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RECENT BOOK AWARDS
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2008 AWARDS ART & ARCHITECTURE The Art of the American Snapshot, 1888-1978Sarah Greenough & Diane Waggoner With Sarah Kennel & Matthew S. Witkovsky Sponsored by the College Art Association. Sponsored by the Kraszna-Krausz Foundation. Sponsored by the American Association of Museums. Pre-Modernism J. M. Mancini Sponsored by the Smithsonian American Art Museum. ASTRONOMY AND COSMOLOGY The Sun KingsStuart Clark Sponsored by The Royal Society. ECONOMICS A Farewell to AlmsGregory Clark EDUCATION Our Underachieving CollegesDerek Bok Sponsored by the Association of American Colleges and Universities. GENDER STUDIES Between WomenSharon Marcus Sponsored by Lambda Literary Foundation. Sponsored by Publishing Triangle. JEWISH STUDIES The Price of WhitenessEric L. Goldstein Sponsored by The Jewish Book Council. LITERATURE William FaulknerRichard Godden Sponsored by the British Association for American Studies. MATHEMATICS Flatland: The MovieOn DVD POLITICAL SCIENCE The Myth of the Rational VoterBryan Caplan William G. Howell and Jon C. Pevehouse Sponsored by the Presidency Research Section, APSA. After Anarchy Ian Hurd Sponsored by the ISA, International Organization Section. When Ways of Life Collide Paul M. Sniderman & Louk Hagendoorn Philip E. Tetlock Sponsored by the University of Louisville. Painful Choices David A. Welch Sponsored by the International Studies Association. Political Foundations of Judicial Supremacy Keith E. Whittington Sponsored by the Law and Courts Section of the American Political Science Association. 2007 AWARDS ANTHROPOLOGY: Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More: The Last Soviet GenerationAlexei Yurchak Sponsored by the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies. The Nuclear Borderlands Joseph Masco Sponsored by American Culture Association. Perfect Order: Recognizing Complexity in Bali J. Stephen Lansing Sponsored by the Anthropology and Environment Section of the American Anthropological Association. ASTROLOGY AND COSMOLOGY: The Sun KingsStuart Clark  Winner of the 2007 award for BEST PROFESSIONAL/SCHOLARLY BOOK IN COSMOLOGY AND ASTRONOMY. Sponsored by Association of American Publishers.
BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES: A Biologist's Guide to Mathematical Modeling in Ecology and EvolutionSarah P. Otto & Troy Day Honorable Mention, 2007 award for BEST PROFESSIONAL/SCHOLARLY BOOK IN BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES. Sponsored by Association of American Publishers.
Why Size MattersJohn Tyler Bonner CLASSICS: Birth of the Symbol: Ancient Readers at the Limits of Their TextsPeter T. Struck Sponsored by the American Philological Association. Portrait of a Priestess: Women and Ritual in Ancient Greece Joan Breton Connelly Sponsored by the New York Times Book Review. Winner of the 2007 award for BEST PROFESSIONAL/SCHOLARLY BOOK IN CLASSICS AND ANCIENT HISTORY. Sponsored by Association of American Publishers.
EARTH SCIENCES Why the Sky Is BlueGotz Hoeppe Sponsored by The Atmospheric Science Librarians International. ECONOMICS AND FINANCE: The BoxMarc Levinson Sponsored by Independent Publisher. Sponsored by Society for Nautical Research. The Central Asian Economies Since Independence Richard Pomfret Rakesh Khurana Winner of the 2007 award for BEST PROFESSIONAL/SCHOLARLY BOOK IN BUSINESS, FINANCE AND MANAGEMENT. Sponsored by Association of American Publishers.
Immigrants: Your Country Needs ThemPhilippe Legrain Sponsored by Financial Times/Goldman Sachs. The Soulful Science Diane Coyle GENDER STUDIES: Between WomenSharon Marcus Sponsored by the Lambda Literary Foundation. HISTORY: The Making of Princeton UniversityJames Axtell Sponsored by the New Jersey Council for the Humanities. The Idea of Greater Britain Duncan Bell Sponsored by the Royal Historical Society. In Search of Another Country Joseph Crespino Sponsored by the Mississippi Historical Society. On the Wings of Time Sabine MacCormack Sponsored by the Organization of American Historians. Sponsored by the American Historical Association. Sovereignty and Revolution in the Iberian Atlantic Jeremy Adelman Ethan Pollock Sponsored by the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies. White Flight Kevin M. Kruse Sponsored by American Political Science Association Sponsored by Southern Historical Association. Sponsored by Georgia Historical Society. LAW: In the Moment of Greatest CalamitySusan F. Hirsch Sponsored by Law and Society Association. Judges and Their Audiences Lawrence Baum Sponsored by the American Political Science Association. LITERARY AND CULTURAL STUDIES: The Novel, Volume 1Hana Wirth-Nesher Edited by Franco Moretti Edited by Franco Moretti Mario Vargas Llosa Wai Chee Dimock Sponsored by American Comparative Literature Association. HISTORY OF SCIENCE AND MEDICINE: Einstein on PoliticsEdited by David E. Rowe & Robert Schulmann David P. Billington & David P. Billington Jr. D. Graham Burnett Sponsored by The New York Society Library JEWISH STUDIES: The Dream of the PoemTranslated, Edited & Introduced by Peter Cole Sponsored by The Jewish Book Council. Sponsored by The Jewish Book Council. Sponsored by Association of American Publishers. Winner of the 2007 award for BEST PROFESSIONAL/SCHOLARLY BOOK IN HUMANITIES. Sponsored by Association of American Publishers.
