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2017 AWARDS

 

AMERICAN HISTORY

The Loneliness of the Black Republican: Pragmatic Politics and the Pursuit of Power
Leah Wright Rigueur

  • Winner of the 2017 Crader Family Book Prize in American Values, Crader Family Endowment at Southeast Missouri State University

    • The Good Immigrants: How the Yellow Peril Became the Model Minority
    Madeline Y. Hsu

  • Winner of the 2017 Association for Asian American Studies Award for Best Book in History

    • The Rise of a Prairie Statesman: The Life and Times of George McGovern
    Thomas J. Knock

  • Winner of the 2017 PROSE Award in Biography & Autobiography, Association of American Publishers

    • Illiberal Reformers: Race, Eugenics, and American Economics in the Progressive Era
    Thomas C. Leonard

  • Finalist for the 2017 Hayek Prize, The Manhattan Institute

    • ARCHITECTURE, URBANISM, AND LANDSCAPE

    Landscape as Urbanism: A General Theory
    Charles Waldheim

  • Shortlisted for the 2017 Urban Design Book Award, Urban Design Group

    • The Urbanism of Frank Lloyd Wright
    Neil Levine

  • Winner of the 2017 PROSE Award in Architecture & Urban Planning, Association of American Publishers

    • ART

    Bosch and Bruegel: From Enemy Painting to Everyday Life
    Joseph Leo Koerner

  • Winner of the 2017 PROSE Award in Art History & Criticism, Association of American Publishers

    • Still Lives: Death, Desire, and the Portrait of the Old Master
    Maria H. Loh

  • Shortlisted for the 2016 Art Book Prize, Authors’ Club

    • The Art of Philosophy: Visual Thinking in Europe from the Late Renaissance to the Early Enlightenment
    Susanna Berger

  • Shortlisted for 2017 “The Bridge” Book Award, American Initiative for Italian Culture

    • ASTRONOMY AND COSMOLOGY

    Welcome to the Universe
    Neil deGrasse Tyson Michael A. Strauss and J. Richard Gott

  • Honorable Mention for the 2017 PROSE Award in Cosmology and Astronomy, Association of American Publishers

    • BIRDS AND NATURAL HISTORY

    The Bees in Your Backyard: A Guide to North America’s Bees
    Joseph S. Wilson and Olivia J. Messinger Carril

  • Winner of the 2017 PROSE Award in Single Volume Reference/Science, Association of American Publishers

    • CLASSICS

    A Place at the Altar: Priestesses in Republican Rome
    Meghan J. DiLuzio

  • A Winner of the 2017 CAMWS First Book Award, Classical Association of the Middle West and South

    • Ireland's Immortals: A History of the Gods of Irish Myth
    Mark Williams

  • Honorable Mention for the 2017 PROSE Award in Literature, Association of American Publishers

    • COMPARATIVE LITERATURE

    Learning Zulu: A Secret History of Language in South Africa
    Mark Sanders

  • Longlisted for the 2017 Alan Paton Award for Non-Fiction, Sunday Times

    • COMPUTER SCIENCE

    Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies: A Comprehensive Introduction
    Arvind Narayanan Joseph Bonneau, Edward Felten, Andrew Miller and Steven Goldfeder

  • Honorable Mention for the 2017 PROSE Award in Computing and Information Sciences, Association of American Publishers

    • ECONOMICS

    Money Changes Everything: How Finance Made Civilization Possible
    William N. Goetzmann

  • Honorable Mention for the 2017 Ralph Gomory Prize, Business History Conference

    • The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living since the Civil War
    Robert J. Gordon

  • Winner of the 2017 PROSE Award in U.S. History, Association of American Publishers

  • Winner of the 2017 Excellence in Financial Journalism Book Award, New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants

    • The Curse of Cash
    Kenneth S. Rogoff

  • Winner of the 2017 PROSE Award in Economics, Association of American Publishers

    • The Euro and the Battle of Ideas
    Markus K. Brunnermeier, Harold James & Jean-Pierre Landau

  • Winner of the 2017 Gold Medal in International Business / Globalization, Axiom Business Book Awards

    • Success and Luck: Good Fortune and the Myth of Meritocracy
    Robert H. Frank

  • Honorable Mention for the 2017 PROSE Award in Economics, Association of American Publishers

    • Blue Skies over Beijing: Economic Growth and the Environment in China
    Matthew E. Kahn and Siqi Zheng

  • Honorable Mention for the 2017 PROSE Award in Environmental Science, Association of American Publishers

    • A Culture of Growth: The Origins of the Modern Economy
    Joel Mokyr

  • Finalist for the 2017 Hayek Prize, The Manhattan Institute
  • Honorable Mention for the 2017 PROSE Award in European and World History, Association of American Publishers

    • EUROPEAN HISTORY

    The Princeton History of Modern Ireland
    Richard Bourke and Ian McBride

  • Honorable Mention for the 2017 PROSE Award in Single Volume Reference/Humanities and Social Sciences, Association of American Publishers

    • HIGHER EDUCATION

    Wisdom's Workshop: The Rise of the Modern University
    James Axtell

  • Honorable Mention for the 2017 PROSE Award in Education Theory, Association of American Publishers

    • 'Keep the Damned Women Out": The Struggle for Coeducation
    Nancy Weiss Malkiel

  • Winner of the 2017 PROSE Award in Education Practice, Association of American Publishers

    • PHILOSOPHY

    Ethics in the Real World: 82 Brief Essays on Things That Matter
    Peter Singer

  • Longlisted for the 2017 PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay, Pen American Center

    • The Philosopher: A History in Six Types
    Justin E.H. Smith

  • Winner of the 2017 PROSE Award in Philosophy, Association of American Publishers

    • PHYSICS

    Group Theory in a Nutshell for Physicists
    A. Zee

  • Honorable Mention for the 2017 PROSE Award in Textbook/Best in Physical Sciences and Mathematics, Association of American Publishers

    • POLITICAL SCIENCE AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

    Democracy for Realists: Why Elections Do Not Produce Responsive Government
    Christopher H. Achen and Larry M. Bartels

  • Winner of the 2017 PROSE Award in Government & Politics, Association of American Publishers

    • Economic Interdependence and War
    Dale C. Copeland

  • Winner of the 2017 ISA Annual Best Book Award, International Studies Association

    • ISIS: A History
    Fawaz A. Gerges

  • Honorable Mention for the 2017 PROSE Award in Government and Politics, Association of American Publishers
  • 2017 Gold Medal Winner in Current Events
    •  (Political/Economic/Foreign Affairs), Independent Publisher Book Awards

    POPULAR SCIENCE

    Following the Wild Bees: The Craft and Science of Bee Hunting
    Thomas D. Seeley

  • Honorable Mention for the 2017 PROSE Award in Popular Science and Popular Mathematics, Association of American Publishers

    • Silent Sparks
    Sara Lewis

  • Honorable Mention for the 2017 PROSE Award in Popular Science and Popular Mathematics, Association of American Publishers

    • Fashion, Faith, and Fantasy in the New Physics of the Universe
    Roger Penrose

  • Winner of the 2017 PROSE Award in Chemistry & Physics, Association of American Publishers

    • Strange Glow: The Story of Radiation
    Timothy J. Jorgensen

  • Winner of the 2017 PROSE Award in History of Science, Medicine & Technology, Association of American Publishers

    • The Cosmic Web: Mysterious Architecture of the Universe
    J. Richard Gott

  • Winner of the 2017 PROSE Award in Cosmology & Astronomy, Association of American Publishers

    • SOCIOLOGY

    Contested Tastes: Foie Gras and the Politics of Food
    Michaela DeSoucey

  • Co-Winner of the 2017 Mary Douglas Prize for Best Book, Sociology of Culture Section of the American Sociological Association

    • Strangers No More: Immigration and the Challenges of Integration in North America and Western Europe
    Richard Alba & Nancy Foner

  • Honorable Mention for the 2017 ENMISA Distinguished Book Award, Ethnicity, Nationalism, and Migration Section the International Studies Association

    • Becoming Black Political Subjects: Movements and Ethno-Racial Rights in Colombia and Brazil
    Tianna S.

  • Co-Winner of the 2017 Herbert Jacob Book Award, Law and Society Association

  • Winner of the 2017 Gordon Hirabayashi Book Award, Human Rights Section of the American Sociological Association
  • Winner of the 2017 SSSP Global Division Book Award, Society for the Study of Social Problems
  • Honorable Mention for the 2017 Eduardo Bonilla-Silva Outstanding Book Award, Division for Racial and Ethnic Minorities of the Society for the Study of Social Problems

    • WORLD HISTORY / COMPARATIVE HISTORY

    The Gunpowder Age: China, Military Innovation, and the Rise of the West in World History
    Tonio Andrade

  • Winner of a 2017 Distinguished Book Award, Society of Military History

    • 2016 AWARDS

    AMERICAN HISTORY

    A Class by Herself: Protective Laws for Women Workers, 1890s–1990s
    Nancy Woloch

  • Winner of the 2016 Philip Taft Labor History Award, Cornell University School of Industrial & Labor Relations

    • F.B. Eyes: How J. Edgar Hoover's Ghostreaders Framed African American Literature
    William J. Maxwell

  • Winner of a 2016 American Book Award, Before Columbus Foundation
  • Shortlisted for the 2016 MSA Book Prize, Modernist Studies Association

    • The Good Immigrants: How the Yellow Peril Became the Model Minority
    Madeline Y. Hsu

  • Winner of the 2016 Robert H. Ferrell Book Prize, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations
  • Runner-Up for the 2016 Hamilton Book Awards, University Co-operative Society, University of Texas at Austin

    • Liberty and Coercion: The Paradox of American Government from the Founding to the Present
    Gary Gerstle

  • Winner of the 2016 Ellis W. Hawley Prize, Organization of American Historians

    • The Loneliness of the Black Republican: Pragmatic Politics and the Pursuit of Power
    Leah Wright Rigueur

  • Winner of the 2016 James P. Hanlan Book Award, New England Historical Association

    • Power Lines: Phoenix and the Making of the Modern Southwest
    Andrew Needham

  • Winner of the 2016 George Perkins Marsh Prize, American Society for Environmental History

    • Soulmaker: The Times of Lewis Hine
    Alexander Nemerov

  • Finalist for the 2016 Marfield Prize, The National Award for Arts Writing, Arts Club of Washington

    • AMERICAN LITERATURE

    The Age of the Crisis of Man: Thought and Fiction in America, 1933–1973
    Mark Greif

  • Winner of the 18th Annual (2016) Susanne M. Glasscock Humanities Book Prize for Interdisciplinary Scholarship, Melbern G. Glasscock Center for Humanities Research at Texas A&M University

    • ANTHROPOLOGY

    The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins
    Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing

  • Winner of the 2016 Gregory Bateson Prize, The Society for Cultural Anthropology
  • Winner of the 2016 Victor Turner Prize in Ethnographic Writing, Society for Humanistic Anthropology
  • Finalist for the 2016 Northern California Book Awards in General Nonfiction, Northern California Book Reviewers

    • ARCHAELOGY AND ANCIENT HISTORY

    1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed
    Eric H. Cline

  • Selected as the 'Book of the Semester' Fall 2016, David M. Kennedy Center for International Studies at Brigham Young University

    • The Amazons: Lives and Legends of Warrior Women across the Ancient World
    Adrienne Mayor

  • Winner of the 2016 Sarasvati Award for Best Nonfiction Book in Women and Mythology, Association for the Study of Women & Mythology

    • ARCHITECTURE, URBANISM, AND LANDSCAPE

    Houses for a New World: Builders and Buyers in American Suburbs, 1945–1965
    Barbara Miller Lane

  • Winner of the 2016 PROSE Award in Architecture & Urban Planning, Association of American Publishers
  • Winner of the 2016 Historic Preservation Book Prize, University of Mary Washington’s Center for Historic Preservation

    • ART

    Skies of Parchment, Seas of Ink: Jewish Illuminated Manuscripts
    Edited by Marc Michael Epstein
    With contributions by Eva Frojmovic, Jenna Siman Jacobs, Hartley Lachter, Shalom Sabar, Raymond P. Scheindlin, Ágnes Vető, Susan Vick, Barbara Wolff & Diane Wolfthal

  • Honorable Mention for the 2016 PROSE Award in Art History & Criticism, Association of American Publishers

    • Forms: Whole, Rhythm, Hierarchy, Network
    Caroline Levine

  • Winner of the 2016 Dorothy Lee Award for Outstanding Scholarship in the Ecology of Culture, Media Ecology Association
  • Winner of the 2015 James Russell Lowell Prize, Modern Language Association

    • ASIAN AND ASIAN AMERICAN STUDIES

    The Color of Success: Asian Americans and the Origins of the Model Minority
    Ellen D. Wu

  • Winner of the 2016 AAAS Award for Best Book in History, Association for Asian American Studies

    • ASTRONOMY AND COSMOLOGY

    Astrophysics in a Nutshell Second Edition
    Dan Maoz

  • One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2016

    • How Do You Find an Exoplanet?
    John Asher Johnson

  • One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2016

    • Statistics, Data Mining, and Machine Learning in Astronomy: A Practical Python Guide for the Analysis of Survey Data
    Željko Ivezić, Andrew J. Connolly, Jacob T. VanderPlas & Alexander Gray

  • Winner of the 2016 IAA Outstanding Publication Award, International Astrostatistics Association

    • BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

    Mutualistic Networks
    Jordi Bascompte & Pedro Jordano

  • Winner of the 2016 BES Marsh Christian Trust Book Award, British Ecological Association

    • BIRDS AND NATURAL HISTORY

    Birds of New Guinea Second Edition
    Thane K. Pratt & Bruce M. Beehler

  • One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2016

    • Quantitative Viral Ecology:Dynamics of Viruses and Their Microbial Hosts
    Joshua S. Weitz

  • Winner of the 2016 Postgraduate Textbook Prize, Royal Society of Biology

    • Warbler Guide App
    Tom Stephenson & Scott Whittle

  • Winner of the 2016 PROSE Award for Best App/eProduct

    • CLASSICS

    Sexing the World: Grammatical Gender and Biological Sex in Ancient Rome
    Anthony Corbeill

  • Winner of a 2016 Charles Goodwin Award of Merit, Society for Classical Studies

    • COMPARATIVE LITERATURE

    Learning Zulu: A Secret History of Language in South Africa
    Mark Sanders

  • One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2016

    • Site Reading: Fiction, Art, Social Form
    David J. Alworth

  • Winner of the 2016 Erving Goffman Award for Outstanding Scholarship in the Ecology of Social Interaction, Media Ecology Association

    • EARTH SCIENCES

    Modern Observational Physical Oceanography: Understanding the Global Ocean
    Carl Wunsch

  • Honorable Mention for the 2016 PROSE Award in Textbook/Physical Sciences & Mathematics, Association of American Publishers

    • ECONOMICS

    Adam Smith: His Life, Thought, and Legacy
    Edited by Ryan Patrick Hanley

  • One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2016

    • Climate Shock: The Economic Consequences of a Hotter Planet
    Gernot Wagner & Martin L. Weitzman

  • 2016 Outstanding Book of the Year “Most Likely to Save the Planet,” Independent Publisher Book Awards

    • Finding Equilibrium: Arrow, Debreu, McKenzie and the Problem of Scientific Credit
    Till Düppe & E. Roy Weintraub

  • Winner of the 2016 Joseph J. Spengler Best Book Prize, History of Economics Society

    • How the Internet Became Commercial: Innovation, Privatization, and the Birth of a New Network
    Shane Greenstein

  • Co-Winner of the 2016 Schumpeter Prize Competition, International Joseph A. Schumpeter Society

    • Phishing for Phools: The Economics of Manipulation and Deception
    George A. Akerlof & Robert J. Shiller

  • Winner of the 2016 Gold Medal in Economics, Axiom Business Book Awards
  • Honorable Mention for the 2016 PROSE Award in Economics, Association of American Publishers

