Prize-Winning Publications
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Abilene Christian University Press
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University of Akron Press
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University of Alabama Press
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- Headwaters: A Journey on Alabama Rivers, by John Hall
Phillip D. Reed Memorial Award, Southern Environmental Law Center, 2010
University of Alaska Press
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University of Alberta Press
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- J.B. Harkin by E.J. Hart
Honorable Mention, Biography, ForeWord Book of the Year Awards, 2010
- People of the Lakes: Stories of Our Van Tat Gwich'in Elders/Googwandak Nakhwach'anjoo Van Tat Gwich'in by Vuntut Gwitchin First Nation and Shirleen Smith
Lois Hole Award for Editorial Excellence, Alberta Book Awards, 2010
Scholarly Academic Book of the Year, Alberta Book Awards, 2010
Bronze, Regional Category, ForeWord Book of the Year Awards, 2009
Outstanding Books: Story Teller of the Year, Independent Publisher Book Awards, 2010
Tom Fairley Award for Editorial Excellence, 2010
- Bosnia: In the Footsteps of Gavrilo Princip by Tony Fabijancic
Silver, History Category, Independent Publisher Book Awards, 2010
- Emblems of Empire: Selections from the Mactaggart Art Collection, by John E. Vollmer, Jacqueline Simcox
Alcuin Society Citations for Excellence in Book Design in Canada, 2010
American University in Cairo Press
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American Historical Association
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American Psychiatric Publishing
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American School of Classical Studies at Athens
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Amsterdam University Press
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University of Arizona Press
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- Bring Down the Little Birds by Carmen Giménez Smith
American Book Award, Before Columbus Foundation, 2011
- Camino del Sol edited by Rigoberto González
First Place, Poetry (English), International Latino Book Awards, 2011
Silver, Anthologies, Independent Publisher Book Awards, 2011
- Gregory Orfalea by Angeleno Days
Literary Award, Creative Nonfiction Category, PEN, 2010
- Reflections in Place by Donna Deyhle
Critics' Choice Award, American Educational Studies Association, 2010
- For a Girl Becoming
Joy Harjo
Finalist, Children/Young Adults Category, Oklahoma Book Awards, 2010
Skipping Stones Honor Award, 2010
University of Arkansas Press
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- Start With Trouble by Daniel Donaghy
Paterson Award for Literary Excellence, 2010
- The Dirt Riddles by Michael Walsh
Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry, Triangle Awards, 2011
Athabasca University Press
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- Mobile Learning edited by Mohamed Ally
Charles A. Wedemeyer Award for Distance Education, University Professional & Continuing Education Association, 2010
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Baylor University Press
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Beacon Press
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- Acts of Faith: The Story of an American Muslim, the Struggle for the Soul of a Generation by Eboo Patel
Grawemeyer Award, Religion Category, University of Louisville, 2010
- The Lonely Soldier: The Private War of Women Serving in Iraq by Helen Benedict
The Ken Book Award, 2010
- Mean Little deaf Queer by Terry Galloway
Goldie Award, Short Story/Essay Collections, 2010
Finalist, Lambda Literary Awards, 2009
University of British Columbia Press
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- Citizens Adrift: The Democratic Disengagement of Young Canadians by Paul Howe
Donald Smiley Prize, Canadian Political Science Association, 2011
- Managed Annihilation: An Unnatural History of the Newfoundland Cod Collapse by Dean Bavington
Clio Prize, Atlantic Region, Canadian Historical Association, 2011
- Sensing Changes: Technologies, Environments, and the Everyday, 1953-2003 by Joy Parr
Sidney Edelstein Prize, Society for the History of Technology, 2011
- The Industrial Transformation of Subarctic Canada by Liza Piper
Clio Prize, North Region, Canadian Historical Association, 2010
- The Politics of Linkage: Power, Interdependence, and Ideas in Canada-U.S. Relations by Brian Bow
Donner Book Prize, The Donner Foundation, 2009/2010
Brookings Institution Press
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- Brain Gain by Darrell M. West
Gold, Political Science, ForeWord Book of the Year Awards, 2010
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University of Calgary Press
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University of California Press
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- From the Indian Ocean to the Mediterranean: The Global Trade Networks of Armenian Merchants from New Julfa by Sebouh David Aslanian
Houshang Pourshariati Book Award in Iranian Studies, Middle East Studies Association, 2011
- Authentic Wine: Toward Natural and Sustainable Winemaking by Jamie Goode and Sam Harrop
U.S. Wine Book of the Year, Gourmand World Cookbook Awards, 2011
- Changing Planet, Changing Health: How the Climate Threatens Our Health and What We Can Do About It by Paul R. Epstein and Dan Ferber
Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2011
- Reproducing Women: Medicine, Metaphor, and Childbirth in Late Imperial China by Yi-Li Wu
History of Women in Science Prize, History of Science Society, 2011
