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Princeton Book Awards
Go to Book Awards
Go to Author Awards
The Expanding Blaze: How the American Revolution Ignited the World, 1775-1848
Honorable Mention for the 2018 PROSE Award in U.S. History, Association of American Publishers
City of Dreams Dodger Stadium and the Birth of Modern Los Angeles
Jerald Podair
Winner of the 2018 Dr. Harold and Dorothy Seymour Medal, Society for American Baseball Research
Designing San Francisco Art, Land, and Urban Renewal in the City by the Bay
Alison Isenberg
Winner of the 2018 PROSE Award for Architecture & Urban Planning, Association of American Publishers
Mariposas Nocturnas Moths of Central and South America, A Study in Beauty and Diversity
Emmet Gowin With a foreword by Terry Tempest Williams
Winner of the 2018 PROSE Award in Popular Science & Popular Mathematics, Association of American Publishers
Honorable Mention for the 2018 PROSE Award in Popular Science & Popular Mathematics, Association of American Publishers
William Blake and the Age of Aquarius
Stephen F. Eisenman With contributions by Mark Crosby, Elizabeth Ferrell, Jacob Henry Leveton, W. J. T. Mitchell & John P. Murphy
Honorable Mention for the 2018 PROSE Award in Art Exhibitions, Association of American Publishers
ARCHAEOLOGY AND ANCIENT HISTORY
The Fate of Rome: Climate, Disease, and the End of an Empire
Kyle Harper
Honorable Mention for the 2018 PROSE Award in Classics, Association of American Publishers
Exoplanetary Atmospheres Theoretical Concepts and Foundations
Kevin Heng
Winner of the 2018 Chambliss Astronomical Writing Award, American Astronomical Society
Darwin's Unfinished Symphony How Culture Made the Human Mind
Kevin N. Laland
Winner of the 2018 PROSE Award in Biological Science, Association of American Publishers
BIRDS AND NATURAL HISTORY
Horses of the World
Élise Rousseau Illustrations Yann Le Bris, Translated by Teresa Lavender Fagan
Winner of a 2018 Outstanding Reference Sources Award, Reference and User Services Association, American Library Association
Adaptive Markets Financial Evolution at the Speed of Thought
Andrew W. Lo
Winner of the 2018 PROSE Award for Excellence in Social Sciences, Association of American Publishers
Winner of the 2018 PROSE Award for Business, Finance & Management, Association of American Publishers
Empire and Revolution The Political Life of Edmund Burke
Richard Bourke
Honorable Mention for the 2018 Laura Shannon Prize in Contemporary European Studies, Nanovic Institute
At Home in the World Women Writers and Public Life, from Austen to the Present
Maria DiBattista & Deborah Epstein Nord
Winner of the 2018 PROSE Award in Literature, Association of American Publishers
The Politics of Opera A History from Monteverdi to Mozart
Mitchell Cohen
Winner of the 2018 PROSE Award in Music & the Performing Arts, Association of American Publishers
Modern Classical Physics Optics, Fluids, Plasmas, Elasticity, Relativity, and Statistical Physics
Kip S. Thorne & Roger D. Blandford
Winner of the 2018 PROSE Award in Textbook / Physical Sciences and Mathematics, Association of American Publishers
Heretics!: The Wondrous (and Dangerous) Beginnings of Modern Philosophy
Steven Nadler & Ben Nadler
Honorable Mention for the 2018 PROSE Award in Philosophy, Association of American Publishers
The Seven Deadly Sins of Psychology A Manifesto for Reforming the Culture of Scientific Practice
Winner of the 2018 PROSE Award in Psychology, Association of American Publishers
Face Value: The Irresistible Influence of First Impressions
Alexander Todorov
Honorable Mention for the 2018 PROSE Award in Psychology, Association of American Publishers
REFERENCE WORKS AND ANTHOLOGIES
The Atlas of Ancient Rome: Biography and Portraits of the City
Andrea Carandini
Honorable Mention for the 2018 Dartmouth Medal, Reference and User Services Association of the American Library Association
WORLD HISTORY/COMPARATIVE HISTORY
The House of Government A Saga of the Russian Revolution
Yuri Slezkine
Winner of the 2018 PROSE Award in World History, Association of American Publishers
The Work of the Dead
Thomas W. Laqueur
Winner of the 2018 Laura Shannon Prize in Contemporary European Studies, Nanovic Institute
A Thirst for Empire How Tea Shaped the Modern World
Erika Rappaport
Winner of a 2018 Gourmand World Cookbook Award, U.S. National Winner in "Tea"
The Loneliness of the Black Republican: Pragmatic Politics and the Pursuit of Power
Leah Wright Rigueur
Winner of the 2017 Crader Family Book Prize in American Values, Crader Family Endowment at Southeast Missouri State University
The Good Immigrants: How the Yellow Peril Became the Model Minority
Madeline Y. Hsu
Winner of the 2017 Association for Asian American Studies Award for Best Book in History
The Rise of a Prairie Statesman: The Life and Times of George McGovern
Thomas J. Knock
Winner of the 2017 PROSE Award in Biography & Autobiography, Association of American Publishers
Illiberal Reformers: Race, Eugenics, and American Economics in the Progressive Era
Thomas C. Leonard
Finalist for the 2017 Hayek Prize, The Manhattan Institute
Winner of the 2017 Joseph J. Spengler Best Book Prize, History of Economics Society
For Love of the Prophet An Ethnography of Sudan's Islamic State
Noah Salomon
Winner of the 2017 Albert Hourani Book Award, Middle East Studies Association
One of The Times Literary Supplement's Books of the Year 2017
ARCHITECTURE, URBANISM, AND LANDSCAPE
Landscape as Urbanism: A General Theory
Shortlisted for the 2017 Urban Design Book Award, Urban Design Group
The Urbanism of Frank Lloyd Wright
Neil Levine
Winner of the 2017 PROSE Award in Architecture & Urban Planning, Association of American Publishers
Bosch and Bruegel: From Enemy Painting to Everyday Life
Joseph Leo Koerner
Winner of the 2017 PROSE Award in Art History & Criticism, Association of American Publishers
Still Lives: Death, Desire, and the Portrait of the Old Master
Maria H. Loh
Shortlisted for the 2016 Art Book Prize, Authors' Club
The Art of Philosophy: Visual Thinking in Europe from the Late Renaissance to the Early Enlightenment
Susanna Berger
Shortlisted for 2017 "The Bridge" Book Award, American Initiative for Italian Culture
Welcome to the Universe
Neil deGrasse Tyson Michael A. Strauss and J. Richard Gott
Honorable Mention for the 2017 PROSE Award in Cosmology and Astronomy, Association of American Publishers
The Bees in Your Backyard: A Guide to North America's Bees
Joseph S. Wilson and Olivia J. Messinger Carril
Winner of the 2017 PROSE Award in Single Volume Reference/Science, Association of American Publishers
A Place at the Altar: Priestesses in Republican Rome
Meghan J. DiLuzio
A Winner of the 2017 CAMWS First Book Award, Classical Association of the Middle West and South
Ireland's Immortals: A History of the Gods of Irish Myth
Honorable Mention for the 2017 PROSE Award in Literature, Association of American Publishers
Learning Zulu: A Secret History of Language in South Africa
Mark Sanders
Longlisted for the 2017 Alan Paton Award for Non-Fiction, Sunday Times
The Plural of Us Poetry and Community in Auden and Others
Bonnie Costello
Winner of the 2017 Warren-Brooks Award for Outstanding Literary Criticism, Robert Penn Warren Center and Western Kentucky University
Kafka: The Early Years
Longlisted for the 2017 National Translation Award, American Literary Translators Association
Lydia Ginzburg's Prose Reality in Search of Literature
Emily Van Buskirk
Co-Winner of the 2016 Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Studies in Slavic Languages and Literatures, Modern Language Association
Winner of the 2017 AATSEEL Prize for the Best Book in Literary Studies, American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages
Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies: A Comprehensive Introduction
Arvind Narayanan Joseph Bonneau, Edward Felten, Andrew Miller and Steven Goldfeder
Honorable Mention for the 2017 PROSE Award in Computing and Information Sciences, Association of American Publishers
Money Changes Everything: How Finance Made Civilization Possible
William N. Goetzmann
Honorable Mention for the 2017 Ralph Gomory Prize, Business History Conference
Adaptive Markets: Financial Evolution at the Speed of Thought
One of the CNBC 13 Best Business Books of 2017
Shortlisted for the 2017 Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award
The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century
Walter Scheidel
Shortlisted for the 2017 Cundill History Prize, McGill University
One of the Strategy+Business Best Business Books 2016 in Economics
The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living since the Civil War
Robert J. Gordon
Winner of the 2017 PROSE Award in U.S. History, Association of American Publishers
Winner of the 2017 Excellence in Financial Journalism Book Award, New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants
The Curse of Cash
Winner of the 2017 PROSE Award in Economics, Association of American Publishers
The Euro and the Battle of Ideas
Markus K. Brunnermeier, Harold James & Jean-Pierre Landau
Winner of the 2017 Gold Medal in International Business / Globalization, Axiom Business Book Awards
Success and Luck: Good Fortune and the Myth of Meritocracy
Robert H. Frank
Honorable Mention for the 2017 PROSE Award in Economics, Association of American Publishers
Blue Skies over Beijing: Economic Growth and the Environment in China
Matthew E. Kahn and Siqi Zheng
Honorable Mention for the 2017 PROSE Award in Environmental Science, Association of American Publishers
A Culture of Growth: The Origins of the Modern Economy
Joel Mokyr
Honorable Mention for the 2017 PROSE Award in European and World History, Association of American Publishers
The Princeton History of Modern Ireland
Richard Bourke and Ian McBride
Honorable Mention for the 2017 PROSE Award in Single Volume Reference/Humanities and Social Sciences, Association of American Publishers
Wisdom's Workshop: The Rise of the Modern University
James Axtell
Honorable Mention for the 2017 PROSE Award in Education Theory, Association of American Publishers
'Keep the Damned Women Out": The Struggle for Coeducation
Nancy Weiss Malkiel
Winner of the 2017 PROSE Award in Education Practice, Association of American Publishers
The Many Deaths of Jew Süss: The Notorious Trial and Execution of an Eighteenth-Century Court Jew
Yair Mintzker
Winner of the 2017 National Jewish Book Award in History (Gerrard and Ella Berman Memorial Award)
The Origin of the Jews The Quest for Roots in a Rootless Age
Steven Weitzman
Winner of the 2017 National Jewish Book Award in Education and Jewish Identity (In Memory of Dorothy Kripke)
A History of the 'Alawis From Medieval Aleppo to the Turkish Republic
Stefan Winter
Winner of the 2017 M. Fuat Köprülü Book Prize, Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association
Coming of Age in Medieval Egypt Female Adolescence, Jewish Law, and Ordinary Culture
Eve Krakowski
Winner of the 2017 National Jewish Book Award in Women's Studies (Barbara Dobkin Award)
Finalist for the 2017 National Jewish Book Award in Scholarship (Nahum Sarna Memorial Award)
Ethics in the Real World: 82 Brief Essays on Things That Matter
Longlisted for the 2017 PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay, Pen American Center
The Philosopher: A History in Six Types
Justin E.H. Smith
Winner of the 2017 PROSE Award in Philosophy, Association of American Publishers
Group Theory in a Nutshell for Physicists
A. Zee
Honorable Mention for the 2017 PROSE Award in Textbook/Best in Physical Sciences and Mathematics, Association of American Publishers
POLITICAL SCIENCE AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
Resolve in International Politics
Joshua D. Kertzer
Co-Winner of the 2017 Alexander L. George Book Award, International Society of Political Psychology
Magazines and the Making of America: Modernization, Community, and Print Culture, 1741–1860
Heather A. Haveman
Co-Winner of the 2017 Barrington Moore Book Award, Comparative and Historical Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association
The New Deal: Global History
Kiran Klaus Patel
Co-Winner of the 2017 World History Association Jerry Bentley Book Prize
Democracy for Realists: Why Elections Do Not Produce Responsive Government
Christopher H. Achen and Larry M. Bartels
Winner of the 2017 PROSE Award in Government & Politics, Association of American Publishers
Winner of the 2017 David O. Sears Book Award, International Society of Political Psychology
Racial Realignment: The Transformation of American Liberalism, 1932–1965
Eric Schickler
Co-Winner of the 2017 J. David Greenstone Book Prize, Politics and History Section of the American Political Science Association
Winner of the 2017 Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award, American Political Science Association
Economic Interdependence and War
Dale C. Copeland
Winner of the 2017 ISA Annual Best Book Award, International Studies Association
Nations under God: How Churches Use Moral Authority to Influence Policy
Anna Grzymała-Busse
Winner of the 2016 Best Book Award, European Politics and Society Section of the American Political Science Association
Winner of the 2017 Luebbert Best Book Award, Comparative Politics Section of the American Political Science Association
Political Turbulence How Social Media Shape Collective Action
Helen Margetts, Peter John, Scott Hale, & Taha Yasseri
Winner of the 2017 W.J.M. Mackenzie Book Prize, Political Studies Association
ISIS: A History
Fawaz A. Gerges
Honorable Mention for the 2017 PROSE Award in Government and Politics, Association of American Publishers
2017 Gold Medal Winner in Current Events
(Political/Economic/Foreign Affairs), Independent Publisher Book Awards
Following the Wild Bees: The Craft and Science of Bee Hunting
Thomas D. Seeley
Honorable Mention for the 2017 PROSE Award in Popular Science and Popular Mathematics, Association of American Publishers
Silent Sparks
Fashion, Faith, and Fantasy in the New Physics of the Universe
Roger Penrose
Winner of the 2017 PROSE Award in Chemistry & Physics, Association of American Publishers
Strange Glow: The Story of Radiation
Timothy J. Jorgensen
Winner of the 2017 PROSE Award in History of Science, Medicine & Technology, Association of American Publishers
The Cosmic Web: Mysterious Architecture of the Universe
J. Richard Gott
Winner of the 2017 PROSE Award in Cosmology & Astronomy, Association of American Publishers
Marx's Inferno The Political Theory of Capital
William Clare Roberts
Winner of the 2017 Deutscher Memorial Prize
Investigating the President Congressional Checks on Presidential Power
Douglas L. Kriner & Eric Schickler
Winner of the 2017 Richard F. Fenno, Jr. Prize, Legislative Studies Section of the American Political Science Association
Winner of the 2017 Richard E. Neustadt Award, Presidents and Executive Politics Section of the American Political Science Association
The Story of Hebrew
Lewis Glinert
Finalist for the 2017 National Jewish Book Award in History (Gerrard and Ella Berman Memorial Award)
Contested Tastes: Foie Gras and the Politics of Food
Michaela DeSoucey
Co-Winner of the 2017 Mary Douglas Prize for Best Book, Sociology of Culture Section of the American Sociological Association
Strangers No More: Immigration and the Challenges of Integration in North America and Western Europe
Richard Alba & Nancy Foner
Honorable Mention for the 2017 ENMISA Distinguished Book Award, Ethnicity, Nationalism, and Migration Section the International Studies Association
Becoming Black Political Subjects: Movements and Ethno-Racial Rights in Colombia and Brazil
Tianna S.
Co-Winner of the 2017 Herbert Jacob Book Award, Law and Society Association
Winner of the 2017 Gordon Hirabayashi Book Award, Human Rights Section of the American Sociological Association
Winner of the 2017 SSSP Global Division Book Award, Society for the Study of Social Problems
Honorable Mention for the 2017 Eduardo Bonilla-Silva Outstanding Book Award, Division for Racial and Ethnic Minorities of the Society for the Study of Social Problems
Honorable Mention for the 2017 Best Scholarly Book Award, Global and Transnational Section of the American Sociological Association
Honorable Mention for the 2017 Book Award, Section on Development of the American Sociological Association
WORLD HISTORY / COMPARATIVE HISTORY
The Gunpowder Age: China, Military Innovation, and the Rise of the West in World History
Tonio Andrade
Winner of a 2017 Distinguished Book Award, Society of Military History
Selected as a New York Times Editors' Choice, 8-24-17
One of The Spectator 2017 Books of the Year
One of The Times Literary Supplement's Books of the Year 2017
One of The New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2017
A Class by Herself: Protective Laws for Women Workers, 1890s–1990s
Nancy Woloch
Winner of the 2016 Philip Taft Labor History Award, Cornell University School of Industrial & Labor Relations
F.B. Eyes: How J. Edgar Hoover's Ghostreaders Framed African American Literature
William J. Maxwell
Winner of a 2016 American Book Award, Before Columbus Foundation
Shortlisted for the 2016 MSA Book Prize, Modernist Studies Association
Winner of the 2016 Robert H. Ferrell Book Prize, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations
Runner-Up for the 2016 Hamilton Book Awards, University Co-operative Society, University of Texas at Austin
Liberty and Coercion: The Paradox of American Government from the Founding to the Present
Gary Gerstle
Winner of the 2016 Ellis W. Hawley Prize, Organization of American Historians
Winner of the 2016 James P. Hanlan Book Award, New England Historical Association
Power Lines: Phoenix and the Making of the Modern Southwest
Andrew Needham
Winner of the 2016 George Perkins Marsh Prize, American Society for Environmental History
Soulmaker: The Times of Lewis Hine
Alexander Nemerov
Finalist for the 2016 Marfield Prize, The National Award for Arts Writing, Arts Club of Washington
The Age of the Crisis of Man: Thought and Fiction in America, 1933–1973
Mark Greif
Winner of the 18th Annual (2016) Susanne M. Glasscock Humanities Book Prize for Interdisciplinary Scholarship, Melbern G. Glasscock Center for Humanities Research at Texas A&M University
The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins
Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing
Winner of the 2016 Gregory Bateson Prize, The Society for Cultural Anthropology
Winner of the 2016 Victor Turner Prize in Ethnographic Writing, Society for Humanistic Anthropology
Finalist for the 2016 Northern California Book Awards in General Nonfiction, Northern California Book Reviewers
Sounding the Limits of Life Essays in the Anthropology of Biology and Beyond
Winner of the 2016 Michelle Kendrick Memorial Book Prize, Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts
ARCHAELOGY AND ANCIENT HISTORY
Selected as the 'Book of the Semester' Fall 2016, David M. Kennedy Center for International Studies at Brigham Young University
The Amazons: Lives and Legends of Warrior Women across the Ancient World
Winner of the 2016 Sarasvati Award for Best Nonfiction Book in Women and Mythology, Association for the Study of Women & Mythology
Houses for a New World: Builders and Buyers in American Suburbs, 1945–1965
Barbara Miller Lane
Winner of the 2016 Historic Preservation Book Prize, University of Mary Washington's Center for Historic Preservation
Skies of Parchment, Seas of Ink: Jewish Illuminated Manuscripts
Edited by Marc Michael Epstein
With contributions by Eva Frojmovic, Jenna Siman Jacobs, Hartley Lachter, Shalom Sabar, Raymond P. Scheindlin, Ágnes Vető, Susan Vick, Barbara Wolff & Diane Wolfthal
Honorable Mention for the 2016 PROSE Award in Art History & Criticism, Association of American Publishers
Forms: Whole, Rhythm, Hierarchy, Network
Caroline Levine
Winner of the 2016 Dorothy Lee Award for Outstanding Scholarship in the Ecology of Culture, Media Ecology Association
Winner of the 2015 James Russell Lowell Prize, Modern Language Association
ASIAN AND ASIAN AMERICAN STUDIES
The Color of Success: Asian Americans and the Origins of the Model Minority
Ellen D. Wu
Winner of the 2016 AAAS Award for Best Book in History, Association for Asian American Studies
Astrophysics in a Nutshell Second Edition
Dan Maoz
How Do You Find an Exoplanet?
