Recent Awards: 2005-2008

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or Book of the Year Citations

ROGER B. MYERSON 2007 NOBEL PRIZE IN ECONOMICS
CHARLES TAYLOR 2007 TEMPLETON PRIZE	ROBERT L. TRIVERS 2007 CRAFOORD PRIZE IN BIOSCIENCES
EDMUND S. PHELPS 2006 NOBEL PRIZE IN ECONOMICS	THOMAS C. SCHELLING 2005 NOBEL PRIZE IN ECONOMICS
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 1812 War with America Jon Latimer 2008 Society for Military History Distinguished Book Award, US History 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 Aimee Semple McPherson and the Resurrection of Christian America Matthew Avery Sutton 2007 Thomas J. Wilson Memorial Prize America's Geisha Ally Reimagining the Japanese Enemy Naoko Shibusawa 2006 Peter C. Rollins Book Prize, Northeast Popular Culture Association Americans First Chinese Americans and the Second World War K. Scott Wong Honorable Mention, 2005 Book Award in History from the Association for Asian American Studies 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 Becoming Free in the Cotton South Susan Eva O'Donovan 2008 James A. Rawley Prize, Organization of American Historians 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 Beyond Justice The Auschwitz Trial Rebecca Wittmann 2005 Winner of the Fraenkel Prize, Category A, Wiener Library Biobazaar The Open Source Revolution and Biotechnology Janet Hope Finalist, 2008 Independent Publisher Book Awards, Science Category Brain Arousal and Information Theory Neural and Genetic Mechanisms Donald Pfaff 2005 Winner of the Professional/Scholarly Publishing Annual Award Competition, Medical Science Burning to Read English Fundamentalism and Its Reformation Opponents James Simpson Finalist, 2008 Independent Publisher Book Awards, Religion Category 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 China Marches West The Qing Conquest of Central Eurasia Peter C. Perdue 2007 Association for Asian Studies China and Inner Asia Council Levenson Prize for Books in Chinese Studies, Pre-1900 Category 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 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 Comrades! A History of World Communism Robert Service Finalist, 2008 Independent Publisher Book Awards, History Category Cross-sectional Atlas of the Brain and DVD Peter Ratiu Ion-Florin Talos 2006 Honorable Mention of the Professional/Scholarly Publishing Annual Award Competition, Medical Science The Declaration of Independence A Global History David Armitage A Times Literary Supplement Best History Book of the Year Degrees of Freedom Louisiana and Cuba after Slavery Rebecca J. Scott Gulf South Historical Association Book Award for the best book published on the history and culture of the Gulf South region for the year June 2005-June 2006 2006 Frederick Douglass Book Prize, Gilder Lehrman Center 2006 John Hope Franklin Prize, American Studies Association 2005 Williams Prize in Louisiana History Dictatorship and Demand The Politics of Consumerism in East Germany Mark Landsman 2005 Herbert Feis Award, American Historical Association The Discovery of Global Warming, revised and expanded edition Spencer R. Weart A Discover Top Science Book of the Year A USA Today Best Book of the Year Doubting Thomas Glenn W. Most Second Place, 2006 Catholic Press Association Book Award, Scripture Category 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 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 The Economy of Prestige Prizes, Awards, and the Circulation of Cultural Value James F. English 2005 New York Magazine Best Academic Book The End of Southern Exceptionalism Class, Race, and Partisan Change in the Postwar South Byron E. Shafer Richard Johnston 2007 Best Book Award by Race, Ethnicity, and Politics Section of the American Political Science Association 2008 V. O. Key Award, Southern Political Science Association The Evolution-Creation Struggle Michael Ruse 2005 New York Magazine Best Academic Book Evolutionary Dynamics Exploring the Equations of Life Martin A. Nowak 2006 Winner R.R. Hawkins Award, Professional/Scholarly Publishing Annual Award Competition The Evolving World Evolution in Everyday Life David P. Mindell Winner, 2007 Independent Publisher Book Awards, Science Category 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 Fathoming the Ocean The Discovery and Exploration of the Deep Sea Helen M. Rozwadowski Foreword by Sylvia Earle 2005 John Lyman Book Award, Best book in the Category of Science and Technology, Sponsored by the North American Society for Oceanic History Feeding the Ancestors Tlingit Carved Horn Spoons Anne-Marie Victor-Howe Foreword by Rosita Worl Photographs by Hillel S. Burger Finalist, 2008 Independent Publisher Book Awards, Multicultural Non-Fiction Category , : The Fire Ants Walter R. Tschinkel 2006 Honorable Mention of the Professional/Scholarly Publishing Annual Award Competition, Biological Science 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 The First Emperor China's Terracotta Army Edited by Jane Portal 2007 The Washington Post Travel Gift Book Selection 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 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 Frontiers of Justice Disability, Nationality, Species Membership Martha C. Nussbaum 2008 David and Elaine Spitz Book Prize, Conference for the Study of Political Thought Genes in Conflict The Biology of Selfish Genetic Elements Austin Burt Robert Trivers Robert Trivers is Winner of the 2007 Crafoord Prize in Biosciences 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 Green Sisters A Spiritual Ecology Sarah McFarland Taylor First Place 2008 Catholic Press Association Book Awards, Social Concerns and Gender Issues Categories 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 Guernica and Total War Ian Patterson A Times Best History Book of the Year A Guinea Pig's History of Biology Jim Endersby 2004 Royal Society of Literature Jerwood Award for Non-Fiction Harvestmen The Biology of Opiliones Edited by Ricardo Pinto-da-Rocha Edited by Glauco Machado Edited by Gonzalo Giribet 2007 Alexandre Rodrigues Ferreira Prize, Sociedade Brasileira de Zoologia (Brazilian Zoological Society) 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 Hunger A Modern History James Vernon Co-Winner, 2008 PCCBS Book Prize, Pacific Coast Conference on British Studies 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 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 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 The Jewish Enemy Nazi Propaganda during World War II and the Holocaust Jeffrey Herf 2006 National Jewish Book Award, Holocaust 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 