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Association of American Publishers Announces 2008 PROSE Award Winners
February 5, 2009, Washington, DC – The Professional and Scholarly Publishing (PSP) Division of
the Association of American Publishers (AAP) is pleased to announce the winners of the 2008
American Publishers Awards for Professional and Scholarly Excellence (The PROSE Awards).
More than 35 PROSE Awards, including the top prize, the R.R. Hawkins Award, will be presented
today, February 5, 2009, at a special Awards Luncheon during the PSP Annual Conference, held
February 4-6, at the Renaissance Mayflower Hotel in Washington, D.C. This year’s winners were
determined by a distinguished panel of 15 PROSE judges that included publishing professionals
from such PSP member companies as McGraw-Hill, Wiley-Blackwell, and The Johns Hopkins
University Press, and librarians and academics from universities such as the University of Arizona,
the University of Toronto, New York University and Columbia University.
The recipient of the 2008 R.R. Hawkins Award is Harvard University Press for The Race Between
Education & Technology by Claudia Goldin and Lawrence F. Katz. The prestigious R.R. Hawkins
Award recognizes exceptional scholarly works in all disciplines of the arts and sciences, and is
given for the most outstanding professional, reference, or scholarly work among the year’s award
winners. The Award will be presented at the Awards Luncheon on February 5, by Priscilla Hawkins
Burns, daughter of Reginald Robert Hawkins, the former head of the Science and Technology
Division of the New York Public Library.
Presented since 1976, and now newly renamed and rebranded, the 2008 PROSE Awards received a
record-breaking 439 entries – over 100 more than in 2007 and more than ever before in its 33-year
history – from 60 professional and scholarly publishers across the country. Other firsts for this
year’s Awards include the eligibility for submission of Association of American University Press
(AAUP) members who may not be members of AAP/PSP, an increased online presence via a new
Awards website, www.proseawards.com, and a dynamic Awards Luncheon program with
multimedia components. “The Mind of the Judge,” a video that gives a glimpse into the
backgrounds of the PROSE Awards judges will debut at the Awards Luncheon.
About The Race Between Education and Technology
A survey of American education from a unique economic lens, The Race Between Education and
Technology is a superb piece of economic and historical scholarship, rendered in accessible prose.
Employing the economist’s usual statistical tools, Goldin and Katz trace the role of education in
creating America’s pre-eminent place in the world, starting in the 19th century, and, with data in
hand, examine how growing educational attainment led to both a growing of individual income and
a narrowing of income distribution between the top and bottom income earners in the 20th century.
Goldin and Katz note that the stalling of our educational system in the 1980s resulted in a regression
which many economists regard as one of America’s top problems: A shrinking portion of the
population is taking a rapidly increasing share of the available income, while most Americans and
their children face even less potential economic success than their parents did.
A book of observation and opinion that is backed up by extensive statistical analysis of data, The
Race Between Education and Technology is a call to action: to re-assert our historic education
features and give greater educational access to those at the middle and bottom of our economic
system.
About AAP
The Association of American Publishers is the national trade association of the U.S. book
publishing industry. AAP’s more than 300 members include most of the major commercial
publishers in the United States, as well as smaller and non-profit publishers, university presses and
scholarly societies – small and large. AAP members publish hardcover and paperback books in
every field, educational materials for the elementary, secondary, postsecondary, and professional
markets, scholarly journals, computer software, and electronic products and services. The
protection of intellectual property rights in all media, the defense of the freedom to read and the
freedom to publish at home and abroad, and the promotion of reading and literacy are among the
Association’s highest priorities.
The complete list of all 2008 PROSE winners follows.
