Bristol Festival of Ideas Book Prize

Given by Bristol Ideas

Other Names: Best Book of Ideas Prize
25 Works 30,694 Books 725 Reviews 4.0
Categories:
All, Nominee (19), No Category (6)
Years:
All, 2013 (1), 2012 (6), 2011 (6), 2010 (6), , 2009 (6)
WorkCategoryYear
Artful by Ali Smith
2013
The Science of Evil: On Empathy and the Origins of Cruelty by Simon Baron-Cohen
Nominee2012
The Most Human Human: What Talking with Computers Teaches Us About What It Means to Be Alive by Brian Christian
Nominee2012
Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier, and Happier by Edward L. Glaeser
Nominee2012
Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
Nominee2012
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined by Steven Pinker
Nominee2012
Edgelands: journeys into England's true wilderness by Michael Symmons Roberts
2012
The Equality Illusion by Kat Banyard
Nominee2011
23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism by Ha-Joon Chang
Nominee2011
Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference by Cordelia Fine
Nominee2011
The Genius in All of Us: New Insights into Genetics, Talent, and IQ by David Shenk
Nominee2011
Who Are We - And Should It Matter in the 21st Century? by Gary Younge
Nominee2011
The Return of the Public by Dan Hind
2011
A Face to the World: On Self-Portraits by Laura Cumming
Nominee2010
When China Rules the World: The End of the Western World and the Birth of a New Global Order by Martin Jacques
Nominee2010
The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World by Iain McGilchrist
Nominee2010
Dead Aid: Why Aid Is Not Working and How There Is a Better Way for Africa by Dambisa Moyo
Nominee2010
The Idea of Justice by Amartya Sen
2010
The Spirit Level: Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger by Richard Wilkinson
2010
The Terror Dream: Fear and Fantasy in Post-9/11 America by Susan Faludi
Nominee2009
McMafia: Crime without Frontiers by Misha Glenny
Nominee2009
The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science by Richard Holmes
Nominee2009
What Does China Think? by Mark Leonard
Nominee2009
A Book of Silence by Sara Maitland
Nominee2009
Flat Earth News: An Award-Winning Reporter Exposes Falsehood, Distortion and Propaganda in the Global Media by Nick Davies
2009

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