John Asher Johnson
Statistics, Data Mining, and Machine Learning in Astronomy: A Practical Python Guide for the Analysis of Survey Data
Željko Ivezić, Andrew J. Connolly, Jacob T. VanderPlas & Alexander Gray
Winner of the 2016 IAA Outstanding Publication Award, International Astrostatistics Association
Mutualistic Networks
Jordi Bascompte & Pedro Jordano
Winner of the 2016 BES Marsh Christian Trust Book Award, British Ecological Association
Birds of New Guinea Second Edition
Thane K. Pratt & Bruce M. Beehler
Quantitative Viral Ecology:Dynamics of Viruses and Their Microbial Hosts
Joshua S. Weitz
Winner of the 2016 Postgraduate Textbook Prize, Royal Society of Biology
Warbler Guide App
Tom Stephenson & Scott Whittle
Winner of the 2016 PROSE Award for Best App/eProduct
Sexing the World: Grammatical Gender and Biological Sex in Ancient Rome
Anthony Corbeill
Winner of a 2016 Charles Goodwin Award of Merit, Society for Classical Studies
Site Reading: Fiction, Art, Social Form
David J. Alworth
Winner of the 2016 Erving Goffman Award for Outstanding Scholarship in the Ecology of Social Interaction, Media Ecology Association
In the Shadow of World Literature Sites of Reading in Colonial Egypt
Michael Allan
Co-Winner of the 2016 MLA Prize for a First Book, Modern Language Association
Modern Observational Physical Oceanography: Understanding the Global Ocean
Carl Wunsch
Honorable Mention for the 2016 PROSE Award in Textbook/Physical Sciences & Mathematics, Association of American Publishers
Adam Smith: His Life, Thought, and Legacy
Edited by Ryan Patrick Hanley
Climate Shock: The Economic Consequences of a Hotter Planet
Gernot Wagner & Martin L. Weitzman
2016 Outstanding Book of the Year "Most Likely to Save the Planet," Independent Publisher Book Awards
Finding Equilibrium: Arrow, Debreu, McKenzie and the Problem of Scientific Credit
Till Düppe & E. Roy Weintraub
How the Internet Became Commercial: Innovation, Privatization, and the Birth of a New Network
Shane Greenstein
Co-Winner of the 2016 Schumpeter Prize Competition, International Joseph A. Schumpeter Society
Phishing for Phools: The Economics of Manipulation and Deception
George A. Akerlof & Robert J. Shiller
Winner of the 2016 Gold Medal in Economics, Axiom Business Book Awards
The Process Matters: Engaging and Equipping People for Success
Joel Brockner
Winner of the 2016 Bronze Medal in Operations Management / Lean / Continuous Improvement, Axiom Business Book Awards
Honorable Mention for the 2016 PROSE Award in Business, Finance & Management, Association of American Publishers
Longlisted for the 2016 Cundill Prize in Historical Literature, McGill University
Longlisted for the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year 2016
Empire and Revolution: The Political Life of Edmund Burke
On Stalin's Team: The Years of Living Dangerously in Soviet Politics
Sheila Fitzpatrick
Out of Ashes: A New History of Europe in the Twentieth Century
Konrad H. Jarausch
Honorable Mention for the 2016 PROSE Award in European & World History, Association of American Publishers
Winner of the 2016 Bronisław Geremek Prize, College of Europe
Edited by Richard Bourke & Ian McBride
The Weimar Century: German Émigrés and the Ideological Foundations of the Cold War
Udi Greenberg
Winner of the 2016 European Studies Book Award, Council for European Studies
Locus of Authority: The Evolution of Faculty Roles in the Governance of Higher Education
William G. Bowen & Eugene M. Tobin
Winner of the 2016 PROSE Award in Education Theory, Association of American Publishers
Wisdom's Workshop: The Rise of the Modern University
After One-Hundred-and-Twenty: Reflecting on Death, Mourning, and the Afterlife in the Jewish Tradition
Hillel Halkin
Long-listed for the 2017 Jewish Quarterly Wingate Prize
Makers of Jewish Modernity: Thinkers, Artists, Leaders, and the World They Made
Jacques Picard, Jacques Revel, Michael P. Steinberg, Idith Zertal
Winner of the 2016 National Jewish Book Award in Anthologies and Collections, Jewish Book Council
Tradition and the Formation of the Talmud
Moulie Vidas
Honorable Mention for the 2016 Jordan Schnitzer Book Award in Biblical Studies, Rabbinics, and Jewish History & Culture in Antiquity, Association for Jewish Studies
Sea of Storms: A History of Hurricanes in the Greater Caribbean from Columbus to Katrina
Stuart B. Schwartz
Honorable Mention for the 2016 Marysa Navarro Best Book Prize, New England Council on Latin American Studies (NECLAS)
LITERATURE: PRIMARY WORKS AND LETTERS
The Essential Goethe
Creating Symmetry: The Artful Mathematics of Wallpaper Patterns
Frank A. Farris
Honorable Mention for the 2016 PROSE Award in Mathematics, Association of American Publishers
Leonhard Euler: Mathematical Genius in the Enlightenment
Ronald S. Calinger
Mathematics in Ancient Egypt: A Contextual History
Annette Imhausen
Mathematics without Apologies: Portrait of a Problematic Vocation
Winner of the 2016 PROSE Award in Mathematics, Association of American Publishers
The Mathematics of Various Entertaining Subjects: Research in Recreational Math
Jennifer Beineke & Jason Rosenhouse
The Proof and the Pudding: What Mathematicians, Cooks, and You Have in Common
Jim Henle
Shortlisted for the 2016 Gourmand World Cookbook Awards, in Digital E-Books
How Propaganda Works
Jason Stanley
On Inequality
Harry G. Frankfurt
Teaching Plato in Palestine: Philosophy in a Divided World
Carlos Fraenkel
Longlisted for the 2016 Sheikh Zayed Book Award in Arabic Culture in Other Languages
Affluence and Influence: Economic Inequality and Political Power in America
Martin Gilens
Winner of the 2016 AAPOR Book Award, American Association for Public Opinion Research
American Insecurity: Why Our Economic Fears Lead to Political Inaction
Adam Seth Levine
Winner of the 2016 Best Book Award, Experimental Research Section of the American Political Science Association
Caught: The Prison State and the Lockdown of American Politics
Marie Gottschalk
Winner of the 2016 Michael Harrington Book Award, New Political Science Section of the American Political Science Association
Christopher H. Achen & Larry M. Bartels
In-Your-Face Politics: The Consequences of Uncivil Media
Diana C. Mutz
Knowing the Adversary: Leaders, Intelligence, and Assessment of Intentions in International Relations
Keren Yarhi-Milo
Co-Winner of the 2016 DPLST Book Prize, Diplomatic Studies Section of the International Studies Association
On Stalin's Team: The Years of Living Dangerously in Soviet Politics
Honorable Mention for the 2016 PROSE Award in Government & Politics, Association of American Publishers
Co-Winner of the 2016 Prime Minister's Literary Award for Non-Fiction, Australian Government Department of Communications and the Arts
Paths Out of Dixie: The Democratization of Authoritarian Enclaves in America's Deep South, 1944-1972
Robert Mickey
Winner of the 2016 J. David Greenstone Book Prize, Politics and History Section of the American Political Science Association
Polarized: Making Sense of a Divided America
James E. Campbell
Power and International Relations: A Conceptual Approach
David A. Baldwin
The Rise and Fall of Classical Greece
Josiah Ober
Winner of the 2016 Douglass C. North Research Award, Society for Institutional and Organizational Economics (SIOE)
Shortlisted for the 2016 Ralph Waldo Emerson Award, Phi Beta Kappa Society
Sailing the Water's Edge: The Domestic Politics of American Foreign Policy
Helen V. Milner & Dustin Tingley
Winners of the 2016 Gladys M. Kammerer Award, American Political Science Association
When Movements Anchor Parties: Electoral Alignments in American History
Daniel Schlozman
Winner of the 2016 Charles Tilly Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Book Award, Collective Behavior and Social Movements Section of the American Sociological Association
White Backlash: Immigration, Race, and American Politics
Marisa Abrajano & Zoltan L. Hajnal
Winners of the 2016 Ralph J. Bunche Award, American Political Science Association
How to Clone a Mammoth: The Science of De-Extinction
Beth Shapiro
2016 Gold Medal Winner in Science, Independent Publisher Book Awards
Winner of the 2016 AAAS/Subaru SB&F Prize for Excellence in Science Books, Young Adult Science Books
Shortlisted for the 2016 Phi Beta Kappa Award in Science, Phi Beta Kappa Society
The Real Planet of the Apes: A New Story of Human Origins
David R. Begun
The Worst of Times: How Life on Earth Survived Eighty Million Years of Extinctions
Paul B. Wignall
Madness in Civilization: A Cultural History of Insanity, from the Bible to Freud, from the Madhouse to Modern Medicine
Andrew Scull
The Quotable Jung
Collected and edited by Judith Harris
One Day in the Life of the English Language: A Microcosmic Usage Handbook
Frank L. Cioffi
What's Divine about Divine Law? Early Perspectives
Christine Hayes
Winner of the 2016 PROSE Award in Theology & Religious Studies, Association of American Publishers
Winner of the 2016 Jordan Schnitzer Book Award in Biblical Studies, Rabbinics, and Jewish History & Culture in Antiquity, Association for Jewish Studies
What Is Islam? The Importance of Being Islamic
Shahab Ahmed
Winner of the 2016 Best First Book in the History of Religions, American Academy of Religion
Religious Difference in a Secular Age: A Minority Report
Saba Mahmood
Winner of the 2016 Clifford Geertz Prize in the Anthropology of Religion, Society for the Anthropology of Religion
American Zoo: A Sociological Safari
David Grazian
Winner of the 2016 Award for Distinguished Scholarship, Animals and Society Section of the American Sociological Association
Honorable Mention for the 2016 PROSE Award in Sociology & Social Work, Association of American Publishers
The Battle for Yellowstone: Morality and the Sacred Roots of Environmental Conflict
Justin Farrell
Winner of the 2016 Outstanding Published Book Award, Altruism, Morality and Social Solidarity Section of the American Sociological Association
Between Monopoly and Free Trade: The English East India Company, 1600–1757
Emily Erikson
Winner of the 2016 James Coleman Award for Outstanding Book, Rationality and Society Section of the American Sociological Association
Winner of the 2016 Gaddis Smith International Book Prize, MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale University
Beyond the Beat: Musicians Building Community in Nashville
Daniel B. Cornfield
Shortlisted for the 2016 ASAP Book Prize, Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present
Winner of the 2016 Distinguished Scholarly Publication Award, Consumers and Consumption Section of the American Sociological Association
In Harm's Way: The Dynamics of Urban Violence
Javier Auyero & María Fernanda Berti
Winners of the 2016 Robert E. Park Award, Community and Urban Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association
Co-Winner of the 2016 CITAMS Book Award, Communication, Information Technologies, and Media Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association
The Moral Background: An Inquiry into the History of Business Ethics
Gabriel Abend
Co-Winner of the 2016 Viviana Zelizer Award for Best Book, Economic Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association
Pedigree: How Elite Students Get Elite Jobs
Lauren A. Rivera
Winner of the 2016 Max Weber Book Award, Organizations, Occupations, and Work Section of the American Sociological Association
Winner of the 2016 Mary Douglas Prize for Best Book, Sociology of Culture Section of the American Sociological Association
Co-Winner of the 2016 Distinguished Book Award, Sociology of Law Section of the American Sociological Association
Co-Winner of the 2016 Silver Medal in Career (Job Search, Career Advancement), Axiom Business Book Awards
Terrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream
Christopher Bail
Winner of the 2016 Distinguished Book Award, Sociology of Religion Section of the American Sociological Association
Honorable Mention for the 2016 Charles Tilly Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Book Award, Collective Behavior and Social Movements Section of the American Sociological Association
There Goes the Gayborhood?
Amin Ghaziani
Honorable Mention for the 2016 Robert E. Park Award, Community and Urban Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association
Capitalism: A Short History
The Shape of the New: Four Big Ideas and How They Made the Modern World: With a new preface by the authors
Scott L. Montgomery & Daniel Chirot
The Work of the Dead: A Cultural History of Mortal Remains
Winner of the 2016 PROSE Award in European & World History, Association of American Publishers
Winner of the 2016 George L. Mosse Prize, American Historical Association
2016 Gold Medal Winner in World History, Independent Publisher Book Awards
Winner of the 2016 Cundill Prize in Historical Literature, McGill University
Winner of the 2016 Stansky Book Prize, North American Conference on British Studies
The Age of Garvey: How a Jamaican Activist Created a Mass Movement and Changed Global Black Politics
Adam Ewing
Winner of the 2015 Stuart L. Bernath Book Prize, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations
Building the Land of Dreams: New Orleans and the Transformation of Early America
Eberhard L. Faber
Winner of the 2015 Kemper and Leila Williams Prize in Louisiana History, Historic New Orleans Collection and the Louisiana Historical Association
Winner of the 2015 William G. Bowen Award, Industrial Relations Section of Princeton University
Honorable Mention for the 2015 David J. Langum, Sr. Prize for American Legal History/Biography, Langum Charitable Trust
Finalist for the 2015 Theodore Saloutos Memorial Book Award, Immigration and Ethnic History Society
F.B. Eyes: How J. Edgar Hoover's Ghostreaders Framed African American Literature
Winner of the 2015 CALA Best Book Award in Nonfiction, Chinese American Librarians Association
Winner of the 2015 Theodore Saloutos Memorial Book Award, Immigration and Ethnic History Society
Honor Book, 2015 Asian/Pacific American Awards for Literature, Asian/Pacific American Librarians Association
The New York Nobody Knows: Walking 6,000 Miles in the City
William B. Helmreich
Winner of the 2015 GANYC Award for Outstanding Achievement in Book Writing, The Guides
Winner of the 2015 Hal K. Rothman Prize, Western History Association
Winner of the 2015 David J. Weber-Clements Prize, Western History Association
Winner of a 2015 Southwest Book Award, Border Regional Library Association
Winner of the 2015 Caughey Western History Prize, Western History Association
Rough Country: How Texas Became America's Most Powerful Bible-Belt State
Robert Wuthnow
Winner of the 2015 Coral Horton Tullis Memorial Prize, Texas State Historical Association
AMERICAN LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE
American Pulp: How Paperbacks Brought Modernism to Main Street
Paula Rabinowitz
Winner of the 2015 SHARP DeLong Book History Book Prize, The Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing
Winner of the 2015 Morris D. Forkosch Book Prize, Journal of the History of Ideas
Moral Imagination: Essays
Shortlisted for the 2015 PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay, Pen American Center
Philology: The Forgotten Origins of the Modern Humanities
Winner of the 2015 Christian Gauss Award, Phi Beta Kappa Society
Honorable Mention for the 2015 PROSE Award in Language & Linguistics, Association of American Publishers
Shortlisted for the 2015 Christian Gauss Award, Phi Beta Kappa Society
Honorable Mention for the 2015 PROSE Award in Archeology & Anthropology, Association of American Publishers
Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More: The Last Soviet Generation
Alexei Yurchak
Winner of the 2015 Prosvetitel (Enlightener) Book Prizes
Making War at Fort Hood: Life and Uncertainty in a Military Community
Kenneth T. MacLeish
Honorable Mention for the 2015 Delmos Jones and Jagna Scharff Memorial Book Award, Society for the Anthropology of North America
The New Arab Man: Emergent Masculinities, Technologies, and Islam in the Middle East
Marcia C. Inhorn
Winner of the 2015 Robert B. Textor and Family Prize for Excellence in Anticipatory Anthropology, American Anthropological Association
Delphi: A History of the Center of the Ancient World
Shortlisted for the 2015 Runciman Award, Anglo-Hellenic League
Winner of the 2015 Athenaeum Literary Award (for Art and Architecture), The Athenaeum of Philadelphia
Art as History: Calligraphy and Painting as One
Wen C. Fong
40 Years of Evolution: Darwin's Finches on Daphne Major Island
Peter R. Grant & B. Rosemary Grant
Honorable Mention for the 2015 PROSE Award in Biological Sciences, Association of American Publishers
Visual Ecology
Thomas W. Cronin, Sönke Johnsen, N. Justin Marshall & Eric J. Warrant
Winner of the 2015 PROSE Award in Textbook/Biological & Life Sciences, Association of American Publishers
The Bee: A Natural History
Noah Wilson-Rich
With contributions from Kelly Allin, Norman Carreck & Andrea Quigley
Honorable Mention for the 2015 National Outdoor Book Awards, Nature and the Environment, NOBA Foundation
Beetles of Eastern North America
Arthur V. Evans
Bumble Bees of North America: An Identification Guide
Paul H. Williams, Robbin W. Thorp, Leif L. Richardson & Sheila R. Colla
The Passenger Pigeon
Errol Fuller
Trees of Eastern North America
Gil Nelson, Christopher J. Earle & Richard Spellenberg
Illustrations by David More
Edited by Amy K. Hughes
Winner of the 2015 PROSE Award in Outstanding Work by a Trade Publisher, Association of American
Genealogy of the Tragic: Greek Tragedy and German Philosophy
Joshua Billings
Do Zombies Dream of Undead Sheep? A Neuroscientific View of the Zombie Brain
Timothy Verstynen & Bradley Voytek
Winner of the 2015 PROSE Award in Biomedicine & Neuroscience, Association of American Publishers
The Consolations of Writing: Literary Strategies of Resistance from Boethius to Primo Levi
Rivkah Zim
Honorable Mention for the 2015 René Wellek Prize, American Comparative Literature Association
Grimm Legacies: The Magic Spell of the Grimms' Folk and Fairy Tales
Jack Zipes
Winner of the 2015 Chicago Folklore Prize, American Folklore Society and the University of Chicago
Inside Paradise Lost: Reading the Designs of Milton's Epic
David Quint
Winner of the 2015 James Holly Hanford Award, The Milton Society of America
The Lives of the Novel: A History
Thomas G. Pavel
Winner of the 2015 Barbara Perkins and George Perkins Prize, The International Society for the Study of Narrativer
Mirages and Mad Beliefs: Proust the Skeptic
Christopher Prendergast
Winner of the 2015 R. Gapper Prize, Society for French Studies
The Life and Struggles of Our Mother Walatta Petros: A Seventeenth-Century African Biography of an Ethiopian Woman
Galawdewos Translated and edited by Wendy Laura Belcher & Michael Kleiner
Winner of the 2015 Best Scholarly Edition in Translation, Society for the Study of Early Modern Women
Invisible in the Storm: The Role of Mathematics in Understanding Weather
Ian Roulstone & John Norbury
Winner of the 2015 Louis J. Battan Author's Award, American Meteorological Society
The Planet Remade: How Geoengineering Could Change the World
Oliver Morton
Longlisted for the 2015 Samuel Johnson Prize for Nonfiction
Co-Winner of the 2015 Sharlin Memorial Award, Social Science History Association
Co-Winner of the 2015 Ralph Gomory Prize, Business History Conference
The Butterfly Defect: How Globalization Creates Systemic Risks, and What to Do about It
Ian Goldin & Mike Mariathasan
Finalist for the 2015 Estoril Global Issues Distinguished Book Prize
