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AMERICAN HISTORY

The Indignant Generation: A Narrative History of African American Writers and Critics, 1934-1960
Lawrence P. Jackson
  • Winner of the 2012 BCALA Literary Award, Nonfiction Category

    The Straight State: Sexuality and Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America
    Margot Canaday
  • Winner, The 2012 Order of the Coif Biennial Book Award

    COMPARATIVE LITERATURE

    The Novel and the Sea
    Margaret Cohen
  • Winner, 2012 Barbara and George Perkins Prize, The International Society for the Study of Narrative

    RELIGION

    American Religion: Contemporary Trends
    Mark Chaves
  • Winner of the 2012 Christianity Today Award in the Christianity and Culture category

    2011 AWARDS

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    AMERICAN HISTORY

    Creating the Market University: How Academic Science Became an Economic Engine
    Elizabeth Popp Berman
  • Winner of the 2011 President's Book Award, Social Science History Association

    Debtor Nation: The History of America in Red Ink
    Louis Hyman
  • One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2011

    Heavenly Merchandize: How Religion Shaped Commerce in Puritan America
    Mark Valeri
  • Winner of the 2011 Philip Schaff Prize, American Society of Church History
  • Shortlisted for the 2011 American Academy of Religion Award for Excellence in the Historical Study of Religion

    The Indignant Generation: A Narrative History of African American Writers and Critics, 1934-1960
    Lawrence P. Jackson
  • Finalist of the 2011 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award Nonfiction, The Hurston/Wright Foundation
  • Winner of the 2011 William Sanders Scarborough Prize, Modern Language Association

    The Quotable Thoreau
    Edited by Jeffrey S. Cramer
  • Recipient of an Umhoefer Prize for Achievement in Humanities, Arts and Humanities Foundation in 2011

    The Straight State: Sexuality and Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America
    Margot Canaday
  • Winner of the 2011 John Boswell Prize, Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History

    The Whites of Their Eyes: The Tea Party's Revolution and the Battle over American History
    Jill Lepore
  • One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2011
  • Gold Medal Winner of the 2011 Independent Publisher Book Awards in the History category
  • Highly Recommended Book, 2011 Annual Awards, Boston Authors Club

    AMERICAN LITERATURE

    Last Looks, Last Books: Stevens, Plath, Lowell, Bishop, Merrill
    Helen Vendler
  • One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2011

    Postmodern Belief: American Literature and Religion since 1960
    Amy Hungerford
  • Shortlisted for the 2011 American Academy of Religion Award for Excellence in the Textual Study of Religion

    ANTHROPOLOGY

    Islamism and Democracy in India: The Transformation of Jamaat-e-Islami
    Irfan Ahmad
  • Shortlisted, 2011 ICAS Book Prize for best study in the field of Social Sciences, International Convention of Asian Scholars

    Muslim Lives in Eastern Europe: Gender, Ethnicity, and the Transformation of Islam in Postsocialist Bulgaria
    Kristen Ghodsee
  • Winner of the 2011 Davis Center Book Prize in Political and Social Studies, Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEES)
  • Winner of the 2011 John D. Bell Memorial Book Prize, Bulgarian Studies Association
  • Winner of the 2011 William A. Douglass Prize in Europeanist Anthropology, Society for the Anthropology of Europe, American Anthropological Association

    Winning: Reflections on an American Obsession
    Francesco Duina
  • One of CHOICE Magazine's 2010-2011 Compilation of Significant University Press Titles for Undergraduates

    APPLIED SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING

    Reinventing Discovery: The New Era of Networked Science
    Michael Nielsen
  • One of Financial Times (FT.com) non-fiction favourites of 2011 in the Science category
  • One of Anthony Doerr of the The Boston Globe's best books of 2011 on science

    ART AND ARCHITECTURE

    Ambitious Form: Giambologna, Ammanati, and Danti in Florence
    Michael W. Cole
  • One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2011

    The Moment of Caravaggio
    Michael Fried
  • One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2011

    ASIAN AND ASIAN AMERICAN STUDIES

    Objects of Translation: Material Culture and Medieval "Hindu-Muslim" Encounter
    Finbarr B. Flood
  • Winner of the 2011 Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy Book Prize, Association for Asian Studies, South Asia Council

    ASTRONOMY AND COSMOLOGY

    How Old Is the Universe?
    David A. Weintraub
  • One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2011

    Strange New Worlds: The Search for Alien Planets and Life beyond Our Solar System
    Ray Jayawardhana
  • One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2011
  • One of Library Journal Reviews' Sci-Tech Best Books for 2011

    BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

    Pollination and Floral Ecology
    Pat Willmer
  • One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2011

    Resolving Ecosystem Complexity (MPB-47)
    Oswald J. Schmitz
  • One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2011

    BIRDS AND NATURAL HISTORY

    Cotingas and Manakins
    Guy M. Kirwan & Graeme Green
  • One of The Birdbooker Report's Best Bird Books of 2011

    Frogs and Toads of the World
    Chris Mattison
  • One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Title of 2011

    The Princeton Field Guide to Dinosaurs
    Gregory S. Paul
  • One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Title of 2011

    Trogons: A Natural History of the Trogonidae
    Joseph M. Forshaw
  • One of The Birdbooker Report's Best Bird Books of 2011

    BRITISH LITERATURE

    The Age of Auden: Postwar Poetry and the American Scene
    Aidan Wasley
  • One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Title of 2011

    COGNITIVE SCIENCE

    The Brain and the Meaning of Life
    Paul Thagard
  • One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Title of 2011

    COMPARATIVE LITERATURE

    The Novel and the Sea
    Margaret Cohen
  • Winner of the 2010-2011 Louis Gottschalk Prize, American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
  • Second Runner-Up, 2011 Harry Levin Prize, American Comparative Literature Association

    ECONOMICS

    After Adam Smith: A Century of Transformation in Politics and Political Economy
    Murray Milgate & Shannon C. Stimson
  • Winner of the 2011 David and Elaine Spitz Prize, International Conference for the Study of Political Thought

    Beyond Mechanical Markets: Asset Price Swings, Risk, and the Role of the State
    Roman Frydman & Michael D. Goldberg
  • Finalists for the 2011 TIAA-CREF Paul A. Samuelson Award
  • One of Financial Times (FT.com) non-fiction favourites of 2011, commended by Martin Wolf, FT chief economics commentator

    Chasing Stars: The Myth of Talent and the Portability of Performance
    Boris Groysberg
  • 2011 Winner of a Gold Medal in the Axiom Business Book Awards in the category of Operations Management/Productivity/TQM

    Exceptional People: How Migration Shaped Our World and Will Define Our Future
    Ian Goldin, Geoffrey Cameron & Meera Balarajan
  • Featured as a "Page-turner" and one of the Best Books of 2011 in Politics and Current Affairs, The Economist

    Fault Lines: How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten the World Economy
    Raghuram G. Rajan
  • Gold Medal Winner of the 2011 Independent Publisher Book Awards in the Finance/
    Investment/Economics category
  • Finalist, 2011 Estoril Global Issues Distinguished Book Prize

    The Invention of Enterprise: Entrepreneurship from Ancient Mesopotamia to Modern Times
    Edited by David S. Landes, Joel Mokyr & William J. Baumol
  • 2011 Winner of a Silver Medal in the Axiom Business Book Awards in the category of Entrepreneurship 2011 Winners of a Silver Medal in the Axiom Business Book Awards in the category of Entrepreneurship

    This Time Is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly
    Carmen M. Reinhart & Kenneth S. Rogoff
  • Finalist, 2011 Estoril Global Issues Distinguished Book Prize

    EDUCATION

    The Great Brain Race: How Global Universities Are Reshaping the World
    Ben Wildavsky
  • Winner of the 2010 Philip E. Frandson Award for Literature in the Field of Continuing Higher Education, University Professional and Continuing Education Association

    No Longer Separate, Not Yet Equal: Race and Class in Elite College Admission and Campus Life
    Thomas J. Espenshade & Alexandria Walton Radford
  • Winner of the 2011 Pierre Bourdieu Book Award, Sociology of Education Section, American Sociological Association

    EUROPEAN HISTORY

    The Age of Social Democracy: Norway and Sweden in the Twentieth Century
    Francis Sejersted
  • A 2011 Outstanding Academic Title, Choice Magazine

    Catholic Pirates and Greek Merchants: A Maritime History of the Early Modern Mediterranean
    Molly Greene
  • Joint Winner of the 2011 Runciman Award, Anglo-Hellenic League

    HISTORY OF SCIENCE AND MEDICINE, PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE

    The Joy of Secularism: 11 Essays for How We Live Now
    Edited by George Levine
  • One of The New Yorker's Reviewer's Favorites of 2011

    Physics and Technology for Future Presidents: An Introduction to the Essential Physics Every World Leader Needs to Know
    Richard A. Muller
  • One of CHOICE Magazine's 2010-2011 Compilation of Significant University Press Titles for Undergraduates

    Taming the Beloved Beast: How Medical Technology Costs Are Destroying Our Health Care System
    Daniel Callahan
  • Recommended Reading, 2011 James A. Hamilton Award, American College of Healthcare Executives

    JEWISH STUDIES

    The Rebbe: The Life and Afterlife of Menachem Mendel Schneerson
    Samuel Heilman & Menachem Friedman
  • One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2011

    LAW

    Justice in Lüritz: Experiencing Socialist Law in East Germany
    Inga Markovits
  • Co-winner of the 2011 James Willard Hurst Prize for Sociolegal History, Law and Society Association

    Lawyers and Fidelity to Law
    W. Bradley Wendel
  • One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2011

    The Law Is a White Dog: How Legal Rituals Make and Unmake Persons
    Colin Dayan
  • One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Title of 2011: Top 25 Books

    LITERATURE

    The Cloak of Dreams: Chinese Fairy Tales
    Béla Balázs
  • One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2011

    Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work
    Edwidge Danticat
  • Edwidge Danticat Honored with the 2011 Langston Hughes Medal, City College of New York
  • Winner of the 2011 Bocas Lit Fest OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature in the non-fiction category

    On Conan Doyle: Or, The Whole Art of Storytelling
    Michael Dirda
  • Nominee for the 2012 Edgar Allan Poe Awards, Best Critical/Biographical Category

    MATHEMATICS

    Feedback Systems: An Introduction for Scientists and Engineers
    Karl Johan Ĺström & Richard M. Murray
  • Winner of the 2011 Harold Chestnut Control Engineering Textbook Prize, International Federation of Automatic Control

    Mathematics in Ancient Iraq: A Social History
    Eleanor Robson
  • Winner of the 2011 Pfizer Award for best scholarly book, History of Science Society

    The Princeton Companion to Mathematics
    Edited by Timothy Gowers
  • Winner of the 2011 Euler Book Prize, Mathematical Association of America

    PHILOSOPHY

    Braintrust: What Neuroscience Tells Us about Morality
    Patricia S. Churchland
  • Winner of the 2011 PROSE Award for Excellence in Biological & Life Sciences

    Soul Dust: The Magic of Consciousness
    Nicholas Humphrey
  • One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2011

    POETRY

    The Age of Anxiety: A Baroque Eclogue
    W. H. Auden
  • One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2011

    The Eternal City: Poems
    Kathleen Graber
  • Winner, 2011 Literary Award for Poetry, Library of Virginia
  • Finalist, 2011 William Carlos Williams Award, Poetry Society of America

    POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY

    The Imperative of Integration
    Elizabeth Anderson
  • Winner of the 2011 Joseph B. Gittler Award, The American Philosophical Association
  • One of CHOICE Magazine's 2010-2011 Compilation of Significant University Press Titles for Undergraduates

    Liberating Judgment: Fanatics, Skeptics, and John Locke's Politics of Probability
    Douglas John Casson
  • One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2011

    The Real World of Democratic Theory
    Ian Shapiro
  • One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2011

    POLITICAL SCIENCE AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

    1989: The Struggle to Create Post-Cold War Europe
    Mary Elise Sarotte
  • Honorable Mention, 2011 Laura Shannon Prize in Contemporary European Studies, Nanovic Institute for European Studies

    The Clash of Ideas in World Politics: Transnational Networks, States, and Regime Change, 1510-2010
    John M. Owen IV
  • Winner of the 2011 Lepgold Prize, Mortara Center for International Studies, Georgetown University

    The Diffusion of Military Power: Causes and Consequences for International Politics
    Michael C. Horowitz
  • Winner of the 2011 Harold D. Lasswell Prize, Society of Policy Scientists
  • Winner of the 2011 Best Book, International Security Studies Section, International Studies Association

    The End of the West: The Once and Future Europe
    David Marquand
  • One of Financial Times (FT.com) non-fiction favourites of 2011 in the Politics category

    How Enemies Become Friends: The Sources of Stable Peace
    Charles A. Kupchan
  • Finalist, 2011 Estoril Global Issues Distinguished Book Prize
  • Honorable Mention, 2011 Arthur Ross Book Award, Council on Foreign Relations

    Liberal Leviathan: The Origins, Crisis, and Transformation of the American World Order
    G. John Ikenberry
  • One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2011

    The Litigation State: Public Regulation and Private Lawsuits in the United States
    Sean Farhang
  • Winner of the 2011 C. Herman Pritchett Award, Law and Courts Section, American Political Science Association
  • Winner of the 2011 Gladys M. Kammerer Award, American Political Science Association

    Partisan Balance: Why Political Parties Don't Kill the U.S. Constitutional System
    David R. Mayhew
  • Winner of the 2011 Leon D. Epstein Outstanding Book Award, Political Organizations and Parties Section, American Political Science Association

    Politics and Strategy: Partisan Ambition and American Statecraft
    Peter Trubowitz
  • One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2011

    The Politics of Secularism in International Relations
    Elizabeth Shakman Hurd
  • Co-winner of the 2011 Hubert Morken Award for the Best Publication in Religion and Politics, Religion and Politics Section, American Political Science Association

    Terror in Chechnya: Russia and the Tragedy of Civilians in War
    Emma Gilligan
  • Winner of 2011 Lemkin Award, Institute for the Study of Genocide

    Rational Theory of International Politics: The Logic of Competition and Cooperation
    Charles L. Glaser
  • Honorable Mention for the 2011 Best Book, International Security Studies Section, International Studies Association

    Reputation and Power: Organizational Image and Pharmaceutical Regulation at the FDA
    Daniel Carpenter
  • Winner of the 2011 Allan Sharlin Memorial Award, Social Science History Association

    Who Are the Criminals? The Politics of Crime Policy from the Age of Roosevelt to the Age of Reagan
    John Hagan
  • One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2011

    PSYCHOLOGY

    Why People Cooperate: The Role of Social Motivations
    Tom R. Tyler
  • One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2011

    SOCIOLOGY

    Disrupting Science: Social Movements, American Scientists, and the Politics of the Military, 1945-1975
    Kelly Moore
  • Winner, 2011 Robert K. Merton Book Award, Science, Knowledge, and Technology Section, American Sociological Association

    Economists and Societies: Discipline and Profession in the United States, Britain, and France, 1890s to 1990s
    Marion Fourcade
  • Winner of the 2011 Distinguished Scholarly Publication Award, American Sociological Association
  • Winner of the 2011 Ludwik Fleck Prize, Society for the Social Studies of Science

    The Entrepreneurial Group: Social Identities, Relations, and Collective Action
    Martin Ruef
  • Winner of the 2011 Max Weber Book Award, Organizations, Occupations, and Work Section, American Sociological Association

    Reds, Whites, and Blues: Social Movements, Folk Music, and Race in the United States
    William G. Roy
  • Winner of the 2011 Charles Tilly Best Book Award, Collective Behavior and Social Movements Section, American Sociological Association

    Violence: A Micro-sociological Theory
    Randall Collins
  • Winner of the 2011 Distinguished Scholarly Publication Award, American Sociological Association

    WORLD HISTORY / COMPARATIVE HISTORY

    The Great American Mission: Modernization and the Construction of an American World Order
    David Ekbladh
  • Winner of the 2011 Stuart L. Bernath Book Prize, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations

    Empires in World History: Power and the Politics of Difference
    Jane Burbank & Frederick Cooper
  • Winner of the 2011 World History Association Book Prize

    The Inner Life of Empires: An Eighteenth-Century History
    Emma Rothschild
  • Winner of the 2011 Saltire Society Scottish History Book of the Year Award
  • One of The New Yorker's Reviewer's Favorites of 2011

    Death and Redemption: The Gulag and the Shaping of Soviet Society
    Steven A. Barnes
  • Winner of the 2011 Baker-Burton Award, European History Section, Southern Historical Association

    2010 AWARDS

    ANTHROPOLOGY

    The Empire of Trauma: An Inquiry into the Condition of Victimhood
    Didier Fassin and Richard Rechtman
  • Winner of the 2010 William A. Douglass Prize for Best Book in Europeanist Anthropology
    Sponsored by the Society for the Anthropology of Europe, American Anthropological Association

    Mitzvah Girls: Bringing Up the Next Generation of Hasidic Jews in Brooklyn
    Ayala Fader
  • "Highly Commended," 2010 Clifford Geertz Prize in the Anthropology of Religion, Society for the Anthropology of Religion

    AMERICAN HISTORY

    Heavenly Merchandize: How Religion Shaped Commerce in Puritan America
    Mark Valeri
  • One of CHOICE Magazine's 2010 Outstanding Academic Titles

    Not Even Past: Barack Obama and the Burden of Race
    Thomas J. Sugrue
  • Finalist, The 2010 Benjamin L. Hooks Institute for Social Change National Book Award, The University of Memphis

    Reading Obama: Dreams, Hope, and the American Political Tradition
    James T. Kloppenberg
  • Mara Liasson’s choice in 2010 for Best Book of the Year, National Public Radio (npr.org/blogs)

    The Rise and Fall of Modern American Conservatism: A Short History
    David Farber
  • One of CHOICE Magazine's 2010 Outstanding Academic Titles

    The Straight State:
    Sexuality and Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America
    Margot Canaday
  • Winner of the 2010 Cromwell Book Prize, American Society for Legal History
  • Winner of the 2010 Lora Romero First Book Publication Prize, American Studies Association
  • Winner of the 2010 Ellis W. Hawley Prize, awarded by the Organization of American Historians.
  • Co-winner of the 2010 Gladys M. Kammerer Award, American Political Science Association
  • Winner of the 2010 Lambda Literary Award for LGBT Studies by the Lambda Literary Foundation

    The Whites of Their Eyes: The Tea Party's Revolution and the Battle over American History
    Jill Lepore
  • 2010 Bronze Medal Winner of the 2010 ForeWord Reviews Book of the Year Awards in the History Category
  • Named a 2010 New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice
  • One of the Top Debate Worthy Books of 2010, U.S. News & World Report (online version)
  • Honorable Mention for the 2010 PROSE Award for Excellence in U.S. History, American Publishers Awards for Professional and Scholarly Excellence

    ARCHAEOLOGY AND ANCIENT HISTORY

    Alexander the Great and His Empire: A Short Introduction
    Pierre Briant
  • One of CHOICE Magazine's 2010 Outstanding Academic Titles

    Civilizations of Ancient Iraq
    Benjamin R. Foster & Karen Polinger Foster
  • Winner of the Felicia A. Holton Book Award 2010, Archaeological Institute of America

    The Horse, the Wheel, and Language:
    How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World
    David W. Anthony
  • Winner of the 2010 Society for American Archaeology Book Award.