Winner of the 2007 AWARD FOR BEST PROFESSIONAL/SCHOLARLY BOOK IN LITERATURE, LANGUAGE, AND LINGUISTICS. Sponsored by Association of American Publishers.
The Price of WhitenessEric L. Goldstein Sponsored by Weinberg Judaic Studies Institute, University of Scranton. MATHEMATICS: A Certain AmbiguityGaurav Suri & Hartosh Singh Bal Winner of the 2007 award for BEST PROFESSIONAL/SCHOLARLY BOOK IN MATHEMATICS.Sponsored by Association of American Publishers. Fixing Frege John P. Burgess Sponsored by Association for Symbolic Logic. How Mathematicians Think William Byers Eli Maor Honorable Mention, 2007 award for BEST PROFESSIONAL/SCHOLARLY BOOK IN MATHEMATICS. Sponsored by Association of American Publishers.
MUSIC: The Musical as DramaScott McMillin Sponsored by the Cornell Department of English. PHILOSOPHY: Democratic RightsCorey Brettschneider Alexander Nehamas Winner of the 2007 award for BEST PROFESSIONAL/SCHOLARLY BOOK IN PHILOSOPHY. Sponsored by Association of American Publishers.
PHYSICS: Astrophysics in a NutshellDan Maoz POLITICAL SCIENCE AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS: Beyond Liberal DemocracyDaniel A. Bell Translated by Arthur Goldhammer Sponsored by French American Foundation and the Florence Gould Foundation. The Next Catastrophe Charles Perrow Colin Dueck Gary Goertz Daniel Ziblatt Sponsored by American Political Science Association. The Welfare State Nobody Knows Christopher Howard RELIGION: Religions of Korea in PracticeEdited by Robert E. Buswell Jr. Tracy Fessenden Sponsored by the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians. The Ladder of Jacob James L. Kugel F. E. Peters Winner of the 2007 award for BEST PROFESSIONAL/SCHOLARLY BOOK IN THEOLOGY AND RELIGIOUS STUDIES. Sponsored by Association of American Publishers.
Buddhist Goddesses of IndiaMiranda Shaw Sponsored by ForeWord Magazine. SOCIOLOGY: America and the Challenges of Religious DiversityRobert Wuthnow Sponsored by Eastern Sociological Society. Nationalist Politics and Everyday Ethnicity in a Transylvanian Town Rogers Brubaker, Margit Feischmidt, Jon Fox & Liana Grancea Michael O. Emerson Sponsored by the Racial and Ethnic Minorities Section, American Sociological Association. Poverty and Discrimination Kevin Lang Honorable Mention, 2007 award for BEST PROFESSIONAL/SCHOLARLY BOOK IN SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL WORK. Sponsored by Association of American Publishers.
2006 AWARDS ANTHROPOLOGY: The Corporeal ImageDavid MacDougall Sarah F. Green Sponsored by the American Anthropological Association. APPLIED SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING: Google's Page Rank and BeyondCarl D. Meyer and Amy N. Langville Sponsored by the Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division (PSP) of the Association of American Publishers (AAP). Information Science David G. Luenberger Sponsored by the Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division (PSP) of the Association of American Publishers (AAP). ART: The Downtown BookEdited by Marvin J. Taylor Sponsored by American Association of Museums. Other Icons Henry Macguire and Eunice Dauterman-Maguire Sponsored by the Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division (PSP) of the Association of American Publishers (AAP). Pictures of Nothing Kirk Varnedoe Sponsored by the Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division (PSP) of the Association of American Publishers (AAP). Toulouse-Lautrec and Montmartre Richard Thomson, Phillip Dennis Cate, and Mary Weaver Chapin Sponsored by College Art Association. William Blake Edited by Joyce H. Townsend Sponsored by College Art Association. ASIAN STUDIES: Yoga in Modern IndiaJoseph S. Alter Sponsored by South Asia Council, Association for Asian Studies. BIOLOGICAL STUDIES: Extinction Douglas H. Erwin FINANCE: Quantitative Risk ManagementAlexander J. McNeil, Rüdiger Frey, and Paul Embrechts Sponsored by Financial Engineering News. The Theory of Corporate Finance Jean Tirole Sponsored by the Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division (PSP) of the Association of American Publishers (AAP). HISTORY: America's AsiaColleen Lye Sponsored by American Studies Association. Black Atlantic Religion J. Lorand Matory Sponsored by African Studies Association. The Box Marc Levinson Sponsored by North American Society for Ocean History. Democratizing the Enemy Brian Masaru Hayashi Sponsored by Western History Association. Jewish Ireland in the Age of Joyce Cormac Ó Gráda Sponsored by American Conference for Irish Studies. Pocketbook Politics Meg Jacobs Sponsored by Organization of American Historians. Sponsored by New England Historical Association. The Price of Whiteness Eric L. Goldstein Sponsored by Immigration and Ethnic History Society. Sponsored by American Jewish Historical Society. Sponsored by Jewish Book Council. Reckless Rites Elliott Horowitz Ralph Sessions Sponsored by the North American