2015
Winners
R.R. Hawkins Award
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Capital in the Twenty-First Century
By Thomas Piketty
Translated by Arthur Goldhammer

  • Award for Excellence in Humanities
    Cambridge University Press
    The Material Life of Roman Slaves
    By Sandra R. Joshel and Lauren Hackworth Petersen

  • Award for Excellence in Social Sciences
    The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
    Capital in the Twenty-First Century
    By Thomas Piketty
    Translated by Arthur Goldhammer

  • Award for Excellence in Biological & Life Sciences
    John Wiley and Sons
    Ultrastructure Atlas of Human Tissues
    By Fred E. Hossler

  • Award for Excellence in Physical Sciences & Mathematics
    Cambridge University Press
    Atlas of Meteorites
    By Monica Grady, Giovanni Pratesi and Vanni Moggi Cecchi

  • Awards for Excellence in Reference Works
    Cambridge University Press
    The Cambridge History of the First World War
    Edited by Jay Winter

 
Category Award Winners
 
  • Archeology and Anthropology
    McGill-Queen’s University Press
    Ancient Pathways, Ancestral Knowledge
    By Nancy J. Turner
    Honorable Mention
    Yale University Press
    Wasteland: A History
    By Vittoria Di Palma
    Honorable Mention
    Oxford University Press
    Nomadism in Iran: From Antiquity to the Modern Era
    By D.T. Potts

  • Architecture and Urban Planning
    Yale University Press
    Wordly Gurus and Spiritual Kings: Architecture and Asceticism in Medieval India
    By Tamara I. Sears
    Honorable Mention
    Yale University Press
    Wasteland: A History
    By Vittoria Di Palma

  • Art Exhibitions
    The Museum of Modern Art
    By Starr Figura, Elizabeth Childs, Hal Foster and Erika Mosier
    Honorable Mention
    Stanford University Press
    Carleton Watkins: The Stanford Albums
    Edited by Cantor Arts Center
    Honorable Mention
    The University of Chicago Press
    Kurt Schwitters: Space, Image, Exile
    By Megan R. Luke
    Honorable Mention
    Harvard University Press
    The Image of the Black in Western Art
    By David Bindman and Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
    Honorable Mention
    Cambridge University Press
    The Mystic Ark: Hugh of Saint Victor, Art, and Thought in the Twelfth Century
    By Conrad Rudolph

  • Art History & Criticism
    Yale University Press
    The Life Within: Classic Maya and the Matter of Permanence
    By Stephen Houston

  • Biography & Autobiography
    Columbia University Press
    Lady in the Dark: Iris Barry and the Art of Film
    By Robert Sitton
    Honorable Mention
    Yale University Press
    Augustus: First Emperor of Rome
    By Adrian Goldsworthy
    Honorable Mention
    The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
    The Intellectual Life of Edmund Burke: From the Sublime and Beautiful to American Independence
    By David Bromwich

  • Biological Sciences
    John Wiley and Sons
    Ultrastructure Atlas of Human Tissues
    By Fred E. Hossler
    Honorable Mention
    Princeton University Press
    40 Years of Evolution: Darwin’s Finches on Daphne Major Island
    By Peter R. Grant and B. Rosemary Grant
    Honorable Mention
    Harvard University Press
    Apes and Human Evolution
    By Russell H. Tuttle

  • Biomedicine & Neuroscience
    Princeton University Press
    Do Zombies Dream of Undead Sheep? A Neuroscientific View of the Zombie Brain
    By Timothy Verstynen and Bradley Voytek
    Honorable Mention
    The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
    Making Space: How the Brain Knows Where Things Are
    By Jennifer M. Groh
    Honorable Mention
    Elsevier
    The Stimulated Brain: Cognitive Enhancement Using Non-Invasive Brain Stimulation
    Edited by Roi Cohen Kadosh

  • Business, Finance & Management
    Princeton University Press
    Fragile by Design: The Political Origins of Banking Crises and Scarce Credit
    By Charles W. Calomiris and Stephen H. Haber
    Honorable Mention
    Princeton University Press
    The Dollar Trap: How the U.S. Dollar Tightened Its Grip on Global Finance
    By Eswar S. Prasad
    Honorable Mention
    The MIT Press
    The Innovator’s Hypothesis: How Cheap Experiments Are Worth More Than Good Ideas
    By Michael Schrage

  • Chemistry & Physics
    Elsevier/Academic Press
    Distillation: 1. Fundamentals and Principles, 2. Operations and Applications, 3. Equipment and Processes
    Edited by Andrzej Gorak, Eva Sorensen, Hartmut Schoenmakers and Zarko Olujic