The Dollar Trap: How the U.S. Dollar Tightened Its Grip on Global Finance
Eswar S. Prasad
Eating People Is Wrong, and Other Essays on Famine, Its Past, and Its Future
Cormac Ó Gráda
Fortune Tellers: The Story of America's First Economic Forecasters
Walter A. Friedman
Winner of the 2015 Hagley Prize in Business History, Hagley Museum and Library and Business History Conference
GDP: A Brief but Affectionate History
Winner of the 2015 Bronze Medal in Economics, Axiom Business Book Awards
Phishing for Phools: The Economics of Manipulation and Deceptiony
A Social Strategy: How We Profit from Social Media
Mikołaj Jan Piskorski
Winner of the 2015 Gold Medal in Networking, Axiom Business Book Awards
The Son Also Rises: Surnames and the History of Social Mobility
Gregory Clark
With Neil Cummins, Yu Hao and Daniel Diaz Vidal
Winner of 2015 Gyorgy Ranki Prize, Economic History Association
Why Gender Matters in Economics
Mukesh Eswaran
Winner of the 2015 PROSE Award in Textbook/Social Sciences, Association of American Publishers
The Age of the Vikings
Anders Winroth
Citizenship between Empire and Nation: Remaking France and French Africa, 1945–1960
Winner of the George Louis Beer Prize 2015, American Historical Association
Winner of the Martin A. Klein Prize 2015, American Historical Association
The Match Girl and the Heiress
Seth Koven
Winner of the 2015 Stansky Prize, North American Conference on British Studies
Winner of the 2015 NAVSA Best book of the Year Award, North American Victorian Studies Association
2015 Silver Winner in History, ForeWord Reviews' INDIEFAB Book of the Year Awards
A Public Empire: Property and the Quest for the Common Good in Imperial Russia
Ekaterina Pravilova
Winner of the 2015 Wayne S. Vucinich Book Prize, Association for Slavic, East European, & Eurasian Studies
Winner of the George L. Mosse Prize 2015, American Historical Association
Winner of the 2015 Historia Nova Prize, Mikhail Prokhorov Foundation and Academic Studies Press
Honorable Mention for the 2015 J. Willard Hurst Book Prize, Law and Society Association
Longlisted for the 2015 Historia Nova Prize, Mikhail Prokhorov Foundation and Academic Studies Press
Revolutionary Ideas: An Intellectual History of the French Revolution from The Rights of Man to Robespierre
Why Can the Dead Do Such Great Things? Saints and Worshippers from the Martyrs to the Reformation
Robert Bartlett
Winner of the 2015 Otto Gründler Book Prize, The Medieval Institute of Western Michigan University
Co-Winner of the 2015 István Hont Book Prize, Institute of Intellectual History
Fragile by Design: The Political Origins of Banking Crises and Scarce Credit
Charles W. Calomiris & Stephen H. Haber
Winner of the 2015 PROSE Award in Business, Finance & Management, Association of American Publishers
The History of American Higher Education: Learning and Culture from the Founding to World War II
Roger L. Geiger
Winner of the 2015 AERA Division J Outstanding Publication Award, American Educational Research Association
HISTORY OF SCIENCE AND MEDICINE, PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
Ten Thousand Birds: Ornithology since Darwin
Tim Birkhead, Jo Wimpenny & Bob Montgomerie
Tesla: Inventor of the Electrical Age
W. Bernard Carlson
Winner of the 2015 Sally Hacker Prize, Society for the History of Technology
Winner of the 2015 IEEE William and Joyce Middleton Electrical Engineering History Award, History Committee of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers
Defining Neighbors: Religion, Race, and the Early Zionist-Arab Encounter
Jonathan Marc Gribetz
The Golden Age Shtetl: A New History of Jewish Life in East Europe
Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern
Leaving the Jewish Fold: Conversion and Radical Assimilation in Modern Jewish History
Todd M. Endelman
Finalist for the 2015 National Jewish Book Award in Modern Jewish Thought & Experience (Dorot Foundation Award), Jewish Book Council
Maimonides: Life and Thought
Moshe Halbertal
Honorable Mention for the 2015 PROSE Award in Theology & Religious Studies, Association of American Publishers
Winner of the 2015 National Jewish Book Award in Visual Arts, Jewish Book Council
Finalist for the 2015 National Jewish Book Award in Scholarship (Nahum M. Sarna Memorial Award), Jewish Book Council
Winner of the 2015 National Jewish Book Award in Scholarship (Nahum M. Sarna Memorial Award), Jewish Book Council
Winner of the 2015 Gustav Ranis International Book Prize, MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies, Yale University
Honorable Mention for the 2015 ASLI Choice Award in History, Atmospheric Science Librarians International
Shortlisted for the 2015 Cundill Prize in Historical Literature, McGill University
The Copyright Wars: Three Centuries of Trans-Atlantic Battle
Peter Baldwin
Honorable Mention for the 2015 PROSE Award in Law & Legal Studies, Association of American Publishers
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, 150th Anniversary Edition
Illustrated by Salvador Dalí
Edited by Mark Burstein
Winner of a 2015 Gelett Burgess Children's Book Award
The Original Folk and Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm: The Complete First Edition
Jacob & Wilhelm Grimm, Translated and edited by Jack Zipes
Illustrated by Andrea Dezsö
Alan Turing: The Enigma: The Book That Inspired the Film The Imitation Game
Andrew Hodges
Winner of the 2015 (27th) USC Libraries Scripter Award, University of Southern California Libraries
Beautiful Geometry
Eli Maor & Eugen Jost
The Fascinating World of Graph Theory
Arthur Benjamin, Gary Chartrand & Ping Zhang
Topics in Quaternion Linear Algebra
Leiba Rodman
Of Sand or Soil: Genealogy and Tribal Belonging in Saudi Arabia
Nadav Samin
Runner-Up for the 2016 British-Kuwait Friendship Society Book Prize in Middle Eastern Studies
Soft Force: Women in Egypt's Islamic Awakening
Ellen Anne McLarney
Winner of the 2016 JMEWS Book Award, Journal of Middle Eastern Women's Studies and Association of Middle East Women's Studies
Young Islam: The New Politics of Religion in Morocco and the Arab World
Avi Max Spiegel
Winner of a Washington Post Abu Aardvark 2015 Middle East Book Award
Co-Winner of the 2016 Book Award, Religion and International Relations Section, International Studies Association
They Can Live in the Desert but Nowhere Else": A History of the Armenian Genocide
Ronald Grigor Suny
Pagans and Philosophers: The Problem of Paganism from Augustine to Leibniz
Foreword by Michael Walzer
Winner of the 2015 Mavis Gallant Prize for Non-Fiction, Quebec Writers' FederationFinalist for the 2015 Mavis Gallant Prize for Non-Fiction, Quebec Writers' Federation
Would You Kill the Fat Man? The Trolley Problem and What Your Answer Tells Us about Right and Wrong
Carnations: Poems
Anthony Carelli
Winner of a 2015 Whiting Award, Whiting Foundation
On Elizabeth Bishop
Nominee for the 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism
The Ruined Elegance: Poems
Finalist for the 2015 Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Poetry
Finalist for the 2015 Frank Luther Mott-Kappa Tau Alpha Journalism and Mass Communication Research Award
Liberalism: The Life of an Idea
Edmund Fawcett
Making Human Rights a Reality
Emilie M. Hafner-Burton
A Winner of the 2015 ISA Annual Best Book Award, International Studies Association
The Muslim Brotherhood: Evolution of an Islamist Movement
Carrie Rosefsky Wickham
Honorable Mention for the 2015 Hubert Morken Award for Best Book, Religion and Politics Section of the American Political Science Association
The New Terrain of International Law: Courts, Politics, Rights
Karen J. Alter
Winner of the 2015 Certificate of Merit for a Preeminent Contribution to Creative Scholarship, American Society of International Law
Winner of the 2015 International Law Best Book Award, International Law Section of the International Studies Association
Honorable Mention for the 2015 Chadwick Alger Award, International Studies Association
Nuclear Strategy in the Modern Era: Regional Powers and International Conflict
Vipin Narang
Winner of the 2015 Best Book, International Security Studies Section of the International Studies Association
Paradoxes of Liberal Democracy: Islam, Western Europe, and the Danish Cartoon Crisis
Paul M. Sniderman, Michael Bang Petersen, Rune Slothuus & Rune Stubager
Power without Persuasion: The Politics of Direct Presidential Action
William G. Howell
Winner of the 2015 Legacy Award, Presidents and Executive Politics Section of the American Political Science Association
Rethinking Private Authority: Agents and Entrepreneurs in Global Environmental Governance
Jessica F. Green
Winner of the 2015 Levine Prize, International Political Science Association's Research Committee on the Structure and Organization of Government
Winner of the 2014-2015 Harold and Margaret Sprout Award, Environmental Studies Section of the International Studies Association
Winner of the 2015 Lynton Keith Caldwell Prize, Science, Technology, and Environmental Politics Section of the American Political Science Association
Secrets and Leaks: The Dilemma of State Secrecy
Rahul Sagar
Winner of the 2015 Myres S. McDougal Prize, Society of Policy Scientists
The Silent Sex: Gender, Deliberation, and Institutions
Christopher F. Karpowitz & Tali Mendelberg
Winner of the 2015 Robert E. Lane Award, Political Psychology Section of the American Political Science Association
Co-Winners of the 2015 Best Book Award, Experimental Research Section of the American Political Science AssociationCo-Winners of the 2015 Best Book Award, Experimental Research Section of the American Political Science Association
War and Democratic Constraint: How the Public Influences Foreign Policy
Matthew A. Baum & Philip B. K. Potter
Why Government Fails So Often: And How It Can Do Better
Peter H. Schuck
Finalist for the 2015 Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Science & Technology
Life's Engines: How Microbes Made Earth Habitable
Paul G. Falkowski
Wizards, Aliens, and Starships: Physics and Math in Fantasy and Science Fiction
Charles L. Adler
Co-Winner of the 2015 AIP Science Writing Award for Books, American Institute of Physics
Dictionary of Untranslatables: A Philosophical Lexicon
Edited by Barbara Cassin
Translation edited by Emily Apter, Jacques Lezra & Michael Wood
The Princeton Companion to Atlantic History
Edited by Joseph C. Miller
Vincent Brown, Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra, Laurent Dubois & Karen Ordhal Kupperman, associate editors
The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism
Robert E. Buswell Jr. & Donald S. Lopez Jr.
Winner of the 2015 Dartmouth Medal, Reference and User Services Association of the American Library Association
Thomas Aquinas's Summa theologiae: A Biography
Bernard McGinn.
Honorable Mention, 2015 Catholic Press Association Book Award, History Category
After Civil Rights: Racial Realism in the New American Workplace
Honorable Mention for the 2015 Oliver Cromwell Cox Book Award, Racial and Ethnic Minorities Section of the American Sociological Association
Winner of the 2015 Athenaeum Literary Award, The Athenaeum of Philadelphia
Between Slavery and Capitalism: The Legacy of Emancipation in the American South
Martin Ruef
Winner of the 2015 Viviana Zelizer Award for Best Book, Economic Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association
The Hero's Fight: African Americans in West Baltimore and the Shadow of the State
Patricia Fernández-Kelly
Finalist for the 2015 C. Wright Mills Award, Society for the Study of Social Problems
John D. Skrentny
Co-Winner of the 2015 Outstanding Published Book Award, Altruism, Morality and Social Solidarity Section of the American Sociological Association
Social Trends in American Life: Findings from the General Social Survey since 1972
Edited by Peter V. Marsden
Selling Our Souls: The Commodification of Hospital Care in the United States
Adam D. Reich
Winner of the 2015 ARNOVA Award for Outstanding Book in Nonprofit and Voluntary Action Research
Selected for the 2015 Over the Rainbow Project book list, American Library Association
2015 Silver Medal Winner in the Independent Publisher Book Awards, World History category
Cowardice: A Brief History
Chris Walsh
2015 Bronze Medal Winner in the Independent Publisher Book Awards, World History category
Art and the Second World War
Monica Bohm-Duchen
The Battle of Bretton Woods:
John Maynard Keynes, Harry Dexter White, and the Making of a New World Order
Benn Steil
One of The Motley Fool's (John Reeves) 10 Great Books on American Economic History
Honorable Mention for the 2014 Arthur Ross Book Award, Council on Foreign Relations
Shortlisted for the 2014 Lionel Gelber Prize, Lionel Gelber Foundation
Winner of the 2014 Best First Book, Immigration and Ethnic History Society
The Correspondence of Henry D. Thoreau: Volume 1: 1834 - 1848
Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth
The Alzheimer Conundrum: Entanglements of Dementia and Aging
Margaret Lock
Shortlisted for the 2014 Mavis Gallant Prize for Non-Fiction, Quebec Writers' Federation
The Enculturated Gene: Sickle Cell Health Politics and Biological Difference in West Africa
Duana Fullwiley
Winner of the 2014 JMEWS Book Award, Journal of Middle Eastern Women's Studies and Association of Middle East Women's Studies
The Nuclear Borderlands: The Manhattan Project in Post-Cold War New Mexico
Joseph Masco
Winner of the 2014 J.I. Staley Prize, School of Advanced Research
When Experiments Travel: Clinical Trials and the Global Search for Human Subjects
Adriana Petryna
Honorable Mention for the 2014 Diana Forsythe Prize, Committee on the Anthropology of Science, Technology, and Computing of the General Anthropology Division, and the Society for the Anthropology of Work
Winner of the 2014 Award for the Best Popular Book, American Schools of Oriental Research
Lost Animals: Extinction and the Photographic Record
One of Amazon.com's 2014 Best Books of the Year: Arts & Photography
Daniel Arasse
Translated by Alyson Waters
Lost Enlightenment: Central Asia's Golden Age from the Arab Conquest to Tamerlane
S. Frederick Starr
The Warbler Guide
Winner of a 2014 National Outdoor Book Award in Nature Guidebooks
Leah Price
Winner of the 2014 Robert Lowry Patten Award, SEL Studies in English Literature 1500-1900
Aristotle: His Life and School
Carlo Natali
Edited by D. S. Hutchinson
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles Top 25 Academic Books for 2014
Poetic Trespass: Writing between Hebrew and Arabic in Israel/Palestine
Lital Levy
Time, History, and Literature: Selected Essays of Erich Auerbach
Edited & with an introduction by James I. Porter
Translated by Jane O. Newman
Jane O. Newman, Co-Winner of the 2014 Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for a Translation of a Scholarly Study of Literature, Modern Language Association
Kafka: The Years of Insight
Translated by Shelley Frisch
Winner of the 2014 Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator's Prize
Longlisted for the 2014 PEN Translation Award, Pen American Center
No Joke: Making Jewish Humor
Ruth R. Wisse
Shortlisted for the 2014 Sophie Brody Medal, Reference and User Services Association (RUSA) of the American Library Association
Oxygen: A Four Billion Year History
Donald E. Canfield
Winner of the 2014 ASLI Choice Award, Atmospheric Science Librarians International
Tambora: The Eruption That Changed the World
Gillen D'Arcy Wood
The Bankers' New Clothes: What's Wrong with Banking and What to Do about It
Anat Admati & Martin Hellwig
Co-Winners of the 2014 Bronze Medal in Economics, Axiom Business Book Awards
Selected for the 'Moyers & Company' Recommended Books List 2014
One of Financial Times (FT.com) Best Economics Books of 2014, chosen by Martin Wolf
One of China Business News' Financial Books of the Year for 2014
The Econometrics of Financial Markets
John Y. Campbell, Andrew W. Lo, & A. Craig MacKinlay
Winner of the 2014 Eugene Fama Prize for Outstanding Contributions to Doctoral Education, University of Chicago Booth School of Business
The Federal Reserve and the Financial Crisis
Ben S. Bernanke
One of The Times Higher Education Supplement's Books of the Year 2014, selected by Sir Howard Davies
One of Bloomberg Businessweek's Best Books of 2014, chosen by Mervyn King and Jeffrey M. Lacker
One of The Wall Street Journal's Best Books of 2014
One of FA-mag.com's Books of the Year 2014
One of "The Books Quartz Read" in 2014
One of Minnpost.com's 'Three (plus) books for the econ buff on your list' 2014
Human Capitalism: How Economic Growth Has Made Us Smarter--and More Unequal
Brink Lindsey
One of Bloomberg Businessweek's Best Books of 2014, chosen by Jeffrey M. Lacker
Mass Flourishing: How Grassroots Innovation Created Jobs, Challenge, and Change
Edmund Phelps
One of Bloomberg Businessweek's Best Books of 2014, chosen by chosen by Bjorn Wahlroos
Shaping Jazz: Cities, Labels, and the Global Emergence of an Art Form
Damon J. Phillips
Finalist for the 2014 George R. Terry Book Award, Academy of Management
Zoltan J. Acs
Worldly Philosopher: The Odyssey of Albert O. Hirschman
Jeremy Adelman
Jews and the Military: A History
Derek J. Penslar
Prague, Capital of the Twentieth Century: A Surrealist History
Derek Sayer
Honorable Mention for the 2014 Wayne S. Vucinich Book Prize, Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
Special Mention for the 2014 F. X. Šalda Prize, Institute for Czech Literature of the Czech Academy of Sciences
The Founder's Dilemmas: Anticipating and Avoiding the Pitfalls That Can Sink a Startup
Noam Wasserman
Winner of the 2014 Entrepreneurship Practice Award, Entrepreneurship Division of the Academy of Management
Uneducated Guesses: Using Evidence to Uncover Misguided Education Policies
Howard Wainer
Winner of the 2014 AERA Division D Significant Contribution to Educational Measurement and Research Methodology Award, American Educational Research Association
Einstein and the Quantum: The Quest of the Valiant Swabian
A. Douglas Stone
Winner of the 2014 Phi Beta Kappa Award in Science, Phi Beta Kappa Society
Longlisted for the 2014 Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books
The Visioneers: How a Group of Elite Scientists Pursued Space Colonies, Nanotechnologies, and a Limitless Future
W. Patrick McCray
Winner of the 2014 Watson Davis and Helen Miles Davis Prize, History of Science Society
Winner of the 2014 National Jewish Book Award in History (Gerrard and Ella Berman Memorial Award), Jewish Book Council
Winner of the 2014 Salo Baron Prize, American Academy for Jewish Research
Co-Winner of the 2014 Jordan Schnitzer Book Award in Jewish Literature and Linguistics, Association for Jewish Studies
The Scandal of Kabbalah: Leon Modena, Jewish Mysticism, Early Modern Venice
Yaacob Dweck
Honorable Mention for the 2014 Jordan Schnitzer Book Award in Medieval and Early Modern Jewish History, Association for Jewish Studies
Boilerplate: The Fine Print, Vanishing Rights, and the Rule of Law
Margaret Jane Radin
Winner of the 2014 Scribes Book Award, The American Society of Legal Writers
The Plum in the Golden Vase or, Chin P'ing Mei: Volume Five: The Dissolution
Translated by David Tod Roy
Math Bytes: Google Bombs, Chocolate-Covered Pi, and Other Cool Bits in Computing
Tim Chartier
Leisurely Islam: Negotiating Geography and Morality in Shi'ite South Beirut
Lara Deeb & Mona Harb
Winner of the 2014 British-Kuwait Friendship Society Prize in Middle Eastern Studies
Mozart's Grace
Scott Burnham