R.R. Hawkins Award
Presented to:
For:
By:
Harvard University Press
The Race Between Education & Technology
Claudia Goldin & Lawrence F. Katz
Award for Excellence in Humanities
Presented to:
Yale University Press
For:
Chinese Calligraphy
By:
Zhongshi Ouyang, Wen C. Fong, et al
Award for Excellence in Social Sciences
Presented to:
Harvard University Press
For
The Race Between Education & Technology
By
Claudia Goldin & Lawrence F. Katz
2
Award for Excellence in Physical Sciences & Mathematics
Presented to:
Springer Science+Business Media
For:
Springer Handbook of Robotics
By:
Professors Bruno Siciliano & Oussama Khatib
Award for Excellence in Biology & Life Sciences
Presented to:
John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
For:
Current Protocols in Essential Laboratory Techniques
Editors:
Sean R. Gallagher & Emily A. Wiley
Award for Excellence in Reference Works
Presented to:
The Johns Hopkins University Press
For:
French Women Poets of Nine Centuries: The Distaff & the Pen
Selected & Translated by: Norman R. Shapiro
Book Subject Categories: Humanities
Art & Art History
Presented to:
For:
By:
Yale University Press
Chinese Calligraphy
Zhongshi Ouyang, Wen C. Fong, et al
Finalist/Honorable Mention
Presented to:
University of Chicago Press
For:
Daring to Look: Dorthea Lange’s Photographs & Reports from the
Field
By:
Anne Whiston Spirn
Finalist/Honorable Mention
Presented to:
University of California Press
For:
Enchanted Objects, Enchanted Lives: American Women Collectors &
the Making of Culture, 1800-1940
By:
Dianne Sachko Macleod
Finalist/Honorable Mention
Presented to:
Getty Publications
For:
Language of the Muses: Hellenized Roman Sculpture
By:
Miranda Marvin
Classics & Ancient History
Presented to:
Princeton University Press
For:
Democracy and Knowledge: Innovation and Learning in Classical
Athens
By:
Josiah Ober
3
Finalist/Honorable Mention
Presented to:
University of Chicago Press
For:
Alcman & the Cosmos of Sparta
By:
Gloria Ferrari
Finalist/Honorable Mention
Presented to:
Getty Publications
For:
The Color of Life
By:
Roberta Panzinelli, Eike Schmidt & Kenneth Lapatin
Finalist/Honorable Mention
Presented to:
Wiley-Blackwell
For:
A Companion to Classical Receptions
Editors:
Lorna Hardwick & Christopher Stray
Media & Cultural Studies
Presented to:
For:
By:
The University of Chicago Press
The Chicagoan: A Lost Magazine of the Jazz Age
Neil Harris
Finalist/Honorable Mention
Presented to:
Princeton University Press
For:
The Art of the Public Grovel: Sexual Sin & Public Confession in
America
By:
Susan Wise Bauer
Finalist/Honorable Mention
Presented to:
Princeton University Press
For:
Coming of Age in Second Life: An Anthropologist Explores the
Virtually Human
By:
Tom Boellstorff
Finalist/Honorable Mention
Presented to:
Oxford University Press
For:
Sense of Place and Sense of Planet
By:
Ursula K. Heise
Music & the Performing Arts
Presented to:
John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
For:
All You Have To Do Is Listen
By:
Rob Kapilow
Finalist/Honorable Mention
Presented to:
The MIT Press
For:
Being Watched: Yvonne Rainer and the 1960s
By:
Carrie Lambert-Beatty
4
Finalist/Honorable Mention
Presented to:
University of Chicago Press
For:
A Power Stronger Than Itself: The AACM & American Experimental
Music
By:
George E. Lewis
U.S. History & Biography/Autobiography
Presented to:
The Johns Hopkins University Press
For:
Abraham Lincoln: A Life
By:
Michael Burlingame
Finalist/Honorable Mention
Presented to:
Yale University Press
For:
The Comanche Empire
By:
Pekka Hamalainen
Finalist/Honorable Mention
Presented to:
Oxford University Press
For:
Negro With a Hat: The Rise and Fall of Marcus Garvey
By:
Colin Grant
Finalist/Honorable Mention
Presented to:
Yale University Press
For:
War of a Thousand Deserts: Indian Raids and the U.S.-Mexican War
By:
Brian DeLay
World History & Biography/Autobiography
Presented to:
Yale University Press
For:
Europe Between the Oceans: 9000BC-AD1000
By:
Barry Cunliffe
Finalist/Honorable Mention
Presented to:
Harvard University Press
For:
Death by a Thousand Cuts
By:
Timothy Brook, Jerome Bourgon & Gregory Blue
Finalist/Honorable Mention
Presented to:
The MIT Press
