Awards by Author

see also: Recent Awards, All Awards by Title,
or Book of the Year Citations

Blue Dreams: Korean Americans and the Los Angeles Riots; Nancy Abelmann
John Lie; A Los Angeles Times Book Award Finalist, Category of Current Interest

We, the Jury: The Jury System and the Ideal of Democracy; Jeffrey Abramson; Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Current Interest Finalist

Adams Family Correspondence, Volumes 5 and 6: October 1782 - December 1785: Adams Family
Edited by Richard Alan Ryerson
Edited by Joanna Revelas
Edited by Celeste Walker
Edited by Gregg L. Lint
Edited by Humphrey Costello; Winner of the 1995 J. Franklin Jameson Prize in Editorial Achievement of the American Historical Association

Papers of John Adams, Volumes 9 and 10: March 1780 - December 1780: John Adams
Edited by Gregg L. Lint
Edited by Joanna Revelas
Edited by Richard Alan Ryerson
Edited by Celeste Walker
Edited by Anne Decker; Volumes 5 and 6 Awarded the 1995 J. Franklin Jameson Prize of the American Historical Association

Remaking the American Mainstream: Assimilation and Contemporary Immigration; Richard D. Alba
Victor Nee; Honorable Mention, Association of American Publishers 2003 Professional/Scholarly Publishing Annual Award in Sociology & Anthropology; 2004 Thomas and Znaniecki Book Award, Sponsored by the American Sociological Association; 2005 Mirra Komarovsky Award of the Eastern Sociological Society

The Betrayal of Faith: The Tragic Journey of a Colonial Native Convert; Emma Anderson; 2008 Alf Andrew Heggoy Prize, French Colonial Historical Society; 2008 Best First Book in the History of Religions Award, American Academy of Religion

Imperial Ecology: Environmental Order in the British Empire, 1895-1945; Peder Anker; The History of Science Society's Forum for History of Human Sciences Prize

Aristophanes, I: Acharnians. Knights: Aristophanes
Edited and translated by Jeffrey Henderson; Winner of the 2001 Charles J. Goodwin Award of Merit

Aristophanes, II: Clouds. Wasps. Peace: Aristophanes
Edited and translated by Jeffrey Henderson; Winner of the 2001 Charles J. Goodwin Award of Merit

The Declaration of Independence: A Global History; David Armitage; A Times Literary Supplement Best History Book of the Year

Brotherhoods of Color: Black Railroad Workers and the Struggle for Equality; Eric Arnesen; 2001 Wesley-Logan Prize of the American Historical Association

Negotiating with Imperialism: The Unequal Treaties and the Culture of Japanese Diplomacy; Michael R. Auslin; 2005 The Samuel and Ronnie Heyman Prize for Outstanding Scholarly Publication, Yale College

The Genetic Gods: Evolution and Belief in Human Affairs; John C. Avise; John C. Avise Received the 1998 Pew Fellowship in Marine Conservation from the Pew Charitable Trusts in Partnership with the New England Aquarium

Phylogeography: The History and Formation of Species; John C. Avise; John C. Avise Received the 1998 Pew Fellowship in Marine Conservation from the Pew Charitable Trusts in Partnership with the New England Aquarium

The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution: Bernard Bailyn; Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for History and the Bancroft Prize

The Ordeal of Thomas Hutchinson: Bernard Bailyn; 1975 National Book Award for History

What the Best College Teachers Do: Ken Bain; Winner of the Virginia and Warren Stone Prize, Awarded Annually by Harvard University Press for an Outstanding Book on Education and Society

The X in Sex: How the X Chromosome Controls Our Lives; David Bainbridge; San Jose Mercury News Top 20 Nonfiction Books of 2003; 2004 American Medical Writers Association Book Award in the Trade Category

The Death Penalty: An American History; Stuart Banner; 2002 Langum Project for Historical Literature

Possessing the Pacific: Land, Settlers, and Indigenous People from Australia to Alaska; Stuart Banner; 2008 World History Association Book Prize

She Works/He Works: How Two-Income Families Are Happy, Healthy, and Thriving; Rosalind C. Barnett
Caryl Rivers; Winner of the First “Books for a Better Life” Award

The Roman Triumph: Mary Beard; A New Statesman Best Book of the Year

Accounting for Tastes: Gary S. Becker; Gary S. Becker is Winner of the 1992 Nobel Prize in Economics

Social Economics: Market Behavior in a Social Environment; Gary S. Becker
Kevin M. Murphy; Gary S. Becker is Winner of the 1992 Nobel Prize in Economics

A Treatise on the Family: Gary S. Becker; Gary S. Becker is Winner of the 1992 Nobel Prize in Economics

To Make a Nation: The Rediscovery of American Federalism; Samuel H. Beer; Best Book Published in the Past Ten Years that Has Made a Lasting Contribution to the Study of Federalism and Intergovernmental Relations, Conferred by the Federalism and Intergovernmental Relations Section of the American Political Science Association

German Idealism: The Struggle against Subjectivism, 1781-1801; Frederick C. Beiser; Second Prize, 2003 Napoleonic Studies Literary Prize, Sponsored by The International Napoleonic Society

The Cult of the Nation in France: Inventing Nationalism, 1680-1800; David A. Bell; 2002 Leo Gershoy Award of the American History Association

Brahms and the German Spirit: Daniel Beller-McKenna; 2005 Choice Magazine Outstanding Academic Title

Harvest of Despair: Life and Death in Ukraine under Nazi Rule; Karel C. Berkhoff; 2001 Fraenkel Prize, The Wiener Library Institute of Contemporary History (Category A)

Nietzsche: The Ethics of an Immoralist; Peter Berkowitz; 1994 Thomas J. Wilson Prize of Harvard University Press

Generations of Captivity: A History of African-American Slaves; Ira Berlin; 2003 Albert J. Beveridge Award of the American Historical Association; 2004 Anisfeld-Wolf Book Award, Nonfiction Category, Sponsored by the Cleveland Foundation

Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America; Ira Berlin; Recipient of the 1999 Bancroft Prize from Columbia University; 1999 Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award Honorable Mention, Sponsored by the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights in North America; Winner of the 1999 Elliott Rudwick Prize of the Organization of American Historians; Winner of the 1999 Frederick Douglass Prize for the Best Book on Slavery Sponsored by the Gilder Lehrman Center at Yale University; Winner, Association of American Publishers 1998 Professional/Scholarly Publishing Annual Award in the Category of History; Finalist, 1998 National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction; Co-Winner of the Southern Historical Association's Frank L. and Harriet C. Owsley Award for 1999; 1998 Los Angeles Times Book Prize

Homos: Leo Bersani; One of \"Our 25 Favorite Books of 1995\", Village Voice Literary Supplement

Gershom Scholem: Kabbalah and Counter-History; David Biale; Winner of the Frank and Ethel S. Cohen National Award for Jewish Thought

The Making of the State Enterprise System in Modern China: The Dynamics of Institutional Change; Morris L. Bian; A Choice Magazine Outstanding Academic Title of the Year

The Transatlantic Constitution: Colonial Legal Culture and the Empire; Mary Sarah Bilder; 2005 Littleton-Griswold Prize, American Historical Association

To Stand and Fight: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Postwar New York City; Martha Biondi; 2002 Thomas J. Wilson Prize of Harvard University Press; 2004 Gustavus Myers Book Award Winner

How to Win the Nobel Prize: An Unexpected Life in Science; J. Michael Bishop; San Francisco Chronicle Best Books of 2003; Honorable Mention, Association of American Publishers 2003 Professional/Scholarly Publishing Annual Award in Medical Science; J. Michael Bishop is Winner of the 1989 Nobel Prize in Medicine

The Rise of Southern Republicans: Earl Black
Merle Black; Washington Monthly's 2002 Annual Political Book Award Winner

The Vital South: How Presidents are Elected; Earl Black
Merle Black; 1992 Winner of the Professional/Scholarly Publishing Award of the Association of American Publishers, Government and Political Science Category

Violence over the Land: Indians and Empires in the Early American West; Ned Blackhawk; 2007 Frederick Jackson Turner Award, Organization of American Historians; 2006 William P. Clements Prize for the Best Non-Fiction Book on Southwestern America; 2007 Robert M. Utley Award, sponsored by the Western History Association; 2007 Erminie Wheeler-Voegelin Book Award, American Society of Ethnohistory; 2007 Lora Romero First Book Publication Prize, American Studies Association

Competing Devotions: Career and Family among Women Executives; Mary Blair-Loy; 2005 William J. Goode Book Award, Sponsored by the ASA Section on the Family

Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory; David W. Blight; 2001 Frederick Douglass Prize for the Most Outstanding Book on Slavery, Resistance, and/or Abolition; 2001 Lincoln Prize Sponsored by Gettysburg College; 2002 Merle Curti Award for the Best Book in Social, Intellectual, and/or Cultural History, Sponsored by the Organization of American Historians; 2002 Ellis W. Hawley Prize, Sponsored by the Organization of American Historians; Co-Winner of the 2002 James A. Rawley Prize, Sponsored by the Organization of American Historians; 2001 Bancroft Prize Awarded by Columbia University

