Palgrave.com - Prizes
**Palgrave Macmillan Shortlisted for the ALPSP Award for Best eBook Publisher 2009 for Palgrave Connect**
Palgrave Macmillan’s new ebook platform, Palgrave Connect (www.palgraveconnect.com), was a finalist for a new award from The Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP). ALPSP recognises the increasing impact of ebooks and have introduced this award to acknowledge enterprise and innovation in ebook publishing.
Palgrave Connect offers libraries a flexible approach to building an ebook collection in the humanities, the social sciences and business. Over 4,000 Palgrave Macmillan ebooks are available in collections organized by year of publication and by discipline. Palgrave Connect is powered by Nature Publishing Group’s award-winning online platform, www.nature.com, alongside Palgrave Macmillan journals.
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Three Palgrave titles have been short listed for the Katharine Briggs Award.
The Victorian Press and the Fairy Tale by Caroline Sumpter, Tolkien Race and Cultural History by Dimitra Fimi and The Realities of Witchcraft and Popular Magic in Early Modern Europe by Edward Bever have been selected by the judges for inclusion in this year’s short list.
The Katharine Briggs Folklore Award is an annual book prize established by the Folklore Society to encourage the study of folklore and to commemorate the life and work of the distinguished scholar Katharine Mary Briggs (1898-1980; Society president 1969-1972)
Jessica Mesman's Uncertainty in Medical Innovation is the winner of the Sociology of Health and Illness Book Prize 2009
The prize is awarded to the book which makes the most significant contribution to medical sociology or sociology of health and illness.
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Dr Ian Bruff's Culture and Consensus in European Varieties of Capitalism has been shortlisted for the British International Studies Association (BISA) International Political Economy Group Annual Book Prize.
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Children and Theatre in Victorian Britain by Anne Varty is a finalist (honourable mention) for the 2009 George Freedley Memorial Award of the Theatre Library Association.
The award is named after George Freedley, the first Curator of the New York Public Library's Theatre Collection and first President of the Theatre Library Association. It is presented annually to one English language book on live theatre or performance published or distributed in the United States in the previous calendar year.
Two Palgrave Macmillan authors have been longlisted for the 2009 Royal Society Prize for Science Books, the world's most prestigious award for science writing.
Ice, Mud and Blood by Chris Turney and Living with Enza by Mark Honigsbaum have both been selected by the judges for inclusion in this year's longlist.
For more information about the award, click here.
Ken Roman's The King of Madison Avenue has been longlisted for the prestigious 2009 Spear's Biography of the Year Award.
It is awarded to a biography or autobiography of an individual of interest to Spear's readers. They may be from the worlds of business, society, politics, art or others.
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For more information about the Spear's Book Awards, click here.
Congratulations to Ken Roman!
Caroline Dodds Pennock's Bonds of Blood has won the Royal Historical Society's Gladstone History Book Prize. It is awarded to the author of the best first book about non-British history.
For more information about the prize, click here. To view further details about the book, or to order a copy, click here.
The judges said of Dr Dodds Pennock's book:
'Her analysis of the rich but problematic evidence is unfailingly rigorous, supplemented by insights drawn from modern anthropological and sociological studies, and from gender theory. Both theoretical and methodological sophistication, however, are worn lightly. What emerges is a vivid and convincing reconstruction of a society whose harsh view of life and death was tempered by the experience of warmth, and even joy, achieved through human relationships and the routines of everyday life.'
Patrick Lonergan's Theatre and Globalization: Irish Drama in the Celtic Tiger Era has won the 2008 Theatre Book Prize.
Judge Kate Newey said of the winner: 'For me, it spoke to so much of what is current in theatre as an industry; and indeed, reinforces what I say as a theatre historian - that the theatre always has been a globalised international industry. Lonergan discusses the ways in which Irish theatre is a textbook example of an apparently unique national culture, marketed internationally. He introduces sophisticated ideas, with clarity and humour, and identifies the ways in which all of us think about the global and the local at the same time.'
Patrick was awarded his prize by actor Steven Berkoff.
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The Myth of the Chemical Cure by Joanna Moncrieff has been shortlisted for the 2009 Mind Book of the Year.
