2023
Winners
R.R. Hawkins Award
Princeton University Press
Spiderweb Capitalism: How Global Elites Exploit Frontier Markets
By Kimberly Kay Hoang

  • PROSE Award for Excellence in Biological & Life Sciences
    Scribner
    The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human
    By Siddhartha Mukherjee
  • PROSE Award for Excellence in Humanities
    The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
    Necropolis: Disease, Power, and Capitalism in the Cotton Kingdom
    By Kathryn Olivarius
  • PROSE Award for Excellence in Physical Sciences & Mathematics
    Cambridge University Press
    Cosmology
    By Daniel Baumann
  • PROSE Award for Excellence in Social Sciences
    Princeton University Press
    Spiderweb Capitalism: How Global Elites Exploit Frontier Markets
    By Kimberly Kay Hoang
 
Category Award Winners
 
  • Architecture and Urban Planning
    THE MIT Press
    Co-Cities: Innovative Transitions toward Just and Self-Sustaining Communities
    By Sheila R. Foster and Christian Iaione
  • Art Exhibitions
    Getty Publications
    Persia: Ancient Iran and the Classical World
    Edited by Jeffrey Spier, Timothy Potts, and Sara E. Cole
  • Art History and Criticism
    Cambridge University Press
    The Villa Farnesina: Palace of Venus in Renaissance Rome
    By James Grantham Turner
  • Best eProduct
    Stanford University Press
    Shadow Plays: Virtual Realities in an Analog World
    By Massimo Riva
  • Biography and Autobiography
    New Jewish Press
    But I Live: Three Stories of Child Survivors of the Holocaust
    By Miriam Libicki and David Schaffer; Gilad Seliktar and Nico and Rolf Kamp; Barbara Yelin and Emmie Arbel; Charlotte Schallié (ed.)
  • Biological Anthropology, Archaeology, and Ancient History
    Princeton University Press
    The Five-Million-Year Odyssey: The Human Journey from Ape to Agriculture
    By Peter Bellwood
  • Biological Sciences
    Scribner
    The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human
    By Siddhartha Mukherjee
  • Biomedicine and Neuroscience
    Elsevier
    Cellular Senescence in Disease
    By Manuel Serrano, Daniel Munoz-Espin
  • Business, Finance, and Management
    Princeton University Press
    Spiderweb Capitalism: How Global Elites Exploit Frontier Markets
    By Kimberly Kay Hoang
  • Chemistry, Physics, Astronomy, and Cosmology
    Cambridge University Press
    Cosmology
    By Daniel Baumann
  • Classics
    Cambridge University Press
    Untangling Blackness in Greek Antiquity
    By Sarah F. Derbew
  • Clinical Medicine
    Cambridge University Press
    The Infertility Trap: Why Life Choices Impact your Fertility and Why We Must Act Now
    By R. John Aitken
  • Clinical Psychology and Psychiatry
    The MIT Press
    The Neurocognitive Theory of Dreaming: The Where, How, When, What, and Why of Dreams
    By G. William Domhoff

  • Computing and Information Sciences
    Oxford University Press
    Human-Centered AI
    By Ben Shneiderman
  • Cultural Anthropology and Sociology
    Beacon Press
    Reclaiming Two-Spirits: Sexuality, Spiritual Renewal & Sovereignty in Native America
    By Gregory D. Smithers
  • Earth Science
    Princeton University Press
    Remnants of Ancient Life: The New Science of Old Fossils
    By Dale Greenwalt
  • Economics
    Princeton University Press
    Adam Smith’s America: How a Scottish Philosopher Became an Icon of American Capitalism
    By Glory M. Liu
  • Education Theory and Practice
    Princeton University Press
    Doing the Right Thing: How Colleges and Universities Can Undo Systemic Racism in Faculty Hiring
    By Marybeth Gasman
  • Engineering and Technology
    The MIT Press
    The Nexus: Augmented Thinking for a Complex World
    By Julio Mario Ottino with Bruce Mau
  • Environmental Science
    Princeton University Press
    The World Atlas of Trees and Forests: Exploring Earth’s Forest Ecosystems
    By Herman Shugart, Peter White, Sassan Saatchi, and Jérôme Chave
  • European History
    The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
    Who’s Black and Why? A Hidden Chapter from the Eighteenth-Century Invention of Race
    Edited by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. & Andrew S. Curran
  • Government and Politics
    Oxford University Press
    Stars and Shadows: The Politics of Interracial Friendship from Jefferson to Obama
    By Saladin Ambar
  • History of Science, Medicine, and Technology
    Princeton University Press
    Rules: A Short History of What We Live By
    By Lorraine Daston
  • Language and Linguistics
    The MIT Press
    Language vs. Reality: Why Language Is Good for Lawyers and Bad for Scientists
    By N. J. Enfield
  • Legal Studies and Criminology
    Cambridge University Press
    Critical Race Judgments: Rewritten U.S. Court Opinions on Race and the Law
    Edited by Bennett Capers, Devon W. Carbado, R. A. Lenhardt, Angela Onwuachi-Willig
  • Literature
    Yale University Press
    Lorca After Life
    By Noël Valis
  • Mathematics and Statistics
    Cambridge University Press
    Elements of Infinity-Category Theory
    By Emily Riehl, Dominic Verity
  • Nursing and Allied Health
    Elsevier
    Transcultural Artificial Intelligence and Robotics in Health and Social Care
    By Irena Papadopoulos, Christina Koulouglioti, Chris Papadopoulous, Antonio Sgorbissa
  • Music and Performing Arts
    New York University Press
    Black Ephemera: The Crisis and Challenge of the Musical Archive
    By Mark Anthony Neal
  • Nonfiction Graphic Novels
    New Jewish Press
    But I Live: Three Stories of Child Survivors of the Holocaust
    By Miriam Libicki and David Schaffer; Gilad Seliktar and Nico and Rolf Kamp; Barbara Yelin and Emmie Arbel; Charlotte Schallié (ed.)
  • North American and U.S. History
    The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
    Necropolis: Disease, Power, and Capitalism in the Cotton Kingdom
    By Kathryn Olivarius
  • Outstanding Work by a Trade Publisher
    Scribner
    Chip War: The Fight for the World’s Most Critical Technology
    By Chris Miller
  • Philosophy
    Princeton University Press
    When Animals Dream: The Hidden World of Animal Consciousness
    By David M. Peña-Guzmán
  • Popular Science and Mathematics
    John’s Hopkins University Press
    Quantum Steampunk: The Physics of Yesterday’s Tomorrow
    By Nicole Yunger Halpern
  • Psychology and Applied Social Work
    Oxford University Press
    What Babies Know: Core Knowledge and Composition
    By Elizabeth S. Spelke
  • Single & Multivolume Reference and Textbooks in Humanities
    Bloomsbury
    A Cultural History of Ideas
    By Sophia Rosenfeld, Peter T. Struck
  • Single & Multivolume Reference and Textbooks in Social Sciences
    Elsevier
    Measuring Sustainable Development Goals Performance
    By Sten Thore, Ruzanna Tarverdyan
  • Theology and Religious Studies
    Cambridge University Press
    Hermetic Spirituality and the Historical Imagination: Altered States of Knowledge in Late Antiquity
    By Wouter J. Hanegraaff
  • World History
    Cambridge University Press
    The New Atlantic Order: The Transformation of International Politics, 1860–1933
    By Patrick O. Cohrs