: A Trial of Politics, Science, and Character door Daniel J. Kevles1998
Mendels dwerg door Simon Mawer1998
Het bizarre brein wat fouten in de hersenen ons leren over de werking ervan door V. S. Ramachandran1998
Taking Wing: Archaeopteryx and the Evolution of Bird Flight door Pat Shipman1998
Hoe de menselijke geest werkt door Steven Pinker1997
The Fabric of Reality: The Science of Parallel Universes and Its Implications door David Deutsch1997
Venus Revealed : A New Look Below the Clouds of our Mysterious Twin Planet door David Harry Grinspoon1997
Deadly Feasts: Tracking the Secrets of a Terrifying New Plague door Richard Rhodes1997
The Trouble With Testosterone: And Other Essays On The Biology Of The Human Predicament door Robert M. Sapolsky1997
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark door Carl Sagan1996
De laatste stelling van Fermat de ontraadseling van een eeuwenoud wiskundig probleem door Amir D. Aczel1996
The Most Beautiful Molecule: The Discovery of the Buckyball door Hugh Aldersey-Williams1996
The Forgotten Pollinators door Stephen L. Buchmann1996
Fire in the Mind: Science, Faith, and the Search for Order door George Johnson1996
Home from Nowhere: Remaking Our Everyday World for the 21st Century door James Howard Kunstler1996
The Dying of the Trees door Charles E. Little1996
Naturalist door Edward O. Wilson1995
The Alchemy of the Heavens door Ken Croswell1995
De vergissing van Descartes gevoel, verstand en het menselijk brein door Antonio Damasio1995
Een antropoloog op Mars zeven paradoxale verhalen door Oliver Sacks1995
The Moral Animal : Why We Are the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology door Robert Wright1995
De snavel van de vink : een verhaal over evolutie in onze tijd door Jonathan Weiner1994
Uncommon Sense: The Heretical Nature of Science door Alan Cromer1994
Signs of Life: The Language and Meanings of DNA door Robert Pollack1994
Why Zebras Dont Get Ulcers: A Guide to Stress, Stress-Related Diseases, and Coping door Robert M. Sapolsky1994
The End of Evolution door Peter Ward1994
Fuzzy logic de ontdekking van een revolutionaire computertechnologie en hoe die langzaam maar zeker onze wereld verander door Daniel McNeill1993
AI: The Tumultuous History of the Search for Artificial Intelligence door Daniel Crevier1993
Bad Science: The Short Life and Weird Times of Cold Fusion door Gary Taubes1993
The Diversity of Life door Edward O. Wilson1993
The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal door Jared M. Diamond1992
The Truth About Chernobyl door Grigori Medvedev1991
De opkomst van het intellect een reis naar de ijstijd door William Calvin1991
The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan door Robert Kanigel1991
Walking With the Great Apes: Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, Birute Galdikas door Sy Montgomery1991
Lonely Hearts of the Cosmos: The Scientific Quest for the Secret of the Universe door Dennis Overbye1991
Patenting the Sun: Polio and the Salk Vacine door Jane S. Smith1990
Verzoening : Vrede stichten onder apen en mensen door Frans B. M. de Waal1989

Beschrijvingen

The Los Angeles Times has awarded a set of book prizes annually since 1980. Eligibility for the prizes requires a book to have its first United States publication between January 1 and December 31 of any given year. This American publication must be in English; however, English does not have to be the original language of the work. Authors may be of any nationality. They should be alive at the time of their book’s qualifying U.S. publication although eligibility is also extended to significant new translations of the work of deceased writers. Books by current employees of the Los Angeles Times, by current employees of Tribune Company or any of its other affiliates, by currently serving judges of the Los Angeles Times Book Prizes, or by immediate family members of these groups are not eligible. (English, Door lid geschreven)
This year’s Los Angeles Times Book Prizes honored outstanding literary achievement in nine categories: biography, current interest, fiction, first fiction, history, mystery/thriller, poetry, science and technology, and young adult fiction. Each winner receives a $1,000 cash award. (English, Door lid geschreven)

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