Winners
Category Award Winners
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Archeology and AnthropologyBlackwell PublishingFirst Farmers: The Origins of Agricultural SocietiesBy: Peter BellwoodHonorable MentionJohn Wiley and Sons, Inc.Human Fossil Record Volume 4By: Jeffrey H. Schwartz and Ian Tattersall
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Architecture & Urban PlanningSpringerConstructing Architecture: Materials Processes Structures. A HandbookBy: Andrea DeplazesHonorable MentionThe MIT PressThe Pan Am Building and the Shattering of the Modernist DreamBy: Meredith L. Clausen
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Arts and Art HistoryGetty PublicationsAntiquity and Photography: Early Views of Ancient Mediterranean SitesBy: Claire L. Lyons, John K. Papadoulous, Lindsey S. Stewart, and Szegedy-MaszakHonorable MentionThe MIT PressAlice Aycock: Sculpture and ProjectsBy: Robert Hobbs
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Biography & AutobiographyOxford University PressWilliam Epson, Volume I: Among the MandarinsBy: John HaffendenHonorable MentionOxford University PressMencken: The American IconoclastBy: Marion Elizabeth Rodgers
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Biological ScienceYale University PressThe Plausibility of Life: Resolving Darwin’s DilemmaBy: Marc W. Kirschner and John C. GerhartHonorable MentionCambridge University PressThe Evolution of the InsectsBy: David Grimaldi and Michael S. Engel
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Business, Management & AccountingThe Johns Hopkins University PressThe Corporate Eye: Photography and the Rationalization of American Commercial Culture, 1884-1929By: Elspeth H. Brown
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ChemistryElsevier / Academic PressStrategic Applications of Named Reactions in Organic Synthesis: Background and Detailed MechanismsBy: Lázló Kürti and Barbara CzakóHonorable MentionJohn Wiley and Sons, Inc.Drug Discovery HandbookBy: Shayne Cox Gad
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Classics and Ancient HistoryThe Johns Hopkins University PressThe World of Roman Song: From Ritualized Speech to Social OrderBy: Thomas Habinek
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Clinical MedicineOxford University PressTreating and Preventing Adolescent Mental Health Disorders: What We Know and What We Don’t KnowBy: Dwight L. Evans, Edna B. Foa, Raquel E. Gur, Herbert Hendin, Charles P. O’Brien, Martin E.P. Seligman, and B. Timothy WalshHonorable MentionThieme Medical Publishers, Inc.Neurotrauma: Evidence-Based Answers to Common QuestionsBy: Alex B. Valadka, MD and Brian T. Andrews, MD
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Communication and Cultural StudiesJohns Hopkins University PressThe Secret History of DomesticityBy: Michael McKeon
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Computer and Information ScienceWiley and Sons, Inc.Databasing the BrainBy: Stephen H. Koslow and Shankar Subramaniam
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EngineeringWiley and Sons, Inc.Taguchi’s Quality Engineering HandbookBy: Genichi Taguchi, Subir Chowdhury, Yuin WuHonorable MentionMcGraw-HillSemiconductor Manufacturing HandbookBy: Hwaiyu Geng
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Finance and EconomicsJohn Wiley and Sons, Inc.The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global EconomyBy: Pietra Rivoli
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Geology and GeographyElsevier/Academic PressThe Essentials of Medical Geology: Impacts of the Natural Environment on Public HealthBy: Editor-in-Chief: Olle Selinus; Associate Editors: Brian Alloway, José Centeno, Robert Finkelman, Ron Fuge, Ulf Lindh, and Pauline Smedley
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Geology and GeographyElsevier/Academic PressRivers of North AmericaBy: Arthur C. Benke and Colbert E. Cushing
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Government & Political ScienceLouisiana State University PressThe White House Looks South: Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Lyndon B. JohnsonBy: William E. LeuchtenburgHonorable MentionPrinceton University PressDeath by a Thousand Cuts: The Fight over Taxing Inherited WealthBy: Michael J. Graetz and Ian Shapiro
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History and American StudiesHarvard University PressRacing the Enemy: Stalin, Truman, and the Surrender of JapanHarvard University PressHonorable MentionOxford University PressLiberty and Freedom: A Visual History of America’s Founding IdeasBy: David Hackett Fischer
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History of ScienceUniversity of Chicago PressBursting the Limits of Time: The Reconstruction of Geohistory in the Age of RevolutionBy: Martin J.S. RudwickHonorable MentionSpringerExploring the Ancient Skies: An Encyclopedic Survey of ArcheoastronomyBy: David H. Kelley and Eugene F. Milone.
