1990 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Science & Technology Winner and Nominees

Patenting the Sun: Polio and the Salk Vacine

Jane S. Smith

Captures the intensity that characterized the race to ‘conquer’ the dreaded, crippling disease of polio. Smith volunteered to try the experimental Salk vaccine; this is her personal essay on the interplay among medicine, politics, psychology, culture & col…

Discovering: Inventing and Solving Problems at the Frontiers of Scientific Knowledge

Robert Scott Root-Bernstein

Green Rage: Radical Environmentalism and the Unmaking of Civilization

Christopher Manes

Sonoran Desert Summer

John Alcock

The Control of Nature

John McPhee