Winners

2008
Winners
R.R. Hawkins Award
Harvard University Press
The Race Between Education & Technology
Claudia Goldin & Lawrence F. Katz

  • Award for Excellence in Humanities
    Yale University Press
    Chinese Calligraphy
    Zhongshi Ouyang, Wen C. Fong, et al

  • Award for Excellence in Social Sciences
    Harvard University Press
    The Race Between Education & Technology
    Claudia Goldin & Lawrence F. Katz

  • Award for Excellence in Physical Sciences & Mathematics
    Springer Science+Business Media
    Springer Handbook of Robotics
    Professors Bruno Siciliano & Oussama Khatib

  • Award for Excellence in Biology & Life Sciences
    John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
    Current Protocols in Essential Laboratory Techniques
    Sean R. Gallagher & Emily A. Wiley

  • Award for Excellence in Reference Works
    The Johns Hopkins University Press
    French Women Poets of Nine Centuries: The Distaff & the Pen
    Norman R. Shapiro

 
Category Award Winners
 
  • Art & Art History
    Yale University Press
    Chinese Calligraphy
    Zhongshi Ouyang, Wen C. Fong, et al
    Honorable Mention
    University of Chicago Press
    Daring to Look: Dorthea Lange’s Photographs & Reports from the Field
    Anne Whiston Spirn
    Honorable Mention
    University of California Press
    Enchanted Objects, Enchanted Lives: American Women Collectors & the Making of Culture, 1800-1940
    Dianne Sachko Macleod
    Honorable Mention
    Getty Publications
    Language of the Muses: Hellenized Roman Sculpture
    Miranda Marvin

  • Classics & Ancient History
    Princeton University Press
    Democracy and Knowledge: Innovation and Learning in Classical
    Josiah Ober
    Honorable Mention
    University of Chicago Press
    Alcman & the Cosmos of Sparta
    Gloria Ferrari
    Honorable Mention
    Getty Publications
    The Color of Life
    Roberta Panzinelli, Eike Schmidt & Kenneth Lapatin
    Honorable Mention
    Wiley-Blackwell
    A Companion to Classical Receptions
    Lorna Hardwick & Christopher Stray

  • Media & Cultural Studies
    The University of Chicago Press
    The Chicagoan: A Lost Magazine of the Jazz Age
    Neil Harris
    Honorable Mention
    Princeton University Press
    The Art of the Public Grovel: Sexual Sin & Public Confession in America
    Susan Wise Bauer
    Honorable Mention
    Princeton University Press
    Coming of Age in Second Life: An Anthropologist Explores the Virtually Human
    Tom Boellstorff
    Honorable Mention
    Oxford University Press
    Sense of Place and Sense of Planet
    Ursula K. Heise

  • Music & the Performing Arts
    John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
    All You Have To Do Is Listen
    Rob Kapilow
    Honorable Mention
    The MIT Press
    Being Watched: Yvonne Rainer and the 1960s
    Carrie Lambert-Beatty
    Honorable Mention
    University of Chicago Press
    A Power Stronger Than Itself: The AACM & American Experimental Music
    George E. Lewis

  • U.S. History & Biography/Autobiography
    The Johns Hopkins University Press
    Abraham Lincoln: A Life
    Michael Burlingame
    Honorable Mention
    Yale University Press
    The Comanche Empire
    Pekka Hamalainen
    Honorable Mention
    Oxford University Press
    Negro With a Hat: The Rise and Fall of Marcus Garvey
    Colin Grant
    Honorable Mention
    Yale University Press
    War of a Thousand Deserts: Indian Raids and the U.S.-Mexican War
    Brian DeLay

  • World History & Biography/Autobiography
    Yale University Press
    Europe Between the Oceans: 9000BC-AD1000
    Barry Cunliffe
    Honorable Mention
    Harvard University Press
    Death by a Thousand Cuts
    Timothy Brook, Jerome Bourgon & Gregory Blue
    Honorable Mention
    The MIT Press
    The Tropics of Empire
    Nicolas Wey Gomez