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LawCambridge University PressThe Torture Papers: The Road to Abu GhraibBy: Karen J. Greenberg and Joshua L. DratelHonorable MentionOxford University PressConquest by Law: How the Discovery of America Dispossessed Indigenous Peoples of Their LandsBy: Lindsay G. Robertson
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Literature, Language, and LinguisticsUniversity PressVirginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury Avant-GardeBy: Christine FroulaHonorable MentionThe University of Chicago PressThe War Complex: World War II in Our TimeBy: Marianna Torgovnick
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Mathematics & StatisticsSpringerDomain Decomposition Methods – Algorithms and TheoryBy: Andrea Toselli and Olof WidlundHonorable MentionPrinceton University PressSpectra and Pseudospectra: The Behavior of Nonnormal Matrices and OperatorsBy: Lloyd N. Trefethen and Mark Embree
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Medical ScienceHarvard University PressBrain Arousal and Information TheoryBy: Donald Pfaff
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Multi-Volume Reference / Humanities and Social SciencesThe University of Chicago PressThe Taoist Canon: A Historical Companion to the DaozangBy: Kristofer Schipper and Franciscus Verellen
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Multi-Volume Reference / ScienceJohn Wiley and Sons, Inc.Encyclopedia of RF and Microwave EngineeringBy: Kai ChangHonorable MentionJohn Wiley and Sons, Inc.Water EncyclopediaBy: Jay H. Lehr and Jack Keeley
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Nursing & Allied HealthJohn Wiley and Sons, Inc. / Jossey-BassEnvironmental Health: From Global to LocalBy: Howard Frumkin, MD, DrPHHonorable MentionElsevierPalliatiative Practices: An Interdisciplinary ApproachBy: Kim K. Kuebler, Mellar P. Davis, and Crystal Dea Moore
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PhilosophyPrinceton University PressThe Ethics of IdentityBy: Kwame Anthony AppiahHonorable MentionOxford University PressTruth: A GuideBy: Simon Blackburn
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PsychologyThe MIT PressSweet Dreams: Philosophical Obstacles to a Science of ConsciousnessBy: Daniel C. Dennett
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Single Volume Reference / Humanities and Social SciencesOxford University PressEncyclopedia of ChristianityJohn Bowden
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Single Volume Reference / ScienceOxford University PressAn Illustrated Chinese Materia MedicaBy: Jing – Nuan WuHonorable MentionSpringerEncyclopedia of Coastal ScienceBy: Maurice Schwartz
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Sociology and Social WorkRowman and LittlefieldThe Career Mystique: Cracks in the American DreamBy: Phyllis Moen and Patricia Roehling
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Theology and Religious StudiesThe Johns Hopkins University PressGod’s Mountain: The Temple Mount in Time, Place, and MemoryBy: Yeron Eliav
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Theology and Religious StudiesThe University of Chicago PressThe Invention of World Religions: Or, How European Universalism Was Preserved in the Language of PluralismBy: Tomoko Masuzawa
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Innovation in Journal PublishingNature Publishing GroupNature MethodsBy: Veronique Kiermer (Editor), Nicole Rusk (Associate Editor), and Daniel Evanko (Associate Editor)