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Summary Books about an Indian slum, Everest expedition and violence are up for nonfiction book award.
Katherine Boos Behind The Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Slum, Wade Davis Into The Silence: The Great War, Mallory and the Conquest of Everest and Steven Pinkers The Better Angels Of Our Nature: A History Of Violence and Humanity are shortlisted for the 20,000 pound ($32,000) prize.The other finalists announced Friday are Robert Macfarlanes travelogue The Old Ways: A Journey On Foot; Sue Prideauxs theatrical biography Strindberg: A Life; and Paul Prestons civil war study The Spanish Holocaust: Inquisition and Extermination in Twentieth-Century Spain.
