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The Royal Society Prizes for Science Books 2007 - Celebrating the best in popular science writing

Authors’ and scientists’ favourites

Find out what key figures from the world of science and literature recommend as their favourite science page-turners.

Judges for the General Prize 2008

Find out more about the judging panel for the 2008 General Prize, chaired by Jnathan Ashmore FRS. They will decide which book will win the Prize, and who will be awarded £10,000.

Judges for the Junior Prize 2007

Find out more about the judging panel for the 2007 Junior Prize category, who selected the shortlist.

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Links to this Science Books website are welcome - and we have webpage buttons you can use. Please link with http://royalsociety.org/sciencebooks

Meet the judges of the Junior Prize shortlist

The judges for the Junior Prize shortlist

Keith Chambers, Sonali Gudka, Catherine Kendall, Ottoline Leyser and Jon Tickle picked the shortlist - find out more about them and their reading habits

The best children’s science books

The Royal Society Prixes for Science Books 2008 Junior Prize

Find out more about the Junior prize shortlist, announced on 10 April 2008.

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Guns, Germs and Steel on TV
15 Dec 2008

Our 1998 General Prize winner, Jared Diamond’s Guns, Germs and Steel, has now bene adapted to a three-part documentary for television. In the UK, it screens on the History Channel from 9pm on Monday 15 December 2008.

Meet the judges of the Junior Prize winner 2008

The Junior Judging Panels in the UK

One thousand young people in over 100 organisations across the UK and internationally are picking the winner of the Royal Society Prizes for Science Books Junior Prize.

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