Winners

2013
Winners
R.R. Hawkins Award
Elsevier Science
Alan Turing: His Work and Impact
Edited by S. Barry Cooper and Jan van Leeuwen

  • Award for Excellence in Humanities
    HarperCollins Publishers
    Kansas City Lightning: The Rise and Times of Charlie Parker
    By Stanley Crouch

  • Award for Excellence in Social Sciences
    Cambridge University Press
    The Body in History: Europe from the Paleolithic to the Future
    Edited by John Robb and Oliver J.T. Harris

  • Award for Excellence in Biological & Life Sciences
    The MIT Press
    The Neural Basis of Free Will: Criteria Causation
    By Peter Ulric Tse

  • Award for Excellence in Physical Sciences & Mathematics
    Elsevier Science
    Alan Turing: His Work and Impact
    Edited by S. Barry Cooper and Jan van Leeuwen

  • Award for Excellence in Reference Works
    Elsevier/Academic Press
    Epigenetic Regulation in the Nervous System: Basic Mechanisms and Clinical Impact
    Edited by J. David Sweatt, Michael J. Meaney, Eric J. Nestler, and Schahram Akbarian

 
Category Award Winners
 
  • Archeology & Anthropology
    Cambridge University Press
    The Body in History: Europe from the Paleolithic to the Future
    Edited by John Robb and Oliver J.T. Harris
    Honorable Mention
    Berghahn Books Inc.
    Places of Pain: Forced Displacement, Popular Memory and Trans-Local Identities in Bosnian War-Tor Communities
    By Hariz Halilovich

  • Architecture & Urban Planning
    Yale University Press
    Building Seagram
    By Phyllis Lambert
    Honorable Mention
    The American University in Cairo Press
    The History and Religious Heritage of Old Cairo: Its Fortress, Churches, Synagogue, and Mosque
    By Gawdat Gabra, Gertrud J.M. van Loon, Stefan Reif, and Tarek Swelim.
    Edited by Carolyn Ludwig and Morris Jackson.
    Photographs by Sherif Sonbol.

  • Art Exhibitions
    The University of Chicago Press
    Home Front: Daily Life in the Civil War North
    By Peter John Brownlee, Sarah Burns, Diane Dillon, Daniel Greene, and Scott Manning Stevens
    Honorable Mention
    University of Toronto Press
    First Peoples of Canada: Masterworks from the Canadian Museum of Civilization
    By Jean-Luc Pilon and Nicholette Prince
    Honorable Mention
    The Museum of Modern Art
    Magritte: The Mystery of the Ordinary, 1926-1938
    By Anne Umland with essays by Stephanie D’Alessandro, Michael Draguet and Claude Goormans, and Josef Helfenstein

  • Art History & Criticism
    Cambridge University Press
    The Gothic Screen: Space, Sculpture, and Community in the Cathedrals of France and Germany, ca. 1200-1400
    By Jacqueline E. Jung
    Honorable Mention
    Yale University Press
    Mexico and American Modernism
    By Ellen G. Landau

  • Best App/eProduct
    American Chemical Society
    ACS ChemWorx

  • Best in Social Sciences/eProduct
    Oxford University Press
    Encyclopedia of Social Work Online
    Editor in Chief Cynthia Franklin

  • Best Multidiscipline Platform/eProduct
    McGraw-Hill Education
    AccessScience
    By John Rennie and the AccessScience Team

  • Best New Journal/STM
    McGraw-Hill Education
    AccessScience
    By John Rennie and the AccessScience Team

  • Best New Journal/STM
    American Chemical Society
    ACS Synthetic Biology
    Editor Christopher A. Voigt
    Honorable Mention
    Elsevier
    Global Food Security
    Editors Kenneth G. Cassman, David Dawe, Navin Ramankutty, Achim Dobermann, and Beatrice Rogers

  • Biography & Autobiography
    HarperCollins Publishers
    Kansas City Lightning: The Rise and Times of Charlie Parker
    By Stanley Crouch
    Honorable Mention
    Yale University Press
    Jonathan Swift: His Life and His World
    By Leo Damrosch
    Honorable Mention
    Princeton University Press
    Tesla: Inventor of the Electrical Age
    By W. Bernard Carlson
    Honorable Mention
    Princeton University Press
    Worldly Philosopher: The Odyssey of Albert O. Hirschman
    By Jeremy Adelman

