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<strong>FOR</strong> <strong>IMMEDIATE</strong> <strong>RELEASE</strong><br />
<strong>Contact</strong>:<br />
<strong>Barbara</strong> <strong>Meredith</strong><br />
(<strong>212</strong>) <strong>255</strong>-0200, ext. 223<br />
bmeredith@publishers.org<br />
ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN PUBLISHERS ANNOUNCES THE WINNERS<br />
OF THE 2006 PSP AWARDS <strong>FOR</strong> EXCELLENCE<br />
February 6, 2007, Washington, DC, – The Professional and Scholarly Publishing<br />
Division (PSP) of the Association of American Publishers (AAP) today announced the<br />
winner of the R.R. Hawkins Award for the Outstanding Professional, Reference or<br />
Scholarly Work of 2006. This year’s 12-member judging panel selected Evolutionary<br />
Dynamics by Martin A. Nowak, published by Harvard University Press, to receive the<br />
R.R. Hawkins Award, which is named for the former head of the Science and<br />
Technology Division of the New York Public Library.<br />
As described by Michael G. Fisher, editor in chief of Harvard University Press,<br />
Evolutionary Dynamics “offers not just the basics, but also conveys the excitement and<br />
challenges of cutting-edge research.” The book serves as introductory material while also<br />
addressing active areas of research, making it “valuable to readers at every level of<br />
sophistication in biology and related disciplines,” according to Fisher.<br />
The Hawkins Award, along with awards in 30 categories for outstanding books, journals<br />
and digital products covering a wide range of academic disciplines, will be presented<br />
today at a special awards luncheon during the PSP Annual Conference in Washington,<br />
DC. The award for Innovation in Journal Publishing is being given to the American<br />
Chemical Society for its ACS Chemical Biology.<br />
AAP President and CEO Pat Schroeder extended the Association’s congratulations to all<br />
of the PSP Award honorees, noting that “promoting and encouraging the dissemination of<br />
scholarship is one of AAP’s primary missions,” and highlighting the special honor of<br />
being chosen by one’s peers for these awards. This year’s panel of expert judges was<br />
made up of librarians, academics and working publishers.<br />
The Association of American Publishers is the national trade association of the U.S. book<br />
publishing industry. AAP’s more than 300 members include most of the major<br />
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<br />
hardcover and paperback books in every field, educational materials for the elementary,<br />
secondary, postsecondary, and professional markets, scholarly journals, computer<br />
software, and electronic products and services. The protection of intellectual property<br />
rights in all media, the defense of the freedom to read and the freedom to publish at home<br />
and abroad, and the promotion of reading and literacy are among the Association’s<br />
highest priorities.<br />
Information on the Hawkins Award winners and a complete list of the winners in all<br />
categories is attached.<br />
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R.R. Hawkins Award<br />
2006<br />
To: Harvard University Press<br />
For: Evolutionary Dynamics<br />
By: Martin A. Nowak<br />
Archaeology & Anthropology<br />
2006<br />
To: The University of Chicago Press<br />
For: Wondrous Curiosities: Ancient Egypt at the British Museum<br />
By: Stephanie Moser<br />
Honorable Mention:<br />
2006<br />
To: Getty Publications<br />
For: Stories in Stone: Conserving Mosaics of Roman Africa<br />
By: Aicha Ben Abed and Tevuy Ball<br />
Architecture & Urban Planning<br />
2006<br />
