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Best Science Books 2007 Royal Society Prizes
   
The Royal Society Prizes for Science Books celebrates the very best in popular science writing for adults and children.
They seek to encourage the reading, writing and publishing of good and accessible popular science books. Over their nineteen year history they have lauded a wide range of exceptional books that deserve a wide readership.
Full details of the 2007 Prizes and previous years' books are available on the Prizes website at Royal Society Prizes
Possible Best Science Books of 2007
The Invisible Cure: Africa, the West, and the Fight Against AIDS by Helen Epstein
Einstein: His Life and Universe by Walter Isaacson
The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature by Steven Pinker
The Snoring Bird: My Family's Journey Through a Century of Biology by Bernd Heinrich
I Am a Strange Loop by Douglas Hofstadter
The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science by Norman Doidge
Proust Was a Neuroscientist by Jonah Lehrer
The Last Human: A Guide to Twenty-Two Species of Extinct Humans by G. J. Sawyer
The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science by Natalie Angier
Luminous Fish: Tales of Science and Love by Lynn Margulis
See also Computers & Internet, Health, Mind & Body lists
Publishers Weekly
How Doctors Think by Jerome Groopman
The Atomic Bazaar: The Rise of the Nuclear Poor by William Langewiesche
Storm World: Hurricanes, Politics, and the Battle over Global Warming by Chris Mooney
Arsenals of Folly: The Making of the Nuclear Arms Race by Richard Rhodes
Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain by Maryanne Wolf
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