LBJ Architect of American Ambition Randall B. Woods A Christian Science Monitor Best Nonfiction Book of the Year Learning a New Land Immigrant Students in American Society Carola Suárez-Orozco Marcelo M. Suárez-Orozco Irina Todorova 2007 Virginia and Warren Stone Prize, awarded annually by Harvard University Press for an Outstanding Book on Education and Society Learning on the Job When Business Takes On Public Schools Steven F. Wilson Winner of the Virginia and Warren Stone Prize, Awarded Annually by Harvard University Press for an Outstanding Book on Education and Society	Liberalism in the Shadow of Totalitarianism David Ciepley 2006 President's Book Award Finalist, Social Science History Association The Lost Promise of Civil Rights Risa Goluboff Co-winner, 2008 James Willard Hurst Prize, Law and Society Association Made to Break Technology and Obsolescence in America Giles Slade Winner, 2007 Independent Publisher Book Awards, Environment/Ecology/Nature Category 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 Making Dead Birds Chronicle of a Film Robert Gardner Honorable Mention, 2008 New England Museum Association Book Award for Books over $10.00 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 Mao's Last Revolution Roderick MacFarquhar Michael Schoenhals Finalist, 2007 Independent Publisher Book Awards, History Category Master Drawings of the Italian Renaissance Claire Van Cleave 2007 The Globe and Mail Holiday Gift Book Selection Men Evolutionary and Life History Richard G. Bribiescas Finalist, 2007 Independent Publisher Book Awards, Science Category 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 A Most Amazing Scene of Wonders Electricity and Enlightenment in Early America James Delbourgo 2005 Thomas J. Wilson Prize of Harvard University Press 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 A Nation by Design Immigration Policy in the Fashioning of America Aristide R. Zolberg 2007 Myers Center Outstanding Book Award Honorable Mention in Immigration, Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights 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 The New Gay Teenager Ritch C. Savin-Williams 2005 Distinguished Book Award from the American Psychological Association Division 44 Noble Nationalists The Transformation of the Bohemian Aristocracy Eagle Glassheim 2005 Winner, Category B, Fraenkel Prize, Wiener Library Off the Books The Underground Economy of the Urban Poor Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh 2007 C. Wright Mills Award, sponsored by The Society for the Study of Social Problems 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 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 Philosophy the Day after Tomorrow Stanley Cavell A Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year for 2005 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 Possessing the Pacific Land, Settlers, and Indigenous People from Australia to Alaska Stuart Banner 2008 World History Association Book Prize 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 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 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 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 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 Remember, Remember A Cultural History of Guy Fawkes Day James Sharpe Finalist for the 2006 Wayland D. Hand Prize for an Outstanding Publication in Folklore and History Rewarding Work How to Restore Participation and Self-Support to Free Enterprise, with a New Preface Edmund S. Phelps Edmund S. Phelps is Winner of the 2006 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Science The Roman Triumph Mary Beard A New Statesman Best Book of the Year 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 Rulers and Victims The Russians in the Soviet Union Geoffrey Hosking 2006 Alexander Nove Prize, British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies 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 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 Scribal Culture and the Making of the Hebrew Bible Karel van der Toorn Finalist, 2008 Independent Publisher Book Awards, Religion 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 A Secular Age Charles Taylor Charles Taylor is Winner of the 2007 Templeton Prize Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2007 Selection 2008 Christianity Today Book Award, History/Biography A Globe and Mail Best Book of the Year A Tablet Best Book of the Year Sexual Fluidity Understanding Women's Love and Desire Lisa M. Diamond Finalist, 2008 Independent Publisher Book Awards, Gay/Lesbian Category 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 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 Smaller Majority Piotr Naskrecki Finalist 2006 Independent Publisher Book Awards, Environment/Ecology/Nature Category 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 Stalin A Biography Robert Service Listed among \"Best Books of the Year\" by the Washington Post Book World for 2005 Winner 2006 Independent Publisher Book Awards, Biography Category Stealing Lincoln's Body Thomas J. Craughwell Amazon.com, A Top 100 Book of the Year Strangers in the Land Blacks, Jews, Post-Holocaust America Eric J. Sundquist 2007 Weinberg Judaic Studies Institute Book Award Strategies of Commitment and Other Essays Thomas C. Schelling Thomas C. Schelling is Co-Recipient of the 2005 Nobel Prize in Economics Studying the Jew Scholarly Antisemitism in Nazi Germany Alan E. Steinweis Runner-Up 2006 National Jewish Book Award, Holocaust Category That Neutral Island A Cultural History of Ireland During the Second World War Clair Wills 2007 Hessell-Tiltman Prize for History, English PEN 2007 Michael J. Durkan Prize for Books on Language and Culture, American Conference for Irish Studies A Times Literary Supplement Best Book of the Year An Irish Times Best Book of the Year That the World May Know Bearing Witness to Atrocity James Dawes Finalist, 2008 Independent Publisher Book Awards, Peacemaker of the Year Category Their Right to Speak Women's Activism in the Indian and Slave Debates Alisse Portnoy 2005 Karl R. Wallace Memorial Award, Sponsored by the National Communication 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 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 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 We Who Are Dark The Philosophical Foundations of Black Solidarity Tommie Shelby 2005 New York Magazine Best Academic Book Young Minds in Social Worlds Experience, Meaning, and Memory Katherine Nelson 2008 Eleanor B. Maccoby Book Award, American Psychological 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