LA Times Book PrizeFinalistScience & Technology

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Muut nimet: Los Angeles Times Book Prize (englanti)
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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 näytä lisää 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. näytä vähemmän
Stages:
Kaikki, Winner (364), Finalist (1,601)
Luokat:
Kaikki, Science & Technology (159)
Vuodet:
Kaikki, 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)
Announced:
huhtikuu 19: Winner2023 Viimeksi
helmikuu 21: Finalist2023 Viimeksi

Finalist 159

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Is Math Real?: How Simple Questions Lead Us to Mathematics’ Deepest Truths (tekijä: Eugenia Cheng)2023
The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet (tekijä: Jeff Goodell)2023
The Possibility of Life: Science, Imagination, and Our Quest for Kinship in the Cosmos (tekijä: Jaime Green)2023
A Book of Noises: Notes on the Auraculous (tekijä: Caspar Henderson)2023
A City on Mars: Can we settle space, should we settle space, and have we really thought this through? (tekijä: Kelly Weinersmith)2023
How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures (tekijä: Sabrina Imbler)2022
Life on the Rocks: Building a Future for Coral Reefs (tekijä: Juli Berwald)2022
Fresh Banana Leaves: Healing Indigenous Landscapes through Indigenous Science (tekijä: Jessica Hernandez Ph.D.)2022
Beyond Measure: The Hidden History of Measurement from Cubits to Quantum Constants (tekijä: James Vincent)2022
An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us (tekijä: Ed Yong)2022
The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred (tekijä: Chanda Prescod-Weinstein)2021
Saving Us: A Climate Scientist's Case for Hope and Healing in a Divided World (tekijä: Katharine Hayhoe)2021
Wild Souls: Freedom and Flourishing in the Non-Human World (tekijä: Emma Marris)2021
God, Human, Animal, Machine: Technology, Metaphor, and the Search for Meaning (tekijä: Meghan O'Gieblyn)2021
A World on the Wing: The Global Odyssey of Migratory Birds (tekijä: Scott Weidensaul)2021
The Smallest Lights in the Universe: A Memoir (tekijä: Sara Seager)2020
Figuring (tekijä: Maria Popova)2019
Bottle of Lies: The Inside Story of the Generic Drug Boom (tekijä: Katherine Eban)2019
Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster (tekijä: Adam Higginbotham)2019
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men (tekijä: Caroline Criado Perez)2019
Superior: The Return of Race Science (tekijä: Angela Saini)2019
Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America (tekijä: Beth Macy)2018
Timefulness: How Thinking Like a Geologist Can Help Save the World (tekijä: Marcia Bjornerud)2018
Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America (tekijä: Eliza Griswold)2018
What the Eyes Don't See: A Story of Crisis, Resistance, and Hope in an American City (tekijä: Mona Hanna-Attisha)2018
Nine Pints: A Journey Through the Money, Medicine, and Mysteries of Blood (tekijä: George Rose)2018
Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst (tekijä: Robert M. Sapolsky)2017
Making Sense of Science: Separating Substance from Spin (tekijä: Cornelia Dean)2017
A Crack in Creation: Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution (tekijä: Jennifer A. Doudna)2017
Life 3.0 : being human in the age of artificial intelligence (tekijä: Max Tegmark)2017
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams (tekijä: Matthew Walker)2017
Patient H.M.: A Story of Memory, Madness, and Family Secrets (tekijä: Luke Dittrich)2016
Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War (tekijä: Mary Roach)2016
