Homepage awardsarchive_e47t1f Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Science & Technology 2017 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Science & Technology Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst Robert M. Sapolsky Amazon 2016 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Science & Technology Patient H.M.: A Story of Memory, Madness, and Family Secrets Luke Dittrich Amazon 2015 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Science & Technology The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt’s New World Andrea Wulf Amazon 2014 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Science & Technology The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History Elizabeth Kolbert Amazon 2013 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Science & Technology Countdown: Our Last, Best Hope for a Future on Earth?, Alan Weisman Amazon 2012 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Science & Technology Breasts: A Natural and Unnatural History Florence Williams Amazon 2011 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Science & Technology Grand Pursuit: The Story of Economic Genius Sylvia Nasar Amazon 2010 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Science & Technology The Price of Altruism: George Price and the Search for the Origins of Kindness Oren Harman Amazon 2009 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Science & Technology The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Quantum Genius Graham Farmelo Amazon 2008 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Science & Technology The Black Hole War: My Battle with Stephen Hawking to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics Leonard Susskind Amazon 2007 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Science & Technology I Am a Strange Loop Douglas R. Hofstadter Amazon 2006 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Science & Technology In Search of Memory: The Emergence of a New Science of Mind Eric R. Kandel Amazon 2005 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Science & Technology Before The Fallout: From Marie Curie to Hiroshima Diana Preston Amazon 2004 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Science & Technology The Whale and the Supercomputer: On the Northern Front of Climate Change Charles Wohlforth Amazon 2003 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Science & Technology Protecting America’s Health: The FDA, Business, and One Hundred Years of Regulation Philip J. Hilts Amazon 2002 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Science & Technology Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA Brenda Maddox Amazon 2001 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Science & Technology The Invention of Clouds Richard Hamblyn Amazon 2000 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Science & Technology The Rise and Fall of Modern Medicine James Le Fanu Amazon 1999 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Science & Technology Galileo’s Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love Dava Sobel Amazon 1998 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Science & Technology Blood: An Epic History of Medicine and Commerce Douglas Starr Amazon 1997 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Science & Technology How the Mind Works Stephen Pinker Amazon 1996 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Science & Technology The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark Carl Sagan Amazon 1995 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Science & Technology Naturalist Edward O. Wilson Amazon 1994 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Science & Technology The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time Jonathan Weiner Amazon 1993 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Science & Technology Fuzzy Logic: The Revolutionary Computer Technology That Is Changing Our World Daniel Mcneill Amazon 1992 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Science & Technology The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal Jared Diamond Amazon 1991 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Science & Technology The Truth About Chernobyl Grigori Medvedev Amazon 1990 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Science & Technology Patenting the Sun: Polio and the Salk Vacine Jane S. Smith Amazon 1989 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Science & Technology Peacemaking Among Primates Frans de Waal Amazon