Awards by Title

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

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 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

The Accidental Republic: Crippled Workingmen, Destitute Widows, and the Remaking of American Law; John Fabian Witt; 2001 Thomas J. Wilson Prize of Harvard University Press; 2005 James Willard Hurst Prize, Sponsored by the Law and Society Association; 2005 William Nelson Cromwell Foundation Prize, American Society for Legal History

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

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

An Affair of State: The Investigation, Impeachment, and Trial of President Clinton; Richard A. Posner; New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice for Best Book of the Year, 1999; Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist, 2000

African-American Newspapers and Periodicals: A National Bibliography; James P. Danky, Editor
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

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

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

Aimee Semple McPherson and the Resurrection of Christian America: Matthew Avery Sutton; 2007 Thomas J. Wilson Memorial Prize

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

Alice James: A Biography; Jean Strouse; Awarded the Bancroft Prize for Distinguished American History from Columbia University

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

America's Geisha Ally: Reimagining the Japanese Enemy; Naoko Shibusawa; 2006 Peter C. Rollins Book Prize, Northeast Popular Culture Association

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

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

American Project: The Rise and Fall of a Modern Ghetto; Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh
Foreword by William Julius Wilson; Winner of the 2000 Association of American Publishers Inc. Award for Sociology and Anthropology in the Professional/Scholarly Publishing Division

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

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

Analog Days: The Invention and Impact of the Moog Synthesizer; Trevor Pinch
Frank Trocco; 2002 ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Second Place Winner Popular Culture 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 Anatomy of Prejudices: Elisabeth Young-Bruehl; Winner of a 1996 Professional/Scholarly Publishing Award of the Association of American Publishers, Psychology Category

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

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

Architecture as Signs and Systems: For a Mannerist Time; Robert Venturi
Denise Scott Brown; Finalist 2005 Independent Publisher Book Awards in the Architecture Category

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

Arnold Schoenberg's Journey: Allen Shawn; Winner of the ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award

The Art of Shakespeare's Sonnets: Helen Vendler; 1997 National Book Critics Circle Nominee in the General Nonfiction Category

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

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

Atlantic Crossings: Social Politics in a Progressive Age; Daniel T. Rodgers; Winner of the 1999 Ellis W. Hawley Prize of the Organization of American Historians; Winner of the 1999 George Louis Beer Prize of the American Historical Association; Honorable Mention, Association of American Publishers 1998 Professional/Scholarly Publishing Annual Award in History

Augustine the Reader: Meditation, Self-Knowledge, and the Ethics of Interpretation; Brian Stock; Winner of a 1996 Professional/Scholarly Publishing Award of the Association of American Publishers, Philosophy and Religion Category

Authors and Owners: The Invention of Copyright; Mark Rose; National Book Critic's Circle Nomination

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

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

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

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

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

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

Beneath the United States: A History of U.S. Policy toward Latin America; Lars Schoultz; Honorable Mention, Association of American Publishers 1998 Professional/Scholarly Publishing Annual Award in Government and Political Science

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

Beyond Individualism: Michael J. Piore; A Los Angeles Times Book Award Finalist, Category of Current Interest

Beyond Justice: The Auschwitz Trial; Rebecca Wittmann; 2005 Winner of the Fraenkel Prize, Category A, Wiener Library

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

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

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

The Black Hearts of Men: Radical Abolitionists and the Transformation of Race; John Stauffer; 2002 Frederick Douglass Prize for the Best Book on Slavery, Sponsored by the Gilder Lehrman Center at Yale University; 2003 Avery O. Craven Award, Sponsored by the Organization of American Historians

Black Identities: West Indian Immigrant Dreams and American Realities; Mary C. Waters; American Political Science Association's Best Book of 1999 in Race, Ethnicity, and Politics; Thomas and Znaniecki Book Award of the International Migration Section of the American Sociological Association; 2001 Mirra Komarovsky Book Award, Sponsored by the Eastern Sociological Society

Black Is a Country: Race and the Unfinished Struggle for Democracy; Nikhil Pal Singh; 2005 Liberty Legacy Foundation Award, Sponsored by the Organization of American Historians; 2005 Norris and Carol Hundley Award, Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association; 2005 Washington State Book Award, Sponsored by The Washington Center for the Book at the Seattle Public Library

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

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

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

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

Born in Bondage: Growing Up Enslaved in the Antebellum South; Marie Jenkins Schwartz; 2001 Julia Cherry Spruill Prize for the Best Book on Southern Women, Sponsored by the Southern Association for Women Historians

Born Losers: A History of Failure in America; Scott A. Sandage; 2003 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