For:
The Tropics of Empire
By:
Nicolas Wey Gomez
Literature, Language & Linguistics
Presented to:
The Johns Hopkins University Press
For:
Women's Writing in Italy, 1400-1650
By:
Virginia Cox
5
Finalist/Honorable Mention
Presented to:
Cornell University Press
For:
Adam Mickiewicz: The Life of a Romantic
By:
Roman Koropeckyj
Finalist/Honorable Mention
Presented to:
Princeton University Press
For:
Franz Kafka: The Office Writings
Editors:
Stanley Corngold, Jack Greenberg & Benno Wagner
Finalist/Honorable Mention
Presented to:
The MIT Press
For:
Origins of Human Communication
By:
Michael Tomasello
Philosophy
Presented to:
For:
By:
Princeton University Press
Made With Words: Hobbes on Language, Mind, & Politics
Philip Pettit
Finalist/Honorable Mention
Presented to:
University of Chicago Press
For:
Aristotle's Dialogue with Socrates: On the “Nicomachean Ethics”
By:
Ronna Burger
Finalist/Honorable Mention
Presented to:
Oxford University Press
For:
A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy
By:
William B. Irvine
Theology & Religious Studies
Presented to:
Georgetown University Press
For:
Catholic Moral Theology in the United States: A History
By:
Charles E. Curran
Finalist/Honorable Mention
Presented to:
Wiley-Blackwell
For:
The Orthodox Church
By:
John Anthony McGuckin
Finalist/Honorable Mention
Presented to:
Yale University Press
For:
Resurrection: The Power of God for Christians and Jews
By:
Kevin J. Madigan & Jon D. Levenson
6
Book Subject Categories: Social Sciences
Archeology & Anthropology
Presented to:
The University of Arizona Press
For:
A Zapotec Natural History
By:
Eugene Hunn
Finalist/Honorable Mention
Presented to:
Yale University Press
For:
Digging in the City of Brotherly Love: Stories from Philadelphia
Archeology
By:
Rebecca Yamin
Finalist/Honorable Mention
Presented to:
University of the West Indies Press
For:
Jamaican Food: History, Biology, Culture
By:
B.W. Higman
Education
Presented to:
For:
By:
The MIT Press
Stuck in the Shallow End
Jane Margolis
Finalist/Honorable Mention
Presented to:
Jossey-Bass
For:
The Trouble with Black Boys
By:
Pedro Noguera
Finalist/Honorable Mention
Presented to:
Princeton University Press
For:
Troublemaker: A Personal History of School Reform Since Sputnik
By:
Chester E. Finn, Jr.
Government & Politics
Presented to:
For:
By:
Presented to:
For:
By:
Princeton University Press
The Fall and Rise of the Islamic State
Noah FeldmanFinalist/Honorable Mention
CQ Press
The Good Citizen: How a Younger Generation is Reshaping
American Politics
Russell J. Dalton
Finalist/Honorable Mention
Presented to:
Oxford University Press
For:
The Powers to Lead
By:
Joseph S. Nye, Jr.
7
Finalist/Honorable Mention
Presented to:
Oxford University Press
For:
Unconventional Wisdom
By:
Karen M. Kaufmann, John R. Petrocik & Daron R. Shaw
Law & Legal Studies
Presented to:
For:
By:
The University of Chicago Press
The Medieval Origins of the Legal Profession: Canonists, Civilians,
& Courts
James A. Brundage
Finalist/Honorable Mention
Presented to:
Oxford University Press
For:
Defending Humanity
By:
George P. Fletcher & Jens David Ohlin
Finalist/Honorable Mention
Presented to:
Oxford University Press
For:
The Invisible Constitution
By:
Laurence H. Tribe
Finalist/Honorable Mention
Presented to:
Princeton University Press
For:
Patent Failure: How Judges, Bureaucrats, & Lawyers Put Innovators
at Risk
By:
James Bessen & Michael J. Meurer
Architecture & Urban Planning
Presented to:
John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
For:
Biophilic Design: The Theory, Science & Practice of Bringing
Buildings to Life
By:
Stephen R. Kellert, Judith Heerwagen & Martin Mador
Finalist/Honorable Mention
Presented to:
John Wiley & Sons
For:
Sustainable Urbanism: Urban Design with Nature
By:
Douglas Farr
Finalist/Honorable Mention
Presented to:
University of Chicago Press
For:
The Skyscraper & the City: The Woolworth Building & the Making of
Modern New York
By:
Gail Fenske
Sociology & Social Work
Presented to:
For:
By:
Princeton University Press
Cop in the Hood: My Year Policing Baltimore’s Eastern District
Peter Moskos
8
Finalist/Honorable Mention
Presented to:
The MIT Press
For:
New Tech, New Ties
