The Longlist includes:
Electric Universe – How Electricity Switched on the Modern World - David Bodanis (Little Brown)
Collapse – How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive - Jared Diamond (Penguin Allen Lane)
The Elements of Murder – A History of Poison - John Emsley (Oxford University Press)
The Gecko's Foot – Bio-inspiration – Engineering New Materials from Nature - Peter Forbes (Fourth Estate)
The Silicon Eye – How a Silicon Valley Company Aims to Make All Current Computers, Cameras, and Cell Phones Obsolete - George Gilder (WW Norton)
Parallel Worlds – The Science of Alternative Universes and our Future in the Cosmos - Michio Kaku (Penguin)
Power, Sex, Suicide – Mitochondria and the Meaning of Life - Nick Lane (Oxford University Press)
Venomous Earth – How Arsenic Caused the World’s Worst Mass Poisoning - Andrew Meharg (Macmillan)
Empire of the Stars – Friendship, Obsession and Betrayal in the Quest for Black Holes - Arthur I. Miller (Little Brown)
Seven Deadly Colours – The Genius of Nature’s Palette and how it Eluded Darwin - Andrew Parker (Simon & Schuster)
The Truth About Hormones – What’s Going on when we’re Tetchy, Spotty, Fearful, Tearful or Just Plain Awful - Vivienne Parry (Atlantic Books)
Stalking the Riemann Hypothesis – The Quest to Find the Hidden Law of Prime Numbers - Dan Rockmore (Jonathan Cape)
The Fruits of War – How War and Conflict have Driven Science - Michael White (Simon & Schuster)
