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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, , 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: Harvard University Press

For: The Race Between Education & Technology

By: 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

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: Yale University Press

For: Chinese Calligraphy

By: 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

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: The University of Chicago Press

For: The Chicagoan: A Lost Magazine of the Jazz Age

By: 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

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

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: Princeton University Press

For: Made With Words: Hobbes on Language, Mind, & Politics

By: 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

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: The MIT Press

For: Stuck in the Shallow End

By: 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: Princeton University Press

For: The Fall and Rise of the Islamic State

By: Noah FeldmanFinalist/Honorable Mention

Presented to: CQ Press

For: The Good Citizen: How a Younger Generation is Reshaping American Politics

By: Russell J. Dalton

Finalist/Honorable Mention

Presented to: Oxford University Press

For: The Powers to Lead

By: Joseph S. Nye, Jr.

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: The University of Chicago Press

For: The Medieval Origins of the Legal Profession: Canonists, Civilians, & Courts

By: 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: Princeton University Press

For: Cop in the Hood: My Year Policing Baltimore’s Eastern District

By: Peter Moskos

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: Harvard University Press

For: The Race Between Education & Technology

By: 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

Psychology

Presented to: Wiley-Blackwell

For: Happiness: Unlocking the Mysteries of Psychological Wealth

By: 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: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

For: Current Protocols in Essential Laboratory Techniques

Editors: 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: RAND Corporation

For: Invisible Wounds of War

By: 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

Finalist/Honorable Mention

Presented to: Elsevier, Inc.

For: Operative Techniques: Hand & Wrist Surgery

Editor: Kevin C. Chung, MD

Nursing & Allied Health

Presented to: Elsevier, Inc.

For: Complementary Therapies for Physical Therapy-A Clinical Decision-Making Approach

By: 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: Oxford University Press

For: Cathedrals of Science

By: 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: The University of Arizona Press

For: The Solar System Beyond Neptune

Editors: 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: The University of Chicago Press

For: Worlds Before Adam: The Reconstruction of Geohistory in the Age of Reform

By: 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

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: Princeton University Press

For: Sacred Mathematics: Japanese Temple Geometry

By: 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

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

Finalist/Honorable Mention

Presented to: Wiley-Blackwell

For: CTS: Clinical & Translational Science

Editor: Arthur M. Feldman

Deputy Editor: 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

Finalist/Honorable Mention

Presented to: IOP Publishing/Institute of Physics

For: IOPscience

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