Winners

1999
Winners
R.R. Hawkins Award
Oxford University Press
American National Biography

  • Excellence in Design and Production – Books
    The MIT Press
    Mapping Boston
    Honorable Mention
    J. Paul Getty Museum
    Marguerite Makes a Book

  • Best Single Issue of a Journal – Science/Technology/Medicine
    American Geophysical Union
    Journal of Geophysical Research (Planets) Vol. 104 No. E4

  • Best Single Issue of a Journal – Business/Social Sciences/Humanities
    Oxford University Press
    The Opera Quarterly
    Honorable Mention
    University of Chicago Press
    Isis: Catching Up With the Vision

  • Best New PSP Journal – Science/Technology/Medicine
    Springer-Verlag
    Marine Biotechnology
    Honorable Mention
    American Chemical Society
    Journal of Combinatorial Chemistry

  • PSP Electronic Products on Hard Media – Social Science/Humanities
    Macmillan Reference Library
    African American History & Culture CD-ROM

  • PSP Internet-Based Electronic Products – Math/Science
    Columbia University Press
    Earthscape: The Online Resource on the Global Environment

 
Category Award Winners
 
  • Architecture & Urban Planning
    Oxford University Press
    The Works: The Industrial Architecture of the United States
    Honorable Mention
    Yale University Press
    The British Market Hall: A Social and Architectural History

  • Arts
    Yale University Press
    A Descriptive Catalogue of the Music of Charles Ives
    Honorable Mention
    Yale University Press
    The Ballet Russes and Its World

  • Biological Science
    Yale University Press
    The Ambonese Curiosity Cabinet
    Honorable Mention
    Johns Hopkins University Press
    The Praying Mantids
    Honorable Mention
    The MIT Press
    Sensory Exotica: A World Beyond Human Experience
    Honorable Mention
    Princeton University Press
    The Amber Forest: A Reconstruction of a Vanished World

  • Business & Management
    Oxford University Press
    Hot Groups: Seeding Them, Feeding Them, and Using Them to Ignite Your Organization
    Honorable Mention
    Oxford University Press
    The Innovation Journey

  • Chemistry
    Academic Press
    The Porphyrin Handbook

  • Clinical Medicine
    The Curtis Center
    Retina-Vitreous-Macula, W. B. Saunders Company
    Honorable Mention
    Academic Press
    Nutritional Oncology: Causes and Prevention

  • Computer Science
    The MIT Press
    Design By Numbers

  • Economics
    The MIT Press
    The Evolution of a Nineteenth-Century Atlantic Economy
    Honorable Mention
    Johns Hopkins University Press
    The Local Merchants of Prato

  • Engineering Handbooks
    Academic Press
    Handbook of Nanostructured Materials and Nanotechnology
    Honorable Mention
    McGraw-Hill
    Highway Design and Traffic Safety Engineering Handbook

  • General Engineering
    McGraw-Hill
    Hazardous Materials Management Desk Reference

  • Geography & Earth Science
    Academic Press
    Encyclopedia of Volcanoes

  • Government & Political Science
    Harvard University Press
    Controlling the State: Constitutionalism from Ancient Athens to Today
    Honorable Mention
    Brookings Institution Press
    Civic Engagement in American Democracy
    Honorable Mention
    Princeton University Press
    Heaven’s Door: Immigration Policy and the American Economy

  • History
    Harvard University Press
    Late Antiquity
    Honorable Mention
    University of Chicago Press
    Trials of Intimacy: Love and Loss in the Beecher-Tilton Scandal
    Honorable Mention
    Yale University Press
    The Power of Kings: Monarchy and Religion in Europe 1549-1715

  • History of Science & Technology
    The MIT Press
    The Languages of Edison’s Electric Light
    Honorable Mention
    Yale University Press
    Proteins, Enzymes, Genes

  • Legal
    University of Chicago Press
    Japanese Law: An Economic Approach

  • Literature and Language
    Rutgers University Press
    The Poetics of Natural History: From John Bartman to William James
    Honorable Mention
    In Praise of Antiheroes: Figures & Themes in Modern European Literature, 1830-1980

  • Mathematics
    Oxford University Press
    The Moment of Proof: Mathematical Epiphanies
    Honorable Mention
    Princeton University Press
    Gnomon: From Pharaohs to Fractals

  • Medical Science
    Academic Press
    Women & Health
    Honorable Mention
    Yale University Press
    Felix d’Herelle and the Origins of Molecular Biology

  • Nursing & Allied Health
    Mosby, Inc.
    Oncology Nursing: Assessment and Clinical Care

  • Philosophy & Religion
    Oxford University Press
    Protestants and Pictures: Religion, Visual Culture and the Age of American Mass Production
    Honorable Mention
    Rowman & Littlefield
    What, Then, Is Time?
    Honorable Mention
    Yale University Press
    Meeting God: Elements of Hindu Devotion

  • Physics & Astronomy
    Princeton University Press
    Active Galactic Nuclei: From the Central Black Hole to the Galactic Environment
    Honorable Mention
    Yale University Press
    Astronomy in Prehistoric Britain and Ireland

  • Psychology
    The MIT Press
    The MIT Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Sciences
    Honorable Mention
    The MIT Press
    Sex and Cognition

  • Sociology & Anthropology
    Princeton University Press
    The Barbarians Speak: How the Conquered Peoples Shaped Roman Europe
    Honorable Mention
    Harvard University Press
    Lucy’s Legacy: Sex and Intelligence in Human Evolution