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

Brain Arousal and Information Theory: Neural and Genetic Mechanisms; Donald Pfaff; 2005 Winner of the Professional/Scholarly Publishing Annual Award Competition, Medical Science

A Bridge of Longing: The Lost Art of Yiddish Storytelling; David Roskies; A Choice Magazine Outstanding Academic Book of 1995, African and Middle Eastern Language & Literature Category

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

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

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

Cairo: André Raymond
Willard Wood, Translator; 2002 Lewis Galantière Prize, Sponsored by the American Translators Association

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

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

Carlo Rosselli: Socialist Heretic and Antifascist Exile; Stanislao G. Pugliese; Awarded the Premio Silone, for a book inspired by the message of Ignazio Silone which celebrates the values of liberty and truth, or which represents the defense of oppressed groups and consciousness

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

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

Chimpanzee and Red Colobus: The Ecology of Predator and Prey; Craig B. Stanford
Richard Wrangham; Honorable Mention, Association of American Publishers 1998 Professional/Scholarly Publishing Annual Award in Biological Science

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

Choice and Consequence: Thomas C. Schelling; Thomas C. Schelling is Co-Recipient of the 2005 Nobel Prize in Economics

Choice, Welfare and Measurement: Amartya Sen; Amartya Sen is Winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Economics

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Constitution and the New Deal: G. Edward White; Honorable Mention 2001 Professional/Scholarly Publishing Annual Award Association of American Publishers Law Category

The Contentious French: Charles Tilly; Winner of the C. Wright Mills Award of the Society for the Study of Social Problems and the Distinguished Scholarly Publication Award of the American Sociological Association

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

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

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

Crime in the Making: Pathways and Turning Points through Life; Robert J. Sampson
John H. Laub; Winner of the American Society of Criminology's Michael J. Hindelang Book Award

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

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

The Cultural Origins of Human Cognition: Michael Tomasello; Winner of the 2001 William James Book Award sponsored by Division 1, the Society for General Psychology of the American Psychological Association

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

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

Dancing in the Street: Motown and the Cultural Politics of Detroit; Suzanne E. Smith; Honorable Mention for the 2000 John Hope Franklin Prize, Sponsored by the American Studies Association

Dangerous Garden: The Quest for Plants to Change Our Lives; David Stuart; A Discover Book of the Year for 2004

Darwin and Design: Does Evolution Have a Purpose?; Michael Ruse; Toronto Globe and Mail Best Book of the Year

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

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

The Death of Comedy: Erich Segal; Honorable Mention 2001 Professional/Scholarly Publishing Annual Award Association of American Publishers Literature and Language Category

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

Deciding to Decide: Agenda Setting in the United States Supreme Court; H.W. Perry, Jr.; 1990 Thomas J. Wilson Prize of Harvard University Press; 2007 Wadsworth Publishing Award, Awarded by the Law and Courts Section of the American Political Science Association

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Dilemmas of Desire: Teenage Girls Talk about Sexuality; Deborah L. Tolman; Distinguished Publication Award by the Association for Women in Psychology

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

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

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

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

A Doctor of Their Own: The History of Adolescent Medicine; Heather Munro Prescott; Winner of the 2000 Will Solimene Award of Excellence in Medical Communication, Sponsored by the New England Chapter of the American Medical Writers Association

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

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

Dreaming and Experience in Classical Antiquity (tentative): William V. Harris; William V. Harris is Recipient of the 2007 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Distinguished Achievement Award

Dry: Life Without Water; Edited by Ehsan Masood
Edited by Daniel Schaffer
Fred Pearce, Contributor
Anju Sharma, Contributor; 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 Education of Laura Bridgman: First Deaf and Blind Person to Learn Language; Ernest Freeberg; 2001 John H. Dunning Prize of the American Historical Association

Einstein 1905: The Standard of Greatness; John S. Rigden; A Financial Times Best Science Book of the Year

Elites and the Idea of Equality: A Comparison of Japan, Sweden, and the United States; Sidney Verba
Steven Kelman
Gary Orren
Ichiro Miyake
Joji Watanuki
Ikuo Kabashima
G. Donald Ferree; Winner of the 2002 Johan Skytte Prize in Political Science, Sponsored by Uppsala University

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

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

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

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

Equality in America: A View from the Top; Sidney Verba
Gary Orren; Winner of the 2002 Johan Skytte Prize in Political Science, Sponsored by Uppsala University

The Ethics of Authenticity: Charles Taylor; Charles Taylor is Winner of the 2007 Templeton Prize

