Knowledge book of the year

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Knowledge Book of the Year (up to and including 2010 “Science Book of the Year”) is an award that the magazine Bild der Wissenschaft has awarded in six different categories since 1993. The jury consists of well-known science journalists and press officers in German-speaking countries. Since 2011, readers have also had the opportunity to cast a vote.

Categories

  • Overview: The book that best illuminates the background of a topic
  • Aesthetics: The book that is most beautifully made
  • Entertainment: The book that presents a topic in the most exciting way
  • Surprise: the book that tackles a topic in the most original way
  • Zündstoff: The book that most competently depicts a volatile subject
  • Perspective: The best non-fiction book for young readers

Excellent books

year overview aesthetics entertainment surprise Explosive Knowledge
1993 Friedrich Cramer : The time tree Günther Ohloff : Earthly scents - heavenly pleasure Etienne Klein: Conversations with the Sphinx AJ Dunning: Extreme Siegfried Bär : Research in German Hans Christian von Baeyer: The atom in the trap
1994 Klaus Bergdolt : The black death in Europe P. Strain, F. Engle: Portrait of our planet Wally and Horst Hagen: The thing with the stork DL Cheney, RM Seyfarth: How apes see the world Dieter Hoffmann : Operation Epsilon J. Hoff, J. in der Schmitten: When is a person dead?
1995 Wulf Schiefenhövel u. a .: The human being - anthropology today Bernhard Edmaier , Angelika Jung-Hüttl: Volcanoes Oliver Sacks : An anthropologist on Mars Bert Hölldobler , Edward O. Wilson : Ants Luca and Francesco Cavalli-Sforza: Different and yet the same Alexandra W. Logue: The Psychology of Eating and Drinking
1996 Laurie Garrett : The Plagues to Come Jean Clottes, Jean Courtin: Cosquer Grotto Otto Krätz , Helga Merlin: Casanova John Kotre: White gloves Michael Miersch , Dirk Maxeiner : Eco-optimism Joseph S. Levine , David Suzuki : The Life Molecule
1997 Randolph M. Nesse , George C. Williams : Why We Get Sick Bernhard Edmaier , Angelika Jung-Hüttl: Icy Worlds Dava Sobel : Longitude John Gribbin : Schrödinger's Kitten and the Search for Reality Jacques Attali : Bright business May R.Berenbaum : bloodsucker, founder of the state, silk manufacturer
1998 Simon Singh : Fermat's last sentence Royal Geographical Society (Ed.): Beyond the Horizon Matt Ridley : The Biology of Virtue Gabriele Kautzmann, Gaby Miketta (ed.): War in our body John Horgan : At the Frontiers of Knowledge Hans Meinhardt : How snails throw themselves into shells
1999 Richard Dawkins : Summit of the Improbable Michael Light: Full Moon - Departure to the moon Caroline Alexander: The Endurance Midas Dekkers : The ravages of time are gnawing at everything Philip Kitcher : Genetics and Ethics Alan Guth : The birth of the cosmos from nothing
2000 Michael Gleich , Dirk Maxeiner , Michael Miersch , Fabian Nicolay: Life Counts Norbert Rosing : Yellowstone Erik Larson : Isaac's Storm Andrea Künzig , Anna Neumann: Human children Ulrike Baureithel, Anna Bergmann : Heartless Death Brian Greene : The Elegant Universe
2001 John R. Maddox: What remains to be discovered Art Wolfe : The Breath of the Wild Robert L. Wolke : What Einstein told his hairdresser Sarah Blaffer Hrdy : Mother Nature - The feminine side of evolution Ian Wilmut, Keith Campbell, Colin Tudge: Dolly - The dawn of the biotechnological age Peter Rothe : Geological history - search for traces in the rock
2002 Eva Jaeggi : And who treats the therapists? German Aerospace Center : Earth as a work of art Robert M. Sapolsky : My life as a baboon Keith Devlin : The math gene J. Miller, St. Engelberg, WJ Broad: Virus - The Silent Threat Gerd Gigerenzer : The basics of skepticism
2003 Steve Olson: Origin and History of Man Oliver Meckes, Nicole Ottawa: The fantastic world of the invisible Michael Pollan : The botany of desire Ulrich Janßen, Ulla Steuerungagel: The children's university Hilmar Schmundt: high-tech fairy tales Bas Haring: Why is the polar bear white?
2004 Bill Bryson : A Brief History of Almost Everything Bernhard Edmaier , Angelika Jung-Hüttl: Geo-Art Germany John Griesemer : Intoxication Peter Barham : The Final Secrets of Cooking Steven Pinker: The blank slate Rudolf Kippenhahn : The Secret of the Big Bear