To: The MIT Press<br />
For: Design for Ecological Democracy<br />
By: Randolph T. Hester<br />
Honorable Mention:<br />
2006<br />
To: Johns Hopkins University<br />
For: The Domestic Architecture of Benjamin Henry Latrobe<br />
By: Michael W. Fazio and Patrick A. Snadon<br />
Arts & Art History<br />
2006<br />
To: Princeton University Press<br />
For: Pictures of Nothing<br />
By: Kirk Varnedoe<br />
Honorable Mention:<br />
To: Princeton University Press<br />
For: Other Icons<br />
By: Henry Maguire and Eunice Dauterman-Maguire<br />
Best New Undergraduate Textbook<br />
2006<br />
To: Elsevier, Inc.<br />
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For: Exploring Engineering<br />
By: Philip Kosky & Joel Stein<br />
Honorable Mention:<br />
2006<br />
To: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.<br />
For: Modern Nuclear Chemistry<br />
By: Walter D. Loveland, David Morrissey and Glenn T. Seaborg<br />
Biography & Autobiography<br />
2006<br />
To: Oxford University Press<br />
For: Dean Acheson: A Life in the Cold War<br />
By: Robert Beisner<br />
Honorable Mention:<br />
2006<br />
To: Harvard University Press<br />
For: In Search of Nella Larsen<br />
By: George Hutchinson<br />
2006<br />
To: Johns Hopkins University Press<br />
For: James Joseph Sylvester: Jewish Mathematician in a Victorian World<br />
By: Karen Hunger Parshall<br />
Biological Science<br />
2006<br />
To: Yale University Press<br />
For: Vietnam: A Natural History<br />
By: Eleanor Jane Sterling and Martha Maud Hurley<br />
Honorable Mention:<br />
2006<br />
To: Harvard University Press<br />
For: The Fire Ants<br />
By: Walter R. Tschinkel<br />
Business, Management, & Accounting<br />
2006<br />
To: The MIT Press<br />
For: Invisible Engines<br />
By: David S. Evans, Andrei Hagiu and Richard Schmalensee<br />
Honorable Mention:<br />
2006<br />
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To: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.<br />
For: A Guide to Forensic Accounting Investigation<br />
By: Thomas W. Golden, Steven L. Skalak and Mona M. Clayton<br />
Chemistry<br />
2006<br />
To: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.<br />
For: Biochemical Thermodynamics: Applications of Mathematica<br />
By: Robert A. Alberty<br />
Classics & Ancient History<br />
2006<br />
To: University of Texas Press<br />
For: Caesar in Gaul and Rome: War in Words<br />
By: Andrew M. Riggsby<br />
Honorable Mention:<br />
2006<br />
To: University of California Press<br />
For: A Greek Roman Empire: Power and Belief under Theodosius II (408-450)<br />
By: Fergus Millar<br />
Clinical Medicine<br />
2006<br />
To: Thieme Medical Publishers Inc.<br />
For: Atlas of Neurological Technique, 2 Volumes<br />
By: Richard G. Fessler and Laligam Sekhar<br />
Honorable Mention (s):<br />
2006<br />
To: Johns Hopkins University Press<br />
For: Surgically Shaping Children<br />
By: Erik Parens<br />
2006<br />
To: Elsevier, Inc.<br />
For: Multi-Media Procedures Clinical Case<br />
By: Michael Tuggy, Jorge Garcia and Gary Newkirk<br />
Communication & Cultural Studies<br />
2006<br />
To: University of Chicago Press<br />
For: From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and<br />
the Rise of Digital Utopianism<br />
By: Fred Turner<br />
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Honorable Mention<br />
2006<br />
To: MIT Press<br />
For: The Laws of Simplicity<br />
By: John Maeda<br />
Computer & Information Science<br />
2006<br />
To: Princeton University Press<br />
For: Information Science<br />
By: David G. Luenberger<br />
Honorable Mention:<br />
2006<br />
To: Princeton University Press<br />
For: Google’s Page Rank and Beyond: The Science of Search<br />
