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Barbara Meredith
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ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN PUBLISHERS ANNOUNCES THE WINNERS
OF THE 2006 PSP AWARDS FOR EXCELLENCE
February 6, 2007, Washington, DC, – The Professional and Scholarly Publishing
Division (PSP) of the Association of American Publishers (AAP) today announced the
winner of the R.R. Hawkins Award for the Outstanding Professional, Reference or
Scholarly Work of 2006. This year’s 12-member judging panel selected Evolutionary
Dynamics by Martin A. Nowak, published by Harvard University Press, to receive the
R.R. Hawkins Award, which is named for the former head of the Science and
Technology Division of the New York Public Library.
As described by Michael G. Fisher, editor in chief of Harvard University Press,
Evolutionary Dynamics “offers not just the basics, but also conveys the excitement and
challenges of cutting-edge research.” The book serves as introductory material while also
addressing active areas of research, making it “valuable to readers at every level of
sophistication in biology and related disciplines,” according to Fisher.
The Hawkins Award, along with awards in 30 categories for outstanding books, journals
and digital products covering a wide range of academic disciplines, will be presented
today at a special awards luncheon during the PSP Annual Conference in Washington,
DC. The award for Innovation in Journal Publishing is being given to the American
Chemical Society for its ACS Chemical Biology.
AAP President and CEO Pat Schroeder extended the Association’s congratulations to all
of the PSP Award honorees, noting that “promoting and encouraging the dissemination of
scholarship is one of AAP’s primary missions,” and highlighting the special honor of
being chosen by one’s peers for these awards. This year’s panel of expert judges was
made up of librarians, academics and working publishers.
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.
Information on the Hawkins Award winners and a complete list of the winners in all
categories is attached.
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R.R. Hawkins Award
2006
To: Harvard University Press
For: Evolutionary Dynamics
By: Martin A. Nowak
Archaeology & Anthropology
2006
To: The University of Chicago Press
For: Wondrous Curiosities: Ancient Egypt at the British Museum
By: Stephanie Moser
Honorable Mention:
2006
To: Getty Publications
For: Stories in Stone: Conserving Mosaics of Roman Africa
By: Aicha Ben Abed and Tevuy Ball
Architecture & Urban Planning
2006
To: The MIT Press
For: Design for Ecological Democracy
By: Randolph T. Hester
Honorable Mention:
2006
To: Johns Hopkins University
For: The Domestic Architecture of Benjamin Henry Latrobe
By: Michael W. Fazio and Patrick A. Snadon
Arts & Art History
2006
To: Princeton University Press
For: Pictures of Nothing
By: Kirk Varnedoe
Honorable Mention:
To: Princeton University Press
For: Other Icons
By: Henry Maguire and Eunice Dauterman-Maguire
Best New Undergraduate Textbook
2006
To: Elsevier, Inc.
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For: Exploring Engineering
By: Philip Kosky & Joel Stein
Honorable Mention:
2006
To: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
For: Modern Nuclear Chemistry
By: Walter D. Loveland, David Morrissey and Glenn T. Seaborg
Biography & Autobiography
2006
To: Oxford University Press
For: Dean Acheson: A Life in the Cold War
By: Robert Beisner
Honorable Mention:
2006
To: Harvard University Press
For: In Search of Nella Larsen
By: George Hutchinson
2006
To: Johns Hopkins University Press
For: James Joseph Sylvester: Jewish Mathematician in a Victorian World
By: Karen Hunger Parshall
Biological Science
2006
To: Yale University Press
For: Vietnam: A Natural History
By: Eleanor Jane Sterling and Martha Maud Hurley
Honorable Mention:
2006
To: Harvard University Press
For: The Fire Ants
By: Walter R. Tschinkel
Business, Management, & Accounting
2006
To: The MIT Press
For: Invisible Engines
By: David S. Evans, Andrei Hagiu and Richard Schmalensee
Honorable Mention:
2006
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To: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
For: A Guide to Forensic Accounting Investigation
By: Thomas W. Golden, Steven L. Skalak and Mona M. Clayton
Chemistry
2006
To: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
For: Biochemical Thermodynamics: Applications of Mathematica
By: Robert A. Alberty
Classics & Ancient History
2006
To: University of Texas Press
For: Caesar in Gaul and Rome: War in Words
By: Andrew M. Riggsby
Honorable Mention:
2006
To: University of California Press
For: A Greek Roman Empire: Power and Belief under Theodosius II (408-450)
By: Fergus Millar
Clinical Medicine
2006
To: Thieme Medical Publishers Inc.