    Makers of Ancient Strategy: From the Persian Wars to the Fall of Rome
    Edited by Victor Davis Hanson
  • Winner of the 2010 PROSE Award for Excellence in Classics & Ancient History, American Publishers Awards for Professional and Scholarly Excellence

    The Poison King: The Life and Legend of Mithradates, Rome's Deadliest Enemy
    Adrienne Mayor
  • 2010 Gold Medal Winner of the Independent Publisher Book Awards in the Biography category
  • 2010 Gold Medal Winner of the Independent Publisher Book Awards in the Biography category
  • Honorable Mention for the 2010 PROSE Award for Excellence in Biography & Autobiography, American Publishers Awards for Professional and Scholarly Excellence

    Art and Architecture

    Inventing Futurism: The Art and Politics of Artificial Optimism
    Christine Poggi
  • Co-Winner of the 2010 Howard R. Marraro Prize, Modern Language Association

    Michelangelo: A Life on Paper
    Leonard Barkan
  • Named as one of Brad Gooch’s 2010 Favorite Books of the Year, The Daily Beast

    The Moment of Caravaggio
    Michael Fried
  • Winner of the 2010 PROSE Award for Excellence in Art History & Criticism
  • Named one of T.J. Clark's 2010 Best Books of the Year, ARTFORUM

    ASTRONOMY AND COSMOLOGY

    Heaven's Touch: From Killer Stars to the Seeds of Life, How We Are Connected to the Universe
    James B. Kaler
  • One of CHOICE Magazine's 2010 Outstanding Academic Titles

    BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

    Ant Encounters: Interaction Networks and Colony Behavior
    Deborah M. Gordon
  • One of CHOICE Magazine's 2010 Outstanding Academic Titles

    BIRDS AND NATURAL HISTORY

    The Princeton Field Guide to Dinosaurs
    Gregory S. Paul
  • One of 2010 Best Reference (Print, Electronic, and Free Reference Resources) in the Sciences category, Library Journal
  • Honorable Mention for the 2010 PROSE Award for Excellence in Single Volume Reference/Science, American Publishers Awards for Professional and Scholarly Excellence

    Trogons: A Natural History of the Trogonidae
    Joseph M. Forshaw
    Illustrated by Albert Earl Gilbert
  • 2010 Winner of the International Book Awards in the Best Interior Design category
  • 2010 Finalist of the International Book Awards in the Best Cover Design category

    BRITISH LITERATURE

    The Bard: Robert Burns, A Biography
    Robert Crawford
  • Shortlisted for the 2010 Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust Book Awards, Non-Fiction category, by the Scottish Arts Council.

    CLASSICS

    Democracy and Knowledge: Innovation and Learning in Classical Athens
    Josiah Ober
  • Shortlisted for the Hessell-Tiltman Prize 2010, English PEN
    Awarded by the PEN Literary Foundation

    Recognizing Persius
    Kenneth J. Reckford
  • One of CHOICE Magazine's 2010 Outstanding Academic Titles

    Reconstructing the Roman Republic: An Ancient Political Culture and Modern Research
    Karl-J. Hölkeskamp
  • One of CHOICE Magazine's 2010 Outstanding Academic Titles

    COGNITIVE SCIENCE

    Honeybee Democracy
    Thomas D. Seeley
  • Named one of the 2010 Books of the Year in Nonfiction Round-Up in the Science & Environment list, Financial Times (FT.com)

    COMPARATIVE LITERATURE

    Cultural Capitals: Early Modern London and Paris
    Karen Newman
  • Honorable Mention, 2010 Laura Shannon Prize in Contemporary European Studies,
    Nanovic Institute for European Studies

    EARTH SCIENCES

    Megadisasters: The Science of Predicting the Next Catastrophe
    Florin Diacu
  • One of CHOICE Magazine's 2010 Outstanding Academic Titles

    Why the Sky Is Blue: Discovering the Color of Life
    Götz Hoeppe
  • Winner of the 2010 Louis J. Battan Author's Award
    Awarded by the American Meteorological Society

    ECONOMICS

    Animal Spirits:
    How Human Psychology Drives the Economy, and Why It Matters for Global Capitalism
    George A. Akerlof & Robert J. Shiller
  • Co-Winners of a 2010 Silver Medal in the Axiom Business Book Awards in the category of Entrepreneurship
  • Co-Winners of the 2010 Robert Lane Award for the Best Book in Political Psychology by the American Political Science Association

    Banking on the Future: The Fall and Rise of Central Banking
    Howard Davies & David Green
  • Named as one of the 2010 Books of the Year in Nonfiction Round-Up in the Business & Economics list, Financial Times (ft.com)

    Boulevard of Broken Dreams:
    Why Public Efforts to Boost Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital Have Failed--and What to Do About It
    Josh Lerner
  • Co-Winner of a 2010 Gold Medal in the Axiom Business Book Awards in the category of Entrepreneurship

    Fault Lines: How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten the World Economy
    Raghuram G. Rajan
  • Winner of the 2010 Financial Times/Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year
  • Winner of the 2010 PROSE Award for Excellence in Economics, American Publishers Awards for Professional and Scholarly Excellence
  • Gold Medal Winner of the 2010 ForeWord Reviews Book of the Year Awards in the Business & Economics Category
  • Finalist for the 2010 TIAA-CREF Paul A. Samuelson Award
  • One of the winners of the 2010 Best Business Books of the Year, strategy+business magazine
  • Best Crisis Book by an Economist and Named one of the 2010 Top Thirty Business Books of the Year, Bloomberg News (bloomberg.com/news)
  • Named as one of the 2010 Books of the Year in Nonfiction Round-Up in the Business & Economics list, Financial Times (FT.com)

    The Hesitant Hand: Taming Self-Interest in the History of Economic Ideas
    Steven G. Medema
  • Winner of the 2010 ESHET Best Book Prize of the European Society for the History of Economic Thought

    Identity Economics: How Our Identities Shape Our Work, Wages, and Well-Being
    George A. Akerlof & Rachel E. Kranton
  • Named one of the 2010 Top Thirty Business Books, Bloomberg News (bloomberg.com/news)
  • Honorable Mention for the 2010 PROSE Award for Excellence in Economics, American Publishers Awards for Professional and Scholarly Excellence

    Zombie Economics: How Dead Ideas Still Walk among Us
    John Quiggin
  • Named one of the 2010 Top Thirty Business Books of the Year, Bloomberg News (bloomberg.com/news)
  • Named one of the 2010 Books of the Year in Nonfiction Round-Up in the Business & Economics list, Financial Times (FT.com)
  • One of the 2011 "Must Read" Economics Books, Naked Capitalism blog, Yves Smith

    EDUCATION

    Crossing the Finish Line: Completing College at America's Public Universities
    William G. Bowen, Matthew M. Chingos & Michael S. McPherson
  • Winner of the 2010 Pierre Bourdieu Book Award from the Sociology of Education section of the American Sociological Association
  • Honorable Mention for the 2009 PROSE Award for Excellence in Education, from the Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division of the Association of American Publishers

    The Great Brain Race: How Global Universities Are Reshaping the World
    Ben Wildavsky
  • Honorable Mention for the 2010 PROSE Award for Excellence in Education, American Publishers Awards for Professional and Scholarly Excellence

    Not For Profit: Why Democracy Needs the Humanities
    Martha C. Nussbaum
  • Named one of Brenda Walker’s 2010 Best Books of the Year, The Age (theage.com.au)

    Schoolhouses, Courthouses, and Statehouses: Solving the Funding-Achievement Puzzle in America's Public Schools
    Eric A. Hanushek & Alfred A. Lindseth
  • One of CHOICE Magazine's 2010 Outstanding Academic Titles

    EUROPEAN HISTORY

    The Wind from the East: French Intellectuals, the Cultural Revolution, and the Legacy of the 1960s
    Richard Wolin
  • Named on of John Wilson's 2010 Favorite Books of the Year in Books & Culture, National Public Radio (NPR.org/blogs)

    FILM STUDIES

    Shell Shock Cinema: Weimar Culture and the Wounds of War
    Anton Kaes
  • Winner of the 2010 DAAD Book Prize, German Studies Association
  • Winner of the 2010 Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Studies in Germanic Languages and Literatures, Modern Language Association
  • One of CHOICE Magazine's 2010 Outstanding Academic Titles

    FINANCE

    Banking on the Future: The Fall and Rise of Central Banking
    Howard Davies & David Green
  • Named as one of the 2010 Books of the Year in Nonfiction Round-Up in the Business & Economics list, Financial Times (ft.com)

    Chasing Stars: The Myth of Talent and the Portability of Performance
    Boris Groysberg
  • One of the winners of the 2010 Best Business Books, strategy+business magazine

    Fault Lines: How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten the World Economy
    Raghuram G. Rajan
  • Winner of the 2010 Financial Times/Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year
  • Finalist for the 2010 TIAA-CREF Paul A. Samuelson Award
  • One of the winners of the 2010 Best Business Books of the Year, strategy+business magazine
  • Named one of the 2010 Top Thirty Business Books of the Year, Bloomberg News (bloomberg.com/news)
  • Named as one of the 2010 Books of the Year in Nonfiction Round-Up in the Business & Economics list, Financial Times (FT.com)
  • Finalist of the 2010 ForeWord Reviews Book of the Year Awards, Business and Economics Category

    Identity Economics: How Our Identities Shape Our Work, Wages, and Well-Being
    George A. Akerlof & Rachel E. Kranton
  • Named one of the 2010 Top Thirty Business Books, Bloomberg News (bloomberg.com/news)

    The Known, the Unknown, and the Unknowable in Financial Risk Management: Measurement and Theory Advancing Practice
    Edited by Francis X. Diebold, Neil A. Doherty & Richard J. Herring
  • Finalist for the 2010 TIAA-CREF Paul A. Samuelson Award

    This Time is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly
    Carmen M. Reinhart & Kenneth S. Rogoff
  • Winner of the 2010 TIAA-CREF Paul A. Samuelson Award
  • 2010 Gold Medal Co-Winner of the Independent Publisher Book Awards in the Finance/Investment/Economics category
  • One of CHOICE Magazine's 2010 Outstanding Academic Titles
  • Shortlisted for the 2010 Financial History of the Year by Spear's Book Awards