Now in its 28th year, the Mind Book of the Year award is presented to a work of fact or fiction that has contributed to a deeper understanding of mental health issues. For more information, click here.
The Mind Book of the Year will be selected from seven short-listed titles by a distinguished panel of judges, comprising the authors Blake Morrison, Fay Weldon and Michèle Roberts.
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Ribbon Culture by Sarah Moore and Researching Intimacy in Families by Jacqui Gabb are joint winners of the British Sociological Association (BSA) Philip Abrams Memorial Prize 2009.
The BSA Philip Abrams Memorial Prize is awarded to the best first and sole-authored book within the discipline of Sociology. For more information on the prize, click here.
Congratulations to both authors!
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Kimberly Reynolds has been awarded the 2007 Book Award by the Children's Literature Association for her book Radical Children's Literature.
This prize is awarded annually by the Children's Literature Association to recognize outstanding book-length contributions to children's literature history, scholarship and criticism.
For more information about the prize, click here.
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The Refuge and the Fortress by Jeremy Seabrook has been longlisted for the prestigious Orwell Book Prize.
The Orwell Book Prize is the pre-eminent British prize for political writing. It is awarded to the book which is judged to have best achieved George Orwell's aim to 'make political writing into an art'. For more information, click here.
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Holocaust by Bullets by Father Patrick Desbois has been awarded the National Jewish Book Award for Holocaust Studies. Each year, the National Jewish Book Awards honor some of the best and most exciting authors in the field of Jewish literature.
Congratulations to Father Desbois.
For more information about the National Jewish Book Awards, click here
To order your copy of Holocaust by Bullets, visit the book's catalogue page.
The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics has won the PROSE Award for Best Multi-Volume Reference Work in the Social Sciences. The New Palgrave also received an Honorable Mention in the best eProduct category. For more information about the PROSE Award, visit their website.
For more information about the New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics Online visit http://www.dictionaryofeconomics.com/dictionary
Voices in Ruins by Alexander Badenoch has been announced as co-winner of the 2009 IAMHIST Prize for a work in Media and History. The prize is a biennial award given to the book, radio or television programme or series, film, DVD, CDRom, or URL making the best contribution on the subject of media and history to have been published or shown in the preceding two years. The book was cited by the prize committee as making an outstanding contribution to the field, based on excellence of research, originality, accessibility, and scholarly usefulness.
Congratulations to Alexander Badenoch.
For more information about the prize, visit the IAMHIST website.
For more information or to order a copy of Voices in Ruins, visit this page of our website.
Choice Magazine's list of outstanding academic titles 2009
13 Palgrave Macmillan titles were featured on the US publication Choice list of Outstanding Academic Titles for 2009. This list comprises of less than 10% of the books annually reviewed by CHOICE and less than 3% of all titles submitted to CHOICE for review. Criteria for winning a place on the list are 'excellence in scholarship and presentation, the significance of their contribution to the field, and their value as important-often the first-treatment of their subject'.
The titles included were:
- Why Shakespeare? by Catherine Belsey
- Ambiguity and Sexuality by William S. Wilkerson
- Plays in American Periodicals, 1890-1918 by Tuncay Zorlu
- The Satisfied Customer by Claes Fornell
- Sustainable Energy edited by David Elliott
- From Impressionism to Anime by Susan J. Napier
- The Palgrave Concise Historical Atlas of Central Asia by Rafis Abazov
- Phantoms of War in Contemporary German Literature, Films and Discourse by Anne Fuchs
- Americans and the Wars of the Twentieth Century by Jenel Virden
- The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics edited by Steven N. Durlauf and Lawrence E. Blume
- The Emotionally Intelligent Social Worker by David Howe
- Darwin and Faulkner's Novels by Michael Wainwright
- The Historiography of Genocide edited by Dan Stone
Congratulations to all the authors.
Congratulations to Julian Goodare, Lauren Martin and Joyce Miller, whose edited collection Witchcraft and belief in Early Modern Scotland was on the shortlist for the Katharine Briggs Folklore Award. This annual book prize encourages the study of folklore, with a view to improving the standard of folklore publications in Britain and Ireland.
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The Literary Subversions of Medieval Women, by Jane Chance has been awarded the 2008 SCMLA Book Prize by the South Central Modern Language Association.
