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1001 boeken die je gelezen moet hebben!

• Uncle Peteros & Goldbach's Conjecture von Apostolos Doxiadis (editie 2017)

1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die

• Uncle Peteros & Goldbach's Conjecture von Apostolos Doxiadis (2008/2010/2012 Edition)

ALA Outstanding Books for the College Bound

• The golden ratio : the story of phi, the world's most astonishing number von Mario Livio (Science & Technology – 2004)

Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies

• The secret life of puppets von Victoria Nelson (Gewinner – 2001)
• Unearthing the past : archaeology and aesthetics in the making of Renaissance culture von Leonard Barkan (Gewinner – 1999)

Amazon.com Best Books

• Uncle Tungsten : memories of a chemical boyhood von Oliver W. Sacks (2001)
• Tuxedo Park : a Wall Street tycoon and the secret palace of science that changed the course of World War II von Jennet Conant (2002)

Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction

• The Paper Garden: An Artist Begins Her Life's Work at 72 von Molly Peacock (Longlist – Sachbücher – 2012)

Booklist Editor's Choice: Adult Books

• Uncle Tungsten : memories of a chemical boyhood von Oliver W. Sacks (Biographie – 2001)
• The Paper Garden: An Artist Begins Her Life's Work at 72 von Molly Peacock (Arts and Literature – 2011)

British Columbia's National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction

• The Paper Garden: An Artist Begins Her Life's Work at 72 von Molly Peacock (Longlist – 2011)

Charles Rufus Morey Book Award

• Unearthing the past : archaeology and aesthetics in the making of Renaissance culture von Leonard Barkan (2001)

Christian Gauss Award

• Unearthing the past : archaeology and aesthetics in the making of Renaissance culture von Leonard Barkan (Gewinner – 2000)

David Bowie's Top 100

• MR. WILSON'S CABINET OF WONDER: Pronged Ants, Horned Humans, Mice on Toast, and Other Marvels of Jurassic Techno logy von Lawrence Weschler (1997)

DeLong Book History Book Prize

• The nature of the book : print and knowledge in the making von Adrian Johns (Gewinner – 1999)

The Economist Best Books

• Uncle Tungsten : memories of a chemical boyhood von Oliver W. Sacks (2001.17)

GEO Magazine Recommendation

• The Devil's cloth : a history of stripes and striped fabric von Michel Pastoureau

Globe and Mail Top 100 Book

• The Paper Garden: An Artist Begins Her Life's Work at 72 von Molly Peacock (Biography and Memoir – 2010)

Guardian Essential Library

• The man who loved only numbers : the story of Paul Erdos and the search for mathematical truth von Paul Hoffman (Science)

Harry Levin Prize

• Unearthing the past : archaeology and aesthetics in the making of Renaissance culture von Leonard Barkan (Gewinner – 2001)

Helen & Howard R. Marraro Prize in Italian History (ACHA)

• Possessing nature : museums, collecting, and scientific culture in early modern Italy von Paula Findlen (1995)

International Horror Guild Award

• Gothic : 400 years of excess, horror, evil, and ruin von R. P. T. Davenport-Hines (Nominierte – Sachbuch – 1999)

International Pythagoras Prize

• The golden ratio : the story of phi, the world's most astonishing number von Mario Livio

Jacques Barzun Prize in Cultural History

• Peiresc's Europe: Learning and Virtue in the Seventeenth Century von Peter N. Miller (2000)

James Russell Lowell Prize

• On longing : narratives of the miniature, the gigantic, the souvenir, the collection von Susan Stewart (Honorable Mention – 2002)

John Ben Snow Prize

• The nature of the book : print and knowledge in the making von Adrian Johns (1999)

Katharine Briggs Folklore Award

• No go the bogeyman : scaring, lulling, and making mock von Marina Warner (Gewinner – 1999)

Kraszna-Krausz Book Award

• The Photobook: A History, Vol. 1 von Martin Parr (Photography – 2006)

Lambda Literary Award

• On longing : narratives of the miniature, the gigantic, the souvenir, the collection von Susan Stewart (Gewinner – Small Press – 1994)
• On longing : narratives of the miniature, the gigantic, the souvenir, the collection von Susan Stewart (Nominierte – Lesbian Studies – 1994)

Leo Gershoy Award

• The nature of the book : print and knowledge in the making von Adrian Johns (1999)

Lionel Trilling Book Award

• Suspensions of perception : attention, spectacle, and modern culture von Jonathan Crary (2001)

Louis Gottschalk Prize

• The nature of the book : print and knowledge in the making von Adrian Johns (1999)

Mark Lynton History Prize

• Victorian Sensation : The Extraordinary Publication, Reception, and Secret Authorship of Vestiges of the Natural History von James A. Secord (Finalist – 2002)

Mythopoeic Awards

• No go the bogeyman : scaring, lulling, and making mock von Marina Warner (Finalist – Myth and Fantasy Studies – 1999)