Foundations of Multidimensional and Metric Data Structures<br />
By: Carl D. Meyer and Amy N. Langville<br />
Education<br />
2006<br />
To: Teachers College Press<br />
For: Forever After: New York City Teachers on 911<br />
By: Teachers College Press with Maureen Grolnick<br />
Honorable Mention:<br />
2006<br />
To: Princeton University Press<br />
For: Our Underachieving Colleges<br />
By: Derek Bok<br />
Engineering<br />
2006<br />
To: Mc Graw-Hill<br />
For: Foundation Engineering Handbook<br />
By: Robert W. Day<br />
Honorable Mention:<br />
2006<br />
To: Springer Science+Business Media<br />
For: Leonardo’s Lost Robots<br />
By: Mark Elling Rosheim<br />
Finance & Economics<br />
2006<br />
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To: Cambridge University Press<br />
For: Economic Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy<br />
By: Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson<br />
Honorable Mention:<br />
2006<br />
To: University of Chicago Press<br />
For: The Bourgeois Virtues: Ethics for an Age of Commerce<br />
By: Deirdre N. McCloskey<br />
2006<br />
To: Princeton University Press<br />
For: The Theory of Corporate Finance<br />
By: Jean Tirole<br />
Geology & Geography<br />
2006<br />
To: University of Chicago Press<br />
For: Mapping Paradise: A History of Heaven on Earth<br />
By: Alessandro Scafi<br />
Honorable Mention:<br />
2006<br />
To: American Geophysical Union<br />
For: Atmospheric Halos and the Search for Angle X<br />
By: Walter Tape and Jarmo Moilanen<br />
Government & Political Science<br />
2006<br />
To: Cornell University Press<br />
For: The Order of Genocide: Race, Power and War in Rwanda<br />
By: Scott Straus<br />
Honorable Mention:<br />
2006<br />
To: Oxford University Press<br />
For: Our Undemocratic Constitution: Where the Constitution Goes Wrong (And How We<br />
The People Can Correct It)<br />
By: Sanford Levinson<br />
History & American Studies<br />
2006<br />
To: Oxford University Press<br />
For: Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World<br />
By: David Brion Davis<br />
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Honorable Mention:<br />
2006<br />
To: Oxford University Press<br />
For: Freedom Riders: 1961- and the Struggle for Racial Justice<br />
By: Raymond Arsenault<br />
History of Science<br />
2006<br />
To: The Johns Hopkins University Press<br />
For: The Troubled Dream of Genetic Medicine: Ethnicity and Innovation in Tay-Sachs,<br />
Cystic Fibrosis, and Sickle Cell Disease<br />
By: Keith Wailoo and Stephen Pemberton<br />
Honorable Mention:<br />
2006<br />
To: The University of Chicago Press<br />
For: The Science of Describing: Natural History in Renaissance Europe<br />
By: Brian W. Ogilvie<br />
Journals:<br />
2006<br />
To: American Chemical Society<br />
For: ACS Chemical Biology<br />
By: Evelyn Jabri and Laura L. Kiessling<br />
Law & Legal Studies<br />
2006<br />
To: Oxford University Press<br />
For: Americans in Waiting: The Lost Story of Immigration and Citizenship in the United<br />
States<br />
By: Hiroshi Motomura<br />
Honorable Mention:<br />
2006<br />
To: Cambridge University Press<br />
For: Law as a Means to an End<br />
By: Brian Tamanaha<br />
Literature, Language, & Linguistics<br />
2006<br />
To: University of California Press<br />
For: The Language of the Gods in the World of Men: Sanskrit, Culture and Power<br />
By: Sheldon Pollock<br />
Honorable Mention:<br />
2006<br />
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To: The University of Chicago Press<br />
For: Friedrich Durrenmatt: Selected Writings<br />
By: Friedrich Durrenmatt<br />
Translated By: Joel Agee<br />
Mathematics & Statistics<br />
2006<br />