Congratulations to Jane Chance. To order a copy of the book, click here
To find out more about the prize, visit the SCMLA website.
Dancing Communities by Judith Hamera has been awarded the Book of the Year Award from the Ethnography Division of the National Communication Association.
Congratulations to Judith Hamera.
Eighteenth-century Letters and British Culture by Clare Brant has been awarded the 2008 ESSE Book Award in the field of Literatures in the English Language.
Two other Palgrave Macmillan titles, Why Shakespeare by Catherine Belsey, and Consumption and Literature by Clark Lawlor were also shortlisted.
Congratulations to all the authors.
For more information about the prize, see here
Two Palgrave Macmillan titles were recognised in the 2008 BMA Medical Book Competition, which aims to encourage and to reward excellence in medical publishing.
Mad Dogs and Englishmen, by Neil Pemberton and Michael Worboys, was Commended in the Basis of Medicine category. Eve Herold's Stem Cell Wars was Commended in the Popular Medicine category.
Congratulations to all the authors.
For more information about the BMA Medical Book Competition, click here
Two Palgrave Macmillan titles have been shortlisted for the BSA's Sociology of Health and Illness (SHI) Book Prize. This prize is awarded annually to the author(s) or editor(s) of the book making the most significant contribution to the sub-discipline of medical sociology/sociology of health and illness.
Congratulations to Carol Thomas, author of Sociologies of Disability and Illness and Andrew Webster, author of Health, Technology and Society
To read more about the prize, click here.
Performance and Cosmopolitics, by Helen Gilbert and Jacqueline Lo has been awarded the 2008 Rob Jordan Prize by the Australasian Association for Theatre, Drama & Performance Studies (ADSA). This prize is awarded to a book which the judges deem to make a significant contribution to the study of theatre or drama studies
Congratulations to Helen Gilbert and Jacqueline Lo. To order a copy of their book, click here
To find out more about the prize, visit the ADSA website.
Gendered Discourse in the Professional Workplace, by Louise Mullany, was shortlisted for the 2008 International Gender & Language Association (IGALA) Book Prize. The prize is awarded to the publication which has broken new ground in the field of gender and language.
For more information about the prize, visit the prize's website.
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Congratulations to William Christie, whose Samuel Taylor Coleridge: A Literary Life has been awarded the 2008 NSW Premier's Award for Literary Scholarship. The judges commented that his book was 'a brilliant, even dazzling contribution to international literary criticism'.
Another Palgrave Macmillan title, Performance and Cosmopolitics by Helen Gilbert and Jacqueline Lo, was also shortlisted for the Award for Literary Scholarship and the Gleebooks Prize.
For more information about the prize, see here
Rethinking Modernity by Gurminder K Bhambra has been awarded the 2008 BSA Philip Abrams Memorial Prize. The British Sociological Association established this prize to stimulate new ideas and fresh research in sociology by encouraging new British authors.
Another Palgrave Macmillan title,Shyness and Society by Susie Scott, was also shortlisted.
Congratulations to Gurminder K Bhambra and Susie Scott.
For more information about the prize, see here
Thuggee, by Kim Wagner, was shortlisted for the 2007 History Today-Longman Book of the Year Awards. This is awarded for a first or second book which advances historical knowledge or understanding and will be of interest beyond its academic constituency.
Congratulations to the author, Kim Wagner.
For more information about the prize, see here
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David Curtis' A History of Artists' Film and Video in Britain was awarded the 2008 Kraszna-Krausz Award for the Best Moving Image Book. This award aims to recognise and reward the very best books published in the field of the moving image, and to raise the profile of this sector within the publishing industry and amongst the public as a whole.
Judges described Curtis' book as 'A groundbreaking work which puts the recent achievements of famous artists like Douglas Gordon and Gillian Wearing into their long-term historical context.'
BFI titles dominated the shortlist for this prize, with Michael Chanan's The Politics of Documentary and James Naremore's On Kubrick also making it through to the final six.
Congratulations to all the authors.
For more information about the prize, see here
Children & Theatre in Victorian Britain, by Anne Varty, has been shortlisted for the 2007 Theatre Book Prize. This award goes to an outstanding work of original research into any aspect of the history and technique of the British theatre
Congratulations to the author, Anne Varty.