For: Atlas of Neurological Technique, 2 Volumes
By: Richard G. Fessler and Laligam Sekhar
Honorable Mention (s):
2006
To: Johns Hopkins University Press
For: Surgically Shaping Children
By: Erik Parens
2006
To: Elsevier, Inc.
For: Multi-Media Procedures Clinical Case
By: Michael Tuggy, Jorge Garcia and Gary Newkirk
Communication & Cultural Studies
2006
To: University of Chicago Press
For: From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and
the Rise of Digital Utopianism
By: Fred Turner
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Honorable Mention
2006
To: MIT Press
For: The Laws of Simplicity
By: John Maeda
Computer & Information Science
2006
To: Princeton University Press
For: Information Science
By: David G. Luenberger
Honorable Mention:
2006
To: Princeton University Press
For: Google’s Page Rank and Beyond: The Science of Search
Engine Rankings
By: Carl D. Meyer and Amy N. Langville
2006
To: Morgan Kaufmann, Elsevier
For: Foundations of Multidimensional Data Structures
By: Hanan Samet
Education
2006
To: Teachers College Press
For: Forever After: New York City Teachers on 911
By: Teachers College Press with Maureen Grolnick
Honorable Mention:
2006
To: Princeton University Press
For: Our Underachieving Colleges
By: Derek Bok
Engineering
2006
To: Mc Graw-Hill
For: Foundation Engineering Handbook
By: Robert W. Day
Honorable Mention:
2006
To: Springer Science+Business Media
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For: Leonardo’s Lost Robots
By: Mark Elling Rosheim
Finance & Economics
2006
To: Cambridge University Press
For: Economic Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy
By: Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson
Honorable Mention:
2006
To: University of Chicago Press
For: The Bourgeois Virtues: Ethics for an Age of Commerce
By: Deirdre N. McCloskey
2006
To: Princeton University Press
For: The Theory of Corporate Finance
By: Jean Tirole
Geology & Geography
2006
To: University of Chicago Press
For: Mapping Paradise: A History of Heaven on Earth
By: Alessandro Scafi
Honorable Mention:
2006
To: American Geophysical Union
For: Atmospheric Halos and the Search for Angle X
By: Walter Tape and Jarmo Moilanen
Government & Political Science
2006
To: Cornell University Press
For: The Order of Genocide: Race, Power and War in Rwanda
By: Scott Straus
Honorable Mention:
2006
To: Oxford University Press
For: Our Undemocratic Constitution: Where the Constitution Goes Wrong (And How We
The People Can Correct It)
By: Sanford Levinson
History & American Studies
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2006
To: Oxford University Press
For: Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World
By: David Brion Davis
Honorable Mention:
2006
To: Oxford University Press
For: Freedom Riders: 1961- and the Struggle for Racial Justice
By: Raymond Arsenault
History of Science
2006
To: The Johns Hopkins University Press
For: The Troubled Dream of Genetic Medicine: Ethnicity and Innovation in Tay-Sachs,
Cystic Fibrosis, and Sickle Cell Disease
By: Keith Wailoo and Stephen Pemberton
Honorable Mention:
2006
To: The University of Chicago Press
For: The Science of Describing: Natural History in Renaissance Europe
By: Brian W. Ogilvie
Journals:
2006
To: American Chemical Society
For: ACS Chemical Biology
By: Evelyn Jabri and Laura L. Kiessling
Law & Legal Studies
2006
To: Oxford University Press
For: Americans in Waiting: The Lost Story of Immigration and Citizenship in the United
States
By: Hiroshi Motomura
Honorable Mention:
2006
To: Cambridge University Press
For: Law as a Means to an End