Ruin the Sacred Truths: Poetry and Belief from the Bible to the Present; Harold Bloom; Winner of the Christian Gauss Award of the Phi Beta Kappa Society

Black Jacks: African American Seamen in the Age of Sail; W. Jeffrey Bolster; A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year, 1997; Co-Winner of the Wesley-Logan Prize of the American Historical Association; Best New Book in History/Association of American Publishers/Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division; 1997 John Lyman Book Award for U.S. Maritime History of the North American Society for Oceanic History

Identification Guide to the Ant Genera of the World: Barry Bolton; 1994 Winner of the Professional/Scholarly Publishing Award of the Association of American Publishers, Biological Science Category

Lives of a Biologist: Adventures in a Century of Extraordinary Science; John Tyler Bonner; 2002 ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Award Third Place Winner Autobiography Category

On the History of Film Style: David Bordwell; A Choice Outstanding Academic Book

A New Deal for the World: America's Vision for Human Rights; Elizabeth Borgwardt; Winner 2006 Merle Curti Award, Sponsored by the Organization of American Historians; Co-Winner 2006 Stuart L. Bernath Book Prize, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations; 2006 Phi Alpha Theta Best First Book Award

Powerful Relations: Kinship, Status, and the State in Sung China (960-1279); Beverly J. Bossler; A Choice Outstanding Academic Book

Late Antiquity: A Guide to the Postclassical World; Edited by G. W. Bowersock
Edited by Peter Brown
Edited by Oleg Grabar; Winner of the 1999 Professional/Scholarly Publishing Award of the Association of American Publishers, History Category

The Uses of Variety: Modern Americanism and the Quest for National Distinctiveness; Carrie Tirado Bramen; Co-Winner of the 1999 Thomas J. Wilson Prize of Harvard University Press

Articulating Reasons: An Introduction to Inferentialism; Robert B. Brandom; 2001 ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Award - Philosophy Category

Unruly Eloquence: Lucian and the Comedy of Traditions; Bracht Branham; 1988 Thomas J. Wilson Prize of Harvard University Press

All About Arthritis: Derrick Brewerton; A Choice Outstanding Academic Book of 1994

Men: Evolutionary and Life History; Richard G. Bribiescas; Finalist, 2007 Independent Publisher Book Awards, Science Category

Telecommunication Policy for the Information Age: From Monopoly to Competition; Gerald W. Brock; A Choice Magazine Outstanding Academic Book of 1995, Economics Category

Journey to the East: The Jesuit Mission to China, 1579–1724; Liam Matthew Brockey; 2007 Phi Alpha Theta History Honor Society Book Award; 2007 Honorable Mention, World History and Biography/Autobiography, PSP Awards for Excellence, Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division of the Association of American Publishers; 2007 John Gilmary Shea Prize, American Catholic Historical Association

Reading for the Plot: Design and Intention in Narrative; Peter Brooks; Peter Brooks is Recipient of the 2007 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Distinguished Achievement Award

Stagolee Shot Billy: Cecil Brown; One of Esquire's Best Books of 2003

A Biography of No Place: From Ethnic Borderland to Soviet Heartland; Kate Brown; 2004 George Louis Beer Prize, American Historical Association; 2004 Heldt Prize of the Association for Women in Slavic Studies for the Best Book by a Woman in Any Area of Slavic/East European/Eurasian studies; 2005 Honorable Mention Wayne S. Vuchinich Prize, American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies

The Southern Past: A Clash of Race and Memory; W. Fitzhugh Brundage; Finalist, 2006 John Hope Franklin Prize, American Studies Association; Finalist 2006 Best Book Award, National Council on Public History; 2006 Lillian Smith Book Award, Southern Regional Council; 2005 Charles S. Sydnor Award of the Southern Historical Association

The Culture of Education: Jerome Bruner; Winner of the 1997 Eleanor Maccoby Award in Developmental Psychology of the American Psychological Association

Michael Rockefeller: New Guinea Photographs, 1961; Kevin Bubriski
Foreword by Robert Gardner
Photographs by Michael Rockefeller; 2007 ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Third Place Winner, Photography Category; Winner of 2008 Benjamin Franklin Award Interior Design 1-2 Color, Independent Book Publishers Association

Emerson: Lawrence Buell; Honorable Mention, Association of American Publishers 2003 Professional/Scholarly Publishing Annual Award in Biography; Autobiography; 2003 Robert Penn Warren-Cleanth Brooks Award for Outstanding Literary Criticism, Sponsored by The Center for Robert Penn Warren Studies at Western Kentucky University; 2004 Christian Gauss Award, Offered Annually by Ph Beta Kappa

Writing for an Endangered World: Literature, Culture, and Environment in the U.S. and Beyond; Lawrence Buell; 2001 John G. Cawelti Award, which Honors the Most Outstanding Scholarly Inquiry into American Culture, Sponsored by The Popular Culture Association and American Culture Association

The Private Roots of Public Action: Gender, Equality, and Political Participation; Nancy Burns
Kay Lehman Schlozman
Sidney Verba; 2002 Johan Skytte Prize for Political Science Awarded by The Skytte Foundation at Uppsala University; Co-Winner of the 2002 American Political Science Association's Victoria Schuck Prize

Genes in Conflict: The Biology of Selfish Genetic Elements; Austin Burt
Robert Trivers; Robert Trivers is Winner of the 2007 Crafoord Prize in Biosciences

Becoming America: The Revolution before 1776; Jon Butler; 2000 John G. Cawelti Book Award of the American Culture Association

The Huguenots in America: A Refugee People in New World Society; Jon Butler; Winner of the Gilbert Chinard Prize and the Theodore Saloutos Memorial Book Award in American Immigration History

Byron's Letters and Journals, Volume I: 'In my hot youth', 1798-1810: George Gordon Byron
Edited by Leslie A. Marchand; Winner of the 1974 James Russell Lowell Prize of the Modern Language Association

Byron's Letters and Journals, Volume II: 'Famous in my time', 1810-1812: George Gordon Byron
Edited by Leslie A. Marchand; Winner of the 1974 James Russell Lowell Prize of the Modern Language Association

The Compelling Image: Nature and Style in Seventeenth-Century Chinese Painting; James Cahill; Winner of the Charles Rufus Morey Award of the College Art Association of America

A Common Law for the Age of Statutes: Guido Calabresi; Winner of an American Bar Association Certificate of Merit, 1983

The Ruin of Kasch: Roberto Calasso
Translated by William Weaver
Translated by Stephen Sartorelli; Winner of a Critics' Choice Award, Compiled by the San Francisco Review of Books and Today's First Edition, Translations Category

The Women's Concise Guide to a Healthier Heart: Karen J. Carlson, M.D.
Stephanie A. Eisenstat, M.D.
Terra Ziporyn, Ph.D.; 1998 National Health Information Award for Best Health Promotion/Disease and Injury Prevention Information from the Health Information Resource Center

Black Rice: The African Origins of Rice Cultivation in the Americas; Judith A. Carney; Co-Winner of the 2002 Melville Herskovits Award, Sponsored by the African Studies Association.; 2003 The James M. Blaut Innovative Publication Award of the Cultural and Political Ecology Specialty Group of the Association of American Geographers

In Struggle: SNCC and the Black Awakening of the 1960s; Clayborne Carson; Winner of the Frederick Jackson Turner Award of the Organization of American Historians

First Lady of the Confederacy: Varina Davis’s Civil War; Joan E. Cashin; 2007 Fletcher Pratt Literary Award for the best-nonfiction book, Civil War Round Table of New York, Inc.; Honorable Mention, 2007 Library of Virginia Nonfiction Literary Awards; Finalist 2006 Jefferson Davis Award, Museum of the Confederacy; Runner-Up 2006-2007 The Society of Midland Authors Book Awards Competition, Biography Category

Dictionary of American Regional English, Volume I: A-C: Frederic G. Cassidy, Chief Editor; Winner of the 1985 Best Humanities Book Award in the Professional and Scholarly Division, Given by the Association of American Publishers; Winner of the 1986 David H. Russell Award for Distinguished Research in the Teaching of English, Given by the National Council of Teachers of English

Philosophy the Day after Tomorrow: Stanley Cavell; A Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year for 2005

Weird English: Evelyn Nien-Ming Ch'ien; 2005 Choice Magazine Outstanding Academic Title

Acheson: The Secretary of State Who Created the American World; James Chace; A New York Times Book Review Notable Book

The Hubble Wars: Astrophysics Meets Astropolitics in the Two-Billion-Dollar Struggle over the Hubble Space Telescope; Eric J. Chaisson; Winner of the American Institute of Physics Science Writing Award in Physics and Astronomy

The Physiology of Truth: Neuroscience and Human Knowledge; Jean-Pierre Changeux
Translated by M. B. DeBevoise; 2004 Rockefeller University Lewis Thomas Prize for Writing about Science

