R.R. Hawkins Physical Sciences and Mathematics
R.R. Hawkins The Dream of the Poem: Hebrew Poetry from Muslim and Christian Spain, 950-1492 was a unanimous choice for an Award for Excellence in Language, Literature, and Linguistics. After further voting, it was also designated as the best entry in the Humanities category and the R.R. Hawkins Award winner for 2007.
Peter Cole goes well beyond masterful and deft English translations of works by 54 Hebrew poets active in Muslim and Christian Spain between 950 and 1492. The Dream of the Poem also contains extensive historical and biographical information - much of it based on Hebrew sources unavailable elsewhere in English -and nuanced discussions of the art of poetic composition and the practice of translation. In the final analysis, the author's extensive contextualization and analysis serves to draw our primary attention to the vividness and strength of the poems themselves. As Peter Cole put it himself shortly after receiving a MacArthur "genius" award for his work: "You could spend 20 years on this poetry - as I've done - and burn out, and still, every time, I'm shocked at how powerful, profound, and wise it is, and how the poetry brings you to the world it comes out of -- and that world is endlessly interesting."
The Hawkins Award judges recognized that, in addition to its great literary and scholarly merit, the book also reflects an exceptional, longstanding, and admirable commitment to the promotion of Levantine literature, past and present, regardless of its ethnic or religious origin - an American poet based in Jerusalem, Peter Cole has for many years devoted himself to translating and publishing Arabic and Hebrew literature into English. The judges also recognized that in recovering and celebrating poetic works dating from a golden age of Jewish culture in Muslim Spain, Peter Cole sends a strong message about the possibilities of cultural collaboration and coexistence today.
2007 Best of the Physical Sciences and MathematicsArranged by disease, Molecules and Medicine explores the discovery, application and mode of action of more than 100 of the most significant drug molecules now in use in modern medicine.
In the view of the judges, the book’s outstanding achievement is in bringing together the extraordinarily diverse elements of molecular medicine into an interactively manageable form; in the quality of its four color production of molecular images; and the assuredness of its prose. The extraordinary result is what we have come to expect from lead author E.J. Corey, emeritus professor of chemistry at Harvard, and 1990 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry.
2007 Best of the Social SciencesThrough the device of an imagined constitutional convention that gathers individuals representing broad sectors of a nation transitioning from authoritarianism to democracy, Walter Murphy shows that the constitution-making task has an essentially aspirational character, while reminding us of the hard realities of maintaining a constitutional democracy. In making the award, the judges applauded this culmination of a lifetime's study of constitutions, constitutionalism, liberalism, and democracy. This important work deserves our reading and re-reading, especially at a time when the word "democracy" is bandied about with little thought about its meaning. Constitutional Democracy reminds us on every page of the hard work that is involved in designing and maintaining a polity that actually practices it.
R.R. Hawkins The Dream of the Poem: Hebrew Poetry from Muslim and Christian Spain, 950-1492 was a unanimous choice for an Award for Excellence in Language, Literature, and Linguistics. After further voting, it was also designated as the best entry in the Humanities category and the R.R. Hawkins Award winner for 2007.
Peter Cole goes well beyond masterful and deft English translations of works by 54 Hebrew poets active in Muslim and Christian Spain between 950 and 1492. The Dream of the Poem also contains extensive historical and biographical information - much of it based on Hebrew sources unavailable elsewhere in English -and nuanced discussions of the art of poetic composition and the practice of translation. In the final analysis, the author's extensive contextualization and analysis serves to draw our primary attention to the vividness and strength of the poems themselves. As Peter Cole put it himself shortly after receiving a MacArthur "genius" award for his work: "You could spend 20 years on this poetry - as I've done - and burn out, and still, every time, I'm shocked at how powerful, profound, and wise it is, and how the poetry brings you to the world it comes out of -- and that world is endlessly interesting."
The Hawkins Award judges recognized that, in addition to its great literary and scholarly merit, the book also reflects an exceptional, longstanding, and admirable commitment to the promotion of Levantine literature, past and present, regardless of its ethnic or religious origin - an American poet based in Jerusalem, Peter Cole has for many years devoted himself to translating and publishing Arabic and Hebrew literature into English. The judges also recognized that in recovering and celebrating poetic works dating from a golden age of Jewish culture in Muslim Spain, Peter Cole sends a strong message about the possibilities of cultural collaboration and coexistence today.