  • Literature, Language & Linguistics
    The Johns Hopkins University Press
    Women’s Writing in Italy, 1400-1650
    Virginia Cox
    Honorable Mention
    Cornell University Press
    Adam Mickiewicz: The Life of a Romantic
    Roman Koropeckyj
    Honorable Mention
    Princeton University Press
    Franz Kafka: The Office Writings
    Stanley Corngold, Jack Greenberg & Benno Wagner
    Honorable Mention
    The MIT Press
    Origins of Human Communication
    Michael Tomasello

  • Princeton University Press
    Made With Words: Hobbes on Language, Mind, & Politics
    Philip Pettit
    Honorable Mention
    University of Chicago Press
    Aristotle’s Dialogue with Socrates: On the “Nicomachean Ethics”
    Ronna Burger
    Honorable Mention
    Oxford University Press
    A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy
    William B. Irvine

  • Theology & Religious Studies
    Georgetown University Press
    Catholic Moral Theology in the United States: A History
    Charles E. Curran
    Honorable Mention
    Wiley-Blackwell
    The Orthodox Church
    John Anthony McGuckin
    Honorable Mention
    Yale University Press
    Resurrection: The Power of God for Christians and Jews
    Kevin J. Madigan & Jon D. Levenson

  • Archeology & Anthropology
    The University of Arizona Press
    A Zapotec Natural History
    Eugene Hunn
    Honorable Mention
    Yale University Press
    Digging in the City of Brotherly Love: Stories from Philadelphia Archeology
    Rebecca Yamin
    Honorable Mention
    University of the West Indies Press
    Jamaican Food: History, Biology, Culture
    B.W. Higman

  • Education
    The MIT Press
    Stuck in the Shallow End
    Jane Margolis
    Honorable Mention
    Jossey-Bass
    The Trouble with Black Boys
    Pedro Noguera
    Honorable Mention
    Princeton University Press
    Troublemaker: A Personal History of School Reform Since Sputnik
    Chester E. Finn, Jr.

  • Government & Politics
    Princeton University Press
    The Fall and Rise of the Islamic State
    Noah Feldman
    Honorable Mention
    CQ Press
    The Good Citizen: How a Younger Generation is Reshaping American Politics
    Russell J. Dalton
    Honorable Mention
    Oxford University Press
    The Powers to Lead
    Joseph S. Nye, Jr.
    Honorable Mention
    Oxford University Press
    Unconventional Wisdom
    Karen M. Kaufmann, John R. Petrocik & Daron R. Shaw

  • Law & Legal Studies
    The University of Chicago Press
    The Medieval Origins of the Legal Profession: Canonists, Civilians, & Courts
    James A. Brundage
    Honorable Mention
    Oxford University Press
    Defending Humanity
    George P. Fletcher & Jens David Ohlin
    Honorable Mention
    Oxford University Press
    The Invisible Constitution
    Laurence H. Tribe
    Honorable Mention
    Princeton University Press
    Patent Failure: How Judges, Bureaucrats, & Lawyers Put Innovators at Risk
    James Bessen & Michael J. Meurer

  • Architecture & Urban Planning
    John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
    Biophilic Design: The Theory, Science & Practice of Bringing Buildings to Life
    Stephen R. Kellert, Judith Heerwagen & Martin Mador
    Honorable Mention
    John Wiley & Sons
    Sustainable Urbanism: Urban Design with Nature
    Douglas Farr
    Honorable Mention
    University of Chicago Press
    The Skyscraper & the City: The Woolworth Building & the Making of Modern New York
    Gail Fenske

  • Sociology & Social Work
    Princeton University Press
    Cop in the Hood: My Year Policing Baltimore’s Eastern District
    Peter Moskos
    Honorable Mention
    The MIT Press
    New Tech, New Ties
    Rich Ling

