Lane Anderson Award shortlist announced

by D - Wednesday, Aug 17, 2011 at 10:16am

The shortlist for the 2010 Lane Anderson Award announced. The prize recognizes the best Canadian books published in the field of science. The categories are adult and young readers. The winners will be announced on September 14, each winner will receive $10,000.




Adult reader finalists:
Einstein Wrote Back: How Einstein Changed Everything by John W. Moffat.
Keeping the Bees by Laurence Packer.
The Ptarmigan's Dilemma: An Exploration into How Life Organizes and Supports Itself by John and Mary Theberge.

Young reader finalists:
Evolution: How We and All Living Things Came to Be by Daniel Loxton.
The Sea Wolves: Living Wild in the Great Bear Rainforest by Ian McAllister and Nicholas Read.
Ultimate Trains by Peter McMahon; Andy Mora, ilus.

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IN THE COMPANY OF GIANTS

- hardcover

by John W Moffat - $32.95 - Add to Cart

An entertaining memoir about the peculiar and competitive world of modern physics. John W.Moffat was a poor student of math and science. That is, until he read Einstein’s famous paper ...

KEEPING THE BEES WHY ALL BEES ARE AT

- trade paperback

by Laurence Packer - $17.99 - Add to Cart

From the jungles of South America to the deserts of Arizona,one thing remains consistent: bees are disappearing.A world without bees would be much less colourful, withfewer flowers. But t...

PTARMIGAN'S DILEMMA AN ECOLOGICAL

- trade paperback

by John Theberge - $21.99 - Add to Cart

Winner of the 2010 Lane Anderson AwardDrawing on breakthrough research in evolution, genetics, and on their extensive work in the field and lab, wildlife biologists John and Mary Theberge...

EVOLUTION

- children's hardcover

by Daniel Loxton - $19.95 - Add to Cart

Evolution is the process that created the terrible teeth of Tyrannosaurus rex and the complex human brain, clever enough to understand the workings of nature. Young readers will learn how...

SEA WOLVES

- children's paperback

by Nicholas Read - $19.95 - Add to Cart

The Sea Wolves sets out to disprove the notion of "the Big Bad Wolf," especially as it is applied to coastal wolves--a unique strain of wolf that lives in the rainforest along the Pacific...




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