Fourteen Princeton University Press titles have been named Winners or Finalists for the 46th annual PROSE Awards, honoring scholarly works published in 2021 and announced today by the Association of American Publishers (AAP). Congratulations to the authors and books honored here:
Biological Sciences
Winner | Ant Architecture: The Wonder, Beauty, and Science of Underground Nests by Walter R. Tschinkel
Biomedicine
Finalist | The Spike: An Epic Journey Through the Brain in 2.1 Seconds by Mark Humphries
Neuroscience
Finalist | The Secret Body: How the New Science of the Human Body Is Changing the Way We Live by Daniel M. Davis
European History
Winner | An Infinite History: The Story of a Family in France over Three Centuries by Emma Rothschild
Theology & Religious Studies
Winner | Jews and the Qur’an by Meir M. Bar-Asher, Foreword by Mustafa Akyol, Translated by Ethan Rundell
Computing & Information Sciences
Finalist | The Essence of Software: Why Concepts Matter for Great Design by Daniel Jackson
Earth Science
Winner | When the Sahara Was Green: How Our Greatest Desert Came to Be by Martin Williams
Engineering & Technology
Finalist | Things Fall Together: A Guide to the New Materials Revolution by Skylar Tibbits
History of Science, Medicine, and Technology
Winner | Plagues Upon the Earth: Disease and the Curse of Human History by Kyle Harper
Mathematics
Finalist | Visual Differential Geometry and Forms: A Mathematical Drama in Five Acts by Tristan Needham
Popular Science & Mathematics
Winner | Do Not Erase: Mathematicians and Their Chalkboards by Jessica Wynne
Finalist | Spark: The Life of Electricity and the Electricity of Life by Timothy J. Jorgensen
Cultural Anthropology & Sociology
Finalist | American Afterlives: Reinventing Death in the Twenty-First Century by Shannon Lee Dawdy
Finalist | Up to Heaven and Down to Hell: Fracking, Freedom, and Community in an American Town by Colin Jerolmack