2007 Best of Biology and Life SciencesThis lavishly illustrated, beautifully-produced book fully and satisfyingly explains the science behind the production of color by plants. However, in the view of the judges, the book does much more. The author enhances his masterful presentation of science by never losing sight of the aesthetic and emotional aspects of his subject. Lee equally reveals the importance of plant color in history and culture but also how much his subject means to him. His ability to convey his deep attachment to landscape, his amazement at the intricacy and beauty of plants, and his curiosity about how plants function made this a book stand above its peers in this category.
Despite several excellent reference works submitted this year, the PSP judges felt the Columbia Encyclopedia of Modern Drama stood apart. Defining "modern" as the 1860's to the present, the encyclopedia offers a truly global perspective on the literary production of playwrights and plays within their appropriate cultural and historical frameworks. Individual articles - some 1400 of them - are substantial. well-indexed, and deeply cross-referenced. They are also lively and often provide the reader with an entirely new perspective on familiar figures and works.
2007 Best New Journal - Science, Technology & Medicine The judges agreed that Cell Stem Cell was a worthy winner of this category through its creative design, unique synthesis of content, innovative approach to delivering information in print, quality production, and strong endorsement from the principal researchers in the field around the world. The recognition it has already garnered from the biomedical marketplace suggests it will be a standout journal in the field for many years to come.
2007 Best New Journal - Social Sciences & Humanities Published on behalf of the International Mind, Brain and Education Society, this new journal stands out for its synthesis of diverse disciplines - education, biology and cognitive science - in the investigation of human learning and development. The judges felt that Mind, Brain and Education also deserved the award for the high quality of its physical design and production.
2007 Best Journal Design, in PrintOf the many journals submitted in this category, Hesperia, published by The American School of Classical Studies scored the highest marks for best combining aesthetic appeal with function and clarity. The judges were deeply impressed by the journal’s “classic’ design. The overall impression of the journal is that it is clean, organized, navigable and appropriate to its content. Graphics, in particular, are carefully placed in a manner that is thoughtful, informative and thoroughly user-friendly.
2007 Best Electronic Publication or ProductOf the products submitted in this category, the judges (assisted by the PSP’s Electronic Information Committee) considered Access Pharmacy particularly easy to navigate and specifically well-designed for a professional or student pharmacist. The judges noted that Access Pharmacy also provides content aimed at patient education in Spanish as well as English. In addition, a particularly impressive and useful functionality within the resource is the linking of pharmacological research to the pharmacology curriculum - adding significant value for users.
2007 Best Website or PlatformThe most complex and richest in functionality of the submissions, SAGE Journals Online presents a very clean look and organizes its complex information extremely well, despite the high level of complexity. The site has all the expected features and services, and some welcome surprises including references linked to source; various alerts - "when cited", "when corrected", "new issue of journal"; interesting citation maps; social book-marking; personalized saved citations and saved searches; citation export to a host of styles and bibliography management products. It has many tools of special use to the working scholar including topic visualization maps. The article abstract page is the highlight of the site. Taken all together, this site has one of the best selections of tools and functionality for a scholarly professional user, combined with high quality content.
Honorable Mention The judges also wanted to bring special attention to Oxford Islamic Studies Online, from Oxford University Press, edited by John Esposito. In contrast to SAGE Journals Online, the Islamic scholarship site is smaller, more focused, and tightly integrated. Overall, it is an elegant, intuitively designed site containing high quality content overseen by a distinguished scholar in the field, and it includes especially useful supplementary and educational tools (timelines, maps, date converter, and Qur'an verse lookup). The site contains less information and fewer Web 2.0 tools than the judges’ first choice, but it is an excellent web site with content and tools exactly suited to its intended audience.
Humanities
Art and Art HistoryImpressive scholarship and an innovative contribution to the field of art history are two of the attributes particularly evident in Dynamic Splendor: The Wall Mosaics in the Cathedral of Eufrasius at Pore_. This two volume study ably achieves its goal of making these historically important, but relatively overlooked, mosaics located in Croatia “available to the scholarly community at large.” In the first volume of Dynamic Splendor, Ann Terry and Henry Maguire provide a consistently clear account of how mosaics in the cathedral of Eufrasius have evolved as a result of repeated attempts to preserve or restore the original 6th Century creations – these interventions, often reflecting political and theological concerns at the time. Making effective use of superb color photographs, the second volume succeeds equally well in conveying the splendor of the Eufrasian mosaics. Dynamic Splendor required many years of archival research and fieldwork on the part of Ann Terry and Henry Maguire. The Pennsylvania State University Press is to be congratulated for producing an elegant two-volume set that does full justice to their scholarly commitment, and to the spectacular Eufrasian mosaics that should now receive the attention they merit.