Winner of the 2014 Otto Kinkeldey Award, American Musicological Society
Peter Godfrey-Smith
One of Physics World's Top Ten Books of the Year for 2014
Change They Can't Believe In: The Tea Party and Reactionary Politics in America
Christopher S. Parker & Matt A. Barreto
Winner of the 2014 Best Book Award, Race, Ethnicity, and Politics Section of the American Political Science Association
Ground Wars: Personalized Communication in Political Campaigns
Winner of the 2014 Doris Graber Award, Political Communication Section of the American Political Science Association
He Runs, She Runs: Why Gender Stereotypes Do Not Harm Women Candidates
Deborah Jordan Brooks
Winner of the 2014 Victoria Schuck Award, American Political Science Association
In the Interest of Others: Organizations and Social Activism
John S. Ahlquist & Margaret Levi
Co-Winner of the 2014 Best Book Award, The Labor Project of the American Political Science Association
The Limits of Partnership: U.S.-Russian Relations in the Twenty-First Century
Angela E. Stent
Winner of the 2014 Douglas Dillon Award, American Academy of Diplomacy
One of Bloomberg Businessweek's Best Books of 2014, chosen by Dan Fuss
The Politics of Precaution: Regulating Health, Safety, and Environmental Risks in Europe and the United States
David Vogel
The Price of Rights: Regulating International Labor Migration
Martin Ruhs
Winner of the 2014 Best Book Award, Migration and Citizenship Section of the American Political Science Association
Winner of the 2014 Louis Brownlow Book Award, National Academy of Public Administration
War Powers: The Politics of Constitutional Authority
Mariah Zeisberg
What Is Your Race? The Census and Our Flawed Efforts to Classify Americans
Kenneth Prewitt
Why Adjudicate? Enforcing Trade Rules in the WTO
Christina L. Davis
Winner of the 2014 Masayoshi Ohira Memorial Prize, Masayoshi Ohira Memorial Foundation
Atlas of Cities
Edited by Paul Knox
With a foreword by Richard Florida
Winner of the 2014 AAG Globe Book Award for Public Understanding of Geography, Association of American Geographers
A History of Jewish-Muslim Relations: From the Origins to the Present Day
Edited by Abdelwahab Meddeb & Benjamin Stora
One of the Outstanding Reference Sources for 2014, Reference and User Services Association (RUSA), American Library Association
Confucianism as a World Religion: Contested Histories and Contemporary Realities
Anna Sun
Winner of the 2014 Best Book Award, Sociology of Religion Section of the American Sociological Association
Winner of the 2014 Best First Book in the History of Religions Award, American Academy of Religion
The Modern Spirit of Asia: The Spiritual and the Secular in China and India
Peter van der Veer
Finalist for the 2014 Award for Excellence in Religion in Analytical-Descriptive Studies, American Academy of Religion
Winner of the 2014 Richard A. Lester Award for the Outstanding Book in Industrial Relations and Labor Economics, Industrial Relations Section of Princeton University
Finalist for the 2014 Benjamin L. Hooks Institute for Social Change National Book Award, The University of Memphis
Climbing Mount Laurel: The Struggle for Affordable Housing and Social Mobility in an American Suburb
Douglas S. Massey, Len Albright, Rebecca Casciano, Elizabeth Derickson & David N. Kinsey
Co-winners of the 2014 Robert E. Park Award, Community and Urban Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association
Making Volunteers: Civic Life after Welfare's End
Nina Eliasoph
Winner of a 2014 Phi Kappa Phi Faculty Recognition Award
Three Worlds of Relief: Race, Immigration, and the American Welfare State from the Progressive Era to the New Deal
Cybelle Fox
Shortlisted for the 2014 London Hellenic Prize
Masters of the Universe: Hayek, Friedman, and the Birth of Neoliberal Politics
Daniel Stedman Jones
Finalist for the 2014 Presidents' Book Award, Western Social Science Association
The Transformation of the World: A Global History of the Nineteenth Century
Jürgen Osterhammel
One of Bloomberg Businessweek's Best Books of 2014, chosen by Satiyajit Das
One of Marginal Revolution.com's (Tyler Cowen) Best Non-Fiction Books of 2014
One of Financial Times (FT.com) Best History Books of 2013
Featured in The Sunday Times 2013 Holiday Roundup
Foreign Relations: American Immigration in Global Perspective
Donna R. Gabaccia
Winner, 2013 Theodore Saloutos Memorial Book Award, Immigration and Ethnic History Society
The Leaderless Economy: Why the World Economic System Fell Apart and How to Fix It
Peter Temin & David Vines
Heart Beats: Everyday Life and the Memorized Poem
Catherine Robson
The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics: Fourth Edition
Roland Greene, editor in chief; Stephen Cushman, general editor
Clare Cavanagh, Jahan Ramazani & Paul Rouzer, associate editors
The Story of America: Essays on Origins
Runner-up for the 2013 PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay, PEN American Center
Addiction by Design: Machine Gambling in Las Vegas
Natasha Dow Schüll
Winner of the 2013 Sharon Stephens First Book Prize, American Ethnological Society
Honorable Mention for the 2013 Gregory Bateson Prize, The Society for Cultural Anthropology
The Atlantic Editors' "The Best Book I Read This Year" for 2013, chosen by senior editor Alexis C. Madrigal
The Black Hole of Empire: History of a Global Practice of Power
Partha Chatterjee
One of HistoryToday's Books of the Year 2013, chosen by Chandak Sengoopta
Depression in Japan: Psychiatric Cures for a Society in Distress
Junko Kitanaka
Co-Winner of the 2013 Frances Hsu Prize, Society for East Asian Anthropology
Third Place for the 2013 Victor Turner Prize in Ethnographic Writing, Society for Humanistic Anthropology and American Anthropological Association
Melancholia of Freedom: Social Life in an Indian Township in South Africa
Thomas Blom Hansen
Finalist for the 2013 Melville J. Herskovits Award, African Studies Association
Tobacco Capitalism: Growers, Migrant Workers, and the Changing Face of a Global Industry
Peter Benson
Winner of the 2013 Delmos Jones and Jagna Sharff Memorial Prize for the Critical Study of North America, Society for the Anthropology of North America / American Anthropological Association
Mute Poetry, Speaking Pictures
Leonard Barkan
Picasso and Truth: From Cubism to Guernica
T. J. Clark
One of Financial Times (FT.com) Best Art Books of 2013
Shortlisted for the Apollo Awards Book of the Year 2013, Apollo Magazine
Wartime Kiss: Visions of the Moment in the 1940s
Dreams of Other Worlds: The Amazing Story of Unmanned Space Exploration
Chris Impey & Holly Henry
Winner of the 2013 Eugene E. Emme Award for Astronautical Literature, American Astronautical Society
Heart of Darkness: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Invisible Universe
Jeremiah P. Ostriker & Simon Mitton
Honorable Mention for the 2013 PROSE Award in Cosmology & Astronomy, Association of American Publishers
The Milky Way: An Insider's Guide
William H. Waller
One of SkyNews Best Astronomy Books of the Year 2013, chosen by SkyNews editor, Terence Dickinson
Bugs Rule!: An Introduction to the World of Insects
Whitney Cranshaw & Richard Redak
One of the New Scientist's Best Science Books of 2013
Cells to Civilizations: The Principles of Change That Shape Life
Enrico Coen
Shortlisted for the 2013 Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books
Nature's Compass: The Mystery of Animal Navigation
James L. Gould & Carol Grant Gould
Longlisted for the 2013 Society of Biology Book Awards in General Biology
The Unfeathered Bird
Katrina van Grouw
The Crossley ID Guide: Britain and Ireland
Richard Crossley & Dominic Couzens
One of The Guardian's Best Nature Books of 2013, chosen by Stephen Moss
The Crossley ID Guide: Raptors
Richard Crossley, Jerry Liguori & Brian Sullivan
Honorable Mention for the 2013 National Outdoor Book Awards, Nature Guidebooks
The Kingdom of Fungi
Jens H. Petersen
Spring Wildflowers of the Northeast: A Natural History
Carol Gracie
2013 Merit Award Book Cover/Jacket, New York Book Show, in the category Professional, Reference
Third Place for the 2013 BB/BTO Best Bird Book of the Year, British Birds and the British Trust for Ornithology
Tom Stephenson & Scott Whittle, Drawings by Catherine Hamilton
Second Place for the 2013 BB/BTO Best Bird Book of the Year, British Birds and the British Trust for Ornithology
Honorable Mention for the 2013 PROSE Award in Single Volume Reference/Science, Association of American Publishers
The World's Rarest Birds
Erik Hirschfeld, Andy Swash & Robert Still
Fourth Place for the 2013 BB/BTO Best Bird Book of the Year, British Birds and the British Trust for Ornithology
One of Library Journal's Best Sci-Tech Books for 2013
Archives of Authority: Empire, Culture, and the Cold War
Andrew N. Rubin
Winner of a 2013 Lannan Literary Fellowship for Nonfiction, Lannan Foundation
Empty Houses: Theatrical Failure and the Novel
David Kurnick
Co-Winner of the 2013 Sonia Rudikoff Prize, Northeast Victorian Studies Association
The Rise and Fall of Meter: Poetry and English National Culture, 1860-1930
Meredith Martin
Winner, 2013 Warren-Brooks Award for Outstanding Literary Criticism, Robert Penn Warren Center and Western Kentucky University
Through the Eye of a Needle: Wealth, the Fall of Rome, and the Making of Christianity in the West, 350-550 AD
Winner of the 2013 Jacques Barzun Prize in Cultural History, American Philosophical Society
Winner of the 2013 Philip Schaff Prize, American Society of Church History
Honorable Mention for the 2013 Cundill Prize in Historical Literature, McGill University
The Pity of Partition: Manto's Life, Times, and Work across the India-Pakistan Divide
Ayesha Jalal
One of Bloomberg/Businessweek Best Books of 2013, selected by Jason Furman (chairman of the U.S. Council of Economic Advisors)
One of Financial Times (FT.com) Best Economics Books of 2013
One of The Wall Street Journal's Best Nonfiction Books of 2013
Shortlisted for the 2013 Deutsche Wirtschaftsbuchpreis (German Business and Economics Book Award), sponsored by Handelsblatt, the Frankfurt Book Fair, and Goldman Sachs
The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger
Marc Levinson
One of Financial Times (FT.com) Best Business Books of 2013 (chosen by guest critic Bill Gates, Chairman of Microsoft)
One of Bloomberg News' Top Business Books of 2013
One of Bloomberg/Businessweek Best Books of 2013, as selected individually by Fredrik Erixon (director of the European Center for International Political Economy in Brussels), Scott Minerd (chief investment officer of Guggenheim Partners), Olli Rehn (European Union economic and monetary affairs commissioner) and Alan Greenspan (former Federal Reserve chairman)
One of Kirkus Reviews' Best Nonfiction Books of the Year for 2013 in Business and Economics
Shortlisted for the 2013 800-CEO-READ Business Book Awards in Finance & Economics
Distant Tyranny: Markets, Power, and Backwardness in Spain, 1650-1800
Regina Grafe
Winner of the 2013 Gyorgy Ranki Biennial Prize, Economic History Association
Finance and the Good Society
2013 Winner of a Bronze Medal in the Axiom Business Book Awards in the category of Economics
One of Bloomberg/Businessweek Best Books of 2013, selected by Christopher L. Eisgruber (president of Princeton University)
One of Forbes Magazine's Best Books of 2013
Longlisted for the 2013 Business Book of the Year Award, Financial Times/Goldman Sachs
A "Best Business Book of the Year for 2013" selected on LinkedIn by Matthew Bishop, Economics Editor of The Economist
An Uncertain Glory: India and its Contradictions
Jean Drèze & Amartya Sen
One of Bloomberg/Businessweek Best Books of 2013, selected by Edmund Phelps (Nobel-laureate professor at Columbia University, PUP author of Mass Flourishing)
The War of the Sexes: How Conflict and Cooperation Have Shaped Men and Women from Prehistory to the Present
One of Bloomberg/Businessweek Best Books of 2013, selected by Ollie Rehn (European Union economic and monetary affairs commissioner)
One of Financial Times (Alphachat)'s Econ Books of the Year for 2013
One of The Guardian Best Books of 2013, chosen by Malcolm Gladwell
Between Citizens and the State: The Politics of American Higher Education in the 20th Century
Christopher P. Loss
Winner, 2013 Outstanding Book Award, American Educational Research Association
College: What It Was, Is, and Should Be
Andrew Delbanco
2013 Gold Medal Winner in the Independent Publisher Book Awards, Education II (Commentary/Theory) category
Winner of the 2013 O.L. Davis, Jr. Book Award, American Association for Teaching and Curriculum
Winner, 2013 Philip E. Frandson Award for Literature in the Field of Continuing Education, University Professional and Continuing Higher Education Association
Death and Redemption: The Gulag and the Shaping of Soviet Society
Steven A. Barnes
Shortlisted for the 2013 Central Eurasian Studies Society Book Award
Peasants under Siege: The Collectivization of Romanian Agriculture, 1949-1962
Gail Kligman & Katherine Verdery
Winner of the 2013 SRS Book Prize, The Society for Romanian Studies
Winner of the 2013 PROSE Award in European and World History, Association of American Publishers
Shortlisted for the 2013 Spear's Book Award in Business
The Battle of Bretton Woods: John Maynard Keynes, Harry Dexter White, and the Making of a New World Order
Winner of the 2013 Spear's Book Award in Financial History
2013 Winner of a Silver Medal in the Axiom Business Book Awards in the category of Entrepreneurship
One of Scientific American's Best 2013 Books for the Physics Fan, chosen by Jennifer Ouellette
One of Science Friday's Science Book Picks for 2013, chosen by Ira Flatow
One of Amazon.com's 2013 Best Science Books
One of Booklist Online's Top 10 Science & Health Books for 2013
Winner of the 2013 National Jewish Book Award in Scholarship, Jewish Book Council
Winner of the 2013 Paul Davidoff Award, Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning
Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work
Winner, 2013 Association of Caribbean Writers Grand Prize for Literature
Jonathan Lamb
Italo Calvino: Letters, 1941-1985
Selected and with an introduction by Michael Wood
Translated by Martin McLaughlin
One of The Guardian Best Books of 2013, chosen by Pankaj Mishra
Selected for the SFG Gift Guide 2013
Kafka: The Decisive Years
The Guardian Best Books of 2013, chosen by Colm Tóibín
Finalist for the 2013 National Jewish Book Award in History, Jewish Book Council
One of The Guardian Best Books of 2013, chosen by Colm Tóibín
The Plum in the Golden Vase or, Chin P'ing Mei: Volume Five: The Dissolution
One of The Wall Street Journal Bookshelf Best Books of 2013, chosen by Tash Aw
The Things Things Say
Honorable Mention, 2013 Barbara and George Perkins Prize, The International Society for the Study of Narrative
The Golden Ticket: P, NP, and the Search for the Impossible
Lance Fortnow
Honorable Mention for the 2013 PROSE Award in Popular Science & Mathematics, Association of American Publishers
Heavenly Mathematics: The Forgotten Art of Spherical Trigonometry
Glen Van Brummelen
Shortlisted for the 2013 BSHM Neumann Book Prize, British Society for the History of Mathematics
Magical Mathematics: The Mathematical Ideas that Animate Great Magic Tricks
Persi Diaconis & Ron Graham
Winner, 2013 Euler Book Prize, Mathematical Association of America
Mathematical Excursions to the World's Great Buildings
Alexander J. Hahn
Europe and the Islamic World: A History
John Tolan, Henry Laurens & Gilles Veinstein
With a foreword by John L. Esposito
One of The Middle East Channel's Top Five Books of 2013, chosen by Marc Lynch
Nasser's Gamble: How Intervention in Yemen Caused the Six-Day War and the Decline of Egyptian Power
Jesse Ferris
Winner of the 2013 Reuven Chaikin Prize, University of Haifa
The Young Turks' Crime against Humanity: The Armenian Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing in the Ottoman Empire
Taner Akçam
Co-Winner of the 2013 Albert Hourani Book Award, Middle East Studies
The Quotable Kierkegaard
Edited by Gordon Marino
One of The Wall Street Journal Bookshelf Best Books of 2013, chosen by Mike Tyson
Philosophy of Physics: Space and Time
Tim Maudlin
Einstein Gravity in a Nutshell
The Emancipation of Europe's Muslims: The State's Role in Minority Integrations
Jonathan Laurence
Winner of the 2013 Hubert Morken Award for Best Book, Religion and Politics Section of the American Political Science Association
Co-Winner of the 2013 Best Book Award in Migration and Citizenship, American Political Science Association
Ethics in an Age of Terror and Genocide: Identity and Moral Choice
Kristen Renwick Monroe
Winner of the 2013 Giovanni Sartori Best Book Award, Qualitative Methods Section of the American Political Science Association
Honorable Mention for the 2013 Robert L. Jervis and Paul Schroeder Best Book Award, International History and Politics Section of the American Political Science Association
Fighting for the Speakership: The House and the Rise of Party Government
Jeffery A. Jenkins & Charles Stewart III
One of Choice's Editors' Picks for 2013
The Gamble: Choice and Chance in the 2012 Presidential Election
John Sides & Lynn Vavreck
Henri Poincaré: A Scientific Biography
Jeremy Gray
Winner, 2014 Edgar S. Furniss Book Award, Mershon Center for International Security Studies
Local Elections and the Politics of Small-Scale Democracy
J. Eric Oliver
With Shang E. Ha & Zachary Callen
Winner of the 2013 Best Book Award, Urban Politics Organized Section of the American Political Science Association
Monitoring Democracy: When International Election Observation Works, and Why It Often Fails
Judith G. Kelley
Co-Winner of the 2013 Chadwick F. Alger Prize, International Studies Association
On Global Justice
Mathias Risse
Winner of the 2013 Levine Prize, Research Committee on the Structure of Government of the International Political Science Association
Roosevelt's Lost Alliances: How Personal Politics Helped Start the Cold War
Frank Costigliola
Winner, 2013 Robert H. Ferrell Book Prize, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations
The Soldier and the Changing State: Building Democratic Armies in Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Americas
Zoltan Barany
The Spirit of Compromise: Why Governing Demands It and Campaigning Undermines It
Amy Gutmann & Dennis Thompson
The Terrorist's Dilemma: Managing Violent Covert Organizations
Jacob N. Shapiro
Waiting for José: The Minutemen's Pursuit of America
Harel Shapira
Why Americans Hate the Media and How It Matters
Jonathan M. Ladd
Winner, 2013 Goldsmith Book Prize, Academic Category (Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University)
The Making of Modern Liberalism
Alan Ryan
The Princeton Encyclopedia of Islamic Political Thought
Edited by Gerhard Bowering
Inheriting Abraham: The Legacy of the Patriarch in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
Jon D. Levenson
Latino Catholicism: Transformation in America's Largest Church
Timothy Matovina
First Place, 2013 Catholic Press Association Book Award, History Category
Lives of Great Religious Books: The Book of Mormon: A Biography
Paul C. Gutjahr
Winner of the 2013 Book Cover/Jacket Merit Award in the Professional, Scholarly Series category, New York Book Show
Lives of Great Religious Books:
The Dead Sea Scrolls: A Biography
The I Ching: A Biography
Richard J. Smith
Red State Religion: Faith and Politics in America's Heartland
Finalist, 2013 Christianity Today Awards, Christianity and Culture category
Why Tolerate Religion?
