1999/2000 PSP Awards Winners
R.R. Hawkins
American National Biography, Oxford University Press
Accounting
(no winner)
Architecture & Urban Planning
The Works: The Industrial Architecture of the United States, Oxford University Press
 Honorable Mention - The British Market Hall: A Social and Architectural History, Yale
University Press
Arts
A Descriptive Catalogue of the Music of Charles Ives, Yale University Press
 Honorable Mention - The Ballet Russes and Its World, Yale University Press
Biological Science
The Ambonese Curiosity Cabinet, Yale University Press
 Honorable Mention – The Praying Mantids, Johns Hopkins University Press
Sensory Exotica: A World Beyond Human Experience, The MIT Press
The Amber Forest: A Reconstruction of a Vanished World, Princeton
University Press
Business & Management
Hot Groups: Seeding Them, Feeding Them, and Using Them to Ignite Your Organization,
Oxford University Press
 Honorable Mention – The Innovation Journey, Oxford University Press
Chemistry
The Porphyrin Handbook, Academic Press
Clinical Medicine
Retina-Vitreous-Macula, W. B. Saunders Company, The Curtis Center
 Honorable Mention – Nutritional Oncology: Causes and Prevention, Academic Press
Computer Science
Design By Numbers, The MIT Press
Economics
Globalization & History: The Evolution of a Nineteenth-Century Atlantic Economy, The
MIT Press
 Honorable Mention – The Local Merchants of Prato, Johns Hopkins University Press
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Engineering Handbooks
Handbook of Nanostructured Materials and Nanotechnology, Academic Press
 Honorable Mention – Highway Design and Traffic Safety Engineering Handbook,
McGraw-Hill
General Engineering
Hazardous Materials Management Desk Reference, McGraw-Hill
Geography & Earth Science
Encyclopedia of Volcanoes, Academic Press
Government & Political Science
Controlling the State: Constitutionalism from Ancient Athens to Today, Harvard
University Press
 Honorable Mention – Civic Engagement in American Democracy, Brookings Institution Press
Heaven’s Door: Immigration Policy and the American Economy,
Princeton University Press
History
Late Antiquity, Harvard University Press
 Honorable Mention – Trials of Intimacy: Love and Loss in the Beecher-Tilton Scandal,
University of Chicago Press
The Power of Kings: Monarchy and Religion in Europe 1549-1715,
Yale University Press
History of Science & Technology
The Languages of Edison’s Electric Light, The MIT Press
 Honorable Mention – Proteins, Enzymes, Genes, Yale University Press
Legal
Japanese Law: An Economic Approach, University of Chicago Press
Literature and Language
The Poetics of Natural History: From John Bartman to William James, Rutgers University
Press
 Honorable Mention – In Praise of Antiheroes: Figures & Themes in Modern European
Literature, 1830-1980
Mathematics
The Moment of Proof: Mathematical Epiphanies, Oxford University Press
 Honorable Mention – Gnomon: From Pharaohs to Fractals, Princeton University Press
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Medical Science
Women & Health, Academic Press
 Honorable Mention – Felix d’Herelle and the Origins of Molecular Biology, Yale University
Press
Nursing & Allied Health
Oncology Nursing: Assessment and Clinical Care, Mosby, Inc.
Philosophy & Religion
Protestants and Pictures: Religion, Visual Culture and the Age of American Mass
Production, Oxford University Press
 Honorable Mention – What, Then, Is Time?, Rowman & Littlefield
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Meeting God: Elements of Hindu Devotion, Yale University Press
Physics & Astronomy
Active Galactic Nuclei: From the Central Black Hole to the Galactic Environment,
Princeton University Press
 Honorable Mention – Astronomy in Prehistoric Britain and Ireland, Yale University Press
Psychology
The MIT Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Sciences, The MIT Press
 Honorable Mention – Sex and Cognition, The MIT Press
Sociology & Anthropology
The Barbarians Speak: How the Conquered Peoples Shaped Roman Europe, Princeton
University Press
 Honorable Mention – Lucy’s Legacy: Sex and Intelligence in Human Evolution, Harvard
University Press
Excellence in Design and Production - Books
Mapping Boston, The MIT Press
 Honorable Mention – Marguerite Makes a Book, J. Paul Getty Museum
Best Single Issue of a Journal – Science/Technology/Medicine
Journal of Geophysical Research (Planets) Vol. 104 No. E4, American Geophysical Union
Best Single Issue of a Journal – Business/Social Sciences/Humanities
The Opera Quarterly, Oxford University Press
 Honorable Mention – Isis: Catching Up With the Vision, University of Chicago Press
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Excellence in Design & Production – Journals
(no winner)
Best New PSP Journal - Science/Technology/Medicine
Marine Biotechnology, Springer-Verlag
 Honorable Mention – Journal of Combinatorial Chemistry, American Chemical Society
Best New PSP Journal - Business/Social Sciences/Humanities
(no submissions)
PSP Electronic Products on Hard Media – Math/Science
(no winner)
PSP Electronic Products on Hard Media – Social Science/Humanities
African American History & Culture CD-ROM, Macmillan Reference Library
PSP Internet-Based Electronic Products – Math/Science
Earthscape: The Online Resource on the Global Environment, Columbia University Press
PSP Internet-Based Electronic Products – Social Science/Humanities
(no winner)
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