  • Business, Finance & Management
    Princeton University Press
    Venturesome Economy: How Innovation Sustains Prosperity in a More Connected World
    Amar Bhide
    Honorable Mention
    Jossey-Bass
    Forces for Good: The Six Practices of High Impact Nonprofits
    Leslie Crutchfield & Heather McLeod Grant
    Honorable Mention
    John Wiley & Sons
    The Fundamental Index
    Robert D. Arnott, Jason C. Hsu & John M. West
    Honorable Mention
    Princeton University Press
    The Subprime Solution: How Today’s Global Financial Crisis Happened & What to Do About It
    Robert J. Shiller

  • Economics
    Harvard University Press
    The Race Between Education & Technology
    Claudia Goldin & Lawrence F. Katz
    Honorable Mention
    Cambridge University Press
    Capitalism with Chinese Characteristics: Entrepreneurship & the State
    Yasheng Huang
    Honorable Mention
    The MIT Press
    Medical Malpractice
    Frank A. Sloan & Lindsey M. Chepke
    Honorable Mention
    Princeton University Press
    Social & Economic Networks
    Matthew O. Jackson

  • Psychology
    Wiley-Blackwell
    Happiness: Unlocking the Mysteries of Psychological Wealth
    Ed Diener & Robert Biswas-Diener
    Honorable Mention
    The Johns Hopkins University Press
    Poets on Prozac: Mental Illness, Treatment, & the Creative Process
    Richard M. Berlin, MD

  • Biological Sciences
    John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
    Current Protocols in Essential Laboratory Techniques
    Sean R. Gallagher & Emily A. Wiley
    Honorable Mention
    Columbia University Press
    Autism’s False Prophets: Bad Science, Risky Medicine, & the Search for a Cure
    Paul A. Offit, MD
    Honorable Mention
    Harvard University Press
    Primeval Kinship
    Bernard Chapais
    Honorable Mention
    Oxford University Press
    Six-Legged Soldiers: Using Insects as Weapons of War
    Jeffrey A. Lockwood

  • Clinical Medicine
    RAND Corporation
    Invisible Wounds of War
    Terri Tanielian & Lisa H. Jaycox
    Honorable Mention
    Mosby Elsevier
    Comprehensive Pediatric Nephrology
    Editors Denis F. Geary, MB, MRCP (UK), FRCPC & Franz Schaefer, MD
    Honorable Mention
    Elsevier, Inc.
    Operative Techniques: Hand & Wrist Surgery
    Kevin C. Chung, MD

  • Nursing & Allied Health
    Elsevier, Inc.
    Complementary Therapies for Physical Therapy-A Clinical Decision-Making Approach
    Judith Deutsch & Ellen Anderson
    Honorable Mention
    Oxford University Press
    Doubt is Their Product
    David Michaels

  • Chemistry & Physics
    Oxford University Press
    Cathedrals of Science
    Patrick Coffey
    Honorable Mention
    Princeton University Press
    The Mystery of the Missing Antimatter
    Helen R. Quinn & Yossi Nir

  • Cosmology & Astronomy
    The University of Arizona Press
    The Solar System Beyond Neptune
    M.A. Barucci, H. Boehnhardt, D.P. Cruikshank & A. Morbidelli
    Honorable Mention
    Springer Science+Business Media
    Solar Sails: A Novel Approach to Interplanetary Travel
    Giovanni Vulpetti, Les Johnson & Gregory L. Matloff

  • Earth Sciences
    The University of Chicago Press
    Worlds Before Adam: The Reconstruction of Geohistory in the Age of Reform
    Martin J.S. Rudwick
    Honorable Mention
    Columbia University Press
    Dogs: Their Fossil Relatives & Evolutionary History
    Xiaoming Wang & Richard H. Tedford
    Honorable Mention
    Princeton University Press
    How the Ocean Works: An Introduction to Oceanography
    Mark Denny

