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Association of American Publishers Announces 2009 PROSE Award Winners;
In a First, Electronic Product Shares the Top Prize
Washington, DC, February 4, 2010—The Professional and Scholarly Publishing (PSP) Division
of the Association of American Publishers is pleased to announce the winners of the 2009
American Publishers Awards for Professional and Scholarly Excellence (The PROSE Awards).
More than 40 PROSE Awards, including the top prize, the R.R. Hawkins Award, were presented
February 4, 2010, at a special Awards Luncheon during the PSP Annual Conference at the
Renaissance Mayflower Hotel in Washington, DC. Award winners included Elsevier, Modern
Language Association, Oxford University Press, John Wiley & Sons, Louisiana State University
Press, and American Physiological Society. A full list of the winners can be found at
www.proseawards.com.
The 2009 R.R. Hawkins Award was presented to two publishers: The University of Chicago
Press for Plato’s Philosophers: The Coherence of the Dialogues, and John Wiley & Sons for
Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews (WIREs). While this isn’t the first time the Hawkins has been
awarded to two presses since the PSP Awards program launched in 1976, this is the first time an
eProduct has taken home the Hawkins prize.
“We’re elated with the PSP industry’s enthusiastic response to the PROSE Awards, which has
received a record-breaking number of entries for the second year running,” explained PROSE
Awards Chairman John A. Jenkins, President & Publisher of CQ Press. “The impact of
electronic publishing was tangible from the many types of e-products that were submitted, and
the decision to present the 2009 Hawkins Award to both a traditional print product and an
electronic product indicates the exciting directions in which our industry is moving.”
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 was presented at today’s Awards Luncheon
by Daniel Hawkins, son of Reginald Robert Hawkins, the former head of the Science and
Technology Division of the New York Public Library and the award’s namesake.
This year’s winners were determined by a distinguished panel of 16 PROSE judges: Joseph S.
Alpert, University of Arizona; Steve Chapman, McGraw-Hill; Barbara Chen, Modern Language
Association; F. Michael Connelly, University of Toronto; Jeff Dean, Wiley-Blackwell; Michael
Fisher, Harvard University Press; Nigel Fletcher-Jones, Lexicon Publishing Consultants; James
M. Jasper, City University of New York; Myer Kutz, Myer Kutz Associates; Barbara Lange,
IEEE; Jean Laponce, Columbia University; George Lobell, Wiley-Blackwell; Helle Mathiasen,
University of Arizona; Carol McGall, John Wiley & Sons; John Ryden, Yale University Press;
and Henry Tom, Johns Hopkins University Press.
The 2009 PROSE Awards received a record-breaking 441 entries – more than ever before in its
34-year history – from more than 60 professional and scholarly publishers across the country.
Video highlights from this year’s Awards Luncheon, including the short video PROSE 2009:
Publishers…On Publishing and the acceptance speeches of the Hawkins prize winners, will be
available on www.proseawards.com and YouTube.
About Plato’s Philosophers: The Coherence of the Dialogues by Catherine Zuckert
Faced with the difficult task of discerning Plato’s true ideas from the contradictory voices he
used to express them, scholars have never fully made sense of the incompatibilities within and
between the dialogues. In the magisterial Plato’s Philosophers, Catherine Zuckert explains for
the first time how these prose dramas cohere to reveal a comprehensive Platonic understanding
of philosophy.
To expose this coherence, Zuckert examines the dialogues not in their supposed order of
composition but according to the dramatic order in which Plato indicates they took place. This
unconventional arrangement lays bare a narrative of the rise, development, and limitations of
Socratic philosophy. In the drama’s earliest dialogues, non-Socratic philosophers introduce the
political and philosophical problems to which Socrates tries to respond. A second dramatic
group shows how Socrates develops his distinctive philosophical style. And, finally, the later
dialogues feature interlocutors who reveal his philosophy’s limitations. Despite these
limitations, Zuckert concludes, Plato made Socrates the dialogues’ central figure because
Socrates raises the fundamental human question: what is the best way to live?
At a time when the apparently unbridgeable gap between our understandings of human life and
the nonhuman word continues to raise questions, Zuckert’s brilliant interpretation of the entire
Platonic corpus offers genuinely new insights into worlds past and present.
About Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews (WIREs)
The Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews (WIREs) are innovative hybrid publications that combine
the most powerful features of online reference works and review journals. The WIREs are
published serially in online volumes and issues, making them eligible for abstracting and
indexing as well as impact factors; simultaneously, all new content is populated into a
meticulously designed thematic outline of the field in question. In this way, the WIREs combine
the high visibility of the review journal literature with the editorial structure, comprehensiveness,
and authority that are typically associated with scholarly reference works. Furthermore, unlike
traditional review journals, the WIREs offer a novel mechanism for updating of previously
published articles. Five carefully templated article types (Overviews, Advanced Reviews, Focus
Articles, Opinions, and Editorial Commentaries) offer many different access points for readers
with varying levels of expertise, and for those in adjacent disciplines.
The WIREs platform is the first publishing model of its kind to establish as its central ethos the
importance of interdisciplinarity to the scientific enterprise. Researchers in diverse fields have
recognized the potential of the WIREs to foster valuable cross-disciplinary collaboration. Wiley
has gone to considerable lengths to ensure that its editorial boards reflect appropriate levels of
scientific diversity, and that authors prepare their contributions with the needs of readers in
different disciplines firmly in mind.
The novel editorial features of the WIREs, together with their emphasis on collaboration across
disciplinary boundaries, truly represent significant innovations in the scholarly publishing space.
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. 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 2009 American Publishers Awards for Professional & Scholarly Excellence (PROSE)
Winners
R.R. Hawkins Award
Presented to:
For:
By:
The University of Chicago Press
Plato’s Philosophers: The Coherence of the Dialogues
Catherine H. Zuckert
R.R. Hawkins Award
Presented to:
For:
John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews (WIREs)
Award for Excellence in Humanities
Presented to:
The University of Chicago Press
For:
Plato’s Philosophers: The Coherence of the Dialogues
By:
Catherine H. Zuckert
Award for Excellence in Social Sciences
Presented to:
Academic Press/Elsevier, Inc.
For:
Neuroeconomics: Decision Making and the Brain
Editors:
Paul W. Glimcher, Colin F. Camerer, Ernst Fehr
and Russell A. Poldrack
Award for Excellence in Physical Sciences & Mathematics
Presented to:
John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
For:
Therapeutic Monoclonal Antibodies:
From Bench to Clinic
Editor:
Zhiqiang An
Award for Excellence in Biology & Life Sciences
Presented to:
The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
For:
Dermatology for Skin of Color
Editors:
A. Paul Kelly, MD and Susan C. Taylor
Award for Excellence in Reference Works
Presented to:
John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
For:
Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews (WIREs)
Book Subject Categories: Humanities
Art & Art History
Presented to:
For:
By:
The University of Chicago Press
The Gargoyles of Notre-Dame:
Medievalism and the Monsters of Modernity
Michael Camille
Honorable Mention
Presented to:
For:
By:
The Museum of Modern Art
Bauhaus 1919-1933: Workshops for Modernity
Barry Bergdoll and Leah Dickerman
Presented to:
For:
By:
Getty Publications
Sculpture and Enlightenment
Erika Naginski
Presented to:
For:
By:
Elsevier/Focal Press
Drawn to Life: 20 Golden Years of Disney Master Classes
Walt Stanchfield
Classics & Ancient History
Presented to:
Oxford University Press
For:
The Deaths of Seneca
By:
James Ker
Honorable Mention
Presented to:
For:
By:
Harvard University Press
The Grand Strategy of the Byzantine Empire
Edward N. Luttwak
Media & Cultural Studies
Presented to:
For:
By:
University of Texas Press
Edna Ferber’s Hollywood:
American Fictions of Gender, Race, and History
J.E. Smyth
Honorable Mention
Presented to:
For:
By:
Stanford University Press
Flesh of My Flesh
Kaja Silverman
Presented to:
For:
By:
The MIT Press
Critical Play: Radical Game Design
Mary Flanagan
Music & the Performing Arts
Presented to:
University of California Press
For:
Digging: The Afro-American Soul of American Classical Music
By:
Amiri Baraka
Honorable Mention
Presented to:
For:
By:
Yale University Press
Sound and Space in Renaissance Venice
Deborah Howard and Laura Moretti
U.S. History & Biography/Autobiography
Presented to:
Oxford University Press
For:
Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815
By:
Gordon S. Wood
Honorable Mention
Presented to:
For:
By:
The University of Chicago Press
Chicago: A Biography
Dominic A. Pacyga
Presented to:
For:
By:
Harvard University Press
Up from History: The Life of Booker T. Washington
Robert J. Norrell
World History & Biography/Autobiography
Presented to:
Princeton University Press
For:
Empires of the Silk Road
By:
Christopher I. Beckwith
Honorable Mention
Presented to:
For:
By:
Harvard University Press
China’s Last Great Empire: The Great Qing
William T. Rowe
Literature, Language & Linguistics
Presented to:
Louisiana State University Press
For:
The Fourth Ghost:
White Southern Writers and European Fascism, 1930-1950
By:
Robert H. Brinkmeyer, Jr.
