Royal Society Science Book Prize Winners

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Winners

	A (Very) Short History of Life on Earth: 4.6 Billion Years in 12 Pithy Chapters by Henry Gee (Goodreads Author) 4.07 avg rating — 1,369 ratings Royal Society Science Book Prize (2022)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures by Merlin Sheldrake (Goodreads Author) 4.37 avg rating — 25,800 ratings Royal Society Science Book Prize (2021)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Explaining Humans: What Science Can Teach Us about Life, Love and Relationships by Camilla Pang 3.49 avg rating — 1,641 ratings Royal Society Science Book Prize (2020)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado Pérez 4.36 avg rating — 95,438 ratings Royal Society Science Book Prize (2019)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Inventing Ourselves: The Secret Life of the Teenage Brain by Sarah-Jayne Blakemore 3.80 avg rating — 958 ratings Royal Society Science Book Prize (2018)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Testosterone Rex: Myths of Sex, Science, and Society by Cordelia Fine 3.80 avg rating — 3,127 ratings Royal Society Science Book Prize (2017)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World by Andrea Wulf 4.30 avg rating — 23,056 ratings Royal Society Science Book Prize (2016)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Adventures in the Anthropocene: A Journey to the Heart of the Planet We Made by Gaia Vince 4.07 avg rating — 821 ratings Royal Society Science Book Prize (2015)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World by Mark Miodownik 4.11 avg rating — 18,192 ratings Royal Society Science Book Prize (2014)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Particle at the End of the Universe: How the Hunt for the Higgs Boson Leads Us to the Edge of a New World by Sean Carroll (Goodreads Author) 4.05 avg rating — 4,116 ratings Royal Society Science Book Prize (2013)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood by James Gleick (Goodreads Author) 4.03 avg rating — 15,817 ratings Royal Society Science Book Prize (2012)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Wave Watcher's Companion: From Ocean Waves to Light Waves via Shock Waves, Stadium Waves, and All the Rest of Life's Undulations by Gavin Pretor-Pinney 3.85 avg rating — 427 ratings Royal Society Science Book Prize (2011)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Life Ascending: The Ten Great Inventions of Evolution by Nick Lane 4.12 avg rating — 4,934 ratings Royal Society Science Book Prize (2010)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science by Richard Holmes 3.97 avg rating — 9,335 ratings Royal Society Science Book Prize (2009)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Usborne Big Book of Science Things to Make and Do by Rebecca Gilpin 4.25 avg rating — 60 ratings Royal Society Science Book Prize for Junior Prize (2008)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet by Mark Lynas 4.07 avg rating — 1,944 ratings Royal Society Science Book Prize (2008)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Can You Feel the Force? by Richard Hammond 4.25 avg rating — 61 ratings Royal Society Science Book Prize for Junior Prize (2007)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Stumbling on Happiness by Daniel Todd Gilbert 3.82 avg rating — 59,927 ratings Royal Society Science Book Prize (2007)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Global Garden by Kate Petty 4.62 avg rating — 39 ratings Royal Society Science Book Prize for Junior Prize (2006)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Electric Universe: How Electricity Switched on the Modern World by David Bodanis (Goodreads Author) 3.79 avg rating — 1,331 ratings Royal Society Science Book Prize for General Prize (2006)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Critical Mass: How One Thing Leads to Another by Philip Ball 3.89 avg rating — 1,367 ratings Royal Society Science Book Prize for General Prize (2005)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	What Makes Me, Me? by Robert Winston 4.30 avg rating — 63 ratings Royal Society Science Book Prize for Junior Prize (2005)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Really Rotten Experiments by Nick Arnold 4.10 avg rating — 103 ratings Royal Society Science Book Prize for Junior Prize (2004)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Right Hand, Left Hand: The Origins of Asymmetry in Brains, Bodies, Atoms and Cultures by Chris McManus 3.83 avg rating — 265 ratings Royal Society Science Book Prize for General Prize (2003)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	DK Guide: Ocean by Frances Dipper really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings Royal Society Science Book Prize for Junior Prize (2003)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Universe in a Nutshell by Stephen Hawking 4.18 avg rating — 41,107 ratings Royal Society Science Book Prize for General Prize (2002)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Human Body by Richard Walker 4.12 avg rating — 50 ratings Royal Society Science Book Prize for Junior Prize (2002)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mapping the Deep: The Extraordinary Story of Ocean Science by Robert Kunzig 4.15 avg rating — 477 ratings Royal Society Science Book Prize for General Prize (2001)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Weather by Michael Allaby 4.25 avg rating — 16 ratings Royal Society Science Book Prize for Junior Prize (2001)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory by Brian Greene 4.09 avg rating — 95,516 ratings Royal Society Science Book Prize for General Prize (2000)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars