The work of Leonardo is featured in one of the many subject sub-category winners of the 2020 PROSE Awards. Image – iStockphoto: Janaka Maharage Dharmasena
By Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief | @Porter_Anderson
Sciences and Humanities
We reported last week on the 157 finalists for the Association of American Publishers‘ 2020 PROSE Awards.
Today (February 21), we have the winners in each of the roughly 50 categories and sub-categories of the program.
The name of the program, PROSE, stands for Professional and Scholarly Excellence. These awards recognize scholarly works published in the United States in the arts, humanities, biological and physical sciences, reference, and social sciences. And the works eligible for contention in this cycle of the program have to have been copyrighted in 2019.
The PROSE awards cover five subject categories, each with sub-categories:
- Biological and Life Sciences
- Humanities
- Physical Sciences and Mathematics
- Reference Works
- Social Sciences
The RR Hawkins Award recipient is drawn from the winners in those five categories. AAP’s annual Professional and Scholarly Publishers forum in Washington on June 23 is the event in which the Hawkins Award winner is honored.
2020 PROSE Biological and Life Sciences Winners
Biological Science
- Ocean Outbreak: Confronting the Rising Tide of Marine Disease, Drew Harvell, University of California Press
Biomedicine & Neuroscience
- The Brain from Inside Out, György Buzsáki, Oxford University Press
Clinical Medicine, Nursing & Allied Health (including Social Work)
- Altered Inheritance: CRISPR and the Ethics of Human Genome Editing, Françoise Baylis, Harvard University Press
Nursing & Allied Health (including Social Work)
- Urban Health, Sandro Galea, Catherine K. Ettman, and David Vlahov, Oxford University Press
Clinical Psychology
- Clinical Psychopharmacology: Principles and Practice, Nassir Ghaemi, Oxford University Press
2020 PROSE Humanities Finalists
Archeology & Ancient History
- Climate, Clothing, and Agriculture in Prehistory: Linking Evidence, Causes, and Effects, Ian Gilligan, Cambridge University Press
Architecture & Urban Planning
- Brooklyn: The Once and Future City, Thomas J. Campanella, Princeton University Press
Art Exhibitions
- Book of Beasts: The Bestiary in the Medieval World, Edited by Elizabeth Morison With Larisa Grollemond, Getty Publications
Art History & Criticism
- Leonardo da Vinci Rediscovered, Carmen C. Bambach, Yale University Press
Biography and Autobiography
- The Club: Johnson, Boswell, and the Friends Who Shaped an Age, Leo Damrosch, Yale University Press
Classics
- Pindar, Song and Space: Towards a Lyric Archaeology, Richard Neer and Leslie Kurke, Johns Hopkins University Press
Language and Linguistics
- Looking like a Language, Sounding like a Race, Jonathan Rosa, Oxford University Press
Literature
- Writing Revolution in Latin America: From Martí to García Márquez to Bolaño, Juan E. De Castro, Vanderbilt University Press
Media and Cultural Studies
- The Confounding Island: Jamaica and the Postcolonial Predicament, Orlando Patterson, Harvard University Press
Music and the Performing Arts
- Decomposed: The Political Ecology of Music, Kyle Devine, The MIT Press
North American and/or US History
- The Cigarette: A Political History, Sarah Milov, Harvard University Press
Philosophy
- Learning from My Daughter, Eva Feder Kittay, Oxford University Press
Outstanding Work by a Trade Publisher
- Sisters and Rebels: A Struggle for the Soul of America, Jacquelyn Dowd Hall, WW Norton & Company
Theology and Religious Studies
- Biblical Theology: The Convergence of the Canon, Ben Witherington, III, Cambridge University Press
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History and Eschatology: Jesus and the Promise of Natural Theology, NT Wright, Baylor University Press
World History
- The Holocaust and New World Slavery, Steven T. Katz, Cambridge University Press
2020 PROSE Physical Sciences and Mathematics Finalists
Chemistry and Physics
- Chemical, Gas, and Biosensors for Internet of Things and Related Applications, Kohji
Computing & Information Sciences
- The Creativity Code: Art and Innovation in the Age of AI, Marcus du Sautoy, Harvard University Press
Cosmology & Astronomy
- Atlas of Mars: Mapping its Geography and Geology, Kenneth S. Coles, Kenneth L. Tanaka, Philip R. Christensen, Cambridge University Press
Earth Science
- Chemostratigraphy Across Major Chronological Boundaries, Alcides N. Sial, Claudio Gaucher, Muthuvairavasamy Ramkumar, Valderez Pinto Ferreira, John Wiley & Sons Inc.
