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The Royal Society prize is Britain's most prestigious prize for popular science writing. For any reader after a good sense of what's going on across the spectrum of contemporary science, you could hardly do better than seek out this year's longlist - which covers a spectrum of topic from zoology to ecology, genetics to mathematics.

And 10 fortunate readers can get a chance to do just that, as we're giving away the complete longlist of 12 books. To be in with a chance, simply answer the question below by midnight on June 1 2008.

The longlist

A Life Decoded, by J. Craig Venter (Penguin Allen Lane)
Better Looking, Better Living, Better Loving: How Chemistry can Help You Achieve Life's Goals by John Emsley (Wiley-VCH)
Coral: A pessimist in paradise by Steve Jones (Little, Brown)
Gut Feelings by Gerd Gigerenzer (Penguin - Allen Lane)
How to Fossilise Your Hamster by Mick O'Hare (Profile Books)
Making Up The Mind by Chris Frith (Wiley - Blackwell)
Six Degrees: Our future on a hotter planet by Mark Lynas (Fourth Estate)
The Stuff of Thought by Steven Pinker (Penguin - Allen Lane)
The Sun Kings by Stuart Clark (Princeton University Press)
Why Beauty is Truth by Ian Stewart (Basic Books)
Why the Lion Grew Its Mane by Lewis Smith (Papadakis)
Yes! By Noah Goldstein, Steve J Martin, and Robert B Cialdini (Profile Books)
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