For Immediate Release
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Association of American Publishers Announces the Winners of the 2007 PSP Awards for Excellence
February 7, 2008, Washington, DC, – The Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division of the Association of American Publishers today announced the winner of the R.R. Hawkins Award for the Outstanding Professional, Reference or Scholarly Work of 2007. This year’s 14-member judging panel selected The Dream of the Poem by Peter Cole, published by Princeton University Press, to receive the R.R. Hawkins Award, which is named for the former head of the Science and Technology Division of the New York Public Library.
Peter Cole’s book, The Dream of the Poem, is the first to represent, collect, and give significant scholarly attention to the Hebrew poets in Muslim and Christian Spain, a period recognized as poetically rich, but largely Muslim, where Hebrew poetry had until now been largely overlooked. Cole, for the first time, brings to English language readers, a comprehensive collection of what is now considered to be some of the finest poetry of the European Middle ages and an indispensable part of Jewish literature.
In addition to the Hawkins Award, awards will be given in 30 categories for outstanding books, journals and digital products covering a wide range of academic disciplines. The awards will be presented today at a special awards luncheon during the PSP Annual Conference in Washington, D.C.
This year’s awards featured new categories including three new electronic publishing awards; three new journal publishing awards; and five new “best of” book awards. For the first time, the PSP Electronic Information Committee and Journals Committee collaborated throughout the planning and judging stages to enhance and re-shape the awards by creating new categories and judging criteria. Plans call for an expanded publicity and marketing campaign for all awards winners.
AAP President and CEO Pat Schroeder extended the Association’s congratulations to all of the PSP Award honorees, noting that “promoting and encouraging the dissemination of scholarship is one of AAP’s primary missions,” and highlighting the special honor of being chosen by one’s peers for these awards. This year’s panel of expert judges was made up of librarians, academics and working publishers.
The Association of American Publishers is the national trade association of the U.S. book publishing industry. AAP’s more than 300 members include most of the major 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 hardcover and paperback books in every field, educational materials for the elementary, secondary, postsecondary, and professional markets, scholarly journals, computer software, and electronic products and services. The protection of intellectual property rights in all media, the defense of the freedom to read and the freedom to publish at home and abroad, and the promotion of reading and literacy are among the Association’s highest priorities.
Information on the Hawkins Award winners and a complete list of the winners in all categories is below.
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R.R. Hawkins
To: Princeton University Press
For: The Dream of the Poem
By: Peter Cole
2007 Best of the Physical Sciences and Mathematics
To: John Wiley & Sons
For: Molecules and Medicine
By: E. J. Corey, Barbara Czako, and Laszlo Kurti
2007 Best of the Social Sciences
To: Johns Hopkins University Press
For: Constitutional Democracy: Creating and Maintaining a Just Political Order
By: Walter F. Murphy
2007 Best of the Humanities
To: Princeton University Press
For: The Dream of the Poem
By: Peter Cole
2007 Best of Biology and Life Sciences
To: The University of Chicago Press
For: Nature's Palette: The Science of Plant Color
By: David Lee
2007 Best of Reference
To: Columbia University Press
For: The Columbia Encyclopedia of Modern Drama
By: Gabrielle H. Cody and Evert Sprinchorn
2007 Best New Journal - Science, Technology & Medicine
To: Cell Press
For: Cell Stem Cell
By: Deborah Sweet
2007 Best New Journal - Social Sciences & Humanities
To: Wiley-Blackwell
For: Mind, Brain and Education
By: Kurt Fischer
2007 Best Journal Design, in Print
To: The American School of Classical Studies at Athens
For: Hesperia
By: Dr. Tracey Cullen
2007 Best Electronic Publication or Product
To: McGraw-Hill Inc
For: McGraw-Hill's AccessPharmacy
2007 Best Website or Platform
To: SAGE
For: SAGE Journals Online
Honorable Mention:
To: Oxford University Press
For: Oxford Islamic Studies Online
By: John Esposito
BOOK SUBJECT CATEGORIES:
HUMANITIES
Art and Art History
To: Penn State University Press
For: Dynamic Splendor
By: Ann Terry and Henry Maguire
Honorable Mention:
To: Yale University Press
For: Stuart Davis: A Catalogue Raisonne
By: Ani Boyajian and Mark Rutkoski
Classics and Ancient History
To: Princeton University Press
For: Portrait of a Priestess
By: Joan Breton Connelly
Honorable Mention:
To: The University of Chicago Press
For: Martial: The World of the Epigram
By: William Fitzgerald
Media and Cultural Studies
To: The MIT Press
For: The Second Life Herald
By: Peter Ludlow and Mark Wallace
Honorable Mention:
To: The University of Chicago Press