By: Brian Tamanaha
Literature, Language, & Linguistics
2006
To: University of California Press
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For: The Language of the Gods in the World of Men: Sanskrit, Culture and Power
By: Sheldon Pollock
Honorable Mention:
2006
To: The University of Chicago Press
For: Friedrich Durrenmatt: Selected Writings
By: Friedrich Durrenmatt
Translated By: Joel Agee
Mathematics & Statistics
2006
To: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
For: Visual Statistics: Seeing Data with Dynamic Interactive Graphics
By: Forrest W. Young, Pedro M. Valero-Mora and Michael Friendly
Honorable Mention:
2006
To: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
For: Understanding Uncertainty
By: Dennis V. Lindley
Medical Science
2006
To: Oxford University Press
For: Fiber Pathways of the Brain
By: Jeremy D. Schmahmann and Deepak N. Pandya
Honorable Mention:
2006
To: Harvard University Press
For: Cross-Sectional Atlas
By: Peter Ratiu and Ion-Florin Talos
Nursing & Allied Health
2006
To: Elsevier, Inc.
For: Forensic Nursing
By: Virginia A. Lynch and Janet B. Duval
Honorable Mention:
2006
To: Elsevier, Inc.
For: Kinesiology: The Skeletal System and Muscle Function
By: Joseph E. Muscolino
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Philosophy
2006
To: Princeton University Press
For: Pessimism
By: Joshua Foa Dienstag
Honorable Mention:
2006
To: Columbia University Press
For: The Rise and Fall of Soul and Self
By: Raymond Martin and John Barresi
Psychology & Cognitive Science
2006
To: Oxford University Press
For: The Redemptive Self
By: Dan P. McAdams
Honorable Mention:
2006
To: Oxford University Press
For: Comparative Cognition: Experimental Explorations of Animal Intelligence
By: Edward A. Wasserman and Thomas R. Zentall
Sociology & Social Work
2006
To: Oxford University Press
For: The Civil Sphere
By: Jeffrey C. Alexander
Honorable Mention:
2006
To: Princeton University Press
For: Territory, Authority, Rights
By: Saskia Sassen
Theology & Religious Studies
2006
To: Columbia University Press
For: The Natural History of the Bible
By: Daniel Hillel
Honorable Mention:
2006
To: Oxford University Press
For: Therese of Lisieux: Gods of Gentle Warrior
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By: Thomas R. Nevin
Multi Volume Reference Works/ Humanities & Social Sciences
2006
To: Oxford University Press
For: Encyclopedia of African American History
By: Paul Finkelman
Honorable Mention:
2006
To: Princeton University Press
For: The Novel: 2 Volumes
By: Franco Moretti
Multi Volume Reference Works/ Science
2006
To: Elsevier, Inc.
For: Encyclopedia of Respiratory Medicine
By: Geoffrey Laurent and Steven Shapiro
Honorable Mention:
2006
To: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
For: Wiley Encyclopedia of Biomedical Engineering
By: Metin Akay
Single Volume Reference/ Humanities & Social Sciences
2006
To: CQ Press
For: Historical Atlas of U.S Presidential Elections 1788-2004
By: J.Clark Archer, Stephen J. Lavin, Kenneth C. Martis and Fred M. Shelley
Honorable Mention:
2006
To: Yale University Press
For: The Yale Book of Quotations
By: Fred R. Shapiro
Single Volume Reference/ Science
2006
To: Johns Hopkins University Press
For: Dragonfly Genera of the New World: An Illustrated and Annotated Key to the
Anisoptera
By: Dr. Rosser W. Garrison, Natalia von Ellenrieder and Jerry A. Louton
Honorable Mention:
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2006
To: Elsevier, Inc.
For: The Immune Response
By: Tak Mak and Mary Saunders
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