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

GEORGE M. WHITESIDES

2009 DREYFUS PRIZE IN THE CHEMICAL SCIENCES

Awarded by the Camille & Henry Dreyfus Foundation

ROGER B. MYERSON

2007 NOBEL PRIZE IN ECONOMICS

Awarded by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences

CHARLES TAYLOR

2007 TEMPLETON PRIZE

For Progress Toward Research or Discoveries about Spiritual Realities

ROBERT L. TRIVERS

2007 CRAFOORD PRIZE IN BIOSCIENCES

Awarded by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences

EDMUND S. PHELPS
2005 NOBEL PRIZE IN ECONOMICS
The 2006 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2006
Awarded by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences

THOMAS C. SCHELLING
2005 NOBEL PRIZE IN ECONOMICS
2005 Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel
Awarded by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences

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Morris 2008 PINE (Printing Industries of New England) Pinnacle Award Beyond the Zonules of Zinn A Fantastic Journey Through Your Brain David Bainbridge A Booklist Top 10 Sci-Tech book of 2008 A Library Journal Best Sci-Tech book of 2008 Possessing the Pacific Land, Settlers, and Indigenous People from Australia to Alaska Stuart Banner 2008 World History Association Book Prize The Fires of Vesuvius Pompeii Lost and Found Mary Beard A San Francisco Chronicle Top 50 Nonfiction Book of 2008 The Roman Triumph Mary Beard A New Statesman Best Book of the Year The Consolation of Philosophy Boethius Translated by David R. Slavitt Introduction by Seth Lerer A Books & Culture 2008 Book of the Year 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 Death by a Thousand Cuts Timothy Brook Jérôme Bourgon Gregory Blue 2008 Finalist for the The Professional and Scholarly Publishing (PSP) Division of the Association of American Publisher, World History and Biography/Autobiography Category The Reaper's Garden Death and Power in the World of Atlantic Slavery Vincent Brown 2009 Merle Curti Award, Organization of American Historians 2009 James A. Rawley Prize, Organization of American Historians 2008-2009 Louis Gottschalk Prize, sponsored by the Executive Board of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies and the Louis Gottschalk Committee Prague in Black Nazi Rule and Czech Nationalism Chad Bryant Honorable Mention 2008 Wayne S. Vucinich Prize awarded by the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS) 2008 Hans Rosenberg Prize, Conference Group for Central European History 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 Primeval Kinship How Pair-Bonding Gave Birth to Human Society Bernard Chapais Finalist, 2008 The Professional and Scholarly Publishing (PSP) Division of the Association of American Publishers, Biological Sciences Category Fatal Misconception The Struggle to Control World Population Matthew Connelly A Financial Times Book of the Year, 2008 An Economist Book of the Year in Science and Technology Stealing Lincoln's Body Thomas J. Craughwell Amazon.com, A Top 100 Book of the Year Remembering Awatovi The Story of an Archaeological Expedition in Northern Arizona, 1935-1939 Hester A. Davis 2009 Gold Winner Independent Publisher Book Awards, West-Mountain-Best Regional Non-Fiction Category That the World May Know Bearing Witness to Atrocity James Dawes Finalist, 2008 Independent Publisher Book Awards, Peacemaker of the Year Category Sexual Fluidity Understanding Women's Love and Desire Lisa M. Diamond Finalist, 2008 Independent Publisher Book Awards, Gay/Lesbian Category A Guinea Pig's History of Biology Jim Endersby 2004 Royal Society of Literature Jerwood Award for Non-Fiction Cold War at 30,000 Feet The Anglo-American Fight for Aviation Supremacy Jeffrey A. Engel 2008 Paul Birdsall Prize, American Historical Association On Zion's Mount Mormons, Indians, and the American Landscape Jared Farmer 2009 Francis Parkman Prize, The Society of American Historians Hispaniola A Photographic Journey through Island Biodiversity Eladio Fernández Foreword by Edward O. Wilson Introduction by Philippe Bayard Silver Medal, 2008 Nautilus Book Awards, Animals/Nature category On the Surface of Things Images of the Extraordinary in Science Felice C.Frankel George M. Whitesides 2007 Lennart Nilsson Award for Medical, Technical & Scientific Photography Democracy's Prisoner Eugene V. Debs, the Great War, and the Right to Dissent Ernest Freeberg 2008 David J. Langum, Sr. Prize in American Legal History Finalist, 2008 Los Angeles Times Book Prizes, Biography Category Life and Death in the Third Reich Peter Fritzsche Finalist for 2008 Cundill International Prize in History, sponsored by McGill University's Dean of Arts, with the help of the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada Recognition of Excellence Award at the 2008 Cundill International Prize in History at McGill University Making Dead Birds Chronicle of a Film Robert Gardner Honorable Mention, 2008 New England Museum Association Book Award for Books over $10.00 The Race between Education and Technology Claudia Goldin Lawrence F. Katz 2008 R.R. Hawkins Award, The Professional and Scholarly Publishing (PSP) Division of the Association of American Publishers The Lost Promise of Civil Rights Risa Goluboff Co-winner, 2008 James Willard Hurst Prize, Law and Society Association 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 Dreams and Experience in Classical Antiquity William V. Harris William V. Harris is Recipient of the 2007 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Distinguished Achievement Award Biobazaar The Open Source Revolution and Biotechnology Janet Hope Finalist, 2008 Independent Publisher Book Awards, Science Category Ghettostadt Ł�dź and the Making of a Nazi City Gordon J. Horwitz Finalist, 2008 National Jewish Book Awards, Holocaust Category Mean and Lowly Things Snakes, Science, and Survival in the Congo Kate Jackson A Library Journal Best Sci-Tech book of 2008