Brian Leiter
The 5 Elements of Effective Thinking
Edward B. Burger & Michael Starbird
2013 Silver Medal Winner in the Independent Publisher Book Awards, Self-Help category
Against Security: How We Go Wrong at Airports, Subways, and Other Sites of Ambiguous Danger
Harvey Molotch
Coding Freedom: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Hacking
E. Gabriella Coleman
Creating the Market University: How Academic Science Became an Economic Engine
Winner of the 2013 Pierre Bourdieu Award for Best Book, Sociology of Education Section of the American Sociological Association
Winner of the 2013 Max Weber Book Award, Organizations, Occupations, and Work Section, American Sociological Association
Shortlisted for the 2013 Book Prize, Foundation for the Sociology of Health and Illness of the British Sociological Association
Small-Town America: Finding Community, Shaping the Future
Talk at the Brink: Deliberation and Decision during the Cuban Missile Crisis
David R. Gibson
Winner, 2013 Melvin Pollner Prize, Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis Section, American Sociological Association
Winner of the 2013 Distinguished Book Award, Latina/o Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association
Winner of the 2013 Thomas and Znaniecki Best Book Award, International Migration Section of the American Sociological Association
Co-Winner, 2013 Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Award, Political Sociology Section, American Sociological Association
War in Social Thought: Hobbes to the Present
Hans Joas & Wolfgang Knöbl
Becoming Yellow: A Short History of Racial Thinking
Michael Keevak
Winner of the 2013 Academia Sinica Scholarly Monograph Award in the Humanities and Social Sciences
Winner of the 2013 Herbert Baxter Adams Prize, American Historical Association
The Indignant Generation: A Narrative History of African American Writers and Critics, 1934-1960
Lawrence P. Jackson
Winner of the 2012 BCALA Literary Award, Nonfiction Category
Winner, 2012 CLA Book Award, College Language Association
Line in the Sand: A History of the Western U.S.-Mexico Border
Rachel St. John
Finalist, 2012 Spur Award for Best Western Nonfiction - Contemporary (1900-Present), Western Writers of America
No Man's Land: Jamaican Guestworkers in America and the Global History of Deportable Labor
Cindy Hahamovitch
Winner, 2012 James A. Rawley Prize, Organization of American Historians
Winner, 2012 Merle Curti Award, Organization of American Historians
Winner, 2012 Philip Taft Labor History Award, Cornell University School of Industrial & Labor Relations
Honorable Mention, 2012 PROSE Award,, U.S. History, Association of American Publishers
The Straight State: Sexuality and Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America
Margot Canaday
Winner, The 2012 Order of the Coif Biennial Book Award
The Age of Auden: Postwar Poetry and the American Scene
Aidan Wasley
Winner, 2012 SAMLA Studies Award, South Atlantic Modern Language Association
The Global Remapping of American Literature
Paul Giles
Honorable Mention, 2012 BAAS Book Prize, British Association of American Studies
Shortlisted, 2012 American Studies Network Prize
How Ancient Europeans Saw the World: Vision, Patterns, and the Shaping of the Mind in Prehistoric Times
Peter S. Wells
Honorable Mention, 2012 PROSE Award, Archeology & Anthropology, Association of American Publishers
Scripting Addiction: The Politics of Therapeutic Talk and American Sobriety
E. Summerson Carr
Winner, 2012 Edward Sapir Book Prize, Society for Linguistic Anthropology
Winner, 2012 James Mooney Award, Southern Anthropological Society
Finalist, 2012 Society for the Anthropology of Work Book Prize
Ambitious Form: Giambologna, Ammanati, and Danti in Florence
Michael W. Cole
Finalist, 2012 Charles Rufus Morey Book Award, College Art Association
A General Theory of Visual Culture
Whitney Davis
2012 Winner of the Susanne K. Langer Award for Outstanding Scholarship in the Ecology of Symbolic Form, Media Ecology Awards, Media Ecology Association
Winner of the 2012 PROSE Award, Architecture & Urban Planning, Association of American Publishers
Weiwei-isms
Huffington Post's Best Art Books of 2012: Our List of the 50 Greatest Creative Publications
Big Think's Best Art Books of 2012
One of "Our Favorite Books of 2012", The Village Voice
How Did the First Stars and Galaxies Form?
Abraham Loeb
Winner, 2012 Chambliss Astronomical Writing Award, American Astronomical Society
Phase Transitions
Ricard V. Solé
2012 First Place Book Series, New York Book Show, in the category Professional, Scholarly
The Crossley ID Guide: Eastern Birds
Richard Crossley
2012 Bronze Medal Co-Winner, Independent Publisher Book Awards, Environment/Ecology/Nature Category
Honorable Mention, 2012 National Outdoor Book Awards, Nature & Environment Category
Honorable Mention for the 2012 James Russell Lowell Prize, Modern Language Association
Winner of the 2012 MLA Prize for a First Book, Modern Language Association
Victorian Culture and Classical Antiquity: Art, Opera, Fiction, and the Proclamation of Modernity
Simon Goldhill
Winner, 2012 Robert Lowry Patten Award, SEL Studies in English Literature 1500-1900, Rice University
Aesopic Conversations: Popular Tradition, Cultural Dialogue, and the Invention of Greek Prose
Leslie Kurke
Winner, 2012 Charles J. Goodwin Award of Merit, American Philological Association
Rethinking the Other in Antiquity
Erich S. Gruen
Winner of the 2012 Gold Medal Book of the Year Award, History category, ForeWord Reviews
Winner of the 2012 PROSE Award, Classics & Ancient History, Association of American Publishers
Winner of the 2012 PROSE Award for Humanities, Association of American Publishers
Winner of the 2012 R.R. Hawkins Award, American Publishers Awards
The Irresistible Fairy Tale: The Cultural and Social History of a Genre
Co-Winner of the 2012 Wayland D. Hand Prize, History and Folklore Section, American Folklore Societye
The Novel and the Sea
Margaret Cohen
Winner, 2012 Barbara and George Perkins Prize, The International Society for the Study of Narrative
The Global Carbon Cycle
David Archer
2012 Second Place Book Series, New York Book Show, in the category Professional, Scholarly
How to Build a Habitable Planet: The Story of Earth from the Big Bang to Humankind (Revised and Expanded Edition)
Charles H. Langmuir & Wally Broecker
Honorable Mention, 2012 PROSE Award, Earth Sciences, Association of American Publishers
The Long Thaw: How Humans Are Changing the Next 100,000 Years of Earth's Climate
Selected to appear on ClimateUnited's Booklist of Top Books on Climate Change
Princeton Primers in Climate
Winner, 2012 ASLI Choice - Popular Award, Atmospheric Science Librarians International
Creating Wine: The Emergence of a World Industry, 1840-1914
James Simpson
Winner of the 2012 OIV Award in History, International Organisation of Vine and Wine
The Darwin Economy: Liberty, Competition, and the Common Good
The Economics of Enough: How to Run the Economy as If the Future Matters
One of The Globalist's Top Books of 2012
Zombie Economics: How Dead Ideas Still Walk among Us
2012 Co-Winner of a Gold Medal in the Axiom Business Book Awards in the category of Economics
Finalist for the 2012 Book of the Year Award in Education, ForeWord Reviews
Honorable Mention, 2012 PROSE Award, Education, Association of American Publishers
Unlocking the Gates: How and Why Leading Universities Are Opening Up Access to Their Courses
Taylor Walsh for Ithaka S+R
With a foreword by William G. Bowen
Winner, 2012 Philip E. Frandson Award for Literature in the Field of Continuing Education, University Professional and Continuing Education Association
The Hoods: Crime and Punishment in Belfast
Heather Hamill
Winner of the 2012 James S. Donnelly, Sr. Prize for Books on History and the Social Sciences, American Conference for Irish Studies
Winner, 2012 Davis Center Book Prize in Political and Social Studies, ASEEES (Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies)
Winner, 2012 Barbara Jelavich Book Prize, ASEEES
Winner, 2012 Heldt Prize for Best Book by a Woman in any area of Slavic/Eastern European/Eurasian Studies, Association for Women in Slavic Studies
Honorable Mention, 2012 Wayne S. Vucinich Book Prize, ASEEES
The Wind from the East: French Intellectuals, the Cultural Revolution, and the Legacy of the 1960s
Richard Wolin
Named one of the Financial Times "Best Books of 2012", History Category
Winner, 2012 800-CEO-READ Business Book Awards, Finance & Economics
Shortlist, 2012 Best Finance Books in China, Caijing Magazine
The Known, the Unknown, and the Unknowable in Financial Risk Management: Measurement and Theory Advancing Practice
Edited by Francis X. Diebold, Neil A. Doherty & Richard J. Herring
Winner, 2012 Kulp-Wright Book Award, American Risk and Insurance Association
The Book of Genesis: A Biography
Ronald Hendel
One of Jewish Ideas Daily.com's "40 Best Jewish Books of 2012"
The First Modern Jew: Spinoza and the History of an Image
Daniel B. Schwartz
Co-Winner of the 2012 Salo Wittmayer Baron Prize, American Academy for Jewish Research
The Chosen Few: How Education Shaped Jewish History, 70-1492
Maristella Botticini & Zvi Eckstein
Winner of the 2012 National Jewish Book Award in the category of Scholarship
One of Jewish Ideas Daily.com's "40 Best Jewish Books of 2012
Finalist, 2012 National Jewish Book Award in the category of History
Best Nonfiction Jewish Book of 2012, Jewish Ideas Daily.com
Finalist, 2012 Best First Book in the History of Religions Award, American Academy of Religion
Diaspora, Development, and Democracy: The Domestic Impact of International Migration from India
Devesh Kapur
Co-Winner, 2012 ENMISA (Ethnicity, Nationalism, and Migration Section of ISA) Distinguished Book Award
Mafias on the Move: How Organized Crime Conquers New Territories
Federico Varese
Winner of the 2012 Outstanding Publication Award, International Association for the Study of Organized Crime
Who Are the Criminals? The Politics of Crime Policy from the Age of Roosevelt to the Age of Reagan
John Hagan
Winner of the 2012 Harry J. Kalven Prize, Law & Society Association
Winner, 2013 International Law Best Book Award, International Law Section, International Studies Association
On Conan Doyle: Or, The Whole Art of Storytelling
Michael Dirda
Winner, 2012 Edgar Allan Poe Awards, Best Critical/Biographical Category, Mystery Writers of America
Finalist, 2012 Marfield Prize: The National Award for Arts Writing, Arts Club of Washington
The Quotable Thoreau
Edited by Jeffrey S. Cramer
Selected for "The Best of the Best" Program at the 2012 ALA Annual Conference
The Silicon Jungle: A Novel of Deception, Power, and Internet Intrigue
Shumeet Baluja
2012 Co-winner of the Mary Shelley Award for Outstanding Fictional Work, Media Ecology Awards, Media Ecology Association
Slavery and the Culture of Taste
Simon Gikandi
Winner, Fourteenth Annual (2012) Susanne M. Glasscock Humanities Book Prize for Interdisciplinary Scholarship, Melbern G. Glasscock Center for Humanities Research at Texas A&M University
Co-winner of the 2012 Melville J. Herskovits Award, African Studies Association
Fascinating Mathematical People: Interviews and Memoirs
Edited by Donald J. Albers & Gerald L. Alexanderson
With a foreword by Philip J. Davis
2012 Merit Award Book, New York Book Show, in the category Professional, Reference
Nine Algorithms That Changed the Future: The Ingenious Ideas That Drive Today's Computers
John MacCormick
Honorable Mention, 2012 PROSE Award, Computing & Information Sciences, Association of American Publishers
Hamas and Civil Society in Gaza: Engaging the Islamist Social Sector
Sara Roy
Winner of a 2012 British-Kuwait Friendship Society Prize in Middle Eastern Studies
Winner, 2012 Academic Award, The Palestine Book Awards (Hosted by the Middle East Monitor)
Muslim Nationalism and the New Turks
Jenny White
One of ForeignAffairs.com's "Best International Relations Books of 2012" in the "Best Books of 2012 on the Middle East" category
A Choice Editor's Pick, October 2012
Manhunts: A Philosophical History
Grégoire Chamayou
Translated by Steven Rendall
Finalist, 26th Annual Translation Prize (Non Fiction) 2012, French-American Foundation & Florence Gould Foundation
Pursuits of Wisdom: Six Ways of Life in Ancient Philosophy from Socrates to Plotinus
John M. Cooper
Honorable Mention, 2012 PROSE Award, Philosophy, Association of American Publishers
The Virtues of Our Vices: A Modest Defense of Gossip, Rudeness, and Other Bad Habits
Emrys Westacott
2012 Third Place Cover/Jacket, New York Book Show, in the category Professional, Scholarly
Angina Days: Selected Poems
Günter Eich
Winner of the 2012 Thornton Wilder Prize for Translation, American Academy of Arts and Letters
Finalist, 2012 Levis Reading Prize, Virginia Commonwealth University
The Eternal City: Poems
Kathleen Graber
2012 Merit Award Book, New York Book Show, in the category General Trade, Poetry Series
New Impressions of Africa
Translated and introduced by Mark Ford
Runner-up, 2012 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation, PEN American Center
The Two Yvonnes: Poems
Jessica Greenbaum
Library Journal "Best Books 2012: Poetry" List
Eco-Republic: What the Ancients Can Teach Us about Ethics, Virtue, and Sustainable Living
Melissa Lane
Honor Book, 2012 NJCH Book Award, New Jersey Council for the Humanities
Honorable Mention, 2012 Green Book Festival, General Non-Fiction
On Compromise and Rotten Compromises
Avishai Margalit
Winner of the Philosophical Book Award 2012, The Hannover Institute of Philosophical Research
All the Missing Souls: A Personal History of the War Crimes Tribunals
David Scheffer
2012 Book of the Year Award from the American National Section of L'Association Internationale de Droit Penal (AIDP)
Selected for the Washington Post's "Best of 2012: 50 notable works of nonfiction"
Attention Deficit Democracy: The Paradox of Civic Engagement
Ben Berger
Winner, 2012 North American Society for Social Philosophy Book Award
The Constrained Court: Law, Politics, and the Decisions Justices Make
Michael A. Bailey & Forrest Maltzman
Honorable Mention, 2012 C. Herman Pritchett Award, Law and Courts Section, American Political Science Association
Emergency Politics: Paradox, Law, Democracy
Bonnie Honig
Co-Winner, 2012 David Easton Award, Foundations of Political Theory Section, American Political Science Association
How to Win an Election: An Ancient Guide for Modern Politicians
Quintus Tullius Cicero
Translated and with an introduction by Philip Freeman
Chosen as a New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice (8/5/2012)
The New Global Rulers: The Privatization of Regulation in the World
Tim Büthe & Walter Mattli
Winner of the 2012 ISA Best Book Award, International Studies Association
Winner of the 2012 ONE Best Book Award, Organizations and the Natural Environment Division, Academy of Management
One of Library Journal's Best Reference of 2012, Law & Politics
States of Credit: Size, Power, and the Development of European Polities
David Stasavage
Winner, 2012 Award for the Best Book in European Politics, European Politics and Society Section, American Political Science Association
Winner of the 2012 Award for Best Book in Latino Politics, Latino Caucus of the American Political Science Association
Winner of the 2012 C. Wright Mills Award, Society for the Study of Social Problems
The Unheavenly Chorus: Unequal Political Voice and the Broken Promise of American Democracy
Kay Lehman Schlozman, Sidney Verba and Henry E. Brady
Winner of the 2012 PROSE Award, Government & Politics, Association of American Publishers
Why Americans Don't Join the Party: Race, Immigration, and the Failure (of Political Parties) to Engage the Electorate
Zoltan L. Hajnal & Taeku Lee
Winner of the 2012 Best Book Award, Race, Ethnicity, and Politics Section, American Political Science Association
Winner of the 2012 Donald McGannon Award for Social and Ethical Relevance in Communications Policy Research, Donald McGannon Communications Research Center
Finalist for the 2012 Frank Luther Mott - Kappa Tau Alpha Journalism and Mass Communication Research Award
Blind Spots: Why We Fail to Do What's Right and What to Do about It
Max H. Bazerman & Ann E. Tenbrunsel
2012 Winners of a Silver Medal in the Axiom Business Book Awards in the category of Business Ethics
Synchronicity: An Acausal Connecting Principle. (From Vol. 8. of the Collected Works of C. G. Jung)
Translated by R.F.C. Hull
With a new foreword by Sonu Shamdasani
2012 First Place Cover/Jacket, New York Book Show, in the category Professional, Scholarly Series
The New Atlas of World History: Global Events at a Glance
John Haywood
American Religion: Contemporary Trends
Mark Chaves
Winner of the 2012 Christianity Today Award in the Christianity and Culture category
2012 Winner, College Theology Society Best Book Award
Winner of the 2012 PROSE Award, Social Sciences, Association of American Publishers
Winner of the 2012 PROSE Award, Sociology & Social Work, Association of American Publishers
Impossible Engineering: Technology and Territoriality on the Canal du Midi
Chandra Mukerji
Co-winner, 2012 American Sociological Association Distinguished Scholarly Publication Award
Inventing Equal Opportunity
Frank Dobbin
Max Weber in America
Lawrence A. Scaff
Winner of the 2012 Distinguished Scholarly Publication Award, History of Sociology Section, American Sociological Association
Honorable Mention, 2012 Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Award, Political Sociology Section, American Sociological Association
Honorable Mention, 2012 Barrington Moore Award, Comparative and Historical Sociology Section, American Sociological Association
Privilege: The Making of an Adolescent Elite at St. Paul's School
Shamus Rahman Khan
Honorable Mention, 2012 Distinguished Book Award of the Race, Gender and Class Section, American Sociological Association
Finalist for the 2012 C. Wright Mills Award, Society for the Study of Social Problems>
The Inner Life of Empires: An Eighteenth-Century History
Emma Rothschild
Winner of the 2011 Scottish History Book of the Year Award, Saltire Society
Shortlist, 2012 Gladstone Prize, Royal Historical Society
Winner of the 2011 President's Book Award, Social Science History Association
Debtor Nation: The History of America in Red Ink
Louis Hyman
Heavenly Merchandize: How Religion Shaped Commerce in Puritan America
Mark Valeri
Shortlisted for the 2011 American Academy of Religion Award for Excellence in the Historical Study of Religion
Recipient of an Umhoefer Prize for Achievement in Humanities, Arts and Humanities Foundation in 2011
Winner of the 2011 John Boswell Prize, Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History
The Whites of Their Eyes: The Tea Party's Revolution and the Battle over American History
Gold Medal Winner of the 2011 Independent Publisher Book Awards in the History category
Highly Recommended Book, 2011 Annual Awards, Boston Authors Club
Winner of the 2011 PROSE Award, Literature, Association of American Publishers
Finalist of the 2011 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award Nonfiction, The Hurston/Wright Foundation
Finalist, 2011 National Book Award, Benjamin L. Hooks Institute for Social Change, University of Memphis
Last Looks, Last Books: Stevens, Plath, Lowell, Bishop, Merrill
Helen Vendler
Postmodern Belief: American Literature and Religion since 1960
Amy Hungerford
Shortlisted for the 2011 American Academy of Religion Award for Excellence in the Textual Study of Religion
Winner, 2011 Amaury Talbot Prize for African Anthropology, Royal Anthropological Institute
Islamism and Democracy in India: The Transformation of Jamaat-e-Islami
Irfan Ahmad
Shortlisted, 2011 ICAS Book Prize for best study in the field of Social Sciences, International Convention of Asian Scholars
Muslim Lives in Eastern Europe: Gender, Ethnicity, and the Transformation of Islam in Postsocialist Bulgaria
Kristen Ghodsee
Winner of the 2011 Davis Center Book Prize in Political and Social Studies, Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEES)
Winner of the 2011 John D. Bell Memorial Book Prize, Bulgarian Studies Association
Winner of the 2011 William A. Douglass Prize in Europeanist Anthropology, Society for the Anthropology of Europe, American Anthropological Association
Winning: Reflections on an American Obsession
Francesco Duina
One of CHOICE Magazine's 2010-2011 Compilation of Significant University Press Titles for Undergraduates
APPLIED SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING
Reinventing Discovery: The New Era of Networked Science
One of Financial Times (FT.com) non-fiction favourites of 2011 in the Science category
One of Anthony Doerr of the The Boston Globe's best books of 2011 on science
The Moment of Caravaggio
Michael Fried
Objects of Translation: Material Culture and Medieval "Hindu-Muslim" Encounter
Finbarr B. Flood
Winner of the 2011 Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy Book Prize, Association for Asian Studies, South Asia Council
How Old Is the Universe?