year overview aesthetics entertainment surprise Explosive perspective
2005 James Luhr : The Earth Windsor Chorlton: body of art work Daniel Kehlmann : Measuring the world Reto Schneider : The book of crazy experiments Lauren Slater: Of humans and rats Henning Wiesner , Walli Müller, Günter Mattei: Do animals have to brush their teeth?
2006 Eric R. Kandel : In Search of Memory Art Wolfe : art of camouflage Frank Schätzing : News from an unknown universe Jared Diamond : Collapse Tim Flannery : We are weathermakers Emily Sands: Expedition to Ancient Egypt
2007 Gabrielle Walker: A Sea of ​​Air Claire Nouvian: The Deep Arthur I. Miller: The Astronomers' War Mick Conefrey: How to have a cup of tea in style when the wind is strong 10 Gerd Gigerenzer : gut decisions Richard Dungworth: Pop-up book Dinosaurs
2008 Günther Hasinger : The fate of the universe Jean-Baptiste de Panafieu, Patrick Gries: Evolution Erik Larson : Marconi's Magic Machine Neil Shubin : The fish in us Richard Dawkins : The God Delusion Claire Didier: The world is full of holes
2009 Simon Singh , Edzard Ernst : Healthy without pills - what can alternative medicine do? Madeline Harley, Rob Kesseler: The mysterious sexuality of plants Dominic Streatfeild: Brainwashing Florian Werner : The cow Ulrich Schnabel : The measurement of faith Phillip Lars Manning: The Discovery of the Dinomummy
2010 Detlev Ganten , Thilo Spahl , Thomas Deichmann : The Stone Age is in our bones Theodore Gray: The Elements Linus Reichlin : The Assistant to the Stars Arthur Brehmer (Ed.): The world in a hundred years Alexander Unzicker : From Big Bang to Crazy Bang Guillaume Duprat: How long has the earth been round?
2011 Douglas Palmer: The Evolution of Man Christoph Drösser , Ed .: Knowledge in Pictures Ian McEwan : Solar Apostolos Doxiadis , Christos Papadimitriou and Alecos Papadatos: Logicomix Nicholas Carr : Who am I when I'm online ... and what is my brain doing while I am online? Gerd Schneider: From someone who set out to understand the world and wanted to be back by dinner
2012 Siddhartha Mukherjee : The king of all diseases: cancer - a biography Art Wolfe : Landscapes between heaven and earth Marc Elsberg : Blackout - Tomorrow it will be too late Neil MacGregor : A History of the World in 100 Objects Gian Domenico Borasio : About dying David Burnie : The Secrets of the Wildlife
2013 EO Wilson : The Social Conquest of the Earth Mark Laita : snakes Martin Puntigam , Werner Gruber , Heinz Oberhummer : Mind reading by petting snails Axel Wagner : The animal in you Allen Frances : Normal Dorling Kindersley : Optical Illusions
2014 Simon Garfield : Cards! Florence Tinard : The Herbarium of the Explorers Marc Elsberg : Zero - you know what you're doing Hugh Aldersey-Williams : Anatomies Ben Goldacre : The Pharma Lie Jan Paul Schutten , Floor Rieder : Evolution or the riddle of everything that lives
2015 Michael Pollan : Cooking Caspar Henderson : Real monsters Andy Weir : The Martian Barbara Natterson-Horowitz , Kathryn Bowers : We are animals Elizabeth Kolbert : The 6th dying Lucy Letherland : The Atlas of Adventure
2016 Thomas de Padova : Alone against gravity Michael Martin : Planet Desert Lily King : Euphoria David G. Haskell : The Hidden Life of the Forest Fred Pearce : The new savages Jens Soentgen , Vitali Konstantinov : How to philosophize with fire
2017 Siddhartha Mukherjee : The gene Johann Brandstetter , Josef H. Reichholf : Symbioses Morten A. Strøksnes : The Book of the Sea Thibault Damour , Mathieu Burniat : The Secret of the Quantum World Yuval Noah Harari : Homo Deus Gianumberto Accinelli , Serena Viola : The domino effect
2018 Bas Kast : The nutritional compass Richard Barnett : Courage for the gap Sy Montgomery : rendezvous with an octopus Karin Bojs : My European family Hans Rosling , Anna Rosling Rönnlund, Ola Rosling: Factfulness Robert Winston : My brilliant body
2019 Roland Schulz : That's how we die Andrea Wulf , Lillian Melcher : The adventures of Alexander von Humboldt Richard Powers : The Roots of Life Menno Schilthuizen : Darwin in the city Yuval Noah Harari : 21 Lessons for the 21st Century Karsten Brensing , Nikolai Renger : How animals think and feel
year overview aesthetics entertainment surprise Explosive perspective

Web links

Individual evidence

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