2007 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Science & Technology Winner and Nominees

I Am a Strange Loop

Douglas R. Hofstadter

Can thought arise out of matter? Can self, soul, consciousness, “I” arise out of mere matter? If it cannot, then how can you or I be here? I Am a Strange Loop argues that the key to understanding selves and consciousness is the “strange loop”—a special kin…

Animal Architects: Building and the Evolution of Intelligence

James L. Gould, Carol Grant Gould

Faust in Copenhagen: A Struggle for the Soul of Physics

Gino Segrè

On Deep History and the Brain

Daniel Lord Smail

The First Word: The Search for the Origins of Language

Christine Kenneally