David A. Weintraub
Strange New Worlds: The Search for Alien Planets and Life beyond Our Solar System
Ray Jayawardhana
One of Library Journal Reviews' Sci-Tech Best Books for 2011
Shortlisted for the 2011 (third annual) Lane Anderson Science Writing Award
Pat Willmer
Resolving Ecosystem Complexity (MPB-47)
Oswald J. Schmitz
Cotingas and Manakins
Guy M. Kirwan & Graeme Green
One of The Birdbooker Report's Best Bird Books of 2011
Frogs and Toads of the World
Chris Mattison
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Title of 2011
The Princeton Field Guide to Dinosaurs
Gregory S. Paul
Trogons: A Natural History of the Trogonidae
Joseph M. Forshaw
Co-Winner, 2011 James Russell Lowell Prize, Modern Language Association
Honorable Mention, 2011 Oscar Kenshur Book Prize, The Center for Eighteenth-Century Studies at Indiana University
The Brain and the Meaning of Life
Paul Thagard
Winner of the 2010-2011 Louis Gottschalk Prize, American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
Second Runner-Up, 2011 Harry Levin Prize, American Comparative Literature Association
After Adam Smith: A Century of Transformation in Politics and Political Economy
Murray Milgate & Shannon C. Stimson
Winner of the 2011 David and Elaine Spitz Prize, International Conference for the Study of Political Thought
Beyond Mechanical Markets: Asset Price Swings, Risk, and the Role of the State
Roman Frydman & Michael D. Goldberg
Finalists for the 2011 TIAA-CREF Paul A. Samuelson Award
One of Financial Times (FT.com) non-fiction favourites of 2011, commended by Martin Wolf, Financial Times chief economics commentator
Chasing Stars: The Myth of Talent and the Portability of Performance
Boris Groysberg
2011 Winner of a Gold Medal in the Axiom Business Book Awards in the category of Operations Management/Productivity/TQM
Finalist for the 2011 Book of the Year Award in Business & Economics, ForeWord Reviews
Exceptional People: How Migration Shaped Our World and Will Define Our Future
Ian Goldin, Geoffrey Cameron & Meera Balarajan
Featured as a "Page-turner" and one of the Best Books of 2011 in Politics and Current Affairs, The Economist
Fault Lines: How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten the World Economy
Raghuram G. Rajan
Gold Medal Winner of the 2011 Independent Publisher Book Awards in the Finance/
Investment/Economics category
Finalist, 2011 Estoril Global Issues Distinguished Book Prize
The Invention of Enterprise: Entrepreneurship from Ancient Mesopotamia to Modern Times
Edited by David S. Landes, Joel Mokyr & William J. Baumol
2011 Winner of a Silver Medal in the Axiom Business Book Awards in the category of Entrepreneurship 2011 Winners of a Silver Medal in the Axiom Business Book Awards in the category of Entrepreneurship
Pillars of Prosperity: The Political Economics of Development Clusters
Timothy Besley & Torsten Persson
Honorable Mention, 2011 PROSE Award in Economics, Association of American Publishers
This Time Is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly
Carmen M. Reinhart & Kenneth S. Rogoff
The Great Brain Race: How Global Universities Are Reshaping the World
Ben Wildavsky
Winner of the 2011 Philip E. Frandson Award for Literature in the Field of Continuing Higher Education, University Professional and Continuing Education Association
No Longer Separate, Not Yet Equal: Race and Class in Elite College Admission and Campus Life
Thomas J. Espenshade & Alexandria Walton Radford
Winner of the 2011 Pierre Bourdieu Book Award, Sociology of Education Section, American Sociological Association
The Age of Social Democracy: Norway and Sweden in the Twentieth Century
Francis Sejersted
A 2011 Outstanding Academic Title, Choice Magazine
Catholic Pirates and Greek Merchants: A Maritime History of the Early Modern Mediterranean
Joint Winner of the 2011 Runciman Award, Anglo-Hellenic League
The Joy of Secularism: 11 Essays for How We Live Now
Edited by George Levine
One of The New Yorker's Reviewer's Favorites of 2011
Physics and Technology for Future Presidents: An Introduction to the Essential Physics Every World Leader Needs to Know
Richard A. Muller
Taming the Beloved Beast: How Medical Technology Costs Are Destroying Our Health Care System
Daniel Callahan
Recommended Reading, 2011 James A. Hamilton Award, American College of Healthcare Executives
Samuel Heilman & Menachem Friedman
Justice in Lüritz: Experiencing Socialist Law in East Germany
Inga Markovits
Co-winner of the 2011 J. Willard Hurst Book Prize for Sociolegal History, Law and Society Association
The Law Is a White Dog: How Legal Rituals Make and Unmake Persons
Colin Dayan
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Title of 2011: Top 25 Books
Lawyers and Fidelity to Law
W. Bradley Wendel
The Cloak of Dreams: Chinese Fairy Tales
Béla Balázs
Edwidge Danticat Honored with the 2011 Langston Hughes Medal, City College of New York
Winner of the 2011 Bocas Lit Fest OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature in the non-fiction category
Feedback Systems: An Introduction for Scientists and Engineers
Karl Johan Åström & Richard M. Murray
Winner of the 2011 Harold Chestnut Control Engineering Textbook Prize, International Federation of Automatic Control
Mathematics in Ancient Iraq: A Social History
Eleanor Robson
Winner of the 2011 Pfizer Award for best scholarly book, History of Science Society
The Princeton Companion to Mathematics
Edited by Timothy Gowers
Winner of the 2011 Euler Book Prize, Mathematical Association of America
Braintrust: What Neuroscience Tells Us about Morality
Patricia S. Churchland
Winner of the 2011 PROSE Award for Excellence in Biological & Life Sciences
Perpetual Euphoria: On the Duty to Be Happy
Finalist, 25th Annual Translation Prize (Non Fiction), French-American Foundation & Florence Gould Foundation
Soul Dust: The Magic of Consciousness
Nicholas Humphrey
The Age of Anxiety: A Baroque Eclogue
Runner-up, The 2011 Schlegel-Tieck Prize (for German Translation), The Society of Authors
Winner, 2011 Literary Award for Poetry, Library of Virginia
Finalist, 2011 William Carlos Williams Award, Poetry Society of America
Oranges and Snow: Selected Poems of Milan Djordjevic
Winner of the 2011 Robert Frost Medal, Poetry Society of America
The Imperative of Integration
Winner of the 2011 Joseph B. Gittler Award, The American Philosophical Association
Liberating Judgment: Fanatics, Skeptics, and John Locke's Politics of Probability
Douglas John Casson
The Real World of Democratic Theory
Ian Shapiro
Winner of the 2011 Silver Medal Book of the Year Award in Political Science, ForeWord Reviews
1989: The Struggle to Create Post-Cold War Europe
Mary Elise Sarotte
Honorable Mention, 2011 Laura Shannon Prize in Contemporary European Studies, Nanovic Institute for European Studies
The Clash of Ideas in World Politics: Transnational Networks, States, and Regime Change, 1510-2010
John M. Owen IV
Winner of the 2011 Lepgold Prize, Mortara Center for International Studies, Georgetown University
The Diffusion of Military Power: Causes and Consequences for International Politics
Michael C. Horowitz
Winner of the 2011 Harold D. Lasswell Prize, Society of Policy Scientists
Winner of the 2011 Best Book, International Security Studies Section, International Studies Association
The End of the West: The Once and Future Europe
David Marquand
One of Financial Times (FT.com) non-fiction favourites of 2011 in the Politics category
How Enemies Become Friends: The Sources of Stable Peace
Honorable Mention, 2011 Arthur Ross Book Award, Council on Foreign Relations
Liberal Leviathan: The Origins, Crisis, and Transformation of the American World Order
G. John Ikenberry
The Litigation State: Public Regulation and Private Lawsuits in the United States
Sean Farhang
Winner of the 2011 C. Herman Pritchett Award, Law and Courts Section, American Political Science Association
Winner of the 2011 Gladys M. Kammerer Award, American Political Science Association
Partisan Balance: Why Political Parties Don't Kill the U.S. Constitutional System
David R. Mayhew
Winner of the 2011 Leon D. Epstein Outstanding Book Award, Political Organizations and Parties Section, American Political Science Association
Politics and Strategy: Partisan Ambition and American Statecraft
Peter Trubowitz
The Politics of Secularism in International Relations
Elizabeth Shakman Hurd
Co-winner of the 2011 Hubert Morken Award for the Best Publication in Religion and Politics, Religion and Politics Section, American Political Science Association
Terror in Chechnya: Russia and the Tragedy of Civilians in War
Emma Gilligan
Winner of 2011 Lemkin Award, Institute for the Study of Genocide
Rational Theory of International Politics: The Logic of Competition and Cooperation
Charles L. Glaser
Honorable Mention for the 2011 Best Book, International Security Studies Section, International Studies Association
Reputation and Power: Organizational Image and Pharmaceutical Regulation at the FDA
Daniel Carpenter
Winner of the 2011 Allan Sharlin Memorial Award, Social Science History Association
Why People Cooperate: The Role of Social Motivations
Tom R. Tyler
Dead Ringers: How Outsourcing is Changing the Way Indians Understand Themselves
Shehzad Nadeem
Disrupting Science: Social Movements, American Scientists, and the Politics of the Military, 1945-1975
Winner, 2011 Robert K. Merton Book Award, Science, Knowledge, and Technology Section, American Sociological Association
Economists and Societies: Discipline and Profession in the United States, Britain, and France, 1890s to 1990s
Marion Fourcade
Winner of the 2011 Distinguished Scholarly Publication Award, American Sociological Association
Winner of the 2011 Ludwik Fleck Prize, Society for the Social Studies of Science
The Entrepreneurial Group: Social Identities, Relations, and Collective Action
Reds, Whites, and Blues: Social Movements, Folk Music, and Race in the United States
William G. Roy
Winner of the 2011 Charles Tilly Best Book Award, Collective Behavior and Social Movements Section, American Sociological Association
Violence: A Micro-sociological Theory
Winner of the 2011 Baker-Burton Award, European History Section, Southern Historical Association
Empires in World History: Power and the Politics of Difference
Jane Burbank & Frederick Cooper
Winner of the 2011 World History Association Book Prize
The Great American Mission: Modernization and the Construction of an American World Order
David Ekbladh
Winner of the 2011 Saltire Society Scottish History Book of the Year Award
The Empire of Trauma: An Inquiry into the Condition of Victimhood
Didier Fassin and Richard Rechtman
Winner of the 2010 William A. Douglass Prize for Best Book in Europeanist Anthropology
Sponsored by the Society for the Anthropology of Europe, American Anthropological Association
Mitzvah Girls: Bringing Up the Next Generation of Hasidic Jews in Brooklyn
Ayala Fader
"Highly Commended," 2010 Clifford Geertz Prize in the Anthropology of Religion, Society for the Anthropology of Religion
One of CHOICE Magazine's 2010 Outstanding Academic Titles
Not Even Past: Barack Obama and the Burden of Race
Thomas J. Sugrue
Finalist, The 2010 Benjamin L. Hooks Institute for Social Change National Book Award, The University of Memphis
Reading Obama: Dreams, Hope, and the American Political Tradition
James T. Kloppenberg
A National Public Radio (npr.org/blogs) Mara Liasson Best Book of the Year for 2010)
The Rise and Fall of Modern American Conservatism: A Short History
David Farber
The Straight State:
Sexuality and Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America
Winner of the 2010 Cromwell Book Prize, American Society for Legal History
Winner of the 2010 Lora Romero First Book Publication Prize, American Studies Association
Winner of the 2010 Ellis W. Hawley Prize, awarded by the Organization of American Historians.
Co-winner of the 2010 Gladys M. Kammerer Award, American Political Science Association
Winner of the 2010 Lambda Literary Award for LGBT Studies by the Lambda Literary Foundation
2010 Bronze Medal Winner of the 2010 ForeWord Reviews Book of the Year Awards in the History Category
Named a 2010 New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice
One of the Top Debate Worthy Books of 2010, U.S. News & World Report (online version)
Honorable Mention for the 2010 PROSE Award for Excellence in U.S. History, American Publishers Awards for Professional and Scholarly Excellence
Winner of the 2010 William Sanders Scarborough Prize, Modern Language Association
Alexander the Great and His Empire: A Short Introduction
Pierre Briant
Civilizations of Ancient Iraq
Benjamin R. Foster & Karen Polinger Foster
Winner of the Felicia A. Holton Book Award 2010, Archaeological Institute of America
The Horse, the Wheel, and Language:
How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World
Winner of the 2010 Society for American Archaeology Book Award.
Makers of Ancient Strategy: From the Persian Wars to the Fall of Rome
Edited by Victor Davis Hanson
Winner of the 2010 PROSE Award for Excellence in Classics & Ancient History, American Publishers Awards for Professional and Scholarly Excellence
The Poison King: The Life and Legend of Mithradates, Rome's Deadliest Enemy
2010 Gold Medal Winner of the Independent Publisher Book Awards in the Biography category
Honorable Mention for the 2010 PROSE Award for Excellence in Biography & Autobiography, American Publishers Awards for Professional and Scholarly Excellence
Inventing Futurism: The Art and Politics of Artificial Optimism
Christine Poggi
Co-Winner of the 2010 Howard R. Marraro Prize, Modern Language Association Michelangelo: A Life on Paper
One of the The Daily Beast's (Brad Gooch) Favorite Books of the Year for 2010
Winner of the 2010 PROSE Award for Excellence in Art History & Criticism
Named one of T.J. Clark's 2010 Best Books of the Year, ARTFORUM
Heaven's Touch: From Killer Stars to the Seeds of Life, How We Are Connected to the Universe
James B. Kaler
Ant Encounters: Interaction Networks and Colony Behavior
Deborah M. Gordon
One of 2010 Best Reference (Print, Electronic, and Free Reference Resources) in the Sciences category, Library Journal
Honorable Mention for the 2010 PROSE Award for Excellence in Single Volume Reference/Science, American Publishers Awards for Professional and Scholarly Excellence
Illustrated by Albert Earl Gilbert
2010 Winner of the International Book Awards in the Best Interior Design category
2010 Finalist of the International Book Awards in the Best Cover Design category
The Bard: Robert Burns, A Biography
Robert Crawford
Shortlisted for the 2010 Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust Book Awards, Non-Fiction category, by the Scottish Arts Council.