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Classics and Ancient HistoryThe PSP Award judges had no hesitation in giving the prize for excellence in this category to Portrait of a Priestess from Princeton University Press. Through meticulous research over a fifteen year period, Joan Breton Connelly has added something significantly new and important to our understanding of the role of women in the Ancient World. By drawing extensively on the archaeological record in particular, the author argues convincingly that at least in the single context of the priesthood, women authorities in goddess’ temples stood on the same social rung as their male counterparts. This argument is more than simply comforting from a modern human or feminist perspective. It may explain, in part, why women in the Roman provinces were able later to play the significant role in the development of the early Christian church that they clearly did; and also why they might reasonably have expected to do so. Both the author and Princeton University Press are to be congratulated on the publication of Portrait of a Priestess, which not only challenges our murky perception of a particularly dark corner of ancient history, but also does so beautifully.
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Media and Cultural StudiesThe judges were drawn to the work in this category that was the most unconventional in its exploration of a social phenomenon that is at once both disturbing and absorbing, the emergence of the cyberspace virtual environments or Massively Multiplayer Online (MMO) games. Co-authored by a professor of philosophy and linguistics at the University of Michigan (now the University of Toronto) and by a freelance journalist, The Second Life Herald employs narrative, reportage and academic analysis as the mode of presentation of the authors’ own direct experience of the virtual worlds created first in The Sims Online internet game and subsequently elaborated in the MMO called The Second Life. Having as many as 65,000 simultaneous interactive players, these virtual social environments can have a psychological and economic impact on real-life participants that has yet to be thoroughly acknowledged. The Second Life Herald adumbrates a number of the philosophical and ethical concerns that will arise as involvement in MMOs proliferates, including such issues as the nature of freedom and responsibility within cyberspace as well as considerations of privacy, the free market, and private property within a virtual environment created by corporate commercial enterprises.
Honorable Mention:Honorable mention was given to an arresting chronicle of photojournalism stunningly rendered by the University of Chicago Press. For those who experience the Iraq war through television video, Whiskey Tango Foxtrot serves as a reminder of the equal or greater documentary power of the still press photograph. The accompanying personal narrative by the fearless and observant Ashley Gilbertson parallels our own passage as a nation from grand adventurism to disillusionment with the U.S. invasion of Iraq.
Music and the Performing Arts
U.S. History and Biography/AutobiographyWhat Hath God Wrought is the seventh volume in the magisterial Oxford History of the United States. Like its predecessors, the book offers an outstanding narrative account - this time of the years from the end of the War of 1812 to the end of the Mexican War; an account that is both a creative synthesis of the history of the period and a sweeping new interpretation of the emergence of modern America. As the subtitle indicates, transformation is the central theme: "Few periods in American history," Howe writes, "have witnessed changes as diverse, deep, and enduring as the(se) three decades." In this era, Americans became the first to embrace universal white manhood suffrage and the first to build mass-based political parties. It was also the era that saw the origins of both feminism and abolitionism; and an era of religious and intellectual ferment spawning transcendentalism, revivalism (the Second Great Awakening) and the American Renaissance. Above all, it was these decades which saw twin revolutions in communication and transportation - the telegraph and the railroad - that drove some of the most profound changes in American history.
World History and Biography/AutobiographyThe Treasure of the San Jose addresses the question of whether the fabled galleon, the San José, was indeed one of the heaviest laden treasure ships to sail from New Spain back to Iberia. However, the quest for the answer to this simple question led Carla Rahn Phillips to archives in Latin America, Spain, and the United Kingdom to pore over documents that might yield clues about the ship, its crew, its mission, and its fate. What resulted is, as one reviewer has remarked, a book which is “the biography of a ship”. In the end, her detailed examination of the San Jose and into the politics of trade in New Spain tells us much about Spain’s dependence upon New World treasure and the empire’s fragility, freshly exposed in the War of the Spanish Succession, in which Britain rivaled Spain for control of the Atlantic. The judges felt that, in this story of one ship, Phillips opens up for us the international history of the Atlantic as the 17th Century ended and became the 18th. In Phillips, we see a master historian in control of her craft, whose assured expertise guides the reader through the intricacies of maritime history, social history, commercial history, political history, and the history of empires.
