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Royal Society Prizes for Science Books - General Prize
2011
Alex's adventures in Numberland by Alex Bellos- Through the language glass: how words colour your world, by Guy Deutscher
- The disappearing spoon, by Sam Kean
- The wavewatcher's companion by Gavin Pretor-Pinney
- Massive: the missing particle that sparked the greatest hunt in science, by Ian Sample
- The Rough Guide to the future, by Jon Turney
2010
- Life Ascending: The Ten Great Inventions of Evolution, Nick Lane Winner
God’s Philosophers: How the medieval world laid the foundations of modern science by James Hannam- A World Without Ice by Henry Pollack
- Everyday Practice of Science: Where Intuition and Passion Meet Objectivity and Logic by Frederick Grinnell
- We Need To Talk About Kelvin by Marcus Chown
- Why Does E=mc2? by Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw
2009
The age of wonder: How the Romantic generation discovered the beauty and terror of science Winner- Richard Holmes
- Bad science
- Ben Goldacre
- Decoding the heavens: Solving the mystery of the world's first computer
- Jo Marchant
- The drunkard's walk: How randomness rules our lives
- Leonard Mlodinow
- What the nose knows: The science of scent in everyday life
- Avery Gilbert
- Your inner fish: The amazing discovery of our 375-million-year-old ancestor
- Neil Shubin
2008
Six degrees: Our future on a hotter planet Winner- Mark Lynas (Fourth Estate)
- A life decoded
- J. Craig Venter (Penguin Allen Lane)
- Coral : A pessimist in paradise
- Steve Jones (Little, Brown)
- Gut feelings
- Gerd Gigerenzer (Penguin - Allen Lane)
- The sun kings
- Stuart Clark (Princeton University Press)
- Why beauty is truth
- Ian Stewart (Basic Books)
2007
Stumbling on Happiness Winner- Daniel Gilbert
- Homo Britannicus
- Chris Stringer
- In Search of Memory
- Eric R. Kandel
- Lonesome George
- Henry Nicholls
- One in Three
- Adam Wishart
- The Rough Guide to Climate Change
- Robert Henson
2006
Electric Universe How Electricity Switched on the Modern World Winner - David Bodanis
- Collapse How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive
- Jared Diamond
- Parallel Worlds The Science of Alternative Universes and our Future in the Cosmos
- Michio Kaku
- Power, Sex, Suicide Mitochondria and the Meaning of Life
- Nick Lane
- Empire of the Stars Friendship, Obsession and Betrayal in the Quest for Black Holes
- Arthur I. Miller
- The Truth About Hormones Whats Going on when were Tetchy, Spotty, Fearful, Tearful or Just Plain Awful
- Vivienne Parry
2005
Critical Mass: How One Thing Leads to Another Philip Ball
2004
A Short History of Nearly Everything Bill Bryson
2003
Right hand, left hand: The Origins of asymmetry in brains, bodies, atoms and cultures Chris McManus
2002
The Universe in a nutshell Stephen Hawking
2001
Robert Kunzig
2000
The Elegant Universe Brian Greene
1999
The Man who loved only numbers Paul Hoffman
1998
Guns, germs and steel Jared Diamond
1997
The Wisdom of bones Alan Walker and Pat Shipman
1996
Plague’s progress Arno Karlen
1995
The Consumer’s Good chemical guide John Emsley
1994
The Language of the genes Steve Jones
1993
The Making of memory Steven Rose
1992
The Rise and fall of the third chimpanzee Jared Diamond
1991
Wonderful life Stephen Jay Gould
1990
The Emperor’s new mind Roger Penrose
1989
Bones of contention Roger Lewin
1988
Living with risk The British Medical Association Board of Science