By:
Rich Ling
Business, Finance & Management
Presented to:
Princeton University Press
For:
Venturesome Economy: How Innovation Sustains Prosperity in a
More Connected World
By:
Amar Bhide
Finalist/Honorable Mention
Presented to:
Jossey-Bass
For:
Forces for Good: The Six Practices of High Impact Nonprofits
By:
Leslie Crutchfield & Heather McLeod Grant
Finalist/Honorable Mention
Presented to:
John Wiley & Sons
For:
The Fundamental Index
By:
Robert D. Arnott, Jason C. Hsu & John M. West
Finalist/Honorable Mention
Presented to:
Princeton University Press
For:
The Subprime Solution: How Today's Global Financial Crisis
Happened & What to Do About It
By:
Robert J. Shiller
Economics
Presented to:
For:
By:
Harvard University Press
The Race Between Education & Technology
Claudia Goldin & Lawrence F. Katz
Finalist/Honorable Mention
Presented to:
Cambridge University Press
For:
Capitalism with Chinese Characteristics: Entrepreneurship & the
State
By:
Yasheng Huang
Finalist/Honorable Mention
Presented to:
The MIT Press
For:
Medical Malpractice
By:
Frank A. Sloan & Lindsey M. Chepke
Finalist/Honorable Mention
Presented to:
Princeton University Press
For:
Social & Economic Networks
By:
Matthew O. Jackson
9
Psychology
Presented to:
For:
By:
Wiley-Blackwell
Happiness: Unlocking the Mysteries of Psychological Wealth
Ed Diener & Robert Biswas-Diener
Finalist/Honorable Mention
Presented to:
The Johns Hopkins University Press
For:
Poets on Prozac: Mental Illness, Treatment, & the Creative Process
Editor:
Richard M. Berlin, MD
Book Subject Categories: Biological & Life Sciences
Biological Sciences
Presented to:
For:
Editors:
John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Current Protocols in Essential Laboratory Techniques
Sean R. Gallagher & Emily A. Wiley
Finalist/Honorable Mention
Presented to:
Columbia University Press
For:
Autism's False Prophets: Bad Science, Risky Medicine, & the Search
for a Cure
By:
Paul A. Offit, MD
Finalist/Honorable Mention
Presented to:
Harvard University Press
For:
Primeval Kinship
By:
Bernard Chapais
Finalist/Honorable Mention
Presented to:
Oxford University Press
For:
Six-Legged Soldiers: Using Insects as Weapons of War
By:
Jeffrey A. Lockwood
Clinical Medicine
Presented to:
For:
By:
RAND Corporation
Invisible Wounds of War
Terri Tanielian & Lisa H. Jaycox
Finalist/Honorable Mention
Presented to:
Mosby Elsevier
For:
Comprehensive Pediatric Nephrology
By:
Editors Denis F. Geary, MB, MRCP (UK), FRCPC & Franz Schaefer,
MD
10
Finalist/Honorable Mention
Presented to:
Elsevier, Inc.
For:
Operative Techniques: Hand & Wrist Surgery
Editor:
Kevin C. Chung, MD
Nursing & Allied Health
Presented to:
For:
By:
Elsevier, Inc.
Complementary Therapies for Physical Therapy-A Clinical
Decision-Making Approach
Judith Deutsch & Ellen Anderson
Finalist/Honorable Mention
Presented to:
Oxford University Press
For:
Doubt is Their Product
By:
David Michaels
Book Subject Categories: Physical Sciences & Mathematics
Chemistry & Physics
Presented to:
For:
By:
Oxford University Press
Cathedrals of Science
Patrick Coffey
Finalist/Honorable Mention
Presented to:
Princeton University Press
For:
The Mystery of the Missing Antimatter
By:
Helen R. Quinn & Yossi Nir
Cosmology & Astronomy
Presented to:
For:
Editors:
The University of Arizona Press
The Solar System Beyond Neptune
M.A. Barucci, H. Boehnhardt, D.P. Cruikshank & A. Morbidelli
Finalist/Honorable Mention
Presented to:
Springer Science+Business Media
For:
Solar Sails: A Novel Approach to Interplanetary Travel
By:
Giovanni Vulpetti, Les Johnson & Gregory L. Matloff
Earth Sciences
Presented to:
For:
By:
The University of Chicago Press
Worlds Before Adam: The Reconstruction of Geohistory in the Age
of Reform
Martin J.S. Rudwick
Finalist/Honorable Mention
Presented to:
Columbia University Press
For:
Dogs: Their Fossil Relatives & Evolutionary History
By:
Xiaoming Wang & Richard H. Tedford
11
Finalist/Honorable Mention
Presented to:
Princeton University Press
For:
How the Ocean Works: An Introduction to Oceanography
By:
Mark Denny
Engineering & Technology
Presented to:
Springer Science+Business Media
For:
Springer Handbook of Robotics
By:
Professors Bruno Siciliano & Oussama Khatib
