ROYAL SOCIETY PRIZE FOR SCIENCE BOOKS - LONGLIST

A Life Decoded, by J. Craig Venter (Penguin Allen Lane)
Better Looking, Better Living, Better Loving: How Chemistry can Help You Achieve Life's Goals by John Emsley (Wiley-VCH)
Coral: A pessimist in paradise by Steve Jones (Little, Brown)
Gut Feelings by Gerd Gigerenzer (Penguin - Allen Lane)
How to Fossilise Your Hamster by Mick O'Hare (Profile Books)
Making Up The Mind by Chris Frith (Wiley - Blackwell)
Six Degrees: Our future on a hotter planet by Mark Lynas (Fourth Estate)
The Stuff of Thought by Steven Pinker (Penguin - Allen Lane)
The Sun Kings by Stuart Clark (Princeton University Press)
Why Beauty is Truth by Ian Stewart (Basic Books)
Why the Lion Grew Its Mane by Lewis Smith (Papadakis)
Yes! By Noah Goldstein, Steve J Martin, and Robert B Cialdini (Profile Books)