Prize-Winning Publications
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National Academies Press
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- Darwin's Gift: to Science and Religion by Francisco J. Ayala
Templeton Prize, Templeton Foundation, 2010
National Gallery of Art
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Naval Institute Press
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University of Nebraska Press
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- A Grammar of Creek (Muskogee) by Jack B. Martin
Leonard Bloomfield Book Award, Linguistic Society of America, 2011
- Stolen Horses by Dan O'Brien
Silver, Fiction, ForeWord Book of the Year Awards, 2010
- Quotidiana by Patrick Madden
Bronze, Essays, ForeWord Book of the Year Awards, 2010
- Scoreboard, Baby: A Story of College Football, Crime, and Complicity by Ken Armstrong, Nick Perry
Edgar Award, Mystery Writers of America, 2011
- Ambassadors from Earth: Pioneering Explorations with Unmanned Spacecraft by Jay Gallentine
Eugene M. Emme Astronautical Literature Award, American Astronautical Society, 2010
University of Nevada Press
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- Marching Students: Chicana and Chicano Activism in Education, 1968 to the Present edited by Margarita Berta-Ávila et al
Critics' Choice Book Award, American Educational Studies Association, 2011
- No Place Like Home: Notes from a Western Life by Linda M. Hasselstrom
WILLA Literary Award, Women Writing the West, 2010
Zonta Award, Parmly Billings Library and the High Plains Book Awards, 2010
University Press of New England
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- Freshwater Fish of the Northeast by David A. Patterson; Matt Patterson, illustrator
National Outdoor Book Award, Design and Artistic Merit, 2010
University of New Mexico Press
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- Tengo Sed: A Novel by James Fleming
USA Literary Award, Fiction, PEN Center, 2011
- Raptors of New Mexico by Jean-Luc Cartron
Winner, Biography, New Mexico Book Awards, 2011
- Blood Desert: Witnesses 1820-1880 by Renny Golden
WILLA Literary Award, 2011
- Across the Great Divide by Roberta Price
Gold, Photography, ForeWord Book of the Year Awards, 2010
- The War for Mexico's West: Indians and Spaniards in New Galicia, 1524-1550 by Ida Altman
A. B. Thomas Book Award, Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies, 2011
New York University Press
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- Extravagent Abjection: Blackness, Power, and Sexuality in the African American Literary Imagination by Darieck Scott
Alan Bray Memorial Book Award, Modern Language Association, 2011
- Another Country: Queer Anti-Urbanism by Scott Herring
Lambda Literary Award, LGBT Studies, 2011
- After the Crime: The Power of Restorative Justice Dialogues between Victims and Violent Offenders by Susan L. Miller
Outstanding Book Award, Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, 2011
- When Gay People Get Married: What Happens When Societies Legalize Same-Sex Marriage by M.V. Lee Badgett
Distinguished Book Award, American Psychological Association Society for the Psychological Study of LGBT Issues, 2010
- The Sexuality of Migration: Border Crossings and Mexican Immigrant Men by Lionel Cantu; Nancy A. Naples and Salvador Vidal Ortiz, editors
Distinguished Book Award, American Sociological Association Sociology of Sexualities Section, 2010
Honorable Mention, Distinguished Book Award, Latino Studies Category, Latin American Studies Association, 2010
University of North Carolina Press
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- Terror in the Heart of Freedom: Citizenship, Sexual Violence, and the Meaning of Race in the Postemancipation South by Hannah Rosen
Avery O. Craven Award, Organization of American Historians, 2011
- Torchbearers of Democracy: African American Soldiers in the World War I Era by Chad Williams
Liberty Legacy Foundation Award, Organization of American Historians, 2011
- Writing Captivity in the Early Modern Atlantic: Circulations of Knowledge and Authority in the Iberian and English Imperial Worlds by Lisa Voigt
Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize, Modern Language Association, 2011
- The House on Diamond Hill: A Cherokee Plantation Story by Tiya Miles
National Council on Public History Book Award, 2011
- The Violent Empire: The Birth of an American National Identity by Carroll Smith-Rosenberg
Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2011
University of North Texas Press
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Northern Illinois University Press
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- Season of Water and Ice by Donald Lystra
Finalist, Midwest Book Award, Midwest Independent Booksellers Association, 2010
Michigan Notable Book Award, 2010
Northwestern University Press
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- Head Off & Split: Poems by Nikky Finney
National Book Award, Poetry, 2011
- Stateside by Jehanne Dubrow
LA Book Festival Award, Poetry, 2010
- Ivan and Misha by Michael Alenyikov
Northern California Book Award, 2011
Edmund White Award Finalist, 2010
University of Notre Dame Press
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- After Virtue by Alasdair MacIntyre
Benjamin E. Lippincott Award, American Political Science Association, 2011
- In Envy Country by Joan Frank
Gold, Fiction-Short Stories, ForeWord Book of the Year Awards, 2010
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Ohio University Press
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- Stirring the Pot: A History of African Cuisine by James McCann
Best in the World Award, African Cuisine Book, Gourmand World Cookbook Awards
- Rome's Most Faithful Daughter: The Catholic Church and Independent Poland, 1914-1939 by Neal Pease
John Gilmary Shea Prize, American Catholic Historical Association, 2010
Kulczichy/Orbis Book Prize, Association for Slavic, Eastern European, and Eurasian Studies, 2010
- Blood and Capital: The Paramilitarization of Colombia by Jasmin Hristov
Finalist, WOLA-Duke Book Award, Washington Office on Latin America, 2010
- The Last of His Mind: A Year in the Shadow of Alzheimer's by John Thorndike