Engineering and Technology
- Human Body: A Wearable Product Designer’s Guide, Karen L. LaBat and Karen S. Ryan, CRC Press/Taylor and Francis Group – an informa business
Environmental Science
- Global Environmental Outlook – GEO-6: Healthy Planet, Healthy People, edited by UN Environment, Cambridge University Press
History of STM
- The Slow Moon Climbs: The Science, History, and Meaning of Menopause, Susan P. Mattern, Princeton University Press
Mathematics
- 99 Variations on a Proof, Philip Ording, Princeton University Press
Popular Science and Popular Mathematics
- The 9 Pitfalls of Data Science, Gary Smith and Jay Cordes, Oxford University Press
Reference Works
Best New Journal
- Joule, Philip J. Earis, Brandon R. Sutherland, Changrong Zhu, Alexandra K. Stephan, Cell Press
Multivolume Reference/Humanities
- A Cultural History of Work Volumes 1-6, Deborah Simonton and Anne Montenach, Bloomsbury
Multivolume Reference or Textbook Social Sciences
- Business & Culture of Sports: Society, Politics, Economy, Environment, Joseph Maguire, editor in chief; Mark Falcous and Katie Liston, Associate Editors, Gale, a Cengage company
Single Volume Reference/Humanities
- Roman Architecture and Urbanism: From the Origins to Late Antiquity, Fikret Yegül, Diane Favro, Cambridge University Press
Single Volume Reference/Biological Science
- The Solitary Bees: Biology, Evolution, Conservation, Bryan N. Danforth, Robert L. Minckley, John L. Neff, and Frances Fawcett, Princeton University Press
Textbook/Physical Sciences and Mathematics
- An Introduction to Electrodynamics, Peter Davidson, Oxford University Press
Textbook/Biological Science
- Fishes of the Salish Sea: Puget Sound and the Straits of Georgia and Juan de Fuca, Theodore Wells Pietsch and James Wilder Orr, Illustrated by Joseph R. Tomelleri, University of Washington Press
Textbook/Humanities
- On the Brink of Paradox: Highlights from the Intersection of Philosophy and Mathematics, Agustín Rayo, The MIT Press
Textbook/Medicine and Clinical Science
- Handbook of Sleep Disorders in Medical Conditions, Josée Savard and Marie-Christine Ouellet, Elsevier
Social Sciences
Anthropology, Criminology, and Sociology
- Making Motherhood Work: How Women Manage Careers and Caregiving, Caitlyn Collins, Princeton University Press
Business, Management & Finance
- The Next Billion Users: Digital Life Beyond the West, Payal Arora, Harvard University Press
Economics
- Narrative Economics: How Stories Go Viral and Drive Major Economic Events, Robert J. Shiller, Princeton University Press
Education Practice
- How Girls Achieve, Sally A. Nuamah, Harvard University Press
Education Theory
- Where Teachers Thrive: Organizing Schools for Success, Susan Moore Johnson, Harvard Education Press
Government, Policy and Politics
- Whistleblowers: Honesty in America from Washington to Trump, Allison Stanger, Yale University Press
Legal Studies
- The Cult of the Constitution, Mary Anne Franks, Stanford University Press
Psychology
- Becoming Human: A Theory of Ontogeny, Michael Tomasello, Harvard University Press
More from Publishing Perspectives on the Association of American Publishers is here, more on digital publishing is here, and more on publishing and book awards is here.