Winners

2012
Winners
R.R. Hawkins Award
Through the Eye of a Needle: Wealth, the Fall of Rome, and the Making of Christianity in the West, 350-550 AD
By Peter Brown

  • Award for Excellence in Humanities
    Princeton University Press
    Through the Eye of a Needle: Wealth, the Fall of Rome, and the Making of Christianity in the West, 350-550 AD
    By Peter Brown

  • Award for Excellence in Social Sciences
    Princeton University Press
    The Unheavenly Chorus: Unequal Political Voice and the Broken Promise of American Democracy
    By Kay Lehman Schlozman, Sidney Verba, and Henry E. Brady

  • Award for Excellence in Physical Sciences & Mathematics
    University of California Press
    Atlas of Yellowstone
    By W. Andrew Marcus, James E. Meacham, Ann W. Rodman, and Alethea Y. Steingisser

  • Award for Excellence in Biology & Life Sciences
    Harvard University Press
    Arthropod Brains: Evolution, Functional Elegance, and Historical Significance
    By Nicholas James Strausfeld

  • Award for Excellence in Reference Works
    Cambridge University Press
    The Cambridge History of Religions in America
    Edited by Stephen J. Stein

 
Category Award Winners
 
  • Archeology & Anthropology
    The American University in Cairo Press
    Ancient Nubia: African Kingdoms on the Nile
    Edited by Majorie M. Fisher, Peter Lacovara, Salima Ikram, and Sue D’Auria
    Photographs by Chester Higgins, Jr.
    Honorable Mention
    Princeton University Press
    How Ancient Europeans Saw the World: Vision, Patterns, and the Shaping of the Mind in Perhistoric Times
    By Peter S. Wells

  • Architecture & Urban Planning
    Princeton University Press
    Mathematical Excursions to the World’s Great Buildings
    By Alexander J. Hahn
    Honorable Mention
    The Johns Hopkins University Press
    George Washington’s Eye: Landscape, Architecture, and Design at Mount Vernon
    By Joseph Manca
    Honorable Mention
    The Johns Hopkins University Press
    Signs, Streets, and Storefronts: A History of Architecture and Graphics along America’s Commercial Corridors
    By Martin Treu

  • Art Exhibitions
    The Museum of Modern Art
    Inventing Abstraction, 1910-1925: How a Radical Idea Changed Modern Art
    By Leah Dickerman
    Honorable Mention
    Getty Publications
    Gustav Klimt: The Magic of Line
    By Marian Bisanz-Prakken

  • Art History & Criticism
    Yale University Press
    Venice from the Water: Architecture and Myth in an Early Modern City
    By Daniel Savoy
    Honorable Mention
    The University of Chicago Press
    An Audience of Artists: Dada, Neo-Dada, and the Emergence of Abstract Expressionism
    By Catherine Craft

  • Biography & Autobiography
    Aquila Polonica Publishing
    The Auschwitz Volunteer: Beyond Bravery
    By Captain Witold Pilecki
    Translated by Jarek Garlinski

  • Biological Sciences
    Harvard University Press
    Arthropod Brains: Evolution, Functional Elegance, and Historical Significance
    By Nicholas James Strausfeld
    Honorable Mention
    The Johns Hopkins University Press
    Trees of Life: A Visual History of Evolution
    By Theodore W. Pietsch

  • Biomedicine & Neuroscience
    Harvard University Press
    Curious Behavior: Yawning, Laughing, Hiccupping, and Beyond
    By Robert R. Provine
    Honorable Mention
    Oxford University Press
    Brain-Computer Interfaces: Principles and Practice
    Edited by Jonathan R. Wolpaw and Elizabeth Winter Wolpaw
    Honorable Mention
    The MIT Press
    Consciousness: Confessions of a Romantic Reductionist
    By Christof Koch
    Honorable Mention
    The MIT Press
    Discovering the Human Connectome
    By Olaf Sporns
    Honorable Mention
    Oxford University Press
    The Bipolar Brain: Integrating Neuroimaging and Genetics
    By Stephen M. Strakowski, MD