National Book Critics Circle Award

• Edison's Eve : a magical history of the quest for mechanical life von Gaby Wood (Finalist – General Nonfiction – 2002)
• Living dolls : a magical history of the quest for mechanical life von Gaby Wood (Finalist – General Nonfiction – 2002)
• Marginalia: Readers Writing in Books von H. J. Jackson (Finalist – Criticism – 2001)
• MR. WILSON'S CABINET OF WONDER: Pronged Ants, Horned Humans, Mice on Toast, and Other Marvels of Jurassic Techno logy von Lawrence Weschler (Finalist – General Nonfiction – 1995)
• On longing : narratives of the miniature, the gigantic, the souvenir, the collection von Susan Stewart (Gewinner – Poesie, Dichtkunst, Lyrik – 2003)
• On photography von Susan Sontag (Gewinner – Criticism – 1977)

The New York Times Best Books of the Year

• Uncle Tungsten : memories of a chemical boyhood von Oliver W. Sacks (2001)
• On photography von Susan Sontag (1977)

New York Times bestseller

• The map that changed the world : William Smith and the birth of modern geology von Simon Winchester (Sachbücher – 2001)
• Tuxedo Park : a Wall Street tycoon and the secret palace of science that changed the course of World War II von Jennet Conant (Sachbücher – 2002)
• On photography von Susan Sontag (Allgemein – 1978)

Newsweek 50 Books for Our Times

• The new biographical dictionary of film von David Thomson (2009)

Notable Books List

• Minerals and man von Cornelius Searle Hurlbut (1969)

Peano Prize

• The golden ratio : the story of phi, the world's most astonishing number von Mario Livio

Pfizer Prize of the History of Science Society

• Possessing nature : museums, collecting, and scientific culture in early modern Italy von Paula Findlen (1996)
• The sun in the Church : cathedrals as solar observatories von J. L. Heilbron (2001)
• Victorian Sensation : The Extraordinary Publication, Reception, and Secret Authorship of Vestiges of the Natural History von James A. Secord (2002)
• Wonders and the order of nature, 1150-1750 von Lorraine Daston (1999)

Prix Aujourd'hui

• Errata : an examined life von George Steiner (1998)

PROSE Award

• The amber forest : a reconstruction of a vanished world von George O. Poinar (Honorable Mention – Biological Science – 1999)
• The invisible world : early modern philosophy and the invention of the microscope von Catherine Wilson (Honorable Mention – Philosophy & Religion – 1995)
• The moment of proof : mathematical epiphanies von Donald C. Benson (Gewinner – Mathematics – 1999)
• The nature of the book : print and knowledge in the making von Adrian Johns (Gewinner – History of Science & Technology – 1998)
• Science and the secrets of nature : books of secrets in medieval and early modern culture von William Eamon (Gewinner – Geschichte – 1994)
• Victorian Sensation : The Extraordinary Publication, Reception, and Secret Authorship of Vestiges of the Natural History von James A. Secord (Gewinner – Geschichte – 2001)

Pulitzer Preis

• MR. WILSON'S CABINET OF WONDER: Pronged Ants, Horned Humans, Mice on Toast, and Other Marvels of Jurassic Techno logy von Lawrence Weschler (Finalist – Allgemeine Sachbücher – 1996)

The QI top 10 quite interesting books by John Lloyd and John Mitchinson

• Brewer's Rogues, Villains & Eccentrics von William Donaldson (9)

Rose Mary Crawshay Prize

• No go the bogeyman : scaring, lulling, and making mock von Marina Warner (2000)

Royal Society Trivedi Science Book Prize

• The man who loved only numbers : the story of Paul Erdos and the search for mathematical truth von Paul Hoffman (Gewinner – Allgemein – 1999)

SB&F Best Science Books for Junior High and High School Readers

• The golden ratio : the story of phi, the world's most astonishing number von Mario Livio (2003)
• My brain is open : the mathematical journeys of Paul Erdîos von Bruce Schechter (1999)
• Uncle Tungsten : memories of a chemical boyhood von Oliver W. Sacks (2002)
• Tuxedo Park : a Wall Street tycoon and the secret palace of science that changed the course of World War II von Jennet Conant (2002)
• Universal History of Numbers: From Prehistory to the Invention of the Computer von Georges Ifrah (2000)

LA Times Book Prize

• Fermat's last theorem : unlocking the secret of an ancient mathematical problem von Amir D. Aczel (Finalist – Science & Technology – 1996)
• Uncle Tungsten : memories of a chemical boyhood von Oliver W. Sacks (Finalist – Science & Technology – 2001)
• A Rum affair : a true story of botanical fraud von Karl Sabbagh (Finalist – Science & Technology – 2000)

Village Voice Favorite Books

• Baroness Elsa : gender, dada, and everyday modernity : a cultural biography von Irene Gammel (2002)

Wingate Literary Prize

• Uncle Tungsten : memories of a chemical boyhood von Oliver W. Sacks (Gewinner – Sachbuch – 2002)