Pandemic: Tracking Contagions, from Cholera to Ebola and Beyond (tekijä: Sonia Shah)2016
Light: A Radiant History from Creation to the Quantum Age (tekijä: Bruce Watson)2016
I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life (tekijä: Ed Yong)2016
The Invention of Nature: The Adventures of Alexander von Humboldt, the Lost Hero of Science (tekijä: Andrea Wulf)2015
Machines of Loving Grace: The Quest for Common Ground Between Humans and Robots (tekijä: John Markoff)2015
The Evil Hours: A Biography of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (tekijä: David J. Morris)2015
How to Clone a Mammoth: The Science of De-Extinction (tekijä: Beth Shapiro)2015
Rust : the longest war (tekijä: Jonathan Waldman)2015
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History (tekijä: Elizabeth Kolbert)2014
Cosmigraphics (tekijä: Michael Benson)2014
Missing Microbes: How the Overuse of Antibiotics Is Fueling Our Modern Plagues (tekijä: Martin J. Blaser)2014
Tämä muuttaa kaiken : kapitalismi vs ilmasto (tekijä: Naomi Klein)2014
Dataclysm: Who We Are* *When We Think No One's Looking (tekijä: Christian Rudder)2014
Maailma täynnä meitä : viimeinen yritys maapallon pelastamiseksi? (tekijä: Alan Weisman)2013
Social: why our brains are wired to connect (tekijä: Matthew D. Lieberman)2013
Animal Wise: The Thoughts and Emotions of Our Fellow Creatures (tekijä: Virginia Morell)2013
Scatter, Adapt, and Remember: How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction (tekijä: Annalee Newitz)2013
Brainwashed: The Seductive Appeal of Mindless Neuroscience (tekijä: Sally Satel)2013
Breasts: A Natural and Unnatural History (tekijä: Florence Williams)2012
Hiljaiset - introverttien manifesti (tekijä: Susan Cain)2012
Turing's Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe (tekijä: George Dyson)2012
The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human (tekijä: Jonathan Gottschall)2012
Signaali ja kohina : miksi monet ennusteet epäonnistuvat, mutta jotkin eivät (tekijä: Nate Silver)2012
Grand Pursuit: The Story of Economic Genius (tekijä: Sylvia Nasar)2011
A Hole at the Bottom of the Sea: The Race to Kill the BP Oil Gusher (tekijä: Joel Achenbach)2011
Informaatio (tekijä: James Gleick)2011
Unnatural Selection: Choosing Boys Over Girls, and the Consequences of a World Full of Men (tekijä: Mara Hvistendahl)2011
Blood Work: A Tale of Medicine and Murder in the Scientific Revolution (tekijä: Holly Tucker)2011
The Price of Altruism: George Price and the Search for the Origins of Kindness (tekijä: Oren Harman)2010
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer (tekijä: Siddhartha Mukherjee)2010
Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming (tekijä: Naomi Oreskes)2010
Radioactive: Marie & Pierre Curie: A Tale of Love and Fallout (tekijä: Lauren Redniss)2010
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (tekijä: Rebecca Skloot)2010
The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Mystic of the Atom (tekijä: Graham Farmelo)2009
The Day We Found the Universe (tekijä: Marcia Bartusiak)2009
Cold: Adventures in the World's Frozen Places (tekijä: Bill Streever)2009
Tulella kypsennetty. Miten keittotaito teki meistä ihmisiä (tekijä: Richard Wrangham)2009
Naming Nature: The Clash Between Instinct and Science (tekijä: Carol Kaesuk Yoon)2009
The Black Hole War: My Battle with Stephen Hawking to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics (tekijä: Leonard Susskind)2008
What the Nose Knows: The Science of Scent in Everyday Life (tekijä: Avery Gilbert)2008
Only a Theory: Evolution and the Battle for America's Soul (tekijä: Kenneth R. Miller)2008
