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Recent Awards

for University of Chicago Press books


2007 Winners

Architecture^
[jacket image] When Buildings Speak Architecture as Language in the Habsburg Empire and Its Aftermath, 1867-1933 Anthony Alofsin Vasari Award Add to cart
[jacket image] The Plan of Chicago Daniel Burnham and the Remaking of the American City Carl Smith Lewis Mumford Prize Add to cart
Art^
[jacket image] The Inordinate Eye New World Baroque and Latin American Fiction Lois Parkinson Zamora Choice Outstanding Academic Title Awards
Harry Levin Award
Glasscock Humanities Book Prize
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[jacket image] Wondrous Curiosities Ancient Egypt at the British Museum Stephanie Moser PROSE Book Award Add to cart
[jacket image] Echo Objects The Cognitive Work of Images Barbara Maria Stafford Michelle Kendrick Memorial Book Prize Add to cart
Biography & Autobiography^
[jacket image] Citizen Jane Addams and the Struggle for Democracy Louise W. Knight Russell Strange Memorial Book Award Add to cart
[jacket image] Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart A Biography Piero Melograni Choice Outstanding Academic Title Awards Add to cart
Business & Economics^
[jacket image] Reluctant Capitalists Bookselling and the Culture of Consumption Laura J. Miller Mary Douglas Prize Add to cart
[jacket image] Strategic Giving The Art and Science of Philanthropy Peter Frumkin Grenzebach Award Add to cart
[jacket image] Government and the American Economy A New History Price V. Fishback et al. Choice Outstanding Academic Title Awards Add to cart
[jacket image] Economic Turbulence Is a Volatile Economy Good for America? Clair Brown, John Haltiwanger, and Julia Lane Choice Outstanding Academic Title Awards Add to cart
Computers^
[jacket image] The Economics of Attention Style and Substance in the Age of Information Richard A. Lanham Erving Goffman Award Add to cart
Cooking^
[jacket image] Aguecheek's Beef, Belch's Hiccup, and Other Gastronomic Interjections Literature, Culture, and Food Among the Early Moderns Robert Appelbaum Roland H. Bainton Book Prize Add to cart
Drama^
[jacket image] Friedrich Dürrenmatt Selected Writings, Volume I, Plays Friedrich Dürrenmatt National Translation Award Add to cart
History^
[jacket image] Drawing Theories Apart The Dispersion of Feynman Diagrams in Postwar Physics David Kaiser Pfizer Award for a Distinguished Book in the History of Add to cart
[jacket image] The Tiger in the Attic Memories of the Kindertransport and Growing Up English Edith Milton New Hampshire Writers Project Add to cart
[jacket image] The Politics of Free Markets The Rise of Neoliberal Economic Policies in Britain, France, Germany, and the United States Monica Prasad Barrington Moore Book Award Add to cart
[jacket image] Contacts Desired Gay and Lesbian Communications and Community, 1940s-1970s Martin Meeker John Boswell Prize Add to cart
[jacket image] From Counterculture to Cyberculture Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism Fred Turner PROSE Book Award Add to cart
[jacket image] The Enlightenment and the Book Scottish Authors and Their Publishers in Eighteenth-Century Britain, Ireland, and America Richard B. Sher Frank Watson Book Prize
Leo Gershoy Award
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[jacket image] The Postal Age The Emergence of Modern Communications in Nineteenth-Century America David M. Henkin Moroney Awards for Scholarship on Postal History Add to cart
[jacket image] Historical Knowledge, Historical Error A Contemporary Guide to Practice Allan Megill Choice Outstanding Academic Title Awards Add to cart
[jacket image] Islamic Modernism, Nationalism, and Fundamentalism Episode and Discourse Mansoor Moaddel Scholarly Achievement Award of North Central Soc. Assn.
North Central Sociological Assoc. Award
Best Book in Religion
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[jacket image] Coyote Nation Sexuality, Race, and Conquest in Modernizing New Mexico, 1880-1920 Pablo Mitchell Ray Allen Billington Award Add to cart
[jacket image] Esalen America and the Religion of No Religion Jeffrey J. Kripal Choice Outstanding Academic Title Awards Add to cart
Literary Criticism^
[jacket image] A Spectacular Secret Lynching in American Life and Literature Jacqueline Goldsby William Sanders Scarborough Prize Add to cart
[jacket image] Martial The World of the Epigram William Fitzgerald Choice Outstanding Academic Title Awards Add to cart
Medical^
