Royal Society Insight Investment Science Book Prize

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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 4.04 avg rating β€” 445,014 ratings
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A Short History of Nearly Everything
A Short History of Nearly Everything 4.22 avg rating β€” 412,813 ratings
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A Brief History of Time
A Brief History of Time 4.21 avg rating β€” 466,970 ratings
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The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements
The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements
by: Sam Kean
3.93 avg rating β€” 54,822 ratings
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Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time 3.99 avg rating β€” 75,016 ratings
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The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory
The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory 4.10 avg rating β€” 101,031 ratings
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Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History
Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History 4.14 avg rating β€” 10,151 ratings
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Fermat's Last Theorem
Fermat's Last Theorem 4.30 avg rating β€” 32,757 ratings
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Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World
Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World 4.11 avg rating β€” 20,492 ratings
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The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science
The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science 3.97 avg rating β€” 9,815 ratings
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The Emperor's New Mind
The Emperor's New Mind 3.91 avg rating β€” 7,530 ratings
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The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood 4.04 avg rating β€” 16,837 ratings
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The Particle at the End of the Universe: How the Hunt for the Higgs Boson Leads Us to the Edge of a New World
The Particle at the End of the Universe: How the Hunt for the Higgs Boson Leads Us to the Edge of a New World 4.05 avg rating β€” 4,398 ratings
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The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives
The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives 3.95 avg rating β€” 24,067 ratings
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The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution
The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution 4.14 avg rating β€” 28,420 ratings
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The Universe in a Nutshell
The Universe in a Nutshell 4.19 avg rating β€” 44,656 ratings
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Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages
Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages 3.91 avg rating β€” 7,176 ratings
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The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language
The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language 4.01 avg rating β€” 22,310 ratings
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The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World
The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World 4.32 avg rating β€” 28,483 ratings
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The Story of Earth: The First 4.5 Billion Years, from Stardust to Living Planet
The Story of Earth: The First 4.5 Billion Years, from Stardust to Living Planet 4.24 avg rating β€” 3,071 ratings
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Chaos: Making a New Science
Chaos: Making a New Science 4.03 avg rating β€” 40,238 ratings
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Stumbling on Happiness
Stumbling on Happiness 3.82 avg rating β€” 63,108 ratings
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God's Philosophers: How the Medieval World Laid the Foundations of Modern Science
God's Philosophers: How the Medieval World Laid the Foundations of Modern Science 4.12 avg rating β€” 1,059 ratings
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The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal
The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal 4.08 avg rating β€” 28,332 ratings
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Life Ascending: The Ten Great Inventions of Evolution
Life Ascending: The Ten Great Inventions of Evolution
by: Nick Lane
4.12 avg rating β€” 5,281 ratings
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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed 3.93 avg rating β€” 73,869 ratings
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Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything
Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything 3.88 avg rating β€” 93,068 ratings
28.
The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World
The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World 4.35 avg rating β€” 3,767 ratings
29.
A Beautiful Mind
A Beautiful Mind 4.13 avg rating β€” 134,371 ratings
30.
Electric Universe: How Electricity Switched on the Modern World
Electric Universe: How Electricity Switched on the Modern World 3.78 avg rating β€” 1,399 ratings
31.
The Man Who Loved Only Numbers: The Story of Paul ErdΕ‘s and the Search for Mathematical Truth
The Man Who Loved Only Numbers: The Story of Paul ErdΕ‘s and the Search for Mathematical Truth 4.05 avg rating β€” 9,905 ratings
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The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos
The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos 4.11 avg rating β€” 20,662 ratings
33.
Why Does E=mcΒ²?
Why Does E=mcΒ²?
by: Brian Cox
4.05 avg rating β€” 10,148 ratings
34.
The Gene: An Intimate History
The Gene: An Intimate History 4.36 avg rating β€” 54,011 ratings
35.
The Book of Barely Imagined Beings: A 21st Century Bestiary
The Book of Barely Imagined Beings: A 21st Century Bestiary 4.05 avg rating β€” 1,442 ratings
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Mapping the Deep: The Extraordinary Story of Ocean Science
Mapping the Deep: The Extraordinary Story of Ocean Science 4.12 avg rating β€” 508 ratings
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Alex's Adventures in Numberland: Dispatches from the Wonderful World of Mathematics
Alex's Adventures in Numberland: Dispatches from the Wonderful World of Mathematics 4.11 avg rating β€” 5,583 ratings
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The Wave Watcher's Companion: From Ocean Waves to Light Waves via Shock Waves, Stadium Waves, and All the Rest of Life's Undulations
The Wave Watcher's Companion: From Ocean Waves to Light Waves via Shock Waves, Stadium Waves, and All the Rest of Life's Undulations 3.86 avg rating β€” 467 ratings
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Complexity: A Guided Tour
Complexity: A Guided Tour 4.11 avg rating β€” 3,426 ratings
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Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet
Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet 4.06 avg rating β€” 2,056 ratings
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Bad Science
Bad Science 4.06 avg rating β€” 44,415 ratings
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The Folly of Fools: The Logic of Deceit and Self-Deception in Human Life
The Folly of Fools: The Logic of Deceit and Self-Deception in Human Life 3.64 avg rating β€” 1,048 ratings
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The Spark of Life: Electricity in the Human Body
The Spark of Life: Electricity in the Human Body 3.95 avg rating β€” 748 ratings
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Malignant Sadness: The Anatomy of Depression
Malignant Sadness: The Anatomy of Depression 3.71 avg rating β€” 1,061 ratings
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My Beautiful Genome: Exposing Our Genetic Future, One Quirk at a Time
My Beautiful Genome: Exposing Our Genetic Future, One Quirk at a Time 3.88 avg rating β€” 521 ratings
46.
Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal
Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal 3.93 avg rating β€” 50,606 ratings
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Bones of Contention: Controversies in the Search for Human Origins
Bones of Contention: Controversies in the Search for Human Origins 3.84 avg rating β€” 87 ratings
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The Fever: How Malaria Has Ruled Humankind for 500,000 Years
The Fever: How Malaria Has Ruled Humankind for 500,000 Years 3.90 avg rating β€” 1,490 ratings
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Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void
Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void 3.95 avg rating β€” 59,459 ratings
50.
The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves
The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves 3.97 avg rating β€” 13,177 ratings
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Why Evolution Is True
Why Evolution Is True 4.19 avg rating β€” 25,749 ratings
52.
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales 4.05 avg rating β€” 239,788 ratings
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In the Shadow of Man
In the Shadow of Man 4.36 avg rating β€” 8,857 ratings
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Earth: An Intimate History
Earth: An Intimate History 3.90 avg rating β€” 1,334 ratings
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Cure: A Journey into the Science of Mind Over Body
Cure: A Journey into the Science of Mind Over Body 4.09 avg rating β€” 3,692 ratings
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The Most Perfect Thing: Inside and Outside a Bird's Egg
The Most Perfect Thing: Inside and Outside a Bird's Egg 3.99 avg rating β€” 514 ratings
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Adventures in the Anthropocene: A Journey to the Heart of the Planet We Made
Adventures in the Anthropocene: A Journey to the Heart of the Planet We Made 4.06 avg rating β€” 897 ratings
58.
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined 4.16 avg rating β€” 29,267 ratings
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River Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life
River Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life 3.98 avg rating β€” 8,822 ratings
60.
Aeons: The Search for the Beginning of Time
Aeons: The Search for the Beginning of Time 4.19 avg rating β€” 27 ratings
60.
The Goldilocks Enigma: Why Is the Universe Just Right for Life?
The Goldilocks Enigma: Why Is the Universe Just Right for Life? 4.07 avg rating β€” 1,242 ratings
62.
Right Hand, Left Hand: The Origins of Asymmetry in Brains, Bodies, Atoms and Cultures
Right Hand, Left Hand: The Origins of Asymmetry in Brains, Bodies, Atoms and Cultures 3.80 avg rating β€” 293 ratings
62.
Gut Feelings: The Intelligence of the Unconscious
Gut Feelings: The Intelligence of the Unconscious 3.70 avg rating β€” 2,281 ratings
64.
The Wisdom of the Bones: In Search of Human Origins
The Wisdom of the Bones: In Search of Human Origins 3.86 avg rating β€” 259 ratings
64.
Plague's Progress: A Social History of Man and Disease
Plague's Progress: A Social History of Man and Disease 3.99 avg rating β€” 70 ratings
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The Consumer's Good Chemical Guide: A Jargon Free Guide to the Chemicals of Everyday Life
The Consumer's Good Chemical Guide: A Jargon Free Guide to the Chemicals of Everyday Life 4.11 avg rating β€” 27 ratings
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The Language of Genes: Solving the Mysteries of Our Genetic Past, Present and Future
The Language of Genes: Solving the Mysteries of Our Genetic Past, Present and Future 3.88 avg rating β€” 504 ratings
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The Making of Memory
The Making of Memory 3.65 avg rating β€” 89 ratings
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Living with Risk: The Geography of Technological Hazards
Living with Risk: The Geography of Technological Hazards 0.00 avg rating β€” 0 ratings
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Spider Silk: Evolution and 400 Million Years of Spinning, Waiting, Snagging, and Mating
Spider Silk: Evolution and 400 Million Years of Spinning, Waiting, Snagging, and Mating 4.19 avg rating β€” 78 ratings
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The Price of Altruism: George Price and the Search for the Origins of Kindness
The Price of Altruism: George Price and the Search for the Origins of Kindness 3.66 avg rating β€” 575 ratings
72.
