PROSE Awards































PROSE Awards
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Awarded for '...the very best in professional and scholarly publishing.'
Country United States
Presented by The Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division of the Association of American Publishers
First awarded 1976
Website http://proseawards.com/index.html

The PROSE Awards (Professional and Scholarly Excellence) are presented by the Association of American Publishers’ (AAP) Professional and Scholarly Publishing (PSP) Division.[1] Presented since 1976, the awards annually recognize distinguished professional and scholarly books, reference works, journals, and electronic content. The awards are judged by peer publishers, academics, librarians, and medical professionals. Publishers and authors are honored at a luncheon ceremony at the PSP Annual Conference in Washington, DC. In recent years, the PROSE Awards luncheon has featured a live webcast of the event, original short films and several multimedia presentations highlighting winners.


Awards by the numbers:[2]



  • Five “best of” awards chosen from 53 book, reference, journal and e-product categories;

  • Forty-five book subject categories for traditional print, electronic publications and print/electronic packages; and

  • Six awards for electronic products, including electronic platforms and e-products with multiple components.




Contents






  • 1 Categories


  • 2 The R.R. Hawkins Award


  • 3 Other awards


  • 4 Notes


  • 5 References





Categories


Book subject categories:




  • Humanities

    • Archeology and Ancient History

    • Art Exhibitions

    • Art History and Criticism

    • Biography and Autobiography

    • Classics

    • European and World History

    • Language and Linguistics

    • Literature

    • Media and Cultural Studies

    • Music and the Performing Arts

    • Outstanding Scholarly Work by a Trade Publisher

    • Philosophy

    • Textbook/Humanities

    • Theology and Religious Studies

    • U.S. History



  • Biological and Life Sciences

    • Biological Sciences

    • Biomedicine and Neuroscience

    • Clinical Medicine

    • Nursing and Allied Health Sciences

    • Textbook/Biological and Life Sciences



  • Social Sciences

    • Anthropology

    • Architecture and Urban Planning

    • Business, Finance and Management

    • Economics

    • Education Practice

    • Education Theory

    • Government and Politics

    • Law and Legal Studies

    • Psychology

    • Sociology and Social Work

    • Textbook/Social Sciences



  • Physical Sciences & Mathematics

    • Chemistry and Physics

    • Computing and Information Sciences

    • Cosmology and Astronomy

    • Earth Science

    • Engineering and Technology

    • Environmental Science

    • History of Science, Medicine and Technology

    • Mathematics

    • Popular Science and Popular Mathematics

    • Textbook/Physical Sciences and Mathematics



  • Reference Works

    • Multivolume Reference/Humanities and Social Sciences

    • Multivolume Reference/Science

    • Single Volume Reference/ Humanities and Social Sciences

    • Single Volume Reference/Science




Electronic publication categories – For electronic products, including electronic platforms and e-products with multiple components. Electronic platforms and products are recognized in the following six categories:



  • Best in Biological and Life Sciences

  • Best in Humanities

  • Best Multidiscipline Platform

  • Best in Physical Sciences and Mathematics

  • Best in Social Sciences

  • Innovation in ePublishing (Discretionary)


Journals categories – For print and electronic journals.



  • Best New Journal in Science, Technology and Medicine

  • Best New Journal in Social Sciences and Humanities


The PROSE Awards for Excellence – Chosen from among the winners of the books, eproducts and journals categories. One winner is recognized in each of the following categories:



  • Award for Excellence in Biology and Life Sciences

  • Award for Excellence in Humanities

  • Award for Excellence in Physical Sciences and Mathematics

  • Award for Excellence in Reference Works

  • Award for Excellence in Social Sciences[3]



The R.R. Hawkins Award


The R. R. Hawkins Award has been presented to the most outstanding work among each year’s PROSE Awards entries since they began in 1976. Hawkins winners have included Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews (WIREs) (John Wiley & Sons), Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade (Yale University Press) by David Eltis and David Richardson, The Diffusion Handbook (McGraw-Hill) and Alan Turing: His Work and Impact (Elsevier) edited by S. Barry Cooper and Jan van Leeuwen. The 2016 R.R. Hawkins Award was presented to University of California Press for The Scholar Denied: W.E.B. Du Bois and the Birth of Modern Sociology by Aldon Morris.[4]











































































Year
 Award
 Publisher
 Book / Journal / eProduct
2016
 R.R. Hawkins Award
 University of California Press
The Scholar Denied: W.E.B. Du Bois and the Birth of Modern Sociology
2015
 R.R. Hawkins Award
 The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Capital in the Twenty-First Century
2013
 R.R. Hawkins Award
 Elsevier Science
Alan Turing: His Work and Impact
2012
 R.R. Hawkins Award
 Princeton University Press
Through the Eye of a Needle: Wealth, the Fall of Rome, and the Making of Christianity in the West, 350–550 AD
2011
 R.R. Hawkins Award
 McGraw-Hill Professional
The Diffusion Handbook: Applied Solutions for Engineers
2010
 R.R. Hawkins Award
 Yale University Press
Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade
2009
 R.R. Hawkins Award
 The University of Chicago Press
Plato’s Philosophers: The Coherence of the Dialogues
2008
 R.R. Hawkins Award
 Harvard University Press
The Race Between Education & Technology
2007
 R.R. Hawkins Award
 Princeton University Press
The Dream of the Poem
2006
 R.R. Hawkins Award
 Harvard University Press
Evolutionary Dynamics
2005
 R.R. Hawkins Award
 Elsevier
Atlas of Clinical Gross Anatomy


