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Local community organisations, clubs, courses and programmesRoyal Society Prizes for Science Books - General Prize
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
Mapping the deep 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