Society for Ocean History. Sponsored by The Victorian Society in America. Troubling the Waters Cheryl Lynn Greenberg Sponsored by American Jewish Historical Society. HISTORY OF SCIENCE AND MEDICINE, PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE: The Grand ContraptionDavid Park Sponsored by Independent Publisher. Plows, Plagues, and Petroleum William F. Ruddiman Sponsored by Phi Beta Kappa Book Awards. When Computers Were Human David Alan Grier Sponsored by Independent Publisher. LAW: Judges and Their AudiencesLawrence Baum Welch Suggs Sponsored by Women’s Sports Foundation. Sponsored by the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights. Religion and the Constitution: Volume I Kent Greenawalt Ian Ayres and Jennifer Gerarda Brown Sponsored by the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights. LITERARY AND CULTURAL STUDIES: Dickinson's MiseryVirginia Jackson Sponsored by Phi Beta Kappa Book Awards. Dostoevsky: The Mantle of the Prophet, 1871-1881 Joseph Frank Sponsored by European University at St. Petersburg. Mapping St. Petersburg: Imperial Text and Cityshape Julie A. Buckler Sponsored by Modern Language Association of America . Poetry of the Revolution: Marx, Manifestos, and the Avant-Gardes Martin Puchner Sponsored by Modern Language Association of America . Scenarios of Power: Myth and Ceremony in Russian Monarchy New Abridged One-Volume Paperback Edition Richard S. Wortman Sponsored by European University at St. Petersburg. Scenarios of Power: Myth and Ceremony in Russian Monarchy: Volume Two Richard S. Wortman Sponsored by European University at St. Petersburg. Through Other Continents Wai Chee Dimock Sponsored by Modern Language Association of America . MATHEMATICS: ComplexitiesEdited by Bettye Anne Case and Anne M. Leggett Sponsored by Alpha Sigma Nu, and the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities. MIDDLE EASTERN STUDIES: The Age of SinanGülru Necipoglu Sponsored by the Turkish Studies Association. The Pursuit of Pleasure Rudi Matthee Sponsored by Middle East Studies Association. Sponsored by Persian Heritage Foundation. NATURAL HISTORY: Butterflies of the East CoastRick Cech and Guy Tudor Sponsored by WorldTwitch. Parrots of the World Joseph M. Forshaw PHILOSOPHY: PessimismJoshua Foa Dienstag Sponsored by the Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division (PSP) of the Association of American Publishers (AAP). POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY: American Exceptionalism and Human RightsMichael Ignatieff POLITICAL SCIENCE: The Craft of International HistoryMarc Trachtenberg Don Herzog Darrell M. West Sponsored by Science, Technology, and Environmental Politics Section, American Political Science Association. Expert Political Judgment Philip E. Tetlock Sponsored by American Political Science Association. Sponsored by Political Psychology Section, American Political Science Association. Politics and Vision Sheldon S. Wolin Sponsored by International Conference for the Study of Political Thought. Reaching for Power Yitzhak Nakash Deepak Lal Robert C. Lieberman Sponsored by Race, Ethnicity and Politics Section, American Political Science Association. Troubling the Waters Cheryl Lynn Greenberg Jennifer Pitts Sponsored by Foundations of Political Theory Section, American Political Science Association REFERENCE: The Novel: Volume 1The Novel: Volume 2 Edited by Franco Moretti Sponsored by the Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division (PSP) of the Association of American Publishers (AAP). RELIGION: America and the Challenges of Religious DiversityRobert Wuthnow Sponsored by American Academy of Religion. Sponsored by Christianity Today. People of the Dream Michael O. Emerson Dyan Elliott Sponsored by Western Michigan University, The Medieval Institute SOCIOLOGY: Elusive TogethernessPaul Lichterman Sponsored by Society for the Scientific Study of Religion. Sponsored by Pacific Sociological Association. Vivek Chibber Sponsored by American Sociological Association. Modern Art of Dying Shai J. Lavi Sponsored by Sociology of Law Section, American Sociological Association. The Nuclear Borderlands Joseph Masco Sponsored by American Sociological Association. Race in Another America Edward E. Telles Sponsored by American Sociological Association. Sponsored by American Sociological Association. Religion and Family in a Changing Society Penny Edgell Sponsored by Section on Sociology of Religion, American Sociological Association. The Social Construction of Free Trade Francesco Duina Olav Velthuis Sponsored by Section on Economic Sociology, American Sociological Association. Territory, Authority, Rights Saskia Sassen Sponsored by the Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division (PSP) of the Association of American Publishers (AAP). Why Not Kill Them All? Daniel Chirot & Clark McCauley File created: July 5, 2007 |
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