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2011
Winners
R.R. Hawkins Award
McGraw-Hill Professional
The Diffusion Handbook: Applied Solutions for Engineers

  • Award for Excellence in Humanities
    Cambridge University Press
    Byzantium in the Iconoclast Era, c. 680-850: A History

  • Award for Excellence in Social Sciences
    Yale University Press
    Representing Justice: Invention, Controversy, and Rights in City-States and Democratic Courtrooms

  • Award for Excellence in Physical Sciences & Mathematics
    McGraw-Hill Professional
    The Diffusion Handbook: Applied Solutions for Engineers

  • Award for Excellence in Biology & Life Sciences
    Princeton University Press
    Braintrust: What Neuroscience Tells Us about Morality

  • Award for Excellence in Reference Works
    Princeton University Press
    The Crossley ID Guide: Eastern Birds

 
Category Award Winners
 
  • Archeology & Anthropology
    American School of Classical Studies at Athens
    Histories of Peirene: A Corinthian Fountain in Three Millennia
    Honorable Mention
    Harvard University Press
    The Evolution of the Human Head

  • Architecture & Urban Planning
    The MIT Press
    Pastoral Capitalism: A History of Suburban Corporate Landscapes
    Honorable Mention
    The MIT Press
    Helvetica and the New York City Subway System: The True (Maybe) Story

  • Art History & Criticism
    The Museum of Modern Art
    de Kooning: A Retrospective
    Honorable Mention
    The MIT Press
    Artists’ Magazines: An Alternative Space for Art
    Honorable Mention
    The University of Chicago Press
    Between Raphael and Galileo: Mutio Oddi and the Mathematical Culture of Late Renaissance Italy
    Honorable Mention
    The University of Chicago Press
    The Controversy of Renaissance Art

  • Art Technique
    Elsevier Science and Technology
    Tradigital Blender: A CG Animator’s Guide to Applying the Classic Principles of Animation

  • Biography & Autobiography
    Oxford University Press
    Bismarck: A Life
    Honorable Mention
    Little, Brown and Company
    Wonder Girl: The Magnificent Sporting Life of Babe Didrikson Zaharias
    Honorable Mention
    Stanford University Press
    Ghosts of Revolution: Rekindled Memories of Imprisonment in Iran
    Honorable Mention
    The University of Chicago Press
    Michael Polanyi and His Generation: Origins of the Social Construction of Science

  • Biological Sciences
    Harvard University Press
    Field Notes on Science and Nature
    Honorable Mention
    John Wiley & Sons
    Evolution: A Developmental Approach
    Honorable Mention
    Yale University Press
    New England Wild Flower Society’s Flora Novae Angliae: A Manual for the Identification of Native and Naturalized Higher Vascular Plants of New England

  • Biomedicine & Neuroscience
    Princeton University Press
    Braintrust: What Neuroscience Tells Us about Morality
    Honorable Mention
    John Wiley & Sons
    Epistemology of the Cell: A Systems Perspective on Biological Knowledge

  • Business, Finance & Management
    John Wiley & Sons
    Regulating Wall Street: The Dodd-Frank Act and the New Architecture of Global Finance
    Honorable Mention
    The MIT Press
    Unlocking Energy Innovation: How America Can Build a Low-Cost, Low-Carbon Energy System

  • Chemistry & Physics
    John Wiley & Sons
    Synthetic Diamond Films: Preparation, Electrochemistry, Characterization, and Applications
    Honorable Mention
    John Wiley & Sons
    Classics in Total Synthesis III: Further Targets, Strategies, Methods

  • Classics & Ancient History
    Cambridge University Press
    Sacred Violence
    Honorable Mention
    Wiley-Blackwell
    Constantine: Dynasty, Religion and Power in the Later Roman Empire

  • Clinical Medicine
    Elsevier
    Diagnostic Imaging for the Emergency Physician
    Honorable Mention
    Thieme Medical Publishers
    Encyclopedia of Body Sculpting After Massive Weight Loss
    Honorable Mention
    Elsevier
    Imaging Painful Spine Disorders

  • Cosmology & Astronomy
    Cambridge University Press
    The Exoplanet Handbook
    Honorable Mention
    Princeton University Press
    How Old is the Universe?

  • Earth Sciences
    The MIT Press
    The Fate of Greenland: Lessons from Abrupt Climate Change
    Honorable Mention
    Yale University Press
    The Roof at the Bottom of the World: Discovering the Transantarctic Mountains
    Honorable Mention
    Simon & Schuster/Scribner
    The Ripple Effect

  • Economics
    Cambridge University Press
    The Changing Body: Health, Nutrition, and Human Development in the Western World since 1700
    Honorable Mention
    Elsevier Science and Technology
    Handbook of the Economics of Education, Volume 4
    Honorable Mention
    Princeton University Press
    Pillars of Prosperity: The Political Economics of Developmental Clusters
    Honorable Mention
    Princeton University Press
    The Darwin Economy: Liberty, Competition, and the Common Good

  • Education
    Getty Publications
    Teaching in the Art Museum: Interpretation as Experience
    Honorable Mention
    Teachers College Press
    Girl Time

  • Engineering & Technology
    McGraw-Hill Professional
    The Diffusion Handbook: Applied Solutions for Engineers
    Honorable Mention
    The MIT Press
    Engineering Systems: Meeting Human Needs in a Complex Technological World

  • eProduct/Best in Biological & Life Sciences
    McGraw-Hill Professional
    AccessPediatrics

  • eProduct/Best in Humanities
    University of Virginia Press
    The Presidential Recordings of Lyndon B. Johnson, Digital Edition

  • eProduct/Best in Physical Sciences & Mathematics
    American Chemical Society
    C&EN Mobile