  • Business, Finance & Management
    Princeton University Press
    Finance and the Good Society
    By Robert J. Shiller
    Honorable Mention
    The MIT Press
    Guardians of Finance: Making Regulators Work for Us
    By James R. Barth, Gerard Caprio, Jr., and Ross Levine
    Honorable Mention
    The MIT Press
    Logistics Clusters: Delivering Value and Driving Growth
    By Yossi Sheffi

  • Chemistry & Physics
    John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
    Bioinspiration and Biomimicry in Chemistry: Reverse-Engineering Nature
    By Gerhard F. Swiegers
    Honorable Mention
    Elsevier Science & Technology
    Chemical Analysis of Food: Techniques and Applications
    By Yolanda Pico

  • Classics & Ancient History
    Princeton University Press
    Through the Eye of a Needle: Wealth, the Fall of Rome, and the Making of Christianity in the West, 350-550 AD
    By Peter Brown
    Honorable Mention
    The University of Texas Press
    Alexander’s Veterans and the Early Wars of the Successors
    By Joseph Roisman
    Honorable Mention
    Cambridge University Press
    Constantine, Divine Emperor
    By Jonathan Bardill

  • Clinical Medicine
    Oxford University Press
    Dignity Therapy: Final Words for Final Days
    By Harvey Max Chochinov
    Honorable Mention
    American Psychiatric Publishing
    Care of Children Exposed to the Traumatic Effects of Disaster
    By Jon A. Shaw, MD, MS, Zelde Espinel, MD, MA, MPH, and James M. Shultz, MS, PhD
    Honorable Mention
    Thieme Publishers
    Hemorrhagic and Ischemic Stroke
    By Bernard R. Bendok, MD, Andrew M. Naidech, Matthew T. Walker, and H. Hunt Batjer
    Honorable Mention
    Wiley-Blackwell
    Immunology: Muscosal and Body Surface Defences
    By Andrew E. Williams

  • Computing & Information Sciences
    Elsevier Science & Technology
    Practical Text Mining and Statistical Analysis for Non-structured Text Data Applications
    By Gary Miner, Dursun Delen, John Elder, Andrew Fast, Thomas Hill, and Robert A. Nisbet
    Honorable Mention
    Princeton University Press
    Nine Algorithms That Changed the Future: The Ingenious Ideas That Drive Today’s Computers
    By John MacCormick

  • Cosmology & Astronomy
    Cambridge University Press
    Modern Statistical Methods for Astronomy, With R Applications
    By Eric D. Feigelson and G. Jogesh Babu

  • Earth Sciences
    University of California Press
    Atlas of Yellowstone
    By W. Andrew Marcus, James E. Meacham, Ann W. Rodman, and Alethea Y. Steingisser
    Honorable Mention
    Oxford University Press
    Dirty, Sacred Rivers: Confronting South Asia’s Water Crisis
    By Cheryl Colopy
    Honorable Mention
    Wiley-Blackwell
    Fundamentals of Geobiology
    By Andrew H. Knoll, Donald E. Canfield, and Kurt O. Konhauser Simon & Schuster/Scribner
    Honorable Mention
    Princeton University Press
    How to Build a Habitable Planet: The Story of Earth from the Big Bang to Humankind
    By Charles H. Langmuir and Wally Broecker

  • Economics
    The MIT Press
    Getting it Wrong: How Faulty Monetary Statistics Undermine the Fed, the Financial System, and the Economy
    By William A. Barnett

  • Education
    The University of Chicago Press
    What is Education?
    By Philip W. Jackson
    Honorable Mention
    Princeton University Press
    College: What It Was, Is, and Should Be
    By Andrew Delbanco
    Honorable Mention
    Teachers College Press
    Giving Our Children a Fighting Chance
    By Susan B. Neuman and Donna C. Celano

  • Engineering & Technology
    Cambridge University Press
    Networked Life: 20 Questions and Answers
    By Mung Chiang
    Honorable Mention
    Cambridge University Press
    Network Information Theory
    By Abbas El Gamal and Young-Han Kim

  • eProduct/Best in Biological & Life Sciences
    Elsevier
    SimChart

  • eProduct/Best in Humanities
    Getty Publications
    The Visions of Tondal

  • eProduct/Best in Physical Sciences & Mathematics
    McGraw-Hill Professional
    AccessEngineering