[jacket image] Last Best Gifts Altruism and the Market for Human Blood and Organs Kieran Healy ARNOVA Outstanding Book in Nonprofit & Voluntary Action Research Add to cart
[jacket image] And a Time to Die How American Hospitals Shape the End of Life Sharon R. Kaufman New Millennium Book Award Add to cart
[jacket image] Inclusion The Politics of Difference in Medical Research Steven Epstein Robert K. Merton Award Add to cart
Music^
[jacket image] Vodou Nation Haitian Art Music and Cultural Nationalism Michael Largey Alan Merriam Award Add to cart
[jacket image] Divas and Scholars Performing Italian Opera Philip Gossett Deems Taylor Award
Otto Kinkeldey Award
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[jacket image] Blowin' Hot and Cool Jazz and Its Critics John Gennari Cawelti Book Award
Deems Taylor Award
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Performing Arts^
[jacket image] Awake in the Dark The Best of Roger Ebert Roger Ebert Midland Authors Award Add to cart
Poetry^
[jacket image] Perennial Fall Maggie Dietz Wisconsin Library Association Literary Awards
Jane Kenyon Award for Outstanding Book of Poetry
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[jacket image] The Selected Poetry and Prose of Andrea Zanzotto A Bilingual Edition Andrea Zanzotto Choice Outstanding Academic Title Awards Add to cart
[jacket image] From the Book of Giants Joshua Weiner Levis Reading Prize Add to cart
Political Science^
[jacket image] Who Leads Whom? Presidents, Policy, and the Public Brandice Canes-Wrone APSA/Richard E. Neustadt Award Add to cart
[jacket image] The Foreign Policy Disconnect What Americans Want from Our Leaders but Don't Get Benjamin I. Page with Marshall M. Bouton Gladys M. Kammerer Award Add to cart
Religion^
[jacket image] Religion, Empire, and Torture The Case of Achaemenian Persia, with a Postscript on Abu Ghraib Bruce Lincoln Frank Moore Cross Award Add to cart
[jacket image] The Truth about Conservative Christians What They Think and What They Believe Andrew M. Greeley and Michael Hout Choice Outstanding Academic Title Awards Add to cart
[jacket image] The Taoist Canon A Historical Companion to the Daozang Edited by Kristofer Schipper and Franciscus Verellen American Academy of Religion Awards for Excellence Add to cart
Science^
[jacket image] The Best of All Possible Worlds Mathematics and Destiny Ivar Ekeland Choice Outstanding Academic Title Awards Add to cart
[jacket image] Vienna in the Age of Uncertainty Science, Liberalism, and Private Life Deborah R. Coen Susan E. Abrams Prize in History of Science Add to cart
[jacket image] Baboon Metaphysics The Evolution of a Social Mind Dorothy L. Cheney and Robert M. Seyfarth Choice Outstanding Academic Title Awards Add to cart
Social Science^
[jacket image] Kupilikula Governance and the Invisible Realm in Mozambique Harry G. West Amaury Talbot Prize Add to cart
[jacket image] Bourdieu's Secret Admirer in the Caucasus A World-System Biography Georgi M. Derluguian Norbert Elias Prize Add to cart
[jacket image] It Was Like a Fever Storytelling in Protest and Politics Francesca Polletta Charles Tilly Award for Best Book Add to cart
[jacket image] Citizens, Cops, and Power Recognizing the Limits of Community Steve Herbert Choice Outstanding Academic Title Awards Add to cart
[jacket image] The Crosses of Auschwitz Nationalism and Religion in Post-Communist Poland Geneviève Zubrzycki Best Book in Religion
AAASS/Orbis Polish Book Prize
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[jacket image] The Meaning of Whitemen Race and Modernity in the Orokaiva Cultural World Ira Bashkow Victor Turner Prize for Ethnographic Writing Add to cart
[jacket image] Sociology in America A History Edited by Craig Calhoun History of Sociology Book Award Add to cart
[jacket image] The Inquisition of Francisca A Sixteenth-Century Visionary on Trial Francisca de los Apóstoles Society for the Study of Early Modern Women Add to cart
[jacket image] The Pan-African Nation Oil and the Spectacle of Culture in Nigeria Andrew Apter Amaury Talbot Prize Add to cart
[jacket image] The Megachurch and the Mainline Remaking Religious Tradition in the Twenty-first Century Stephen Ellingson Society for the Scientific Study of Religion Award Add to cart
[jacket image] Dramas of Nationhood The Politics of Television in Egypt Lila Abu-Lughod Am Ethnological Soc Senior Anthropologist Add to cart
True Crime^
[jacket image] Postmortem How Medical Examiners Explain Suspicious Deaths Stefan Timmermans Medical Sociology Book of the Year Prize Add to cart