14 August 2024 Books+Publisher @booksandpublishing
In the UK, the shortlist for the Royal Society Trivedi Science Book Prize 2024 has been announced, reports the Bookseller.
The six titles shortlisted from 254 entries for the £25,000 (A$48,482) prize are:
- Eve: How the female body drove 200 million years of human evolution (Cat Bohannon, Penguin)
- Everything is predictable: How Bayes’ remarkable theorem explains the world (Tom Chivers, Weidenfeld & Nicolson)
- Your face belongs to us: The secret AI startup is destroying your privacy (Kashmir Hills, S&S)
- The last of its kind: The search for the great auk and the discovery of extinction (Gísli Pálsson, Princeton University Press)
- Why We Die: And How We Live: The New Science of Aging and the Search for Immortality (Venki Ramakrishnan, Hodder & Stoughton)
- A city on Mars: Can we colonize space, should we colonize space, and have we really thought this through? (Kelly & Zach Weinersmith, Particular Books).
The jury for the 2024 prize consists of Professor John Hutchinson and the author Eleanor Catton; New scientist Comment and culture editor Alison Flood, teacher, broadcaster and author Bobby Seagull and Royal Society University lecturer and research fellow Jess Wade.
The winner will be announced on October 24. Each of the five shortlisted authors will receive £2,500 (AU$4,848).
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