To: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.<br />
For: Visual Statistics: Seeing Data with Dynamic Interactive Graphics<br />
By: Forrest W. Young, Pedro M. Valero-Mora and Michael Friendly<br />
Honorable Mention:<br />
2006<br />
To: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.<br />
For: Understanding Uncertainty<br />
By: Dennis V. Lindley<br />
Medical Science<br />
2006<br />
To: Oxford University Press<br />
For: Fiber Pathways of the Brain<br />
By: Jeremy D. Schmahmann and Deepak N. Pandya<br />
Honorable Mention:<br />
2006<br />
To: Harvard University Press<br />
For: Cross-Sectional Atlas<br />
By: Peter Ratiu and Ion-Florin Talos<br />
Nursing & Allied Health<br />
2006<br />
To: Elsevier, Inc.<br />
For: Forensic Nursing<br />
By: Virginia A. Lynch and Janet B. Duval<br />
Honorable Mention:<br />
2006<br />
To: Elsevier, Inc.<br />
For: Kinesiology: The Skeletal System and Muscle Function<br />
By: Joseph E. Muscolino<br />
Philosophy<br />
2006<br />
To: Princeton University Press<br />
For: Pessimism<br />
By: Joshua Foa Dienstag<br />
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Honorable Mention:<br />
2006<br />
To: Columbia University Press<br />
For: The Rise and Fall of Soul and Self<br />
By: Raymond Martin and John Barresi<br />
Psychology & Cognitive Science<br />
2006<br />
To: Oxford University Press<br />
For: The Redemptive Self<br />
By: Dan P. McAdams<br />
Honorable Mention:<br />
2006<br />
To: Oxford University Press<br />
For: Comparative Cognition: Experimental Explorations of Animal Intelligence<br />
By: Edward A. Wasserman and Thomas R. Zentall<br />
Sociology & Social Work<br />
2006<br />
To: Oxford University Press<br />
For: The Civil Sphere<br />
By: Jeffrey C. Alexander<br />
Honorable Mention:<br />
2006<br />
To: Princeton University Press<br />
For: Territory, Authority, Rights<br />
By: Saskia Sassen<br />
Theology & Religious Studies<br />
2006<br />
To: Columbia University Press<br />
For: The Natural History of the Bible<br />
By: Daniel Hillel<br />
Honorable Mention:<br />
2006<br />
To: Oxford University Press<br />
For: Therese of Lisieux: Gods of Gentle Warrior<br />
By: Thomas R. Nevin<br />
Multi Volume Reference Works/ Humanities & Social Sciences<br />
2006<br />
To: Oxford University Press<br />
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For: Encyclopedia of African American History<br />
By: Paul Finkelman<br />
Honorable Mention:<br />
2006<br />
To: Princeton University Press<br />
For: The Novel: 2 Volumes<br />
By: Franco Moretti<br />
Multi Volume Reference Works/ Science<br />
2006<br />
To: Elsevier, Inc.<br />
For: Encyclopedia of Respiratory Medicine<br />
By: Geoffrey Laurent and Steven Shapiro<br />
Honorable Mention:<br />
2006<br />
To: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.<br />
For: Wiley Encyclopedia of Biomedical Engineering<br />
By: Metin Akay<br />
Single Volume Reference/ Humanities & Social Sciences<br />
2006<br />
To: CQ Press<br />
For: Historical Atlas of U.S Presidential Elections 1788-2004<br />
By: J.Clark Archer, Stephen J. Lavin, Kenneth C. Martis and Fred M. Shelley<br />
Honorable Mention:<br />
2006<br />
To: Yale University Press<br />
For: The Yale Book of Quotations<br />
By: Fred R. Shapiro<br />
Single Volume Reference/ Science<br />
2006<br />
To: Johns Hopkins University Press<br />
For: Dragonfly Genera of the New World: An Illustrated and Annotated Key to the<br />
Anisoptera<br />
By: Dr. Rosser W. Garrison, Natalia von Ellenrieder and Jerry A. Louton<br />
Honorable Mention:<br />
2006<br />
To: Elsevier, Inc.<br />
For: The Immune Response<br />
By: Tak Mak and Mary Saunders<br />
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