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'longlist' for 2006 Aventis Prize for Science Book 2006

The Aventis Prizes for Science Books are an annual book prize, which celebrate the very best in popular science writing for adults and children.

Pinched from: http://www.aventisprizes.com/about_intro.htm (by way of http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4783042.stm , by way of http://www.kottke.org )
1. Electric Universe: How Electricity Switched on the Modern World
by David Bodanis
  
2. Collapse (Allen Lane Science)
by Jared M. Diamond
  
3. The Gecko's Foot: Bio-inspiration: Engineering New Materials from Nature
by Peter Forbes
  
4. The Silicon Eye: How a Silicon Valley Company Aims to Make All Current Computers, Cameras, and Cell Phones Obsolete (Enterprise)
by George Gilder
  
5. Parallel Worlds (Allen Lane Science)
by Michio Kaku
  
6. Power, Sex, Suicide : Mitochondria and the Meaning of Life
by Nick Lane
  
7. Venomous Earth: How Arsenic Caused The World's Worst Mass Poisoning
by Andrew Meharg
  
8. Empire of the Stars
by Arthur I. Miller
  
9.
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 Seven Deadly Colours: The Genius of Nature's Palette and How It Eluded Darwin
by Andrew Parker
  
10.
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 The Truth About Hormones – What’s Going on when we’re Tetchy, Spotty, Fearful, Tearful or Just Plain Awful  
11. Stalking the Riemann Hypothesis : The Quest to Find the Hidden Law of Prime Numbers
by Dan Rockmore
  
12.
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 The Fruits of War - How War and Conflict have Driven Science  
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Created by Guy Dickinson on Mar 13, 2006.