2008 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Science & Technology Winner and Nominees

The Black Hole War: My Battle with Stephen Hawking to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics

Leonard Susskind

What happens when something is sucked into a black hole? This question has implications for the most fundamental laws of the universe. The scientific battle to prove the answer would change the course of physics….

Microcosm: E.Coli and the New Science of Life

Carl Zimmer

Only a Theory: Evolution and the Battle for America’s Soul

Kenneth R. Miller

What the Nose Knows: The Science of Scent in Everyday Life

Avery Gilbert

Worlds Before Adam: The Reconstruction of Geohistory in the Age of Reform

Martin J.S. Rudwick