2025
Winners

  • Biology (includes Animal Science and Botany)
    William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
    WHY WE DIE: The New Science of Aging and the Quest for Immortality
    Venki Ramakrishnan

  • Biomedicine and Neuroscience (includes biochemistry and biophysics)
    The MIT Press
    The Human Disease: How We Create Pandemics, from Our Bodies to Our Beliefs
    Sabrina Sholts

  • Clinical Medicine
    Elsevier Inc.
    Comprehensive Hematology and Stem Cell Research
    Nima Rezaei

  • Clinical Psychology and Psychiatry
    Cambridge University Press
    Out of Her Mind: How We Are Failing Women’s Mental Health and What Must Change
    Linda Gask

  • Nursing & Allied Health Services
    Elsevier Inc.
    The Mindful Health Care Professional: A Path to Provider Wellness and Patient-centered Care
    Dr. Carmelina D’Arro

  • Art Exhibitions
    Published by the National Gallery of Art, Washington and the Brooklyn Museum, New York; Copublished by The University of Chicago Press
    Elizabeth Catlett: A Black Revolutionary Artist and All That It Implies
    Dalila Scruggs

  • Art History and Criticism
    The Museum of Modern Art
    Momentum: Art and Ecology in Contemporary Latin America
    Inés Katzenstein, María Del Carmen Carríon, and Madeline Murphy Turner

  • Biography and Autobiography
    Yale University Press
    Squanto: A Native Odyssey
    Andrew Lipman

  • Biological Anthropology, Archeology and Ancient History
    Princeton University Press
    Father Time: A Natural History of Men and Babies
    Sarah Blaffer Hrdy

  • Classics
    Oxford University Press
    A Noble Ruin: Mark Antony, Civil War, and the Collapse of the Roman Republic
    W. Jeffrey Tatum

  • European History
    Bloomsbury Publishing
    The Basque Witch-Hunt: A Secret History
    Jan Machielsen

  • Language and Linguistics
    Cambridge University Press
    A Practical Guide to Second Language Teaching and Learning
    Shawn Loewen and Masatoshi Sato

  • Literature
    Oxford University Press
    How to Draw the World: Harold and the Purple Crayon and the Making of a Children’s Classic
    Philip Nel

  • Media and Cultural Studies
    Vanderbilt University Press
    The Flesh of the Matter: A Critical Forum on Hortense Spillers
    Margo Natalie Crawford and C. Riley Snorton

  • Music and the Performing Arts
    University of California Press
    Blacksound: Making Race and Popular Music in the United States
    Matthew D. Morrison

  • Nonfiction Graphic Novels
    University of Toronto Press
    Toxic: A Tour of the Ecuadorian Amazon
    Amelia Fiske and Jonas Fischer

  • North American/U.S. History
    University of Chicago Press
    Freeman’s Challenge: The Murder That Shook America’s Original Prison for Profit
    Robin Bernstein

  • Outstanding Work by a Trade Publisher
    Alfred A. Knopf, PRH
    Takeover: Hitler’s Final Rise to Power
    Timothy W. Ryback

  • Philosophy
    Belknap Press
    Cosmic Connections: Poetry in the Age of Disenchantment
    Charles Taylor

  • Theology and Religious Studies
    Yale University Press
    The Widening of God’s Mercy: Sexuality Within the Biblical Story
    Christopher B. Hays and Richard B. Hays

  • World History
    Cambridge University Press
    The Cambridge History of the Vietnam War
    Lien-Hang T. Nguyen, Edward Miller, Andrew Preston, and Pierre Asselin

  • Chemistry, Physics, Astronomy, and Cosmology
    Princeton University Press
    The Restless Cell: Continuum Theories of Living Matter
    Christina Hueschen and Rob Phillips

  • Computing and Information Sciences
    Princeton University Press
    The Importance of Being Educable: A New Theory of Human Uniqueness
    Leslie Valiant

  • Earth Science
    Cambridge University Press
    Data Science for the Geosciences
    Lijing Wang, David Zhen Yin, and Jef Caers

  • Engineering and Technology
    Elsevier Inc.
    Sustainable Innovations in the Textile Industry
    Roshan Paul and Thomas Gries

  • Environmental Science
    LSU Press
    The Presidents and the Planet: Climate Change Science and Politics from Eisenhower to Bush
    Jay Hakes

  • History of Science, Medicine, and Technology
    Grand Central Publishing
    Tripping on Utopia: Margaret Mead, the Cold War, and the Troubled Birth of Psychedelic Science
    Benjamin Breen

  • Mathematics and Statistics
    Cambridge University Press
    Active Statistics: Stories, Games, Problems, and Hands-on Demonstrations for Applied Regression and Causal Inference
    Andrew Gelman and Aki Vehtari

  • Popular Science and Popular Mathematics
    Princeton University Press
    Do Plants Know Math?: Unwinding the Story of Plant Spirals, from Leonardo da Vinci to Now
    Stéphane Douady, Jacques Dumais, Christophe Golé, and Nancy Pick

  • Architecture and Urban Planning
    Yale University Press
    Mies van der Rohe: An Architect in His Time
    Dietrich Neumann

  • Business, Finance, and Management
    New York University Press
    Conscience Incorporated: Pursue Profits While Protecting Human Rights
    Michael H. Posner

  • Cultural Anthropology and Sociology
    University of California Press
    Exit Wounds: How America’s Guns Fuel Violence across the Border
    Ieva Jusionyte

  • Economics
    Yale University Press
    Atlas of Finance: Mapping the Global Story of Money
    Dariusz Wojcik, Maps and Graphics by James Cheshire and Oliver Uberti

  • Education Theory and Practice
    Princeton University Press
    Class Dismissed: When Colleges Ignore Inequality and Students Pay the Price
    Anthony Abraham Jack

  • Government and Politics
    Alfred A. Knopf, PRH
    Takeover: Hitler’s Final Rise to Power
    Timothy W. Ryback

  • Legal Studies and Criminology
    Harvard University Press
    Academic Freedom: From Professional Norm to First Amendment Right
    David M. Rabban

  • Psychology and Applied Social Work
    New York University Press
    Private Violence: Latin American Women and the Struggle for Asylum
    Carol Cleaveland and Michele Waslin

  • Best New Journal in Humanities and Social Sciences
    RIT Press
    Rochester History
    Christine Ridarsky and Rebecca Edwards

  • Multi Volume
    Cambridge University Press
    The Cambridge History of the Vietnam War
    Lien-Hang T. Nguyen, Edward Miller, Andrew Preston, and Pierre Asselin

  • Single Volume
    Yale University Press
    Atlas of Finance: Mapping the Global Story of Money
    Dariusz Wojcik, Maps and Graphics by James Cheshire and Oliver Uberti

  • Textbooks
    Princeton University Press
    The Restless Cell: Continuum Theories of Living Matter
    Christina Hueschen and Rob Phillips