Worlds Before Adam: The Reconstruction of Geohistory in the Age of Reform (tekijä: Martin J. S. Rudwick)2008
Microcosm: E. coli and the New Science of Life (tekijä: Carl Zimmer)2008
I Am a Strange Loop (tekijä: Douglas Hofstadter)2007
Animal Architects: Building and the Evolution of Intelligence (tekijä: James L. Gould)2007
The First Word: The Search for the Origins of Language (tekijä: Christine Kenneally)2007
Faust in Copenhagen: A Struggle for the Soul of Physics (tekijä: Gino Segrè)2007
On Deep History and the Brain (tekijä: Daniel Lord Smail)2007
In Search of Memory: The Emergence of a New Science of Mind (tekijä: Eric R. Kandel)2006
The First Scientific American: Benjamin Franklin and the Pursuit of Genius (tekijä: Joyce Chaplin)2006
The First Human: The Race to Discover Our Earliest Ancestors (tekijä: Ann Gibbons)2006
Musiikki ja aivot: ihmisen erään pakkomielteen tiedettä (tekijä: Daniel J. Levitin)2006
The Creation: An Appeal to Save Life on Earth (tekijä: Edward O. Wilson)2006
Before The Fallout: From Marie Curie to Hiroshima (tekijä: Diana Preston)2005
Loputtomat kauniit muodot : evodevon uusi tiede (tekijä: Sean B. Carroll)2005
Ice: The Nature, the History, and the Uses of an Astonishing Substance (tekijä: Mariana Gosnell)2005
Descent: The Heroic Discovery of the Abyss (tekijä: Brad Matsen)2005
The Republican War on Science (tekijä: Chris Mooney)2005
The Whale and the Supercomputer: On the Northern Front of Climate Change (tekijä: Charles Wohlforth)2004
The Proteus Effect: Stem Cells and Their Promise for Medicine (tekijä: Ann B. Parson)2004
Opening Skinner's Box: Great Psychological Experiments of the Twentieth Century (tekijä: Lauren Slater)2004
On the Wing: To the Edge of the Earth with the Peregrine Falcon (tekijä: Alan Tennant)2004
His Brother's Keeper: A Story from the Edge of Medicine (tekijä: Jonathan Weiner)2004
Protecting America's Health: The FDA, Business, and One Hundred Years of Regulation (tekijä: Philip J. Hilts)2003
The Beast in the Garden: The True Story of a Predator's Deadly Return to Suburban America (tekijä: David Baron)2003
The Emperor of Scent: A True Story of Perfume and Obsession (tekijä: Chandler Burr)2003
Merchants of Immortality: Chasing the Dream of Human Life Extension (tekijä: Stephen S. Hall)2003
Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA (tekijä: Brenda Maddox)2002
Love at Goon Park: Harry Harlow and the Science of Affection (tekijä: Deborah Blum)2002
Of Moths and Men (tekijä: Judith Hooper)2002
Suola : eräs maailmanhistoria (tekijä: Mark Kurlansky)2002
The Demon in the Freezer: A True Story (tekijä: Richard Preston)2002
The Invention of Clouds: How an Amateur Meteorologist Forged the Language of the Skies (tekijä: Richard Hamblyn)2001
In Code: A Mathematical Journey (tekijä: Sarah Flannery)2001
A Different Nature: The Paradoxical World of Zoos and Their Uncertain Future (tekijä: David Hancocks)2001
Volframin hehku : muistoja kemiallisesta lapsuudestani (tekijä: Oliver Sacks)2001
The Seven Daughters of Eve: The Science That Reveals Our Genetic Ancestry (tekijä: Bryan Sykes)2001
The Rise and Fall of Modern Medicine (tekijä: James Le Fanu)2000
E=mc2 : maailman tunnetuimman yhtälön elämäkerta (tekijä: David Bodanis)2000
Einstein in Love: A Scientific Romance (tekijä: Dennis Overbye)2000
Perimä : ihmisen historia 23 kappaleessa (tekijä: Matt Ridley)2000
A Rum Affair: A True Story of Botanical Fraud (tekijä: Karl Sabbagh)2000
Galileon tytär : tiedettä, uskoa, rakkautta (tekijä: Dava Sobel)1999
Mind of the Raven: Investigations and Adventures with Wolf-Birds (tekijä: Bernd Heinrich)1999
The River (tekijä: Edward Hooper)1999
