| Award for Excellence in Humanities |
Princeton University Press
Through the Eye of a Needle: Wealth, the Fall of Rome, and the Making of Christianity in the West, 350-550 AD
By Peter Brown |
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| Award for Excellence in Social Sciences |
Princeton University Press
The Unheavenly Chorus: Unequal Political Voice and the Broken Promise of American Democracy
By Kay Lehman Schlozman, Sidney Verba, and Henry E. Brady |
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| Award for Excellence in Physical Sciences & Mathematics |
University of California Press
Atlas of Yellowstone
By W. Andrew Marcus, James E. Meacham, Ann W. Rodman, and Alethea Y. Steingisser |
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| Award for Excellence in Biology & Life Sciences |
Harvard University Press
Arthropod Brains: Evolution, Functional Elegance, and Historical Significance
By Nicholas James Strausfeld |
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| Award for Excellence in Reference Works |
Cambridge University Press
The Cambridge History of Religions in America
Edited by Stephen J. Stein |
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| Archeology & Anthropology |
The American University in Cairo Press
Ancient Nubia: African Kingdoms on the Nile
Edited by Majorie M. Fisher, Peter Lacovara, Salima Ikram, and Sue D’Auria
Photographs by Chester Higgins, Jr. |
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Princeton University Press
How Ancient Europeans Saw the World: Vision, Patterns, and the Shaping of the Mind in Perhistoric Times
By Peter S. Wells |
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Architecture & Urban Planning |
Princeton University Press
Mathematical Excursions to the World's Great Buildings
By Alexander J. Hahn |
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Honorable Mention: |
The Johns Hopkins University Press
George Washington's Eye: Landscape, Architecture, and Design at Mount Vernon
By Joseph Manca |
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The Johns Hopkins University Press
Signs, Streets, and Storefronts: A History of Architecture and Graphics along America's Commercial Corridors
By Martin Treu |
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Art Exhibitions |
The Museum of Modern Art
Inventing Abstraction, 1910-1925: How a Radical Idea Changed Modern Art
By Leah Dickerman |
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Honorable Mention: |
Getty Publications
Gustav Klimt: The Magic of Line
By Marian Bisanz-Prakken |
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Art History & Criticism |
Yale University Press
Venice from the Water: Architecture and Myth in an Early Modern City
By Daniel Savoy |
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Honorable Mention: |
The University of Chicago Press
An Audience of Artists: Dada, Neo-Dada, and the Emergence of Abstract Expressionism
By Catherine Craft |
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Biography & Autobiography |
Aquila Polonica Publishing
The Auschwitz Volunteer: Beyond Bravery
By Captain Witold Pilecki
Translated by Jarek Garlinski |
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Biological Sciences |
Harvard University Press
Arthropod Brains: Evolution, Functional Elegance, and Historical Significance
By Nicholas James Strausfeld |
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Honorable Mention: |
The Johns Hopkins University Press
Trees of Life: A Visual History of Evolution
By Theodore W. Pietsch |
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Biomedicine & Neuroscience |
Harvard University Press
Curious Behavior: Yawning, Laughing, Hiccupping, and Beyond
By Robert R. Provine |
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Honorable Mention: |
Oxford University Press
Brain-Computer Interfaces: Principles and Practice
Edited by Jonathan R. Wolpaw and Elizabeth Winter Wolpaw |
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The MIT Press
Consciousness: Confessions of a Romantic Reductionist
By Christof Koch |
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The MIT Press
Discovering the Human Connectome
By Olaf Sporns |
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Oxford University Press
The Bipolar Brain: Integrating Neuroimaging and Genetics
By Stephen M. Strakowski, MD |
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Business, Finance & Management |
Princeton University Press
Finance and the Good Society
By Robert J. Shiller |
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Honorable Mention: |
The MIT Press
Guardians of Finance: Making Regulators Work for Us
By James R. Barth, Gerard Caprio, Jr., and Ross Levine |
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The MIT Press
Logistics Clusters: Delivering Value and Driving Growth
By Yossi Sheffi |
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Chemistry & Physics |
John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Bioinspiration and Biomimicry in Chemistry: Reverse-Engineering Nature
By Gerhard F. Swiegers |
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Honorable Mention: |
Elsevier Science & Technology
Chemical Analysis of Food: Techniques and Applications
By Yolanda Pico |
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Classics & Ancient History |
Princeton University Press
Through the Eye of a Needle: Wealth, the Fall of Rome, and the Making of Christianity in the West, 350-550 AD
By Peter Brown |
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Honorable Mention: |
The University of Texas Press
Alexander's Veterans and the Early Wars of the Successors
By Joseph Roisman |
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Cambridge University Press
Constantine, Divine Emperor
By Jonathan Bardill |
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Clinical Medicine |
Oxford University Press
Dignity Therapy: Final Words for Final Days
By Harvey Max Chochinov |
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Honorable Mention: |
American Psychiatric Publishing
Care of Children Exposed to the Traumatic Effects of Disaster
By Jon A. Shaw, MD, MS, Zelde Espinel, MD, MA, MPH, and James M. Shultz, MS, PhD |
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Thieme Publishers
Hemorrhagic and Ischemic Stroke
By Bernard R. Bendok, MD, Andrew M. Naidech, Matthew T. Walker, and H. Hunt Batjer |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Immunology: Muscosal and Body Surface Defences
By Andrew E. Williams |
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Computing & Information Sciences |
Elsevier Science & Technology
Practical Text Mining and Statistical Analysis for Non-structured Text Data Applications
By Gary Miner, Dursun Delen, John Elder, Andrew Fast, Thomas Hill, and Robert A. Nisbet |
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Honorable Mention: |
Princeton University Press
Nine Algorithms That Changed the Future: The Ingenious Ideas That Drive Today's Computers
By John MacCormick |
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Cosmology & Astronomy |
Cambridge University Press
Modern Statistical Methods for Astronomy, With R Applications
By Eric D. Feigelson and G. Jogesh Babu |
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Earth Sciences |
University of California Press
Atlas of Yellowstone
By W. Andrew Marcus, James E. Meacham, Ann W. Rodman, and Alethea Y. Steingisser |
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Honorable Mention: |
Oxford University Press
Dirty, Sacred Rivers: Confronting South Asia's Water Crisis
By Cheryl Colopy |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Fundamentals of Geobiology
By Andrew H. Knoll, Donald E. Canfield, and Kurt O. Konhauser |
| Simon & Schuster/Scribner |
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Princeton University Press
How to Build a Habitable Planet: The Story of Earth from the Big Bang to Humankind
By Charles H. Langmuir and Wally Broecker |
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Economics |
The MIT Press
Getting it Wrong: How Faulty Monetary Statistics Undermine the Fed, the Financial System, and the Economy
By William A. Barnett |
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Education |
The University of Chicago Press
What is Education?
By Philip W. Jackson |
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| Honorable Mention: |
Princeton University Press
College: What It Was, Is, and Should Be
By Andrew Delbanco |
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Teachers College Press
Giving Our Children a Fighting Chance
By Susan B. Neuman and Donna C. Celano |
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Engineering & Technology |
Cambridge University Press
Networked Life: 20 Questions and Answers
By Mung Chiang |
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Honorable Mention: |
Cambridge University Press
Network Information Theory
By Abbas El Gamal and Young-Han Kim |
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eProduct/Best in Biological & Life Sciences |
Elsevier
SimChart |
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eProduct/Best in Humanities |
Getty Publications
The Visions of Tondal |
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eProduct/Best in Physical Sciences & Mathematics |
McGraw-Hill Professional
AccessEngineering |
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