For more information about the prize, see here
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Language, Citizenship and Identity in Quebec has been awarded a 2007 Pierre Savard Award from the International Council for Canadian Studies. The awards are intended to designate exceptional books, which, being based on a Canadian topic, contribute to a better understanding of Canada. For more information about these awards, see here.
Congratulations to the authors Leigh Oakes and Jane Warren.
For more information or to order a copy of Language, Citizenship and Identity in Quebec, .
Cinema & the Swastika, edited by Roel Vande Winkel and David Welch, has been awarded the 2007 Willy Haas Award. This award goes to an important international print and DVD publication - not older than two years - on German cinema, chosen from five previously nominated titles. The award is named after the German author, film critic and screenwriter who was born in Prague and died in Hamburg.
Congratulations to Roel Vande Winkel and David Welch and their Palgrave Macmillan editor, Michael Strang.
For more information about the prize, see here
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Scott, Byron and the Poetics of Cultural Encounter,
by Susan Oliver, has won the Rose Mary Crawshay Prize, an annual award from the British Academy awarded to 'to a woman of any nationality who, in the judgement of the Council of the British Academy, has written or published within three years next preceding the year of the award an historical or critical work of sufficient value on any subject connected with English Literature, preference being given to a work regarding one of the poets Byron, Shelley and Keats'.
Congratulations to Susan Oliver and her Palgrave Macmillan editor, Paula Kennedy.
For more information about the Rose Mary Crawshay Prize, click here.
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Palgrave Author wins the George Blazyca Prize
Frances Millard won the BASEES George Blazyca Prize for East European studies for her work, Elections, Parties and Representation in Post-Communist Europe.
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The Dialectics of Transformation in Africa, by Elias K. Bongmba has won the Frantz Fanon Award for Outstanding work in postcolonial thought, awarded by the Caribbean Philosophical Association.
Professor Bongmba will be presented with a plaque to celebrate his award at a discussion session on his book at the 2007 meeting of the Caribbean Philosophical Association, which will take place this year at the University of the West Indies at Mona, Jamaica, from June 27-30th. Winners are also invited to serve on the future committee for the prize. Elias Bongmba will join Paget Henry, Alejandro de Otto, Sibylle Fischer, and Walter Mignolo on that committee.
Congratulations to Elias Bongmba and his Palgrave Macmillan editor, Amanda Johnson
For more information about the 2007 meeting of the Caribbean Philosophical Association click here.
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Choice Magazine's list of outstanding academic titles 2006
This year 17 Palgrave Macmillan titles have been included in Choice magazine's list of outstanding academic titles. The results were announced in the January 2007 issue. Titles are chosen by Choice staff from the list of titles reviewed over the preceeding year. Criteria for winning a place on the list are 'excellence in scholarship and presentation, the significance of their contribution to the field, and their value as important—often the first—treatment of their subject'. Congratulations to all our winning authors.
The Titles chosen were:
Rothenbacher, Franz. The European population since 1945. http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?is=0333777069
Governing complex societies: trajectories and scenarios, by Jon Pierre and B. Guy Peters. http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?is=1403946604 Beer, John.
William Blake: a literary life. http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?is=1403939543
Gosse, Van: Rethinking the New Left: an interpretative history. http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?is=140396694X
Holton, Robert J. Making globalization. http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?is=1403948682
Idris, Amir H. Conflict and politics of identity in Sudan. http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?is=1403969396
Palgrave advances in the modern history of sexuality, ed. by H.G. Cocks and Matt Houlbrook. http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?is=1403912904
Hendry, Joy. Reclaiming culture: indigenous people and self-representation. http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?is=1403970718
Kalaycioglu, Ersin. Turkish dynamics: bridge across troubled lands. http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?is=1403962804
Berghaus, Günter. Theatre, performance, and the historical avant-garde. http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?is=1403969558
Roberts, Adam. The history of science fiction. http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?is=0333970225
Phelan, Joseph. The nineteenth-century sonnet. http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?is=1403938040
Torres-Saillant, Silvio. An intellectual history of the Caribbean. http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?is=1403966761
Greed and corporate failure: the lessons from recent disasters, by Stewart Hamilton and Alicia Micklethwait. http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?is=1403986363
Brant, Clare. Eighteenth-century letters and British culture. http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?is=140399482X
Dillingham, William. Rudyard Kipling: Hell and Heroism
http://www.palgrave-usa.com/catalog/product.aspx?isbn=1403969973
Dzidzienyo, Anani and Oboler, Suzanne: Neither Enemies nor Friends : Latinos, Blacks and Afro-Latinos
http://www.palgrave-usa.com/catalog/product.aspx?isbn=1403965684
Palgrave Author wins the Fondation Napoléon History Grand Prix
Michael Broers became the first Briton to be awarded the prestigious Fondation Napoléon History Grand Prix for a book in a language other than French yesterday for his work, The Napoleonic Empire in Italy, 1796-1814.