Lucy's legacy : sex and intelligence in human evolution (tekijä: Alison Jolly)1999
Koodikirja : salakirjoituksen historia muinaisesta Egyptista kvanttikryptografiaan (tekijä: Simon Singh)1999
Blood: An Epic History of Medicine and Commerce (tekijä: Douglas Starr)1998
The Baltimore Case: A Trial of Politics, Science, and Character (tekijä: Daniel J. Kevles)1998
Mendel's Dwarf (tekijä: Simon Mawer)1998
Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind (tekijä: V. S. Ramachandran)1998
Taking Wing: Archaeopteryx and the Evolution of Bird Flight (tekijä: Pat Shipman)1998
How the Mind Works (tekijä: Steven Pinker)1997
Todellisuuden rakenne (tekijä: David Deutsch)1997
Venus Revealed : A New Look Below the Clouds of our Mysterious Twin Planet (tekijä: David Harry Grinspoon)1997
Deadly Feasts: Tracking the Secrets of a Terrifying New Plague (tekijä: Richard Rhodes)1997
The Trouble With Testosterone: And Other Essays On The Biology Of The Human Predicament (tekijä: Robert M. Sapolsky)1997
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (tekijä: Carl Sagan)1996
Fermat'n teoreema (tekijä: Amir D. Aczel)1996
The Most Beautiful Molecule: The Discovery of the Buckyball (tekijä: Hugh Aldersey-Williams)1996
The Forgotten Pollinators (tekijä: Stephen L. Buchmann)1996
Fire in the Mind: Science, Faith, and the Search for Order (tekijä: George Johnson)1996
Home from Nowhere: Remaking Our Everyday World for the 21st Century (tekijä: James Howard Kunstler)1996
The Dying of the Trees (tekijä: Charles E. Little)1996
Naturalist (tekijä: Edward O. Wilson)1995
The Alchemy of the Heavens (tekijä: Ken Croswell)1995
Descartesin virhe : emootio, järki ja ihmisen aivot (tekijä: Antonio Damasio)1995
Antropologi Marsissa : seitsemän paradoksaalista tarinaa (tekijä: Oliver Sacks)1995
The Moral Animal : Why We Are the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology (tekijä: Robert Wright)1995
Darwinin linnut : uutta tietoa evoluutiosta (tekijä: Jonathan Weiner)1994
Uncommon Sense: The Heretical Nature of Science (tekijä: Alan Cromer)1994
Signs of Life: The Language and Meanings of DNA (tekijä: Robert Pollack)1994
Why Zebras Dont Get Ulcers: A Guide to Stress, Stress-Related Diseases, and Coping (tekijä: Robert M. Sapolsky)1994
The End of Evolution (tekijä: Peter Ward)1994
Fuzzy Logic: The Revolutionary Computer Technology That Is Changing Our World (tekijä: Daniel McNeill)1993
AI: The Tumultuous History of the Search for Artificial Intelligence (tekijä: Daniel Crevier)1993
Bad Science: The Short Life and Weird Times of Cold Fusion (tekijä: Gary Taubes)1993
Elämän monimuotoisuus (tekijä: Edward O. Wilson)1993
The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal (tekijä: Jared M. Diamond)1992
The Truth About Chernobyl (tekijä: Grigori Medvedev)1991
The Ascent of Mind: Ice Age Climates and the Evolution of Intelligence (tekijä: William Calvin)1991
The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan (tekijä: Robert Kanigel)1991
Walking With the Great Apes: Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, Birute Galdikas (tekijä: Sy Montgomery)1991
Kosmoksen yksinäiset : tiede maailmankaikkeuden salaisuutta etsimässä (tekijä: Dennis Overbye)1991
Patenting the Sun: Polio and the Salk Vacine (tekijä: Jane S. Smith)1990
Peacemaking among Primates (tekijä: Frans B. M. de Waal)1989

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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 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, Member-written)
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, Member-written)

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