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Literature, Language, and LinguisticsThe Dream of the Poem: Hebrew Poetry from Muslim and Christian Spain, 950-1492 was a unanimous choice for an Award for Excellence in Language, Literature, and Linguistics. After further voting, it was also designated as the best entry in the Humanities category and the R.R. Hawkins Award winner for 2007.
Peter Cole goes well beyond masterful and deft English translations of works by 54 Hebrew poets active in Muslim and Christian Spain between 950 and 1492. The Dream of the Poem also contains extensive historical and biographical information - much of it based on Hebrew sources unavailable elsewhere in English -and nuanced discussions of the art of poetic composition and the practice of translation. In the final analysis, the author's extensive contextualization and analysis serves to draw our primary attention to the vividness and strength of the poems themselves. As Peter Cole put it himself shortly after receiving a MacArthur "genius" award for his work: "You could spend 20 years on this poetry - as I've done - and burn out, and still, every time, I'm shocked at how powerful, profound, and wise it is, and how the poetry brings you to the world it comes out of -- and that world is endlessly interesting."
The Hawkins Award judges recognized that, in addition to its great literary and scholarly merit, the book also reflects an exceptional, longstanding, and admirable commitment to the promotion of Levantine literature, past and present, regardless of its ethnic or religious origin - an American poet based in Jerusalem, Peter Cole has for many years devoted himself to translating and publishing Arabic and Hebrew literature into English. The judges also recognized that in recovering and celebrating poetic works dating from a golden age of Jewish culture in Muslim Spain, Peter Cole sends a strong message about the possibilities of cultural collaboration and coexistence today.
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PhilosophyAlexander Nehamas’s book Only a Promise of Happiness scored highly with the judges for scholarship, writing, illustrations, design and production qualities. In this work, Princeton scholar Nehamas rehabilitates the notion of ‘beauty’ and its lost meaning by showing how it is connected to our happiness. Ranging from low art to high art, from “Ally McBeal” to Manet’s “Olympia”, the net result is a surprisingly engaging and wide-ranging examination of beauty. Along the way, Nehamas touches upon many of the appealingly big question of contemporary aesthetics. The volume itself stands out from the crowd with its beautiful design and generous program of illustrations, with examples from Botticelli and Raphael to Picasso and Mapplethorpe.
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Theology and Religious StudiesIn The Voice, the Word, the Books, F. E. Peters offers us a sensitive and compassionate examination of the Hebrew Bible, the New Testament, and the Quran and helps us understand how the three peoples of the Book came to regard that divine word differently. Further, how each of these three religions understands the written expression of God’s word affects their approach to such questions as canonicity, its reproduction, the place of illustration and ornament in the text, and the education and training of those experts entrusted with the authority of these texts. In the judges view, by the example of his book, F. E. Peters reminds us once again how much we have to learn and gain from our various cultural and religious traditions if only we approached them in an open, respectful, and non-judgmental way. While there may be differences - indeed passionate differences - among Jews, Christians, and Muslims, Peters invites us in the space of this book to stand with all three traditions in their hearing of the divine voice and their transmission of that divine word through their holy books.
Social Sciences
Antiquity Recovered: The Legacy of Pompeii and Herculaneum (Getty Publications) includes thirteen essays charting the influence of the buried cities not only on the public imagination through three hundred years or so, but also on the development of archaeology from a gentlemanly search for curiosities and other physical links to the Roman World to a new science which links excavated sites to their original environmental, as well as historical, context. The judges felt that the high production values often associated with Getty Publications greatly compliment the scholarly essays here on the influence of the Neapolitan disaster sites on popular and academic thought throughout Renaissance and Enlightenment Europe and beyond.
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EducationIn what the judges saw as an exemplar of research based advocacy, The Sandbox Investment substantiates the policy rationale for a national investment in making early childhood schooling available to all. David Kirp expertly marshals evidence of the manifest benefits of well-run preschool programs, drawing especially upon the 40-year Perry Preschool longitudinal study as well as upon the surprising results garnered from North Carolina’s funding commitment for early childhood education. Children enrolled in professionally managed preschools demonstrate enhanced cognitive development, superior performance in K-12, and increased earning power during their working years. Certainly this book will serve as a foundational document for the universal preschool movement as it takes flight within the political and policy arenas.