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Macmillan Science author - Dr Dave Reay shortlisted for THES Young Academic Author of the Year award 2006.
Dr Dave Reay has been shortlisted for the Young Academic Author of the Year award 2006. This £5000 prize is organised by The Times Higher Educational Supplement and is awarded to an academic author under 40 whose work is original and appeals across subject boundaries. Dr Reay's book, Climate Change Begins at Home was published in hardback in September 2005 to much critical acclaim. The paperback came out in July this year, following his appearance in the BBC's Climate Chaos TV series with David Attenborough. Dr Reay is now working with Macmillan Children's Books on a 2008 title for younger readers.
"I'm delighted to see Dave's talent and hard work acknowledged by this THES award shortlisting," said Sara Abdulla, publisher of Dr Reay's book at Macmillan. "He is an exemplar of an academic committed to sharing his vital expertise with patience, generosity, warmth and wit."
Following the success of his first book, Dr Reay has collaborated with the Natural History Museum, Kew Gardens and the Centre for Life in Newcastle on their climate change programs. He regularly briefs politicians and NGOs and has toured the UK with his NERC-funded interactive climate change game. Alongside publishing and teaching on greenhouse gases at the University of Edinburgh, Dr Reay now lectures, writes and broadcasts extensively for the public - from the British Council, NewScientist and BBC Radio Scotland to school classrooms and village fetes.
For more information on Climate Change Begins At Home see: http://www.macmillanscience.com/0230007546.asp
Dr Dave Reay can be contacted through his University of Edinburgh press officer Ronnie Kerr: rkerr@miscorp.ed.ac.uk ; 0131 6509547
The THES Award Judges will be:
Jon Turney, former commissioning editor [science], Penguin Press, and the covenor of the MSC in creative non-fiction course at Imperial College London June Purvis, professor of women's and gender history, University of Portsmouth Alex Danchev, professor politics and international relations, University of Nottingham
The winner will be announced at an awards dinner on November 15th at the Hilton Hotel in Park Lane.
For more information on the Times Higher Awards see http://www.thes.co.uk/Awards/2006/List_of_awards/
Herrington J Bryce wins the 2006 Levine Memorial Book Prize
Players in the Policy Process: Nonprofits as Social Capital and Agents has won this year’s Levine prize which is awarded by the International Political Science Association’s Research Committee on the Structure of Governance. The committee said that the book was the ‘most theoretically innovative’ of those reviewed. For more information and news of other prize-winning Palgrave Macmillan books please click on the link above.
To read the full announcement regarding the award from the International Political Science Association please click here
Gerry Stoker wins PSA Book of the Year Prize 2006
Why Politics Matters by Gerry Stoker has been awarded the Political Studies Assocation Book of the Year Prize 2006. The prize will be formally awarded at a ceremony in November.
Palgrave Macmillan title wins British Council Innovation award
At an awards ceremony at the Delfina Gallery in London on 2 March, a Palgrave Macmillan title, 'Teachers Exploring Tasks in English Language Teaching' by Corony Edwards and Jane Willis, was awarded the British Council 2006 UK ELT Industry award for Innovation. The British Council Innovation Awards for English language teaching (ELT) products and services, or 'Eltons', are the Oscars of the ELT world. They are offered to outstanding new language learning resources which use innovative ideas to help learners of English to achieve their goals.