    • The Process Matters: Engaging and Equipping People for Success
    Joel Brockner

  • Winner of the 2016 Bronze Medal in Operations Management / Lean / Continuous Improvement, Axiom Business Book Awards
  • Honorable Mention for the 2016 PROSE Award in Business, Finance & Management, Association of American Publishers

    • The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living since the Civil War
    Robert J. Gordon

  • Shortlisted for the 2016 Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award
  • Longlisted for the 2016 Cundill Prize in Historical Literature, McGill University

    • The Curse of Cash
    Kenneth S. Rogoff

  • Longlisted for the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year 2016

    • Success and Luck: Good Fortune and the Myth of Meritocracy
    Robert H. Frank

  • Longlisted for the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year 2016
  • One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2016

    • EUROPEAN HISTORY

    Empire and Revolution: The Political Life of Edmund Burke
    Richard Bourke

  • Honorable Mention for the 2016 PROSE Award in Biography & Autobiography, Association of American Publishers

    • On Stalin's Team: The Years of Living Dangerously in Soviet Politics
    Sheila Fitzpatrick

  • One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2016

    • Out of Ashes: A New History of Europe in the Twentieth Century
    Konrad H. Jarausch

  • Honorable Mention for the 2016 PROSE Award in European & World History, Association of American Publishers
  • Winner of the 2016 Bronisław Geremek Prize, College of Europe

    • The Princeton History of Modern Ireland
    Edited by Richard Bourke & Ian McBride

  • One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2016

    • The Weimar Century: German Émigrés and the Ideological Foundations of the Cold War
    Udi Greenberg

  • Winner of the 2016 European Studies Book Award, Council for European Studies

    • HIGHER EDUCATION

    Locus of Authority: The Evolution of Faculty Roles in the Governance of Higher Education
    William G. Bowen & Eugene M. Tobin

  • Winner of the 2016 PROSE Award in Education Theory, Association of American Publishers

    • Wisdom’s Workshop: The Rise of the Modern University
    James Axtell

  • One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2016

    • JEWISH STUDIES

    After One-Hundred-and-Twenty: Reflecting on Death, Mourning, and the Afterlife in the Jewish Tradition
    Hillel Halkin

  • Long-listed for the 2017 Jewish Quarterly Wingate Prize

    • Makers of Jewish Modernity: Thinkers, Artists, Leaders, and the World They Made
    Jacques Picard, Jacques Revel, Michael P. Steinberg, Idith Zertal

  • Winner of the 2016 National Jewish Book Award in Anthologies and Collections, Jewish Book Council

    • Tradition and the Formation of the Talmud
    Moulie Vidas

  • Honorable Mention for the 2016 Jordan Schnitzer Book Award in Biblical Studies, Rabbinics, and Jewish History & Culture in Antiquity, Association for Jewish Studies

    • LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES

    Sea of Storms: A History of Hurricanes in the Greater Caribbean from Columbus to Katrina
    Stuart B. Schwartz

  • Honorable Mention for the 2016 Marysa Navarro Best Book Prize, New England Council on Latin American Studies (NECLAS)

    • LITERATURE: PRIMARY WORKS AND LETTERS

    The Essential Goethe
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  • One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2016

    • MATHEMATICS

    Creating Symmetry: The Artful Mathematics of Wallpaper Patterns
    Frank A. Farris

  • Honorable Mention for the 2016 PROSE Award in Mathematics, Association of American Publishers

    • Leonhard Euler: Mathematical Genius in the Enlightenment
    Ronald S. Calinger

  • One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2016

    • Mathematics in Ancient Egypt: A Contextual History
    Annette Imhausen

  • One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2016

    • Mathematics without Apologies: Portrait of a Problematic Vocation
    Michael Harris

  • Winner of the 2016 PROSE Award in Mathematics, Association of American Publishers

    • The Mathematics of Various Entertaining Subjects: Research in Recreational Math
    Jennifer Beineke & Jason Rosenhouse

  • One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2016

    • The Proof and the Pudding: What Mathematicians, Cooks, and You Have in Common
    Jim Henle

  • Shortlisted for the 2016 Gourmand World Cookbook Awards, in Digital E-Books

    • PHILOSOPHY

    How Propaganda Works
    Jason Stanley

  • Winner of the 2016 PROSE Award in Philosophy, Association of American Publishers

    • On Inequality
    Harry G. Frankfurt

  • One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2016

    • Teaching Plato in Palestine: Philosophy in a Divided World
    Carlos Fraenkel

  • Longlisted for the 2016 Sheikh Zayed Book Award in Arabic Culture in Other Languages

    • POLITICAL SCIENCE AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

    Affluence and Influence: Economic Inequality and Political Power in America
    Martin Gilens

  • Winner of the 2016 AAPOR Book Award, American Association for Public Opinion Research

    • American Insecurity: Why Our Economic Fears Lead to Political Inaction
    Adam Seth Levine

  • Winner of the 2016 Best Book Award, Experimental Research Section of the American Political Science Association

    • Caught: The Prison State and the Lockdown of American Politics
    Marie Gottschalk

  • Winner of the 2016 Michael Harrington Book Award, New Political Science Section of the American Political Science Association

    • Confronting Political Islam: Six Lessons from the West's Past
    John M. Owen IV

  • Shortlisted for the 2017 Estoril Global Issues Distinguished Book Prize

    • Democracy for Realists: Why Elections Do Not Produce Responsive Government
    Christopher H. Achen & Larry M. Bartels

  • One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2016

    • In-Your-Face Politics: The Consequences of Uncivil Media
    Diana C. Mutz

  • Winner of the 2016 David O. Sears Book Award, International Society of Political Psychology

    • ISIS: A History
    Fawaz A. Gerges

  • One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2016

    • Knowing the Adversary: Leaders, Intelligence, and Assessment of Intentions in International Relations
    Keren Yarhi-Milo

  • Co-Winner of the 2016 DPLST Book Prize, Diplomatic Studies Section of the International Studies Association

    • Nations under God: How Churches Use Moral Authority to Influence Policy
    Anna Grzymała-Busse

  • Winner of the 2016 Best Book Award, European Politics and Society Section of the American Political Science Association

    • On Stalin’s Team: The Years of Living Dangerously in Soviet Politics
    Sheila Fitzpatrick

  • Honorable Mention for the 2016 PROSE Award in Government & Politics, Association of American Publishers
  • Co-Winner of the 2016 Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Non-Fiction, Australian Government Department of Communications and the Arts

    • Paths Out of Dixie: The Democratization of Authoritarian Enclaves in America's Deep South, 1944-1972
    Robert Mickey

  • Winner of the 2016 J. David Greenstone Book Prize, Politics and History Section of the American Political Science Association

    • Polarized: Making Sense of a Divided America
    James E. Campbell

  • One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2016

    • Power and International Relations: A Conceptual Approach
    David A. Baldwin

  • One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2016

    • The Rise and Fall of Classical Greece
    Josiah Ober

  • Winner of the 2016 Douglass C. North Research Award, Society for Institutional and Organizational Economics (SIOE)
  • Shortlisted for the 2016 Ralph Waldo Emerson Award, Phi Beta Kappa Society

    • Sailing the Water’s Edge: The Domestic Politics of American Foreign Policy
    Helen V. Milner & Dustin Tingley

  • Winners of the 2016 Gladys M. Kammerer Award, American Political Science Association

    • When Movements Anchor Parties: Electoral Alignments in American History
    Daniel Schlozman

  • Winner of the 2016 Charles Tilly Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Book Award, Collective Behavior and Social Movements Section of the American Sociological Association

    • White Backlash: Immigration, Race, and American Politics
    Marisa Abrajano & Zoltan L. Hajnal

  • Winners of the 2016 Ralph J. Bunche Award, American Political Science Association

    • POPULAR SCIENCE

    How to Clone a Mammoth: The Science of De-Extinction
    Beth Shapiro

  • 2016 Gold Medal Winner in Science, Independent Publisher Book Awards
  • Winner of the 2016 PROSE Award in Popular Science & Popular Mathematics, Association of American Publishers
  • Winner of the 2016 AAAS/Subaru SB&F; Prize for Excellence in Science Books, Young Adult Science Books
  • Shortlisted for the 2016 Phi Beta Kappa Award in Science, Phi Beta Kappa Society

    • Strange Glow: The Story of Radiation
    Timothy J. Jorgensen

  • One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2016

    • The Real Planet of the Apes: A New Story of Human Origins
    David R. Begun

  • One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2016

    • The Worst of Times: How Life on Earth Survived Eighty Million Years of Extinctions
    Paul B. Wignall

  • One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2016

    • PSYCHOLOGY

    Madness in Civilization: A Cultural History of Insanity, from the Bible to Freud, from the Madhouse to Modern Medicine
    Andrew Scull

  • Honorable Mention for the 2016 PROSE Award in Psychology, Association of American Publishers

    • The Quotable Jung
    Collected and edited by Judith Harris

  • One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2016

    • REFERENCE WORKS AND ANTHOLOGIES

    One Day in the Life of the English Language: A Microcosmic Usage Handbook
    Frank L. Cioffi

  • One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2016

    • RELIGION

    What's Divine about Divine Law? Early Perspectives
    Christine Hayes

  • Winner of the 2016 PROSE Award in Theology & Religious Studies, Association of American Publishers
  • Winner of the 2016 Jordan Schnitzer Book Award in Biblical Studies, Rabbinics, and Jewish History & Culture in Antiquity, Association for Jewish Studies

    • What Is Islam? The Importance of Being Islamic
    Shahab Ahmed

  • Winner of the 2016 Best First Book in the History of Religions, American Academy of Religion

    • Religious Difference in a Secular Age: A Minority Report
    Saba Mahmood

  • Winner of the 2016 Clifford Geertz Prize in the Anthropology of Religion, Society for the Anthropology of Religion

    • What Is Islam? The Importance of Being Islamic
    Shahab Ahmed

  • One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2016

    • SOCIOLOGY

    American Zoo: A Sociological Safari
    David Grazian

  • Winner of the 2016 Award for Distinguished Scholarship, Animals and Society Section of the American Sociological Association
  • Honorable Mention for the 2016 PROSE Award in Sociology & Social Work, Association of American Publishers

    • The Battle for Yellowstone: Morality and the Sacred Roots of Environmental Conflict
    Justin Farrell

  • Winner of the 2016 Outstanding Published Book Award, Altruism, Morality and Social Solidarity Section of the American Sociological Association

    • Between Monopoly and Free Trade: The English East India Company, 1600–1757
    Emily Erikson

  • Winner of the 2016 James Coleman Award for Outstanding Book, Rationality and Society Section of the American Sociological Association
  • Winner of the 2016 Gaddis Smith International Book Prize, MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale University

    • Beyond the Beat: Musicians Building Community in Nashville
    Daniel B. Cornfield

  • Shortlisted for the 2016 ASAP Book Prize, Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present

    • Contested Tastes: Foie Gras and the Politics of Food
    Michaela DeSoucey

  • Winner of the 2016 Distinguished Scholarly Publication Award, Consumers and Consumption Section of the American Sociological Association

    • In Harm's Way: The Dynamics of Urban Violence
    Javier Auyero & María Fernanda Berti

  • Winners of the 2016 Robert E. Park Award, Community and Urban Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association

    • Magazines and the Making of America: Modernization, Community, and Print Culture, 1741–1860
    Heather A. Haveman

  • Co-Winner of the 2016 CITAMS Book Award, Communication, Information Technologies, and Media Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association

    • The Moral Background: An Inquiry into the History of Business Ethics
    Gabriel Abend

  • Co-Winner of the 2016 Viviana Zelizer Award for Best Book, Economic Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association

    • Pedigree: How Elite Students Get Elite Jobs
    Lauren A. Rivera

  • Winner of the 2016 Max Weber Book Award, Organizations, Occupations, and Work Section of the American Sociological Association
  • Winner of the 2016 Mary Douglas Prize for Best Book, Sociology of Culture Section of the American Sociological Association
  • Co-Winner of the 2016 Distinguished Book Award, Sociology of Law Section of the American Sociological Association
  • Co-Winner of the 2016 Silver Medal in Career (Job Search, Career Advancement), Axiom Business Book Awards

    • Terrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream
    Christopher Bail

  • Winner of the 2016 Distinguished Book Award, Sociology of Religion Section of the American Sociological Association
  • Honorable Mention for the 2016 Charles Tilly Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Book Award, Collective Behavior and Social Movements Section of the American Sociological Association

    • There Goes the Gayborhood?
    Amin Ghaziani

  • Honorable Mention for the 2016 Robert E. Park Award, Community and Urban Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association

    • WORLD HISTORY / COMPARATIVE HISTORY

    Capitalism: A Short History
    Jürgen Kocka

  • One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2016

    • The Shape of the New: Four Big Ideas and How They Made the Modern World: With a new preface by the authors
    Scott L. Montgomery & Daniel Chirot

  • One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2016

    • The Work of the Dead: A Cultural History of Mortal Remains
    Thomas W. Laqueur

  • Winner of the 2016 PROSE Award in European & World History, Association of American Publishers
  • Winner of the 2016 George L. Mosse Prize, American Historical Association
  • 2016 Gold Medal Winner in World History, Independent Publisher Book Awards
  • Winner of the 2016 Cundill Prize in Historical Literature, McGill University
  • Winner of the 2016 Stansky Book Prize, North American Conference on British Studies

    • 2015 AWARDS

    AMERICAN HISTORY

    The Age of Garvey: How a Jamaican Activist Created a Mass Movement and Changed Global Black Politics
    Adam Ewing

  • Winner of the 2015 Stuart L. Bernath Book Prize, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations

    • Building the Land of Dreams: New Orleans and the Transformation of Early America
    Eberhard L. Faber

  • Winner of the 2015 Kemper and Leila Williams Prize in Louisiana History, Historic New Orleans Collection and the Louisiana Historical Association

    • A Class by Herself: Protective Laws for Women Workers, 1890s–1990s
    Nancy Woloch

  • Winner of the 2015 William G. Bowen Award, Industrial Relations Section of Princeton University
  • Honorable Mention for the 2015 David J. Langum, Sr. Prize for American Legal History/Biography, Langum Charitable Trust

    • The Color of Success: Asian Americans and the Origins of the Model Minority
    Ellen D. Wu

  • Finalist for the 2015 Theodore Saloutos Memorial Book Award, Immigration and Ethnic History Society

    • F.B. Eyes: How J. Edgar Hoover’s Ghostreaders Framed African American Literature
    William J. Maxwell

  • One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2015

    • The Good Immigrants: How the Yellow Peril Became the Model Minority
    Madeline Y. Hsu

  • Winner of the 2015 CALA Best Book Award in Nonfiction, Chinese American Librarians Association
  • Winner of the 2015 Theodore Saloutos Memorial Book Award, Immigration and Ethnic History Society
  • Honor Book, 2015 Asian/Pacific American Awards for Literature, Asian/Pacific American Librarians Association

    • The New York Nobody Knows: Walking 6,000 Miles in the City
    William B. Helmreich

  • Winner of the 2015 GANYC Award for Outstanding Achievement in Book Writing, The Guides

    • Power Lines: Phoenix and the Making of the Modern Southwest
    Andrew Needham

  • Winner of the 2015 Hal K. Rothman Prize, Western History Association
  • Winner of the 2015 David J. Weber-Clements Prize, Western History Association
  • Winner of a 2015 Southwest Book Award, Border Regional Library Association
  • Winner of the 2015 Caughey Western History Prize, Western History Association

    • Rough Country: How Texas Became America’s Most Powerful Bible-Belt State
    Robert Wuthnow

  • Winner of the 2015 Coral Horton Tullis Memorial Prize, Texas State Historical Association

    • AMERICAN LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE

    American Pulp: How Paperbacks Brought Modernism to Main Street
    Paula Rabinowitz

  • Winner of the 2015 SHARP DeLong Book History Book Prize, The Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing

    • The Age of the Crisis of Man: Thought and Fiction in America, 1933–1973
    Mark Greif

  • Winner of the 2015 Morris D. Forkosch Book Prize, Journal of the History of Ideas

    • Moral Imagination: Essays
    David Bromwich

  • Shortlisted for the 2015 PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay, Pen American Center

    • Philology: The Forgotten Origins of the Modern Humanities
    James Turner

  • Winner of the 2015 Christian Gauss Award, Phi Beta Kappa Society
  • Honorable Mention for the 2015 PROSE Award in Language & Linguistics, Association of American Publishers
  • Shortlisted for the 2015 Christian Gauss Award, Phi Beta Kappa Society

    • ANTHROPOLOGY

    1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed
    Eric H. Cline

  • Honorable Mention for the 2015 PROSE Award in Archeology & Anthropology, Association of American Publishers

    • Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More: The Last Soviet Generation
    Alexei Yurchak

  • Winner of the 2015 Prosvetitel (Enlightener) Book Prizes

    • Making War at Fort Hood: Life and Uncertainty in a Military Community
    Kenneth T. MacLeish

  • Honorable Mention for the 2015 Delmos Jones and Jagna Scharff Memorial Book Award, Society for the Anthropology of North America

    • The New Arab Man: Emergent Masculinities, Technologies, and Islam in the Middle East
    Marcia C. Inhorn

  • Winner of the 2015 Robert B. Textor and Family Prize for Excellence in Anticipatory Anthropology, American Anthropological Association

    • ARCHAEOLOGY AND ANCIENT HISTORY

    Delphi: A History of the Center of the Ancient World
    Michael Scott

  • Shortlisted for the 2015 Runciman Award, Anglo-Hellenic League

    • ARCHITECTURE, URBANISM, AND LANDSCAPE

    Houses for a New World: Builders and Buyers in American Suburbs, 1945–1965
    Barbara Miller Lane

  • Winner of the 2015 Athenaeum Literary Award (for Art and Architecture), The Athenaeum of Philadelphia

    • ART

    Art as History: Calligraphy and Painting as One
    Wen C. Fong

  • One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2015

    • BIOLOGY

    40 Years of Evolution: Darwin’s Finches on Daphne Major Island
    Peter R. Grant & B. Rosemary Grant

  • Honorable Mention for the 2015 PROSE Award in Biological Sciences, Association of American Publishers

    • Visual Ecology
    Thomas W. Cronin, Sönke Johnsen, N. Justin Marshall & Eric J. Warrant

  • Winner of the 2015 PROSE Award in Textbook/Biological & Life Sciences, Association of American Publishers

    • BIRDS AND NATURAL HISTORY

    The Bee: A Natural History
    Noah Wilson-Rich
    With contributions from Kelly Allin, Norman Carreck & Andrea Quigley

  • Honorable Mention for the 2015 National Outdoor Book Awards, Nature and the Environment, NOBA Foundation

    • Beetles of Eastern North America
    Arthur V. Evans

  • Honorable Mention for the 2015 National Outdoor Book Awards, Nature and the Environment, NOBA Foundation

    • Bumble Bees of North America: An Identification Guide
    Paul H. Williams, Robbin W. Thorp, Leif L. Richardson & Sheila R. Colla

  • Winner of a 2015 Outstanding Reference Sources Award, Reference and User Services Association, American Library Association

    • The Passenger Pigeon
    Errol Fuller

  • Honorable Mention for the 2015 National Outdoor Book Awards, Nature and the Environment, NOBA Foundation

    • Trees of Eastern North America
    Gil Nelson, Christopher J. Earle & Richard Spellenberg
    Illustrations by David More
    Edited by Amy K. Hughes

  • Winner of the 2015 PROSE Award in Outstanding Work by a Trade Publisher, Association of American

    • CLASSICS

    Genealogy of the Tragic: Greek Tragedy and German Philosophy
    Joshua Billings

  • Winner of a 2015 Charles Goodwin Award of Merit, Society for Classical Studies

    • COGNITIVE SCIENCE

    Do Zombies Dream of Undead Sheep? A Neuroscientific View of the Zombie Brain
    Timothy Verstynen & Bradley Voytek

  • Winner of the 2015 PROSE Award in Biomedicine & Neuroscience, Association of American Publishers

    • COMPARATIVE LITERATURE

    The Consolations of Writing: Literary Strategies of Resistance from Boethius to Primo Levi
    Rivkah Zim

  • Honorable Mention for the 2015 René Wellek Prize, American Comparative Literature Association

    • Grimm Legacies: The Magic Spell of the Grimms' Folk and Fairy Tales
    Jack Zipes

  • Winner of the 2015 Chicago Folklore Prize, American Folklore Society and the University of Chicago

    • Inside Paradise Lost: Reading the Designs of Milton’s Epic
    David Quint

  • Winner of the 2015 James Holly Hanford Award, The Milton Society of America
  • Shortlisted for the 2015 Christian Gauss Award, Phi Beta Kappa Society

    • The Lives of the Novel: A History
    Thomas G. Pavel

  • Winner of the 2015 Barbara Perkins and George Perkins Prize, The International Society for the Study of Narrativer

    • Mirages and Mad Beliefs: Proust the Skeptic
    Christopher Prendergast

  • Winner of the 2015 R. Gapper Prize, Society for French Studies

    • The Life and Struggles of Our Mother Walatta Petros: A Seventeenth-Century African Biography of an Ethiopian Woman
    Galawdewos Translated and edited by Wendy Laura Belcher & Michael Kleiner

  • Winner of the 2015 Best Scholarly Edition in Translation, Society for the Study of Early Modern Women

    • EARTH SCIENCES

    Invisible in the Storm: The Role of Mathematics in Understanding Weather
    Ian Roulstone & John Norbury

  • Winner of the 2015 Louis J. Battan Author’s Award, American Meteorological Society

    • The Planet Remade: How Geoengineering Could Change the World
    Oliver Morton

  • Longlisted for the 2015 Samuel Johnson Prize for Nonfiction

    • ECONOMICS

    Between Monopoly and Free Trade: The English East India Company, 1600–1757
    Emily Erikson

  • Co-Winner of the 2015 Sharlin Memorial Award, Social Science History Association
  • Co-Winner of the 2015 Ralph Gomory Prize, Business History Conference

    • The Butterfly Defect: How Globalization Creates Systemic Risks, and What to Do about It
    Ian Goldin & Mike Mariathasan

  • Finalist for the 2015 Estoril Global Issues Distinguished Book Prize

    • Climate Shock: The Economic Consequences of a Hotter Planet
    Gernot Wagner & Martin L. Weitzman

  • Longlisted for the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year 2015

    • The Dollar Trap: How the U.S. Dollar Tightened Its Grip on Global Finance
    Eswar S. Prasad

  • Winner of the 2015 Gold Medal in Economics, Axiom Business Book Awards

    • Eating People Is Wrong, and Other Essays on Famine, Its Past, and Its Future
    Cormac Ó Gráda

  • One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2015

    • Fortune Tellers: The Story of America's First Economic Forecasters
    Walter A. Friedman

  • Winner of the 2015 Hagley Prize in Business History, Hagley Museum and Library and Business History Conference

    • GDP: A Brief but Affectionate History
    Diane Coyle

  • Winner of the 2015 Bronze Medal in Economics, Axiom Business Book Awards

    • Phishing for Phools: The Economics of Manipulation and Deceptiony
    George A. Akerlof & Robert J. Shiller

  • Longlisted for the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year 2015

    • A Social Strategy: How We Profit from Social Media
    Mikołaj Jan Piskorski

  • Winner of the 2015 Gold Medal in Networking, Axiom Business Book Awards

    • The Son Also Rises: Surnames and the History of Social Mobility
    Gregory Clark
    With Neil Cummins, Yu Hao and Daniel Diaz Vidal

  • Winner of 2015 Gyorgy Ranki Prize, Economic History Association
  • Honorable Mention for the 2015 PROSE Award in Economics, Association of American Publishers

    • Why Gender Matters in Economics
    Mukesh Eswaran

  • Winner of the 2015 PROSE Award in Textbook/Social Sciences, Association of American Publishers
  • One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2015

    • EUROPEAN HISTORY

    The Age of the Vikings
    Anders Winroth

  • Honorable Mention for the 2015 PROSE Award in European & World History, Association of American Publishers

    • Citizenship between Empire and Nation: Remaking France and French Africa, 1945–1960
    Frederick Cooper

  • Winner of the George Louis Beer Prize 2015, American Historical Association
  • Winner of the Martin A. Klein Prize 2015, American Historical Association

    • The Match Girl and the Heiress
    Seth Koven

  • Winner of the 2015 Stansky Prize, North American Conference on British Studies
  • Winner of the 2015 NAVSA Best book of the Year Award, North American Victorian Studies Association

    • On Stalin’s Team: The Years of Living Dangerously in Soviet Politics
    Sheila Fitzpatrick

  • 2015 Silver Winner in History, ForeWord Reviews’ INDIEFAB Book of the Year Awards

    • A Public Empire: Property and the Quest for the Common Good in Imperial Russia
    Ekaterina Pravilova

  • Winner of the 2015 Wayne S. Vucinich Book Prize, Association for Slavic, East European, & Eurasian Studies
  • Winner of the George L. Mosse Prize 2015, American Historical Association
  • Winner of the 2015 Historia Nova Prize, Mikhail Prokhorov Foundation and Academic Studies Press
  • Honorable Mention for the 2015 J. Willard Hurst Book Prize, Law and Society Association
  • Longlisted for the 2015 Historia Nova Prize, Mikhail Prokhorov Foundation and Academic Studies Press

    • Revolutionary Ideas: An Intellectual History of the French Revolution from The Rights of Man to Robespierre
    Jonathan Israel

  • Winner of the 2015 PROSE Award in European & World History, Association of American Publishers

    • Why Can the Dead Do Such Great Things? Saints and Worshippers from the Martyrs to the Reformation
    Robert Bartlett

  • Winner of the 2015 Otto Gründler Book Prize, The Medieval Institute of Western Michigan University

    • Empire and Revolution: The Political Life of Edmund Burke
    Richard Bourke

  • Co-Winner of the 2015 István Hont Book Prize, Institute of Intellectual History

    • FINANCE

    The Dollar Trap: How the U.S. Dollar Tightened Its Grip on Global Finance
    Eswar S. Prasad

  • Honorable Mention for the 2015 PROSE Award in Business, Finance & Management, Association of American Publishers

    • Fragile by Design: The Political Origins of Banking Crises and Scarce Credit
    Charles W. Calomiris & Stephen H. Haber

  • Winner of the 2015 PROSE Award in Business, Finance & Management, Association of American Publishers

    • HIGHER EDUCATION

    The History of American Higher Education: Learning and Culture from the Founding to World War II
    Roger L. Geiger

  • Winner of the 2015 AERA Division J Outstanding Publication Award, American Educational Research Association

    HISTORY OF SCIENCE AND MEDICINE, PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE

    Ten Thousand Birds: Ornithology since Darwin
    Tim Birkhead, Jo Wimpenny & Bob Montgomerie

  • Winner of the 2015 PROSE Award in History of Science, Medicine & Technology, Association of American Publishers

    • Tesla: Inventor of the Electrical Age
    W. Bernard Carlson

  • Winner of the 2015 Sally Hacker Prize, Society for the History of Technology
  • Winner of the 2015 IEEE William and Joyce Middleton Electrical Engineering History Award, History Committee of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers

    • JEWISH STUDIES

    Defining Neighbors: Religion, Race, and the Early Zionist-Arab Encounter
    Jonathan Marc Gribetz

  • One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2015

    • The Golden Age Shtetl: A New History of Jewish Life in East Europe
    Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern

  • One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2015
  • Honorable Mention for the 2015 PROSE Award in European & World History, Association of American Publishers

    • Leaving the Jewish Fold: Conversion and Radical Assimilation in Modern Jewish History
    Todd M. Endelman

  • Finalist for the 2015 National Jewish Book Award in Modern Jewish Thought & Experience (Dorot Foundation Award), Jewish Book Council

    • Maimonides: Life and Thought
    Moshe Halbertal

  • Honorable Mention for the 2015 PROSE Award in Theology & Religious Studies, Association of American Publishers

    • Skies of Parchment, Seas of Ink: Jewish Illuminated Manuscripts
    Edited by Marc Michael Epstein
    With contributions by Eva Frojmovic, Jenna Siman Jacobs, Hartley Lachter, Shalom Sabar, Raymond P. Scheindlin, Ágnes Vető, Susan Vick, Barbara Wolff & Diane Wolfthal

  • Winner of the 2015 National Jewish Book Award in Visual Arts, Jewish Book Council
  • Finalist for the 2015 National Jewish Book Award in Scholarship (Nahum M. Sarna Memorial Award), Jewish Book Council

    • What's Divine about Divine Law? Early Perspectives
    Christine Hayes

  • Winner of the 2015 National Jewish Book Award in Scholarship (Nahum M. Sarna Memorial Award), Jewish Book Council

    • LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES

    Sea of Storms: A History of Hurricanes in the Greater Caribbean from Columbus to Katrina
    Stuart B. Schwartz

  • Winner of the 2015 Gustav Ranis International Book Prize, MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies, Yale University
  • Honorable Mention for the 2015 ASLI Choice Award in History, Atmospheric Science Librarians International
  • Shortlisted for the 2015 Cundill Prize in Historical Literature, McGill University

    • LAW

    The Copyright Wars: Three Centuries of Trans-Atlantic Battle
    Peter Baldwin

  • Honorable Mention for the 2015 PROSE Award in Law & Legal Studies, Association of American Publishers

    • A Public Empire: Property and the Quest for the Common Good in Imperial Russia
    Ekaterina Pravilova

  • Honorable Mention for the 2015 J. Willard Hurst Book Prize, Law and Society Association

    • LITERATURE: PRIMARY WORKS AND LETTERS

    Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, 150th Anniversary Edition
    Lewis Carroll
    Illustrated by Salvador Dalí
    Edited by Mark Burstein

  • Winner of a 2015 Gelett Burgess Children’s Book Award

    • The Original Folk and Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm: The Complete First Edition
    Jacob & Wilhelm Grimm, Translated and edited by Jack Zipes
    Illustrated by Andrea Dezsö

  • One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2015

    • MATHEMATICS

    Alan Turing: The Enigma: The Book That Inspired the Film The Imitation Game
    Andrew Hodges

  • Winner of the 2015 (27th) USC Libraries Scripter Award, University of Southern California Libraries

    • Beautiful Geometry
    Eli Maor & Eugen Jost

  • Honorable Mention for the 2015 PROSE Award in Popular Science & Popular Mathematics, Association of American Publishers

    • The Fascinating World of Graph Theory
    Arthur Benjamin, Gary Chartrand & Ping Zhang

  • One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2015

    • Mathematics without Apologies: Portrait of a Problematic Vocation
    Michael Harris

  • One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2015

    • Topics in Quaternion Linear Algebra
    Leiba Rodman

  • One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2015

    • MIDDLE EASTERN STUDIES

    Of Sand or Soil: Genealogy and Tribal Belonging in Saudi Arabia
    Nadav Samin

  • Runner-Up for the 2016 British-Kuwait Friendship Society Book Prize in Middle Eastern Studies

    • Soft Force: Women in Egypt's Islamic Awakening
    Ellen Anne McLarney

  • Winner of the 2016 JMEWS Book Award, Journal of Middle Eastern Women’s Studies and Association of Middle East Women’s Studies

    • Young Islam: The New Politics of Religion in Morocco and the Arab World
    Avi Max Spiegel

  • Winner of a Washington Post Abu Aardvark 2015 Middle East Book Award
  • Co-Winner of the 2016 Book Award, Religion and International Relations Section, International Studies Association

    • They Can Live in the Desert but Nowhere Else": A History of the Armenian Genocide
    Ronald Grigor Suny

  • Winner of the 2016 Wayne S. Vucinich Book Prize, Association for Slavic, East European, & Eurasian Studies

