Full shortlist:<p><pre><code> * The Age of Wonder: How the romantic generation discovered the beauty and terror of Science by Richard Holmes (Harper Press)
* What the Nose Knows: The science of scent in everyday life by Avery Gilbert (Crown Publishers)
* Bad Science by Ben Goldacre (Harper Perennial)
* Decoding the Heavens: Solving the mystery of the world's first computer by Jo Marchant (William Heinemann)
* The drunkard's walk: How randomness rules our lives by Leonard Mlodinow (Penguin)
* Your Inner Fish: The amazing discovery of our 375-million-year-old ancestor by Neil Shubin (Penguin)</code></pre>