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Andre Navne: Los Angeles Times Book Prize (Engelsk)
150 Works / 151 Items 0 Books
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 vis mere 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. vis mindre
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Winner 34

VærkÅr
How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures af Sabrina Imbler2022
The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred af Chanda Prescod-Weinstein2021
The Smallest Lights in the Universe: A Memoir af Sara Seager2020
Figuring af Maria Popova2019
Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America af Beth Macy2018
Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst af Robert M. Sapolsky2017
Patient H.M.: A Story of Memory, Madness, and Family Secrets af Luke Dittrich2016
The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World af Andrea Wulf2015
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History af Elizabeth Kolbert2014
Countdown: Our Last, Best Hope for a Future on Earth? af Alan Weisman2013
Breasts: A Natural and Unnatural History af Florence Williams2012
Grand Pursuit: The Story of Economic Genius af Sylvia Nasar2011
The Price of Altruism: George Price and the Search for the Origins of Kindness af Oren Harman2010
The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Mystic of the Atom af Graham Farmelo2009
The Black Hole War: My Battle with Stephen Hawking to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics af Leonard Susskind2008
I Am a Strange Loop af Douglas R. Hofstadter2007
In Search of Memory: The Emergence of a New Science of Mind af Eric R. Kandel2006
Before The Fallout: From Marie Curie to Hiroshima af Diana Preston2005
The Whale and the Supercomputer: On the Northern Front of Climate Change af Charles Wohlforth2004
Protecting America's Health: The FDA, Business, and One Hundred Years of Regulation af Philip J. Hilts2003
Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA af Brenda Maddox2002
The Invention of Clouds: How an Amateur Meteorologist Forged the Language of the Skies af Richard Hamblyn2001
The Rise and Fall of Modern Medicine af James Le Fanu2000
Galileos datter : en historisk biografi om videnskab, tro og kærlighed af Dava Sobel1999
Blood: An Epic History of Medicine and Commerce af Douglas Starr1998
How the Mind Works af Steven Pinker1997
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark af Carl Sagan1996
Naturalist af Edward O. Wilson1995
The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time af Jonathan Weiner1994
Fuzzy Logic: The Revolutionary Computer Technology That Is Changing Our World af Daniel McNeill1993
Den tredje chimpanse : storhed og fald af Jared M. Diamond1992
The Truth About Chernobyl af Grigori Medvedev1991
Patenting the Sun: Polio and the Salk Vacine af Jane S. Smith1990
Peacemaking among Primates af Frans B. M. de Waal1989

Finalist 117

VærkÅr
Saving Us: A Climate Scientist's Case for Hope and Healing in a Divided World af Katharine Hayhoe2021
Wild Souls: Freedom and Flourishing in the Non-Human World af Emma Marris2021
God, Human, Animal, Machine: Technology, Metaphor, and the Search for Meaning af Meghan O'Gieblyn2021
A World on the Wing: The Global Odyssey of Migratory Birds af Scott Weidensaul2021
Bottle of Lies: The Inside Story of the Generic Drug Boom af Katherine Eban2019
Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster af Adam Higginbotham2019
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men af Caroline Criado Perez2019
Superior: The Return of Race Science af Angela Saini2019
Timefulness: How Thinking Like a Geologist Can Help Save the World af Marcia Bjornerud2018
Nine Pints: A Journey Through the Money, Medicine, and Mysteries of Blood af Rose George2018
Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America af Eliza Griswold2018
What the Eyes Don't See: A Story of Crisis, Resistance, and Hope in an American City af Mona Hanna-Attisha2018
Making Sense of Science: Separating Substance from Spin af Cornelia Dean2017
A Crack in Creation: Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution af Jennifer A. Doudna2017
Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst af Robert M. Sapolsky2017
Life 3.0 : being human in the age of artificial intelligence af Max Tegmark2017
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams af Matthew Walker2017
Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War af Mary Roach2016
Pandemic: Tracking Contagions, from Cholera to Ebola and Beyond af Sonia Shah2016
Light: A Radiant History from Creation to the Quantum Age af Bruce Watson2016
I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life af Ed Yong2016
Machines of Loving Grace: The Quest for Common Ground Between Humans and Robots af John Markoff2015
The Evil Hours: A Biography of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder af David J. Morris2015
How to Clone a Mammoth: The Science of De-Extinction af Beth Shapiro2015
Rust : the longest war af Jonathan Waldman2015
Cosmigraphics af Michael Benson2014
Missing Microbes: How the Overuse of Antibiotics Is Fueling Our Modern Plagues af Martin J. Blaser2014
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate af Naomi Klein2014
Dataclysm: Who We Are* *When We Think No One's Looking af Christian Rudder2014
Social: why our brains are wired to connect af Matthew D. Lieberman2013
Animal Wise: The Thoughts and Emotions of Our Fellow Creatures af Virginia Morell2013
Scatter, Adapt, and Remember: How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction af Annalee Newitz2013
Brainwashed: The Seductive Appeal of Mindless Neuroscience af Sally Satel2013
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking af Susan Cain2012
Turing's Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe af George Dyson2012
The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human af Jonathan Gottschall2012
The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail — but Some Don't af Nate Silver2012
A Hole at the Bottom of the Sea: The Race to Kill the BP Oil Gusher af Joel Achenbach2011
The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood af James Gleick2011
Unnatural Selection: Choosing Boys Over Girls, and the Consequences of a World Full of Men af Mara Hvistendahl2011
Blood Work: A Tale of Medicine and Murder in the Scientific Revolution af Holly Tucker2011
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer af Siddhartha Mukherjee2010
Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming af Naomi Oreskes2010
Radioactive: Marie & Pierre Curie: A Tale of Love and Fallout af Lauren Redniss2010
Henrietta Lacks' udødelige liv af Rebecca Skloot2010
The Day We Found the Universe af Marcia Bartusiak2009
Cold: Adventures in the World's Frozen Places af Bill Streever2009
Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human af Richard Wrangham2009
Naming Nature: The Clash Between Instinct and Science af Carol Kaesuk Yoon2009
What the Nose Knows: The Science of Scent in Everyday Life af Avery Gilbert2008
Only a Theory: Evolution and the Battle for America's Soul af Kenneth R. Miller2008
Worlds Before Adam: The Reconstruction of Geohistory in the Age of Reform af Martin J. S. Rudwick2008
Microcosm: E. coli and the New Science of Life af Carl Zimmer2008
Animal Architects: Building and the Evolution of Intelligence af James L. Gould2007
The First Word: The Search for the Origins of Language af Christine Kenneally2007
Faust in Copenhagen: A Struggle for the Soul of Physics af Gino Segrè2007
On Deep History and the Brain af Daniel Lord Smail2007
The First Scientific American: Benjamin Franklin and the Pursuit of Genius af Joyce Chaplin2006
The First Human: The Race to Discover Our Earliest Ancestors af Ann Gibbons2006
This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession af Daniel J. Levitin2006
The Creation: An Appeal to Save Life on Earth af Edward O. Wilson2006
Endless Forms Most Beautiful: The New Science of Evo Devo af Sean B. Carroll2005
Ice: The Nature, the History, and the Uses of an Astonishing Substance af Mariana Gosnell2005
Descent: The Heroic Discovery of the Abyss af Brad Matsen2005
The Republican War on Science af Chris Mooney2005
The Proteus Effect: Stem Cells and Their Promise for Medicine af Ann B. Parson2004
