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Each year, beginning in 2003, the National Academies present three $20,000 Communication Awards recognizing authors, journalists, and producers who have demonstrated excellence in reporting and communicating science, engineering, and/or medicine to the general public through print, Internet, radio, or television.

2006 1491: New Revelations Of The Americas Before Columbus by Charles Mann
In this groundbreaking work of science, history, and archaeology, Charles C. Mann radically alters our understanding of the Americas before the arrival of Columbus in 1492.

2005 The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History by John M. Barry

2004 The Agile Gene: How Nature Turns on Nurture by Matt Ridley

Armed with extraordinary new discoveries about our genes, acclaimed science writer Matt Ridley turns his attention to the nature-versus-nurture debate in a thoughtful book about the roots of human behavior.

2003 Eye of the Albatross: Visions of Hope and Survival by Carl Safina Ph.D.

Eye of the Albatross takes us soaring to locales where whales, sea turtles, penguins, and shearwaters flourish in their own quotidian rhythms. Carl Safina’s guide and inspiration is an albatross he calls Amelia, whose life and far-flung flights he describes in fascinating detail.