  • Biological Sciences
    Wiley
    Food Webs and Biodiversity: Foundations, Models, Data
    By Axel G. Rossberg
    Honorable Mention
    Wiley
    Novel Ecosystems: Intervening in the New Ecological World Order
    Edited by Richard J. Hobbs, Eric S. Higgs, and Carol M. Hall
    Honorable Mention
    The University of Chicago Press
    The Ornaments of Life: Coevolution and Conservation in the Tropics
    By Theodore H. Fleming and W. John Kress
    Honorable Mention
    Princeton University Press
    The Unfeathered Bird
    By Katrina van Grouw

  • Biomedicine & Neuroscience
    The MIT Press
    The Neural Basis of Free Will: Criteria Causation
    By Peter Ulric Tse
    Honorable Mention
    Columbia University Press
    People, Parasites, and Plowshares
    By Dickson D. Despommier
    Honorable Mention
    Cambridge University Press
    The Neuroscience of Freedom and Creativity: Our Predictive Brain
    By Joaquin M. Fuster

  • Business, Finance & Management
    Princeton University Press
    The Bankers’ New Clothes: What’s Wrong with Banking and What to Do about It
    By Anat Admati and Martin Hellwig

  • Chemistry & Physics
    Wiley
    Organometallics in Synthesis
    Edited by Manfred Schlosser
    Honorable Mention
    Elsevier
    Encyclopedia of the Alkaline Earth Compounds
    By R.C. Ropp

  • Classics & Ancient History
    Cambridge University Press
    Greece and Mesopotamia: Dialogues in Literature
    By Johannes Haubold
    Honorable Mention
    Oxford University Press
    The Prince of Medicine: Galen in the Roman Empire
    By Susan P. Mattern

  • Clinical Medicine
    Oxford University Press
    Mulliken and Young’s Vascular Anomalies: Hemangiomas and Malformations
    By John B. Mulliken, Patricia E. Burrows, and Steven J. Fishman
    Honorable Mention
    Thieme Publishers
    Color Atlas of Cerebral Revascularization: Anatomy, Techniques, Clinical Cases
    By Robert F. Spetzler, Albert L. Rhoton Jr., Peter Nakaji, and Masatou Kawashima
    Honorable Mention
    Thieme Publishers
    The Art of Microsurgical Hand Reconstruction
    By David J. Slutsky

  • Computing & Information Sciences
    The MIT Press
    Spam: A Shadow History of the Internet
    By Finn Brunton
    Honorable Mention
    Cambridge University Press
    Quantum Information Theory
    By Mark M. Wilde

  • Cosmology & Astronomy
    Cambridge University Press
    In Search of the True Universe: The Tools, Shaping, and Cost of Cosmological Thought
    By Martin Harwit
    Honorable Mention
    Princeton University Press
    Heart of Darkness: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Invisible Universe
    By Jeremiah P. Ostriker and Simon Mitton

  • Earth Sciences
    The University of Chicago Press
    The Lost World of Fossil Lake: Snapshots from Deep Time
    By Lance Grande

  • Economics
    Yale University Press
    The Climate Casino: Risk, Uncertainty, and Economics for a Warming World
    By William Nordhaus
    Honorable Mention
    The Independent Institute
    Global Crossings: Immigration, Civilization, and America
    By Alvaro Vargas Llosa
    Honorable Mention
    Yale University Press
    Risk, Chance, and Causation: Investigating the Origins and Treatment of Disease
    By Michael B. Bracken
    Honorable Mention
    Princeton University Press
    The Great Escape: Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequality
    By Angus Deaton

  • Education
    The University of Chicago Press
    Education, Justice, and Democracy
    Edited by Danielle S. Allen and Rob Reich
    Honorable Mention
    Emerald Group Publishing
    Culturally Responsive Methodologies
    Edited by Mere Berryman, Suzanne SooHoo, and Ann Nevin
    Honorable Mention
    Simon & Schuster
    The Smartest Kids in the World
    By Amanda Ripley

  • Engineering & Technology
    Wiley
    Guide to State-of-the-Art Electron Devices
    Edited by Joachim N. Burghartz
    Honorable Mention
    Wiley
    The Data Bonanza: Improving Knowledge Discovery in Science, Engineering, and Business
    Edited by Malcolm Atkinson, Rob Baxter, Peter Brezany, Oscar Corcho, Michelle Galea, Mark Parsons, David Snelling, and Jano van Hemert