  • eProduct/Best in Social Sciences
    Gale/Cengage Learning
    Gale World Scholar: Latin America and the Caribbean

  • eProduct/Best Multidiscipline Platform
    Elsevier
    SciVerse Hub with SciVerse Applications Platform

  • eProduct/Innovation in ePublishing
    Elsevier
    SciVerse Hub with SciVerse Applications Platform

  • European & World History
    Cambridge University Press
    Byzantium in the Iconoclast Era, c. 680-850: A History
    Honorable Mention
    Harvard University Press
    Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China

  • Government & Politics
    Yale University Press
    Remedy and Reaction: The Peculiar American Struggle over Health Care Reform
    Honorable Mention
    Oxford University Press
    A High Price: The Triumphs and Failures of Israeli Counterterrorism
    Honorable Mention
    Princeton University Press
    Theories of International Politics and Zombies

  • Journal/Best New in Science, Technology & Medicine
    American Association for Cancer Research
    Cancer Discovery

  • Journal/Best New in Social Sciences and Humanities
    Palgrave Macmillan
    postmedieval: a journal of medieval cultural studies

  • Law & Legal Studies
    Yale University Press
    Representing Justice: Invention, Controversy, and Rights in City-States and Democratic Courtrooms
    Honorable Mention
    Harvard University Press
    Justice for Hedgehogs
    Honorable Mention
    Harvard University Press
    The Collapse of American Criminal Justice

  • Language & Linguistics
    Wiley-Blackwell
    Foundations of Voice Studies: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Voice Production and Perception

  • Literature
    Princeton University Press
    The Indignant Generation: A Narrative History of African American Writers and Critics, 1934-1960
    Honorable Mention
    University of Toronto Press
    Don Quixote Among the Saracens: A Clash of Civilizations and Literary Genres
    Honorable Mention
    The Johns Hopkins University Press
    Hart Crane’s Poetry: “Appollinaire lived in Paris, I live in Cleveland, Ohio”
    Honorable Mention
    The Johns Hopkins University Press
    The Prodigious Muse: Women’s Writing in Counter-Reformation Italy

  • Mathematics
    John Wiley & Sons
    Statistics for Spatio-Temporal Data

  • Media & Cultural Studies
    The University of Chicago Press
    Mutants and Mystics: Science Fiction, Superhero Comics, and the Paranormal
    Honorable Mention
    Louisiana State University Press
    Daisy Petals and Mushroom Clouds: LBJ, Barry Goldwater, and the Ad that Changed American Politics
    Honorable Mention
    The University of Texas Press
    Zaprudered: The Kennedy Assassination Film in Visual Culture
    Honorable Mention
    The University of Chicago Press
    What’s Fair on the Air?: Cold War Right-Wing Broadcasting and the Public Interest

  • Multivolume Reference/Humanities & Social Sciences
    Academic Press/Elsevier
    Encyclopedia of Adolescence
    Honorable Mention
    Wiley-Blackwell
    The Encyclopedia of Eastern Orthodox Christianity

  • Multivolume Reference/Science
    Elsevier Science and Technology
    Encyclopedia of Fish Physiology

  • Music & the Performing Arts
    Yale University Press
    Music for Silenced Voices: Shostakovich and His Fifteen Quartets

  • Nursing & Allied Health Sciences
    Springer Publishing Company
    The Growth and Development of Nurse Leaders
    Honorable Mention
    Oncology Nursing Society
    Cancer Rehabilitation and Survivorship: Transdisciplinary Approaches to Personalized Care

  • Philosophy
    Harvard University Press
    The Ethical Project
    Honorable Mention
    Princeton University Press
    A Book Forged in Hell

  • Popular Science & Popular Mathematics
    Princeton University Press
    Avian Architecture: How Birds Design, Engineer, and Build
    Honorable Mention
    The Johns Hopkins University Press
    Bats of the United States and Canada

  • Psychology
    The MIT Press
    When Johnny and Jane Come Marching Home: How All of Us Can Help Veterans
    Honorable Mention
    Wiley-Blackwell
    Rationality and the Pursuit of Happiness: The Legacy of Albert Ellis
    Honorable Mention
    Little, Brown and Company
    Redirect: The Surprising New Science of Psychological Change

  • Single Volume Reference/Humanities & Social Sciences
    CQ Press
    Cities in American Political History
    Honorable Mention
    Wiley-Blackwell
    A Companion to Families in the Greek and Roman Worlds
    Honorable Mention
    Oxford University Press
    The Oxford Companion to Beer

  • Single Volume Reference/Science
    Princeton University Press
    The Crossley ID Guide: Eastern Birds
    Honorable Mention
    University of California Press
    Encyclopedia of Biological Invasions

  • Sociology & Social Work
    Princeton University Press
    Exceptional People: How Migration Shaped Our World and Will Define Our Future
    Honorable Mention
    Scribner/Simon & Schuster
    Popular Crime
    Honorable Mention
    Princeton University Press
    Remaking the Heartland

  • Theology & Religious Studies
    The University of Chicago Press
    The Religious Question in Modern China
    Honorable Mention
    Georgetown University Press
    Christianity in Evolution: An Exploration
    Honorable Mention
    Cambridge University Press
    Food and Faith: A Theology of Eating
    Honorable Mention
    Princeton University Press
    How Judaism Became a Religion

  • U.S. History
    Oxford University Press
    The Battle of Midway
    Honorable Mention
    Yale University Press
    Black Gotham: A Family History of African Americans in Nineteenth-Century New York City
    Honorable Mention
    Little, Brown and Company
    Harlem is Nowhere: A Journey to the Mecca of Black America

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