Finalist/Honorable Mention
Presented to:
John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
For:
Design with Constructal Theory
By:
Adrian Bejan & Sylvie Lorente
Finalist/Honorable Mention
Presented to:
Island Press
For:
Energy for Sustainability: Technology, Planning, & Policy
By:
John Randolph & Gilbert M. Masters
Mathematics
Presented to:
For:
By:
Princeton University Press
Sacred Mathematics: Japanese Temple Geometry
Fukagawa Hidetoshi & Tony Rothman
Finalist/Honorable Mention
Presented to:
Oxford University Press
For:
The Unimaginable Mathematics of Borges' Library of Babel
By:
William Goldbloom Bloch
Book Subject Categories: Reference Works
Multivolume Reference/Humanities & Social Sciences
Presented to:
Palgrave MacMillan
For:
The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics
Editors:
Steven N. Durkauf & Lawrence E. Blume
Finalist/Honorable Mention
Presented to:
Wiley-Blackwell
For:
The International Encyclopedia of Communication
Editor:
Professor Dr. Wolfgang Donsbach
Finalist/Honorable Mention
Presented to:
Yale University Press
For:
The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe: 2 Volumes
By:
Gershon David Hundert
12
Single Volume Reference/Humanities & Social Sciences
Presented to:
The Johns Hopkins University Press
For:
French Women Poets of Nine Centuries: The Distaff & the Pen
Selected & Translated by: Norman R. Shapiro
Finalist/Honorable Mention
Presented to:
CQ Press
For:
Social Security: A Documentary History
By:
Edward D. Berkowitz, Larry W. DeWitt & Daniel Beland
Single Volume Reference/Science
Presented to:
Thieme Medical Publishers
For:
Atlas of Anatomy & Anatomy Flash Cards
By:
Anne M. Gilroy, Brian R. MacPherson & Lawrence M. Ross
Finalist/Honorable Mention
Presented to:
Princeton University Press
For:
The Princeton Companion to Mathematics
Editor:
Timothy Gowers
Journal Categories
Journal/Best Design in Print
Presented to:
University of California Press
For:
Gastronomica: The Journal of Food and Culture
Editor:
Darra Goldstein
Finalist/Honorable Mention
Presented to:
American Anthropological Association
For:
Cultural Anthropology
Editors:
Kin Fortun & Mike Fortun
Finalist/Honorable Mention
Presented to:
Wiley-Blackwell
For:
BJU International
Editor:
Professor John Fitzpatrick
Journal/Science, Technology & Medicine
Presented to:
American Chemical Society
For:
ACS Nano
Editor-in-Chief:
Paul S. Weiss
Finalist/Honorable Mention
Presented to:
SAGE Publications
For:
American Journal of Lifestyle Medicine
Editor:
Dr. James M. Rippe
13
Finalist/Honorable Mention
Presented to:
For:
Editor:
Deputy Editor:
Wiley-Blackwell
CTS: Clinical & Translational Science
Arthur M. Feldman
Scott Waldman
Journal/Social Sciences & Humanities
Presented to:
Berghahn Books
For:
Projections: The Journal for Movies & Mind
Editor:
Ira Konigsberg
Finalist/Honorable Mention
Presented to:
Springer Science+Business Media
For:
Evolution: Education & Outreach
Editors:
Dr. Niles Eldredge & Gregory Eldredge
eProduct Categories
eProduct/Best Publication or Product
Presented to:
Elsevier, Inc.
For:
Procedures Consult
Editors:
Gary Setnik, Todd Thomsen, S. Terry Canale, James Beaty, Lee
Fleisher & Robert Gaiser
Finalist/Honorable Mention
Presented to:
Wolters Kluwer Health & Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
For:
Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery, Journal of the American Society of
Plastic Surgeons
Editor:
Rod J. Rohrich, MD
Finalist/Honorable Mention
Presented to:
Palgrave MacMillan
For:
The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics
Editors:
Steven N. Durlauf & Lawrence E. Blume
Finalist/Honorable Mention
Presented to:
Thieme Medical Publishers
For:
Thieme Teaching Assistant Anatomy
Editors:
Anne M. Gilroy, Brian R. MacPherson & Lawrence M. Ross
eProduct/Best Website or Platform
Presented to:
American Chemical Society
For:
American Chemical Society
Finalist/Honorable Mention
Presented to:
Columbia University Press
For:
Columbia Granger's World of Poetry
Editor:
Tessa Kale
14
Finalist/Honorable Mention
Presented to:
IOP Publishing/Institute of Physics
For:
IOPscience
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