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Andrew Gamble wins Sir Isaiah Berlin Prize for Lifetime Contribution to Political Studies
Congratulations from all at Palgrave Macmillan to Andrew Gamble on receiving the Sir Isaiah Berlin Prize for Lifetime Contribution to Political Studies (the Associations premier award for a political science academic) at the UK Political Studies Association Awards ceremony held Tuesday 29 November at the Institute of Directors in London. Almost all of Andrew's major titles including Britain in Decline, The Free Economy and the Strong State and most recently Between Europe and America (which also won the W.J.M. Mackenzie prize for the best book published in political science in 2003), have been published with Macmillan in an association spanning almost 30 years. He has also served as co-editor of 7 successive volumes of Developments in British Politics and is currently embarking upon a major reassessment of western political thought.
Harvard Professor and Palgrave Macmillan Author Michael E. Porter has been awarded the 2005 John Kenneth Galbraith Medal
Harvard University Professor Michael E. Porter, the world's leading authority on the competitive strategy of companies and countries, has been honoured as the recipient of the 2005 John Kenneth Galbraith Medal.
Named after the prominent Harvard University economist, this award is presented annually to an individual whose writings and contributions to policymaking have changed the way people think and governments operate. The 2005 medal recognizes Porter's "breakthrough discoveries in economics and outstanding contributions to humanity through leadership, research, and service".
Michael E. Porter is the author of a number of seminal books and articles on competitiveness, including:
- The Competitive Advantage of Nations, April 1998, 0-333-73642-7, £25.00.
- The Global Competitiveness Report 2005-2006, September 2005, 140399844-2, £65.00.
Steven Kennedy wins Political Publisher of the Year
Steven Kennedy has been named 'Political Publisher of the Year 2004' by the Political Studies Association. This is the first time they have made such an award and reflects Steven's enormous contribution to Politics textbook publishing over the last 25 years.
PSA Chair Prof. Wyn Grant and Secretary to the Awards Jury, Prof. Jon Tonge (both Palgrave Macmillan authors) wrote that:
"[Steven Kennedy] was the unanimous choice of a jury of distinguished academics and journalists who met recently at Westminster. The jurors summarized the following reasons for the award: Steven Kennedy's enthusiasm, commitment and sound advice have been of great benefit to academics for many years. His knowledge of politics is first class; his support for publication of 'cutting edge' research in new and existing fields is sustained and his assistance to academics at all stages of publication has earned him the respect and gratitude of political scientists throughout and beyond the United Kingdom."
JOURNEY TO LEAN
Making Operational Change Stick
John Drew, Blair McCallum and Stefan Roggenhofer
- Winner of the award for Best Management Book at the first Managemant Consultancy Association (MCA) Management Writing Awards
Lynton Barker, Chairman of Hedra and MCA President commented:
“The first MCA Management Writing Awards have been a complete success, attracting leading publishers, renowned national management journalists and rising stars of the future. The awards have also supported our aim to encourage the spread of new management ideas to a broader audience through well written, stimulating books and articles. I would like to congratulate all of the winners and runners-up, and look forward to next year’s awards with some relish.”
March, 2004
140391307-2
£26.99
SUBVERSIVE SOUTHERNER
Anne Braden and the Struggle for Racial Justice in the Cold War South
Catherine Fosl; Foreword by Angela Davis
- Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award
- Oral History Association Book Award
Winner of the 2003 Oral History Association Book Award!
Winner of the 2003 Gustavus Myers Oustanding Book Award!
Anne McCarty Braden is a southern white woman who broke from her segregationist and privileged past in the late 1940s to become a lifelong crusader who sought to awaken the consciences of white southerners to the reality of racial injustice. ...