    • PHILOSOPHY

    Pagans and Philosophers: The Problem of Paganism from Augustine to Leibniz
    John Marenbon

  • One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2015

    • Teaching Plato in Palestine: Philosophy in a Divided World
    Carlos Fraenkel
    Foreword by Michael Walzer

  • Winner of the 2015 Mavis Gallant Prize for Non-Fiction, Quebec Writers’ FederationFinalist for the 2015 Mavis Gallant Prize for Non-Fiction, Quebec Writers’ Federation

    • Would You Kill the Fat Man? The Trolley Problem and What Your Answer Tells Us about Right and Wrong
    David Edmonds

  • Honorable Mention for the 2015 PROSE Award in Philosophy, Association of American Publishers

    • POETRY

    Carnations: Poems
    Anthony Carelli

  • Winner of a 2015 Whiting Award, Whiting Foundation

    • On Elizabeth Bishop
    Colm Tóibín

  • Nominee for the 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism

    • The Ruined Elegance: Poems
    Fiona Sze-Lorrain

  • Finalist for the 2015 Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Poetry

    • POLITICAL SCIENCE AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

    Economic Interdependence and War
    Dale C. Copeland

  • One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2015

    • In-Your-Face Politics: The Consequences of Uncivil Media
    Diana C. Mutz

  • One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2015
  • Finalist for the 2015 Frank Luther Mott-Kappa Tau Alpha Journalism and Mass Communication Research Award

    • Liberalism: The Life of an Idea
    Edmund Fawcett

  • Honorable Mention for the 2015 PROSE Award in Government & Politics, Association of American Publishers

    • Making Human Rights a Reality
    Emilie M. Hafner-Burton

  • A Winner of the 2015 ISA Annual Best Book Award, International Studies Association

    • The Muslim Brotherhood: Evolution of an Islamist Movement
    Carrie Rosefsky Wickham

  • Honorable Mention for the 2015 Hubert Morken Award for Best Book, Religion and Politics Section of the American Political Science Association

    • The New Terrain of International Law: Courts, Politics, Rights
    Karen J. Alter

  • Winner of the 2015 Certificate of Merit for a Preeminent Contribution to Creative Scholarship, American Society of International Law
  • Winner of the 2015 International Law Best Book Award, International Law Section of the International Studies Association
  • Honorable Mention for the 2015 Chadwick Alger Award, International Studies Association

    • Nuclear Strategy in the Modern Era: Regional Powers and International Conflict
    Vipin Narang

  • Winner of the 2015 Best Book, International Security Studies Section of the International Studies Association

    • Paradoxes of Liberal Democracy: Islam, Western Europe, and the Danish Cartoon Crisis
    Paul M. Sniderman, Michael Bang Petersen, Rune Slothuus & Rune Stubager

  • One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2015

    • Power without Persuasion: The Politics of Direct Presidential Action
    William G. Howell

  • Winner of the 2015 Legacy Award, Presidents and Executive Politics Section of the American Political Science Association

    • Rethinking Private Authority: Agents and Entrepreneurs in Global Environmental Governance
    Jessica F. Green

  • Winner of the 2015 Levine Prize, International Political Science Association’s Research Committee on the Structure and Organization of Government
  • Winner of the 2014-2015 Harold and Margaret Sprout Award, Environmental Studies Section of the International Studies Association
  • Winner of the 2015 Lynton Keith Caldwell Prize, Science, Technology, and Environmental Politics Section of the American Political Science Association

    • Secrets and Leaks: The Dilemma of State Secrecy
    Rahul Sagar

  • Winner of the 2015 Myres S. McDougal Prize, Society of Policy Scientists

    • The Silent Sex: Gender, Deliberation, and Institutions
    Christopher F. Karpowitz & Tali Mendelberg

  • Winner of the 2015 David O. Sears Book Award, International Society of Political Psychology
  • Winner of the 2015 Robert E. Lane Award, Political Psychology Section of the American Political Science Association
  • Co-Winners of the 2015 Best Book Award, Experimental Research Section of the American Political Science AssociationCo-Winners of the 2015 Best Book Award, Experimental Research Section of the American Political Science Association

    • War and Democratic Constraint: How the Public Influences Foreign Policy
    Matthew A. Baum & Philip B. K. Potter

  • One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2015

    • White Backlash: Immigration, Race, and American Politics
    Marisa Abrajano & Zoltan L. Hajnal

  • One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2015

    • Why Government Fails So Often: And How It Can Do Better
    Peter H. Schuck

  • Honorable Mention for the 2015 PROSE Award in Government & Politics, Association of American Publishers

    • POPULAR SCIENCE

    How to Clone a Mammoth: The Science of De-Extinction
    Beth Shapiro

  • Finalist for the 2015 Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Science & Technology

    • Life's Engines: How Microbes Made Earth Habitable
    Paul G. Falkowski

  • One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2015

    • Wizards, Aliens, and Starships: Physics and Math in Fantasy and Science Fiction
    Charles L. Adler

  • Co-Winner of the 2015 AIP Science Writing Award for Books, American Institute of Physics

    • REFERENCE WORKS AND ANTHOLOGIES

    Dictionary of Untranslatables: A Philosophical Lexicon
    Edited by Barbara Cassin
    Translation edited by Emily Apter, Jacques Lezra & Michael Wood

  • Winner of a 2015 Outstanding Reference Sources Award, Reference and User Services Association, American Library Association

    • The Princeton Companion to Atlantic History
    Edited by Joseph C. Miller
    Vincent Brown, Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra, Laurent Dubois & Karen Ordhal Kupperman, associate editors

  • One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2015

    • The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism
    Robert E. Buswell Jr. & Donald S. Lopez Jr.

  • Winner of the 2015 Dartmouth Medal, Reference and User Services Association of the American Library Association

    • RELIGION

    Thomas Aquinas’s Summa theologiae: A Biography
    Bernard McGinn.

  • Honorable Mention, 2015 Catholic Press Association Book Award, History Category

    • SOCIAL SCIENCE

    Why Gender Matters in Economics
    Mukesh Eswaran

  • Winner of the 2015 PROSE Award in Textbook/Social Sciences, Association of American Publishers

    • SOCIOLOGY

    After Civil Rights: Racial Realism in the New American Workplace
    Gabriel Abend

  • Honorable Mention for the 2015 Oliver Cromwell Cox Book Award, Racial and Ethnic Minorities Section of the American Sociological Association

    • American Zoo: A Sociological Safari
    David Grazian

  • Winner of the 2015 Athenaeum Literary Award, The Athenaeum of Philadelphia

    • The Battle for Yellowstone: Morality and the Sacred Roots of Environmental Conflict
    Justin Farrell

  • One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2015

    • Between Slavery and Capitalism: The Legacy of Emancipation in the American South
    Martin Ruef

  • Winner of the 2015 Viviana Zelizer Award for Best Book, Economic Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association

    • The Hero's Fight: African Americans in West Baltimore and the Shadow of the State
    Patricia Fernández-Kelly

  • Finalist for the 2015 C. Wright Mills Award, Society for the Study of Social Problems

    • The Moral Background: An Inquiry into the History of Business Ethics
    John D. Skrentny

  • Co-Winner of the 2015 Outstanding Published Book Award, Altruism, Morality and Social Solidarity Section of the American Sociological Association

    • Pedigree: How Elite Students Get Elite Jobs
    Lauren A. Rivera

  • One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2015

    • Social Trends in American Life: Findings from the General Social Survey since 1972
    Edited by Peter V. Marsden

  • Winner of the 2015 AAPOR Book Award, American Association for Public Opinion Research

    • Selling Our Souls: The Commodification of Hospital Care in the United States
    Adam D. Reich

  • One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2015

    • Terrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream
    Christopher Bail

  • Winner of the 2015 ARNOVA Award for Outstanding Book in Nonprofit and Voluntary Action Research

    • There Goes the Gayborhood?
    Amin Ghaziani

  • Selected for the 2015 Over the Rainbow Project book list, American Library Association

    • WORLD HISTORY / COMPARATIVE HISTORY

    The Amazons: Lives and Legends of Warrior Women across the Ancient World
    Adrienne Mayor

  • 2015 Silver Medal Winner in the Independent Publisher Book Awards, World History category

    • Cowardice: A Brief History
    Chris Walsh

  • 2015 Bronze Medal Winner in the Independent Publisher Book Awards, World History category

    • 2014 AWARDS

    AMERICAN HISTORY

    Art and the Second World War
    Monica Bohm-Duchen

  • One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2014

    • The Battle of Bretton Woods:
    John Maynard Keynes, Harry Dexter White, and the Making of a New World Order
    Benn Steil

  • One of The Motley Fool's (John Reeves) 10 Great Books on American Economic History
  • Honorable Mention for the 2014 Arthur Ross Book Award, Council on Foreign Relations
  • Shortlisted for the 2014 Lionel Gelber Prize, Lionel Gelber Foundation

    • The Color of Success: Asian Americans and the Origins of the Model Minority
    Ellen D. Wu

  • Winner of the 2014 Best First Book, Immigration and Ethnic History Society

    • AMERICAN LITERATURE

    The Correspondence of Henry D. Thoreau: Volume 1: 1834 - 1848
    Henry D. Thoreau
    Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth

  • One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2014

    ANTHROPOLOGY

    The Alzheimer Conundrum: Entanglements of Dementia and Aging
    Margaret Lock

  • Shortlisted for the 2014 Mavis Gallant Prize for Non-Fiction, Quebec Writers' Federation

    • The Enculturated Gene: Sickle Cell Health Politics and Biological Difference in West Africa
    Duana Fullwiley

  • Winner of the 2014 Robert B. Textor and Family Prize for Excellence in Anticipatory Anthropology, American Anthropological Association

    • The New Arab Man: Emergent Masculinities, Technologies, and Islam in the Middle East
    Marcia C. Inhorn

  • Winner of the 2014 JMEWS Book Award, Journal of Middle Eastern Women's Studies and Association of Middle East Women's Studies

    • The Nuclear Borderlands: The Manhattan Project in Post-Cold War New Mexico
    Joseph Masco

  • Winner of the 2014 J.I. Staley Prize, School of Advanced Research

    • When Experiments Travel: Clinical Trials and the Global Search for Human Subjects
    Adriana Petryna

  • Honorable Mention for the 2014 Diana Forsythe Prize, Committee on the Anthropology of Science, Technology, and Computing of the General Anthropology Division, and the Society for the Anthropology of Work

    • ARCHAEOLOGY AND ANCIENT HISTORY

    1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed
    Eric H. Cline

  • Winner of the 2014 Award for the Best Popular Book, American Schools of Oriental Research

    Delphi: A History of the Center of the Ancient World
    Michael Scott

  • One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2014

    • ART AND ARCHITECTURE

    Lost Animals: Extinction and the Photographic Record
    Errol Fuller

  • One of Amazon.com’s 2014 Best Books of the Year: Arts & Photography

    Take a Closer Look
    Daniel Arasse
    Translated by Alyson Waters

  • One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2014

    ASIAN AND ASIAN AMERICAN STUDIES

    Lost Enlightenment: Central Asia's Golden Age from the Arab Conquest to Tamerlane
    S. Frederick Starr

  • One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2014

    BIOLOGY

    40 Years of Evolution: Darwin’s Finches on Daphne Major Island
    Peter R. Grant & B. Rosemary Grant

  • One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2014

    BIRDS AND NATURAL HISTORY

    Ten Thousand Birds: Ornithology since Darwin
    Tim Birkhead, Jo Wimpenny & Bob Montgomerie

  • One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2014

    The Warbler Guide
    Tom Stephenson & Scott Whittle

  • Winner of a 2014 National Outdoor Book Award in Nature Guidebooks

    BRITISH LITERATURE

    How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain
    Leah Price

  • Winner of the 2014 Robert Lowry Patten Award, SEL Studies in English Literature 1500-1900

    CLASSICS

    Aristotle: His Life and School
    Carlo Natali
    Edited by D. S. Hutchinson

  • One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles Top 25 Academic Books for 2014

    COMPARATIVE LITERATURE

    Inside Paradise Lost: Reading the Designs of Milton’s Epic
    David Quint

  • One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2014

    • Poetic Trespass: Writing between Hebrew and Arabic in Israel/Palestine
    Lital Levy

  • Co-Winner of the 2014 MLA Prize for a First Book, Modern Language Association

    • Time, History, and Literature: Selected Essays of Erich Auerbach
    Erich Auerbach
    Edited & with an introduction by James I. Porter
    Translated by Jane O. Newman

  • Jane O. Newman, Co-Winner of the 2014 Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for a Translation of a Scholarly Study of Literature, Modern Language Association

    • Kafka: The Years of Insight
    Reiner Stach
    Translated by Shelley Frisch

  • Winner of the 2014 Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator's Prize
  • One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2014
  • Longlisted for the 2014 PEN Translation Award, Pen American Center

    • The Lives of the Novel: A History
    Thomas G. Pavel

  • Shortlisted for the 2014 Christian Gauss Award, Phi Beta Kappa Society

    No Joke: Making Jewish Humor
    Ruth R. Wisse

  • Shortlisted for the 2014 Sophie Brody Medal, Reference and User Services Association (RUSA) of the American Library Association

    EARTH SCIENCES

    Oxygen: A Four Billion Year History
    Donald E. Canfield
  • Winner of the 2014 ASLI Choice Award, Atmospheric Science Librarians International

    • Tambora: The Eruption That Changed the World
    Gillen D’Arcy Wood

  • Honorable Mention for the 2014 ASLI Choice Award in History, Atmospheric Science Librarians International
  • Winner of the 2015 Michelle Kendrick Memorial Book Prize, Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts

    • ECONOMICS

    The Bankers' New Clothes: What's Wrong with Banking and What to Do about It
    Anat Admati & Martin Hellwig

  • Co-Winners of the 2014 Bronze Medal in Economics, Axiom Business Book Awards
  • Selected for the ‘Moyers & Company’ Recommended Books List 2014

    The Battle of Bretton Woods:
    John Maynard Keynes, Harry Dexter White, and the Making of a New World Order
    Benn Steil

  • Co-Winners of the 2014 Bronze Medal in Economics, Axiom Business Book Awards

    The Dollar Trap: How the U.S. Dollar Tightened Its Grip on Global Finance
    Eswar S. Prasad

  • One of Financial Times (FT.com) Best Economics Books of 2014, chosen by Martin Wolf
  • One of China Business News’ Financial Books of the Year for 2014

    The Econometrics of Financial Markets
    John Y. Campbell, Andrew W. Lo, & A. Craig MacKinlay

  • Winner of the 2014 Eugene Fama Prize for Outstanding Contributions to Doctoral Education, University of Chicago Booth School of Business

    The Federal Reserve and the Financial Crisis
    Ben S. Bernanke

  • One of China Business News’ Financial Books of the Year for 2014

    Fragile by Design: The Political Origins of Banking Crises and Scarce Credit
    Charles W. Calomiris & Stephen H. Haber

  • One of The Times Higher Education Supplement’s Books of the Year 2014, selected by Sir Howard Davies
  • One of Bloomberg Businessweek’s Best Books of 2014, chosen by Mervyn King and Jeffrey M. Lacker
  • One of Financial Times (FT.com) Best Economics Books of 2014, chosen by Martin Wolf
  • Longlisted for the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year 2014

    • GDP: A Brief but Affectionate History
    Diane Coyle

  • One of The Wall Street Journal’s Best Books of 2014
  • One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2014
  • One of FA-mag.com’s Books of the Year 2014
  • One of "The Books Quartz Read" in 2014
  • One of Minnpost.com’s ‘Three (plus) books for the econ buff on your list’ 2014
  • Longlisted for the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year 2014

    The Great Escape: Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequality
    Angus Deaton

  • One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2014

    Human Capitalism: How Economic Growth Has Made Us Smarter--and More Unequal
    Brink Lindsey

  • One of Bloomberg Businessweek’s Best Books of 2014, chosen by Jeffrey M. Lacker