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

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

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

Experience and Artistic Expression in Lope de Vega: The Making of La Dorotea; Alan S. Trueblood; 1972 Thomas J. Wilson Prize of Harvard University Press

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

Facing East from Indian Country: A Native History of Early America; Daniel K. Richter; 2001-02 Louis Gottschalk Prize in Eighteenth-Century History , Sponsored by the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies; Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in History

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

Feeling in Theory: Emotion after the "Death of the Subject"; Rei Terada; 2002 Rene Wellek Prize, Sponsored by the American Comparative Literature Association

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 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 Amendment, Democracy, and Romance: Steven Shiffrin; 1989 Thomas J. Wilson Prize of Harvard University Press

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

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

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

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

The Founders and the Classics: Greece, Rome, and the American Enlightenment; Carl J. Richard; Winner of the 1995 Fraunces Tavern Museum Book Award; Honorable Mention, 1994 Professional/Scholarly Publishing Award of the Association of American Publishers, History Category

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

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

FranÁois Poulain de la Barre and the Invention of Modern Equality: Siep Stuurman; 2004 George L. Mosse Prize, American Historical Association

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

Freedom Is, Freedom Ain't: Jazz and the Making of the Sixties; Scott Saul; 25th Annual American Book Award, Nonfiction Category, Sponsored by the Before Columbus Foundation; Honorable Mention 2004 Best Book Prize of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music (US Chapter); Honorable Mention 2004 John Hope Franklin Publication Prize, Sponsored by the American Studies Association

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

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

From the Puritans to the Projects: Public Housing and Public Neighbors; Lawrence J. Vale; 2001 Best Book in Urban Affairs Sponsored by the Urban Affairs Association

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Germany Unified and Europe Transformed: A Study in Statecraft; Philip D. Zelikow
Condoleezza Rice; Winner of the Cornelius Ryan Award for Excellence in the Category of Best Nonfiction Book on Foreign Affairs of the Overseas Press Club of America; Winner of the Foundation for Pacific Quest Akira Iriye International History Book Award, 1994-1995; Winner of the 1996 American Academy of Diplomacy Book Award

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

Ghost Dancing the Law: The Wounded Knee Trials; John William Sayer; 1995 Thomas J. Wilson Prize of Harvard University Press

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

The Girl with the Brown Crayon: Vivian Gussin Paley; 1999 David H. Russell Award for Distinguished Research in the Teaching of English of the National Council of Teachers of English; 1997 Winner of the Virginia and Warren Stone Prize, Awarded Annually by Harvard University Press for an Outstanding Book on Education and Society; Selected as One of the Best Parenting Books of 1997 by Child Magazine

The Given and the Made: Strategies of Poetic Redefinition; Helen Vendler; Winner of the 1996 Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism in Memory of Newton Arvin

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)

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

The Gospel of Germs: Men, Women, and the Microbe in American Life; Nancy Tomes; 2001 Watson Davis and Helen Miles Davis Prize, Sponsored by the History of Science Society; 2002 Welch Medal, Sponsored by the American Association for the History of Medicine, Inc.

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).

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

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

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

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

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)

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)

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

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

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

Hearing Things: Religion, Illusion, and the American Enlightenment; Leigh Eric Schmidt; 2001 Excellence in the Study of Religion Award in the Historical Studies Category Sponsored by the American Academy of Religion; 2001 John Hope Franklin Publication Prize of the American Studies Association

Heaven Below: Early Pentecostals and American Culture; Grant Wacker; Outstanding Book in the History/Biography Category of the Christianity Today Book Awards; American Academy of Religion Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion, Historical Studies Category

Historical Atlas of Islam: Malise Ruthven
Azim Nanji, With; 2005 Best Reference Book about the Middle East Award, Middle East Outreach Council

The History of Foreign Investment in the United States, 1914-1945: Mira Wilkins; 2005 Choice Magazine Outstanding Academic Title; Co-Winner 2004 Hagely Prize for the Best Book in Business History

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

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

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

House and Home in Modern Japan: Architecture, Domestic Space, and Bourgeois Culture, 1880-1930; Jordan Sand; 2004 John K. Fairbank Prize, American Historical Association; 2004 John Whitney Hall Prize, Northeast Asia Council of the Association for Asian Studies; 2005 Alice Davis Hitchcock Award, Society of Architectural Historians

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

How Sweet the Sound: Music in the Spiritual Lives of Americans; David W. Stowe; 2005 Choice Magazine Outstanding Academic Title; 2005 Winner of the 38th Annual Ascap-Deems Taylor Book Award

