AWARD WINNERS

Choice Outstanding Book for 2008
California Prehistory: Colonization, Culture, and Complexity
Edited by Terry L. Jones and Kathryn A. Klar
Heather Mac Donald is a 2005 Bradley Prize recipient.
Are Cops Racist?
By Heather Mac Donald
National Communication Association Book Award: Ethics Division 2009 WINNER
Race and Reconciliation: Redressing Wounds of Injustice
By John B. Hatch
America Magazine's Catholic Book Club Selection January 2010;
A History of the Popes: From Peter to the Present
By John W. O'Malley, S.J.
ForeWord Book of the Year Finalist 2009
Digging Through the Bible: Modern Archaeology and the Ancient Bible
By Richard A. Freund
Choice Outstanding Book of 2008
Handbook of Archaeological Theories
Edited by R. Alexander Bentley, Herbert D. G. Maschner and Christopher Chippindale
Foreword Book of the Year Finalist 2009
Sherman's March in Myth and Memory
By Edward Caudill and Paul Ashdown
Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2009
If We Must Die: African American Voices on War and Peace
Edited by Karin L. Stanford
submitted to Christopher Awards
Christians in the Movies: A Century of Saints and Sinners
By Peter E. Dans
Foreword by Joseph Bottum, First Things
2008 recipient of The Stanford M. Lyman Distinguished Book Award
Hurricane Katrina and the Redefinition of Landscape
By DeMond Shondell Miller and Jason David Rivera
A Council on Foreign Relations Book; Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2009
Russian Foreign Policy: The Return of Great Power Politics
By Jeffrey Mankoff
Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2009
Globalization and Sovereignty
By John Agnew
ForeWord Book of the Year Finalist 2009; Companion to the Emmy®-nominated documentary film
In the Footsteps of Marco Polo: A Companion to the Public Television Film
By Denis Belliveau and Francis O'Donnell
Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2009
Twentieth Century Multiplicity
By Daniel H. Borus
U.S Catholic Book Club February 2010 Pick
Good Girls, Bad Girls: The Enduring Lessons of Twelve Women of the Old Testament
By T. J. Wray
A Times Literary Supplement International Book of the Year.
Tenured Radicals: How Politics Has Corrupted Our Higher Education
Roger Kimball
Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2009
The Snake Dance of Asian American Activism: Community, Vision, and Power
By Michael Liu, Kim Geron, and Tracy Lai
Honorable Mention from the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights
Black Bodies, White Gazes: The Continuing Significance of Race
By George Yancy
National Jewish Book Award Finalist
The First to Cry Down Injustice?: Western Jews and Japanese Removal During WWII
By Ellen M. Eisenberg
Winner of the New Criterion Poetry Prize
Foiled Again: Poems
J. Allyn Rosser
Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2009
Darwin's Legacy: Scenarios in Human Evolution
By Sue Taylor Parker and Karin Enstam Jaffe
Oliver Cromwell Cox Award co-winner
White Logic, White Methods: Racism and Methodology
Written and edited by Tukufu Zuberi and Eduardo Bonilla-Silva
W.E.B. Du Bois-Anna Julia Cooper Award 2008; Cheikh Anta Diop Book Award, 2008
W.E.B. Du Bois and the Problems of the Twenty-First Century: An Essay on Africana Critical Theory
By Reiland Rabaka
Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2009
Latin American Social Movements in the Twenty-first Century: Resistance, Power, and Democracy
Edited by Richard Stahler-Sholk, Harry E. Vanden, and Glen David Kuecker
Finalist, 2009 Gradiva Prize, best theoretical work
Attachment, Play, and Authenticity: A Winnicott Primer
By Steven B. Tuber
ForeWord's Book of the Year Award, Gold Medal in the category of Pop Culture, 2009
Lost in the Museum: Buried Treasures and the Stories They Tell
By Nancy Moses
2007 Army Historical Foundation Distinguished Writing Award (Reprint)
The Making of a Quagmire: America and Vietnam During the Kennedy Era
By David Halberstam
Edited and Introduced by Daniel J. Singal
Choice Outstanding Book of 2008
Sharing Our Stories of Survival: Native Women Surviving Violence
Edited by Sarah Deer, Tribal Law & Policy Institute, Bonnie Clairmont, Carrie A. Martell, and Maureen L. White Eagle
Diamond Anniversary Award, National Communication Association, Outstanding Book of 2007; Daniel Rohrer Award, American Forensic Association, Best Book of 2007; Book Award, Ethics Division, National Communication Association
Democracy as Discussion: Civic Education and the American Forum Movement
By William M. Keith
A China Beat Ten Best Books about Chinese Women in 2008
The Subject of Gender: Daughters and Mothers in Urban China
By Harriet Evans
2006 Gradiva Award Nominee
Practicing Intersubjectively
By Peter Buirski
Booklist Editor's Choice 2006
A Thousand Miles of Dreams: The Journeys of Two Chinese Sisters
By Sasha Su-Ling Welland
ASAIL Wordcrafter Award, Autobiography / Fixtion Mixed Genre, 2006-2007
Not Far Away: The Real-life Adventures of Ima Pipiig
By Lois Beardslee
A Japan Times Best Books on Asia 2008
Promoting Human Rights in Burma: A Critique of Western Sanctions Policy
By Morten B. Pedersen
Foreword by Thant Myint-U
Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2007
Chiefdoms and Other Archaeological Delusions
By Timothy R. Pauketat, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2007
Queer Voices from Japan: First Person Narratives from Japan's Sexual Minorities
Edited by Mark McLelland, Katsuhiko Suganuma, and James Welker
Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2007; 2007 ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Award Honorable Mention - Political Science
Message Control: How News Is Made on the Presidential Campaign Trail
By Elizabeth A. Skewes
Choice Outstanding Title 2006
Women's Roles and Statuses the World Over
By Stephanie Hepburn and Rita J. Simon
Winner of the 2007 McCann Prize for Best Book on Latin America
State Terrorism in Latin America: Chile, Argentina, and International Human Rights
By Thomas C. Wright
2007 Gustavus Myers Book Award Honorable Mention
Freedom's Journal: The First African-American Newspaper
By Jacqueline Bacon
2006 Skipping Stones Honor Award; 2006 American Book Award, The Before Columbus Foundation
A Broken Flute: The Native Experience in Books for Children
Edited by Doris Seale and Beverly Slapin
2007 Alfred B. Thomas Award of the South Eastern Council on Latin American Studies
Plutarco Elías Calles and the Mexican Revolution
By Jürgen Buchenau
Winner of the New Criterion Poetry Prize
The God of This World to His Prophet
Bill Coyle
NCA Jane Jacobs Urban Communication Award
Urban Communication: Production, Text, Context
Edited by Timothy A. Gibson and Mark Lowes
Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2007
Contemporary Ethnic Geographies in America
Edited by Ines M. Miyares and Christopher A. Airriess
Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2007
Elite Foundations of Liberal Democracy
By John Higley and Michael Burton
Caribbean Studies Association 2007 Gordon K. & Sybil Lewis Award Honorable Mention
Planning the Past: Heritage Tourism and Post-Colonial Politics at Port Royal
By Anita M. Waters
Shortlisted for the Millia Davenport Publication Award, 2007
Cloth in West African History
By Colleen E. Kriger (Univ. of North Carolina, Greensboro)
Ethnography Division's Best Book Award for 2006
Performing Black Masculinity: Race, Culture, and Queer Identity
By Bryant Keith Alexander
Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2007
Shades of Difference: A History of Ethnicity in America
By Richard Rees
Sponsored by Arts Council of Switzerland.
The Transparent Girl and Other Stories
By Corinna Bille
Translated by Monika Giacoppe and Christiane P. Makward
2005 George Herbert Mead Award, Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction, honoring lifetime achievement; 2007 SSSI Cooley Award for the Outstanding Contribution to Symbolic Interaction
Terrorism and the Politics of Fear
By David L. Altheide (Arizona State University)
A Library Journal Best Business Book of 2005
Globaloney: Unraveling the Myths of Globalization
By Michael Veseth
Winner of the Canadian Philosophical Association/ Broadview Press Prize in Ethics and Political Philosophy 2007; CHOICE Outstanding Title of 2006
The Transformation of Plato's Republic
By Kenneth Dorter
Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2007
Gay Marriage and Democracy: Equality for All
By R. Claire Snyder
CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title 2006
Alexis de Tocqueville and American Intellectuals: From His Times to Ours
By Matthew Mancini
Winner of the New Criterion Poetry Prize
Weighing Light: Poems
Geoffrey Brock
CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title 2004
The Struggle for the Soul of the Nation: Czech Culture and the Rise of Communism
By Bradley F. Abrams
Award for the Most Outstanding Book Published in English, 2005 -- Israel Political Science Association
The Struggle for Soviet Jewry in American Politics: Israel versus the American Jewish Establishment
By Fred A. Lazin
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2004
Oppenheimer: Portrait of an Enigma
Jeremy Bernstein
A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice
Back from the Land: How Young Americans Went to Nature in the 1970s, and Why They Came Back
Eleanor Agnew
Winner of the 2005 Ray and Pat Browne Book Award
Fool's Paradise: The Unreal World of Pop Psychology
Stewart Justman
Pulitzer Prize–winning critic.
Not So Prime Time: Chasing the Trivial on American Television
Howard Rosenberg
2005 Lourdes Arizpe Award, American Anthropological Association
Communities and Conservation: Histories and Politics of Community-Based Natural Resource Management
Edited by J. Peter Brosius, Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, and Charles Zerner
Choice Outstanding Book of the Year 2006
Predatory States: Operation Condor and Covert War in Latin America
By J. Patrice McSherry
Inaugural recipient of the Man Booker International Prize 2005
The General of the Dead Army
Ismail Kadare
Translated by Derek Coltman
Choice Outstanding Book of the Year 2006
State and Society in the Philippines
By Patricio N. Abinales and Donna J. Amoroso
winner of the Julian Minghi Outstanding Research Award
Iraq, Terror, and the Philippines' Will to War
By James A. Tyner
CHOICE Oustanding Title 2005
Black Lenses, Black Voices: African American Film Now
By Mark A. Reid
2005 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title
White on White/Black on Black
Edited by George Yancy
Foreword by Cornel West
Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2006
Improving Urban Science Education: New Roles for Teachers, Students, and Researchers
Edited by Kenneth Tobin, Rowhea Elmesky, and Gale Seiler
2006 Gradiva Award Nominee
Treating Attachment Pathology
By Jon Mills
2005 Gradiva Award Nominee for Chapter 9 Replacement Religion by Claude Barbre
Psychotherapy and Religion: Many Paths, One Journey
Edited by Marcella Bakur Weiner, Paul C. Cooper, and Claude Barbre