Royal Society prizes for science books 2003
Everything you've ever wanted to know (but didn't dare ask)
John Waller is impressed by Bill Bryson's quirky, energetic and highly entertaining history of science, A Short History of Everything
Natural conclusion
Steven Rose welcomes Matt Ridley's proposal for an end to the 'Darwin wars' in Nature via Nurture
The worm's turn
Steven Rose admires Andrew Brown's story of the biologists who went from nerds to Nobel winners, In the Beginning Was the Worm