Royal Society science book shortlist

From the big questions of cosmology through headline making scientific findings, personal journeys in discovering about disease to history-through-science and science-through-history, biography, the brain and the anthropic principle, there's a good range of subjects in this years Royal Society short list of the best popular science books. Of the wide ranging subjects I'm most taken with the Erik Kandel's 'In search of memory', but most of them look enjoyable.