    Zombie Economics: How Dead Ideas Still Walk among Us
    John Quiggin
  • Named one of the 2010 Top Thirty Business Books of the Year, Bloomberg News (bloomberg.com/news)
  • Named one of the 2010 Books of the Year in Nonfiction Round-Up in the Business & Economics list, Financial Times (FT.com)

    GENDER STUDIES

    Muslim Lives in Eastern Europe: Gender, Ethnicity, and the Transformation of Islam in Postsocialist Bulgaria
    Kristen Ghodsee
  • Winner of the 2010 Heldt Prize for the best book in Slavic/Eastern European/Eurasian women’s studies, Association for Women in Slavic Studies (AWSS)

    HISTORY OF SCIENCE AND MEDICINE, PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE

    Delete: The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age
    Viktor Mayer-Schönberger
  • Winner of the 2010 Marshall McLuhan Award for Outstanding Book in the field of media ecology by the Media Ecology Association
  • Winner of the 2010 Don K. Price Award for Best Book in Science and Technology Politics, Section on Science, Technology, and Environmental Politics (STEP) by the American Political Science Association

    How to Read Historical Mathematics
    Benjamin Wardhaugh
  • One of CHOICE Magazine's 2010 Outstanding Academic Titles

    The Measure of Merit: Talents, Intelligence, and Inequality in the French and American Republics, 1750-1940
    John Carson
  • Winner of the 2010 Cheiron Book Prize from Cheiron, the International Society for the History of Behavioral and Social Sciences

    JEWISH STUDIES

    The Dream of the Poem: Hebrew Poetry from Muslim and Christian Spain, 950-1492
    Translated, Edited & Introduced by Peter Cole
  • Winner of the 2010 TLS Risa Domb/Porjes Translation Prize, Jewish Book Council

    Early Modern Jewry: A New Cultural History
    David B. Ruderman
  • Winner of the 2010 National Jewish Book Award in the category of History, Jewish Book Council

    Greece--a Jewish History
    K. E. Fleming
  • Winner of the Prix Alberto Benveniste for 2010
    Sponsored by Le Centre Alberto Benveniste, Paris, France.

    The Rebbe: The Life and Afterlife of Menachem Mendel Schneerson
    Samuel Heilman & Menachem Friedman
  • Winner of the 2010 National Jewish Book Award in the category of American Jewish Studies, Jewish Book Council

    LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES

    Insurgent Citizenship: Disjunctions of Democracy and Modernity in Brazil
    James Holston
  • Co-Winner of the 2010 BRASA Roberto Reis Book Prize by the Brazilian Studies Association

    LITERATURE: PRIMARY WORKS AND LETTERS

    Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work
    Edwidge Danticat
  • Edwidge Danticat Honored with the 2011 Langston Hughes Medal, City College of New York
  • Named a 2010 New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice
  • One of 2010 Best Books, Mosaic Magazine
  • One of 2010 Best Books, The Miami Herald, Between the Covers blog
  • Finalist, 2010 ForeWord Reviews Book of the Year Awards, Biography and Autobiography Category

    MATHEMATICS

    Euler's Gem: The Polyhedron Formula and the Birth of Topology
    David S. Richeson
  • Winner of the 2010 Euler Book Prize
    Sponsored by the Mathematical Association of America.

    Numbers Rule: The Vexing Mathematics of Democracy, from Plato to the Present
    George G. Szpiro
  • One of CHOICE Magazine's 2010 Outstanding Academic Titles
  • Honorable Mention for the 2010 PROSE Award for Excellence in Mathematics, American Publishers Awards for Professional and Scholarly Excellence

    PHILOSOPHY

    On Myself, and Other, Less Important Subjects
    Caspar Hare
  • One of CHOICE Magazine's 2010 Outstanding Academic Titles

    Surviving Death
    Mark Johnston
  • Honorable Mention for the 2010 PROSE Award for Excellence in Theology & Religious Studies, American Publishers Awards for Professional and Scholarly Excellence

    POETRY

    The Eternal City: poems
    Kathleen Graber
  • 2010 National Book Award Finalist

    POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY

    Alibis of Empire: Henry Maine and the Ends of Liberal Imperialism
    Karuna Mantena
  • One of CHOICE Magazine's 2010 Outstanding Academic Titles

    Demanding Democracy: American Radicals in Search of a New Politics
    Marc Stears
  • One of CHOICE Magazine's 2010 Outstanding Academic Titles

    POLITICAL SCIENCE AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

    1989: The Struggle to Create Post-Cold War Europe
    Mary Elise Sarotte
  • Winner of the 2010 Robert H. Ferrell book Prize Award of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations
  • Co-winner of the 2010 Marshall Shulman Book Prize, Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
  • One of CHOICE Magazine's 2010 Outstanding Academic Titles

    Boundaries of Contagion: How Ethnic Politics Have Shaped Government Responses to AIDS
    Evan S. Lieberman
  • Winner of the 2010 Giovanni Sartori Book Award in the Qualitative Methods section by the American Political Science Association
  • One of CHOICE Magazine's 2010 Outstanding Academic Titles

    Bounding Power: Republican Security Theory from the Polis to the Global Village
    Daniel H. Deudney
  • Co-winner of the 2010 ISA Book of the Decade Award in International Studies, International Studies Association

    Civil Passions: Moral Sentiment and Democratic Deliberation
    Sharon R. Krause
  • Winner of the 2010 Spitz Prize, Best Book on Liberal or Democratic Theory,
    International Conference for the Study of Political Thought
    Sponsored by the International Society of Political Psychology.

    Democracy and Knowledge: Innovation and Learning in Classical Athens
    Josiah Ober
  • Shortlisted for the Hessell-Tiltman Prize 2010, English PEN

    The Fifth Freedom: Jobs, Politics, and Civil Rights in the United States, 1941-1972
    Anthony S. Chen
  • Winner of 2010 Best Book Award, Race, Ethnicity and Politics section, by the American Political Science Association
  • Co-winner of the 2010 J. David Greenstone Award in the Politics and History section by the American Political Science Association
  • Co-Winner of the 2010 Gladys M. Kammerer Award, American Political Science Association

    Fighting for Democracy: Black Veterans and the Struggle Against White Supremacy in the Postwar South
    Christopher S. Parker
  • Winner of the 2010 Ralph J. Bunche Award, American Political Science Association

    From Economic Crisis to Reform: IMF Programs in Latin America and Eastern Europe
    Grigore Pop-Eleches
  • Honorable Mention, 2010 Ed A. Hewett Book Prize, Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES)

    Gaming the World: How Sports Are Reshaping Global Politics and Culture
    Andrei S. Markovits & Lars Rensmann
  • Named as one of the 2010 Books of the Year in Nonfiction Round-Up in the Sports list, Financial Times (FT.com)

    How Terrorism Ends: Understanding the Decline and Demise of Terrorist Campaigns
    Audrey Kurth Cronin
  • One of CHOICE Magazine's 2010 Outstanding Academic Titles

    How Wars End
    Dan Reiter
  • Winner of the 2010 Best Book Award, Conflict Processes Section, American Political Science Association
  • One of CHOICE Magazine's 2010 Outstanding Academic Titles
  • Shortlisted, 2010 Arthur Ross Book Award from the Council on Foreign Relations
  • Honorable Mention, 2010 International Security Studies Section (ISSS) Book Award, International Studies Association

    The Myth of Digital Democracy
    Matthew Hindman
  • Winner of the 2010 Goldsmith Book Prize (Academic Book)
    Awarded by the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.

    The Politics of Global Regulation
    Edited by Walter Mattli & Ngaire Woods
  • Special Recognition, the 2010 Levine Prize in the International Political Science Association's Research Committee on the Structure of Governance (SOG)

    The Politics of Happiness: What Government Can Learn from the New Research on Well-Being
    Derek Bok
  • Named one of Fiscal Times 2010 Best Books

    The Science of War: Defense Budgeting, Military Technology, Logistics, and Combat Outcomes
    Michael E. O'Hanlon
  • One of CHOICE Magazine's 2010 Outstanding Academic Titles

    The Sino-Soviet Split: Cold War in the Communist World
    Lorenz M. Lüthi
  • Co-Winner of the 2010 Marshall Shulman Book Prize, Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies

    The Struggle for Power in Early Modern Europe: Religious Conflict, Dynastic Empires, and International Change
    Daniel H. Nexon
  • Winner of the 2010 ISA International Security Studies Section (ISSS) Book Award

    REFERENCE WORKS AND ANTHOLOGIES

    A Dictionary of 20th-Century Communism
    Edited by Silvio Pons & Robert Service
  • One of 2010 Best Reference (Print, Electronic, and Free Reference Resources) in the Law & Politics category, Library Journal

    The Princeton Encyclopedia of American Political History. (Two volume set)
    Edited by Michael Kazin
  • One of CHOICE Magazine's 2010 Outstanding Academic Titles

    RELIGION

    Medieval Christianity in Practice
    Edited by Miri Rubin
  • One of CHOICE Magazine's 2010 Outstanding Academic Titles

    Religious Experience Reconsidered: A Building-Block Approach to the Study of Religion and Other Special Things
    Ann Taves
  • Winner of 2010 Distinguished Book Award, Society for the Scientific Study of Religion
  • One of CHOICE Magazine's 2010 Outstanding Academic Titles

    Saving God: Religion after Idolatry
    Mark Johnston
  • Winner of the 2010 Award for Excellence in Religion: Constructive-Reflective Studies, American Academy of Religion
  • One of CHOICE Magazine's 2010 Outstanding Academic Titles

    A Very Brief History of Eternity
    Carlos Eire
  • One of CHOICE Magazine's 2010 Outstanding Academic Titles

    SOCIOLOGY

    Codes of the Underworld: How Criminals Communicate
    Diego Gambetta
  • Winner of the 2010 Dorothy Lee Award for Outstanding Scholarship in the Ecology of Culture by the Media Ecology Association.