April, 2004
0-312-29487-5
£42.40
THE WEIGHT OF THE PAST
Living with History in Mahajanga, Madagascar
Michael Lambek
- Honorable Mention for the Victor Turner Prize
January, 2003
140396068-2 - £17.99 paperback
140396067-4 - £60.00 hardcover
TERRORISM AND TYRANNY
Trampling Freedom, Justice, and Peace to Rid the World of Evil
James Bovard
- The Lysander Spooner Award for Advancing the literature of liberty
"The war on terrorism is the first political growth industry of the new Millennium. " So begins Jim Bovard's newest and, in some ways, most provocative book as he casts yet another jaundiced eye on Washington and the motives behind protecting "the homeland" and prosecuting a wildly unpopular war with Iraq. ...click here to read more
September, 2003
140396368-1 - £24.99 hardback
140396682-6 - £12.99 paperback
MISSING MARY
The Queen of Heaven and Her Re-Emergence in the Modern Church
Charlene Spretnak
- Serpentina Enheduanna Award for Excellence in Women-centered Literature
What ever happened to the Virgin Mary in the modern Catholic Church? For the past forty years her presence has been radically minimized. In a groundbreaking work, Charlene Spretnak cuts across the battle lines delineated by the left and the right within the Church to champion the recovery of the full spiritual presence of Mary. ...click here to read more
January, 2004
1403963983
£19.49 hardback
NOMINATED/SHORTLISTED
THE EMPIRE OF THE RAJ
Robert Blyth
- shortlisted for the Gladstone History Book Prize 2003 awarded by the Royal Historical Society.
This book examines how, as the relative importance of British interests steadily eclipsed those of India throughout the region, Indian sub-imperial impulses clashed with the relentlessly advancing metropole. The nature of the struggle over political control between Britain and Indian reveals differences in perception and approach during a period of profound change in Anglo-Indian relations.
April 2003
0333914759
£45.00 hardback
GENDER AND POWER IN THE THIRD REICH
Vandana Joshi
- Nominated for both the Joan Kelly Prize and the Mosse Prize in the USA.
This book examines the everyday operations of the Gestapo, the Nazi secret police. The Gestapo were able to detect the smallest signs of non-compliance with Nazi doctrines, especially 'crimes' pertaining to the private spheres of social, family, and sexual life. One of the key factors in the enforcement of Nazi policies was the willingness of German citizens to provide the authorities with information about suspected 'criminality'. This book examines women denouncers in Nazi Germany through close examination of the Gestapo files.
July 2003
1403911703
£45.00 Hardback
ISOLATION AND LANGUAGE CHANGE:
Contemporary and Sociohistorical Evidence from Tristan da Cunha English’
Daniel Schreier's
- shortlisted for the British Association of Applied Linguistics ( BAAL) annual prize.
Only four books make it to this point and all four are discussed and reviews read out at the annual meeting in September before a winner is announced, so getting to the final four gives the book excellent exposure, though of course we keep fingers crossed for the winner's slot.
'This is a genuinely pioneering piece of work...as the first linguist to visit Tristan, Schreier not only provides a brilliant description, made at first hand, of this fascinating and unique variety of English, but he also manages to solve some of the enigmas concerning its origins and to convey an informed and affectionate sense of the society in which it is spoken.' - Professor Peter Trudgill, Chair of English Linguistics, University of Fribourg
May 2003
1403904073
£50.00 Hardback
AROUND THE SACRED FIRE
James Treat
- Finalist for the Oklahoma Book Award/Non-Fiction Category.
This prestigious award is given annually to the best books by
Oklahoma authors
'Treat has rescued an important area of Indian activism that has gone virtually unnoticed--the Indian Ecumenical Conference. Gathering scattered documents and conducting personal interviews, he presents an exciting history of efforts by traditional people to offer their own solution to modern social problems. Incisive and precise, this book opens additional vistas for the reader'. - Vine Deloria, Jr., author of God is Red and Custer Died for Your Sins
January 2003
1403961034
£27.50 Hardback
TRUST MATTERS
For organisational and personal success
Sally Bibb and Jeremy Kourdi
- highly commended by the judges of the award for Best Management Book at the first Managemant Consultancy Association (MCA) Management Writing Awards
February, 2004
1403932530
£26.99
The Order Has Been Carried Out
History, Memory, and Meaning of a Nazi Massacre in Rome
Alessandro Portelli
The Oral History Association Book Award Committee has named Alessandro Portelli's The Order Has Been Carried Out as one of two winners for the 2005 OHA Book Award. The reviews from the Committee members were superb, and Portelli will be celebrated at the OHA Awards banquet on November 5, 2005 in Providence, Rhode Island.