  • Environmental Science
    Elsevier
    Fukushima Accident: Radioactivity Impact on the Environment
    By Pavel P. Povinec, Katsumi Hirose, and Michio Aoyama
    Honorable Mention
    Wiley
    Climatic Change and Global Warming of Inland Waters: Impacts and Mitigation for Ecosystems and Societies
    Edited by Charles R. Goldman, Michio Kumagai, and Richard D. Robarts
    Honorable Mention
    Wiley
    Decision Making in Natural Resource Management: A Structured, Adaptive Approach
    By Michael J. Conroy and James T. Peterson
    Honorable Mention
    The University of Chicago Press
    Our Once and Future Planet: Restoring the World in the Climate Change Century
    By Paddy Woodworth

  • European & World History
    Princeton University Press
    Why Can the Dead Do Such Great Things? Saints and Worshippers from the Martyrs to the Reformation
    By Robert Bartlett
    Honorable Mention
    Yale University Press
    Global Crisis: War, Climate Change and Catastrophe in the Seventeenth Century
    By Geoffrey Parker
    Honorable Mention
    Princeton University Press
    Lost Enlightenment: Central Asia’s Golden Age from the Arab Conquest to Tamerlane
    By S. Frederick Starr
    Honorable Mention
    Oxford University Press
    Strategy: A History
    By Sir Lawrence Freedman

  • Government & Politics
    Oxford University Press
    Out of the Mountains: The Coming of Age of the Urban Guerrilla
    By David Kilcullen
    Honorable Mention
    Princeton University Press
    The Gamble: Choice and Chance in the 2012 Presidential Election
    By John Sides and Lynn Vavreck

  • History of Science, Medicine & Technology
    Getty Publications
    Twentieth-Century Color Photographs: Identification and Care
    By Sylvie Penichon
    Honorable Mention
    The MIT Press
    Emil du Bois-Reymond: Neuroscience, Self, and Society in Nineteenth-Century Germany
    By Gabriel Finkelstein
    Honorable Mention
    Oxford University Press
    X-Ray Vision: The Evolution of Medical Imaging and Its Human Implications
    By Richard B. Gunderman

  • Language & Linguistics
    Cambridge University Press
    Social Variation and the Latin Language
    By J.N. Adams
    Honorable Mention
    Princeton University Press
    No Joke: Making Jewish Humor
    By Ruth R. Wisse

  • Law & Legal Studies
    The Independent Institute
    The Power of Habeas Corpus in America: From the King’s Prerogative to the War on Terror
    By Anthony Gregory
    Honorable Mention
    Oxford University Press
    American Epic: Reading the U.S. Constitution
    By Garrett Epps
    Honorable Mention
    University of California Press
    M.K. Gandhi, Attorney at Law: The Man before the Mahatma
    By Charles DiSalvo

  • Literature
    Princeton University Press
    The Lives of the Novel: A History
    By Thomas G. Pavel
    Honorable Mention
    The University of Chicago Press
    Five Words: Critical Semantics in the Age of Shakespeare and Cervantes
    By Roland Greene
    Honorable Mention
    Columbia University Press
    The Tale of the Genji: Translation, Canonization, and World Literature
    By Michael Emmerich

  • Mathematics
    Elsevier Science
    Alan Turing: His Work and Impact
    Edited by S. Barry Cooper and Jan van Leeuwen
    Honorable Mention
    Harvard University Press
    A History in Sum: 150 Years of Mathematics at Harvard (1825-1975)
    By Steve Nadis and Shing-Tung Yau
    Honorable Mention
    Cambridge University Press
    Manifold Mirrors: The Crossing Paths of the Arts and Mathematics
    By Felipe Cucker

  • Media & Cultural Studies
    Louisiana State University Press
    China Mission: A Personal History from the Last Imperial Dynasty to the People’s Republic
    By Audrey Ronning Topping
    Honorable Mention
    Stanford University Press
    Counterculture Colophon: Grove Press, The Evergreen Review, and the Incorporation of the Avant-Garde
    By Loren Glass