Divided by Faith Religious Conflict and the Practice of Toleration in Early Modern Europe Benjamin J. Kaplan 2008 Excellence in the Study of Religion, American Academy of Religion, Historical Studies category Inheriting the City The Children of Immigrants Come of Age Philip Kasinitz John H. Mollenkopf Mary C. Waters Jennifer Holdaway 2009 Mirra Komarovsky Award, sponsored by the Eastern Sociological Society 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 The New Nuns Racial Justice and Religious Reform in the 1960s Amy L. Koehlinger 2009 Eric Hoffer Book Award, Culture Category Measuring Up What Educational Testing Really Tells Us Daniel Koretz 2009 Outstanding Book Award, American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education 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 Accidental Incest, Filial Cannibalism, and Other Peculiar Encounters in Late Imperial Chinese Literature Tina Lu 2008 Ranis Prize, Yale University Samuel Johnson A Biography Peter Martin Kansas City Star Top 10 Notable Book of 2008 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 A Spectator Best Read of 2008 Selection 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 Empires of Islam in Renaissance Historical Thought Margaret Meserve 2008 Helen and Howard R. Marraro Prize in Italian History, American Historical Association 2009 Phyllis Goodhart Gordan Book Prize, Renaissance Society of America The Divine Nature of Power Chinese Ritual Architecture at the Sacred Site of Jinci Tracy Miller 2007 Southeastern College Art Conference's annual Award for Excellence in Scholarly Research and Publication Becoming Free in the Cotton South Susan Eva O'Donovan 2008 James A. 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Wilson Memorial Prize 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 2008 Henry Paolucci/Walter Bagehot Book Award given by The Intercollegiate Studies Institute A New York Times Notable Book of 2008 A Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year, 2008 Green Sisters A Spiritual Ecology Sarah McFarland Taylor First Place 2008 Catholic Press Association Book Awards, Social Concerns and Gender Issues Categories Master Drawings of the Italian Renaissance Claire Van Cleave 2007 The Globe and Mail Holiday Gift Book Selection Scribal Culture and the Making of the Hebrew Bible Karel van der Toorn Finalist, 2008 Independent Publisher Book Awards, Religion Category Hunger A Modern History James Vernon Co-Winner, 2008 PCCBS Book Prize, Pacific Coast Conference on British Studies 2008 Norris Hundley Award, Sponsored by the Pacific Branch of the AHA The Discovery of Global Warming Spencer R. 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