Honorable Mention
Presented to:
For:
Editors:
The University of Chicago Press
Petrarch: A Critical Guide to the Complete Works
Victoria Kirkham and Armando Maggi
Philosophy
Presented to:
For:
By:
The University of Chicago Press
Plato’s Philosophers: The Coherence of the Dialogues
Catherine H. Zuckert
Honorable Mention
Presented to:
For:
By:
Wiley-Blackwell
Hard Truths
Elijah Millgram
Theology & Religious Studies
Presented to:
University of California Press
For:
Boundless Faith: The Global Outreach of American Churches
By:
Robert Wuthnow
Honorable Mention
Presented to:
For:
By:
The University of Chicago Press
Sinister Yogis
David Gordon White
Book Subject Categories: Social Sciences
Archeology & Anthropology
Presented to:
The University of Chicago Press
For:
Knossos and the Prophets of Modernism
By:
Cathy Gere
Honorable Mention
Presented to:
For:
By:
Education
Presented to:
For:
Fordham University Press
Dangerous Citizens: The Greek Left and the Terror of the State
Neni Panourgia
By:
The Johns Hopkins University Press
Higher Learning, Greater Good:
The Private and Social Benefits of Higher
Walter W. McMahon
Honorable Mention
Presented to:
For:
Editor:
SAGE Publications, Inc.
The SAGE Handbook of African American Education
Linda C. Tillman
Presented to:
For:
By:
McPherson
Government & Politics
Presented to:
For:
By:
Honorable Mention
Presented to:
For:
Princeton University Press
Crossing the Finish Line:
Completing College at America’s Public Universities
William G. Bowen, Matthew M. Chingos and Michael S.
Oxford University Press
The Accidental Guerrilla:
Fighting Small Wars in the Midst of a Big One
David Kilcullen
By:
Yale University Press
The Art of Not Being Governed:
An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia
James C. Scott
Law & Legal Studies
Presented to:
For:
By:
Princeton University Press
A Constitution of Many Minds
Cass R. Sunstein
Architecture & Urban Planning
Presented to:
John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
For:
Retrofitting Suburbia:
Urban Design Solutions for Redesigning Suburbs
By:
Ellen Dunham-Jones and June Williamson
Honorable Mention
Presented to:
For:
Photographs by:
Essay by:
Presented to:
For:
The MIT Press
Asylum: Inside the Closed World of State Mental Hospitals
Christopher Payne
Oliver Sacks
By:
University of Texas Press
Delirious New Orleans:
Manifesto for an Extraordinary American City
Stephen Verderber
Presented to:
For:
By:
Getty Publications
The California Missions: History, Art, and Preservation
Edna E. Kimbro and Julia G. Costello with Tevvy Bell
Presented to:
For:
By:
Yale University Press
Defining Urban Design:
CIAM Architects and the Formation of a Discipline, 1937-69
Eric Mumford
Sociology & Social Work
Presented to:
For:
By:
Princeton University Press
Codes of the Underworld: How Criminals Communicate
Diego Gambetta
Honorable Mention
Presented to:
For:
By:
The University of Chicago Press
Black Men Can’t Shoot
Scott N. Brooks
Presented to:
For:
By:
Oxford University Press
Why David Sometimes Wins
Marshall Ganz
Business, Finance & Management
Presented to:
Princeton University Press
For:
Boulevard of Broken Dreams
By:
Josh Lerner
Honorable Mention
Presented to:
For:
By:
John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
The Rise and Fall of the U.S. Mortgage and Credit Markets
James R. Barth
Presented to:
For:
Editors:
Economics
Presented to:
For:
Editors:
John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Restoring Financial Stability: How to Repair a Failed System
Viral V. Acharya and Matthew Richardson
Academic Press/Elsevier, Inc.