Book of the Year, Autobiography/Memoir Category, ForeWord Book of the Year Awards, 2010
Best Book of the Year, Memoirs, The Washington Post, 2009
University of Oklahoma Press
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- Bandido: The Life and Times of Tiburcio Vasquez by John Boessenecker
Spur Award, Best Western Nonfiction Biography, Western Writers of America, 2011
Best Biography, International Latino Book Awards, 2011
- Beyond the American Pale: The Irish in the West, 1845-1910 by David M. Emmons
Donnelly Prize, American Conference for Irish Studies, 2011
- Chief Loco by Bud Shaphard
Winner, Multi-Cultural Subject, New Mexico Book Awards, 2011
- Texas: A Historical Atlas by Ray Stephens; Cartography by Carol Zuber-Mallison
Texas Reference Source Award, Texas Library Association, 2011
- So Rugged and Mountainous: Blazing the Trails to Oregon and California, 1812-1848 by Will Bagley
Spur Award, Best Western Nonfiction Historical, Western Writers of America, 2011
Outstanding Nonfiction, Western Heritage Awards, National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum, 2011
Oregon State University Press
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- Mink River by Brian Doyle
Editor's Choice Prize for Fiction, ForeWord Book of the Year Awards, 2010
University of Ottawa Press
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- My Life by Sofia Andreevna Tolstaya; Andrew Donskov, editor; translated by John Woodsworth and Arkadi Klioutchanski
Finalist, Biography & Autobiography, PROSE Awards, 2011
- Engendering Genre: The Works of Margaret Atwood by Reingard Nischik
Best Book, Margaret Atwood Society, 2011
Oxford University Press
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- Bismarck: A Life by Jonathan Steinberg
PROSE Award for Biography & Autobiography, 2011
- The Trouble with Unity: Latino Politics and the Creation of Identity by Cristina Beltran
Ralph J. Bunche Award, American Political Science Association, 2011
- Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815 by Gordon S. Wood
Finalist, Pulitzer Prize, History Category, 2010
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University of Pennsylvania Press
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- Accessories to Modernity: Fashion and the Feminine in Nineteenth-Century France by Susan Hiner
Millia Daveport Publication Award, Costume Society of America, 2011
- Images, Iconoclasm, and the Carolingians by Thomas F. X. Noble
Otto Gründler Prize, The Medieval Institute, 2011
- Not in This Family: Gays and the Meaning of Kinship in Postwar North America by Heather Murray
Lawrence W. Levine Award, Organization of American Historians, 2011
- Sisters and Brothers of the Common Life: The Devotio Moderna and the World of the Later Middle Ages by John Van Engen
Otto Gründler Book Prize, The Medieval Institute, 2010
John Gilmary Shea Prize, American Catholic Historical Association, 2010
Philip Schaff Prize, American Society of Church History, 2010
The Pennsylvania State University Press
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- Public Forgetting: The Rhetoric and Politics of Beginning Again by Bradford Vivian
James A. Winans-Herbert A. Wichelns Memorial Award, National Communications Association, 2011
- Fratricides by Jean Racine, translated by Geoffrey Alan Argent
American Book Award, Before Columbus Foundation, 2011
- Constantinopolis/Istanbul: Cultural Encounter, Imperial Vision, and the Construction of the Ottoman Capital by Çiğdem Kafescioğlu
Spiro Kostof Award, Society of Architectural Historians, 2011
- Becoming Modern, Becoming Tradition: Women, Gender, and Representation in Mexican Art by Adriana Zavala
Association for Latin American Art Book Award, 2011
- The Drama of the Portrait: Theater and Visual Culture in Early Modern Spain by Laura Bass
Eleanor Tufts Book Award, American Society for Hispanic Art Historical Studies, 2010
University of Pittsburgh Press
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- The Rhetoric of Remediation: Negotiating Entitlement and Access to Higher Education by Jane Stanley
Mina P. Shaughnessey Prize, Modern Language Association, 2011
- Love and Strange Horses by Nathalie Handal
Independent Publisher Book Award, Poetry, 2011
Edizioni Plus/Pisa University
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Princeton University Press
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- Braintrust: What Neuroscience Tells Us About Morality by Patricia S. Churchland
PROSE Award for Excellence in Biology & Life Sciences, 2011
- The Crossley ID Guide: Eastern Birds by Richard Crossley
PROSE Award for Excellence in Reference Works, 2011
- Debtor Nation: The History of America in Red Ink by Louis Hyman
Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2011
- Mathematics in Ancient Iraq: A Social History by Eleanor Robson
Pfizer Prize, History of Science Society, 2011
- Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work by Edwidge Danticat
Bocas Lit Fest OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature, Non-Fiction, 2011
University of Puerto Rico Press
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Purdue University Press
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RAND Corporation
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RIT Cary Graphic Arts Press
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University of Rochester Press
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- Music in German Immigrant Theater: New York City, 1840-1940 by John Koegel
Gold, Music Category, ForeWord Book of the Year Awards, 2010
Rockefeller University Press
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Russell Sage Foundation
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- Inheriting the City: The Children of Immigrants Come of Age by Philip Kasinitz, John Mollenkopf, Mary Waters, and Jennifer Holdaway
Distinguished Book Award, American Sociological Association, 2010
Rutgers University Press
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- Picturing Medical Progress from Pasteur to Polio by Bert Hansen
Ray and Pat Browne Award, Popular Culture Association, 2010
- The Life and Times of Richard J. Hughes by John B. Wefing
Honor Book, New Jersey Council for the Humanities, 2010