- Ending Slavery: How We Free Today's Slaves by Kevin Bales
Grawemeyer Award, Ideas Improving World Order Category, 2011
Cambridge University Press
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- Global Warming Gridlock: Creating More Effective Strategies for Protecting the Planet by David G. Victor
Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2011
- The Trouble with the Congo: Local Violence and the Failure of International Peacebuilding by Séverine Autesserre
Grawemeyer Award, Ideas Improving World Order, University of Louisville, 2012
Carnegie Mellon University Press
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Catholic University of America Press
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University of Chicago Press
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- Memorial Mania: Public Feeling in America by Erika Doss
Ray and Pat Browne Award, Popular Culture Association, 2011
- Transatlantic Collapse of Urban Renewa: Postwar Urbanism from New York to Berlin by Christopher Klemek
Paul Davidoff Award, The Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning, 2011
- The Powers That Be: Global Energy for the Twenty-First Century and Beyond by Scott L. Montgomery
Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2011
- What Is a Person?: Rethinking Humanity, Social Life, and the Moral Good from the Person Up by Christian Smith
Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2011
Chinese University Press
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University Press of Colorado
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- Indians and Mestizos in the "Lettered City" by Alcira Duenas
Thomas McGann Award, Rocky Mountain Council for Latin American Studies, 2011
- Japanese American Resettlement through the Lens by Lane Ryo Hirabayashi and Kenichiro Shimada
Best in Show, Southwest Book Design & Production Awards, 2010
Honor Title, Adult Non-Fiction, Asian/Pacific American Librarians Association Literature Awards, 2010
Columbia University Press
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- Assuming A Body: Transgender and Rhetorics of Materiality by Gayle Salaman
Lambda Literary Award, LGBT Studies, 2011
- Genetic Justice: DNA Data Banks, Criminal Investigations, and Civil Liberties by Sheldon Krimsky and Tania Simoncelli
Independent Publisher Book Award, Current Events, 2011
- Hollywood Lighting from the Silent Era to Film Noir by Patrick Keating
Best First Book, Society for Cinema and Media Studies, 2011
- The Song of Everlasting Sorrow: A Novel of Shanghai by Wang Anyi, translated by Michael Berry and Susan Chan Egan
Finalist, Man Booker International Prize, 2011
- Chinese Shakespeares: Two Centuries of Cultural Exchange by Alexander C.Y. Huang
ICAS Colleagues Choice Award, 2011
Joe A. Calloway Prize for the Best Book on Drama or Theatre, New York University, 2010
Cork University Press
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- Truly Tasty: Over 100 Special Recipes Created by Ireland's Top Chefs for Adults Living with Kidney Disease
Valerie Twomey
Miriam Polunin Award for Work on Healthy Eating, UK Guild of Food Writers, 2011
Cornell University Press
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- Mourning Happiness: Narrative and the Politics of Modernity by Vivasvan Soni
First Book Prize, Modern Language Association, 2011
- Weapons of Mass Migration: Forced Displacement, Coercion, and Foreign Policy by Kelly M. Greenhill
Best Book Award, International Studies Association, 2011
- Spiritual Economies: Islam, Globalization, and the Afterlife of Development by Daromir Rudnyckyj
Sharon Stephens Prize, American Ethnological Society, 2011
- Rochdale Village: Robert Moses, 6,000 Families, and New York City's Great Experiment in Integrated Housing by Peter Eisenstadt
Best Book Award, Urban Politics, American Political Science Association, 2011
- Screening Enlightenment: Hollywood and the Cultural Reconstruction of Defeated Japan by Hiroshi Kitamura
Shimizu Hiroshi Award, Japanese Association for American Studies, 2011
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Duke University Press
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- Refracted Visions: Popular Photography and National Modernity in Java by Karen Strassler
Gregory Bateson Prize, Society for Cultural Anthropology, 2011
- The Promise of Happiness by Sara Ahmed
Book Prize, Feminist and Women's Studies Association, 2011
- The Elusive Promise of Indigenous Development: Rights, Culture, Strategy by Karen Engle
Best Book Award, Human Rights, American Political Science Association, 2011
- The Environment and People in American Cities, 1600s-1900s: Disorder, Inequality and Social Change by Dorceta E. Taylor
Outstanding Publication Award, Environment & Technology Section, American Sociological Association, 2010
Dumbarton Oaks
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Duquesne University Press
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University Press of Florida
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- Salvaging the Real Florida: Lost and Found in the State of Dreams by Bill Belleville
Natural History Literature Award, National Outdoor Book Awards, 2011
- Orange Grove Texts Plus
Distance Education Innovation Award, National University Technology Network, 2011
Fordham University Press
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- Dangerous Citizens: The Greek Left and the Terror of the State by Neni Panourgia
Edmund Keeley Book Prize, Modern Greek Studies Association, 2011
- Encarnación: Illness and Body Politics in Chicana Feminist Literature by Susan Bost
Gloria E. Anzaldua Book Prize, National Women's Studies Association, 2010