Neuroeconomics: Decision Making and the Brain
Paul W. Glimcher, Colin F. Camerer, Ernst Fehr
and Russell A. Poldrack
Honorable Mention
Presented to:
For:
By:
The Johns Hopkins University Press
The Economy of Renaissance Florence
Richard A. Goldthwaite
Presented to:
For:
By:
Princeton University Press
This Time is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly
Carmen M. Reinhart and Kenneth S. Rogoff
Psychology
Presented to:
For:
By:
Oxford University Press
Relational Being: Beyond Self and Community
Kenneth J. Gergen
Honorable Mention
Presented to:
For:
By:
Yale University Press
Elephants on the Edge:
What Animals Teach Us about Humanity
G.A. Bradshaw
Book Subject Categories: Biological & Life Sciences
Biological Sciences
Presented to:
For:
Editors:
The University of Chicago Press
Great Plains: America’s Lingering Wild
Michael Forsberg
Honorable Mention
Presented to:
For:
By:
The University of Arizona Press
Inland Fishes of the Greater Southwest
W.L. Minckley and Paul C. Marsh
Presented to:
For:
By:
The Johns Hopkins University Press
The Rise of Amphibians: 365 Million Years of Evolution
Dr. Robert Carroll
Biomedicine & Neuroscience
Presented to:
The MIT Press
For:
What We Know about Emotional Intelligence
By:
Moshe Zeidner, Gerald Matthews & Richard D. Roberts
Clinical Medicine
Presented to:
For:
By:
Honorable Mention
Presented to:
For:
Editors:
The McGraw-Hill Companies
Dermatology for Skin of Color
A. Paul Kelly, MD and Susan C. Taylor
Elsevier, Inc.
Glaucoma
Tarek M. Shaarawy, Mark B. Sherwood, Roger A. Hitchings
and Jonathan G. Crowston
Presented to:
For:
Editors:
The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
Adult Chest Surgery
David J. Sugarbaker, Raphael Bueno, Mark J. Krasna, Steven J.
Mentzer and Lambros Zellos with Marcia Williams and Ann
Adams
Presented to:
For:
Editors:
Elsevier, Inc.
Plastic Surgery: Indications and Practice
Bahman Guyuron, Elof Eriksson, John A. Persing,
Kevin C. Chung, Joseph J. Disa, Arun K. Gosain, Brian M. Kinney
and J. Peter Rubin
Nursing & Allied Health
Presented to:
For:
By:
Thieme Medical Publishers, Inc.
Pocket Atlas of Chinese Medicine
Marnae C. Ergil and Kevin V. Ergil
Honorable Mention
Presented to:
For:
By:
Elsevier, Inc.
The Muscle and Bone Palpation Manual
Joseph Muscolino
Presented to:
For:
Editor:
Elsevier, Inc.
