Best Science Books 2007: Royal Society Prize Short List

The short list for the The Royal Society's annual prize for science books is announced here.

• A Life Decoded by J. Craig Venter
  
  
• Coral: A pessimist in paradise by Steve Jones
  
  
• Gut Feelings: The intelligence of the unconscious by Gerd Gigerenzer
  
  
• Six Degrees: Our future on a hotter planet by Mark Lynas
  
  
• The Sun Kings: The unexpected tragedy of Richard Carrington and the tale of how modern astronomy began by Stuart Clark
  
  
• Why Beauty is Truth: The history of symmetry by Ian Stewart