Congregations in America: Mark Chaves; Co-Winner 2006 Distinguished Book Award, sponsored by the American Sociological Association's Sociology of Religion Section; 2006 ARNOVA Outstanding Book Award

Ordaining Women: Culture and Conflict in Religious Organizations; Mark Chaves; Winner of the 1999 Distinguished Book Award of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion

Self-Interest and Universal Health Care: Why Well-Insured Americans Should Support Coverage for Everyone; Larry Churchill; A Choice Magazine Outstanding Academic Book of 1995, Health Services Category

Liberalism in the Shadow of Totalitarianism: David Ciepley; 2006 President's Book Award Finalist, Social Science History Association

Twice a Stranger: The Mass Expulsions that Forged Modern Greece and Turkey; Bruce Clark; 2007 Runciman Award, Sponsored by the Anglo-Hellenic League to a book on Greece or some aspect of the Hellenic scene

Petersburg: Crucible of Cultural Revolution; Katerina Clark; Co-recipient of the 1996 Vucinich Prize of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies

Chinese Medicine Men: Consumer Culture in China and Southeast Asia; Sherman Cochran; 2008 Joseph Levenson Book Prize, Post-1900 Category, China and Inner Asia Council of the Association for Asian Studies

Doubling the Point: Essays and Interviews; J. M. Coetzee
Edited by David Attwell; J. M. Coetzee is Winner of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature

The Regulars: The American Army, 1898-1941; Edward M. Coffman; 2005 Distinguished Book Award of the Society for Military History

If You're an Egalitarian, How Come You’re So Rich?: G. A. Cohen; 2001 ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Award - Philosophy Category

Cultural Psychology: A Once and Future Discipline; Michael Cole; Awarded Harvard University Press's Annual Prize for an Outstanding Publication about Education and Society, Established in 1995 by the Virginia and Warren Stone Fund; Honorable Mention in the Category of Psychology, 1996 Association of American Publishers, Professional/Scholarly Publishing Division

Suspect Identities: A History of Fingerprinting and Criminal Identification; Simon A. Cole; 2003 Rachel Carson Prize for a Work of Social or Political Relevance, Sponsored by the Society for Social Studies of Science

The Sociology of Philosophies: A Global Theory of Intellectual Change; Randall Collins; Winner of the 2000 AESA [American Educational Studies Association] Critics' Choice Award; Winner of the 1999 Distinguished Scholarly Publication Award, Sponsored by the American Sociological Association; Winner, Association of American Publishers 1998 Professional/Scholarly Publishing Annual Award in the Category of Sociology and Anthropology

Moscow: Governing the Socialist Metropolis; Timothy J. Colton; Winner of the Association of American Publishers Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division Best New Book in Government and Political Science, 1995

In Praise of Commercial Culture: Tyler Cowen; Winner of the 1998 Ray and Pat Browne Award of the Popular Culture Association in the Scholarly Monograph Category

Stealing Lincoln's Body: Thomas J. Craughwell; Amazon.com, A Top 100 Book of the Year

Homosexuality and Civilization: Louis Crompton; 2004 Independent Publisher Book Awards Finalist in the Gay/Lesbian Category; 2005 Choice Magazine Outstanding Academic Title; 2003 Bonnie and Vern L. Bullough Award, Sponsored by the Foundation for the Scientific Study of Sexuality

African-American Newspapers and Periodicals: A National Bibliography; Edited by James P. Danky
Maureen E. Hady, Associate Editor
Foreword by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.; Winner Isadore Gilbert Mudge-R. R. Bowker Award for a Distinguished Contribution to Reference Librarianship

That the World May Know: Bearing Witness to Atrocity; James Dawes; Finalist, 2008 Independent Publisher Book Awards, Peacemaker of the Year Category

Irresistible Empire: America’s Advance through Twentieth-Century Europe; Victoria de Grazia; 2006 Myrna F. Bernath Book Prize of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations

Good Natured: The Origins of Right and Wrong in Humans and Other Animals; Frans B. M. de Waal; Selected as a Library Journal Best Sci-Tech Book of 1996

Shook over Hell: Post-Traumatic Stress, Vietnam, and the Civil War; Eric T. Dean, Jr.; Award for the Best Book in Political Psychology of the American Political Science Association

The Puritan Ordeal: Andrew Delbanco; Winner of Columbia University's Lionel Trilling Award

A Most Amazing Scene of Wonders: Electricity and Enlightenment in Early America; James Delbourgo; 2005 Thomas J. Wilson Prize of Harvard University Press

Crickets and Katydids, Concerts and Solos: Vincent G. Dethier; 1993 John Burroughs Medal for Distinguished Nature Writing

Sexual Fluidity: Understanding Women's Love and Desire; Lisa M. Diamond; Finalist, 2008 Independent Publisher Book Awards, Gay/Lesbian Category

The Manuscript Books of Emily Dickinson: A Facsimile Edition; Emily Dickinson
Edited by R. W. Franklin; R. W. Franklin is Recipient of the Emily Dickinson International Society's Award for Outstanding Contribution

The Poems of Emily Dickinson: Variorum Edition; Emily Dickinson
Edited by R. W. Franklin; R. W. Franklin is Recipient of the Emily Dickinson International Society's Award for Outstanding Contribution

The Poems of Emily Dickinson: Reading Edition; Emily Dickinson
Edited by R. W. Franklin; R. W. Franklin is Recipient of the Emily Dickinson International Society's Award for Outstanding Contribution; 1999 Umhoefer Prize for Achievement in Humanities

The Urban Origins of Suburban Autonomy: Richardson Dilworth; 2006 Best Book Award, American Political Science Association Urban Politics Section

Film Noir and the Spaces of Modernity: Edward Dimendberg; 2005 Choice Magazine Outstanding Academic Title; Honorable Mention 2005 Kovacs Book Award of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies

The Emergence of Cinematic Time: Modernity, Contingency, the Archive; Mary Ann Doane; 2003 Kraszna-Krausz Moving Image Book Awards Special Commendation

Pyrrhic Victory: French Strategy and Operations in the Great War; Robert A. Doughty; 2006 Norman B. Tomlinson, Jr. Book Prize, Western Front Association; 2005 Arthur Godzeit Award , New York Military Affairs Symposium; 2007 Society for Military History Distinguished Book Award, European Military History

One of Us: Conjoined Twins and the Future of Normal; Alice Domurat Dreger; Honorable Mention 2005 Gustavus Myers Book Award, Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights

Bach and the Patterns of Invention: Laurence Dreyfus; Winner of the 1997 Otto Kinkeldey Award of the American Musicological Society

Avengers of the New World: The Story of the Haitian Revolution; Laurent Dubois; A Christian Science Monitor Noteworthy Book of 2004; Chosen as a Los Angeles Times Best Book of 2004: Nonfiction; 2004-2005 Runner-Up Adult Nonfiction Committee of the Society of Midland Authors

Hypatia of Alexandria: Maria Dzielska
Translated by F. Lyra; A Choice Magazine Outstanding Academic Book of 1995, Philosophy Category

Plantation Enterprise in Colonial South Carolina: S. Max Edelson; 2006 George C. Rogers, Jr. Book Award, South Carolina Historical Society; 2006 Theodore Saloutos Memorial Book Award , The Agricultural History Society

The Practice of Diaspora: Literature, Translation, and the Rise of Black Internationalism; Brent Hayes Edwards; 2003 Gilbert Chinard Prize awarded jointly by the Society for French Historical Studies and the Institut FranÁais de Washington; Honorable Mention, 2004 James Russell Lowell Prize, Sponsored by the Modern Language Association; 2004 John Hope Franklin Publication Prize, Sponsored by the American Studies Association

For Love of Insects: Thomas Eisner
Foreword by Edward O. Wilson; 2003 Biological Science Winner in the Professional/Scholarly Publishing Division of the American Association of Publishers; 2004 Independent Publisher Book Award for Best Book in the Science Category

Secret Weapons: Defenses of Insects, Spiders, Scorpions, and Other Many-Legged Creatures; Thomas Eisner
Maria Eisner
Melody Siegler; 2005 Rockefeller University Lewis Thomas Prize for Writing about Science

The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume I: Nature, Addresses, and Lectures: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Introduction and notes by Robert E. Spiller
Text established by Alfred R. Ferguson; Awarded the Seal of the Center for Editions of American Authors

The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume II: Essays: First Series: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Introduction and notes by Joseph Slater
Text established by Alfred R. Ferguson
Text established by Jean Ferguson Carr; Awarded the Seal of the Center for Scholarly Editions

The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume III: Essays: Second Series: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Introduction and notes by Joseph Slater
Text established by Alfred R. Ferguson
Text established by Jean Ferguson Carr; Awarded the Seal of the Center for Scholarly Editions

A Guinea Pig's History of Biology: Jim Endersby; 2004 Royal Society of Literature Jerwood Award for Non-Fiction