  • eProduct/Best in Social Sciences
    Elsevier Science & Technology/Anderson Publishing
    Policing in America: Exam Cram

  • eProduct/Best Multidiscipline Platform
    Oxford University Press
    Oxford Bibliographies Online

  • European & World History
    Cambridge University Press
    The Wars for Asia, 1911-1949
    By S.C.M. Paine
    Honorable Mention
    Yale University Press
    Orderly and Humane
    By R.M. Douglas

  • Government & Politics
    Princeton University Press
    The Unheavenly Chorus: Unequal Political Voice and the Broken Promise of American Democracy
    By Kay Lehman Schlozman, Sidney Verba, and Henry E. Brady
    Honorable Mention
    Oxford University Press
    Rule and Ruin: The Downfall of Moderation and the Destruction of the Republican Party, From Eisenhower to the Tea Party
    By Geoffrey Kabaservice
    Honorable Mention
    CQ Press/SAGE
    The African American Electorate: A Statistical History
    By Hanes Walton, Jr., Sherman C. Puckett, and Donald R. Deskins, Jr.

  • History of Science, Medicine & Technology
    The University of Chicago Press
    Visible Empire: Botanical Expeditions and Visual Culture in the Hispanic Enlightenment
    By Daniela Bleichmar
    Honorable Mention
    The University of Chicago Press
    Picturing the Book of Nature: Image, Text, and Argument in Sixteenth-Century Human Anatomy and Medical Botany
    By Sachiko Kusukawa
    Honorable Mention
    The University of Chicago Press
    The Sounding of the Whale: Science and Cetaceans in the Twentieth Century
    By D. Graham Burnett

  • Journal/Best New in Science, Technology & Medicine
    American Chemical Society
    ACS Catalysis
    Honorable Mention
    The Johns Hopkins University Press
    Narrative Inquiry in Bioethics: A Journal of Qualitative Research

  • Language & Linguistics
    HarperCollins Publishers
    The Story of Ain’t
    By David Skinner
    Honorable Mention
    Wiley-Blackwell
    The Handbook of Hispanic Linguistics
    Edited by Jose Ignacio Hualde, Antxon Olarrea, and Erin O’Rourke
    Honorable Mention
    Oxford University Press
    Vernacular Eloquence: What Speech Can Bring to Writing
    By Peter Elbow

  • Law & Legal Studies
    Oxford University Press
    Infrastructure: The Social Value of Shared Resources
    By Brett M. Frischmann
    Honorable Mention
    Oxford University Press
    Law in American History: Volume 1: From the Colonial Years Through the Civil War
    By G. Edward White

  • Literature
    Harvard University Press
    Gothika: Vampire Heroes, Human Gods, and the New Supernatural
    By Victoria Nelson
    Honorable Mention
    University of California Press
    Robert Duncan: The Ambassador From Venus
    By Lisa Jarnot
    Honorable Mention
    Yale University Press
    The Poetry of Kabbalah
    By Peter Cole

  • Mathematics
    John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
    Classic Problems of Probability
    By Prakash Gorroochurn
    Honorable Mention
    Cambridge University Press
    Classical Algebraic Geometry: A Modern View
    By Igor V. Dolgachev

  • Media & Cultural Studies
    University of Massachusetts Press
    Covering America: A Narrative History of a Nation’s Journalism
    By Christopher B. Daly
    Honorable Mention
    The University of Texas Press
    Uncivil Wars: Elena Garro, Octavio Paz, and the Battle for Cultural Memory
    By Sandra Messinger Cypess
    Honorable Mention
    Wiley-Blackwell
    Understanding Richard Hoggart: A Pedagogy of Hope
    By Michael Bailey, Ben Clarke, and John K. Walton

  • Multivolume Reference/Humanities & Social Sciences
    Cambridge University Press
    The Cambridge History of Religions in America
    Edited by Stephen J. Stein
    Honorable Mention
    Wiley-Blackwell
    The Encyclopedia of War
    By Gordon Martel

