Annal:1990 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Science & Technology
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Results of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in the year 1990. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
- Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Science & Technology
- Nonfiction books
- Nonfiction authors
- Science/Technology books
- Science/Technology authors.
- 1990 LATimes–Sci/Tech finalist
- Score: 6.4
“Alcock captures the wonder and the science behind the lives of wood-boring beetles, zebra-tailed lizards, round-tailed ground squirrels, elk owls and saguaro caccti, among other species, during both the desert summers: sizzling, cloudless dry days of May and June, and the intermittent thunderstorms and downpours of the late summer monsoon season.” —High Country News
Green Rage: Radical Environmentalism and the Unmaking of Civilization
- 1990 LATimes–Sci/Tech finalist
- Score: 6.4
Radical environmental groups throughout the world, militantly committed to defending the ecology, are growing in size and influence. In this country, activists engage in ecological civil disobedience and “ecotage”—the sabotaging of equipment to prevent ecological damage—in the struggle to preserve wilderness lands. These ecoteurs have gone beyond traditional conservation concerns to a new philosophy—Deep Ecology, or biocentrism—that calls into question not only the wisdom, but the legitimacy of humanity’s domination of nature.
In Green Rage,…
- 1990 LATimes–Sci/Tech finalist
- Score: 6.4
While John McPhee was working on his previous book, Rising from the Plains, he happened to walk by the engineering building at the University of Wyoming, where words etched in limestone said: “Strive on—the control of Nature is won, not given.” In the morning sunlight, that central phrase—”the control of nature”—seemed to sparkle with unintended ambiguity. Bilateral, symmetrical, it could with equal speed travel in opposite directions. For some years, he had been planning a book about places in the world where people have been engaged in all-out battles…
Discovering: Inventing and Solving Problems at the Frontiers of Scientific Knowledge
- 1990 LATimes–Sci/Tech finalist
- Score: 6.4