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

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

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

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

The Humanist-Scholastic Debate in the Renaissance and the Reformation: Erika Rummel; A Choice Magazine Outstanding Academic Book of 1995, Language and Literature Category

Hydrogen: The Essential Element; John S. Rigden; Selected as One of Discover Magazine's 20 Best Science Books of 2002

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Inequality Reexamined: Amartya Sen; Amartya Sen is Winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Economics

Information: The New Language of Science; Hans Christian von Baeyer; 2005 Choice Magazine Outstanding Academic Title

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

Inside the Cuban Revolution: Fidel Castro and the Urban Underground; Julia E. Sweig; 2003 Herbert Feis Award of the American Historical Association

Inside the Kremlin’s Cold War: From Stalin to Krushchev; Vladislav Zubok
Constantine Pleshakov; Winner of the 1996 Lionel Gelber Prize for Best Book in International Relations

Instruments of Desire: The Electric Guitar and the Shaping of Musical Experience; Steve Waksman; Runner-Up, 1998 United States Branch of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music Book Award

The Intellectual Resistance in Europe: James D. Wilkinson; 1979 Thomas J. Wilson Prize of Harvard University Press

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

The Invention of the Restaurant: Paris and Modern Gastronomic Culture; Rebecca L. Spang; 2000-2001 Louis Gottschalk Prize from the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies; 1992 Thomas J. Wilson Prize of Harvard University Press

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

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

Jefferson and the Indians: The Tragic Fate of the First Americans; Anthony F. C. Wallace; Winner of the ForeWord Magazine History Award; Winner of the 2000 Caroline Bancroft History Prize Sponsored by Denver Public Library

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

Jewish Immigrant Associations and American Identity in New York, 1880-1939: Daniel Soyer; Co-Winner of the American Jewish Historical Society's 1999 Saul Viener Award

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

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

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

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

Judaism, Human Values, and the Jewish State: Yeshayahu Leibowitz
Eliezer Goldman, Ed. and Trans.
Yoram Navon, Translator
Zvi Jacobson, Translator
Gershon Levi, Translator
Raphael Levy, Translator; A New York Times Notable Book of 1992

Krakatau: The Destruction and Reassembly of an Island Ecosystem; Ian Thornton; Winner of the 1996 Professional/Scholarly Publishing Award of the Association of American Publishers, Biological Sciences Category

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

Kwanzaa and Me: A Teacher’s Story; Vivian Gussin Paley; A Choice Magazine Outstanding Academic Book of 1995, Education Category

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

Law and Social Change in Postwar Japan: Frank K. Upham; 1986 Thomas J. Wilson Prize of Harvard University Press

LBJ: Architect of American Ambition; Randall B. Woods; A Christian Science Monitor Best Nonfiction Book of the Year

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

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

Lenin: A Biography; Robert Service; 2001 ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Award - History Category; 2001 Independent Publisher Book Award, Biography Category

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

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

A Life in Letters, 1914-1982: Gershom Scholem
Anthony David Skinner, Ed. and Trans.; Koret Jewish Book Awards Finalist in the Biography, Autobiography and Literary Studies Category

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

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

London: A Social History; Roy Porter; A New York Times Notable Book of 1995

Loose Connections: Joining Together in America’s Fragmented Communities; Robert Wuthnow; Co-Winner 2001 Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action (ARNOVA) Book Award for the Outstanding Book in Nonprofit and Voluntary Action Research

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

Made to Break: Technology and Obsolescence in America; Giles Slade; Winner, 2007 Independent Publisher Book Awards, Environment/Ecology/Nature Category

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Master Drawings of the Italian Renaissance: Claire Van Cleave; 2007 The Globe and Mail Holiday Gift Book Selection

The Maze and the Warrior: Symbols in Architecture, Theology, and Music; Craig Wright; Honorable Mention 2001 Professional/Scholarly Publishing Annual Award Association of American Publishers Arts Category

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

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

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

Millions of Monarchs, Bunches of Beetles: How Bugs Find Strength in Numbers; Gilbert Waldbauer; 2001 ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Award - Environment Category

The Minority Rights Revolution: John D. Skrentny; 2003 American Sociological Association Political Sociology Section's Distinguished Book Award

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Nariokotome Homo Erectus Skeleton: Alan Walker, Editor
Richard Leakey, Editor; 1993 Winner of the Professional/Scholarly Publishing Award of the Association of American Publishers, Sociology and Anthropology Category

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

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 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 National Labs: Science in an American System, 1947-1974; Peter J. Westwick; 2004 History of Science Society Forum Book Prize

