Prize-Winning Publications
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Gallaudet University Press
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Georgetown University Press
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- A History of Georgetown University by Robert Emmett Curran
Best in Show, Washington Book Publishers Book Design and Effectiveness Awards, 2011
- Where is Knowing Going?: The Horizons of the Knowing Subject by John Haughey, SJ
Education Award, Catholic Press Association, 2010
University of Georgia Press
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- We Do Not Eat Our Hearts Alone by Kerri Webster
Whiting Writer's Award, 2011
- Bear Down, Bear North: Alaska Stories by Melinda Moustakis
National Book Foundation "5 Under 35," 2011
Getty Publications
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Harvard University Press
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- Your Spirits Walk Beside Us: The Politics of Black Religion by Barbara Dianne Savage
Grawemeyer Award for Religion, University of Louisville and Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary, 2012
- The Last Utopia: Human Rights in History by Samuel Moyn
Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2011
- Confederate Reckoning: Power and Politics in the Civil War South by Stephanie McCurry
Finalist, History, Pulitzer Prize, 2011
Avery O. Craven Award, Organization of American Historians, 2011
- Eden on the Charles: The Making of Boston by Michael Rawson
Finalist, History, Pulitzer Prize, 2011
Abel Wolman Award, American Public Works Association, 2011
- The Program Era: Postwar Fiction and the Rise of Creative Writing by Mark McGurl
Truman Capote Award, Truman Capote Estate and Iowa Writers' Workshop, 2011
University of Hawai'i Press
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- Gossip and the Everyday Production of Politics by Niko Besnier
BAAL Book Prize, British Association of Applied Linguistics, 2010
- Making Transcendents: Ascetics and Social Memory in Early Medieval China by Robert Ford Campany
Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion, Historical, American Academy of Religion, 2010
- The Adventures of Vela by Albert Wendt
Best Book, Southeast Asia and Pacific, Commonwealth Writers' Prize, 2010
Hong Kong University Press
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University of Illinois Press
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- Cuban Zarzuela: Performing Race and Gender on Havanna's Lyric Stage by Susan Thomas
Robert M. Stevenson Award, American Musicological Society, 2011
- Hands on the Freedom Plow: Personal Accounts by Women in the SNCC edited by Faith S. Holsaert, et al
Letitia Woods Brown Book Award, Association of Black Women Historians, 2011
- Nietzsche: Attempt at a Mythology by Ernst Bertram, translated by Robert E. Norton
Unger German Translation Award, American Translators Association, 2011
- Spirit of Rebellion: Labor and Religion in the New Cotton South by Jarod Roll
CLR James Award, Working Class Studies Association, 2011
- Challenging the Prison-Industrial Complex: Activism, Arts, and Educational Alternatives by Stephen John Hartnett
PASS Award, National Council on Crime and Delinquency, 2010
IMF Publications
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Indiana University Press
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- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933-1945 by Dr. Geoffrey Megargee
published with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Judaica Reference Award, Research Libraries, Archives, and Special Collections Division of the Association of Jewish Libraries, 2010
- FARMfood: Green Living with Chef Daniel Orr by Daniel Orr
Gold, Cooking, ForeWord Book of the Year Awards, 2010
Silver, Cookbooks, Independent Publisher Book Awards, 2010
- Stillness and Light by Henry Plummer
Gold, Architecture, ForeWord Book of the Year Awards, 2010
University of Iowa Press
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- How to Leave Hialeah by Jennine Capó Crucet
Binghamton University John Gardner Fiction Book Award, Binghamton Center for Writers-SUNY, 2010
- Stagestruck Filmmaker: D.W. Griffith and the American Theatre by David Mayer
Finalist, Richard Wall Memorial Award,Theatre Library Association, 2010
Island Press
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- Unquenchable: America's Water Crisis and What To Do About It by Robert Glennon
Second Place, Rachel Carson Environment Book Award, Society of Environmental Journalists, 2010
