Book Awards Shortlist 2014
The following books have been shortlisted for the Society of Biology Book Awards, celebrating outstanding biology books for the general reader, as well as exceptional undergraduate and postgraduate textbooks.
Winner
The Society would like to congratulate the winners who were celebrated at the Biology Week Annual Award Ceremony on Tuesday 14th October.
General biology book
Birds and People
Mark Cocker
Jonathan Cape, Vintage
Feral: Searching for Enchantment on the Frontiers of Rewilding
George Monbiot
Allen Lane
Paleofantasy: What Evolution Really Tells Us About Sex, Diet, and How We Live
Marlene Zuk
WW Norton Ltd
The Cancer Chronicles
George Johnson
Bodley Head
The Compatibility Gene
Daniel M Davis
Allen Lane
Undergraduates textbook
Molecular Biology: Principles of Genome Function, 2nd edition
Nancy Craig, Rachel Green, Carol Greider, Gisela Storz, Cynthia Wolberger and Orna Cohen-Fix
Oxford University Press
Primer to the Immune Response
Tak W Mak, Mary Saunders and Bradley Jett
Elsevier
Vertebrate Endocrinology, 5th edition
David Norris and James Carr
Elsevier
Zoo Animals: Behaviour, Management, and Welfare, 2nd edition
Geoff Hosey, Vicky Melfi, and Sheila Pankhurst
Oxford University Press
Postgraduates textbook
Evolutionary Biomechanics: Selection, Phylogeny, and Constraint
Graham Taylor and Adrian Thomas
Oxford University Press
Pheromones and Animal Behaviour, 2nd edition
Tristram D Wyatt
Cambridge University Press
Plenty of Room for Biology at the Bottom: An Introduction to Bionanotechnology, 2nd edition
Ehud Gazit and Anna Mitraki
Imperial College Press
Urban Ecology - The Science of Cities
Richard T T Forman
Cambridge University Press