    Mass Flourishing: How Grassroots Innovation Created Jobs, Challenge, and Change
    Edmund Phelps

  • Winner of the 2014 Gold Medal in Economics, Axiom Business Book Awards
  • One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2014
  • One of Bloomberg Businessweek’s Best Books of 2014, chosen by chosen by Bjorn Wahlroos

    • Shaping Jazz: Cities, Labels, and the Global Emergence of an Art Form
    Damon J. Phillips

  • Finalist for the 2014 George R. Terry Book Award, Academy of Management

    The Son Also Rises: Surnames and the History of Social Mobility
    Gregory Clark
    With Neil Cummins, Yu Hao and Daniel Diaz Vidal

  • One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2014

    Why Philanthropy Matters: How the Wealthy Give, and What It Means for Our Economic Well-Being
    Zoltan J. Acs

  • Finalist for the 2014 George R. Terry Book Award, Academy of Management

    Worldly Philosopher: The Odyssey of Albert O. Hirschman
    Jeremy Adelman

  • Winner of the 2014 Joseph J. Spengler Best Book Prize, History of Economics Society

    EUROPEAN HISTORY

    Jews and the Military: A History
    Derek J. Penslar

  • Shortlisted for the 2014 Sophie Brody Medal, Reference and User Services Association (RUSA) of the American Library Association

    Prague, Capital of the Twentieth Century: A Surrealist History
    Derek Sayer

  • Winner of the 2014 George L. Mosse Prize, American Historical Association
  • Honorable Mention for the 2014 Wayne S. Vucinich Book Prize, Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
  • Special Mention for the 2014 F. X. Šalda Prize, Institute for Czech Literature of the Czech Academy of Sciences

    • FINANCE

    The Founder's Dilemmas: Anticipating and Avoiding the Pitfalls That Can Sink a Startup
    Noam Wasserman

  • Winner of the 2014 Entrepreneurship Practice Award, Entrepreneurship Division of the Academy of Management

    HIGHER EDUCATION

    Uneducated Guesses: Using Evidence to Uncover Misguided Education Policies
    Howard Wainer

  • Winner of the 2014 AERA Division D Significant Contribution to Educational Measurement and Research Methodology Award, American Educational Research Association

    HISTORY OF SCIENCE AND MEDICINE, PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE

    Einstein and the Quantum: The Quest of the Valiant Swabian
    A. Douglas Stone

  • Winner of the 2014 Phi Beta Kappa Award in Science, Phi Beta Kappa Society
  • One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2014

    • Tesla: Inventor of the Electrical Age
    W. Bernard Carlson

  • Longlisted for the 2014 Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books

    The Visioneers: How a Group of Elite Scientists Pursued Space Colonies, Nanotechnologies, and a Limitless Future
    W. Patrick McCray

  • Winner of the 2014 Watson Davis and Helen Miles Davis Prize, History of Science Society

    JEWISH STUDIES

    The Golden Age Shtetl: A New History of Jewish Life in East Europe
    Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern

  • Winner of the 2014 National Jewish Book Award in History (Gerrard and Ella Berman Memorial Award), Jewish Book Council

    Maimonides: Life and Thought
    Moshe Halbertal

  • One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2014

    Poetic Trespass: Writing between Hebrew and Arabic in Israel/Palestine
    Lital Levy

  • Winner of the 2014 Salo Baron Prize, American Academy for Jewish Research
  • Co-Winner of the 2014 Jordan Schnitzer Book Award in Jewish Literature and Linguistics, Association for Jewish Studies

    • The Scandal of Kabbalah: Leon Modena, Jewish Mysticism, Early Modern Venice
    Yaacob Dweck

  • Honorable Mention for the 2014 Jordan Schnitzer Book Award in Medieval and Early Modern Jewish History, Association for Jewish Studies

    LAW

    Boilerplate: The Fine Print, Vanishing Rights, and the Rule of Law
    Margaret Jane Radin

  • Winner of the 2014 Scribes Book Award, The American Society of Legal Writers

    LITERATURE: PRIMARY WORKS AND LETTERS

    The Plum in the Golden Vase or, Chin P’ing Mei: Volume Five: The Dissolution
    Translated by David Tod Roy

  • One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2014

    MATHEMATICS

    Math Bytes: Google Bombs, Chocolate-Covered Pi, and Other Cool Bits in Computing
    Tim Chartier

  • One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2014

    MIDDLE EASTERN STUDIES

    Leisurely Islam: Negotiating Geography and Morality in Shi‘ite South Beirut
    Lara Deeb & Mona Harb

  • Winner of the 2014 British-Kuwait Friendship Society Prize in Middle Eastern Studies
  • One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2014

    • The Muslim Brotherhood: Evolution of an Islamist Movement
    Carrie Rosefsky Wickham

  • One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2014

    • MUSIC

    Mozart's Grace
    Scott Burnham

  • Winner of the 2014 Otto Kinkeldey Award, American Musicological Society

    PHILOSOPHY

    Philosophy of Biology
    Peter Godfrey-Smith

  • One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2014

    • Would You Kill the Fat Man? The Trolley Problem and What Your Answer Tells Us about Right and Wrong
    David Edmonds

  • One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2014

    • PHYSICS

    Einstein and the Quantum: The Quest of the Valiant Swabian
    A. Douglas Stone

  • One of Physics World's Top Ten Books of the Year for 2014

    • Wizards, Aliens, and Starships: Physics and Math in Fantasy and Science Fiction
    Charles L. Adler

  • One of Physics World's Top Ten Books of the Year for 2014

    • POLITICAL SCIENCE AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

    Change They Can't Believe In: The Tea Party and Reactionary Politics in America
    Christopher S. Parker & Matt A. Barreto

  • Winner of the 2014 Best Book Award, Race, Ethnicity, and Politics Section of the American Political Science Association

    Ground Wars: Personalized Communication in Political Campaigns
    Rasmus Kleis Nielsen

  • Winner of the 2014 Doris Graber Award, Political Communication Section of the American Political Science Association

    He Runs, She Runs: Why Gender Stereotypes Do Not Harm Women Candidates
    Deborah Jordan Brooks

  • Winner of the 2014 David O. Sears Book Award, International Society of Political Psychology
  • Winner of the 2014 Victoria Schuck Award, American Political Science Association

    • In the Interest of Others: Organizations and Social Activism
    John S. Ahlquist & Margaret Levi

  • Co-Winner of the 2014 Best Book Award, The Labor Project of the American Political Science Association

    • The Limits of Partnership: U.S.-Russian Relations in the Twenty-First Century
    Angela E. Stent

  • Winner of the 2014 Douglas Dillon Award, American Academy of Diplomacy
  • One of Bloomberg Businessweek’s Best Books of 2014, chosen by Dan Fuss

    • The Politics of Precaution: Regulating Health, Safety, and Environmental Risks in Europe and the United States
    David Vogel

  • Winner of the 2014 Lynton Keith Caldwell Prize, Science, Technology, and Environmental Politics Section of the American Political Science Association

    The Price of Rights: Regulating International Labor Migration
    Martin Ruhs

  • Winner of the 2014 Best Book Award, Migration and Citizenship Section of the American Political Science Association

    Secrets and Leaks: The Dilemma of State Secrecy
    Rahul Sagar

  • Winner of the 2014 Louis Brownlow Book Award, National Academy of Public Administration
  • One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2014

    • War Powers: The Politics of Constitutional Authority
    Mariah Zeisberg

  • Winner of the 2014 Richard E. Neustadt Award, Presidents and Executive Politics Section of the American Political Science Association

    What Is Your Race? The Census and Our Flawed Efforts to Classify Americans
    Kenneth Prewitt

  • One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2014

    • Why Adjudicate? Enforcing Trade Rules in the WTO
    Christina L. Davis

  • Winner of the 2014 Masayoshi Ohira Memorial Prize, Masayoshi Ohira Memorial Foundation

    • REFERENCE WORKS AND ANTHOLOGIES

    Atlas of Cities
    Edited by Paul Knox
    With a foreword by Richard Florida

  • Winner of the 2014 AAG Globe Book Award for Public Understanding of Geography, Association of American Geographers

    Dictionary of Untranslatables: A Philosophical Lexicon
    Edited by Barbara Cassin
    Translation edited by Emily Apter, Jacques Lezra & Michael Wood

  • One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2014

    A History of Jewish-Muslim Relations: From the Origins to the Present Day
    Edited by Abdelwahab Meddeb & Benjamin Stora

  • One of the Outstanding Reference Sources for 2014, Reference and User Services Association (RUSA), American Library Association
  • One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2014

    The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism
    Robert E. Buswell Jr. & Donald S. Lopez Jr.

  • One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles Top 25 Academic Books for 2014

    • RELIGION

    Confucianism as a World Religion: Contested Histories and Contemporary Realities
    Anna Sun

  • Winner of the 2014 Best Book Award, Sociology of Religion Section of the American Sociological Association
  • Winner of the 2014 Best First Book in the History of Religions Award, American Academy of Religion

    • The Modern Spirit of Asia: The Spiritual and the Secular in China and India
    Peter van der Veer

  • Finalist for the 2014 Award for Excellence in Religion in Analytical-Descriptive Studies, American Academy of Religion
  • One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2014

    • SOCIOLOGY

    After Civil Rights: Racial Realism in the New American Workplace
    John D. Skrentny

  • Winner of the 2014 Richard A. Lester Award for the Outstanding Book in Industrial Relations and Labor Economics, Industrial Relations Section of Princeton University
  • Finalist for the 2014 Benjamin L. Hooks Institute for Social Change National Book Award, The University of Memphis

    • Climbing Mount Laurel: The Struggle for Affordable Housing and Social Mobility in an American Suburb
    Douglas S. Massey, Len Albright, Rebecca Casciano, Elizabeth Derickson & David N. Kinsey

  • Co-winners of the 2014 Robert E. Park Award, Community and Urban Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association

    • Making Volunteers: Civic Life after Welfare's End
    Nina Eliasoph

  • Winner of a 2014 Phi Kappa Phi Faculty Recognition Award

    Three Worlds of Relief: Race, Immigration, and the American Welfare State from the Progressive Era to the New Deal
    Cybelle Fox

  • Co-Winner of the 2014 Barrington Moore Book Award, Comparative and Historical Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association

    WORLD HISTORY / COMPARATIVE HISTORY

    The Amazons: Lives and Legends of Warrior Women across the Ancient World
    Adrienne Mayor

  • Shortlisted for the 2014 London Hellenic Prize

    • Masters of the Universe: Hayek, Friedman, and the Birth of Neoliberal Politics
    Daniel Stedman Jones

  • Finalist for the 2014 Presidents' Book Award, Western Social Science Association

    • The Transformation of the World: A Global History of the Nineteenth Century
    Jürgen Osterhammel

  • One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2014
  • One of Bloomberg Businessweek’s Best Books of 2014, chosen by Satiyajit Das
  • One of Marginal Revolution.com’s (Tyler Cowen) Best Non-Fiction Books of 2014

    • 2013 AWARDS

    AMERICAN HISTORY

    The Battle of Bretton Woods:
    John Maynard Keynes, Harry Dexter White, and the Making of a New World Order
    Benn Steil

  • One of Financial Times (FT.com) Best History Books of 2013
  • Featured in The Sunday Times 2013 Holiday Roundup

    Foreign Relations: American Immigration in Global Perspective
    Donna R. Gabaccia

  • Winner, 2013 Theodore Saloutos Memorial Book Award, Immigration and Ethnic History Society

    The Leaderless Economy: Why the World Economic System Fell Apart and How to Fix It
    Peter Temin & David Vines

  • One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2013

    AMERICAN LITERATURE

    Heart Beats: Everyday Life and the Memorized Poem
    Catherine Robson

  • Winner of the 2013 NAVSA Best Book of the Year Award, North American Victorian Studies Association

    The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics: Fourth Edition
    Roland Greene, editor in chief; Stephen Cushman, general editor
    Clare Cavanagh, Jahan Ramazani & Paul Rouzer, associate editors

  • One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2013

    The Story of America: Essays on Origins
    Jill Lepore

  • Runner-up for the 2013 PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay, PEN American Center

    ANTHROPOLOGY

    Addiction by Design: Machine Gambling in Las Vegas
    Natasha Dow Schüll

  • Winner of the 2013 Sharon Stephens First Book Prize, American Ethnological Society
  • Honorable Mention for the 2013 Gregory Bateson Prize, The Society for Cultural Anthropology
  • The Atlantic Editors' "The Best Book I Read This Year" for 2013, chosen by senior editor Alexis C. Madrigal

    The Black Hole of Empire: History of a Global Practice of Power
    Partha Chatterjee

  • One of HistoryToday's Books of the Year 2013, chosen by Chandak Sengoopta

    Depression in Japan: Psychiatric Cures for a Society in Distress
    Junko Kitanaka

  • Co-Winner of the 2013 Frances Hsu Prize, Society for East Asian Anthropology

    Making War at Fort Hood: Life and Uncertainty in a Military Community
    Kenneth T. MacLeish

  • Third Place for the 2013 Victor Turner Prize in Ethnographic Writing, Society for Humanistic Anthropology and American Anthropological Association

    Melancholia of Freedom: Social Life in an Indian Township in South Africa
    Thomas Blom Hansen

  • Finalist for the 2013 Melville J. Herskovits Award, African Studies Association

    Tobacco Capitalism: Growers, Migrant Workers, and the Changing Face of a Global Industry
    Peter Benson

  • Winner of the 2013 Delmos Jones and Jagna Sharff Memorial Prize for the Critical Study of North America, Society for the Anthropology of North America / American Anthropological Association

    ART AND ARCHITECTURE

    Mute Poetry, Speaking Pictures
    Leonard Barkan

  • One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2013

    Picasso and Truth: From Cubism to Guernica
    T. J. Clark

  • One of Financial Times (FT.com) Best Art Books of 2013
  • Shortlisted for the Apollo Awards Book of the Year 2013, Apollo Magazine

    Wartime Kiss: Visions of the Moment in the 1940s
    Alexander Nemerov

  • One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2013

    ASIAN AND ASIAN AMERICAN STUDIES

    Confucianism as a World Religion: Contested Histories and Contemporary Realities
    Anna Sun
  • One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2013

    ASTRONOMY AND COSMOLOGY

    Dreams of Other Worlds: The Amazing Story of Unmanned Space Exploration
    Chris Impey & Holly Henry

  • Winner of the 2013 Eugene E. Emme Award for Astronautical Literature, American Astronautical Society

    Heart of Darkness: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Invisible Universe
    Jeremiah P. Ostriker & Simon Mitton

  • One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles Top 25 Academic Books for 2013
  • Honorable Mention for the 2013 PROSE Award in Cosmology & Astronomy, Association of American Publishers

    The Milky Way: An Insider's Guide
    William H. Waller

  • One of SkyNews Best Astronomy Books of the Year 2013, chosen by SkyNews editor, Terence Dickinson

    BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

    Bugs Rule!: An Introduction to the World of Insects
    Whitney Cranshaw & Richard Redak

  • One of the New Scientist's Best Science Books of 2013

    Cells to Civilizations: The Principles of Change That Shape Life
    Enrico Coen

  • Shortlisted for the 2013 Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books

    Nature's Compass: The Mystery of Animal Navigation
    James L. Gould & Carol Grant Gould

  • Longlisted for the 2013 Society of Biology Book Awards in General Biology

    The Unfeathered Bird
    Katrina van Grouw

  • Honorable Mention for the 2013 PROSE Award in Biological Sciences, Association of American Publishers

    BIRDS AND NATURAL HISTORY

    The Crossley ID Guide: Britain and Ireland
    Richard Crossley & Dominic Couzens

  • One of The Guardian's Best Nature Books of 2013, chosen by Stephen Moss

    The Crossley ID Guide: Raptors
    Richard Crossley, Jerry Liguori & Brian Sullivan

