Finalists for the 1992-1993 Los Angeles Times Book Prizes : SCIENCE and TECHNOLOGY

THE DIVERSITY OF LIFE by Edward O. Wilson (Harvard University Press/Belknap Press). A reflection on how the living world became diverse and how humans are destroying that diversity. Told by a winner of two Pulitzer Prizes with a poetic elegance that evokes Amazon nights at the edge of the rain forest and gives us the key to the maintenance of the world as we know it--biodiversity.

The Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalists and winners are selected in each category by an independent panel of judges. Winners will be announced in the Book Review issue of October 31.