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2010 AWARDS EARTH SCIENCES Why the Sky Is Blue: Discovering the Color of LifeGötz Hoeppe Awarded by the American Meteorology Society 2009 AWARDS ANTHROPOLOGY Bipolar Expeditions: Mania and Depression in American CultureEmily Martin 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 ARCHAEOLOGY & ANCIENT HISTORY The Poison King: The Life and Legend of Mithradates, Rome's Deadliest EnemyAdrienne Mayor Sponsored by National Book Foundation ART & ARCHITECTURE Black: The History of a ColorMichel Pastoureau Sponsored by Jenkins Group Inc. & IndependentPublisher.com. New York Nocturne: The City After Dark in Literature, Painting, and Photography, 1850-1950 William Chapman Sharpe Sponsored by the Northeast Popular Culture/American Culture Association (NEPCA) Sponsored by the Modernist Studies Association ASTRONOMY AND COSMOLOGY Beyond UFOs: The Search for Extraterrestrial Life and Its Astonishing Implications for Our FutureJeffrey Bennett Sponsored by the Nautilus Book Awards. Robert Zimmerman EARTH SCIENCES The Long Thaw: How Humans Are Changing the Next 100,000 Years of Earth's ClimateDavid Archer Sponsored by The Foundation For the Future. ECONOMICS Animal Spirits: How Human Psychology Drives the Economy, and Why It Matters for Global CapitalismGeorge A. Akerlof and Robert J. Shiller Sponsored by getAbstract. Sponsored by the Financial Times/Goldman Sachs. The Case for Big Government Jeff Madrick Sponsored by the PEN American Center. The Rise of the Conservative Legal Movement: The Battle for Control of the Law Steven M. Teles 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 Sponsored by Jenkins Group Inc. & IndependentPublisher.com. HISTORY God and Race in American Politics: A Short HistoryMark A. Noll Sponsored by Christianity Today. Taxation in Colonial America Alvin Rabushka Sponsored by the Fraunces Tavern Museum. JEWISH STUDIES Greece--a Jewish HistoryK. E. Fleming Sponsored by the Anglo-Hellenic League. LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES Insurgent Citizenship: Disjunctions of Democracy and Modernity in BrazilJames Holston Sponsored by the Latin American Studies Association. LAW Hidden in Plain Sight: The Tragedy of Children's Rights from Ben Franklin to Lionel TateBarbara Bennett Woodhouse Sponsored by the Human Rights Section of the American Political Science Association. The Rise of the Conservative Legal Movement: The Battle for Control of the Law Steven M. Teles Sponsored by the Law and Society Association. MATHEMATICS The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein, Volume 11: Cumulative Index, Bibliography, List of Correspondence, Chronology, and Errata to Volumes 1-10Compiled by A. J. Kox, Tilman Sauer, Diana Kormos Buchwald, Rudy Hirschmann, Osik Moses, Benjamin Aronin & Jennifer Stolper Sponsored by the Society of Indexers. Mathematics in Ancient Iraq: A Social History Eleanor Robson Sponsored by the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies. POETRY Worshipping Walt: The Whitman DisciplesMichael Robertson Sponsored by the New Jersey Council for the Humanities. POLITICAL SCIENCE AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS Black and Blue: African Americans, the Labor Movement, and the Decline of the Democratic PartyPaul Frymer Sponsored by the American Political Science Association. Campaign Talk: Why Elections Are Good for Us Roderick P. Hart Sponsored by the American Political Science Association Section on Political Communication. Civil Passions: Moral Sentiment and Democratic Deliberation Sharon R. Krause Sponsored by the International Society of Political Psychology. Hypocrisy Trap: The World Bank and the Poverty of Reform Catherine Weaver Sponsored by the Society of Policy Scientists. Sponsored by the International Studies Association. The Persuadable Voter: Wedge Issues in Presidential Campaigns D. Sunshine Hillygus & Todd G. Shields 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 Sponsored by the APSA's Section on Presidency Research. Sponsored by the International Political Science Association's Research Committee on the Structure of Governance. Privatizing Pensions: The Transnational Campaign for Social Security Reform Mitchell A. Orenstein 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 Sponsored by the National Academy of Public Administration. The Sino-Soviet Split: Cold War in the Communist World Lorenz M. Lüthi Sponsored by Mershon Center for International Security Studies at The Ohio State University. Torture and Democracy Darius Rejali Sponsored by the Institute for the Study of Genocide. Unequal Democracy: The Political Economy of the New Gilded Age Larry M. Bartels Sponsored by the American Political Science Association. Sponsored by the American Political Science Association. 1989: The Struggle to Create Post-Cold War Europe Mary Elise Sarotte Awarded by the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies (AICGS). RELIGION Vatican II: A Sociological Analysis of Religious ChangeMelissa J. Wilde Sponsored by the American Sociological Association Section on Sociology of Religion. SOCIOLOGY Coming of Age in Second Life: An Anthropologist Explores the Virtually HumanTom Boellstorff Sponsored by the Media Ecology Association. Disrupting Science: Social Movements, American Scientists, and the Politics of the Military, 1945-1975 Kelly Moore Sponsored by the American Sociological Association. The Failed Welfare Revolution: America's Struggle over Guaranteed Income Policy Brian Steensland Sponsored by the American Sociological Association. Sponsored by the American Sociological Association. Partisan Politics: Communication and Contention across Brazilian Youth Activist Networks Ann Mische Sponsored by the American Sociological Association. 