    Economic Sociology: A Systematic Inquiry
    Alejandro Portes
  • One of CHOICE Magazine's 2010 Outstanding Academic Titles

    Economists and Societies:
    Discipline and Profession in the United States, Britain, and France, 1890s to 1990s
    Marion Fourcade
  • Winner of the 2010 Mary Douglas Prize for Best Book in the Sociology of Culture section category by the American Sociological Association
  • Honorable Mention, 2010 Robert K. Merton Book Award for Best Book in the Science, Knowledge and Technology (SKAT) section category by the American Sociological Association
  • Honorable Mention, 2010 Barrington Moore Award for Best Book in the Comparative and Historical Sociology section by the American Sociological Association

    Gaming the World: How Sports Are Reshaping Global Politics and Culture
    Andrei S. Markovits & Lars Rensmann
  • Named as one of the 2010 Books of the Year in Nonfiction Round-Up in the Sports list, Financial Times (FT.com)

    Honeybee Democracy
    Thomas D. Seeley
  • Named as one of the 2010 Books of the Year in Nonfiction Round-Up in the Science & Environment list, Financial Times (FT.com)

    Impossible Engineering: Technology and Territoriality on the Canal du Midi
    Chandra Mukerji
  • Honorable Mention, 2010 Mary Douglas Prize for Best Book in the Sociology of Culture Section category by the American Sociological Association

    Inventing Equal Opportunity
    Frank Dobbin
  • Winner of the 2010 Max Weber Award in the Organizations, Occupations, and Work section by the American Sociological Association.

    Social Structures
    John Levi Martin
  • 2010 Winner of The Theory Prize of the American Sociological Association's Theory Section

    World History / Comparative History

    Empires in World History: Power and the Politics of Difference
    Jane Burbank & Frederick Cooper
  • One of CHOICE Magazine's 2010 Outstanding Academic Titles

    The Great American Mission: Modernization and the Construction of an American World Order
    David Ekbladh
  • Winner of the 2010 Best First Book Award, Phi Alpha Theta

    2009 AWARDS

    AMERICAN HISTORY

    Heroes and Cowards: The Social Face of War
    Dora L. Costa & Matthew E. Kahn
  • One of CHOICE Magazine's Outstanding Academic Titles, 2009
    Awarded by CHOICE Magazine

    The Strategic President: Persuasion and Opportunity in Presidential Leadership
    George C. Edwards III
  • One of CHOICE Magazine's Outstanding Academic Titles, 2009
    Awarded by CHOICE Magazine

    AMERICAN LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE

    Notes on Sontag
    Phillip Lopate
  • One of CHOICE Magazine's Outstanding Academic Titles, 2009
    Awarded by CHOICE Magazine

    ANTHROPOLOGY

    Bipolar Expeditions: Mania and Depression in American Culture
    Emily Martin
  • Winner of the 2009 Diana Forsythe Prize
    Awarded jointly by the Committee for the Anthropology of Science, Technology, and Computing (CASTAC) of the General Anthropology Division, and the Society for the Anthropology of Work, American Anthropological Association

    Mitzvah Girls:Bringing Up the Next Generation of Hasidic Jews in Brooklyn
    Ayala Fader
  • Winner of a 2009 New York City Book Award, given by The New York Society Library

    ARCHAEOLOGY & ANCIENT HISTORY

    The Poison King: The Life and Legend of Mithradates, Rome's Deadliest Enemy
    Adrienne Mayor
  • 2009 National Book Award Finalist, Nonfiction
  • One of The Washington Post critics' Holiday Guide's "Best Books of 2009"

    428 AD: An Ordinary Year at the End of the Roman Empire
    Giusto Traina
  • One of ChristianityToday.com/Books & Culture's "Best Books of 2009"

    ART & ARCHITECTURE

    Black: The History of a Color
    Michel Pastoureau
  • Bronze Medal Winner for Fine Art Books, Independent Publisher Book Awards 2009
    Sponsored by Jenkins Group Inc. & IndependentPublisher.com.
  • One of CHOICE Magazine's Outstanding Academic Titles, 2009
    Sponsored by CHOICE Magazine.

    New York Nocturne: The City After Dark in Literature, Painting, and Photography, 1850-1950
    William Chapman Sharpe
  • Winner of the 2009 Peter C. Rollins Award
    Sponsored by the Northeast Popular Culture/American Culture Association (NEPCA)
  • Winner of the 2009 MSA Book Prize
    Sponsored by the Modernist Studies Association

    Northern Arts: The Breakthrough of Scandinavian Literature and Art, from Ibsen to Bergman
    Arnold Weinstein
  • Runner Up on The Atlantic "Books of the Year" list
  • One of CHOICE Magazine's Outstanding Academic Titles, 2009

    The Patron's Payoff: Conspicuous Commissions in Italian Renaissance Art
    Jonathan K. Nelson & Richard J. Zeckhauser
    With a foreword by Michael Spence
  • One of CHOICE Magazine's Outstanding Academic Titles, 2009
    Sponsored by CHOICE Magazine.

    Patronizing the Arts
    Marjorie Garber
  • One of CHOICE Magazine's Outstanding Academic Titles, 2009
    Sponsored by CHOICE Magazine.

    ASIAN AND ASIAN AMERICAN STUDIES

    Empires of the Silk Road: A History of Central Eurasia from the Bronze Age to the Present
    Christopher I. Beckwith
  • Winner of the 2009 PROSE Award for Excellence - World History & Biography/Autobiography

    ASTRONOMY AND COSMOLOGY

    Beyond UFOs: The Search for Extraterrestrial Life and Its Astonishing Implications for Our Future
    Jeffrey Bennett
  • 2009 Silver Winner in the category of Cosmology/New Science, 2009 Nautilus Book Awards
    Sponsored by the Nautilus Book Awards.
  • Finalist, 2008 Eugene M. Emme Astronautical Literature Award

    High-Energy Astrophysics
    Fulvio Melia
  • Winner of the 2009 PROSE Award for Excellence - Cosmology & Astronomy

    Joseph Cornell and Astronomy: A Case for the Stars
    Kirsten Hoving
  • One of CHOICE Magazine's Outstanding Academic Titles, 2009

    The Universe in a Mirror: The Saga of the Hubble Space Telescope and the Visionaries Who Built It
    Robert Zimmerman
  • Finalist, 2008 Eugene M. Emme Astronautical Literature Award

    BIRDS AND NATURAL HISTORY

    Birds of Eastern North America: A Photographic Guide
    Paul Sterry & Brian E. Small
  • One of Joel Lerner's (The Washington Post) "The Year's Best Gardening Books"

    Dragonflies and Damselflies of the West
    Dennis Paulson
  • Winner of a 2009 National Outdoor Book Award Honorable Mention in the Nature Guidebook Category

    Lars Jonsson's Birds: Paintings from a Near Horizon
    Lars Jonsson
  • Winner of the 2009 National Outdoor Book Award in the Design and Artistic Merit Category

    BRITISH LITERATURE

    Portable Property: Victorian Culture on the Move
    John Plotz
  • One of CHOICE Magazine's Outstanding Academic Titles, 2009

    CLASSICS

    The Fortunes of Apuleius and the Golden Ass: A Study in Transmission and Reception
    Julia Haig Gaisser
  • Winner of the 2009 Charles J. Goodwin Award of Merit, American Philological Association

    COMPARATIVE LITERATURE

    Franz Kafka: The Office Writings
    Edited by Stanley Corngold, Jack Greenberg & Benno Wagner
    Translations by Eric Patton with Ruth Hein
  • One of CHOICE Magazine's Outstanding Academic Titles, 2009

    EARTH SCIENCES

    Archaeological Oceanography
    Edited by Robert D. Ballard
  • One of CHOICE Magazine's Outstanding Academic Titles, 2009
    Sponsored by CHOICE Magazine.

    Critical Transitions in Nature and Society
    Marten Scheffer
  • One of CHOICE Magazine's Outstanding Academic Titles, 2009
    Sponsored by CHOICE Magazine.

    Geochemical Kinetics
    Youxue Zhang
  • One of CHOICE Magazine's Outstanding Academic Titles, 2009
    Sponsored by CHOICE Magazine.

    James Lovelock: In Search of Gaia
    John Gribbin & Mary Gribbin
  • One of CHOICE Magazine's Outstanding Academic Titles, 2009
    Sponsored by CHOICE Magazine.

    The Long Thaw: How Humans Are Changing the Next 100,000 Years of Earth's Climate
    David Archer
  • Winner of the 2009 Walter P. Kistler Award
    Sponsored by The Foundation For the Future.
  • One of The Australian's Best Books of 2009.

    ECONOMICS

    Animal Spirits: How Human Psychology Drives the Economy, and Why It Matters for Global Capitalism
    George A. Akerlof and Robert J. Shiller
  • Winner of the 2009 Paul A. Samuelson Award for Outstanding Scholarly Writing on Lifelong Financial Security
    Sponsored by TIAA-CREF.
  • Winner of the getAbstract International Book Award 2009
    Sponsored by getAbstract.
  • Winner of the Finance Book of the Year 2009
    Awarded by CBN (China Business News) Financial Value Ranking, CFV 2009.
  • Shortlisted for the Business Book of the Year 2009
    Sponsored by the Financial Times/Goldman Sachs.

    Boulevard of Broken Dreams: Why Public Efforts to Boost Entrepreneurship
    and Venture Capital Have Failed--and What to Do About It
    Josh Lerner
  • Winner of the 2009 PROSE Award for Excellence - Business, Finance & Management

    The Case for Big Government
    Jeff Madrick
  • Runner-up for 2009 in the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction
    Sponsored by the PEN American Center.

    Development, Democracy, and Welfare States: Latin America, East Asia, and Eastern Europe
    Stephan Haggard & Robert R. Kaufman
  • One of CHOICE Magazine's Outstanding Academic Titles, 2009
    Sponsored by CHOICE Magazine.

