The best non-fiction books according to the version of the "Enlightener-2018" award have been announced

2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44

Find out the winners and at the same time check out the latest popular science literature in Russian.

Every year, the Enlightener Prize selects Russian-speaking authors who know how to simply and easily talk about the latest scientific discoveries and research.

Award winners

• In the nomination "Natural and Exact Sciences" - "From Atoms to a Tree: An Introduction to the Modern Science of Life", Sergey Yastrebov (buy →).
• In the category "Humanities" - "The Suffering Middle Ages", Sergey Zotov, Mikhail Maizuls, Dilshat Harman (buy →).

Award shortlisted

• "Tales from the grotto: 50 stories from the life of ancient people", Stanislav Drobyshevsky (buy →).
• “The Suffering Middle Ages”, Sergey Zotov, Mikhail Maizuls, Dilshat Harman (buy →).
• “Not a modern country. Russia in the World of the XXI Century”, Vladislav Inozemtsev.
• "# 1917: seventeen essays on the history of the Russian revolution", Boris Kolonitsky.
• “Mathematics for the humanities. Live lectures”, Alexey Savvateev (buy →).
• “Caucasian War. Seven stories”, Amiran Urushadze (buy →).
• “Will and self-control. How genes and the brain prevent us from fighting temptations”, Irina Yakutenko (buy →).
• “From Atoms to a Tree: An Introduction to Modern Life Science”, Sergey Yastrebov (buy →).

Long list of awards

• "Linguistics: From Aristotle to Computational Linguistics", Vladimir Alpatov (buy →).
• “People and Beasts: Myths and Reality”, Olga Arnold (buy →).
• “The origins of the sacralization of power. Sacred Power in the Ancient Kingdoms of Egypt, Mesopotamia, Israel”, Olga Astapova (buy →).
• “Disgusting art. Humor and horror of painting masterpieces”, Sofia Bagdasarova (buy →).
• Museum of the 90s. Territory of Freedom ", Katerina Belenkina, Ilya Venyavkin, Anna Nemzer, Tatiana Trofimova.
• "Homeland of Elephants", Denis Gorelov (buy →).
• "Atlas of Future Technologies" edited by Leonid Gokhberg (buy →).
• "Tales from the grotto: 50 stories from the life of ancient people", Stanislav Drobyshevsky (buy →).
• “Lectures on Foreign Literature. From Homer to Dante”, Evgeniy Zharinov (buy →).
• “Creation of the Earth. How living organisms created our world”, Andrey Zhuravlev (buy →).
• “The Suffering Middle Ages”, Sergey Zotov, Mikhail Maizuls, Dilshat Harman (buy →).
• “Not a modern country. Russia in the World of the XXI Century”, Vladislav Inozemtsev.
• “Maximum repost: how social networks make us believe fake news”, Borislav Kozlovsky (buy →).
• "# 1917: seventeen essays on the history of the Russian revolution", Boris Kolonitsky.
• "Life of Wonderful Devices", Arkady Kuramshin (buy →).
• "Sworn friends. History of opinions, fantasies, contacts, mutual (mis) understanding of Russia and the United States”, Ivan Kurilla (buy →).
• Protection from the dark arts. Guide to the world of the paranormal”, Alexander Panchin (buy →).
• “How the Universe Works. Introduction to modern cosmology”, Sergey Parnovsky (buy →).
• "Amateur Astronomy", Irina Pozdnyakova (buy →).
• “Mathematics for the humanities. Live lectures”, Alexey Savvateev (buy →).
• “Caucasian War. Seven stories”, Amiran Urushadze (buy →).
• “From megalith to megalopolis: essays on the history of architecture and urban planning”, Dmitry Shvidkovsky (buy →).
• “Will and self-control. How genes and the brain prevent us from fighting temptations”, Irina Yakutenko (buy →).
• “From Atoms to a Tree: An Introduction to Modern Life Science”, Sergey Yastrebov (buy →).