Vienna (OTS) – With immediate effect, the public is again called upon to vote for the best science book in 2021 in four categories. A specialist jury with the participation of a children’s jury in the Junior category made the nominations and is now presenting them to the audience. The election runs until January 11, 2021. “The best science book of the year” is a campaign by the Federal Ministry for Education, Science and Research together with the magazine “Buchkultur” and the Austrian book industry. Science Minister Univ.-Prof. Dr. Heinz Faßmann is pleased “that the attention is consciously drawn to the scientific non-fiction book, to the researchers and, last but not least, to reading itself.”
This time the following books are available in four categories:
* Humanities, social and cultural studies:
Bregman, Rutger: Basically good. A new history of mankind, Rowohlt.
Rathkolb, Oliver: Schirach. A generation between Goethe and Hitler, Molden.
Schipper, Mineke: The Myth of Gender. A world history of female power and powerlessness, Velcro-Cotta.
Schröder, Martin: When are we really satisfied? Surprising insights into work, love, children, money, C. Bertelsmann. Taschwer, Klaus / Huber, Andreas / Erker, Linda: German club. Austro-Nazis in the Hofburg, Czernin.
* Science / technology:
Brand, Adele: Foxes. Our wild neighbors, CH Beck.
Hofmann, Thomas: Adventure Science. Explorers between the Alps, the Orient and the Polar Sea, Böhlau.
Laufmann, Peter: The floor. The universe under our feet, C. Bertelsmann.
Sheldrake, Merlin: Interwoven Life. How mushrooms shape our world and influence our future, Ullstein.
Weß, Ludger: Tiny, tough and numerous. A bacterial atlas, Matthes & Seitz.
* Medicine / Biology:
Condemi, Silvana / Savatier, François: The Neanderthal – our brother. 300,000 years of human history, CH Beck. Glaubrecht, Matthias: The end of evolution. Man and the destruction of species, C. Ber-telsmann.
Hartmann, Martin: Trust. The invisible power, S. Fischer. King, Charles: School of the Rebels. How a group of daring anthropologists invented race, sex and gender, Hanser.
Tomasello, Michael: become human. A theory of ontogenesis, Suhrkamp.
* Junior knowledge:
Hoare, Ben: Wonderful World of Nature, Dorling Kindersley. Drösser, Christoph: 100 children, Gabriel Verlag.
Gladysz, Katarzyna / Wajs, Joanna / Kucharska, Nikola: Extinct. The book of the missing animals, Ravensburger.
Niebius, Maria-Elisabeth / Klanten, Robert / Thomas, Isabel / Honigstein, Raphael / Olejniková, Daniela: Counting, calculating, measuring. How numbers help us understand the world, little figures.
Wolfsgruber, Linda: The little forest primer, art instigator.
Details on voting: All information about voting can be found on the Internet at
www.wissenschaftsbuch.at, here you can also choose your favorites online. From mid-November the special issue with detailed descriptions of the nominated books and the voting slip will be available in bookshops and in many libraries. In addition, ten libraries throughout Austria present all the books on the shortlist in exhibitions.
Inquiries & contact:
Inquiry note:
Federal Ministry for Education, Science and Research
Mag. Martha Brinek
Springsprecherin
0664/8383210
martha.brinek@bmbwf.gv.at
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