Democracy and Knowledge: Innovation and Learning in Classical Athens
Shortlisted for the Hessell-Tiltman Prize 2010, English PEN
Awarded by the PEN Literary Foundation
Recognizing Persius
Kenneth J. Reckford
Reconstructing the Roman Republic: An Ancient Political Culture and Modern Research
Karl-J. Hölkeskamp
Honeybee Democracy
Named one of the 2010 Books of the Year in Nonfiction Round-Up in the Science & Environment list, Financial Times (FT.com)
Cultural Capitals: Early Modern London and Paris
Honorable Mention, 2010 Laura Shannon Prize in Contemporary European Studies,
Nanovic Institute for European Studies
Megadisasters: The Science of Predicting the Next Catastrophe
Florin Diacu
One of CHOICE Magazine's 2010 Outstanding Academic Titles Why the Sky Is Blue: Discovering the Color of Life
Gotz Hoeppe
Winner of the 2010 Louis J. Battan Author's Award
Awarded by the American Meteorological Society
Animal Spirits:
How Human Psychology Drives the Economy, and Why It Matters for Global Capitalism
Co-Winners of a 2010 Silver Medal in the Axiom Business Book Awards in the category of Entrepreneurship
Co-Winners of the 2010 Robert Lane Award for the Best Book in Political Psychology by the American Political Science Association
Banking on the Future: The Fall and Rise of Central Banking
Howard Davies & David Green
Named as one of the 2010 Books of the Year in Nonfiction Round-Up in the Business & Economics list, Financial Times (ft.com)
Boulevard of Broken Dreams:
Why Public Efforts to Boost Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital Have Failed--and What to Do About It
Josh Lerner
Co-Winner of a 2010 Gold Medal in the Axiom Business Book Awards in the category of Entrepreneurship
Winner of the 2010 Financial Times/Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year
Winner of the 2010 PROSE Award for Excellence in Economics, American Publishers Awards for Professional and Scholarly Excellence
Gold Medal Winner of the 2010 ForeWord Reviews Book of the Year Awards in the Business & Economics Category
Finalist for the 2010 TIAA-CREF Paul A. Samuelson Award
One of the winners of the 2010 Best Business Books of the Year, strategy+business magazine
Best Crisis Book by an Economist and Named one of the 2010 Top Thirty Business Books of the Year, Bloomberg News (bloomberg.com/news)
The Hesitant Hand: Taming Self-Interest in the History of Economic Ideas
Steven G. Medema
Winner of the 2010 ESHET Best Book Prize of the European Society for the History of Economic Thought
Identity Economics: How Our Identities Shape Our Work, Wages, and Well-Being
George A. Akerlof & Rachel E. Kranton
Named one of the 2010 Top Thirty Business Books, Bloomberg News (bloomberg.com/news)
Honorable Mention for the 2010 PROSE Award for Excellence in Economics, American Publishers Awards for Professional and Scholarly Excellence
Named one of the 2010 Top Thirty Business Books of the Year, Bloomberg News (bloomberg.com/news)
Named one of the 2010 Books of the Year in Nonfiction Round-Up in the Business & Economics list, Financial Times (FT.com)
One of the 2011 "Must Read" Economics Books, Naked Capitalism blog, Yves Smith
Crossing the Finish Line: Completing College at America's Public Universities
William G. Bowen, Matthew M. Chingos & Michael S. McPherson
Winner of the 2010 Pierre Bourdieu Book Award from the Sociology of Education section of the American Sociological Association
Honorable Mention for the 2009 PROSE Award for Excellence in Education, from the Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division of the Association of American Publishers
Honorable Mention for the 2010 PROSE Award for Excellence in Education, American Publishers Awards for Professional and Scholarly Excellence
Not For Profit: Why Democracy Needs the Humanities
Martha C. Nussbaum
One of The Age's (Brenda Walker) Best Books of the Year for 2010
Schoolhouses, Courthouses, and Statehouses: Solving the Funding-Achievement Puzzle in America's Public Schools
Eric A. Hanushek & Alfred A. Lindseth
Named on of John Wilson's 2010 Favorite Books of the Year in Books & Culture, National Public Radio (NPR.org/blogs)
Shell Shock Cinema: Weimar Culture and the Wounds of War
Anton Kaes
Winner of the 2010 DAAD Book Prize, German Studies Association
One of the winners of the 2010 Best Business Books, strategy+business magazine
Finalist of the 2010 ForeWord Reviews Book of the Year Awards, Business and Economics Category
Winner of the 2010 TIAA-CREF Paul A. Samuelson Award
2010 Gold Medal Co-Winner of the Independent Publisher Book Awards in the Finance/Investment/Economics category
Shortlisted for the 2010 Financial History of the Year by Spear's Book Awards
Winner of the 2010 Heldt Prize for Best Book in Slavic/Eastern European/Eurasian Women's studies, Association for Women in Slavic Studies
Delete: The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age
Winner of the 2010 Marshall McLuhan Award for Outstanding Book in the field of media ecology by the Media Ecology Association
Winner of the 2010 Don K. Price Award for Best Book in Science and Technology Politics, Section on Science, Technology, and Environmental Politics (STEP) by the American Political Science Association
How to Read Historical Mathematics
Benjamin Wardhaugh
The Measure of Merit: Talents, Intelligence, and Inequality in the French and American Republics, 1750-1940
Winner of the 2010 Cheiron Book Prize from Cheiron, the International Society for the History of Behavioral and Social Sciences
The Dream of the Poem: Hebrew Poetry from Muslim and Christian Spain, 950-1492
Translated, Edited & Introduced by Peter Cole
Winner of the 2010 TLS Risa Domb/Porjes Translation Prize, Jewish Book Council
Early Modern Jewry: A New Cultural History
David B. Ruderman
Winner of the 2010 National Jewish Book Award in the category of History, Jewish Book Council
Greece--a Jewish History
K. E. Fleming
Winner of the Prix Alberto Benveniste for 2010
Sponsored by Le Centre Alberto Benveniste, Paris, France.
Winner of the 2010 National Jewish Book Award in the category of American Jewish Studies, Jewish Book Council
Insurgent Citizenship: Disjunctions of Democracy and Modernity in Brazil
James Holston
Co-Winner of the 2010 BRASA Roberto Reis Book Prize by the Brazilian Studies Association
One of 2010 Best Books, Mosaic Magazine
One of 2010 Best Books, The Miami Herald, Between the Covers blog
Finalist, 2010 ForeWord Reviews Book of the Year Awards, Biography and Autobiography Category
Euler's Gem: The Polyhedron Formula and the Birth of Topology
David S. Richeson
Winner of the 2010 Euler Book Prize
Sponsored by the Mathematical Association of America.
Numbers Rule: The Vexing Mathematics of Democracy, from Plato to the Present
Honorable Mention for the 2010 PROSE Award for Excellence in Mathematics, American Publishers Awards for Professional and Scholarly Excellence
On Myself, and Other, Less Important Subjects
Caspar Hare
Surviving Death
Mark Johnston
Honorable Mention for the 2010 PROSE Award for Excellence in Theology & Religious Studies, American Publishers Awards for Professional and Scholarly Excellence
2010 National Book Award Finalist
Alibis of Empire: Henry Maine and the Ends of Liberal Imperialism
Karuna Mantena
Demanding Democracy: American Radicals in Search of a New Politics
Marc Stears
Winner of the 2010 Robert H. Ferrell book Prize Award of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations
Co-winner of the 2010 Marshall Shulman Book Prize, Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
Boundaries of Contagion: How Ethnic Politics Have Shaped Government Responses to AIDS
Evan S. Lieberman
Winner of the 2010 Giovanni Sartori Book Award in the Qualitative Methods section by the American Political Science Association
Bounding Power: Republican Security Theory from the Polis to the Global Village
Daniel H. Deudney
Co-winner of the 2010 ISA Book of the Decade Award in International Studies, International Studies Association
Civil Passions: Moral Sentiment and Democratic Deliberation
Sharon R. Krause
Winner of the 2010 Spitz Prize, Best Book on Liberal or Democratic Theory,
International Conference for the Study of Political Thought
Sponsored by the International Society of Political Psychology.
The Fifth Freedom: Jobs, Politics, and Civil Rights in the United States, 1941-1972
Anthony S. Chen
Winner of 2010 Best Book Award, Race, Ethnicity and Politics section, by the American Political Science Association
Co-winner of the 2010 J. David Greenstone Award in the Politics and History section by the American Political Science Association
Fighting for Democracy: Black Veterans and the Struggle Against White Supremacy in the Postwar South
Christopher S. Parker
Winner of the 2010 Ralph J. Bunche Award, American Political Science Association
From Economic Crisis to Reform: IMF Programs in Latin America and Eastern Europe
Grigore Pop-Eleches
Honorable Mention, 2010 Ed A. Hewett Book Prize, Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES)
Gaming the World: How Sports Are Reshaping Global Politics and Culture
Andrei S. Markovits & Lars Rensmann
Named as one of the 2010 Books of the Year in Nonfiction Round-Up in the Sports list, Financial Times (FT.com)
How Terrorism Ends: Understanding the Decline and Demise of Terrorist Campaigns
Audrey Kurth Cronin
How Wars End
Dan Reiter
Winner of the 2010 Best Book Award, Conflict Processes Section, American Political Science Association
Shortlisted, 2010 Arthur Ross Book Award from the Council on Foreign Relations
Honorable Mention, 2010 International Security Studies Section (ISSS) Book Award, International Studies Association
The Myth of Digital Democracy
Matthew Hindman
Winner of the 2010 Goldsmith Book Prize (Academic Book)
Awarded by the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.
The Politics of Global Regulation
Edited by Walter Mattli & Ngaire Woods
Special Recognition, the 2010 Levine Prize in the International Political Science Association's Research Committee on the Structure of Governance (SOG)
The Politics of Happiness: What Government Can Learn from the New Research on Well-Being
Derek Bok
Named one of Fiscal Times 2010 Best Books
The Science of War: Defense Budgeting, Military Technology, Logistics, and Combat Outcomes
Michael E. O'Hanlon
The Sino-Soviet Split: Cold War in the Communist World
Lorenz M. Lüthi
The Struggle for Power in Early Modern Europe: Religious Conflict, Dynastic Empires, and International Change
Daniel H. Nexon
Winner of the 2010 ISA International Security Studies Section (ISSS) Book Award
A Dictionary of 20th-Century Communism
Edited by Silvio Pons & Robert Service
One of 2010 Best Reference (Print, Electronic, and Free Reference Resources) in the Law & Politics category, Library Journal
The Princeton Encyclopedia of American Political History. (Two volume set)
Edited by Michael Kazin
Medieval Christianity in Practice
Edited by Miri Rubin
Religious Experience Reconsidered: A Building-Block Approach to the Study of Religion and Other Special Things
Ann Taves
Winner of 2010 Distinguished Book Award, Society for the Scientific Study of Religion
Saving God: Religion after Idolatry
Winner of the 2010 Award for Excellence in Religion: Constructive-Reflective Studies, American Academy of Religion
A Very Brief History of Eternity
Codes of the Underworld: How Criminals Communicate
Winner of the 2010 Dorothy Lee Award for Outstanding Scholarship in the Ecology of Culture by the Media Ecology Association.
Economic Sociology: A Systematic Inquiry
Alejandro Portes
Economists and Societies:
Discipline and Profession in the United States, Britain, and France, 1890s to 1990s
Winner of the 2010 Mary Douglas Prize for Best Book in the Sociology of Culture section category by the American Sociological Association
Honorable Mention, 2010 Robert K. Merton Book Award for Best Book in the Science, Knowledge and Technology (SKAT) section category by the American Sociological Association
Honorable Mention, 2010 Barrington Moore Award for Best Book in the Comparative and Historical Sociology section by the American Sociological Association
Named as one of the 2010 Books of the Year in Nonfiction Round-Up in the Science & Environment list, Financial Times (FT.com)
Honorable Mention, 2010 Mary Douglas Prize for Best Book in the Sociology of Culture Section category by the American Sociological Association
Winner of the 2010 Max Weber Award in the Organizations, Occupations, and Work section by the American Sociological Association.
Social Structures
John Levi Martin
2010 Winner of The Theory Prize of the American Sociological Association's Theory Section
Winner of the 2010 Best First Book Award, Phi Alpha Theta
Heroes and Cowards: The Social Face of War
Dora L. Costa & Matthew E. Kahn
One of CHOICE Magazine's Outstanding Academic Titles, 2009
Awarded by CHOICE Magazine
The Strategic President: Persuasion and Opportunity in Presidential Leadership
George C. Edwards III
Notes on Sontag
Bipolar Expeditions: Mania and Depression in American Culture
Emily Martin
Winner of the 2009 Diana Forsythe Prize
Awarded jointly by the Committee for the Anthropology of Science, Technology, and Computing (CASTAC) of the General Anthropology Division, and the Society for the Anthropology of Work, American Anthropological Association
Winner of a 2009 New York City Book Award, given by The New York Society Library
ARCHAEOLOGY & ANCIENT HISTORY
428 AD: An Ordinary Year at the End of the Roman Empire
Giusto Traina
One of ChristianityToday.com/Books & Culture's "Best Books of 2009"
2009 National Book Award Finalist, Nonfiction
Black: The History of a Color
Bronze Medal Winner for Fine Art Books, Independent Publisher Book Awards 2009
Sponsored by Jenkins Group Inc. & IndependentPublisher.com.
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles, 2009
New York Nocturne: The City After Dark in Literature, Painting, and Photography, 1850-1950
William Chapman Sharpe
Winner of the 2009 Peter C. Rollins Award
Sponsored by the Northeast Popular Culture/American Culture Association (NEPCA)
Winner of the 2009 MSA Book Prize
Sponsored by the Modernist Studies Association
Northern Arts: The Breakthrough of Scandinavian Literature and Art, from Ibsen to Bergman
Arnold Weinstein
Runner Up on The Atlantic "Books of the Year" list
The Patron's Payoff: Conspicuous Commissions in Italian Renaissance Art
Jonathan K. Nelson & Richard J. Zeckhauser
With a foreword by Michael Spence
Sponsored by CHOICE Magazine.
Patronizing the Arts
Marjorie Garber
Empires of the Silk Road: A History of Central Eurasia from the Bronze Age to the Present
Christopher I. Beckwith
Winner of the 2009 PROSE Award for Excellence - World History & Biography/Autobiography
Beyond UFOs: The Search for Extraterrestrial Life and Its Astonishing Implications for Our Future
2009 Silver Winner in the category of Cosmology/New Science, 2009 Nautilus Book Awards
Sponsored by the Nautilus Book Awards.
Finalist, 2008 Eugene M. Emme Astronautical Literature Award
High-Energy Astrophysics
Fulvio Melia
Winner of the 2009 PROSE Award for Excellence - Cosmology & Astronomy
Joseph Cornell and Astronomy: A Case for the Stars
Kirsten Hoving
The Universe in a Mirror: The Saga of the Hubble Space Telescope and the Visionaries Who Built It
Robert Zimmerman
Birds of Eastern North America: A Photographic Guide
Paul Sterry & Brian E. Small
One of Joel Lerner's (The Washington Post) "The Year's Best Gardening Books"
Dragonflies and Damselflies of the West
Dennis Paulson
Winner of a 2009 National Outdoor Book Award Honorable Mention in the Nature Guidebook Category
Lars Jonsson's Birds: Paintings from a Near Horizon
Lars Jonsson
Winner of the 2009 National Outdoor Book Award in the Design and Artistic Merit Category
The Medea Hypothesis: Is Life on Earth Ultimately Self-Destructive?
Peter Ward
One of the 2009 New York Times Magazine's 9th Annual Featured Books in Ideas
Portable Property: Victorian Culture on the Move
John Plotz
The Fortunes of Apuleius and the Golden Ass: A Study in Transmission and Reception
Julia Haig Gaisser
Winner of the 2009 Charles J. Goodwin Award of Merit, American Philological Association
Franz Kafka: The Office Writings
Edited by Stanley Corngold, Jack Greenberg & Benno Wagner
Translations by Eric Patton with Ruth Hein
Archaeological Oceanography
Edited by Robert D. Ballard
Critical Transitions in Nature and Society
Marten Scheffer
Geochemical Kinetics
Youxue Zhang
James Lovelock: In Search of Gaia
John Gribbin & Mary Gribbin
Winner of the 2009 Walter P. Kistler Award
Sponsored by The Foundation For the Future.
One of The Australian's Best Books of 2009
Animal Spirits: How Human Psychology Drives the Economy, and Why It Matters for Global Capitalism
George A. Akerlof and Robert J. Shiller
Winner of the 2009 Paul A. Samuelson Award for Outstanding Scholarly Writing on Lifelong Financial Security
Sponsored by TIAA-CREF.
Winner of the getAbstract International Book Award 2009
Sponsored by getAbstract.
Winner of the Finance Book of the Year 2009
Awarded by CBN (China Business News) Financial Value Ranking, CFV 2009.
Shortlisted for the Business Book of the Year 2009
Sponsored by the Financial Times/Goldman Sachs
Boulevard of Broken Dreams: Why Public Efforts to Boost Entrepreneurship
and Venture Capital Have Failed--and What to Do About It
Winner of the 2009 PROSE Award for Excellence - Business, Finance & Management
The Case for Big Government
Jeff Madrick
Runner-up for 2009 in the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction
Sponsored by the PEN American Center
Development, Democracy, and Welfare States: Latin America, East Asia, and Eastern Europe
Stephan Haggard & Robert R. Kaufman
Sponsored by CHOICE Magazine
Economic Gangsters: Corruption, Violence, and the Poverty of Nations
Raymond Fisman & Edward Miguel
Famine: A Short History
The Invisible Hook: The Hidden Economics of Pirates
Peter T. Leeson
One of (Australian) The Week's "Books of the Year 2009" in international non-fiction
One of the San Francisco Chronicle's "100 best fiction, nonfiction books of 2009"
Gold Medal Winner - 2009 Book of the Year Awards in the Business & Economics Category by ForeWord Reviews
The Rise of the Conservative Legal Movement: The Battle for Control of the Law
Steven M. Teles
Winner of the 2009 Joseph J. Spengler Prize for the best book published in the history of economics
Sponsored by the History of Economics Society
The Subprime Solution: How Today's Global Financial Crisis Happened, and What to Do about It
Bronze Medal Winner in Finance/Investement/Economics, Independent Publisher Book Awards 2009
Sponsored by Jenkins Group Inc. & IndependentPublisher.com
Library Journal Best of 2009 Business Books - Economics/U.S. Economy category
An 800-CEO-READ "Business Books Awards 2009" finalist ("Best of the Rest") in the Current Interest Category
Honorable Mention for the 2009 PROSE Award for Excellence - Economics
One of USA Today's "year's best business books to make sense of financial crisis"
Listed on Bloomberg.com by James Pressley as one of "our favorite financial-crisis books this year."
Listed as one of the Top Ten English Business Books of 2009 in WirtschaftsBlatt
Finalist - 2009 Book of the Year Award in the Business & Economics Category by ForeWord Reviews
Honorable Mention for the 2009 PROSE Award for Excellence - Education
Winner of the 2008-9 Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Studies in Germanic Languages and Literatures, Modern Language Association
God and Race in American Politics: A Short History
Mark A. Noll
Winner of the 2009 Christianity Today Award of Merit in History/Biography
Sponsored by Christianity Today.