  • Multivolume Reference/Humanities & Social Sciences
    Oxford University Press
    The Grove Dictionary of American Music
    Editor in Chief Charles Hiroshi Garrett
    Honorable Mention
    Oxford University Press
    The Oxford Encyclopedia of Islam and Women
    Editor in Chief Natana J. DeLong-Bas

  • Multivolume Reference/Science
    Elsevier/Academic Press
    Encyclopedia of Sleep
    By Clete Kushida
    Honorable Mention
    Gale, Cengage Learning
    Grzimek’s Animal Life Encyclopedia: Extinction
    Editor in Chief Norman MacLeod
    Advisory Editors J. David Archibald and Phillip Levin

  • Music & the Performing Arts
    The University of Chicago Press
    From the Score to the Stage: An Illustrated History of Continental Opera Production and Staging
    By Evan Baker

  • Nursing & Allied Health Sciences
    Springer Publishing Company
    Introduction to Aboriginal Health and Health Care in Canada: Bridging Health and Healing
    By Vasiliki Douglas, BSN, BA, MA, PhD
    Honorable Mention
    Springer Publishing Company
    A Man’s Guide to a Nursing Career
    By Chad E. O’Lynn, RN, PhD, RA

  • Philosophy
    Palgrave Macmillan
    The Problem of Political Authority: An Examination of the Right to Coerce and the Duty to Obey
    By Michael Huemer
    Honorable Mention
    The MIT Press
    Radicalizing Enactivism: Basic Minds without Content
    By Daniel D. Hutto and Erik Myin

  • Popular Science & Popular Mathematics
    The MIT Press
    The Outer Limits of Reason: What Science, Mathematics, and Logic Cannot Tell Us
    By Noson S. Yanofsky
    Honorable Mention
    Princeton University Press
    The Golden Ticket: P, NP, and the Search for the Impossible
    By Lance Fortnow

  • Palgrave Macmillan
    Palgrave Macmillan
    The Bitterest Pills: The Troubling Story of Antipsychotic Drugs
    By Joanna Moncrieff
    Honorable Mention
    Cambridge University Press
    How Humans Learn to Think Mathematically: Exploring the Three Worlds of Mathematics
    By David Tall
    Honorable Mention
    American Psychological Association
    The Psychology of Dictatorship
    By Fathali M. Moghaddam

  • Single Volume Reference/Humanities & Social Sciences
    Cambridge University Press
    The Cambridge History of Darwin and Evolutionary Thought
    Edited by Michael Ruse
    Honorable Mention
    Wiley Blackwell
    A Companion to the Archeology of the Roman Republic
    Edited by Jane DeRose Evans
    Honorable Mention
    Lousiana State University Press
    Concert Life in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans
    By John H. Baron

  • Single Volume Reference/Science
    Elsevier/Academic Press
    Epigenetic Regulation in the Nervous System: Basic Mechanisms and Clinical Impact
    Edited by J. David Sweatt, Michael J. Meaney, Eric J. Nestler, and Schahram Akbarian
    Honorable Mention
    Elsevier/Academic Press
    Handbook of Systems Biology: Concepts and Insights
    Edited by Marian Walhout, Marc Vidal, and Job Dekker
    Honorable Mention
    Princeton University Press
    The Warbler Guide
    By Tom Stephenson and Scott Whittle with Drawings by Catherine Hamilton

  • Sociology & Social Work
    The University of Chicago Press
    Stuck in Place: Urban Neighborhoods and the End of Progress Toward Racial Equality Ambiguous Danger
    By Patrick Sharkey
    Honorable Mention
    Princeton University Press
    The New York Nobody Knows
    By William B. Helmreich

  • Theology & Religious Studies
    Georgetown University Press
    Moral Evil
    By Andrew Michael Flescher
    Honorable Mention
    Cambridge University Press
    God, Sexuality, and the Self: An Essay ‘On the Trinity’
    By Sarah Coakley
    Honorable Mention
    Yale University Press
    Sarah Osborn’s World: The Rise of Evangelical Christianity in Early America
    By Catherine A. Brekus

  • U.S. History
    Oxford University Press
    Roosevelt’s Second Act
    By Richard Moe
    Honorable Mention
    University of California Press
    Black Against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party
    By Joshua Bloom and Waldo E. Martin, Jr.
    Honorable Mention
    Yale University Press
    The Men Who Lost America: British Leadership, the American Revolution, and the Fate of the Empire
    By Andrew J. O’Shaughnessy