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Jewish Publication Society
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Johns Hopkins University Press
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- Condom Nation: The U.S. Government's Sex Education Program from World War I to the Internet by Alexandra Lord
First Prize, Popular Medicine, British Medical Association, 2011
Award for Public Understanding of Science, British Medical Association, 2011
- Officer, Nurse, Woman: The Army Nurse Corps in the Vietnam War by Kara Dixon Vuic
Lavinia L. Dock Award, American Association for the History of Nursing, 2011
Second Place, History and Public Policy, American Journal of Nursing Book of the Year Awards, 2011
- A Forest on the Sea: Environmental Expertise in Renaissance Venice by Karl Appuhn
Herbert Baxter Adams Prize, American Historical Association, 2011
Charles A. Weyerhaeuser Award, The Forest History Society, 2011
Delmas Best Book Prize, Renaissance Society of America, 2011
- Swift, the Book, and the Irish Financial Revolution: Satire and Sovereignty in Colonial Ireland by Sean D. Moore
Donald Murphy Prize, American Conference for Irish Studies, 2011
- The Mantra of Efficiency: From Waterwheel to Social Control by Jennifer Karns Alexander
Sidney Edelstein Prize, Society for the History of Technology, 2011
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University Press of Kansas
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- Indians in Unexpected Places by Philip J. Deloria
One of the ten best books of the decade in Native American and Indigenous Studies, Native American and Indigenous Studies Association, 2011
- America's School for War: Fort Leavenworth, Officer Education, and Victory in World War II by Peter J. Schifferle
Golden Pen Award, Command and General Staff College, 2010
- Targeting the Third Reich: Air Intelligence and the Allied Bombing Campaigns by Robert Ehlers, Jr.
Best Air Power History Book, US Air Force Historical Foundation, 2010
- Frontier Feminist: Clarina Howard Nichols and the Politics of Motherhood by Marilyn S. Blackwell and Kristen T. Oertel
Armitage-Jameson Book Prize, Coalition for Western Women's History, 2010
- The Age of Deficits: Presidents and Unbalanced Budgets from Jimmy Carter to George W. Bush by Iwan Morgan
Richard Neustadt Book Prize, American Politics Group, 2010
Kent State University Press
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- The Admirable Radical by Carl Mirra
Silver, Biography, ForeWord Book of the Year Awards, 2010
- Musical Mysteries by Albert Borowitz
Bronze, True Crime, ForeWord Book of the Year Awards, 2010
University Press of Kentucky
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Leuven University Press
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Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
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Louisiana State University Press
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- The Cachoeira Tales and Other Poems, et al, by Marilyn Nelson
Frost Medalist, Lifetime Achievement in Poetry, Poetry Society of America, 2012
- A Walk in Victoria's Secret by Kate Daniels
Haynes Award for Poetry, Fellowship of Southern Writers, 2010
- Blind Rain: Poems by Bruce Bond
Finalist, Poets' Prize, 2010
- The Fourth Ghost: White Southern Writers and European Fascism, 1930-1950 by Robert H. Brinkmeyer
Award for Literature, Language, and Linguistics, PROSE Awards, 2010
Zelda and Paul Gitlin Literary Prize, Thomas Wolfe Society, 2010
- Journalism's Roving Eye: A History of American Foreign Reporting by John Maxwell Hamilton
Goldsmith Book Prize, Joan Shorenstein Center, 2010
Book of the Year, American Journalism Historians Association, 2010
Tankard Award, Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, 2010
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University of Manitoba Press
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- When the Other is Me: Native Resistance Discource, 1850-1990 by Emma LaRocque
Margaret McWilliams Popular History Award, Manitoba Book Awards, 2011
- Winnipeg's Great War: A City Comes of Age by Jim Blanchard
Alexander Kennedy Isbister Award for Non-Fiction, Manitoba Historical Society, 2010
Marquette University Press
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University of Massachusetts Press
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- Portraits of a Few of the People I've Made Cry: Stories by Christine Sneed
John C. Zacharis First Book Award, Ploughshares, 2011
Grace Paley Prize, Association of Writers and Writing Programs, 2009