    Economic Gangsters: Corruption, Violence, and the Poverty of Nations
    Raymond Fisman & Edward Miguel
  • One of CHOICE Magazine's Outstanding Academic Titles, 2009
    Sponsored by CHOICE Magazine.

    Economists and Societies: Discipline and Profession in the United States, Britain, and France, 1890s to 1990s
    Marion Fourcade
  • One of CHOICE Magazine's Outstanding Academic Titles, 2009
    Sponsored by CHOICE Magazine.

    Famine: A Short History
    Cormac Ó Gráda
  • One of CHOICE Magazine's Outstanding Academic Titles, 2009
    Sponsored by CHOICE Magazine.

    The Invisible Hook: The Hidden Economics of Pirates
    Peter T. Leeson
  • One of (Australian) The Week's "Books of the Year 2009" in international non-fiction.
  • One of the San Francisco Chronicle’s "100 best fiction, nonfiction books of 2009."
  • Gold Medal Winner - 2009 Book of the Year Awards in the Business & Economics Category by ForeWord Reviews

    The Rise of the Conservative Legal Movement: The Battle for Control of the Law
    Steven M. Teles
  • Winner of the 2009 Joseph J. Spengler Prize for the best book published in the history of economics
    Sponsored by the History of Economics Society.

    The Subprime Solution: How Today's Global Financial Crisis Happened, and What to Do about It
    Robert J. Shiller
  • Bronze Medal Winner in Finance/Investement/Economics, Independent Publisher Book Awards 2009
    Sponsored by Jenkins Group Inc. & IndependentPublisher.com.

    This Time is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly
    Carmen M. Reinhart & Kenneth S. Rogoff
  • Library Journal Best of 2009 Business Books - Economics/U.S. Economy category
  • An 800-CEO-READ "Business Books Awards 2009" finalist ("Best of the Rest") in the Current Interest Category
  • Honorable Mention for the 2009 PROSE Award for Excellence - Economics
  • One of USA Today’s "year’s best business books to make sense of financial crisis"
  • Listed on Bloomberg.com by James Pressley as one of "our favorite financial-crisis books this year."
  • Runner Up on The Atlantic "Books of the Year" list
  • Listed as one of the Top Ten English Business Books of 2009 in WirtschaftsBlatt
  • Finalist - 2009 Book of the Year Award in the Business & Economics Category by ForeWord Reviews

    EDUCATION

    Crossing the Finish Line: Completing College at America's Public Universities
    William G. Bowen, Matthew M. Chingos & Michael S. McPherson
  • Honorable Mention for the 2009 PROSE Award for Excellence - Education

    HISTORY

    God and Race in American Politics: A Short History
    Mark A. Noll
  • Winner of the 2009 Christianity Today Award of Merit in History/Biography
    Sponsored by Christianity Today.

    Swindled: The Dark History of Food Fraud, from Poisoned Candy to Counterfeit Coffee
    Bee Wilson
  • One of CHOICE Magazine's Outstanding Academic Titles, 2009
    Sponsored by CHOICE Magazine.

    Taxation in Colonial America
    Alvin Rabushka
  • Special Recognition in the 2009 Fraunces Tavern Museum Book Awards
    Sponsored by the Fraunces Tavern Museum.

    HISTORY OF SCIENCE AND MEDICINE, PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE

    Taming the Beloved Beast: How Medical Technology Costs Are Destroying Out Health Care System
    Daniel Callahan
  • Library Journal Best of 2009 Sci-Tech Books - Health Sciences category.

    JEWISH STUDIES

    Greece--a Jewish History
    K. E. Fleming
  • Winner of the 2009 Runciman Award
    Sponsored by the Anglo-Hellenic League.
  • Winner of the Prix Alberto Benveniste for 2010
    Sponsored by Le Centre Alberto Benveniste, Paris, France.

    Mitzvah Girls: Bringing Up the Next Generation of Hasidic Jews in Brooklyn
    Ayala Fader
  • Winner of the 2009 National Jewish Book Award in the category of Women's Studies
    Administered by the Jewish Book Council.

    LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES

    Insurgent Citizenship: Disjunctions of Democracy and Modernity in Brazil
    James Holston
  • Winner of the 2009 Best Book on Brazil in English
    Sponsored by the Latin American Studies Association.
  • Winner of the Leeds Honor Book for 2009
    Sponsored by the Society for Urban, National, and Transnational/Global Anthropology of the American Anthropological Association

    LAW

    A Constitution of Many Minds: Why the Founding Document Doesn't Mean What It Meant Before
    Cass R. Sunstein
  • Winner of the 2009 PROSE Award for Excellence - Law & Legal Studies

    Hidden in Plain Sight: The Tragedy of Children's Rights from Ben Franklin to Lionel Tate
    Barbara Bennett Woodhouse
  • Winner of the APSA's Best Book Award 2009, Human Rights Section
    Sponsored by the Human Rights Section of the American Political Science Association.

    Patent Failure: How Judges, Bureaucrats, and Lawyers Put Innovators at Risk
    James Bessen & Michael J. Meurer
  • One of CHOICE Magazine's Outstanding Academic Titles, 2009
    Sponsored by CHOICE Magazine.

    The Rise of the Conservative Legal Movement: The Battle for Control of the Law
    Steven M. Teles
  • Co-Winner of the 2009 Herbert Jacob Book Prize
    Sponsored by the Law and Society Association.
  • One of CHOICE Magazine's Outstanding Academic Titles, 2009
    Sponsored by CHOICE Magazine.

    When Brute Force Fails: How to Have Less Crime and Less Punishment
    Mark A. R. Kleiman
  • Listed by The Economist as "One of the Best Books of 2009"

    MATHEMATICS

    The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein, Volume 11: Cumulative Index, Bibliography, List of Correspondence, Chronology, and Errata to Volumes 1-10
    Compiled by A. J. Kox, Tilman Sauer, Diana Kormos Buchwald, Rudy Hirschmann, Osik Moses, Benjamin Aronin & Jennifer Stolper
  • Winner of the Wheatley Medal 2009
    Sponsored by the Society of Indexers.

    Euler's Gem: The Polyhedron Formula and the Birth of Topology
    David S. Richeson
  • One of CHOICE Magazine's Outstanding Academic Titles, 2009
    Sponsored by CHOICE Magazine.

    The Mathematical Mechanic: Using Physical Reasoning to Solve Problems
    Mark Levi
  • One of Amazon.com science editors' "Best of 2009, Top 10 list for Science"
  • One of CHOICE Magazine's Outstanding Academic Titles, 2009

    Mathematics in Ancient Iraq: A Social History
    Eleanor Robson
  • One of CHOICE Magazine's Outstanding Academic Titles, 2009
  • Honourable Mention in the British-Kuwait Friendship Society Prize in Middle Eastern Studies 2009
    Sponsored by the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies.

    Plato's Ghost: The Modernist Transformation of Mathematics
    Jeremy Gray
  • One of CHOICE Magazine's Outstanding Academic Titles, 2009
    Sponsored by CHOICE Magazine.

    The Princeton Companion to Mathematics
    Edited by Timothy Gowers
    June Barrow-Green and Imre Leader, associate editors
  • One of CHOICE Magazine's Outstanding Academic Titles, 2009

    MIDDLE EASTERN STUDIES:

    Objects of Translation: Material Culture and Medieval "Hindu-Muslim" Encounter
    Finbarr B. Flood
  • One of CHOICE Magazine's Outstanding Academic Titles, 2009
    Sponsored by CHOICE Magazine

    PHILOSOPHY:

    Moral Agents and Their Deserts: The Character of Mu'tazilite Ethics
    Sophia Vasalou
  • Winner of the 2009 Albert Hourani Book Award
    Sponsored by the Middle East Studies Association

    The Wounded Animal: J. M. Coetzee and the Difficulty of Reality in Literature and Philosophy
    Stephen Mulhall
  • One of CHOICE Magazine's Outstanding Academic Titles, 2009
    Sponsored by CHOICE Magazine

    PHYSICS:

    Astrophysics in a Nutshell
    Dan Maoz
  • Winner of the 2009 Chambliss Astronomical Writing Award for an academic book
    Sponsored by the American Astronomical Society

    The Atom and the Apple: Twelve Tales from Contemporary Physics
    Sébastien Balibar
  • One of CHOICE Magazine's Outstanding Academic Titles, 2009
    Sponsored by CHOICE Magazine

    POETRY

    Worshipping Walt: The Whitman Disciples
    Michael Robertson
  • 2009 Honor Book, New Jersey Council for the Humanities Book Awards
    Sponsored by the New Jersey Council for the Humanities.

    The Bard: Robert Burns, A Biography
    Robert Crawford
  • Winner of the Saltire Society Scottish Book of the Year
    Presented at the National Library of Scotland in Edinburgh.

    POLITICAL SCIENCE AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

    Black and Blue: African Americans, the Labor Movement, and the Decline of the Democratic Party
    Paul Frymer
  • Winner of the Best Book Award 2009, Organized Section on Race, Ethnicity, and Politics (REP)
    Sponsored by the American Political Science Association.

    Campaign Talk: Why Elections Are Good for Us
    Roderick P. Hart
  • Winner of the 2009 Doris Graber Book Award
    Sponsored by the American Political Science Association Section on Political Communication.

    Civil Passions: Moral Sentiment and Democratic Deliberation
    Sharon R. Krause
  • Winner of the 2009 Alexander L. George Book Award
    Sponsored by the International Society of Political Psychology.

    The Crisis of American Foreign Policy: Wilsonianism in the Twenty-first Century
    G. John Ikenberry, Thomas J. Knock, Anne-Marie Slaughter & Tony Smith
  • On the list for "The People's Choice: Carnegie Council Top Ten for 2009"

    Hypocrisy Trap: The World Bank and the Poverty of Reform
    Catherine Weaver
  • Winner of the 2009 Harold D. Lasswell Prize
    Sponsored by the Society of Policy Scientists.
  • Co-Winner of the Chadwick F. Alger Prize 2009
    Sponsored by the International Studies Association.