October 2005
1403962081
£27.99
Harvard Professor and Palgrave Macmillan Author Michael E. Porter has been awarded the 2005 John Kenneth Galbraith Medal
● Harvard University Professor Michael E. Porter, the world’s leading authority on the competitive strategy of companies and countries, has been honoured as the recipient of the 2005 John Kenneth Galbraith Medal.
Named after the prominent Harvard University economist, this award is presented annually to an individual whose writings and contributions to policymaking have changed the way people think and governments operate. The 2005 medal recognizes Porter’s “breakthrough discoveries in economics and outstanding contributions to humanity through leadership, research, and service”.
Michael E. Porter is the author of a number of seminal books and articles on competitiveness, including:
The Global Competitiveness Report 2005-2006, September 2005, 140399844-2, £65.00 .
The Competitive Advantage of Nations, October 2005, 0-333-73642-7
A History of Science Fiction
Adam Roberts
- This book has been shortlisted for a British Science Fiction Association award.
For more information and to view the full shortlist please click on the following link.
http://www.bsfa.co.uk/index.cfm/section.awrd05sl
November 2005, 0333970225, £60.00
Shouldn't I be feeling better by now?
Edited by Yvonne Bates
This title has been short listed for this year's Mind Book of the Year. The following event will take place to mark the occasion.
- A reading event at Foyles on the evening of Wednesday 10 May, which will be compered by all three judges (Blake Morrison, Fay Weldon, and Michele Roberts). Each author will be asked to read from their book - just a short five minute excerpt - and to join the other authors in answering any questions from attendees.
- The Mind Awards lunch on Wednesday 17 May, which will be held in central London, at which the winner will be announced and the prize of £1500 will be presented by Melvyn Bragg and the judges.
November 2005, 1403947406, £14.99
The Whole Story: Alternative Medicine on Trial?
Toby Murcott
- This title has been shortlisted for the 2006 BMA Medical Book Competition.
For more information of this award please click on the following link:
http://www.bma.org.uk/ap.nsf/Content/book,awards
January 2005, 1403945004, £16.99
The British General Election of 2005
Dennis Kavanagh and David Butler
- This title was one of six books to be shortlisted for the Channel four Political Book Award.
This year's Political Book Award committee was Chaired by Rt Hon Michael Howard MP and consisted of Lord Hattersley, Gerald Kaufman, Amanda Platell, Anthony Howard and Channel 4's Political Editor Gary Gibbon. After an extremely lively discussion, a shortlist of six was decided. As Lord Hattersley put it, "the entire operation has been treated at the very least as though it were a Nobel Prize, and at best as though we were awarding a Victoria Cross and Bar."
For more information please click on the following link:
http://www.channel4.com/news/microsites/P/politicalawards/nominees.html
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Humanities Computing
Willard McCarty
- This title has won the Richard W Lyman Award 2006
This award is given by The National Humanities Centre in the USA for 'breaking new ground by exploiting new information technology' to advance scholarship in the Humanities
Professor McCarty ( Kings College London) will receive the award in May in New York
For more information on this award please click on the following link:
http://www.nhc.rtp.nc.us:8080/lymanaward/lymanaward.htm
September 2005, 1403935041, £50.00
Teaching Exploring Tasks in English Language Teaching
Corony Edwards and Jane Willis
- This title has won one of three British Council Innovation Awards 2006
- There were 12 shortlisted products from the 'ELT Industry', and three winners.
'One reader described it as 'a great example of using small-scale projects to investigate aspects of the class you are teaching, demonstrating how teachers can give back to the academic community. I would recommend it to any teacher of English as a foreign language starting out, or looking for a cure for feeling burnt out'
For more information on this award please click on the following link:
http://www.britishcouncil.org.
January 2005
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Venomous Earth
How Arsenic Caused the World’s Worst Mass Poisoning
Andrew Meharg
- This title has been included in The Royal Society’s Aventis Prizes for Science Books General Prize longlist.
This was announced by Fiammetta Rocco, literary editor of the Economist and member of the 2006 General Prize judging panel, at a reception at the London Book Fair on 7 March 2006.
The Aventis Prizes celebrate the very best in popular science writing for both children and adults and award a total of £30,000 to shortlisted authors and eventual winners.
October 2004, 1403944997, £16.99
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