The Rough Guide to The Future
The Rough Guide to The Future 3.55 avg rating β€” 20 ratings
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What Technology Wants
What Technology Wants 3.73 avg rating β€” 7,175 ratings
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A World Without Ice
A World Without Ice 3.86 avg rating β€” 416 ratings
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Darwin's Island: The Galapagos in the Garden of England
Darwin's Island: The Galapagos in the Garden of England 3.83 avg rating β€” 230 ratings
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Everyday Practice of Science: Where Intuition and Passion Meet Objectivity and Logic
Everyday Practice of Science: Where Intuition and Passion Meet Objectivity and Logic 3.70 avg rating β€” 40 ratings
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In Search of the Multiverse
In Search of the Multiverse 4.08 avg rating β€” 1,232 ratings
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Storms of My Grandchildren: The Truth About the Coming Climate Catastrophe and Our Last Chance to Save Humanity
Storms of My Grandchildren: The Truth About the Coming Climate Catastrophe and Our Last Chance to Save Humanity 4.02 avg rating β€” 1,229 ratings
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We Need to Talk About Kelvin
We Need to Talk About Kelvin 3.90 avg rating β€” 521 ratings
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Pricing the Future: Finance, Physics, and the 300-year Journey to the Black-Scholes Equation
Pricing the Future: Finance, Physics, and the 300-year Journey to the Black-Scholes Equation 3.88 avg rating β€” 192 ratings
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The Viral Storm: The Dawn of a New Pandemic Age
The Viral Storm: The Dawn of a New Pandemic Age 3.79 avg rating β€” 2,329 ratings
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The Cosmic Tourist
The Cosmic Tourist
by: Brian May
4.31 avg rating β€” 65 ratings
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The Life of a Leaf
The Life of a Leaf 4.16 avg rating β€” 68 ratings
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The Ocean of Life: The Fate of Man and the Sea
The Ocean of Life: The Fate of Man and the Sea 4.26 avg rating β€” 954 ratings
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Air: The Restless Shaper of the World
Air: The Restless Shaper of the World 3.86 avg rating β€” 118 ratings
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Life's Ratchet: How Molecular Machines Extract Order from Chaos
Life's Ratchet: How Molecular Machines Extract Order from Chaos 4.22 avg rating β€” 684 ratings
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Pieces of Light: The New Science of Memory
Pieces of Light: The New Science of Memory 3.53 avg rating β€” 459 ratings
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Cells to Civilizations: The Principles of Change That Shape Life
Cells to Civilizations: The Principles of Change That Shape Life 3.51 avg rating β€” 76 ratings
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Bird Sense: What It's Like to Be a Bird
Bird Sense: What It's Like to Be a Bird 4.07 avg rating β€” 1,622 ratings
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Race?: Debunking a Scientific Myth
Race?: Debunking a Scientific Myth 3.75 avg rating β€” 28 ratings
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Seven Elements That Have Changed the World: An Adventure of Ingenuity and Discovery
Seven Elements That Have Changed the World: An Adventure of Ingenuity and Discovery 3.58 avg rating β€” 385 ratings
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Tesla: Inventor of the Electrical Age
Tesla: Inventor of the Electrical Age 3.87 avg rating β€” 2,386 ratings
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Trade Like a Pro: 20 Winning Stock Market Strategies That Will Make You Rich
Trade Like a Pro: 20 Winning Stock Market Strategies That Will Make You Rich 4.50 avg rating β€” 4 ratings
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Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men 4.34 avg rating β€” 156,570 ratings
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Adventures in the Anthropocene: A Journey to the Heart of the Planet we Made
Adventures in the Anthropocene: A Journey to the Heart of the Planet we Made 4.06 avg rating β€” 897 ratings
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CRYPTOCURRENCY INVESTING - The Fundamental Analysis Guide: Applying Timeless Principles To Become A Successful Crypto Investor
CRYPTOCURRENCY INVESTING - The Fundamental Analysis Guide: Applying Timeless Principles To Become A Successful Crypto Investor it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β€” 4 ratings
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Winter World: The Ingenuity of Animal Survival
Winter World: The Ingenuity of Animal Survival 4.05 avg rating β€” 4,358 ratings
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The Hunt for Vulcan: ...And How Albert Einstein Destroyed a Planet, Discovered Relativity, and Deciphered the Universe
The Hunt for Vulcan: ...And How Albert Einstein Destroyed a Planet, Discovered Relativity, and Deciphered the Universe 4.05 avg rating β€” 2,109 ratings
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Inventing Ourselves: The Secret Life of the Teenage Brain
Inventing Ourselves: The Secret Life of the Teenage Brain 3.79 avg rating β€” 1,225 ratings
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In Search of Memory: The Emergence of a New Science of Mind
In Search of Memory: The Emergence of a New Science of Mind 4.14 avg rating β€” 5,263 ratings
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