    The Myth of Digital Democracy
    Matthew Hindman
  • Winner of the 2009 Donald McGannon Award for Social and Ethical Relevance in Communications Policy Research, awarded by the Donald McGannon Communications Research Center.

    Paying the Human Costs of War: American Public Opinion and Casualties in Military Conflicts
    Christopher Gelpi, Peter D. Feaver & Jason Reifler
  • One of CHOICE Magazine's Outstanding Academic Titles, 2009
    Sponsored by CHOICE Magazine.

    The Persuadable Voter: Wedge Issues in Presidential Campaigns
    D. Sunshine Hillygus & Todd G. Shields
  • Winner of the 2009 Robert E. Lane Award for the best book published in political psychology in 2008
    Sponsored by the Political Psychology section of the American Political Science Association.

    The Politics of Presidential Appointments: Political Control and Bureaucratic Performance
    David E. Lewis
  • Winner of the 2009 Richard E. Neustadt Award for the best 2008 book on the U.S. Presidency
    Sponsored by the APSA's Section on Presidency Research.
  • Honorable Mention, the 2009 Charles H. Levine Memorial Book Prize
    Sponsored by the International Political Science Association's Research Committee on the Structure of Governance.
  • One of CHOICE Magazine's Outstanding Academic Titles, 2009
    Sponsored by CHOICE Magazine.

    Privatizing Pensions: The Transnational Campaign for Social Security Reform
    Mitchell A. Orenstein
  • Winner of the 2009 Charles H. Levine Memorial Book Prize
    Sponsored by the International Political Science Association's Research Committee on the Structure of Governance.

    Reforms at Risk: What Happens After Major Policy Changes Are Enacted
    Eric M. Patashnik
  • Winner of the 2009 Louis Brownlow Book Award
    Sponsored by the National Academy of Public Administration.

    The Sino-Soviet Split: Cold War in the Communist World
    Lorenz M. Lüthi
  • Winner of the 2008 Edgar S. Furniss Book Award
    Sponsored by Mershon Center for International Security Studies at The Ohio State University.

    Torture and Democracy
    Darius Rejali
  • Winner of 2009 Lemkin Award
    Sponsored by the Institute for the Study of Genocide.

    Unequal Democracy: The Political Economy of the New Gilded Age
    Larry M. Bartels
  • Winner of the 2009 Leon D. Epstein Outstanding Book Award, Political Organizations and Parties Section
    Sponsored by the American Political Science Association.
  • Winner of the 2009 Gladys M. Kammerer Award
    Sponsored by the American Political Science Association.

    1989: The Struggle to Create Post-Cold War Europe
    Mary Elise Sarotte
  • Winner of the 2009 DAAD Prize for Distinguished Scholarship in German and European Studies
    Awarded by the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies (AICGS).

    RELIGION

    Vatican II: A Sociological Analysis of Religious Change
    Melissa J. Wilde
  • Honorable Mention: Distinguished Book Award 2009
    Sponsored by the American Sociological Association Section on Sociology of Religion.

    SOCIOLOGY

    Codes of the Underworld: How Criminals Communicate
    Diego Gambetta
  • Winner of the 2009 PROSE Award for Excellence - Sociology & Social Work
  • Listed in the New Scientist blog as one of "The best books of 2009"

    Coming of Age in Second Life: An Anthropologist Explores the Virtually Human
    Tom Boellstorff
  • Winner of the 2009 Dorothy Lee Award for Outstanding Scholarship in the Ecology of Culture
    Sponsored by the Media Ecology Association.
  • One of CHOICE Magazine's Outstanding Academic Titles, 2009
    Sponsored by CHOICE Magazine.

    Disrupting Science: Social Movements, American Scientists, and the Politics of the Military, 1945-1975
    Kelly Moore
  • Honorable Mention, 2009 Charles Tilly Best Book Award, Collective Behavior and Social Movements Section
    Sponsored by the American Sociological Association.

    The Failed Welfare Revolution: America's Struggle over Guaranteed Income Policy
    Brian Steensland
  • Winner of the Best Book Award 2009, Political Sociology Section
    Sponsored by the American Sociological Association.
  • Co-Winner of the 2009 Mary Douglas Prize for Best Book, Section on Sociology of Culture
    Sponsored by the American Sociological Association.

    The Household: Informal Order around the Hearth
    Robert C. Ellickson
  • One of CHOICE Magazine's Outstanding Academic Titles, 2009
    Sponsored by CHOICE Magazine.

    Inventing Equal Opportunity
    Frank Dobbin
  • One of CHOICE Magazine's Outstanding Academic Titles, 2009
    Sponsored by CHOICE Magazine.

    Partisan Politics: Communication and Contention across Brazilian Youth Activist Networks
    Ann Mische
  • Honorable Mention, Best Book Award 2009, Political Sociology Section
    Sponsored by the American Sociological Association.

    2008 AWARDS

    ANTHROPOLOGY

    A Culture of Corruption
    Daniel Jordan Smith
  • Winner of the 2008 MARGARET MEAD AWARD.
    Sponsored by American Anthropological Association (AAA) and the Society for Applied Anthropology (SfAA).

    Global "Body Shopping"
    Xiang Biao
  • Winner of the 2008 ANTHONY LEEDS PRIZE.
    Sponsored by Urban Anthropology, Society for Urban, National, and Transnational/Global Anthropology.

    The Nuclear Borderlands
    Joseph Masco
  • Winner of the 2008 RACHEL CARSON PRIZE
    Sponsored by the Society for Social Studies of Science.

    Will to Live
    Joăo Biehl
    Photographs by Torben Eskerod
  • Joint winner of the 2008 Wellcome Medal for Medical Anthropology,
    Royal Anthropological Institute and the Wellcome Trust
  • Winner of the 2008 DIANA FORSYTHE PRIZE.
    Sponsored by the Society for the Anthropology of Work and the General Anthropology Division's Committee for the Anthropology of Science, Technology, and Computing (CASTAC) of the American Anthropological Society.

    APPLIED SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING:

    A Survey of Computational Physics: Introductory Computational Science
    Rubin H. Landau, Manuel José Páez & Cristian C. Bordeianu
  • Rubin H. Landau, winner of the 2008 UNDERGRADUATE COMPUTATIONAL ENGINEERING AND SCIENCES AWARD
    Sponsored by The Krell Institute.

    ASTRONOMY AND COSMOLOGY

    The Universe in a Mirror
    Robert Zimmerman
  • An EDITORS' CHOICE for Best Adult Titles of 2008
    Sponsored by Booklist.

    ART & ARCHITECTURE

    The Art of the American Snapshot, 1888-1978
    Sarah Greenough & Diane Waggoner With Sarah Kennel & Matthew S. Witkovsky
  • Winner of the 2008 ALFRED H. BARR, JR. AWARD for the most distinguished museum publication 2006/07.
    Sponsored by the College Art Association.
  • Winner of the 2008 Bronze Independent Publisher Book Medal, Photography Category.
  • Shortlisted for the 2008 KRASZNA-KRAUSZ AWARD for the Best Photography Book
    Sponsored by the Kraszna-Krausz Foundation.
  • The National Gallery of Art was awarded First Prize from The American Association of Museums Publication Design Competition for its Exhibition Catalog, The Art of the American Snapshot, 1888-1978
    Sponsored by the American Association of Museums.

    Pre-Modernism
    J. M. Mancini
  • Winner of the 2008 CHARLES C. ELDREDGE PRIZE FOR DISTINGUISHED SHOLARSHIP IN AMERICAN ART
    Sponsored by the Smithsonian American Art Museum.

    ASTRONOMY AND COSMOLOGY

    The Mystery of the Missing Antimatter
    Helen R. Quinn & Yossi Nir
  • Honorable Mention for the 2008 Award for Professional and Scholarly Excellence (PROSE) in Chemistry and Physics

    The Sun Kings
    Stuart Clark
  • Shortlisted for the 2008 ROYAL SOCIETY PRIZES FOR SCIENCE BOOKS, General Prize
    Sponsored by The Royal Society.

    CLASSICS

    Democracy and Knowledge: Innovation and Learning in Classical Athens
    Josiah Ober
  • Winner of the 2008 Award for Professional and Scholarly Excellence (PROSE) in Classics and Ancient History, Association of American Publishers

    Selected Poems: Odes and Fragments
    Sophocles
    Translated and introduced by Reginald Gibbons
  • Winner of the 2008 Sourette Diehl Fraser Award for Best Translation of a Book
    Sponsored by the Texas Institute of Letters.

    COMPARATIVE LITERATURE

    Franz Kafka: The Office Writings
    Edited by Stanley Corngold, Jack Greenberg & Benno Wagner
    Translations by Eric Patton with Ruth Hein
  • Honorable Mention for the 2008 Award for Professional and Scholarly Excellence (PROSE) in Literature, Language, and Linguistics, Association of American Publishers

    EARTH SCIENCES

    How the Ocean Works: An Introduction to Oceanography
    Mark Denny
  • Honorable Mention for the 2008 Award for Professional and Scholarly Excellence (PROSE) in Earth Sciences

    ECONOMICS and FINANCE

    A Farewell to Alms
    Gregory Clark
  • Winner of the 2008 Gold Independent Publisher Book Medal, Finance/Investment/Economics Category.

    Social and Economic Networks
    Matthew O. Jackson
  • Honorable Mention for the 2008 Award for Professional and Scholarly Excellence (PROSE) in Economics, Association of American Publishers

    The Venturesome Economy: How Innovation Sustains Prosperity in a More Connected World
    Amar Bhidé
  • Winner of the 2008 Award for Professional and Scholarly Excellence (PROSE) in Business, Finance, and Management, Association of American Publishers

    The Subprime Solution: How Today's Global Financial Crisis Happened, and What to Do about It
    Robert J. Shiller
  • Honorable Mention for the 2008 Award for Professional and Scholarly Excellence (PROSE) in Business, Finance, and Management, Association of American Publishers

    EDUCATION

    Our Underachieving Colleges
    Derek Bok
  • Winner of the 2008 FREDERIC W. NESS BOOK AWARD
    Sponsored by the Association of American Colleges and Universities.