Government and Politics
Law and Legal StudiesThe first half of this book clearly lays out the problems which have accumulated in the last 30 years of operation in the American legal system in relation to deals, plea bargaining, race, poverty vs. wealth, young offenders, and how these affect prosecutor’s decisions. The second half considers issues of prosecutorial misconduct, ethics, accountability, and reform. Author Davis, a Professor of Law at American University, works in her own experiences as a public defender, as well as reading through many specific cases. In the judges’ view, Davis' book is an important contribution to our understanding of the working of our current legal system and the abuses which may underlie much of its operation.
Honorable Mention:This recent entry in Oxford Press' Inalienable Rights Series is subtitled Racial Equality in America; and in this volume, Klarman charts the legal progress of African-Americans from our founding up to contemporary times through careful analysis of various legal cases that helped built legal rights for African-Americans (and many others) over the past 200 years. He shows clearly how our courts - the Supreme Court and various local courts – reflect and follow contemporary custom and prejudice. The judges viewed this book as an exceptional blending of legal interpretation and the explanations of legal actions embedded in a careful reading of our history.
Architecture and Urban PlanningThe judges considered this book to be a beautifully produced volume that wonderfully illustrates its compelling thesis - that Russian Architecture has been profoundly influenced by the art of the West. It stood out from other entries as a terrific combination of fascinating scholarship and gorgeous photography.
Honorable Mention:The judges wished to also commend this new architectural survey for distinguishing itself through a genuinely global viewpoint and elegant and clear text.
Sociology and Social WorkEvan Start, founder of one of America’s first battered women’s shelters and an award-winning researcher, shows how “domestic violence” is neither primarily domestic nor necessarily violent, but a pattern of controlling behaviors. Drawing on extensive court records, interviews and first-hand accounts, Stark provides – in the judges’ view - a powerful, compelling and entirely convincing case for an entirely new approach to policy. Although there are many popular titles on the topic of domestic violence, Stark’s account provides a completely distinctive combination of meticulous research with passionate advocacy.
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Psychology Allan Horwitz and Jerome Wakefield present here their critique of a too-broad medical definition of depression. They advance an account of how mental health professionals can avoid “pathologizing” normal, emotional responses to life's stresses while accurately identifying those suffering from genuine depressive disorders. The authors argue that psychiatrists need to take into account the context in which the symptoms of depression occur – such as the loss of a job or the end of a relationship. They stress distinguishing between abnormal reactions due to internal dysfunction and normal sadness brought on my external circumstances. In the judges’ view, the argument holds far-reaching implications for the treatment of depression, in reducing the stigma attached to sadness and depression, and in terms of public policy.
EconomicsThe subtitle of this book well summarizes it: "Why the Poorest Countries Are Failing and What Can Be Done About It." The Bottom Billion gives us generally good news: most poor countries are starting to turn things around and more fully benefit from globalization. However, Collier outlines swiftly the attributes of those countries locked at the very bottom economically: extreme corruption; political instability; poor educational systems; nearly complete reliance on natural resource extraction; and often neighboring countries with the same problems. Collier outlines a newer approach that requires good coordination by the G8 group: in part, to cut agricultural subsidies amongst the G8 countries; prevent the corrupt from playing off the industrialized countries against each other; set new legal structures in place; and even coordinate outside interventions (military and otherwise). As well as compelling argument, the judges felt that Collier's style makes this book stand out from other entries.
Business, Finance, and ManagementThe late 19th century saw the many proprietary schools in areas like business (whose goals were to produce satisfied customers) slowly give ground to university-based professional schools. Khurana follows the growth of these business schools, their evolving mission, changing curriculum and their training and recruiting of faculty over the course of the 20th century. He sees the mission and culture of business schools fundamentally changing as the field of economics started to dominate in business schools about 35 years ago. He also describes how - as modern finance arose in the 70s and 80s – managers were given the tools to enrich themselves as "free agents" in competition with business as a whole. With the moral dimension of management now mostly buried, the principal issue laid out by Khurana is: Where do we want business education to head? Modern American business schools appear to be back where they started over 100 years ago - like the proprietary schools of old, they do a great job turning out individual "satisfied customers". The judges considered that the story Khurana tells in this exceptional book is not only fascinating but important for determining what kind of society we wish to live in.
Honorable Mention:While this book was not written in response to the sub-prime mortgage debacle, the judges noted that the author, nonetheless, does a splendid job of explaining how a world of such financially complex self-imploding instruments developed.
