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Premio Aventis
El Premio Aventis se concede al mejor libro de divulgación científica es un premio anual que otorgado por la Real Sociedad de Ciencias de Inglaterra. Fue establecido en 1988.
Proceso de selección
La postulación es abierta para todos los libros acerca de ciencia publicados en inglés en el año precedente que puedan ser adquiridos en Inglaterra. Existen dos paneles, uno para el Premio General, para el mejor escrito acerca de ciencia en categoría general (adultos) y otro en categoría infantil, para libros escritos para menores de 14 años. El ganador o ganadora de cada categoría se adjudica £10,000.
Lista de libros ganadores
Año Ganador categoría general Ganador categoría infantil 2007 Stumbling on Happiness by Daniel Gilbert (Harper Press) Can You Feel the Force? by Richard Hammond (Dorling Kindersley; ISBN 1405315431) 2006 Electric Universe - How Electricity Switched on the Modern World, David Bodanis (Little Brown) Global Garden, Kate Petty, Jennie Maizels and Corina Fletcher ( Eden Project) 2005 Critical Mass: How One Thing Leads to Another, Philip Ball (William Heinemann) What Makes Me, Me?, Robert Winston (Dorling Kindersley) 2004 A Short History of Nearly Everything, Bill Bryson (Doubleday/Transworld) Really Rotten Experiments, Nick Arnold & Tony De Saulles (Scholastic Children's Books) 2003 Right Hand, Left Hand, Chris McManus (Weidenfeld & Nicolson) The DK Guide to the Oceans, Dr Frances Dipper (Dorling Kindersley) 2002 The Universe in a Nutshell, Stephen Hawking (Bantam Press/ Transworld Publishers) DK Guide to The Human Body, Richard Walker (Dorling Kindersley) 2001 Mapping the Deep - The Extraordinary Story of Ocean Science, Robert Kunzig (Sort of Books) DK Guide to Weather, Michael Allaby (Dorling Kindersley) 2000 The Elegant Universe, Brian Greene (Jonathan Cape) DK Guide to Space, Peter Bond (Dorling Kindersley) 1999 The Man who Loved Only Numbers, Paul Hoffman (Fourth Estate) The Usborne Complete Book of the Microscope, Kirsteen Rogers (Usborne Publishing) 1998 Guns, Germs and Steel, Jared Diamond (Jonathan Cape) The Kingfisher Book of Oceans, David Lambert (Kingfisher) 1997 The Wisdom of Bones: In Search of Human Origins, Alan Walker and Pat Shipman (Weidenfeld and Nicolson) Horrible Science series: Blood, Bones and Body Bits and Ugly Bugs, Nick Arnold (Scholastic) 1996 Plague's Progress, Arno Karlen (Victor Gollancz) The World of Weather, Chris Maynard (Kingfisher) 1995 The Consumer's Good Chemical Guide, John Emsley (WH Freeman) The Most Amazing Pop-Up Science Book, Jay Young ( Watts Books) 1994 The Language of the Genes, Steve Jones (HarperCollins) Eyewitness Science: Evolution, Linda Gamlin (Dorling Kindersley) 1993 The Making of Memory by Steven Rose, Steven Rose (Bantam Press) Mighty Microbes, Thompson Yardley (Cassell plc) 1992 The Rise and Fall of the Third Chimpanzee, Jared Diamond (Hutchinson Radius) The Amazing Voyage of the Cucumber Sandwich, Peter Rowan (Jonathan Cape Ltd) 1991 Wonderful Life, Stephen Jay Gould (Hutchinson Radius) Cells are Us and Cell Wars, Fran Balkwill and Mic Rolph (William Collins Sons and Co Ltd) 1990 The Emperor's New Mind, Roger Penrose (Oxford University Press) Starting Point Science Series: What Makes a Flower Grow?/What Makes it Rain?/What's Under the Ground?/Where Does Electricity Come From?, Susan Mayes (Usborne Publishing Ltd) y The Giant Book of Space, Ian Ridpath (Hamlyn Publishing) 1989 Bones of Contention, Robert Lewin (Simon and Schuster) The Way Things Work, David Macaulay (Dorling Kindersley) 1988 Living with Risk, the British Medical Association Board of Science (the BMA and John Wiley and Sons) Science Alive - Living Things, Robin Kerrod (Macdonalds Children's Books) Enlaces externos
Categorías: Premios de ciencia e ingeniería | Ciencia y tecnología del Reino Unido
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