    Troublemaker: A Personal History of School Reform Since Sputnik
    Chester E. Finn, Jr.
  • Honorable Mention for the 2008 Award for Professional and Scholarly Excellence (PROSE) in Education, Association of American Publishers

    GENDER STUDIES

    Between Women
    Sharon Marcus
  • Winner of the 2008 Alan Bray Memorial Award
    Sponsored by GL/Q Caucus of MLA.
  • Winner of the 2008 Barbara Perkins and George Perkins Prize
    Sponsored by the International Society for the Study of Narrative (ISSN).
  • Winner of the 2008 Albion Book Prize
    Sponsored by the North American Conference on British Studies.

    Mothers and Children: Jewish Family Life in Medieval Europe
    Elisheva Baumgarten
  • Winner of the 2008 Jordan Schnitzer Book Award in the Category of Gender Studies, Association for Jewish Studies

    HISTORY

    Jews, Germans, and Allies
    Atina Grossmann
  • Winner of the 2008 George L. Mosse Prize.
    Sponsored by the American Historical Association.

    In Search of Another Country
    Joseph Crespino
  • Winner of the 2008 LILLIAN SMITH BOOK AWARD.
    Sponsored by the Southern Regional Council and University of Georgia Libraries.

    Stalin and the Soviet Science Wars
    Ethan Pollock
  • Honorable Mention in the 2008 W. BRUCE LINCOLN BOOK PRIZE.
    Sponsored by the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS).

    The Shifting Grounds of Race
    Scott Kurashige
  • Winner of the 2008 ALBERT J. BEVERIDGE BOOK AWARD.
    Sponsored by the American Historical Association.
  • Winner of the 2008 Book Award in History.
    Sponsored by the Association for Asian American Studies.

    Swindled
    Bee Wilson
  • Shortlisted for the 2008 ANDRÉ SIMON BOOK AWARDS.
    Sponsored by the André Simon Memorial Fund.

    JEWISH STUDIES

    Greece--a Jewish History
    K. E. Fleming
  • Winner of the 2008 National Jewish Book Award in the category of Sephardic Culture.
    Administered by the Jewish Book Council.

    The Price of Whiteness
    Eric L. Goldstein
  • Winner of the 2008 SAMI ROHR PRIZE FOR JEWISH LITERATURE CHOICE AWARD.
    Sponsored by The Jewish Book Council.

    LAW

    Patent Failure: How Judges, Bureaucrats, and Lawyers Put Innovators at Risk
    James Bessen and Michael J. Meurer
  • Honorable Mention for the 2008 Award for Professional and Scholarly Excellence (PROSE) in Law and Legal Studies, Association of American Publishers

    LITERARY and CULTURAL STUDIES

    Henry James Goes to Paris
    Peter Brooks
  • Winner of the 2008 Phi Beta Kappa Christian Gauss Award

    Scott's Shadow
    Ian Duncan
  • Winner of the 2008 Saltire Society/National Library of SCOTLAND RESEARCH BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD
    Sponsored by the Saltire Society/National Library of SCOTLAND.

    William Faulkner
    Richard Godden
  • Winner of the BAAS ANNUAL BOOK PRIZE 2007
    Sponsored by the British Association for American Studies.

    MATHEMATICS

    Flatland: The Movie
    On DVD
  • Winner of the Berlin Special Jury Award, MathFilm Festival 2008

    The Princeton Companion to Mathematics
    Edited by Timothy Gowers
    June Barrow-Green and Imre Leader, associate editors
  • Honorable Mention for the 2008 Award for Professional and Scholarly Excellence (PROSE) for Single Volume Reference/Science, Association of American Publishers

    Sacred Mathematics: Japanese Temple Geometry
    Fukagawa Hidetoshi & Tony Rothman
  • Winner of the 2008 Award for Professional and Scholarly Excellence (PROSE) in Mathematics, Association of American Publishers

    PHILOSOPHY:

    Made with Words: Hobbes on Language, Mind, and Politics
    Philip Pettit
  • Winner of the 2008 Award for Professional and Scholarly Excellence (PROSE) in Philosophy, Association of American Publishers

    POETRY

    The Greener Meadow
    Luciano Erba; Translated by Peter Robinson
  • Winner of the 2008 JOHN FLORIO PRIZE FOR ITALIAN TRANSLATION.
    Sponsored by the Italian Cultural Institute, the British-Italian Society, and the Arts Council of England.

    POLITICAL SCIENCE

    After Anarchy
    Ian Hurd
  • Winner of the 2008 CHADWICK F. ALGER PRIZE
    Sponsored by the International Studies Association, International Organization Section.

    Appeasing Bankers
    Jonathan Kirshner
  • Winner of the 2008 ISSS Best Book Award
    Awarded by the International Security Studies Section of the International Studies Association.

    The Art of the Public Grovel: Sexual Sin and Public Confession in America
    Susan Wise Bauer
  • Honorable Mention for the 2008 Award for Professional and Scholarly Excellence (PROSE) in Media and Cultural Studies, Association of American Publishers

    Barriers to Democracy
    Amaney A. Jamal
  • Winner of the 2008 BEST BOOK AWARD
    Sponsored by the American Political Science Association, Comparative Democratization Section.

    Bounding Power
    Daniel H. Deudney
  • Co-winner of the 2008 ROBERT JERVIS AND PAUL SCHROEDER AWARD for the Best Book on International History and Politics
    Sponsored by the American Political Science Association, International History and Politics Section.

    Democracy Incorporated
    Sheldon S. Wolin
  • Winner of a 2008 LANNAN NOTABLE BOOK AWARD.
    Sponsored by the Lannan Foundation.

    Expert Political Judgment
    Philip E. Tetlock
  • Winner of the 2008 GRAWEMEYER AWARD for Ideas Improving World Order.
    Sponsored by the University of Louisville.

    The Fall and Rise of the Islamic State
    Noah Feldman
  • Winner of the 2008 Award for Professional and Scholarly Excellence (PROSE) in Government and Politics, Association of American Publishers

    The Myth of the Rational Voter
    Bryan Caplan
  • Winner of the 2008 Silver Independent Publisher Book Medal, Current Events Category.

    Nuclear Logics
    Etel Solingen
  • Winner of the 2008 WOODROW WILSON FOUNDATION AWARD
    Sponsored by the American Political Science Association.
  • Co-winner of the 2008 ROBERT JERVIS AND PAUL SCHROEDER AWARD for the Best Book on International History and Politics
    Sponsored by the American Political Science Association, International History and Politics Section.

    Painful Choices
    David A. Welch
  • Winner of the 2008 ISA ISSS BEST BOOK AWARD
    Sponsored by the International Studies Association.

    Political Foundations of Judicial Supremacy
    Keith E. Whittington
  • Winner of the 2008 J. David Greenstone Award, Politics and History Section, American Political Science Association
  • Winner of the 2008 C. Herman Pritchett Award
    Sponsored by the Law and Courts Section of the American Political Science Association.

    The Politics of Presidential Appointments
    David E. Lewis
  • Winner of the 2008 HERBERT SIMON AWARD FOR THE BEST BOOK
    Sponsored by the American Political Science Association, Public Administration Section.

    Reputation and International Cooperation
    Michael Tomz
  • Winner of the 2008 GIOVANNI SARTORI AWARD, for the Best Book Developing or Applying Qualitative Methods Published in 2007
    Sponsored by the American Political Science Association, Qualitative Methods Section.

    Spying Blind
    Amy Zegart
  • Co-Winner of the 2008 LOUIS BROWNLOW AWARD
    Sponsored by the National Academy of Public Administration.

    Torture and Democracy
    Darius Rejali
  • Winner of the 2008 Best Book
    Sponsored by the American Political Science Association, Human Rights Section.

    When Ways of Life Collide
    Paul M. Sniderman & Louk Hagendoorn
  • Winner of the 2008 Robert E. Lane Award, Political Psychology Section, American Political Science Association

    Where Nation-States Come From
    Philip G. Roeder
  • Winner of the 2008 Davis Center Book Prize, American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS)

    While Dangers Gather
    William G. Howell and Jon C. Pevehouse
  • Co-Winner of the 2008 RICHARD E. NEUSTADT AWARD, Presidency Research Section, American Political Science Association
    Sponsored by the Presidency Research Section, APSA.

    RELIGION

    Culture and Redemption
    Tracy Fessenden
  • Finalist for the the 2008 Award for BEST FIRST BOOK IN THE HISTORY OF RELIGIONS.
    Sponsored by the American Academy of Religion.

    God Interrupted
    Benjamin Lazier
  • Winner of the 2008 John Templeton Award for Theological Promise
    Sponsored by the FIIT Heidelberg and the John Templeton Foundation.
  • Co-winner of the Best First Book in the History of Religions for 2008
    Sponsored by the American Sociological Association Section on Sociology of Religion.

    SOCIOLOGY

    Coming of Age in Second Life: An Anthropologist Explores the Virtually Human
    Tom Boellstorff
  • Honorable Mention for the 2008 Award for Professional and Scholarly Excellence (PROSE) in Media and Cultural Studies, Association of American Publishers

    Cop in the Hood: My Year Policing Baltimore’s Eastern District
    Peter Moskos
  • Winner of the 2008 Award for Professional and Scholarly Excellence (PROSE) in Sociology and Social Work, Association of American Publishers

    From Higher Aims to Hired Hands
    Rakesh Khurana
  • Winner of the 2008 MAX WEBER AWARD FOR BEST BOOK.
    Sponsored by the American Sociological Association, Section on Organization, Occupations and Work.

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    File updated: August 27, 2011

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