Physical Sciences and Mathematics
MathematicsThis playful, accessible novel is one of very few in which mathematics plays a central role. The story follows a young man from India, whose mathematician grandfather leaves him money to attend college in America. He chooses Stanford and while there learns about his grandfather’s American adventures – he was sentenced to jail for blasphemy by a judge, a devout Christian, who looked for certainty in his religion. The grandson, an atheist, looks for certainty in mathematics instead of religion. In developing the story, the authors introduce fictional writings by famous mathematicians on mathematical certainty, in the midst of accounts of math lectures that the grandson attends, as well as excursions into mathematical philosophy and jazz. The judges agreed that this entertaining presentation of complex mathematical concepts made this book stand out from other entries this year.
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Chemistry and PhysicsArranged by disease, Molecules and Medicine explores the discovery, application and mode of action of more than 100 of the most significant drug molecules now in use in modern medicine.
In the view of the judges, the book’s outstanding achievement is in bringing together the extraordinarily diverse elements of molecular medicine into an interactively manageable form; in the quality of its four color production of molecular images; and the assuredness of its prose. The extraordinary result is what we have come to expect from lead author E.J. Corey, emeritus professor of chemistry at Harvard, and 1990 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry.
Computer and Information SciencesJudged to be both innovative and rigorous, this volume teaches a conceptual framework and programming techniques for interaction design, showing programmers how they can make creative contributions to device design.
Honorable Mention:A very readable and intriguing look at the application of emergent principles to the virtual anatomy of the web, this book is both playful and rigorous and, in the view of the judges, able to appeal to technical and non-technical readers alike.
Cosmology and AstronomyThe main subject of this deftly-written book is Victorian astronomy - when a far-flung community of scientists (many of them gentleman amateurs) built up a catalog of solar observations and debated their meaning. At the center of the story is Richard Carrington, an accomplished British amateur, who studied the sun’s surface over a period of many years. At a crucial moment in astronomical study, he learned that the earth’s magnetic field had been disturbed simultaneously with his observation of solar flares. While Carrington’s own work did not prove a connection between the two phenomena, his observations were at the center of a century-long debate about sunspot effects and the relationship between solar and terrestrial activities. Unfortunately, Carrington’s story itself was not ultimately a triumphant one, but, nonetheless, the judges felt this examination of the role played by amateur scientists in the development of astronomy was a worthy winner.
Engineering and TechnologyThe judges believe that this book is the first to provide exhaustive technical coverage of an issue of pressing global import. The author team bridges industry and academia in teaching water reuse methods with clarity and ingenuity. As well as covering virtually every major technical concern in the field, the book also deals with regulation issues and challenges.
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Donald Prothero, a geologist at Occidental College, wrote Evolution to clarify the nature and value of fossil evidence in the argument with Creationism. In the view of the judges, the power of his argument lies in the richness of the evidence he provides, particularly with regard to the transition between reptiles and birds, as well as the evolution of mammals (including early human species). This thoughtful, carefully worked-out book, which includes fossil evidence discovered in the last twenty years, is not only accessible to general readers, but is also – through its intellectual rigor - a valuable resource for scientists and scholars in other disciplines.
Honorable Mention:The judges specially commended this well-written, stimulating and very personal book. The author tells the story of the dangerous journey that pioneers, lured by the discovery of gold in California in 1849, made along the 2,000-mile westward trail. He draws on their diaries and letters, which not only recount the tragedies they endured, but also describe the almost insurmountable landscape that confronted them. Finally, Meldhal guides readers himself through the geography and topology he encounters as he hikes the California Trail himself – often the same mountains, arid land, and meager streams that greeted the first European adventurers and settlers.
Biological and Life Sciences
Clinical Medicine
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Nursing and Allied Health
Biological Sciences
Honorable Mention:The judges wished to bring attention to this textbook through which the publisher has succeeded in persuading two leading scientists to introduce students to the key concepts and methods in a subject that will only become increasingly important. This innovative book will be an indispensable guide to the world of mathematical models for the next generation of biologists.
Biomedicine and Neuroscience
Reference Works
Honorable Mention:The judges felt that the Columbia Encyclopedia of Modern Drama was also particularly worthy of mention. Defining “modern” as the 1860’s to the present day, the encyclopedia offers a truly global perspective on playwrights and plays (in their literary form rather than their performance) within their appropriate cultural and historical concepts. Individual articles - some 1400 of them - are substantial, very well-indexed and deeply cross-referenced. More importantly, perhaps, they are also lively and often provide the reader with a new perspective on familiar figures and works.
Multi Volume Reference/Science