Other awards



































































































































































































Year
 Award
 Publisher
 Book / Journal / eProduct
2016
 Award for Excellence in Humanities
 Cambridge University Press
The Roman Forum: A Reconstruction and Architectural Guide
2016
 Award for Excellence in Humanities
 Harvard University Press
Unflattening
2016
 Award for Excellence in Physical Sciences and Mathematics
 Princeton University Press
The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein: Digital Edition
2016
 Award for Excellence in Social Sciences
 University of California Press
The Scholar Denied: W.E.B. Du Bois and the Birth of Modern Sociology
2016
 Award for Excellence in Biological and Life Sciences
 The MIT Press
Principles of Neural Design
2016
 Award for Excellence in Reference Works
 Elsevier/Academic Press
International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences
2015
 Award for Excellence in Humanities
 Cambridge University Press
The Material Life of Roman Slaves
2015
 Award for Excellence in Physical Sciences and Mathematics
 Cambridge University Press
Atlas of Meteorites
2015
 Award for Excellence in Social Sciences
 The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Capital in the Twenty-First Century
2015
 Award for Excellence in Biological and Life Sciences
 John Wiley and Sons
Ultrastructure Atlas of Human Tissues
2015
 Award for Excellence in Reference Works
 Cambridge University Press
The Cambridge History of the First World War
2013
 Award for Excellence in Humanities
 HarperCollins Publishers
Kansas City Lightning: The Rise and Times of Charlie Parker
2013
 Award for Excellence in Physical Sciences and Mathematics
 Elsevier Science
Alan Turing: His Work and Impact
2013
 Award for Excellence in Social Sciences
 Cambridge University Press
The Body in History: Europe from the Paleolithic to the Future
2013
 Award for Excellence in Biological and Life Sciences
 The MIT Press
The Neural Basis of Free Will: Criteria Causation
2013
 Award for Excellence in Reference Works
 Elsevier/Academic Press
Epigenetic Regulation in the Nervous System: Basic Mechanisms and Clinical Impact
2012
 Award for Excellence in Humanities
 Princeton University Press
Through the Eye of a Needle: Wealth, the Fall of Rome, and the Making of Christianity in the West, 350–550 AD
2012
 Award for Excellence in Physical Sciences and Mathematics
 University of California Press
Atlas of Yellowstone
2012
 Award for Excellence in Social Sciences
 Princeton University Press
The Unheavenly Chorus: Unequal Political Voice and the Broken Promise of American Democracy
2012
 Award for Excellence in Biological and Life Sciences
 Harvard University Press
Arthropod Brains: Evolution, Functional Elegance, and Historical Significance
2012
 Award for Excellence in Reference Works
 Cambridge University Press
The Cambridge History of Religions in America
2011
 Award for Excellence in Humanities
 Cambridge University Press
Byzantium in the Iconoclast Era, c. 680–850: A History
2011
 Award for Excellence in Social Sciences
 Yale University Press
Representing Justice: Invention, Controversy, and Rights in City-States and Democratic Courtrooms
2011
 Award for Excellence in Physical Sciences & Mathematics
 McGraw-Hill Professional
The Diffusion Handbook: Applied Solutions for Engineers
2011
 Award for Excellence in Biological & Life Sciences
 Princeton University Press
Braintrust: What Neuroscience Tells Us about Morality
2011
 Award for Excellence in Reference Works
 Princeton University Press
The Crossley ID Guide: Eastern Birds
2010
 Award for Excellence in Humanities
 University of California Press
Autobiography of Mark Twain
2010
 Award for Excellence in Social Sciences
 Oxford University Press
Favela: Four Decades of Living on the Edge in Rio de Janeiro
2010
 Award for Excellence in Physical Sciences & Mathematics
 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Life in the World’s Oceans: Diversity, Distribution, and Abundance
2010
 Award for Excellence in Biological & Life Sciences
 Cell Press
Article of the Future
2010
 Award for Excellence in Reference Works
 Yale University Press
Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade[5]


Notes





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  2. ^ "PROSE Awards Entry Period Open for Nominations of Outstanding Scholarly Books, Journals and Electronic Products". The Association of American Publishers. September 13, 2016. Retrieved March 20, 2018.


  3. ^ "Winners - PROSE Awards". Retrieved 20 March 2018.


  4. ^ "R.R. Hawkins Award - PROSE Awards". Retrieved 20 March 2018.


  5. ^ "2015 Award Winners - PROSE Awards". Retrieved 20 March 2018.




References



  • https://web.archive.org/web/20120522171950/http://publishers.org/press/57/

  • http://lj.libraryjournal.com/2012/02/industry-news/2011-prose-awards-presented/

  • http://www.reedelsevier.com/mediacentre/pressreleases/2012/Pages/elsevier-honored-with-six-prose-awards.aspx

  • https://web.archive.org/web/20120301004428/http://www.aacr.org/home/public--media/aacr-in-the-news.aspx?d=2685

  • http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/accesspediatrics-wins-a-2011-prose-award-for-best-online-resource-in-biological-and-life-sciences-139511688.html

  • http://lucian.uchicago.edu/blogs/news/2012/02/14/frederick-de-armas-receives-prose-award/

  • http://www.ons.org/news.aspx?id=199


  • Kolendo, Kate. "Behind the scenes of the PROSE Awards judging". Elsevier. Retrieved 14 November 2014.




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