  • Honorable Mention for the 2013 National Outdoor Book Awards, Nature Guidebooks

    The Kingdom of Fungi
    Jens H. Petersen

  • One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2013

    Spring Wildflowers of the Northeast: A Natural History
    Carol Gracie

  • 2013 Merit Award Book Cover/Jacket, New York Book Show, in the category Professional, Reference

    The Unfeathered Bird
    Katrina van Grouw

  • Third Place for the 2013 BB/BTO Best Bird Book of the Year, British Birds and the British Trust for Ornithology

    The Warbler Guide
    Tom Stephenson & Scott Whittle, Drawings by Catherine Hamilton

  • Second Place for the 2013 BB/BTO Best Bird Book of the Year, British Birds and the British Trust for Ornithology
  • Honorable Mention for the 2013 PROSE Award in Single Volume Reference/Science, Association of American Publishers

    The World's Rarest Birds
    Erik Hirschfeld, Andy Swash & Robert Still

  • Fourth Place for the 2013 BB/BTO Best Bird Book of the Year, British Birds and the British Trust for Ornithology
  • One of Library Journal's Best Sci-Tech Books for 2013

    BRITISH LITERATURE

    Archives of Authority: Empire, Culture, and the Cold War
    Andrew N. Rubin

  • Winner of a 2013 Lannan Literary Fellowship for Nonfiction, Lannan Foundation

    Empty Houses: Theatrical Failure and the Novel
    David Kurnick

  • Co-Winner of the 2013 Sonia Rudikoff Prize, Northeast Victorian Studies Association

    The Rise and Fall of Meter: Poetry and English National Culture, 1860-1930
    Meredith Martin

  • Winner, 2013 Warren-Brooks Award for Outstanding Literary Criticism, Robert Penn Warren Center and Western Kentucky University
  • Co-Winner of the 2013 Sonia Rudikoff Prize, Northeast Victorian Studies Association

    CLASSICS

    Through the Eye of a Needle: Wealth, the Fall of Rome, and the Making of Christianity in the West, 350-550 AD
    Peter Brown

  • Winner of the 2013 Jacques Barzun Prize in Cultural History, American Philosophical Society
  • Winner of the 2013 Philip Schaff Prize, American Society of Church History
  • Honorable Mention for the 2013 Cundill Prize in Historical Literature, McGill University
  • One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2013

    COMPARATIVE LITERATURE

    No Joke: Making Jewish Humor
    Ruth R. Wisse

  • Honorable Mention for the 2013 PROSE Award in Language & Linguistics, Association of American Publishers

    The Pity of Partition: Manto's Life, Times, and Work across the India-Pakistan Divide
    Ayesha Jalal

  • One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2013

    ECONOMICS

    The Bankers' New Clothes: What's Wrong with Banking and What to Do about It
    Anat Admati & Martin Hellwig

  • One of Bloomberg/Businessweek Best Books of 2013, selected by Jason Furman (chairman of the U.S. Council of Economic Advisors)
  • One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2013
  • One of Financial Times (FT.com) Best Economics Books of 2013
  • One of The Wall Street Journal's Best Nonfiction Books of 2013
  • Shortlisted for the 2013 Deutsche Wirtschaftsbuchpreis (German Business and Economics Book Award), sponsored by Handelsblatt, the Frankfurt Book Fair, and Goldman Sachs

    The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger
    Marc Levinson

  • One of Financial Times (FT.com) Best Business Books of 2013 (chosen by guest critic Bill Gates, Chairman of Microsoft)

    The Battle of Bretton Woods:
    John Maynard Keynes, Harry Dexter White, and the Making of a New World Order
    Benn Steil

  • One of Bloomberg News' Top Business Books of 2013
  • One of Bloomberg/Businessweek Best Books of 2013, as selected individually by Fredrik Erixon (director of the European Center for International Political Economy in Brussels), Scott Minerd (chief investment officer of Guggenheim Partners), Olli Rehn (European Union economic and monetary affairs commissioner) and Alan Greenspan (former Federal Reserve chairman)
  • One of Kirkus Reviews' Best Nonfiction Books of the Year for 2013 in Business and Economics
  • Shortlisted for the 2013 800-CEO-READ Business Book Awards in Finance & Economics

    Distant Tyranny: Markets, Power, and Backwardness in Spain, 1650-1800
    Regina Grafe

  • Winner of the 2013 Gyorgy Ranki Biennial Prize, Economic History Association

    Finance and the Good Society
    Robert J. Shiller

  • 2013 Winner of a Bronze Medal in the Axiom Business Book Awards in the category of Economics

    The Great Escape: Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequality
    Angus Deaton

  • Winner of the 2013 William G. Bowen Award, Industrial Relations Section of Princeton University
  • One of Bloomberg/Businessweek Best Books of 2013, selected by Christopher L. Eisgruber (president of Princeton University)
    • One of Forbes Magazine's Best Books of 2013
  • Honorable Mention for the 2013 PROSE Award in Economics, Association of American Publishers
  • Longlisted for the 2013 Business Book of the Year Award, Financial Times/Goldman Sachs
  • A "Best Business Book of the Year for 2013" selected on LinkedIn by Matthew Bishop, Economics Editor of The Economist
  • Featured in The Sunday Times 2013 Holiday Roundup

    Mass Flourishing: How Grassroots Innovation Created Jobs, Challenge, and Change
    Edmund Phelps

  • One of Financial Times (FT.com) Best Economics Books of 2013
  • A "Best Business Book of the Year for 2013" selected on LinkedIn by Matthew Bishop, Economics Editor of The Economist

    An Uncertain Glory: India and its Contradictions
    Jean Drèze & Amartya Sen

  • One of Bloomberg/Businessweek Best Books of 2013, selected by Edmund Phelps (Nobel-laureate professor at Columbia University, PUP author of Mass Flourishing)

    The War of the Sexes: How Conflict and Cooperation Have Shaped Men and Women from Prehistory to the Present
    Paul Seabright

  • One of Financial Times (FT.com) Best Economics Books of 2013

    Worldly Philosopher: The Odyssey of Albert O. Hirschman
    Jeremy Adelman

  • One of Bloomberg/Businessweek Best Books of 2013, selected by Ollie Rehn (European Union economic and monetary affairs commissioner)
  • One of Financial Times (Alphachat)'s Econ Books of the Year for 2013
  • One of The Guardian Best Books of 2013, chosen by Malcolm Gladwell
  • Honorable Mention for the 2013 PROSE Award in Biography & Autobiography, Association of American Publishers

    EDUCATION

    Between Citizens and the State: The Politics of American Higher Education in the 20th Century
    Christopher P. Loss

  • Winner, 2013 Outstanding Book Award, American Educational Research Association

    College: What It Was, Is, and Should Be
    Andrew Delbanco

  • 2013 Gold Medal Winner in the Independent Publisher Book Awards, Education II (Commentary/Theory) category
  • Winner of the 2013 O.L. Davis, Jr. Book Award, American Association for Teaching and Curriculum
  • Winner, 2013 Philip E. Frandson Award for Literature in the Field of Continuing Education, University Professional and Continuing Higher Education Association
  • One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2013

    EUROPEAN HISTORY

    Death and Redemption: The Gulag and the Shaping of Soviet Society
    Steven A. Barnes

  • Shortlisted for the 2013 Central Eurasian Studies Society Book Award

    Lost Enlightenment: Central Asia's Golden Age from the Arab Conquest to Tamerlane
    S. Frederick Starr

  • Honorable Mention for the 2013 PROSE Award in European and World History, Association of American Publishers

    Peasants under Siege: The Collectivization of Romanian Agriculture, 1949-1962
    Gail Kligman & Katherine Verdery

  • Winner of the 2013 SRS Book Prize, The Society for Romanian Studies

    Prague, Capital of the Twentieth Century: A Surrealist History
    Derek Sayer

  • One of Financial Times (FT.com) Best History Books of 2013

    Why Can the Dead Do Such Great Things? Saints and Worshippers from the Martyrs to the Reformation
    Robert Bartlett

  • Winner of the 2013 PROSE Award in European and World History, Association of American Publishers

    FINANCE

    The Bankers' New Clothes: What's Wrong with Banking and What to Do about It
    Anat Admati & Martin Hellwig

  • Winner of the 2013 PROSE Award in Business, Finance & Management, Association of American Publishers
  • Shortlisted for the 2013 Spear's Book Award in Business

    The Battle of Bretton Woods: John Maynard Keynes, Harry Dexter White, and the Making of a New World Order
    Benn Steil

  • Winner of the 2013 Spear's Book Award in Financial History

    The Founder's Dilemmas: Anticipating and Avoiding the Pitfalls That Can Sink a Startup
    Noam Wasserman

  • 2013 Winner of a Silver Medal in the Axiom Business Book Awards in the category of Entrepreneurship
  • Finalist for the 2013 George R. Terry Book Award, Academy of Management

    HISTORY OF SCIENCE AND MEDICINE, PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE

    Einstein and the Quantum: The Quest of the Valiant Swabian
    A. Douglas Stone

  • One of Scientific American's Best 2013 Books for the Physics Fan, chosen by Jennifer Ouellette
  • One of Science Friday's Science Book Picks for 2013, chosen by Ira Flatow

    Tesla: Inventor of the Electrical Age
    W. Bernard Carlson

  • One of Amazon.com's 2013 Best Science Books
  • One of Booklist Online's Top 10 Science & Health Books for 2013
  • One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2013
  • Honorable Mention for the 2013 PROSE Award in Biography & Autobiography, Association of American Publishers

    JEWISH STUDIES

    Maimonides: Life and Thought
    Moshe Halbertal

  • Winner of the 2013 National Jewish Book Award in Scholarship, Jewish Book Council

    LAW

    Climbing Mount Laurel: The Struggle for Affordable Housing and Social Mobility in an American Suburb
    Douglas S. Massey, Len Albright, Rebecca Casciano, Elizabeth Derickson & David N. Kinsey

  • Winner of the 2013 Paul Davidoff Award, Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning

    LITERATURE: PRIMARY WORKS AND LETTERS

    Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work
    Edwidge Danticat

  • Winner, 2013 Association of Caribbean Writers Grand Prize for Literature

    Empty Houses: Theatrical Failure and the Novel
    Jonathan Lamb

  • Shortlisted for the 2013 MSA Book Prize, Modernist Studies Association

    Italo Calvino: Letters, 1941-1985
    Italo Calvino
    Selected and with an introduction by Michael Wood
    Translated by Martin McLaughlin

  • One of The Guardian Best Books of 2013, chosen by Pankaj Mishra
  • Selected for the SFG Gift Guide 2013

    Kafka: The Decisive Years
    Reiner Stach
    Translated by Shelley Frisch

  • The Guardian Best Books of 2013, chosen by Colm Tóibín

    Kafka: The Years of Insight
    Reiner Stach
    Translated by Shelley Frisch

  • Finalist for the 2013 National Jewish Book Award in History, Jewish Book Council
  • One of The Guardian Best Books of 2013, chosen by Colm Tóibín

    The Lives of the Novel: A History
    Thomas G. Pavel

  • Winner of the 2013 PROSE Award in Literature, Association of American Publishers

    The Plum in the Golden Vase or, Chin P'ing Mei: Volume Five: The Dissolution
    Translated by David Tod Roy

  • One of The Wall Street Journal Bookshelf Best Books of 2013, chosen by Tash Aw

    The Things Things Say
    Jonathan Lamb

  • Honorable Mention, 2013 Barbara and George Perkins Prize, The International Society for the Study of Narrative

    MATHEMATICS

    The Golden Ticket: P, NP, and the Search for the Impossible
    Lance Fortnow

  • One of Amazon.com's 2013 Best Science Books
  • One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2013
  • Honorable Mention for the 2013 PROSE Award in Popular Science & Mathematics, Association of American Publishers

    Heavenly Mathematics: The Forgotten Art of Spherical Trigonometry
    Glen Van Brummelen

  • One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2013
  • Shortlisted for the 2013 BSHM Neumann Book Prize, British Society for the History of Mathematics

    Magical Mathematics: The Mathematical Ideas that Animate Great Magic Tricks
    Persi Diaconis & Ron Graham

  • Winner, 2013 Euler Book Prize, Mathematical Association of America

    Mathematical Excursions to the World's Great Buildings
    Alexander J. Hahn

  • One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2013

    MIDDLE EASTERN STUDIES

    Europe and the Islamic World: A History
    John Tolan, Henry Laurens & Gilles Veinstein
    With a foreword by John L. Esposito

  • One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2013

    The Muslim Brotherhood: Evolution of an Islamist Movement
    Carrie Rosefsky Wickham

  • One of The Middle East Channel's Top Five Books of 2013, chosen by Marc Lynch

    • Nasser's Gamble: How Intervention in Yemen Caused the Six-Day War and the Decline of Egyptian Power
    Jesse Ferris

  • Winner of the 2013 Reuven Chaikin Prize, University of Haifa
  • One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2013

    The Young Turks' Crime against Humanity: The Armenian Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing in the Ottoman Empire
    Taner Akçam

  • Co-Winner of the 2013 Albert Hourani Book Award, Middle East Studies

    MUSIC

    Mozart's Grace
    Scott Burnham

  • One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2013

    PHILOSOPHY

    The Quotable Kierkegaard
    Edited by Gordon Marino

  • One of The Wall Street Journal Bookshelf Best Books of 2013, chosen by Mike Tyson

    Philosophy of Physics: Space and Time
    Tim Maudlin

  • One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2013

    PHYSICS

    Einstein Gravity in a Nutshell
    A. Zee

  • One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2013

    POLITICAL SCIENCE AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

    Affluence and Influence: Economic Inequality and Political Power in America
    Martin Gilens

  • Winner of the 2013 Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award, American Political Science Association
  • One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles Top 25 Academic Books for 2013

    The Emancipation of Europe's Muslims: The State's Role in Minority Integrations
    Jonathan Laurence

  • Winner of the 2013 Hubert Morken Award for Best Book, Religion and Politics Section of the American Political Science Association
  • Co-Winner of the 2013 Best Book Award in Migration and Citizenship, American Political Science Association

    Ethics in an Age of Terror and Genocide: Identity and Moral Choice
    Kristen Renwick Monroe

  • Winner of the 2013 Giovanni Sartori Best Book Award, Qualitative Methods Section of the American Political Science Association
  • Honorable Mention for the 2013 Robert L. Jervis and Paul Schroeder Best Book Award, International History and Politics Section of the American Political Science Association

    Fighting for the Speakership: The House and the Rise of Party Government
    Jeffery A. Jenkins & Charles Stewart III

  • One of Choice's Editors' Picks for 2013

    The Gamble: Choice and Chance in the 2012 Presidential Election
    John Sides & Lynn Vavreck

  • Honorable Mention for the 2013 PROSE Award in Government & Politics, Association of American Publishers

    Henri Poincaré: A Scientific Biography
    Jeremy Gray

  • One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2013

    Knowing the Adversary: Leaders, Intelligence, and Assessment of Intentions in International Relations
    Keren Yarhi-Milo

  • Winner, 2014 Edgar S. Furniss Book Award, Mershon Center for International Security Studies

    Local Elections and the Politics of Small-Scale Democracy
    J. Eric Oliver
    With Shang E. Ha & Zachary Callen

  • Winner of the 2013 Best Book Award, Urban Politics Organized Section of the American Political Science Association

    Monitoring Democracy: When International Election Observation Works, and Why It Often Fails
    Judith G. Kelley

  • Co-Winner of the 2013 Chadwick F. Alger Prize, International Studies Association
  • One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2013

    On Global Justice
    Mathias Risse

  • One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2013

    The Politics of Precaution: Regulating Health, Safety, and Environmental Risks in Europe and the United States
    David Vogel

  • Winner of the 2013 Levine Prize, Research Committee on the Structure of Government of the International Political Science Association

    Roosevelt's Lost Alliances: How Personal Politics Helped Start the Cold War
    Frank Costigliola

  • Winner, 2013 Robert H. Ferrell Book Prize, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations

    The Soldier and the Changing State: Building Democratic Armies in Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Americas
    Zoltan Barany

  • One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2013

    The Spirit of Compromise: Why Governing Demands It and Campaigning Undermines It
    Amy Gutmann & Dennis Thompson

  • One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2013

    The Terrorist’s Dilemma: Managing Violent Covert Organizations
    Jacob N. Shapiro

  • Winner, 2013 Edgar S. Furniss Book Award, Mershon Center for International Security Studies

    Waiting for José: The Minutemen's Pursuit of America
    Harel Shapira

  • Winner of a 2013 Southwest Book Award, Border Regional Library Association

    Why Adjudicate? Enforcing Trade Rules in the WTO
    Christina L. Davis

  • Co-Winner of the 2013 Chadwick F. Alger Prize, International Studies Association

    Why Americans Hate the Media and How It Matters
    Jonathan M. Ladd

  • Winner, 2013 Goldsmith Book Prize, Academic Category (Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University)

    POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY

    The Making of Modern Liberalism
    Alan Ryan

  • One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles Top 25 Academic Books for 2013

    REFERENCE WORKS AND ANTHOLOGIES

    The Princeton Encyclopedia of Islamic Political Thought
    Edited by Gerhard Bowering

  • One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles Top 25 Academic Books for 2013
  • 2013 Merit Award Book Cover/Jacket, New York Book Show, in the category Professional, Reference

    RELIGION

    Inheriting Abraham: The Legacy of the Patriarch in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
    Jon D. Levenson

  • One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2013

    Latino Catholicism: Transformation in America's Largest Church
    Timothy Matovina

  • First Place, 2013 Catholic Press Association Book Award, History Category

    Lives of Great Religious Books: The Book of Mormon: A Biography
    Paul C. Gutjahr

  • Winner of the 2013 Book Cover/Jacket Merit Award in the Professional, Scholarly Series category, New York Book Show
  • One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2013

    Lives of Great Religious Books:
    The Dead Sea Scrolls: A Biography
    John J. Collins
    The I Ching: A Biography
    Richard J. Smith

  • Winner of the 2013 Book Cover/Jacket Merit Award in the Professional, Scholarly Series category, New York Book Show

    Red State Religion: Faith and Politics in America's Heartland
    Robert Wuthnow

  • Finalist, 2013 Christianity Today Awards, Christianity and Culture category

    Why Tolerate Religion?
    Brian Leiter

  • One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2013

    SELF-HELP

    The 5 Elements of Effective Thinking
    Edward B. Burger & Michael Starbird

  • 2013 Silver Medal Winner in the Independent Publisher Book Awards, Self-Help category

    SOCIOLOGY

    Against Security: How We Go Wrong at Airports, Subways, and Other Sites of Ambiguous Danger
    Harvey Molotch

  • One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2013

    Coding Freedom: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Hacking
    E. Gabriella Coleman

  • One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2013

    Creating the Market University: How Academic Science Became an Economic Engine
    Elizabeth Popp Berman

  • Winner of the 2013 Pierre Bourdieu Award for Best Book, Sociology of Education Section of the American Sociological Association
  • Winner of the 2013 Max Weber Book Award, Organizations, Occupations, and Work Section, American Sociological Association

    The New Arab Man: Emergent Masculinities, Technologies, and Islam in the Middle East
    Marcia C. Inhorn

  • Shortlisted for the 2013 Book Prize, Foundation for the Sociology of Health and Illness of the British Sociological Association

    The New York Nobody Knows: Walking 6,000 Miles in the City
    William B. Helmreich

  • Honorable Mention for the 2013 PROSE Award in Sociology & Social Work, Association of American Publishers

    Small-Town America: Finding Community, Shaping the Future
    Robert Wuthnow

  • One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2013

    Talk at the Brink: Deliberation and Decision during the Cuban Missile Crisis
    David R. Gibson

  • Winner, 2013 Melvin Pollner Prize, Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis Section, American Sociological Association

    Three Worlds of Relief: Race, Immigration, and the American Welfare State from the Progressive Era to the New Deal
    Cybelle Fox

  • Winner of the 2013 Distinguished Book Award, Latina/o Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association
  • Winner of the 2013 Thomas and Znaniecki Best Book Award, International Migration Section of the American Sociological Association
  • Co-Winner, 2013 Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Award, Political Sociology Section, American Sociological Association

    War in Social Thought: Hobbes to the Present
    Hans Joas & Wolfgang Knöbl

  • One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2013

    WORLD HISTORY / COMPARATIVE HISTORY

    Becoming Yellow: A Short History of Racial Thinking
    Michael Keevak

  • Winner of the 2013 Academia Sinica Scholarly Monograph Award in the Humanities and Social Sciences

    Death and Redemption: The Gulag and the Shaping of Soviet Society
    Steven A. Barnes

  • Winner of the 2013 Herbert Baxter Adams Prize, American Historical Association

    2012 AWARDS

    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
  • Winner, 2012 CLA Book Award, College Language Association

    Line in the Sand: A History of the Western U.S.-Mexico Border
    Rachel St. John

  • Finalist, 2012 Spur Award for Best Western Nonfiction - Contemporary (1900-Present), Western Writers of America

    No Man's Land: Jamaican Guestworkers in America and the Global History of Deportable Labor
    Cindy Hahamovitch

  • Winner, 2012 James A. Rawley Prize, Organization of American Historians
  • Winner, 2012 Merle Curti Award, Organization of American Historians
  • Winner, 2012 Philip Taft Labor History Award, Cornell University School of Industrial & Labor Relations

    Roosevelt's Lost Alliances: How Personal Politics Helped Start the Cold War
    Frank Costigliola

  • Honorable Mention, 2012 PROSE Award,, U.S. History, Association of American Publishers

    The Straight State: Sexuality and Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America
    Margot Canaday

  • Winner, The 2012 Order of the Coif Biennial Book Award

    AMERICAN LITERATURE

    The Age of Auden: Postwar Poetry and the American Scene
    Aidan Wasley

  • Winner, 2012 SAMLA Studies Award, South Atlantic Modern Language Association

    The Global Remapping of American Literature
    Paul Giles

  • Honorable Mention, 2012 BAAS Book Prize, British Association of American Studies
  • Shortlisted, 2012 American Studies Network Prize

    ANTHROPOLOGY

    How Ancient Europeans Saw the World: Vision, Patterns, and the Shaping of the Mind in Prehistoric Times
    Peter S. Wells

  • Honorable Mention, 2012 PROSE Award, Archeology & Anthropology, Association of American Publishers

    Scripting Addiction: The Politics of Therapeutic Talk and American Sobriety
    E. Summerson Carr

  • Winner, 2012 Edward Sapir Book Prize, Society for Linguistic Anthropology

    Tobacco Capitalism: Growers, Migrant Workers, and the Changing Face of a Global Industry
    Peter Benson

  • Winner, 2012 James Mooney Award, Southern Anthropological Society
  • Finalist, 2012 Society for the Anthropology of Work Book Prize

    ART AND ARCHITECTURE

    Ambitious Form: Giambologna, Ammanati, and Danti in Florence
    Michael W. Cole

  • Finalist, 2012 Charles Rufus Morey Book Award, College Art Association

    A General Theory of Visual Culture
    Whitney Davis

  • 2012 Winner of the Susanne K. Langer Award for Outstanding Scholarship in the Ecology of Symbolic Form, Media Ecology Awards, Media Ecology Association

    Mathematical Excursions to the World's Great Buildings
    Alexander J. Hahn

  • Winner of the 2012 PROSE Award, Architecture & Urban Planning, Association of American Publishers

    Weiwei-isms
    Ai Weiwei

  • Huffington Post's Best Art Books of 2012: Our List of the 50 Greatest Creative Publications
  • Big Think's Best Art Books of 2012
  • One of "Our Favorite Books of 2012", The Village Voice

    ASTRONOMY AND COSMOLOGY

    How Did the First Stars and Galaxies Form?
    Abraham Loeb
  • Winner, 2012 Chambliss Astronomical Writing Award, American Astronomical Society

    The Visioneers: How a Group of Elite Scientists Pursued Space Colonies, Nanotechnologies, and a Limitless Future
    W. Patrick McCray

  • Winner of the 2012 Eugene E. Emme Award for Astronautical Literature, American Astronautical Society

    BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

    Phase Transitions
    Ricard V. Solé

  • 2012 First Place Book Series, New York Book Show, in the category Professional, Scholarly

    BIRDS AND NATURAL HISTORY

    The Crossley ID Guide: Eastern Birds
    Richard Crossley

  • 2012 Bronze Medal Co-Winner, Independent Publisher Book Awards, Environment/Ecology/Nature Category

    Spring Wildflowers of the Northeast: A Natural History
    Carol Gracie

  • Honorable Mention, 2012 National Outdoor Book Awards, Nature & Environment Category

    BRITISH LITERATURE

    How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain
    Leah Price

  • Honorable Mention for the 2012 James Russell Lowell Prize, Modern Language Association

    The Rise and Fall of Meter: Poetry and English National Culture, 1860-1930
    Meredith Martin

  • Winner of the 2012 MLA Prize for a First Book, Modern Language Association

    Victorian Culture and Classical Antiquity: Art, Opera, Fiction, and the Proclamation of Modernity
    Simon Goldhill

  • Winner, 2012 Robert Lowry Patten Award, SEL Studies in English Literature 1500-1900, Rice University

    CLASSICS

    Aesopic Conversations: Popular Tradition, Cultural Dialogue, and the Invention of Greek Prose
    Leslie Kurke

  • Winner, 2012 Charles J. Goodwin Award of Merit, American Philological Association
  • Shortlisted for the 2012 Runciman Award, Anglo-Hellenic League

    Rethinking the Other in Antiquity
    Erich S. Gruen

  • Shortlisted for the 2012 Runciman Award, Anglo-Hellenic League

    Through the Eye of a Needle: Wealth, the Fall of Rome, and the Making of Christianity in the West, 350-550 AD
    Peter Brown

  • Winner of the 2012 Gold Medal Book of the Year Award, History category, ForeWord Reviews
  • Winner of the 2012 PROSE Award, Classics & Ancient History, Association of American Publishers
  • Winner of the 2012 PROSE Award for Humanities, Association of American Publishers
  • Winner of the 2012 R.R. Hawkins Award, American Publishers Awards

    COMPARATIVE LITERATURE

    The Irresistible Fairy Tale: The Cultural and Social History of a Genre
    Jack Zipes

  • Co-Winner of the 2012 Wayland D. Hand Prize, History and Folklore Section, American Folklore Societye

    The Novel and the Sea
    Margaret Cohen

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

    EARTH SCIENCES

    The Global Carbon Cycle
    David Archer

  • 2012 Second Place Book Series, New York Book Show, in the category Professional, Scholarly

    How to Build a Habitable Planet: The Story of Earth from the Big Bang to Humankind (Revised and Expanded Edition)
    Charles H. Langmuir & Wally Broecker

  • Honorable Mention, 2012 PROSE Award, Earth Sciences, Association of American Publishers

    The Long Thaw: How Humans Are Changing the Next 100,000 Years of Earth's Climate
    David Archer

  • Selected to appear on ClimateUnited's Booklist of Top Books on Climate Change

    Princeton Primers in Climate

  • Winner, 2012 ASLI Choice - Popular Award, Atmospheric Science Librarians International

    ECONOMICS

    Creating Wine: The Emergence of a World Industry, 1840-1914
    James Simpson

  • Winner of the 2012 OIV Award in History, International Organisation of Vine and Wine

    The Darwin Economy: Liberty, Competition, and the Common Good
    Robert H. Frank

  • 2012 Winner of a Bronze Medal in the Axiom Business Book Awards in the category of Economics

    The Economics of Enough: How to Run the Economy as If the Future Matters
    Diane Coyle

  • One of The Globalist's Top Books of 2012

    Zombie Economics: How Dead Ideas Still Walk among Us
    John Quiggin

  • 2012 Co-Winner of a Gold Medal in the Axiom Business Book Awards in the category of Economics

    EDUCATION

    College: What It Was, Is, and Should Be
    Andrew Delbanco

  • Finalist for the 2012 Book of the Year Award in Education, ForeWord Reviews
  • Honorable Mention, 2012 PROSE Award, Education, Association of American Publishers

    Unlocking the Gates: How and Why Leading Universities Are Opening Up Access to Their Courses
    Taylor Walsh for Ithaka S+R
    With a foreword by William G. Bowen

  • Winner, 2012 Philip E. Frandson Award for Literature in the Field of Continuing Education, University Professional and Continuing Education Association

    EUROPEAN HISTORY

    The Hoods: Crime and Punishment in Belfast
    Heather Hamill

  • Winner of the 2012 James S. Donnelly, Sr. Prize for Books on History and the Social Sciences, American Conference for Irish Studies

    Peasants under Siege: The Collectivization of Romanian Agriculture, 1949-1962
    Gail Kligman & Katherine Verdery

  • Winner, 2012 Davis Center Book Prize in Political and Social Studies, ASEEES (Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies)
  • Winner, 2012 Barbara Jelavich Book Prize, ASEEES
  • Winner, 2012 Heldt Prize for Best Book by a Woman in any area of Slavic/Eastern European/Eurasian Studies, Association for Women in Slavic Studies
  • Honorable Mention, 2012 Wayne S. Vucinich Book Prize, ASEEES

    The Wind from the East: French Intellectuals, the Cultural Revolution, and the Legacy of the 1960s
    Richard Wolin

  • Named one of the Financial Times "Best Books of 2012", History Category

    FINANCE

    Finance and the Good Society
    Robert J. Shiller

  • Winner of the 2012 PROSE Award for Business, Finance & Management, Association of American Publishers
  • Winner, 2012 800-CEO-READ Business Book Awards, Finance & Economics
  • Shortlist, 2012 Best Finance Books in China, Caijing Magazine

    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

  • Winner, 2012 Kulp-Wright Book Award, American Risk and Insurance Association

    JEWISH STUDIES

    The Book of Genesis: A Biography
    Ronald Hendel

  • One of Jewish Ideas Daily.com's "40 Best Jewish Books of 2012"

    The First Modern Jew: Spinoza and the History of an Image
    Daniel B. Schwartz

  • Co-Winner of the 2012 Salo Wittmayer Baron Prize, American Academy for Jewish Research

    The Chosen Few: How Education Shaped Jewish History, 70-1492
    Maristella Botticini & Zvi Eckstein

  • Winner of the 2012 National Jewish Book Award in the category of Scholarship
  • One of Jewish Ideas Daily.com's "40 Best Jewish Books of 2012

    The First Modern Jew: Spinoza and the History of an Image
    Daniel B. Schwartz

  • Finalist, 2012 National Jewish Book Award in the category of History

    Inheriting Abraham: The Legacy of the Patriarch in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
    Jon D. Levenson

  • Best Nonfiction Jewish Book of 2012, Jewish Ideas Daily.com

    The Scandal of Kabbalah: Leon Modena, Jewish Mysticism, Early Modern Venice
    Yaacob Dweck

  • Finalist, 2012 Best First Book in the History of Religions Award, American Academy of Religion

    LAW

    Diaspora, Development, and Democracy: The Domestic Impact of International Migration from India
    Devesh Kapur

  • Co-Winner, 2012 ENMISA (Ethnicity, Nationalism, and Migration Section of ISA) Distinguished Book Award

    Mafias on the Move: How Organized Crime Conquers New Territories
    Federico Varese

  • Winner of the 2012 Outstanding Publication Award, International Association for the Study of Organized Crime

    Who Are the Criminals? The Politics of Crime Policy from the Age of Roosevelt to the Age of Reagan
    John Hagan

  • Winner of the 2012 Harry J. Kalven Prize, Law & Society Association

    Why Adjudicate? Enforcing Trade Rules in the WTO
    Christina L. Davis

  • Winner, 2013 International Law Best Book Award, International Law Section, International Studies Association