  • Classics & Ancient History
    Cambridge University Press
    The Material Life of Roman Slaves
    By Sandra R. Joshel and Lauren Hackworth Petersen
    Honorable Mention
    Cambridge University Press
    Jewish War under Trajan and Hadrian
    By William Horbury

  • Clinical Medicine Practice
    Oxford University Press
    A Video Atlas of Neuromuscular Disorders
    By Aziz Shaibani
    Honorable Mention
    Demos Medical

  • Computing & Information Science
    The MIT Press
    Reality Mining: Using Big Data to Engineer a Better World
    By Nathan Eagle and Kate Greene
    Honorable Mention
    Wiley
    Software War Stories: Case Studies in Software Management
    By Donald J. Reifer

  • Cosmology & Astronomy
    Elsevier
    Encyclopedia of the Solar System
    Edited by Tilman Spohn, Doris Breuer and Torrence Johnson

  • Earth Science
    Cambridge University Press
    Atlas of Meteorites
    By Monica Grady, Giovanni Pratesi and Vanni Moggi Cecchi
    Honorable Mention
    Elsevier Science
    Developments in the Theory and Practice of Cybercartography
    By Dr. D.R. Fraser Taylor and Tracey Lauriault
    Honorable Mention
    Louisiana State University Press
    Southern Waters: The Limits to Abundance
    By Craig E. Colten

  • Economics
    The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
    Capital in the Twenty-First Century
    By Thomas Piketty
    Translated by Arthur Goldhammer
    Honorable Mention
    Columbia University Press
    Creating a Learning Society: A New Approach to Growth, Development, and Social Progress
    By Joseph E. Stiglitz and Bruce C. Greenwald
    Honorable Mention
    The University of Chicago Press
    House of Debt: How They (and You) Caused the Great Recession, and How We Can Prevent It from Happening Again
    By Atif Mian and Amir Sufi
    Honorable Mention
    Princeton University Press
    The Son Also Rises: Surnames and the History of Social Mobility
    By Gregory Clark

  • Education Practice
    The University of Chicago Press
    American School Reform: What Works, What Fails, and Why
    By Joseph P. McDonald
    Honorable Mention
    Teachers College Press
    50 Myths and Lies That Threaten America’s Public Schools: The Real Crisis in Education
    By David C. Berliner and Gene V. Glass

  • Education Theory
    The University of Chicago Press
    The Public School Advantage: Why Public Schools Outperform Private Schools
    By Christopher A. Lubienski and Sarah Theule Lubienski
    Honorable Mention
    The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
    Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning
    By Peter C. Brown, Henry L. Roedigger III and Mark A. McDaniel

  • Engineering & Technology
    Yale University Press
    Water 4.0: The Past, Present, and Future of the World’s Most Vital Resources
    By David Sedlak
    Honorable Mention
    The MIT Press
    Disaster Robotics
    By Robin R. Murphy
    Honorable Mention
    McGraw-Hill Professional
    Global Innovation Science Handbook
    Edited by Praveen Gupta and Brett E. Trusko

  • Environmental Science
    John Wiley and Sons
    Bioprocessing of Renewable Resources to Commodity Bioproducts
    Edited by Virendra S. Bisaria and Akihiko Kondo
    Honorable Mention
    The MIT Press
    The Globalization of Clean Energy Technology: Lessons from China
    By Kelly Sims Gallagher

  • eProduct/Best App
    Elsevier
    Virtual Microscope for Books, Major Reference Works and Journals

  • eProduct/ Best in Humanities
    Harvard University Press
    Digital Loeb Classical Library
    General Editor Jeffrey Henderson
    Honorable Mention
    Cambridge University Press
    The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Ben Jonson
    Editors David Bevington, Martin Butler and Ian Donaldson

  • European & World History
    Princeton University Press
    Revolutionary Ideas: An Intellectual History of the French Revolution from The Rights of Man to Robespierre
    By Jonathan Israel
    Honorable Mention
    Cambridge University Press
    Freedom’s Mirror: Cuba and Haiti in the Age of Revolution
    By Ada Ferrer
    Honorable Mention
    Farrar, Straus and Giroux
    By Brian A. Catlos
    Honorable Mention
    Cambridge University Press
    July Crisis: The World’s Descent into War, Summer 1914
    By T.G. Otte
    Honorable Mention
    Princeton University Press
    The Age of the Vikings
    By Anders Winroth
    Honorable Mention
    Princeton University Press
    The Golden Age Shtetl: A New History of Jewish Life in East Europe
    By Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern

  • Government & Politics
    Farrar, Straus and Giroux
    By Francis Fukuyama

    Honorable Mention
    Farrar, Straus and Giroux
    By John B. Judis
    Honorable Mention
    Princeton University Press
    Liberalism: The Life of an Idea
    By Edmund Fawcett
    Honorable Mention
    Princeton University Press
    Why Government Fails So Often: And How It Can Do Better
    By Peter H. Schuck
  • History of STM
    Princeton University Press
    Ten Thousand Birds: Ornithology since Darwin
    By Tim Birkhead, Jo Wimpenny and Bob Montgomerie
    Honorable Mention
    The University of Chicago Press
    Earth’s Deep History: How It Was Discovered and Why It Matters
    By Martin J.S. Rudwick

  • JOURNAL/BEST NEW JOURNAL IN HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
    John Wiley and Sons
    Thought: A Journal of Philosophy
    Editors Crispin Wright, John Divers and Carrie Ichikawa Jenkins
    Honorable Mention
    Michigan State University Press
    QED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking
    Editors-in-Chief Charles E. Morris III and Thomas K. Nakayama

  • JOURNAL/BEST NEW JOURNAL IN STM
    IEEE
    IEEE Access
    Editor-in-Chief Michael Pecht
    Honorable Mention
    Elsevier
    Edited by Robert Mann and Norman Gray, et al.
    Honorable Mention
    Elsevier
    Editor-in-Chief David Alexander

  • Language & Linguistics
    Disability Rhetoric
    Honorable Mention
    Princeton University Press
    Philology: The Forgotten Origins of the Modern Humanities
    By James Turner

  • Law & Legal Studies
    Oxford University Press
    Immigration Outside the Law
    By Hiroshi Motomura
    Honorable Mention
    Oxford University Press
    Failure to Flourish: How Law Undermines Family Relationships
    By Clare Huntington
    Honorable Mention
    Elsevier/Academic Press
    Forensic Testimony: Science, Law and Expert Evidence
    By C. Michael Bowers
    Honorable Mention
    Princeton University Press
    The Copyright Wars: Three Centuries of Trans-Atlantic Battle
    By Peter Baldwin

  • Literature
    University of Ottawa Press
    By Miriam Waddington
    Edited and with an introduction by Ruth Panofsky
    Honorable Mention
    Cambridge University Press
    Failure and the American Writer: A Literary History
    By Gavin Jones
    Honorable Mention
    Columbia University Press
    Roberto Bolano’s Fiction: An Expanding Universe
    By Chris Andrews
    Honorable Mention
    The University of Chicago Press
    The Selected Poetry of Pier Paolo Pasolini: A Bilingual Edition
    By Pier Paolo Pasolini
    Edited and translated by Stephen Sartarelli

  • Mathematics
    By Terence Tao
    Honorable Mention
    Cambridge University Press
    Modeling Count Data
    By Joseph M. Hilbe

  • Media & Cultural Studies
    Sourcebooks
    Spam Nation: The Inside Story of Organized Cybercrime
    By Brian Krebs
    Honorable Mention
    The University of the West Indies Press
    Citizenship Under Pressure: The 1970s in Jamaican Literature and Culture
    By Rachel L. Mordecai
    Honorable Mention
    University of Texas Press
    Pretty/Funny: Women Comedians and Body Politics
    By Linda Mizejewski

  • Multivolume/Humanities & Social Sciences
    Cambridge University Press
    The Cambridge History of the First World War
    Edited by Jay Winter
    Honorable Mention
    Getty Publications
    ThesCRA

  • Multivolume/Science
    ElsevierElsevier
    Elsevier
    Editors-in-Chief Paul Knochel and Gary Molander
    Honorable Mention
    Johns Hopkins University Press
    Ducks, Geese, and Swans of North America
    By Guy Baldassarre
    Honorable Mention
    John Wiley and Sons
    The Handbook of Liquid Crystals
    Edited by J.W. Goodby, P.J. Collings, T. Kato, C. Tschierske, H.F. Gleeson and P. Raynes

  • Music & the Performing Arts
    The MIT Press
    Music and the Making of Modern Science
    By Peter Pesic
    Honorable Mention
    Louisiana State University Press
    In Tune: Charley Patton, Jimmie Rodgers, and the Roots of American Music
    By Ben Wynne

  • Outstanding Work by a Trade Publisher
    Princeton University Press
    Trees of Eastern North America
    By Gil Nelson, Christopher J. Earle and Richard Spellenberg
    Honorable Mention
    The White House Historical Association
    Away from the White House: Presidential Escapes, Retreats, and Vacations
    By Lawrence L. Knutson

  • Philosophy
    Cambridge University Press
    Torture, Power, and Law
    By David Luban
    Honorable Mention
    The University of Chicago Press
    How Should We Live?: A Practical Approach to Everyday Morality
    By John Kekes
    Honorable Mention
    Princeton University Press
    Would You Kill the Fat Man? The Trolley Problem and What Your Answer Tells Us about Right and Wrong
    By David Edmonds