Swindled: The Dark History of Food Fraud, from Poisoned Candy to Counterfeit Coffee
Bee Wilson
Taxation in Colonial America
Alvin Rabushka
Special Recognition in the 2009 Fraunces Tavern Museum Book Awards
Sponsored by the Fraunces Tavern Museum
Taming the Beloved Beast: How Medical Technology Costs Are Destroying Out Health Care System
Library Journal Best of 2009 Sci-Tech Books - Health Sciences category
Winner of the 2009 Runciman Award
Sponsored by the Anglo-Hellenic League
Sponsored by Le Centre Alberto Benveniste, Paris, France
Winner of the 2009 National Jewish Book Award in the category of Women's Studies
Administered by the Jewish Book Council
Winner of the 2009 Best Book on Brazil in English
Sponsored by the Latin American Studies Association
Winner of the Leeds Honor Book for 2009
Sponsored by the Society for Urban, National, and Transnational/Global Anthropology of the American Anthropological Association
A Constitution of Many Minds: Why the Founding Document Doesn't Mean What It Meant Before
Cass R. Sunstein
Winner of the 2009 PROSE Award for Excellence - Law & Legal Studies
Hidden in Plain Sight: The Tragedy of Children's Rights from Ben Franklin to Lionel Tate
Barbara Bennett Woodhouse
Winner of the APSA's Best Book Award 2009, Human Rights Section
Sponsored by the Human Rights Section of the American Political Science Association
Patent Failure: How Judges, Bureaucrats, and Lawyers Put Innovators at Risk
James Bessen & Michael J. Meurer
Co-Winner of the 2009 Herbert Jacob Book Prize
Sponsored by the Law and Society Association
When Brute Force Fails: How to Have Less Crime and Less Punishment
Mark A. R. Kleiman
Listed by The Economist as "One of the Best Books of 2009"
The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein, Volume 11: Cumulative Index, Bibliography, List of Correspondence, Chronology, and Errata to Volumes 1-10
Compiled by A. J. Kox, Tilman Sauer, Diana Kormos Buchwald, Rudy Hirschmann, Osik Moses, Benjamin Aronin & Jennifer Stolper
Winner of the Wheatley Medal 2009
Sponsored by the Society of Indexers.
Sponsored by CHOICE Magazine. The Mathematical Mechanic: Using Physical Reasoning to Solve Problems
One of Amazon.com science editors' "Best of 2009, Top 10 list for Science"
Honourable Mention in the British-Kuwait Friendship Society Prize in Middle Eastern Studies 2009
Sponsored by the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies.
Plato's Ghost: The Modernist Transformation of Mathematics
June Barrow-Green and Imre Leader, associate editors
MIDDLE EASTERN STUDIES:
Moral Agents and Their Deserts: The Character of Mu'tazilite Ethics
Sophia Vasalou
Winner of the 2009 Albert Hourani Book Award
Sponsored by the Middle East Studies Association
The Wounded Animal: J. M. Coetzee and the Difficulty of Reality in Literature and Philosophy
Stephen Mulhall
PHYSICS:
Winner of the 2009 Chambliss Astronomical Writing Award for an academic book
Sponsored by the American Astronomical Society
The Atom and the Apple: Twelve Tales from Contemporary Physics
Sébastien Balibar
Winner of the Saltire Society Scottish Book of the Year
Presented at the National Library of Scotland in Edinburgh
Worshipping Walt: The Whitman Disciples
2009 Honor Book, New Jersey Council for the Humanities Book Awards
Sponsored by the New Jersey Council for the Humanities
Winner of the 2009 DAAD Prize for Distinguished Scholarship in German and European Studies
Awarded by the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies (AICGS).
Black and Blue: African Americans, the Labor Movement, and the Decline of the Democratic Party
Paul Frymer
Winner of the Best Book Award 2009, Organized Section on Race, Ethnicity, and Politics (REP)
Sponsored by the American Political Science Association
Campaign Talk: Why Elections Are Good for Us
Roderick P. Hart
Winner of the 2009 Doris Graber Book Award
Sponsored by the American Political Science Association Section on Political Communication
Winner of the 2009 Alexander L. George Book Award
Sponsored by the International Society of Political Psychology
The Crisis of American Foreign Policy: Wilsonianism in the Twenty-first Century
G. John Ikenberry, Thomas J. Knock, Anne-Marie Slaughter & Tony Smith
On the list for "The People's Choice: Carnegie Council Top Ten for 2009"
Hypocrisy Trap: The World Bank and the Poverty of Reform
Catherine Weaver
Winner of the 2009 Harold D. Lasswell Prize
Sponsored by the Society of Policy Scientists.
Co-Winner of the Chadwick F. Alger Prize 2009
Sponsored by the International Studies Association
Winner of the 2009 Donald McGannon Award for Social and Ethical Relevance in Communications Policy Research, awarded by the Donald McGannon Communications Research Center
Paying the Human Costs of War: American Public Opinion and Casualties in Military Conflicts
Christopher Gelpi, Peter D. Feaver & Jason Reifler
The Persuadable Voter: Wedge Issues in Presidential Campaigns
D. Sunshine Hillygus & Todd G. Shields
Winner of the 2009 Robert E. Lane Award for the best book published in political psychology in 2008
Sponsored by the Political Psychology section of the American Political Science Association.
The Politics of Presidential Appointments: Political Control and Bureaucratic Performance
David E. Lewis
Winner of the 2009 Richard E. Neustadt Award for the best 2008 book on the U.S. Presidency
Sponsored by the APSA's Section on Presidency Research.
Honorable Mention, the 2009 Charles H. Levine Memorial Book Prize
Sponsored by the International Political Science Association's Research Committee on the Structure of Governance.
Privatizing Pensions: The Transnational Campaign for Social Security Reform
Mitchell A. Orenstein
Winner of the 2009 Charles H. Levine Memorial Book Prize
Reforms at Risk: What Happens After Major Policy Changes Are Enacted
Eric M. Patashnik
Winner of the 2009 Louis Brownlow Book Award
Sponsored by the National Academy of Public Administration.
Winner of the 2008 Edgar S. Furniss Book Award
Sponsored by Mershon Center for International Security Studies at The Ohio State University.
Torture and Democracy
Darius Rejali
Winner of 2009 Lemkin Award
Sponsored by the Institute for the Study of Genocide.
Unequal Democracy: The Political Economy of the New Gilded Age
Larry M. Bartels
Winner of the 2009 Leon D. Epstein Outstanding Book Award, Political Organizations and Parties Section
Sponsored by the American Political Science Association.
Winner of the 2009 Gladys M. Kammerer Award
Vatican II: A Sociological Analysis of Religious Change
Melissa J. Wilde
Honorable Mention: Distinguished Book Award 2009
Sponsored by the American Sociological Association Section on Sociology of Religion.
Winner of the 2009 PROSE Award for Excellence - Sociology & Social Work
Listed in the New Scientist blog as one of "The best books of 2009"
Coming of Age in Second Life: An Anthropologist Explores the Virtually Human
Tom Boellstorff
Winner of the 2009 Dorothy Lee Award for Outstanding Scholarship in the Ecology of Culture
Sponsored by the Media Ecology Association.
Honorable Mention, 2009 Charles Tilly Best Book Award, Collective Behavior and Social Movements Section
Sponsored by the American Sociological Association.
The Failed Welfare Revolution: America's Struggle over Guaranteed Income Policy
Brian Steensland
Winner of the Best Book Award 2009, Political Sociology Section
Co-Winner of the 2009 Mary Douglas Prize for Best Book, Section on Sociology of Culture
The Household: Informal Order around the Hearth
Robert C. Ellickson
Partisan Politics: Communication and Contention across Brazilian Youth Activist Networks
Ann Mische
Honorable Mention, Best Book Award 2009, Political Sociology Section
A Culture of Corruption
Daniel Jordan Smith
Winner of the 2008 MARGARET MEAD AWARD.
Sponsored by American Anthropological Association (AAA) and the Society for Applied Anthropology (SfAA).
Global "Body Shopping"
Xiang Biao
Winner of the 2008 ANTHONY LEEDS PRIZE.
Sponsored by Urban Anthropology, Society for Urban, National, and Transnational/Global Anthropology.
The Nuclear Borderlands
Winner of the 2008 RACHEL CARSON PRIZE
Sponsored by the Society for Social Studies of Science.
Will to Live
João Biehl
Photographs by Torben Eskerod
Joint winner of the 2008 Wellcome Medal for Medical Anthropology,
Royal Anthropological Institute and the Wellcome Trust
Winner of the 2008 DIANA FORSYTHE PRIZE.
Sponsored by the Society for the Anthropology of Work and the General Anthropology Division's Committee for the Anthropology of Science, Technology, and Computing (CASTAC) of the American Anthropological Society.
APPLIED SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING:
A Survey of Computational Physics: Introductory Computational Science
Rubin H. Landau, Manuel José Páez & Cristian C. Bordeianu
Rubin H. Landau, winner of the 2008 UNDERGRADUATE COMPUTATIONAL ENGINEERING AND SCIENCES AWARD
Sponsored by The Krell Institute.
An EDITORS' CHOICE for Best Adult Titles of 2008
Sponsored by Booklist.
The Art of the American Snapshot, 1888-1978
Sarah Greenough & Diane Waggoner With Sarah Kennel & Matthew S. Witkovsky
Winner of the 2008 ALFRED H. BARR, JR. AWARD for the most distinguished museum publication 2006/07.
Sponsored by the College Art Association.
Winner of the 2008 Bronze Independent Publisher Book Medal, Photography Category.
Shortlisted for the 2008 KRASZNA-KRAUSZ AWARD for the Best Photography Book
Sponsored by the Kraszna-Krausz Foundation.
The National Gallery of Art was awarded First Prize from The American Association of Museums Publication Design Competition for its Exhibition Catalog, The Art of the American Snapshot, 1888-1978
Sponsored by the American Association of Museums.
Pre-Modernism
J. M. Mancini
Winner of the 2008 CHARLES C. ELDREDGE PRIZE FOR DISTINGUISHED SHOLARSHIP IN AMERICAN ART
Sponsored by the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
The Mystery of the Missing Antimatter
Helen R. Quinn & Yossi Nir
Honorable Mention for the 2008 Award for Professional and Scholarly Excellence (PROSE) in Chemistry and Physics
Stuart Clark
Shortlisted for the 2008 ROYAL SOCIETY PRIZES FOR SCIENCE BOOKS, General Prize
Sponsored by The Royal Society.
Winner of the 2008 Award for Professional and Scholarly Excellence (PROSE) in Classics and Ancient History, Association of American Publishers
Selected Poems: Odes and Fragments
Translated and introduced by Reginald Gibbons
Winner of the 2008 Sourette Diehl Fraser Award for Best Translation of a Book
Sponsored by the Texas Institute of Letters.
Honorable Mention for the 2008 Award for Professional and Scholarly Excellence (PROSE) in Literature, Language, and Linguistics, Association of American Publishers
How the Ocean Works: An Introduction to Oceanography
Mark Denny
Honorable Mention for the 2008 Award for Professional and Scholarly Excellence (PROSE) in Earth Sciences
A Farewell to Alms
Winner of the 2008 Gold Independent Publisher Book Medal, Finance/Investment/Economics Category.
Social and Economic Networks
Matthew O. Jackson
Honorable Mention for the 2008 Award for Professional and Scholarly Excellence (PROSE) in Economics, Association of American Publishers
Honorable Mention for the 2008 Award for Professional and Scholarly Excellence (PROSE) in Business, Finance, and Management, Association of American Publishers
The Venturesome Economy: How Innovation Sustains Prosperity in a More Connected World
Amar Bhidé
Winner of the 2008 Award for Professional and Scholarly Excellence (PROSE) in Business, Finance, and Management, Association of American Publishers
Troublemaker: A Personal History of School Reform Since Sputnik
Chester E. Finn, Jr.
Honorable Mention for the 2008 Award for Professional and Scholarly Excellence (PROSE) in Education, Association of American Publishers
Our Underachieving Colleges
Winner of the 2008 FREDERIC W. NESS BOOK AWARD
Sponsored by the Association of American Colleges and Universities.
Between Women
Winner of the 2008 Alan Bray Memorial Award
Sponsored by GL/Q Caucus of MLA.
Winner of the 2008 Barbara Perkins and George Perkins Prize
Sponsored by the International Society for the Study of Narrative (ISSN).
Winner of the 2008 Albion Book Prize
Sponsored by the North American Conference on British Studies.
Mothers and Children: Jewish Family Life in Medieval Europe
Elisheva Baumgarten
Winner of the 2008 Jordan Schnitzer Book Award in the Category of Gender Studies, Association for Jewish Studies
Jews, Germans, and Allies
Atina Grossmann
Winner of the 2008 George L. Mosse Prize.
Sponsored by the American Historical Association.
In Search of Another Country
Joseph Crespino
Winner of the 2008 LILLIAN SMITH BOOK AWARD.
Sponsored by the Southern Regional Council and University of Georgia Libraries.
The Shifting Grounds of Race
Scott Kurashige
Winner of the 2008 ALBERT J. BEVERIDGE BOOK AWARD.
Winner of the 2008 Book Award in History.
Sponsored by the Association for Asian American Studies.
Stalin and the Soviet Science Wars
Ethan Pollock
Honorable Mention in the 2008 W. BRUCE LINCOLN BOOK PRIZE.
Sponsored by the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS).
Shortlisted for the 2008 André Simon Book Awards
Winner of the 2008 National Jewish Book Award in the category of Sephardic Culture.
Administered by the Jewish Book Council.
The Price of Whiteness
Eric L. Goldstein
Winner of the 2008 SAMI ROHR PRIZE FOR JEWISH LITERATURE CHOICE AWARD.
Sponsored by The Jewish Book Council.
James Bessen and Michael J. Meurer
Honorable Mention for the 2008 Award for Professional and Scholarly Excellence (PROSE) in Law and Legal Studies, Association of American Publishers
LITERARY and CULTURAL STUDIES
Henry James Goes to Paris
Peter Brooks
Winner of the 2008 Phi Beta Kappa Christian Gauss Award
Scott's Shadow
Ian Duncan
Winner of the 2008 Saltire Society/National Library of SCOTLAND RESEARCH BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD
Sponsored by the Saltire Society/National Library of SCOTLAND.
Richard Godden
Winner of the BAAS ANNUAL BOOK PRIZE 2007
Sponsored by the British Association for American Studies.
Flatland: The Movie
Winner of the Berlin Special Jury Award, MathFilm Festival 2008
Honorable Mention for the 2008 Award for Professional and Scholarly Excellence (PROSE) for Single Volume Reference/Science, Association of American Publishers
Sacred Mathematics: Japanese Temple Geometry
Fukagawa Hidetoshi & Tony Rothman
Winner of the 2008 Award for Professional and Scholarly Excellence (PROSE) in Mathematics, Association of American Publishers
Made with Words: Hobbes on Language, Mind, and Politics
Philip Pettit
Winner of the 2008 Award for Professional and Scholarly Excellence (PROSE) in Philosophy, Association of American Publishers
The Greener Meadow
Luciano Erba; Translated by Peter Robinson
Winner of the 2008 JOHN FLORIO PRIZE FOR ITALIAN TRANSLATION.
Sponsored by the Italian Cultural Institute, the British-Italian Society, and the Arts Council of England.
After Anarchy
Ian Hurd
Winner of the 2008 CHADWICK F. ALGER PRIZE
Sponsored by the International Studies Association, International Organization Section.
Appeasing Bankers
Jonathan Kirshner
Winner of the 2008 ISSS Best Book Award
Awarded by the International Security Studies Section of the International Studies Association.
The Art of the Public Grovel: Sexual Sin and Public Confession in America
Honorable Mention for the 2008 Award for Professional and Scholarly Excellence (PROSE) in Media and Cultural Studies, Association of American Publishers
Barriers to Democracy
Amaney A. Jamal
Winner of the 2008 BEST BOOK AWARD
Sponsored by the American Political Science Association, Comparative Democratization Section.
Bounding Power
Co-winner of the 2008 ROBERT JERVIS AND PAUL SCHROEDER AWARD for the Best Book on International History and Politics
Sponsored by the American Political Science Association, International History and Politics Section.
Democracy Incorporated
Winner of a 2008 LANNAN NOTABLE BOOK AWARD.
Sponsored by the Lannan Foundation.
Expert Political Judgment
Philip E. Tetlock
Winner of the 2008 GRAWEMEYER AWARD for Ideas Improving World Order.
Sponsored by the University of Louisville.
The Fall and Rise of the Islamic State
Winner of the 2008 Award for Professional and Scholarly Excellence (PROSE) in Government and Politics, Association of American Publishers
The Myth of the Rational Voter
Winner of the 2008 Silver Independent Publisher Book Medal, Current Events Category.
Nuclear Logics
Etel Solingen
Winner of the 2008 WOODROW WILSON FOUNDATION AWARD
Painful Choices
David A. Welch
Winner of the 2008 ISA ISSS BEST BOOK AWARD
Sponsored by the International Studies Association.
Political Foundations of Judicial Supremacy
Keith E. Whittington
Winner of the 2008 J. David Greenstone Award, Politics and History Section, American Political Science Association
Winner of the 2008 C. Herman Pritchett Award
Sponsored by the Law and Courts Section of the American Political Science Association.
The Politics of Presidential Appointments
Winner of the 2008 HERBERT SIMON AWARD FOR THE BEST BOOK
Sponsored by the American Political Science Association, Public Administration Section.
Reputation and International Cooperation
Michael Tomz
Winner of the 2008 GIOVANNI SARTORI AWARD, for the Best Book Developing or Applying Qualitative Methods Published in 2007
Sponsored by the American Political Science Association, Qualitative Methods Section.
Spying Blind
Amy Zegart
Co-Winner of the 2008 LOUIS BROWNLOW AWARD
Winner of the 2008 Best Book
Sponsored by the American Political Science Association, Human Rights Section.
When Ways of Life Collide
Paul M. Sniderman & Louk Hagendoorn
Winner of the 2008 Robert E. Lane Award, Political Psychology Section, American Political Science Association
Where Nation-States Come From
Philip G. Roeder
Winner of the 2008 Davis Center Book Prize, American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS)
While Dangers Gather
William G. Howell and Jon C. Pevehouse
Co-Winner of the 2008 RICHARD E. NEUSTADT AWARD, Presidency Research Section, American Political Science Association
Sponsored by the Presidency Research Section, APSA.
Culture and Redemption
Tracy Fessenden
Finalist for the the 2008 Award for BEST FIRST BOOK IN THE HISTORY OF RELIGIONS.
Sponsored by the American Academy of Religion.
God Interrupted
Benjamin Lazier
Winner of the 2008 John Templeton Award for Theological Promise
Sponsored by the FIIT Heidelberg and the John Templeton Foundation.
Co-winner of the Best First Book in the History of Religions for 2008
Cop in the Hood: My Year Policing Baltimore's Eastern District
Peter Moskos
Winner of the 2008 Award for Professional and Scholarly Excellence (PROSE) in Sociology and Social Work, Association of American Publishers
From Higher Aims to Hired Hands
Rakesh Khurana
Winner of the 2008 MAX WEBER AWARD FOR BEST BOOK.
Sponsored by the American Sociological Association, Section on Organization, Occupations and Work
olitics and the Pursuit of Power