Modernization from the Other Shore: American Intellectuals and the Romance of Russian Development; David C. Engerman; Stuart L. Bernath Book Prize Sponsored by the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations; Co-Winner of the 2002-2003 Akira Iriye International History Book Award, Sponsored by The Foundation for Pacific Quest; 2005 Choice Magazine Outstanding Academic Title

The Economy of Prestige: Prizes, Awards, and the Circulation of Cultural Value; James F. English; 2005 New York Magazine Best Academic Book

Napoleon: A Political Life; Steven Englund; 2004 J. Russell Major Prize for Best Book in French History, American Historical Association; Best Book on the First Empire by a Foreigner, Napoleon Foundation

Simple Rules for a Complex World: Richard Epstein; New York Times Notable Book of the Year 1995, Politics & Current Affairs Category; Honorable Mention, 1995 Professional/Scholarly Publishing Award of the Association of American Publishers, Legal Category

Gaylaw: Challenging the Apartheid of the Closet; William N. Eskridge, Jr.; Nonfiction Winner of the 2001 GLBTRT (The Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgendered Round Table) of the American Library Association's Book Awards

The Gardens of Emily Dickinson: Judith Farr
Louise Carter, Contributor; 2005 Rose Mary Crawshay Prize of the British Academy

Hispaniola: A Photographic Journey through Island Biodiversity; Eladio Fernández
Foreword by Edward O. Wilson
Introduction by Philippe Bayard
Contributions by Timothy J. Baroni
Contributions by Brian Farrell
Contributions by Ricardo García
Contributions by S. Blair Hedges
Contributions by Steven C. Latta
Contributions by Milcíades Mejía
Contributions by Jose A. Ottenwalder
Contributions by Christopher C. Rimmer
Contributions by Charles A. Woods
Translated by Irina P. Ferreras
Translated by Gustavo Romero
Contributions by Sharon A. Cantrell; Silver Medal, 2008 Nautilus Book Awards, Animals/Nature category

Inside the Arab World: Michael Field; A Choice Magazine Outstanding Academic Book of 1995, Middle Eastern and North African History, Geography & Area Studies Category

Speaking of Yangzhou: A Chinese City, 1550-1850; Antonia Finnane; 2005 Joseph Levenson Book Prize, sponsored by the Association for Asian Studies China and Inner Asia Council

Surprised by Sin: The Reader in Paradise Lost, Second Edition; Stanley Fish; Winner of the Milton Society of America's Hanford Award for Best Book, 1997

Still the New World: American Literature in a Culture of Creative Destruction; Philip Fisher; Co-Winner of the 2000 Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism in Memory of Newton Arvin

A Short History of Distributive Justice: Samuel Fleischacker; 2005 Choice Magazine Outstanding Academic Title

A New Theory for American Poetry: Democracy, the Environment, and the Future of Imagination; Angus Fletcher; 2005 Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism in Memory of Newton Arvin

Dispatches from the Freud Wars: Psychoanalysis and Its Passions; John Forrester; Winner of the 1999 Gradiva Award; Best General Book, Presented by the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis and World Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis

The Decline and Fall of the Lettered City: Latin America in the Cold War; Jean Franco; Honorable Mention 2002 MLA Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize

Oil Empire: Visions of Prosperity in Austrian Galicia; Alison Fleig Frank; 2006 Barbara Jelavich Book Prize, American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies; Co-Winner of the 2006 Orbis Prize for Polish Studies; 2006 Austrian Cultural Forum Book Prize

On the Surface of Things: Images of the Extraordinary in Science; Felice Frankel
George M. Whitesides; 2007 Lennart Nilsson Award for Medical, Technical & Scientific Photography

The Education of Laura Bridgman: First Deaf and Blind Person to Learn Language; Ernest Freeberg; 2001 John H. Dunning Prize of the American Historical Association

Exchanging Writing, Exchanging Cultures: Lessons in School Reform from the United States and Great Britain; Sarah W. Freedman; Winner of the 1995 Richard A. Meade Award of the Conference on English Education, National Council of Teachers of English

Governing Nonprofit Organizations: Federal and State Law and Regulation; Marion R. Fremont-Smith; 2nd Place 2004 Virginia Hodgkinson Research Prize, Sponsored by Independent Sector; 2005 Outstanding Book in Nonprofit and Voluntary Action Research prize by ARNOVA (Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations & Voluntary Action).

Betrayal Trauma: The Logic of Forgetting Childhood Abuse; Jennifer J. Freyd; Winner of the 1997 Pierre Janet Award for Excellence in Scientific Writing from the International Society for the Study of Dissociation; Winner of a 1997 Distinguished Publication Award of the Association for Women in Psychology

Saying What the Law Is: The Constitution in the Supreme Court; Charles Fried; 2005 Choice Magazine Outstanding Academic Title

On Being Nonprofit: A Conceptual and Policy Primer; Peter Frumkin; 2005 Best Book Award, Sponsored by the Academy of Management, Public and Nonprofit Division

Crafting Science: A Sociohistory of the Quest for the Genetics of Cancer; Joan Fujimura; Co-Winner of the 1998 Robert K. Merton Professional Award in Science, Knowledge and Technology of the American Sociological Association

Surprise, Security, and the American Experience: John Lewis Gaddis; Chosen as One of the Best Books of 2004 by The Economist; 2004 New York Times Book Review Notable Book; A Washington Post Best Book of 2004

The Confederate War: Gary W. Gallagher; Winner of the 1997 Laney Prize for Best Book on the Military History of the Civil War; Honorable Mention, Lincoln Prize Committee, Gettysburg College

Migration and the Origins of the English Atlantic World: Alison Games; 1999 Theodore Saloutos Memorial Book Award in American Immigration History, Sponsored by the Immigration and Ethnic History Society

Urban Exodus: Why the Jews Left Boston and the Catholics Stayed; Gerald Gamm; Winner of the 2000 Robert Park Award from the American Sociological Association for the Best Book in Urban Sociology; 2001 Tuttleman Foundation Book Award of Gratz College and the Tuttleman Family Foundation Prize

American Agriculture in the Twentieth Century: How It Flourished and What It Cost; Bruce L. Gardner; 2003 Quality of Communication Award, Sponsored by the American Agricultural Economics Association

Making Dead Birds: Chronicle of a Film; Robert Gardner; Honorable Mention, 2008 New England Museum Association Book Award for Books over $10.00

Saving Persuasion: A Defense of Rhetoric and Judgment; Bryan Garsten; 2005 Thomas J. Wilson Prize of Harvard University Press; 2006 First Book Award from the Foundations of Political Theory Section, APSA

After the Fact: Two Countries, Four Decades, One Anthropologist; Clifford Geertz; A New York Times Notable Book of 1995; National Book Critics Circle Award Nominee

Choosing Medical Care in Old Age: What Kind, How Much, When to Stop; Muriel R. Gillick, M.D.; Winner of the 1995 Will Solimene Award for Excellence in Medical Communications, American Medical Writers Association, New England Chapter

The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double-Consciousness; Paul Gilroy; Winner of the 1994 American Book Award of the Before Columbus Foundation

Noble Nationalists: The Transformation of the Bohemian Aristocracy; Eagle Glassheim; 2005 Winner, Category B, Fraenkel Prize, Wiener Library

Unequal Freedom: How Race and Gender Shaped American Citizenship and Labor; Evelyn Nakano Glenn; Winner of the 2003 Outstanding Achievement in Scholarship Award, Sponsored by the American Sociological Association's Section on Race, Gender, and Class; 2003 Oliver Cromwell Cox Book Award of the American Sociological Association Section on Racial and Ethnic Minorities

Hearing Gesture: How Our Hands Help Us Think; Susan Goldin-Meadow; Winner of the Best Authored 2003-2004 Book Award, Cognitive Development Society

Sowing the Seeds of Democracy in China: Political Reform in the Deng Xiaoping Era; Merle Goldman; 1994 Winner of the Professional/Scholarly Publishing Award of the Association of American Publishers

The Post-Revolutionary Self: Politics and Psyche in France, 1750-1850; Jan Goldstein; 2005 David Pinckney Prize, Sponsored by The Society for French Historical Studies

The Lost Promise of Civil Rights: Risa Goluboff; Co-winner, 2008 James Willard Hurst Prize, Law and Society Association

Writing and Being: Nadine Gordimer; Nadine Gordimer is Winner of the 1991 Nobel Prize in Literature

Suburban Sweatshops: The Fight for Immigrant Rights; Jennifer Gordon; Honorable Mention 2005 Gustavus Myers Book Award, Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights

The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction: Linda Gordon; Winner of the Bancroft Prize in American History and Diplomacy from Columbia University; One of Two Finalists in the Willa Cather Literary Awards, Sponsored by Women Writing the West; Winner of the American Historical Association's 2000 Albert J. Beveridge Award

Controlling the State: Constitutionalism from Ancient Athens to Today; Scott Gordon; Winner of the 1999 Professional/Scholarly Publishing Award of the Association of American Publishers, Government and Political Science Category

Conflicting Paths: Growing Up in America; Harvey J. Graff; A Choice Magazine Outstanding Academic Book of 1995, North American History, Geography & Area Studies Category