The Natural History of Alcoholism Revisited: George E. Vaillant; Awarded the Biennial Jellinek Memorial Fund Prize for the Best Research on Alcohol Abuse in the World

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

Negotiation Analysis: The Science and Art of Collaborative Decision Making; Howard Raiffa
Contributions by John Richardson
Contributions by David Metcalfe; Winner of the 2003 Center for Public Resources Award for Excellence in Alternate Dispute Resolution (Outstanding Book Category)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Okfuskee: A Creek Indian Town in Colonial America; Joshua Piker; 2005 Malcolm Bell Jr., and Muriel Barrow Bell Award, Sponsored by the Georgia Historical Society

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

On Extended Wings: Wallace Stevens' Longer Poems; Helen Vendler; Winner of the James Russell Lowell Prize and the Explicator Prize

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

On the Outside Looking Out: John Ashbery's Poetry; John Shoptaw; A Choice Magazine Outstanding Academic Book of 1995, English and American Language & Literature Category

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

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

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

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

One Writer's Beginnings: Eudora Welty; New York Times Bestseller and an American Book Award Nominee for Nonfiction

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

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

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

Other People's Words: The Cycle of Low Literacy; Victoria Purcell-Gates; Winner of the 1996 Grawemeyer Award in Education of the University of Louisville

Overcoming Law: Richard A. Posner; One of Ten 1995 New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice Books

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

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

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

Part of Nature, Part of Us: Modern American Poets; Helen Vendler; Winner of the 1981 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism

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

A Patterned Past: Form and Thought in Early Chinese Historiography; David Schaberg; 2003 Joseph Levenson Book Prize for Pre-Modern China sponsored by the Association for Asian Studies China and the Inner Asia Council

The People's Emperor: Democracy and the Japanese Monarchy, 1945-1995; Kenneth J. Ruoff; Winner of the Jiro Osaragi Prize for Commentary, Sponsored by the Asahi Shimbun

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

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

Philosophical Arguments: Charles Taylor; Charles Taylor is Winner of the 2007 Templeton Prize

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

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 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

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

Plants and Empire: Colonial Bioprospecting in the Atlantic World; Londa Schiebinger; 2004 Alf Andrew Heggoy Book Prize, Sponsored by the French Colonial Historical Society; 2005 Prize in Atlantic History, American Historical Association

The Platypus and the Mermaid: And Other Figments of the Classifying Imagination; Harriet Ritvo; Honorable Mention, 1998 British Council Prize of the North American Conference on British Studies; A 1997 New York Times Book Review Notable Book

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

Political Ethics and Public Office: Dennis Thompson; Winner of the American Political Science Association's Gladys M. Kammerer Award

Pompeii: Public and Private Life; Paul Zanker
Deborah Lucas Schneider, Translator; A New York Times Notable Book of the Year, 1999

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 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

Power and Protest: Global Revolution and the Rise of Detente; Jeremi Suri; 2003 Phi Alpha Theta Best First Book Prize

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

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

Presenting the Past: Psychoanalysis and the Sociology of Misremembering; Jeffrey Prager; 2001 Gradiva Award for the Best Book in Sociology, Sponsored by the World Organization and the Public Education Corporation of the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis

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

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

Protecting Soldiers and Mothers: The Political Origins of Social Policy in United States; Theda Skocpol; 1993 Ralph Waldo Emerson Prize of Phi Beta Kappa; 1993 Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award of the American Political Science Association; 1993 Allan Sharlin Memorial Award of the Social Science History Association; Co-Winner 1993 J. David Greenstone Award of the Politics and History Section of the American Political Science Association; Co-Winner 1993 Political Sociology Section of The American Sociological Association

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

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

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

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

Racial Attitudes in America: Trends and Interpretations, Revised Edition; Howard Schuman
Charlotte Steeh
Lawrence D. Bobo
Maria Krysan; 2005 American Association for Public Opinion Research Book Award

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

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

Rationality and Freedom: Amartya Sen; Amartya Sen is Winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Economics

Reaching beyond Race: Paul M. Sniderman
Edward G. Carmines; Winner of the Gladys M. Kammerer Award for the Best Political Science Publication in 1997 in the Field of U.S. National Policy, Awarded by the American Political Science Association

Reaching Higher: The Power of Expectations in Schooling; Rhona S. Weinstein; Winner of the Virginia and Warren Stone Prize, Awarded Annually by Harvard University Press for an Outstanding Book on Education and Society; Exemplary Book on Research in Teaching and Teacher Education Sponsored by Division K of the American Educational Research 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

Reclaiming Pub

Harvard University Press

Awards by Title

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

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