For: Whiskey Tango Foxtrot: A Photographer's Chronicle of the Iraq War
By: Ashley Gilbertson
Music and the Performing Arts
To: The MIT Press
For: Digital Performance
By: Steve Dixon
U.S. History and Biography/Autobiography
To: Oxford University Press
For: What Hath God Wrought
By: Daniel Walker Howe
World History and Biography/Autobiography
To: Johns Hopkins University Press
For: The Treasure of the San Jose: Death at Sea in the War of the Spanish Succession
By: Carla Rahn Phillips
Honorable Mention:
To: Belkap (Harvard University Press)
For: Journey to the East: The Jesuit Mission to China, 1579-1724
By: Liam Matthew Brockey
Literature, Language, and Linguistics
To: Princeton University Press
For: The Dream of the Poem
By: Peter Cole
Honorable Mention:
To: Columbia University Press
For: Inventing English
By: Seth Lerer
Philosophy
To: Princeton University Press
For: Only a Promise of Happiness
By: Alexander Nehamas
Honorable Mention:
To: The MIT Press
For: The Really Hard Problem
By: Owen Flanagan
Theology and Religious Studies
To: Princeton University Press
For: The Voice, The Word, The Books
By: F.E. Peters
SOCIAL SCIENCES
Archeology and Anthropology
To: Getty Publications
For: Antiquity Recovered: The Legend of Pompeii and Herculaneum
By: Victoria Gardner Coates and John Seydl
Honorable Mention:
To: University of Texas
For: Maya Calendar Origins: Monuments, Mythistory, and the Materialization of Time
By: Prudence M. Rice
Education
To: Harvard University Press
For: The Sandbox Investment
By: David L. Kirp
Government and Politics
To: Johns Hopkins University Press
For: Constitutional Democracy: Creating and Maintaining a Just Political Order
By: Walter F. Murphy
Law and Legal Studies
To: Oxford University Press
For: Arbitrary Justice
By: Angela J. Davis
Honorable Mention:
To: Oxford University Press
For: Unfinished Business
By: Michael J. Klarman
Architecture and Urban Planning
To: Yale University Press
For: Russian Architecture and the West
By: Dmitry Shvidkovsky
Honorable Mention:
To: John Wiley and Sons
For: A Global History of Architecture
By: Francis D.K. Ching, Mark M. Jarzombek & Vikramaditya Prakash
Sociology and Social Work
To: Oxford University Press
For: Coercive Control: How Men Entrap Women in Personal Life
By: Evan Stark
Honorable Mention:
To: Princeton University Press
For: Poverty and Discrimination
By: Kevin Lang
Psychology
To: Oxford University Press
For: The Loss of Sadness
By: Allan V. Horwitz and Jerome Wakefield
Economics
To: Oxford University Press
For: The Bottom Billion
By: Paul Collier
Business, Finance, and Management
To: Princeton University Press
For: From Higher Aims to Hired Hands
By: Rakesh Khurana
Honorable Mention:
To: John Wiley & Sons
For: A Demon of Our Own Design: Markets, Hedge Funds, and the Perils of Financial Innovation
By: Richard Bookstaber
PHYSICAL SCIENCES AND MATHEMATICS
Mathematics
To: Princeton University Press
For: A Certain Ambiguity
By: Gaurav Suri & Hartosh Singh Bal
Honorable Mention:
To: Princeton University Press
For: The Pythagorean Theorem
By: Eli Maor
Chemistry and Physics
To: John Wiley & Sons
For: Molecules and Medicine
By: E. J. Corey, Barbara Czako, and Laszlo Kurti
Computer and Information Sciences
To: The MIT Press
For: Press On
By: Harold Thimbleby
Honorable Mention:
To: Wiley-IEEE Press
For: The Web's Awake
By: Philip D. Tetlow
Cosmology and Astronomy
To: Princeton University Press
For: The Sun Kings
By: Stuart Clark
Engineering and Technology
To: McGraw-Hill Inc
For: Water Reuse
By: Metcalf & Eddy
Honorable Mention:
To: John Wiley & Sons
For: Handbook of Noise and Vibration Control
By: Malcom Crocker
Earth Sciences
To: Columbia University Press
For: Evolution
By: Donald R. Prothero
Honorable Mention:
To: The University of Chicago Press
For: Hard Road West: History and Geology along the Gold Rush Trail
By: Keith Heyer Meldahl
BIOLOGICAL AND LIFE SCIENCES
Clinical Medicine
To: Thieme Medical Publishers
For: Surgical Treatment of Orthopedic Trauma
By: James P Stannard, Andrew H. Schidt and Philip J. Kregor
Honorable Mention:
To: Thieme Medical Publishers
For: The Legacy of Harvey Cushing: Profiles in Patient Care
By: Aaron A. Cohen-Gadol, MD
Nursing and Allied Health
To: Saunders (Elsevier)
For: Virtual Medical Office
By: Michael Ledbetter, Susan Cole, Scott Weaver, & Donna Morrissey
Biological Sciences
To: The University of Chicago Press
For: Nature's Palette: The Science of Plant Color
By: David Lee
Honorable Mention:
To: Princeton University Press
For: A Biologist's Guide to Mathematical Modeling in Ecology and Evolution
By: Sara P. Otto and Troy Day
Biomedicine and Neuroscience
To: Oxford University Press
For: Hippocampus Book
By: Per Anderson, Richard Morris, David Amaral, Tim Bliss and John O'Keefe
REFERENCE WORKS
Multi Volume Reference/Humanities & Social Sciences
To: Columbia University Press
For: The Columbia Encyclopedia of Modern Drama
By: Gabrielle H. Cody and Evert Sprinchorn
Honorable Mention:
To: Oxford University Press
For: The Oxford Encyclopedia of Maritime History
By: John B. Hattendorf
Multi Volume Reference/Science
To: John Wiley & Sons
For: Wiley Series in Environmentally Conscious Engineering
By: Myer Kutz
Single Volume Reference/Science
To: The University of Chicago Press
For: The Ecology and Behavior of Amphibians
By: Kentwood D. Wells