Cardano's Cosmos: The Worlds and Works of a Renaissance Astrologer; Anthony Grafton; The American Historical Association's 2000 Helen and Howard R. Marraro Prize in Italian History

New Worlds, Ancient Texts: The Power of Tradition and the Shock of Discovery; Anthony Grafton
April Shelford, With
Nancy Siraisi, With; Winner of a 1993 Los Angeles Times Book Prize; 1992 Winner of the Professional/Scholarly Publishing Award of the Association of American Publishers, History Category

Teaching in America: The Slow Revolution; Gerald Grant
Christine E. Murray; Winner of the Virginia and Warren Stone Prize, Awarded Annually by Harvard University Press for an Outstanding Book on Education and Society; Winner of the 2000 AESA [American Educational Studies Association] Critics' Choice Award

The Spirit of Capitalism: Nationalism and Economic Growth; Liah Greenfeld; 2002 Donald Kagan Best Book in European History Prize, Sponsored by the Historical Society

Salvation at Stake: Christian Martyrdom in Early Modern Europe; Brad S. Gregory; 1997 Thomas J. Wilson Prize of Harvard University Press; 2000 Phi Alpha Theta First Book Award in the Field of History; 2000 John Gilmary Shea Prize of the American Catholic Historical Association; Silver Medal, 2000 California Book Awards, Sponsored by the Commonwealth Club of California, for Literary Excellence in the Nonfiction Category; Second Place, Catholic Press Association Book Awards

Slicing the Silence: Voyaging to Antarctica; Tom Griffiths; 2007 Queensland Premier's Non-fiction Book Award; 2008 NSW Premier's Literary Award, Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-fiction

The Deadly Truth: A History of Disease in America; Gerald N. Grob; 2003 New Jersey Council for the Humanities Honor Book

The Color of Race in America, 1900-1940: Matthew Pratt Guterl; Best Book of 2001 on the History of Race and Ethnicity, American Political Science Association Section on Race, Ethnicity and Politics

Democracy and Disagreement: Amy Gutmann
Dennis Thompson; Winner of the 1996 Professional/Scholarly Publishing Award, Association of American Publishers, Government and Political Science Category

Being a Buddhist Nun: The Struggle for Enlightenment in the Himalayas; Kim Gutschow; 2005 Winner Sharon Stephens Book Award, American Ethnological Society; Honorable Mention 2004 Elli Köngäs-Maranda Prize of the Women's Section of the American Folklore Society

Athens from Alexander to Antony: Christian Habicht
Translated by Deborah Lucas Schneider; Winner of the 1997 Criticos Prize of the London Hellenic Society

Second Home: Orphan Asylums and Poor Families in America; Timothy A. Hacsi; A Choice Outstanding Academic Book

Northern Passage: American Vietnam War Resisters in Canada; John Hagan; 2003 Albert J. Reiss Distinguished Scholar Book Award, Sponsored by the Crime, Law and Deviance Section of the American Sociological Association

A Nation under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migration; Steven Hahn; 2004 Pulitzer Prize in History; 2004 Bancroft Prize Given by Columbia University; Honorable Mention 2004 The Mark Lynton History Prize, Sponsored by the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism and the Nieman Foundation at Harvard; 2004 Merle Curti Prize in Social History, Sponsored by the Organization for American Historians; 2005 Choice Magazine Outstanding Academic Title

The Healthy Body and Victorian Culture: Bruce Haley; 1977 Thomas J. Wilson Prize of Harvard University Press

Boston's Immigrants, 1790-1880: A Study in Acculturation, Enlarged Edition; Oscar Handlin; Winner of the John H. Dunning Prize of the American Historical Association

Your Death Would Be Mine: Paul and Marie Pireaud in the Great War; Martha Hanna; 2008 Society for Military History Distinguished Book Award, Biography and Memoir; 2007 J. Russell Major Prize, American Historical Association; 2007 Colorado Book Award, History/Biography

Handel as Orpheus: Voice and Desire in the Chamber Cantatas; Ellen T. Harris; 2002-03 Louis Gottschalk Prize, Sponsored by the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies; Winner of the American Musicological Society's Kinkeldey Award

Lincoln's Last Months: William C. Harris; 2004 Abraham Lincoln Institute Book Award

Ancient Literacy: William V. Harris; William V. Harris is Recipient of the 2007 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Distinguished Achievement Award

Restraining Rage: The Ideology of Anger Control in Classical Antiquity; William V. Harris; 2002 James Henry Breasted Prize of the American Historical Association; William V. Harris is Recipient of the 2007 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Distinguished Achievement Award

Man and Wife in America: A History; Hendrik Hartog; 2001 Book Award, Sponsored by the New Jersey Council for the Humanities

Racing the Enemy: Stalin, Truman, and the Surrender of Japan; Tsuyoshi Hasegawa; 2005 Winner of the AAP Professional/Scholarly Publishing Annual Award Competition, History and American Studies; 2006 Robert H. Ferrell Book Prize, Sponsored by the Society of Historians of American Foreign Relations

Leadership Without Easy Answers: Ronald Heifetz; A Choice Magazine Outstanding Academic Book of 1995, United States Politics Category; Honorable Mention, 1994 Professional/Scholarly Publishing Award of the Association of American Publishers, Business & Management Category

The Sun in the Church: Cathedrals as Solar Observatories; J. L. Heilbron; A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year, 1999; 2001 Pfizer Prize, Sponsored by the History of Science Society

Divided Memory: The Nazi Past in the Two Germanys; Jeffrey Herf; Co-Winner of the Fraenkel Prize in Contemporary History; Winner of the Beer Prize of the American Historical Association for the Best Book in International History after 1895

The Jewish Enemy: Nazi Propaganda during World War II and the Holocaust; Jeffrey Herf; 2006 National Jewish Book Award, Holocaust Category

The Ants: Bert Hölldobler
Edward O. Wilson; 1991 Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction; 1990 R.R. Hawkins Prize of the Professional/Scholarly Publishing Division of the Association of American Publishers

Journey to the Ants: A Story of Scientific Exploration; Bert Hölldobler
Edward O. Wilson; Winner of the 1995 Phi Beta Kappa Award in Science

Jealousy of Trade: International Competition and the Nation-State in Historical Perspective; Istvan Hont; 2007 J. David Greenstone Book Prize, awarded by the Politics and History Section of the APSA; 2007 Joseph J. Spengler Best Book Award, sponsored by the History of Economics Society

Biobazaar: The Open Source Revolution and Biotechnology; Janet Hope; Finalist, 2008 Independent Publisher Book Awards, Science Category

The Transformation of American Law, 1780-1860: Morton J. Horwitz; 1976 Thomas J. Wilson Prize of Harvard University Press

The First Socialist Society: A History of the Soviet Union from Within; Geoffrey Hosking; Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Award for History

Rulers and Victims: The Russians in the Soviet Union; Geoffrey Hosking; 2006 Alexander Nove Prize, British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies

Russia and the Russians: A History; Geoffrey Hosking; Winner 2002 Independent Publisher Book Award in the History Category

The Woman That Never Evolved: With a New Preface and Bibliographical Updates; Sarah Blaffer Hrdy; A New York Times Book Review Notable Book

Monstrous Imagination: Marie-Hélène Huet; Winner of the 1995 Harry Levin Prize of the American Comparative Literature Association

Citizens and Citoyens: Republicans and Liberals in America and France; Mark Hulliung; 2003 Gilbert Chinard Book Prize, Sponsored by the Society for French Historical Studies

Lessons from an Optical Illusion: On Nature and Nurture, Knowledge and Values; Edward M. Hundert; Honorable Mention, 1995 Professional/Scholarly Publishing Award of the Association of American Publishers, Psychology Category

The Puritan Moment: The Coming of Revolution in an English County; William Hunt; 1981 Thomas J. Wilson Prize of Harvard University Press

To 'Joy My Freedom: Southern Black Women's Lives and Labors after the Civil War; Tera W. Hunter; Winner of the International Labor History Association Book of the Year Award

Consciousness in Action: S. L. Hurley; 1998 Professional/Scholarly Publishing Annual Award in the Category of Philosophy and Religion by Association of American Publishers

In Search of Nella Larsen: A Biography of the Color Line; George Hutchinson; 2006 Booklist Editor's Choice; 2006 Honorable Mention of the Professional/Scholarly Publishing Annual Award Competition, Biography & Autobiography; Finalist, 2007 Independent Publisher Book Awards, Biography Category; 2007 Christian Gauss Award for literary scholarship or criticism, Phi Beta Kappa Society; Choice Magazine A Best Academic Book of the Year

The Averaged American: Surveys, Citizens, and the Making of a Mass Public; Sarah E. Igo; 2006 President's Book Award of the Social Science History Association; Slate Best Books of the Year selection; 2008 Cheiron Book Prize

Ukrainian Futurism, 1914-1930: A Historical and Critical Study; Oleh S. Ilnytzkyj; Winner of the American Association for Ukrainian Studies Book Prize