- Legend of a Suicide by David Vann
Prix Médicis étranger, 2010
Grace Paley Prize, Association of Writers and Writing Programs, 2007
McGill-Queen's University Press
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- Sailor's Hope: The Life and Times of William Cooper, Agrarian Radical in an Age of Revolutions by Rusty Bittermann
Atlantic Book Award for Historical Writing, Democrary 250, 2011
- In the Province of History: The Making of the Public Past in Twentieth-Century Nova Scotia by Ian McKay and Robin Bates
Pierre Savard Award, 2011
- The Language of the Inuit: Syntax, Semantics, and Society in the Arctic by Louis-Jacques Dorais
The Canada Prize in the Humanities, 2011
- Triquet's Cross: A Study of Military Heroism by John MacFarlane
The Distinguished Book Award, The Society for Military History, 2011
- The Love Queen of Malabar: Memoir of a Friendship with Kamala Das by Merrily Weisbord
Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction, 2011
Medieval Institute Publications
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Mercer University Press
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- The Campfire Boys: A Novel by Philip Lee Williams
Georgia Author of the Year Award, Fiction, Georgia Writers Association, 2010
- Relationship Banker: Eugene W. Stetson, Wall Street, and American Business 1916-1959 by James L. Hunt
Georgia Author of the Year Award, Biography, Georgia Writers Association, 2010
University of Michigan Press
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- Embodying Black Experience: Stillness, Critical Memory, and the Black Body by Harvey Young
Lilla A. Heston Award, National Communication Association, 2011
- The Americanist by Daniel Aaron
National Humanities Medal, 2010
- Whispers of the Ancients: Native Tales for Teaching and Healing in Our Time by Tamarack Song and Moses (Amik) Beaver
Midwest Independent Publishers Award, Coffee Table Books, Social Studies, and Illustration, 2011
Gold, Multicultural/Indigenous, Nautilus Book Awards, 2011
- Skate Life: Re-Imagining White Masculinity by Emily Chivers Yochim
Bonnie Ritter Book Award in Feminist/Women Studies in Communication, National Communication Association, 2010
- Highbrow/Lowdown: Theater, Jazz, and the Making of the New Middle Class by David Savran
Joe A. Callaway Prize, New York University, 2010
Michigan State University Press
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- Wounded Warrior: The Rise and Fall of Michigan Governor Swainson by Lawrence M. Glazer
Michigan Notable Book Award, Library of Michigan, 2011
Independent Publisher Book Award, Biography, 2011
- A Color Atlas of Photosynthetic Euglenoids by Richard Triemer and Ionel Ciugulea
Bronze, Reference, ForeWord Book of the Year Awards, 2010
- The Sweetness of Freedom: Stories of Immigrants by Stephen Garr Ostrander and Martha Aladjem Bloomfield
Silver, Multi-Cultural Nonfiction Adult, Independent Publisher Book Awards, 2011
Michigan Notable Book Award, 2011
- Beso, the Donkey by Richard Jarrette
Midwest Book Award, Poetry, Midwest Independent Publishers Association, 2011
- Invoking the Invisible Hand: Social Security and the Privatization Debates by Robert Asen
Winans-Wichelns Award, National Communication Association, 2010
Minnesota Historical Society Press
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- I Go to America: Swedish American Women and the Life of Mina Anderson by Joy K. Lintelman
Minnesota Book Award, General Nonfiction Category, 2010
University of Minnesota Press
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- The Once and Future New York: Historic Preservation and the Modern City by Randall Mason
Antoinette Forrester Downing Award, 2011
- The Right to Be Out: Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in America's Public Schools by Stuart Biegel
Stonewall Book Award, 2011
- The Networked Wilderness: Communicating in Early New England by Matt Cohen
Susanne M. Glasscock Humanities Book Prize, 2010
- Seeking Asylum: Human Smuggling and Bureaucracy at the Border by Alison Mountz
Meridian Book Award, Association of American Geographers, 2010
University Press of Mississippi
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University of Missouri Press
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MIT Press
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- Asylum: Inside the Closed World of State Mental Hospitals by Chris Payne
Ken Book Award, National Alliance on Mental Illness of NYC-Metro, 2010
Modern Language Association
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