2008 AWARDS ANTHROPOLOGY A Culture of CorruptionDaniel Jordan Smith Sponsored by American Anthropological Association (AAA) and the Society for Applied Anthropology (SfAA). Global "Body Shopping" Xiang Biao Sponsored by Urban Anthropology, Society for Urban, National, and Transnational/Global Anthropology. The Nuclear Borderlands Joseph Masco Sponsored by the Society for Social Studies of Science. Will to Live Joăo Biehl Photographs by Torben Eskerod 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 ScienceRubin H. Landau, Manuel José Páez & Cristian C. Bordeianu Sponsored by The Krell Institute. ASTRONOMY AND COSMOLOGY The Universe in a MirrorRobert Zimmerman Sponsored by Booklist. ART & ARCHITECTURE The Art of the American Snapshot, 1888-1978Sarah Greenough & Diane Waggoner With Sarah Kennel & Matthew S. Witkovsky Sponsored by the College Art Association. Sponsored by the Kraszna-Krausz Foundation. Sponsored by the American Association of Museums. Pre-Modernism J. M. Mancini Sponsored by the Smithsonian American Art Museum. ASTRONOMY AND COSMOLOGY The Mystery of the Missing AntimatterHelen R. Quinn & Yossi Nir Stuart Clark Sponsored by The Royal Society. CLASSICS Democracy and Knowledge: Innovation and Learning in Classical AthensJosiah Ober Sophocles Translated and introduced by Reginald Gibbons Sponsored by the Texas Institute of Letters. COMPARATIVE LITERATURE Franz Kafka: The Office WritingsEdited by Stanley Corngold, Jack Greenberg & Benno Wagner Translations by Eric Patton with Ruth Hein EARTH SCIENCES How the Ocean Works: An Introduction to OceanographyMark Denny ECONOMICS and FINANCE A Farewell to AlmsGregory Clark Matthew O. Jackson Amar Bhidé Robert J. Shiller EDUCATION Our Underachieving CollegesDerek Bok Sponsored by the Association of American Colleges and Universities. Troublemaker: A Personal History of School Reform Since Sputnik Chester E. Finn, Jr. GENDER STUDIES Between WomenSharon Marcus Sponsored by GL/Q Caucus of MLA. Sponsored by the International Society for the Study of Narrative (ISSN). Sponsored by the North American Conference on British Studies. Mothers and Children: Jewish Family Life in Medieval Europe Elisheva Baumgarten HISTORY Jews, Germans, and AlliesAtina Grossmann Sponsored by the American Historical Association. In Search of Another Country Joseph Crespino Sponsored by the Southern Regional Council and University of Georgia Libraries. Stalin and the Soviet Science Wars Ethan Pollock Sponsored by the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS). The Shifting Grounds of Race Scott Kurashige Sponsored by the American Historical Association. Swindled Bee Wilson Sponsored by the André Simon Memorial Fund. JEWISH STUDIES Greece--a Jewish HistoryK. E. Fleming Administered by the Jewish Book Council. The Price of Whiteness Eric L. Goldstein Sponsored by The Jewish Book Council. LAW Patent Failure: How Judges, Bureaucrats, and Lawyers Put Innovators at RiskJames Bessen and Michael J. Meurer LITERARY and CULTURAL STUDIES Henry James Goes to ParisPeter Brooks Ian Duncan Sponsored by the Saltire Society/National Library of SCOTLAND. William Faulkner Richard Godden Sponsored by the British Association for American Studies. MATHEMATICS Flatland: The MovieOn DVD The Princeton Companion to Mathematics Edited by Timothy Gowers June Barrow-Green and Imre Leader, associate editors Fukagawa Hidetoshi & Tony Rothman PHILOSOPHY: Made with Words: Hobbes on Language, Mind, and PoliticsPhilip Pettit POETRY The Greener MeadowLuciano Erba; Translated by Peter Robinson Sponsored by the Italian Cultural Institute, the British-Italian Society, and the Arts Council of England. POLITICAL SCIENCE After AnarchyIan Hurd Sponsored by the International Studies Association, International Organization Section. Appeasing Bankers Jonathan Kirshner 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 Amaney A. Jamal Sponsored by the American Political Science Association, Comparative Democratization Section. Bounding Power Daniel H. Deudney Sponsored by the American Political Science Association, International History and Politics Section. Democracy Incorporated Sheldon S. Wolin Sponsored by the Lannan Foundation. Expert Political Judgment Philip E. Tetlock Sponsored by the University of Louisville. The Fall and Rise of the Islamic State Noah Feldman Bryan Caplan Etel Solingen Sponsored by the American Political Science Association. Sponsored by the American Political Science Association, International History and Politics Section. Painful Choices David A. Welch Sponsored by the International Studies Association. Political Foundations of Judicial Supremacy Keith E. Whittington Sponsored by the Law and Courts Section of the American Political Science Association. David E. Lewis Sponsored by the American Political Science Association, Public Administration Section. Reputation and International Cooperation Michael Tomz Sponsored by the American Political Science Association, Qualitative Methods Section. Spying Blind Amy Zegart Sponsored by the National Academy of Public Administration. Torture and Democracy Darius Rejali Sponsored by the American Political Science Association, Human Rights Section. When Ways of Life Collide Paul M. Sniderman & Louk Hagendoorn Philip G. Roeder William G. Howell and Jon C. Pevehouse Sponsored by the Presidency Research Section, APSA. RELIGION Culture and RedemptionTracy Fessenden Sponsored by the American Academy of Religion. God Interrupted Benjamin Lazier Sponsored by the FIIT Heidelberg and the John Templeton Foundation. Sponsored by the American Sociological Association Section on Sociology of Religion. SOCIOLOGY Coming of Age in Second Life: An Anthropologist Explores the Virtually HumanTom Boellstorff Peter Moskos Rakesh Khurana Sponsored by the American Sociological Association, Section on Organization, Occupations and Work. File created: July 5, 2007 |
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