Who Controls Teachers' Work?: Power and Accountability in America's Schools; Richard M. Ingersoll; American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education's (AACTE) Outstanding Writing Award for a Book

The Alhambra: Robert Irwin; A New York Sun Book of the Year, 2004

Destined for Equality: The Inevitable Rise of Women’s Status; Robert Max Jackson; Honorable Mention, Association of American Publishers 1998 Professional/Scholarly Publishing Annual Award in Sociology & Anthropology

The Time Divide: Work, Family, and Gender Inequality; Jerry A. Jacobs
Kathleen Gerson; Honorable Mention 2005 Mirra Komarovsky Award of the Eastern Sociological Society; Voted one of the Best Business Books 2005 by Strategy Business Magazine in the Work and Life Category

Roots Too: White Ethnic Revival in Post-Civil Rights America; Matthew Frye Jacobson; 2006 Gustavus Myers Book Award, Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights

Whiteness of a Different Color: European Immigrants and the Alchemy of Race; Matthew Frye Jacobson; Winner of the 1999 John Hope Franklin Publication Prize of the American Studies Association; 1999 Best Book on the Social Construction of Race, Sponsored by the American Political Science Association Section on Race, Ethnicity and Politics; Co-Winner of the American Political Science Association's 1999 Ralph J. Bunche Award

A Scapegoat in the New Wilderness: The Origins and Rise of Anti-Semitism in America; Frederic Jaher; An Outstanding Book on the Subject of Human Rights, Awarded by the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Human Rights in North America

Science at the Bar: Science and Technology in American Law; Sheila Jasanoff; Winner of the Don K. Price Award for the Best Book on Science, Technology, and Politics

The Homeless: Christopher Jencks; 1994 Winner of the Professional/Scholarly Publishing Award of the Association of American Publishers, Sociology and Anthropology Category

Spreading the News: The American Postal System from Franklin to Morse; Richard R. John; Winner of the Allan Nevins Prize of the Society of American Historians

Mother Tongues: Sexuality, Trials, Motherhood, Translation; Barbara Johnson; Honorable Mention 2003 Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies

Failing to Win: Perceptions of Victory and Defeat in International Politics; Dominic D. P. Johnson
Dominic Tierney; International Studies Association Best Book Award for 2006

Overconfidence and War: The Havoc and Glory of Positive Illusions; Dominic D. P. Johnson; 2005 Honor Book, New Jersey Council for the Humanities

Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market; Walter Johnson; 2000 Avery O. Craven Award of the Organization of American Historians; 2000 John Hope Franklin Prize sponsored by the American Studies Association; 1998 Thomas J. Wilson Prize of Harvard University Press; 2000 SHEAR Book Prize of the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic; Co-Winner of the 2000 Frederick Jackson Turner Award of the Organization of American Historians; Co-Winner of the 2001 Frances B. Simkins Award, Sponsored by The Southern Historical Association

Lucy’s Legacy: Sex and Intelligence in Human Evolution; Alison Jolly; Winner of the 1999 Professional/Scholarly Publishing Award of the Association of American Publishers, Sociology and Anthropology Category; Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist, 2000

Guardians of the Nation: Activists on the Language Frontiers of Imperial Austria; Pieter M. Judson; 2007 Czechoslovak Studies Association Book Prize; 2007 Barbara Jelavich Book Prize, American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies

American Tragedy: Kennedy, Johnson, and the Origins of the Vietnam War; David Kaiser; 2001 ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Award, History Category

Pathways to Language: From Fetus to Adolescent; Kyra Karmiloff
Annette Karmiloff-Smith; European Science Foundation's Latsis Prize for Cognitive Sciences

From Appomattox to Montmartre: Americans and the Paris Commune; Philip M. Katz; Winner of the 1999 Gilbert Chinard Award of the Society for French Historical Studies and the Institut Francais de Washington

Cardozo: Andrew L. Kaufman; Winner of the 1999 Scribes Book Award Sponsored by the American Society of Writers on Legal Subjects; Winner of the Erwin N. Griswold Prize of the Supreme Court Historical Society; Winner of the 1998 Archives Week Award for Excellence in Research Using the Holdings of the State Archives, from the New York Board of Regents and the New York State Archives; A Choice Outstanding Academic Book

In Face of Mystery: A Constructive Theology; Gordon Kaufman; Winner of the 1995 American Academy of Religion Book Award

An American Procession: Alfred Kazin; Alfred Kazin was Awarded the First Truman Capote Literary Trust Lifetime Achievement Award in Literary Criticism in Memory of Newton Arvin

Writing Was Everything: Alfred Kazin; A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of 1995

The Kurbskii-Groznyi Apocrypha: the 17th-Century Genesis of the "Correspondence" Attributed to Prince A. M. Kurbskii and Tsar Ivan IV; Edward L. Keenan; 1970 Thomas J. Wilson Prize of Harvard University Press

The Rules of Federalism: Institutions and Regulatory Politics in the EU and Beyond; R. Daniel Kelemen; 2005 Choice Magazine Outstanding Academic Title

The Century of the Gene: Evelyn Fox Keller; Finalist for the L. L. Winship/PEN New England Award Honoring a Book by a New England Author or about New England

Regulating a New Economy: Public Policy and Economic Change in America, 1900-1933; Morton Keller; Winner of the 1995 Littleton-Griswold Prize of the American Historical Association

Jihad: The Trail of Political Islam; Gilles Kepel
Translated by Anthony F. Roberts; 2002 French-American Foundation Translation Prize Winner in the Nonfiction Category

The War for Muslim Minds: Islam and the West; Gilles Kepel
Translated by Pascale Ghazaleh; A Times Literary Supplement International Book of the Year for 2004

In the Name of Eugenics: Genetics and the Uses of Human Heredity; Daniel Kevles; An American Book Award Nominee in Nonfiction

Globalizing Sport: National Rivalry and International Community in the 1930s; Barbara J. Keys; 2006 North American Society for Sport History (NASSH) Book Award; 2006 Best Book Prize, International Society of Olympic Historians (ISOH); 2008 Myrna F. Bernath Book Award, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations

Inventing Ireland: Declan Kiberd; Winner of the Michael Durkan Prize for Irish Literary and Cultural Criticism of the American Conference for Irish Studies; One of 35 Best Books of 1996 Selected by Library Journal

Irish Classics: Declan Kiberd; 2001 Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism, Administered for the Truman Capote Estate by the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop

The Sandbox Investment: The Preschool Movement and Kids-First Politics; David L. Kirp; 2007 PSP Award for Excellence, Education Category, Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division of the Association of American Publishers; San Francisco Chronicle A Best Book of the Year

Orthodoxies in Massachusetts: Rereading American Puritanism; Janice Knight; 1991 Thomas J. Wilson Prize of Harvard University Press

Epistemic Cultures: How the Sciences Make Knowledge; Karin Knorr Cetina; 2001 Robert K. Merton Book Award of the Science, Knowledge, and Technology Section of the American Sociological Association; 2001 Ludwik Fleck Prize for the Best Book of the Year in the Social Studies of Science

Unfree Labor: American Slavery and Russian Serfdom; Peter Kolchin; Awarded the 1988 Bancroft Prize in American History; Winner of the 1988 Charles S. Sydnor Award of the Southern Historical Association; Awarded the Avery 0. Craven Prize of the Organization of American Historians

The Bible As It Was: James L. Kugel; Winner of the 2001 Grawemeyer Award in Religion

Soulstealers: The Chinese Sorcery Scare of 1768; Philip A. Kuhn; Winner of the 1990 Joseph Levenson Prize of the Association for Asian Studies

Pull: Networking and Success since Benjamin Franklin; Pamela Walker Laird; 2006 Harold F. Williamson Prize, Business History Conference; 2006 Hagley Prize in Business History, The Business History Conference & The Hagley Museum

The Dignity of Working Men: Morality and the Boundaries of Race, Class, and Immigration; Michèle Lamont; 2001 Mattei Dogan Prize for the Best Comparativist Book of the Year Sponsored by the Society for Comparative Research; 2000 C. Wright Mills Award, Sponsored by the C. Wright Mills Award Committee of the Society for the Study of Social Problems

Dictatorship and Demand: The Politics of Consumerism in East Germany; Mark Landsman; 2005 Herbert Feis Award, American Historical Association

The Wild Boy of Aveyron: Harlan Lane; 1975 Thomas J. Wilson Prize of Harvard University Press

Making Sex: Body and Gender from the Greeks to Freud; Thomas Laqueur; Thomas Laqueur is Recipient of the 2007 Andrew W. Mellion Foundation Distinguished Achievement Award

1812: War with America; Jon Latimer; 2008 Society for Military History Distinguished Book Award, US History

Shared Beginnings, Divergent Lives: Delinquent Boys to Age 70; John H. Laub
Robert J. Sampson; 2004 Michael J. Hindelang Award for the Most Outstanding Contribution to Research in Criminology, Sponsored by the American Society of Criminology; 2005 Choice Magazine Outstanding Academic Title; 2004 Albert J. Reiss Award Sponsored by the Crime, Law, and Deviance Section of the American Sociological Association; 2005 Outstanding Book Award, Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences

Happiness, Death, and the Remainder of Life: Jonathan Lear; 2001 Gradiva Award for the Best Book in Psychoanalysis and Philosophy, Sponsored by the World Organization and the Public Education Corporation of the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis

Painted by a Distant Hand: Mimbres Pottery of the American Southwest; Steven A. LeBlanc
Foreword by Rubie Watson
Photographs by Hillel S. Burger; 2006 1st Place Winner in the Publications Design Contest for books under $10 (cost), The New England Museum Association

One Quarter of Humanity: Malthusian Mythology and Chinese Realities, 1700-2000; James Z. Lee
Feng Wang; 2000 Otis Dudley Duncan Award for Distinguished Scholarship in the Field of Social Demography, Presented by the Sociology of Population Section of the American Sociological Association

Judaism, Human Values, and the Jewish State: Yeshayahu Leibowitz
Edited and translated by Eliezer Goldman
Translated by Yoram Navon
Translated by Zvi Jacobson
Translated by Gershon Levi
Translated by Raphael Levy; A New York Times Notable Book of 1992

Dry Manhattan: Prohibition in New York City; Michael A. Lerner; Washington Post Book World Top 100 Nonfiction Book of 2007; Washington Post Critic Jonathan Yardley's Top 10 of 2007; Slate Best Books of the Year selection

Florence: A Portrait; Michael Levey; A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year

Raising Cain: Blackface Performance from Jim Crow to Hip Hop; W. T. Lhamon, Jr.; A Choice Outstanding Academic Book

Shifting the Color Line: Race and the American Welfare State; Robert C. Lieberman; 1996 Thomas J. Wilson Prize of Harvard University Press; 1999 Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award Honorable Mention Sponsored by the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights in North America; President's Book Award of the Social Science History Association; 1999 Lionel Trilling Book Award of Columbia University

From the Other Shore: Russian Social Democracy after 1921; Andre Liebich; Winner of the Fraenkel Prize in Contemporary History of the Wiener Library, London

Making the Most of College: Students Speak Their Minds; Richard J. Light; Winner of the Virginia and Warren Stone Prize, Awarded Annually by Harvard University Press for an Outstanding Book on Education and Society

The Accidental Mind: How Brain Evolution Has Given Us Love, Memory, Dreams, and God; David J. Linden; Finalist, 2008 Independent Publisher Book Awards, Science Category

The World within War: America's Combat Experience in World War II; Gerald F. Linderman; Winner of the 1999 Forrest C. Pogue Prize, Awarded Annually to a Scholarly, Historical Work on the U.S. Army in WWII

The Case of the Female Orgasm: Bias in the Science of Evolution; Elisabeth A. Lloyd; 2005 Bonnie and Vern Bullough Award, Foundation for the Scientific Study of Sexuality

Eyewitness Testimony: Elizabeth F. Loftus; Winner, 1980 National Media Award for Distinguished Contribution from the American Psychological Foundation

Lectures on Economic Growth: Robert E. Lucas, Jr.; Robert E. Lucas, Jr., is Winner of the 1995 Nobel Prize in Economics

The Selected Poems of Oleh Lysheha: Oleh Lysheha
Translated by James Brasfield; Winner of the 2000 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation

Dividing the Child: Social and Legal Dilemmas of Custody; Eleanor E. Maccoby
Robert H. Mnookin; Winner of the 1993 William J. Goode Book Award of the American Sociological Association

The Two Sexes: Growing Up Apart, Coming Together; Eleanor E. Maccoby; Honorable Mention, Association of American Publishers 1998 Professional/Scholarly Publishing Annual Award in Psychology; Winner of the 1999 Maccoby Book Award of the American Psychological Association

Mao's Last Revolution: Roderick MacFarquhar
Michael Schoenhals; Finalist, 2007 Independent Publisher Book Awards, History Category

Freedom Is Not Enough: The Opening of the American Workplace; Nancy MacLean; 2006 Gustavus Myers Book Award, Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights; 2007 Philip Taft Labor History Book Award; 2007 Sharlin Memorial Award, Best Book in Social Science History

Primate Psychology: Edited by Dario Maestripieri
Contributions by Filippo Aureli
Contributions by Jo-Anne Bachorowski
Contributions by Michael J. Beran
Contributions by Jesse M. Bering
Contributions by Josep Call
Contributions by Claudio Cantalupo
Contributions by Samuel D. Gosling
Contributions by Franklynn C. Graves
Contributions by J. Dee Higley
Contributions by Lori Marino
Contributions by Michael J. Owren
Contributions by Lisa A. Parr
Contributions by Dawn L. Pilcher
Contributions by Daniel J. Povinelli
Contributions by James R. Roney
Contributions by Duane M. Rumbaugh
Contributions by E. Sue Savage-Rumbaugh
Contributions by Michael Tomasello
Contributions by Alfonso Troisi
Contributions by Kim Wallen
Contributions by Andrew Whiten
Contributions by Julia L. Zehr
Contributions by Lynn A. Fairbanks
Contributions by Rebecca A. Herman
Contributions by William D. Hopkins
Contributions by Peter G. Judge
Contributions by Scott O. Lilienfeld
Contributions by Drew Rendall; 2005 Choice Magazine Outstanding Academic Title

Whose View of Life?: Embryos, Cloning, and Stem Cells; Jane Maienschein; 2004 Independent Publisher Book Awards Finalist in the Science Category

Peoples of a Spacious Land: Families and Cultures in Colonial New England; Gloria L. Main; 2002 Alice Hanson Jones Biennial Prize for an Outstanding Book on North American Economic History, Sponsored by the Economic History Association

The Healing Hand: Man and Wound in the Ancient World; Guido Majno; Winner of the 1975 Phi Beta Kappa Award in Science.

Transmitters and Creators: Chinese Commentators and Commentaries on the Analects; John Makeham; 2005 Joseph Levenson Book Prize: Pre-1900 Category, Sponsored by the Association for Asian Studies

Mikhail Kuzmin: A Life in Art; John Malmstad
Nikolay Bogomolov; Honorable Mention, 2000 Wayne S. Vucinich Book Prize of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS) for a Distinguished Monograph in Russian, Eurasian, and East European Studies

Republic of Debtors: Bankruptcy in the Age of American Independence; Bruce H. Mann; 2003 SHEAR Prize Sponsored by the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic; 2003 Littleton-Griswold Prize of the American Historical Association; 2004 J. Willard Hurst Prize for the Best Book on the History of American Law and Society, Awarded by the Law and Society Association

The 30-Minute Fitness Solution: A Four-Step Plan for Women of All Ages; JoAnn Manson, M.D.
Patricia Amend, MA; Will Solimene Award of Excellence in Medical Communication, sponsored by the New England Chapter of the American Medical Writers Association

A Desert Calling: Life in a Forbidding Landscape; Michael A. Mares
Foreword by Stephen Jay Gould; 2003 Oklahoma Book Award in the Nonfiction Category; 2002 ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Award Environment Category

The Ethics of Memory: Avishai Margalit; 2002 ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Award Philosophy Category; Los Angeles Times Best Books of 2003 - Nonfiction

Martin Luther: The Christian between God and Death; Richard Marius; Second Place Winner, Catholic Press Association Book Awards

Commander of All Lincoln’s Armies: A Life of General Henry W. Halleck; John F. Marszalek; 2005 Peter Seaborg Finalist, Sponsored by the George Tyler Moore Center for the Study of the Civil War at Shepherd University

Divided Mastery: Slave Hiring in the American South; Jonathan D. Martin; 2004 Bennett H. Wall Award, Sponsored by the Southern Historical Association; 2004 Herbert Feis Award, American Historical Association

Dry: Life Without Water; Edited by Ehsan Masood
Edited by Daniel Schaffer
Contributions by Fred Pearce
Contributions by Anju Sharma; Finalist, 2007 Independent Publisher Book Awards, Environment/Ecology/Nature Category

Browning's Youth: John Maynard; 1974 Thomas J. Wilson Prize of Harvard University Press

One Long Argument: Charles Darwin and the Genesis of Modern Evolutionary Thought; Ernst Mayr; Winner of the Phi Beta Kappa Award for Science

Systematics and the Origin of Species from the Viewpoint of a Zoologist: Ernst Mayr; Winner of the Loye and Alden Miller Research Award, Sponsored by The Cooper Ornithological Society

This Is Biology: The Science of the Living World; Ernst Mayr; Winner of the Lewis Thomas Prize Honoring the Scientist as Poet; Short List, Poulenc Prize for Science Books

The Myth of the French Bourgeoisie: An Essay on the Social Imaginary, 1750-1850; Sarah Maza; 2003 George L. Mosse Prize of the American Historical Association

Maize and Grace: Africa's Encounter with a New World Crop, 1500-2000; James C. McCann; 2006 George Perkins Marsh Prize, American Society for Environmental History; Honorable Mention 2006 Melville J. Herskovits Award, African Studies Association

