Timothy Caulfield (photo: Akiko Taniguchi)

The Canadian Science Writers’ Association has named the finalists for its $1,000 Science in Society Book Awards, spotlighting the best Canadian titles on scientific topics published the year prior:

Middle Grades Book Award

• Maria Birmingham; Josh Holinaty, illus.; A Beginner’s Guide to Immortality: From Alchemy to Avatars (Owlkids Books)
• Elise Gravel, The Spider (Tundra Books)
• Tanya Lloyd Kyi; Lil Crump, illus.; DNA Detective (Annick Press)
• Shakar N. Paleja; Glenda Tse, illus.; Power Up! A Visual Exploration of Energy (Annick)
• Cybèle Young, The Queen’s Shadow: A Story About How Animals See (Kids Can Press)

General Book Award

• Timothy Caulfield, Is Gwyneth Paltrow Wrong About Everything? When Celebrity Culture and Science Clash (Viking Canada)
• Pieter Cullis, The Personalized Medicine Revolution: How Diagnosing and Treating Disease are About to Change Forever (Greystone Books)
• Alanna Mitchell, Malignant Metaphor: Finding the Hidden Meaning of Cancer (ECW Press)
• Siobhan Roberts, Genius at Play: The Curious Mind of John Horton Conway (Bloomsbury Press Agency)
• Philip E. Tetlock and Dan Gardner, Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction (Signal/McClelland & Stewart)

The winners will be announced April 23, Canada Book Day, and will be recognized on June 4 during the CSWA’s The Science of Life conference at the University of Guelph.