  • Engineering & Technology
    Springer Science+Business Media
    Springer Handbook of Robotics
    Professors Bruno Siciliano & Oussama Khatib
    Honorable Mention
    John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
    Design with Constructal Theory
    Adrian Bejan & Sylvie Lorente
    Honorable Mention
    Island Press
    Energy for Sustainability: Technology, Planning, & Policy
    John Randolph & Gilbert M. Masters

  • Mathematics
    Princeton University Press
    Sacred Mathematics: Japanese Temple Geometry
    Fukagawa Hidetoshi & Tony Rothman
    Honorable Mention
    Oxford University Press
    The Unimaginable Mathematics of Borges’ Library of Babel
    William Goldbloom Bloch

  • Multivolume Reference/Humanities & Social Sciences
    Palgrave MacMillan
    The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics
    Steven N. Durkauf & Lawrence E. Blume
    Honorable Mention
    Wiley-Blackwell
    The International Encyclopedia of Communication
    Professor Dr. Wolfgang Donsbach
    Honorable Mention
    Yale University Press
    The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe: 2 Volumes
    Gershon David Hundert

  • Single Volume Reference/Humanities & Social Sciences
    The Johns Hopkins University Press
    French Women Poets of Nine Centuries: The Distaff & the Pen
    Selected & Translated by: Norman R. Shapiro
    Honorable Mention
    CQ Press
    Social Security: A Documentary History
    Edward D. Berkowitz, Larry W. DeWitt & Daniel Beland

  • Single Volume Reference/Science
    Thieme Medical Publishers
    Atlas of Anatomy & Anatomy Flash Cards
    Anne M. Gilroy, Brian R. MacPherson & Lawrence M. Ross
    Honorable Mention
    Princeton University Press
    The Princeton Companion to Mathematics
    Editor: Timothy Gowers

  • Journal/Best Design in Print
    University of California Press
    Gastronomica: The Journal of Food and Culture
    Editor: Darra Goldstein
    Honorable Mention
    American Anthropological Association
    Cultural Anthropology
    Editors: Kin Fortun & Mike Fortun
    Honorable Mention
    Wiley-Blackwell
    BJU International
    Professor John Fitzpatrick

  • Journal/Science, Technology & Medicine
    American Chemical Society
    ACS Nano
    Paul S. Weiss
    Honorable Mention
    SAGE Publications
    American Journal of Lifestyle Medicine
    Editor: Dr. James M. Rippe
    Honorable Mention
    Wiley-Blackwell
    CTS: Clinical & Translational Science
    Editor: Arthur M. Feldman
    Deputy Editor: Scott Waldman

  • Journal/Social Sciences & Humanities
    Berghahn Books
    Projections: The Journal for Movies & Mind
    Editor: Ira Konigsberg
    Honorable Mention
    Springer Science+Business Media
    Evolution: Education & Outreach
    Editors: Dr. Niles Eldredge & Gregory Eldredge

  • eProduct/Best Publication or Product
    Elsevier, Inc.
    Procedures Consult
    Editors: Gary Setnik, Todd Thomsen, S. Terry Canale, James Beaty, Lee Fleisher & Robert Gaiser
    Honorable Mention
    Wolters Kluwer Health & Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
    Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery, Journal of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons
    Editor: Rod J. Rohrich, MD
    Honorable Mention
    Palgrave MacMillan
    The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics
    Editors: Steven N. Durlauf & Lawrence E. Blume
    Honorable Mention
    Thieme Medical Publishers
    Thieme Teaching Assistant Anatomy
    Editors: Anne M. Gilroy, Brian R. MacPherson & Lawrence M. Ross

  • eProduct/Best Website or Platform
    American Chemical Society
    American Chemical Society
    Honorable Mention
    Columbia University Press
    Columbia Granger’s World of Poetry
    Editor: Tessa Kale
    Honorable Mention
    IOP Publishing/Institute of Physics
    IOPscience