    LITERATURE: PRIMARY WORKS AND LETTERS

    On Conan Doyle: Or, The Whole Art of Storytelling
    Michael Dirda

  • Winner, 2012 Edgar Allan Poe Awards, Best Critical/Biographical Category, Mystery Writers of America
  • Finalist, 2012 Marfield Prize: The National Award for Arts Writing, Arts Club of Washington

    The Quotable Thoreau
    Edited by Jeffrey S. Cramer

  • Selected for "The Best of the Best" Program at the 2012 ALA Annual Conference

    The Silicon Jungle: A Novel of Deception, Power, and Internet Intrigue
    Shumeet Baluja

  • 2012 Co-winner of the Mary Shelley Award for Outstanding Fictional Work, Media Ecology Awards, Media Ecology Association

    Slavery and the Culture of Taste
    Simon Gikandi

  • Winner, Fourteenth Annual (2012) Susanne M. Glasscock Humanities Book Prize for Interdisciplinary Scholarship, Melbern G. Glasscock Center for Humanities Research at Texas A&M; University
  • Co-winner of the 2012 Melville J. Herskovits Award, African Studies Association
  • One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2012

    MATHEMATICS

    Fascinating Mathematical People: Interviews and Memoirs
    Edited by Donald J. Albers & Gerald L. Alexanderson
    With a foreword by Philip J. Davis

  • 2012 Merit Award Book, New York Book Show, in the category Professional, Reference

    Nine Algorithms That Changed the Future: The Ingenious Ideas That Drive Today's Computers
    John MacCormick

  • Honorable Mention, 2012 PROSE Award, Computing & Information Sciences, Association of American Publishers

    MIDDLE EASTERN STUDIES

    Hamas and Civil Society in Gaza: Engaging the Islamist Social Sector
    Sara Roy

  • Winner of a 2012 British-Kuwait Friendship Society Prize in Middle Eastern Studies
  • Winner, 2012 Academic Award, The Palestine Book Awards (Hosted by the Middle East Monitor)

    Muslim Nationalism and the New Turks
    Jenny White

  • One of ForeignAffairs.com's "Best International Relations Books of 2012" in the "Best Books of 2012 on the Middle East" category

    The New Arab Man: Emergent Masculinities, Technologies, and Islam in the Middle East
    Marcia C. Inhorn

  • A Choice Editor's Pick, October 2012

    • The Young Turks' Crime Against Humanity: The Armenian Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing in the Ottoman Empire
    Taner Akçam

  • One of ForeignAffairs.com's "Best International Relations Books of 2012" in the "Best Books of 2012 on the Middle East" category

    • PHILOSOPHY

    Manhunts: A Philosophical History
    Grégoire Chamayou
    Translated by Steven Rendall

  • Finalist, 26th Annual Translation Prize (Non Fiction) 2012, French-American Foundation & Florence Gould Foundation

    Pursuits of Wisdom: Six Ways of Life in Ancient Philosophy from Socrates to Plotinus
    John M. Cooper

  • Honorable Mention, 2012 PROSE Award, Philosophy, Association of American Publishers

    The Virtues of Our Vices: A Modest Defense of Gossip, Rudeness, and Other Bad Habits
    Emrys Westacott

  • 2012 Third Place Cover/Jacket, New York Book Show, in the category Professional, Scholarly

    POETRY

    Angina Days: Selected Poems
    Günter Eich
    Michael Hofmann

  • Winner of the 2012 Thornton Wilder Prize for Translation, American Academy of Arts and Letters

    Carnations: Poems
    Anthony Carelli

  • Finalist, 2012 Levis Reading Prize, Virginia Commonwealth University

    The Eternal City: Poems
    Kathleen Graber

  • 2012 Merit Award Book, New York Book Show, in the category General Trade, Poetry Series

    New Impressions of Africa
    Raymond Roussel
    Translated and introduced by Mark Ford

  • Runner-up, 2012 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation, PEN American Center

    The Two Yvonnes: Poems
    Jessica Greenbaum

  • Library Journal "Best Books 2012: Poetry" List

    POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY

    Eco-Republic: What the Ancients Can Teach Us about Ethics, Virtue, and Sustainable Living
    Melissa Lane

  • Honor Book, 2012 NJCH Book Award, New Jersey Council for the Humanities
  • Honorable Mention, 2012 Green Book Festival, General Non-Fiction

    On Compromise and Rotten Compromises
    Avishai Margalit

  • Winner of the Philosophical Book Award 2012, The Hannover Institute of Philosophical Research

    POLITICAL SCIENCE AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

    All the Missing Souls: A Personal History of the War Crimes Tribunals
    David Scheffer

  • 2012 Book of the Year Award from the American National Section of L'Association Internationale de Droit Penal (AIDP)
  • Selected for the Washington Post's "Best of 2012: 50 notable works of nonfiction"

    Attention Deficit Democracy: The Paradox of Civic Engagement
    Ben Berger

  • Winner, 2012 North American Society for Social Philosophy Book Award

    The Constrained Court: Law, Politics, and the Decisions Justices Make
    Michael A. Bailey & Forrest Maltzman

  • Honorable Mention, 2012 C. Herman Pritchett Award, Law and Courts Section, American Political Science Association

    Diaspora, Development, and Democracy: The Domestic Impact of International Migration from India
    Devesh Kapur

  • Co-Winner, 2012 ENMISA (Ethnicity, Nationalism, and Migration Section of ISA) Distinguished Book Award

    The Emancipation of Europe's Muslims: The State's Role in Minority Integrations
    Jonathan Laurence

  • One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2012

    Emergency Politics: Paradox, Law, Democracy
    Bonnie Honig

  • Co-Winner, 2012 David Easton Award, Foundations of Political Theory Section, American Political Science Association

    How to Win an Election: An Ancient Guide for Modern Politicians
    Quintus Tullius Cicero
    Translated and with an introduction by Philip Freeman

  • Chosen as a New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice (8/5/2012)

    The New Global Rulers: The Privatization of Regulation in the World
    Tim Büthe & Walter Mattli

  • Winner of the 2012 ISA Best Book Award, International Studies Association

    The Politics of Precaution: Regulating Health, Safety, and Environmental Risks in Europe and the United States
    David Vogel

  • Winner of the 2012 ONE Best Book Award, Organizations and the Natural Environment Division, Academy of Management

    The Princeton Encyclopedia of Islamic Political Thought
    Edited by Gerhard Bowering

  • One of Library Journal's Best Reference of 2012, Law & Politics

    States of Credit: Size, Power, and the Development of European Polities
    David Stasavage

  • Winner, 2012 Award for the Best Book in European Politics, European Politics and Society Section, American Political Science Association

    Three Worlds of Relief: Race, Immigration, and the American Welfare State from the Progressive Era to the New Deal
    Cybelle Fox

  • Winner of the 2012 Award for Best Book in Latino Politics, Latino Caucus of the American Political Science Association
  • Winner of the 2012 C. Wright Mills Award, Society for the Study of Social Problems

    The Unheavenly Chorus: Unequal Political Voice and the Broken Promise of American Democracy
    Kay Lehman Schlozman, Sidney Verba and Henry E. Brady

  • Winner of the 2012 PROSE Award, Government & Politics, Association of American Publishers

    Why Americans Don't Join the Party: Race, Immigration, and the Failure (of Political Parties) to Engage the Electorate
    Zoltan L. Hajnal & Taeku Lee

  • Winner of the 2012 Best Book Award, Race, Ethnicity, and Politics Section, American Political Science Association

    Why Americans Hate the Media and How It Matters
    Jonathan M. Ladd

  • Winner of the 2012 Donald McGannon Award for Social and Ethical Relevance in Communications Policy Research, Donald McGannon Communications Research Center
  • Finalist for the 2012 Frank Luther Mott - Kappa Tau Alpha Journalism and Mass Communication Research Award

    PSYCHOLOGY

    Blind Spots: Why We Fail to Do What's Right and What to Do about It
    Max H. Bazerman & Ann E. Tenbrunsel

  • 2012 Winners of a Silver Medal in the Axiom Business Book Awards in the category of Business Ethics

    Synchronicity: An Acausal Connecting Principle. (From Vol. 8. of the Collected Works of C. G. Jung)
    C. G. Jung
    Translated by R.F.C. Hull
    With a new foreword by Sonu Shamdasani

  • 2012 First Place Cover/Jacket, New York Book Show, in the category Professional, Scholarly Series

    REFERENCE WORKS AND ANTHOLOGIES

    The New Atlas of World History: Global Events at a Glance
    John Haywood

  • Selected for "The Best of the Best" Program at the 2012 ALA Annual Conference

    RELIGION

    American Religion: Contemporary Trends
    Mark Chaves

  • Winner of the 2012 Christianity Today Award in the Christianity and Culture category

    Latino Catholicism: Transformation in America's Largest Church
    Timothy Matovina

  • 2012 Winner, College Theology Society Best Book Award

    SOCIAL SCIENCE

    The Unheavenly Chorus: Unequal Political Voice and the Broken Promise of American Democracy
    Kay Lehman Schlozman, Sidney Verba and Henry E. Brady

  • Winner of the 2012 PROSE Award, Social Sciences, Association of American Publishers

    SOCIOLOGY

    Against Security: How We Go Wrong at Airports, Subways, and Other Sites of Ambiguous Danger
    Harvey Molotch

  • Winner of the 2012 PROSE Award, Sociology & Social Work, Association of American Publishers

    Impossible Engineering: Technology and Territoriality on the Canal du Midi
    Chandra Mukerji

  • Co-winner, 2012 American Sociological Association Distinguished Scholarly Publication Award

    Inventing Equal Opportunity
    Frank Dobbin

  • Co-winner, 2012 American Sociological Association Distinguished Scholarly Publication Award

    Max Weber in America
    Lawrence A. Scaff

  • Winner of the 2012 Distinguished Scholarly Publication Award, History of Sociology Section, American Sociological Association

    Peasants under Siege: The Collectivization of Romanian Agriculture, 1949-1962
    Gail Kligman & Katherine Verdery

  • Honorable Mention, 2012 Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Award, Political Sociology Section, American Sociological Association
  • Honorable Mention, 2012 Barrington Moore Award, Comparative and Historical Sociology Section, American Sociological Association

    Privilege: The Making of an Adolescent Elite at St. Paul's School
    Shamus Rahman Khan

  • Winner of the 2011 C. Wright Mills Award, Society for the Study of Social Problems
  • Honorable Mention, 2012 Distinguished Book Award of the Race, Gender and Class Section, American Sociological Association

    Three Worlds of Relief: Race, Immigration, and the American Welfare State from the Progressive Era to the New Deal
    Cybelle Fox

  • Finalist for the 2012 C. Wright Mills Award, Society for the Study of Social Problems>

    WORLD HISTORY/COMPARATIVE HISTORY

    The Inner Life of Empires: An Eighteenth-Century History
    Emma Rothschild

  • Winner of the 2011 Scottish History Book of the Year Award, Saltire Society

    Masters of the Universe: Hayek, Friedman, and the Birth of Neoliberal Politics
    Daniel Stedman Jones

  • Shortlist, 2012 Gladstone Prize, Royal Historical Society

    2011 AWARDS

    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 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

    The Indignant Generation: A Narrative History of African American Writers and Critics, 1934-1960
    Lawrence P. Jackson

  • Winner of the 2011 PROSE Award, Literature, Association of American Publishers
  • Finalist of the 2011 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award Nonfiction, The Hurston/Wright Foundation
  • Finalist, 2011 National Book Award, Benjamin L. Hooks Institute for Social Change, University of Memphis

    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

    The Enculturated Gene: Sickle Cell Health Politics and Biological Difference in West Africa
    Duana Fullwiley

  • Winner, 2011 Amaury Talbot Prize for African Anthropology, Royal Anthropological Institute

    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
  • Shortlisted for the 2011 (third annual) Lane Anderson Science Writing Award

    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

    Slavery and the Culture of Taste
    Simon Gikandi

  • Co-Winner, 2011 James Russell Lowell Prize, Modern Language Association

    The Things Things Say
    Jonathan Lamb

  • Honorable Mention, 2011 Oscar Kenshur Book Prize, The Center for Eighteenth-Century Studies at Indiana University

    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, Financial Times 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

    The Darwin Economy: Liberty, Competition, and the Common Good
    Robert H. Frank

  • Finalist for the 2011 Book of the Year Award in Business & Economics, ForeWord Reviews

    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

    Pillars of Prosperity: The Political Economics of Development Clusters
    Timothy Besley & Torsten Persson

  • Honorable Mention, 2011 PROSE Award in Economics, Association of American Publishers

    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 2011 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 J. Willard Hurst Book Prize for Sociolegal History, Law and Society Association

    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

    Lawyers and Fidelity to Law
    W. Bradley Wendel

  • One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2011

    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

    MATHEMATICS

    Feedback Systems: An Introduction for Scientists and Engineers
    Karl Johan Åström & 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

    Perpetual Euphoria: On the Duty to Be Happy
    Pascal Bruckner
    Translated by Steven Rendall

  • Finalist, 25th Annual Translation Prize (Non Fiction), French-American Foundation & Florence Gould Foundation

    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

    Angina Days: Selected Poems
    Michael Hofmann

  • Runner-up, 2011 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation, PEN American Center
  • Runner-up, The 2011 Schlegel-Tieck Prize (for German Translation), The Society of Authors

    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

    Oranges and Snow: Selected Poems of Milan Djordjevic
    Charles Simic

  • Winner of the 2011 Robert Frost Medal, Poetry Society of America
  • Runner-up, 2011 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation, PEN American Center

    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

  • Winner of the 2011 Silver Medal Book of the Year Award in Political Science, ForeWord Reviews
  • 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

    Dead Ringers: How Outsourcing is Changing the Way Indians Understand Themselves
    Shehzad Nadeem

  • Finalist for the 2011 C. Wright Mills Award, Society for the Study of Social Problems

    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

    Privilege: The Making of an Adolescent Elite at St. Paul's School
    Shamus Rahman Khan

  • Winner of the 2011 C. Wright Mills Award, Society for the Study of Social Problems

    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

    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

    Empires in World History: Power and the Politics of Difference
    Jane Burbank & Frederick Cooper

  • Winner of the 2011 World History Association Book Prize

    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

    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

    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

  • A National Public Radio (npr.org/blogs) Mara Liasson Best Book of the Year for 2010)

    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

    AMERICAN LITERATURE

    The Indignant Generation: A Narrative History of African American Writers and Critics, 1934-1960
    Lawrence P. Jackson

  • Winner of the 2010 William Sanders Scarborough Prize, Modern Language Association

    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
  • One of the The Daily Beast's (Brad Gooch) Favorite Books of the Year for 2010

    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
    Gotz 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

  • One of The Age's (Brenda Walker) Best Books of the Year for 2010

    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
  • 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 Best Book in Slavic/Eastern European/Eurasian Women's studies, Association for Women in Slavic Studies

    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 Diffusion of Military Power: Causes and Consequences for International Politics
    Michael C. Horowitz

  • Winner, 2010 Edgar S. Furniss Book Award, Mershon Center for International Security Studies

    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

    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"

    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"

    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's Outstanding Academic Titles, 2009

    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

    • The Medea Hypothesis: Is Life on Earth Ultimately Self-Destructive?
    Peter Ward

  • One of the 2009 New York Times Magazine’s 9th Annual Featured Books in Ideas

    • 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

    FILM STUDIES

    Shell Shock Cinema: Weimar Culture and the Wounds of War
    Anton Kaes

  • Winner of the 2008-9 Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Studies in Germanic Languages and Literatures, Modern Language Association

    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

    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

    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

    POLITICAL SCIENCE AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

    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).

    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.

    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
    João 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 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

    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

    EDUCATION

    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

    Our Underachieving Colleges
    Derek Bok

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

    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.

    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.

    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).

    Swindled
    Bee Wilson

  • One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2009
  • Shortlisted for the 2008 André Simon Book Awards

    • 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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