Prophet of Innovation: Joseph Schumpeter and Creative Destruction; Thomas K. McCraw; Best Business Books of 2007 selection, Library Journal; 2008 Hagley Prize in Business History, The Business History Conference & The Hagley Museum; 2008 Joseph J. Spengler Best Book Award, History of Economics Society; 2008 Schumpeter Prize Competition, sponsored by The International Joseph Alois Schumpeter Society

Clinging to Mammy: The Faithful Slave in Twentieth-Century America; Micki McElya; 2007 Myers Center Outstanding Book Award, Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights

Washington from the Ground Up: James H. S. McGregor; Winner of the 2008 Georgia Author of the Year Award, Creative Non-Fiction Specialty Book, Sponsored by the Georgia Writers Association

Magic Circles: The Beatles in Dream and History; Devin McKinney; Voice Literary Supplement 25 Favorite Books of 2003; Finalist for 2003 Outstanding Book in the Area of Film or Broadcasting, Sponsored by the Theatre Library Association; 2005 Choice Magazine Outstanding Academic Title

Right Hand, Left Hand: The Origins of Asymmetry in Brains, Bodies, Atoms and Cultures; Chris McManus; 2003 Aventis Prize Winner for Best Book in Popular Science Writing. The prize is sponsored by the Royal Society, the UK national academy of science, and the generous support of the Aventis Foundation

Remembering Trauma: Richard J. McNally; Honorable Mention, Association of American Publishers 2003 Professional/Scholarly Publishing Annual Award in Psychology

Yankee No!: Anti-Americanism in U.S.-Latin American Relations; Alan McPherson; 2005 Choice Magazine Outstanding Academic Title; 2004-2005 A. B. Thomas Book Award, Sponsored by the Southeastern Council on Latin American Studies

Who Owns Academic Work?: Battling for Control of Intellectual Property; Corynne McSherry; 2000 Thomas J. Wilson Prize of Harvard University Press

How Sex Changed: A History of Transsexuality in the United States; Joanne Meyerowitz; Winner of the Stonewall Award for Nonfiction, Sponsored by the American Library Association's Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Round Table; 2002 ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Award Gay/Lesbian Nonfiction Category; Honorable Mention for the Sylvia Rivera Award in Transgender Studies, Sponsored by the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies

A Fire in Their Hearts: Yiddish Socialists in New York; Tony Michels; 2006 Salo W. Baron Prize of the American Academy for Jewish Research for the best first book in Jewish Studies published in 2005; Finalist, 2007 Weinberg Judaic Studies Institute Book Award

100 Caterpillars: Portraits from the Tropical Forests of Costa Rica; Jeffrey C. Miller
Daniel H. Janzen
Winifred Hallwachs; 2006 National Outdoor Book Award (NOBA) for the Design and Artistic Merit Category

The Anatomy of Disgust: William Ian Miller; Winner of a 1997 Professional/Scholarly Publishing Award of the Association of American Publishers, Anthropology and Sociology Category.

The Evolving World: Evolution in Everyday Life; David P. Mindell; Winner, 2007 Independent Publisher Book Awards, Science Category

Huck's Raft: A History of American Childhood; Steven Mintz; 2004 R.R. Hawkins Award, Sponsored by the Professional/Scholarly Publishing Divion of the Association of American Publishers; 2005 Merle Curti Award, Sponsored by the Organization of American Historians; 2005 Carr P. Collins Award for the Best Book of Nonfiction, Texas Institute of Letters

After the Ice: A Global Human History 20,000-5000 BC; Steven Mithen; A Discover Book of the Year for 2004

The Singing Neanderthals: The Origins of Music, Language, Mind, and Body; Steven Mithen; 2007 American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers Deems Taylor Award, Concert Music Books

Reel Nature: America's Romance with Wildlife on Film; Gregg Mitman; Winner of the History of Science Society's Watson Davis and Helen Miles Davis Prize in the History of Science

Beyond Winning: Negotiating to Create Value in Deals and Disputes; Robert H. Mnookin
Scott R. Peppet
Andrew S. Tulumello; Honorable Mention, 2000 Professional/Scholarly Publishing Annual Award of the Association of American Publishers, Business/Management/Accounting Category

GI Jews: How World War II Changed a Generation; Deborah Dash Moore; Co-Winner of the 2003-2004 Saul Viener Prize, Sponsored by the American Jewish Historical Society; Listed among \"Best Books of the Year\" by the Washington Post Book World for 2005; 2005 Washington Post Book World Rave, Nonfiction

Restoring the Balance: Women Physicians and the Profession of Medicine, 1850-1995; Ellen S. More; 2003 History of Women in Science Prize, Sponsored by the History of Science Society

Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination; Toni Morrison; Toni Morrison is Winner of the 1993 Nobel Prize in Literature

When All Else Fails: Government as the Ultimate Risk Manager; David A. Moss; 2004 Kulp-Wright Book Award, Sponsored by the American Risk and Insurance Association, Inc.

Making Americans: Jews and the Broadway Musical; Andrea Most; 2005 Kurt Weill Prize, Kurt Weill Foundation

Doubting Thomas: Glenn W. Most; Second Place, 2006 Catholic Press Association Book Award, Scripture Category

Game Theory: Analysis of Conflict; Roger B. Myerson; Roger B. Myerson is Winner of the 2007 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Science; 2007 Nobel Prize in Economics

John Quincy Adams: A Public Life, a Private Life; Paul C. Nagel; Winner of the Colonial Dames of America Award for Books of Merit that Bear on American Life

The Russians in Germany: A History of the Soviet Zone of Occupation, 1945-1949; Norman M. Naimark; Honorable Mention, 1995 Professional/Scholarly Publishing Award of the Association of American Publishers, History Category

The Smaller Majority: Piotr Naskrecki; Finalist 2006 Independent Publisher Book Awards, Environment/Ecology/Nature Category

Genes, Blood, and Courage: A Boy Called Immortal Sword; David Nathan; Winnner of the Will Solimene Award of Excellence in Medical Communication, Presented by the New England Chapter of the American Medical Writers Association

Young Minds in Social Worlds: Experience, Meaning, and Memory; Katherine Nelson; 2008 Eleanor B. Maccoby Book Award, American Psychological Association

The Secret Life of Puppets: Victoria Nelson; 10th Annual Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies, Sponsored by the Modern Language Association of America

The Fourteenth Amendment: From Political Principle to Judicial Doctrine; William E. Nelson; Winner of the Littleton-Griswold Award of the American Historical Association

Narrative Ethics: Adam Newton; 1993 Thomas J. Wilson Prize of Harvard University Press

The Book the Poet Makes: Collection and Re-Collection in W. B. Yeats's The Tower and Robert Lowell's Life Studies; Peter Nohrnberg; The LeBaron Russell Briggs Prize, Honors Essay in English, 1993

Evolutionary Dynamics: Exploring the Equations of Life; Martin A. Nowak; 2006 Winner R.R. Hawkins Award, Professional/Scholarly Publishing Annual Award Competition

Darwinism Comes to America: Ronald L. Numbers; Winner of the 1999 Templeton Foundation Prize for Outstanding Book in Theology and the Natural Sciences

Cultivating Humanity: A Classical Defense of Reform in Liberal Education; Martha C. Nussbaum; Winner of the Frederic W. Ness Book Award for 1999, for the Most Significant Contribution to Studies on Liberal Education, Awarded by the Association for American Colleges and Universities; 2002 Grawemeyer Award in Education

Frontiers of Justice: Disability, Nationality, Species Membership; Martha C. Nussbaum; 2008 David and Elaine Spitz Book Prize, Conference for the Study of Political Thought

Why People Don't Trust Government: Edited by Joseph S. Nye, Jr.
Edited by Philip D. Zelikow
Edited by David C. King; A Choice Outstanding Academic Book

Becoming Free in the Cotton South: Susan Eva O'Donovan; 2008 James A. Rawley Prize, Organization of American Historians

Making Room: The Economics of Homelessness; Brendan O'Flaherty; Winner of the 1996 Professional/Scholarly Publishing Award of the Association of American Publishers, Economics Category

Four Cultures of the West: John W. O'Malley; Honorable Mention 2005 Catholic Press Association Book Awards, History Category

Trent and All That: Renaming Catholicism in the Early Modern Era; John W. O'Malley; 2001 Roland H. Bainton Book Prize, History and Theology Category, Sponsored by the Sixteenth Century Studies Conference

The Povest' vremennykh let: An Interlinear Collation and Paradosis; Compiled and Edited by Donald Ostrowski
David Birnbaum, Associate Editor
Horace G. Lunt, Senior Consultant; 2004 Early Slavic Studies Association Distinguished Scholarly Publication Award

The Girl with the Brown Crayon: Vivian Gussin Paley; 1999 David H. Russell Award for Distinguished Research in the Teaching of English of the Nationa

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Awards by Author

see also: Recent Awards, All Awards by Title,or Book of the Year Citations

see also: Recent Awards, All Awards by Title,
or Book of the Year Citations