AACN Advanced Critical Care Nursing
Karen K. Carlson
Book Subject Categories: Physical Sciences & Mathematics
Chemistry & Physics
Presented to:
For:
Editor:
John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Therapeutic Monoclonal Antibodies: From Bench to Clinic
Zhiqiang An
Computing & Information Sciences
Presented to:
The MIT Press
For:
Probablistic Graphical Models
By:
Daphne Koller and Nir Friedman
Honorable Mention
Presented to:
For:
By:
Cosmology & Astronomy
Presented to:
For:
Editors:
Earth Sciences
Presented to:
For:
By:
Honorable Mention
Presented to:
For:
Editors:
The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
Software & Systems Requirements in Engineering: In Practice
Brian Berenbach, Daniel Paulish, Juergen Kazmeier
and Arnold Rudorfer
Princeton University Press
High-Energy Astrophysics
Fulvio Melia
The University of Chicago Press
Gems and Gemstones:
Timeless Natural Beauty of the Mineral World
Lance Grande and Allison Augustyn
University of Nevada Press
The Mojave Desert: Ecosystem Processes and Sustainability
Robert H. Webb, Lynn F. Fenstermaker, Jill S. Heaton,
Debra L. Hughson, Eric V. McDonald and David M. Miller
Engineering & Technology
Presented to:
John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
For:
Electromagnetic Compatibility Engineering
By:
Henry W. Ott
Honorable Mention
Presented to:
For:
By:
The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
Artificial Tactile Sensing in Biomedical Engineering
Siamak Najarian, Javad Dargahi and Ali Abouei Mehrizi
Mathematics
Presented to:
For:
By:
Academic Press/Elsevier, Inc.
Handbook of Statistical Analysis and Data Mining Applications
Robert Nisbet, John Elder and Gary Miner
Honorable Mention
Presented to:
For:
By:
John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Bayesian Modeling Using WinBUGS
Ioannis Ntzoufras
Presented to:
For:
By:
John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Sampling Statistics
Wayne A. Fuller
Book Subject Categories: Reference Works
Multivolume Reference/Humanities & Social Sciences
Presented to:
Cambridge University Press
For:
Dictionary of Irish Biography
Editors:
Edited by James McGuire and James Quinn
Honorable Mention
Presented to:
For:
Editors:
Presented to:
For:
Editor:
CQ Press
Encyclopedia of the First Amendment
John R. Vile, David L. Hudson, Jr., and David Schultz
Wiley-Blackwell
The International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest:
1500 to the Present
Immanuel Ness
Multivolume Reference/Science
Presented to:
John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
For:
Wiley Encyclopedia of Chemical Biology
Editor:
Tadhg P. Begley, D.H.R.
Honorable Mention
Presented to:
For:
Editor-in-Chief:
Academic Press/Elsevier, Inc.
Encyclopedia of Inland Waters
Professor Gene F. Likens
Single Volume Reference/Humanities & Social Sciences
Presented to:
Wiley-Blackwell
For:
A Companion to Late Antiquity
Editor:
Philip Rousseau
Single Volume Reference/Science
Presented to:
Springer Publishing Company
For:
The Penn Center Guide to Bioethics
Editors:
Vardit Ravitsky, Autumn Fiester and Arthur L. Caplan
Honorable Mention
Presented to:
For:
Editors:
University of California Press
Encyclopedia of Islands
Rosemary G. Gillespie and David A. Clague
Journal Categories
Journal/Best Design in Print
Presented to:
The American Physiological Society
For:
Physiology
Editor:
Walter Boron, MD
Honorable Mention
Presented to:
For:
Editor:
Association for Computing Machinery
Communications of the ACM
Moshe Y. Vardi
Journal/Science, Technology & Medicine
Presented to:
John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
For:
EMBO Molecular Medicine
Editor:
Sandra Caldeira
Journal/Social Sciences & Humanities
Presented to:
Berghahn Books
For:
Girlhood Studies
Editors-in-Chief:
Claudia Mitchell, Jacqueline Reid-Walsh and Jackie Kirk
Honorable Mention
Presented to:
For:
Editor:
The Johns Hopkins University Press
Journal of Late Antiquity
Ralph W. Mathisen
eProduct Categories
eProduct/Best in Biological & Life Sciences
Presented to:
Elsevier, Inc.
For:
BrainNavigator
eProduct/Best in Humanities
Presented to:
Modern Language Association
For:
Literary Research Guide
eProduct/Best in Physical Sciences & Mathematics
Presented to:
American Institute of Physics
For:
AIP/UniPHY
eProduct/Best in Reference Works
Presented to:
Oxford University Press
For:
Oxford Biblical Studies Online
eProduct/Best Multidiscipline Platform
Presented to:
John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
For:
Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews (WIREs)