Opening Skinner's Box: Great Psychological Experiments of the Twentieth Century af Lauren Slater2004
On the Wing: To the Edge of the Earth with the Peregrine Falcon af Alan Tennant2004
His Brother's Keeper: A Story from the Edge of Medicine af Jonathan Weiner2004
The Beast in the Garden: The True Story of a Predator's Deadly Return to Suburban America af David Baron2003
The Emperor of Scent: A True Story of Perfume and Obsession af Chandler Burr2003
Merchants of Immortality: Chasing the Dream of Human Life Extension af Stephen S. Hall2003
Love at Goon Park: Harry Harlow and the Science of Affection af Deborah Blum2002
Of Moths and Men af Judith Hooper2002
Salt: A World History af Mark Kurlansky2002
The Demon in the Freezer: A True Story af Richard Preston2002
In Code: A Mathematical Journey af Sarah Flannery2001
A Different Nature: The Paradoxical World of Zoos and Their Uncertain Future af David Hancocks2001
Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood af Oliver Sacks2001
The Seven Daughters of Eve: The Science That Reveals Our Genetic Ancestry af Bryan Sykes2001
E=mc2: A Biography of the World's Most Famous Equation af David Bodanis2000
Einstein in Love: A Scientific Romance af Dennis Overbye2000
Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters af Matt Ridley2000
A Rum Affair: A True Story of Botanical Fraud af Karl Sabbagh2000
Mind of the Raven: Investigations and Adventures with Wolf-Birds af Bernd Heinrich1999
The River af Edward Hooper1999
Lucy's legacy : sex and intelligence in human evolution af Alison Jolly1999
Kodebogen : videnskaben om hemmelige budskaber - fra oldtidens Ægypten til kvantekryptering af Simon Singh1999
The Baltimore Case: A Trial of Politics, Science, and Character af Daniel J. Kevles1998
Mendel's Dwarf af Simon Mawer1998
Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind af V. S. Ramachandran1998
Taking Wing: Archaeopteryx and the Evolution of Bird Flight af Pat Shipman1998
The Fabric of Reality: The Science of Parallel Universes and Its Implications af David Deutsch1997
Venus Revealed : A New Look Below the Clouds of our Mysterious Twin Planet af David Harry Grinspoon1997
Deadly Feasts: Tracking the Secrets of a Terrifying New Plague af Richard Rhodes1997
The Trouble With Testosterone: And Other Essays On The Biology Of The Human Predicament af Robert M. Sapolsky1997
Fermat's Last Theorem: Unlocking the Secret of an Ancient Mathematical Problem af Amir D. Aczel1996
The Most Beautiful Molecule: The Discovery of the Buckyball af Hugh Aldersey-Williams1996
The Forgotten Pollinators af Stephen L. Buchmann1996
Fire in the Mind: Science, Faith, and the Search for Order af George Johnson1996
Home from Nowhere: Remaking Our Everyday World for the 21st Century af James Howard Kunstler1996
The Dying of the Trees af Charles E. Little1996
The Alchemy of the Heavens af Ken Croswell1995
Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain af Antonio Damasio1995
En antropolog på Mars : syv paradoksale fortællinger af Oliver Sacks1995
The Moral Animal : Why We Are the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology af Robert Wright1995
Uncommon Sense: The Heretical Nature of Science af Alan Cromer1994
Signs of Life: The Language and Meanings of DNA af Robert Pollack1994
Why Zebras Dont Get Ulcers: A Guide to Stress, Stress-Related Diseases, and Coping af Robert M. Sapolsky1994
The End of Evolution af Peter Ward1994
AI: The Tumultuous History of the Search for Artificial Intelligence af Daniel Crevier1993
Bad Science: The Short Life and Weird Times of Cold Fusion af Gary Taubes1993
The Diversity of Life af Edward O. Wilson1993
The Ascent of Mind: Ice Age Climates and the Evolution of Intelligence af William Calvin1991
The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan af Robert Kanigel1991
Walking With the Great Apes: Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, Birute Galdikas af Sy Montgomery1991
Lonely Hearts of the Cosmos: The Scientific Quest for the Secret of the Universe af Dennis Overbye1991

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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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