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Sep 5, 2017, 30 tweets

We're announcing our 30th #scibooks winner on Sep 19. In the meantime, here's a run-down of our previous 29 winners ow.ly/KRmI30eUMJB

Our first #scibooks winner in 1988 was @TheBMA 's Guide to Living With Risk @PenguinBooks ow.ly/KRmI30eUMJB

Roger Lewin's Bones of Contention: Controversies in the Search for Human Origins was the 1989 winner #scibooks ow.ly/KRmI30eUMJB

1990's #scibooks winner - Roger Penrose's The Emperor's New Mind @OxUniPress ow.ly/KRmI30eUMJB

Stephen Jay Gould's Wonderful Life won the 1991 #scibooks prize @vintagebooks ow.ly/KRmI30eUMJB

1992 #scibooks winner - Jared Diamond's The Rise and Fall of The Third Chimpanzee @vintagebooks ow.ly/KRmI30eUMJB

1993 - Steven Rose's The Making of Memory, From Molecules to Mind #scibooks @vintagebooks ow.ly/KRmI30eUMJB

1994 - The Language of the Genes by Steve Jones #scibooks @HarperCollins ow.ly/KRmI30eUMJB

John Emsley's The Consumer's Good Chemical Guide was our 1995 #scibooks winner ow.ly/KRmI30eUMJB

1996 - Arno Karlen's Plague's Progress, A Social History of Man & Disease @orionbooks #scibooks ow.ly/KRmI30eUMJB

1997 - The Wisdom of the Bones, In Search of Human Origins @vintagebooks #scibooks ow.ly/KRmI30eUMJB

Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs, & Steel was our 1998 #scibooks winner @wwnorton ow.ly/KRmI30eUMJB

1999 - The Man Who Loved Only Numbers by Paul Hoffman @4thEstateBooks #scibooks ow.ly/KRmI30eUMJB

2000 - Brian Greene's The Elegant Universe @wwnorton #scibooks ow.ly/KRmI30eUMJB

Mapping the Deep - The Extraordinary Story of Ocean Science by Robert Kunzig was 2001 #scibooks winner @SortofBooks ow.ly/KRmI30eUMJB

2002 - Stephen Hawking's The Universe In A Nutshell #scibooks @randomhouse ow.ly/KRmI30eUMJB

Right Hand, Left Hand by Chris McManus was our 2003 #scibooks winner @wnbooks ow.ly/KRmI30eUMJB

2004 - Bill Bryson's A Short History of Nearly Everything #scibooks @TransworldBooks ow.ly/KRmI30eUMJB

2005 - Critical Mass: How One Thing Leads to Another by @philipcball #scibooks @fsgbooks ow.ly/KRmI30eUMJB

2006 - Electric Universe: How Electricity Switched On The Modern World @DavidBodanis #scibooks @AbacusBooks ow.ly/KRmI30eUMJB

Daniel Gilbert's Stumbling On Happiness was our 2007 #scibooks winner @AAKnopf @DanTGilbert ow.ly/KRmI30eUMJB

2008 - Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet by @mark_lynas #scibooks @4thEstateBooks ow.ly/KRmI30eUMJB

2009 - The Age Of Wonder by Richard Holmes #scibooks @HarperCollins ow.ly/KRmI30eUMJB

Nick Lane's Life Ascending: The Ten Great Inventions of Evolution won the 2010 #scibooks prize @ProfileBooks ow.ly/KRmI30eUMJB

2011 - The Wavewatcher's Companion by Gavin Pretor-Pinney #scibooks @BloomsburyBooks ow.ly/KRmI30eUMJB

2012 - The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood by @JamesGleick #scibooks @4thEstateBooks @PantheonBooks ow.ly/KRmI30eUMJB

2013 - The Particle at the End of the Universe by @seanmcarroll #scibooks @OneworldNews ow.ly/KRmI30eUMJB

Stuff Matters by @markmiodownik was our 2014 #scibooks prize winner ow.ly/KRmI30eUMJB @PenguinUKBooks

2015 - Adventures in the Anthropocene by @WanderingGaia #scibooks @ChattoBooks ow.ly/KRmI30eUMJB

Last year's #scibooks winner was @andrea_wulf for her biography of Alexander von Humboldt - The Invention of Nature ow.ly/KRmI30eUMJB

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