  • Multivolume Reference/Science
    Elsevier Science & Technology
    Comprehensive Renewable Energy
    Edited by Ali Sayigh
    Honorable Mention
    Elsevier
    The Geologic Time Scale 2012
    By Felix M. Gradstein, James G. Ogg, Mark D. Schmitz, and Gabi M. Ogg

  • Music & the Performing Arts
    Oxford University Press
    Modernist Mysteries: Persephone
    By Tamara Levitz

  • Nursing & Allied Health Sciences
    Elsevier
    Know the Body: Muscle, Bone, and Palpation Essentials
    By Joseph E. Muscolino
    Honorable Mention
    Elsevier
    Local Anesthesia for the Dental Hygienist
    By Demetra Daskalos Logothetis, RDH, MS
    Honorable Mention
    Springer Publishing Company
    Religion: A Clinical Guide for Nurses
    By Elizabeth Johnston Taylor, PhD, RNBy Demetra Daskalos Logothetis, RDH, MS

  • Philosophy
    Oxford University Press
    The Geometry of Desert
    By Shelly Kagan
    Honorable Mention
    Wiley-Blackwell
    As Free and as Just as Possible: The Theory of Marxian Liberalism
    By Jeffrey Reiman
    Honorable Mention
    The MIT Press
    In Praise of Reason
    By Michael P. Lynch
    Honorable Mention
    Princeton University Press
    Pursuits of Wisdom: Six Ways of Life in Ancient Philosophy from Socrates to Plotinus
    By John M. Cooper

  • Popular Science & Popular Mathematics
    Oxford University Press
    Taking Sudoku Seriously: The Math Behind the World’s Most Popular Pencil Puzzle
    By Jason Rosenhouse and Laura Taalman
    Honorable Mention
    Princeton University Press
    The Magical Mathematics: The Mathematical Ideas that Animate Great Magic Tricks
    By Persi Diaconis and Ron Graham

  • Psychology
    Oxford University Press
    Social Perception and Social Reality: Why Accuracy Dominates Bias and Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
    By Lee Jussim
    Honorable Mention
    HarperCollins Publishers
    Coming of Age on Zoloft
    By Katherine Sharpe

  • Single Volume Reference/Humanities & Social Sciences
    Oxford University Press
    The Oxford Handbook of African American Citizenship, 1865-Present
    Edited by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Claude Steele, Lawrence D. Bobo, Gerald Jaynes, Lisa Crooms-Robinson, Michael Dawson, and Linda Darling-Hammond
    Honorable Mention
    Wiley-Blackwell
    A Companion to Women in the Ancient World
    By Sharon L. James and Sheila Dillon

  • Single Volume Reference/Science
    Elsevier Science & Technology/Academic Press
    The Laboratory Rabbit, Guinea Pig, Hamster, and Other Rodents
    Edited by Mark Suckow, Karla A. Stevens, and Ronald P. Wilson
    Honorable Mention
    University of Toronto Press
    The Natural History of Canadian Mammals
    By Donna Naughton

  • Sociology & Social Work
    Princeton University Press
    Against Security: How We Go Wrong at Airports, Subways, and Other Sites of Ambiguous Danger
    By Harvey Molotch
    Honorable Mention
    Oxford University Press
    Ancestors and Relatives: Genealogy, Identity, and Community
    By Eviatar Zerubavel
    Honorable Mention
    The MIT Press
    Networked: The New Social Operating System
    By Lee Rainie and Barry Wellman

  • Theology & Religious Studies
    Wiley-Blackwell
    Kantian Reason and Hegalian Spirit: The Idealistic Logic of Modern Theology
    By Gary Dorrien
    Honorable Mention
    Cambridge University Press
    The Philosophy of Hebrew Scripture
    By Yoram Hazony

  • U.S. History
    Scribner/Simon & Schuster
    American Canopy: Trees, Forests and the Making of a Nation
    By Eric Rutkow
    Honorable Mention
    Free Press/Simon & Schuster
    Lincoln’s Code: The Laws of War in American History
    By John Fabian Witt
    Honorable Mention
    Princeton University Press
    Roosevelt’s Lost Alliances: How Personal Politics Helped Start the Cold War
    By Frank Costigliola