  • Popular Science & Popular Mathematics
    Wiley
    The Perfect Meal: The Multisensory Science of Food and Dining
    By Charles Spence and Betina Piqueras-Fiszman
    Honorable Mention
    Princeton University Press
    Beautiful Geometry
    By Eli Maor and Eugen Jost
    Honorable Mention
    Columbia University Press
    Flying Dinosaurs: How Fearsome Reptiles Became Birds
    By John Pickrell
    Honorable Mention
    Scientific American/Farrar, Straus and Giroux
    By David J. Hand

  • Psychology
    Cambridge University Press
    How Sexual Desire Works: The Enigmatic Urge
    By Frederick Toates
    Honorable Mention
    The MIT Press
    A Metaphysics of Psychopathology
    By Peter Zachar
    Honorable Mention
    Public Affairs/The Perseus Books Group
    Me, Myself, and Us
    By Brian R. Little

  • Single Volume/Humanities & Social Sciences
    The Kent State University Press
    Wearable Prints, 1760-1860: History, Materials, and Mechanics
    By Susan W. Greene
    Honorable Mention
    Wiley-Blackwell
    Edited by Jeremy McInerney

  • Single Volume/Science
    Cambridge University Press
    Biomaterials and Regenerative Medicine
    Edited by Peter Ma
    Honorable Mention
    Elsevier/Academic Press
    Food Safety Management: A Practical Guide for the Food Industry
    Edited by Yasmine Motarjemi and Huub Lelieveld

  • Sociology & Social Work
    Johns Hopkins University Press
    Doctors Without Borders: Humanitarian Quests, Impossible Dreams of Medicins Sans Frontieres
    By Renee C. Fox
    Honorable Mention
    Oxford University Press
    Deeply Divided: Racial Politics and Social Movements in Postwar America
    By Doug McAdam and Karina Kloos
    Honorable Mention
    Oxford University Press
    Reluctant Witness: Survivors, Their Children, and the Rise of Holocaust Consciousness
    By Arlene Stein

  • Textbook/Biological & Life Sciences
    Princeton University Press
    Visual Ecology
    By Thomas W. Cronin, Sonke Johnsen, N. Justin Marshall and Eric J. Warrant

  • Textbook/Clinical Medicine
    Thieme Publishers
    Neurosurgery Tricks of the Trade: Cranial
    By Remi Nader, Cristian Gragnaniello, Scott C. Berta, Abdulrahman J. Sabbagh and Michael L. Levy
    Honorable Mention
    Oxford University Press
    Pediatric Radiology: Rotations in Radiology
    Edited by Janet R. Reid, Angelisa Paladin, William Davros, Edward Y. Lee and Caroline Carrico
    Honorable Mention
    Thieme Publishers
    Seven AVMs: Tenets and Techniques for Resection
    By Michael T. Lawton
    Illustrations by Kenneth X. Probst

  • Textbook/Physical Sciences & Mathematics
    John Wiley and Sons
    Arrow Pushing in Inorganic Chemistry: A Logical Approach to the Chemistry of the Main- Group Elements
    By Abhik Ghosh and Steffen Berg
    Honorable Mention
    Cambridge University Press
    Gravity: Newtonian, Post-Newtonian, Relativistic
    By Eric Poisson and Clifford M. Will

  • Textbook/Social Sciences
    Princeton University Press
    Why Gender Matters in Economics
    By Mukesh Eswaran

  • Theology & Religious Studies
    Cambridge University Press
    Augustine Deformed: Love, Sin and Freedom in the Western Moral Tradition
    By John M. Rist
    Honorable Mention
    Cambridge University Press
    David, King of Israel, and Caleb in Biblical Memory
    By Jacob L. Wright
    Honorable Mention
    Wiley Blackwell
    Honorable Mention
    Princeton University Press
    Maimonides: Life and Thought
    By Moshe Halbertal

  • U.S. History
    Simon & Schuster
    Gotham Unbound: The Ecological History of Greater New York
    By Ted Steinberg
    Honorable Mention
    Columbia University Press
    Chop Suey, USA
    By Yong Chen
    Honorable Mention
    Yale University Press
    Gathering Together: The Shawnee People through Diaspora and Nationhood, 1600-1870
    By Sami Lakomaki
    Honorable Mention
    University of Illinois Press
    Qualifying Times: Points of Change in U.S. Women’s Sport
    By Jaime Schultz
    Honorable Mention
    Oxford University Press
    Redemption Songs: Swing for Freedom before Dred Scott
    By Lea VanderVelde