Recent Awards

Prophecy, Alchemy, and the End of Time: John of Rupecissa in the Late Middle Ages
Leah DeVun

2013 John Nicholas Brown Prize, Medieval Academy of America

Paper, $28.00 / £19.50 272 pages
ISBN: 978-0-231-14539-8

Cloth, $55.00 / £38.00 272 pages , March 2009
ISBN: 978-0-231-14538-1

The Lovelorn Ghost and the Magical Monk: Practicing Buddhism in Modern Thailand
Justin Thomas McDaniel

2013 George McT. Kahin Book Prize on Southeast Asia, Association for Asian Studies

Paper, $28.00 / £19.50 384 pages
ISBN: 978-0-231-15377-5

Cloth, $60.00 / £41.50 384 pages , September 2011
ISBN: 978-0-231-15376-8

The Vampire Film: Undead Cinema
Jeffrey Weinstock

2013 International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts Lord Ruthven Assembly Award for Best Non-fiction Title

Paper, $20.00 / £14.00 144 pages , May 2012
Wallflower Press
ISBN: 978-0-231-16201-2

American Showman: Samuel "Roxy" Rothafel and the Birth of the Entertainment Industry, 1908-1935
Ross Melnick

2013 “Book of the Year” Award from the Theatre Historical Society of America

Cloth, $37.50 / £26.00 576 pages , May 2012
ISBN: 978-0-231-15904-3

Protest with Chinese Characteristics: Demonstrations, Riots, and Petitions in the Mid-Qing Dynasty
Ho-fung Hung

2013 Southeast Conference of the Association for Asian Studies Book Prize

Paper, $27.00 / £18.50 288 pages
ISBN: 978-0-231-15203-7

Cloth, $50.00 / £34.50 288 pages , June 2011
ISBN: 978-0-231-15202-0

The Phantom of Chance: From Fortune to Randomness in Seventeenth-Century French Literature
John D. Lyons

Choice Outstanding Academic Titles, 2012

Cloth, $105.00 272 pages , March 2012
Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 978-0-7486-4515-2

Reading for Our Time: Adam Bede and Middlemarch Revisited
J. Hillis Miller

Choice Outstanding Academic Titles, 2012

Paper, $35.00 256 pages
ISBN: 978-0-7486-4728-6

Cloth, $105.00 256 pages , May 2012
Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 978-0-7486-4669-2

The History of Islamic Political Thought, Second Edition: From the Prophet to the Present
Antony Black

Choice Outstanding Academic Titles, 2012

Paper, $40.00 416 pages
ISBN: 978-0-7486-3987-8

Cloth, $125.00 416 pages , September 2011
Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 978-0-7486-3986-1

Situating Existentialism: Key Texts in Context
Edited by Jonathan Judaken and Robert Bernasconi

Choice Outstanding Academic Titles, 2012

Paper, $34.50 / £24.00 440 pages
ISBN: 978-0-231-14775-0

Cloth, $105.00 / £72.50 440 pages , June 2012
ISBN: 978-0-231-14774-3

Japan and the Culture of the Four Seasons: Nature, Literature, and the Arts
Haruo Shirane

Choice Outstanding Academic Titles, 2012

Paper, $25.00 / £17.50 336 pages
ISBN: 978-0-231-15281-5

Cloth, $75.00 / £52.00 336 pages , March 2012
ISBN: 978-0-231-15280-8

Neurogastronomy: How the Brain Creates Flavor and Why It Matters
Gordon M. Shepherd

Choice Outstanding Academic Titles, 2012

Paper, $18.95 / £12.95 288 pages
ISBN: 978-0-231-15911-1

Cloth, $24.95 / £16.95 288 pages , December 2011
ISBN: 978-0-231-15910-4

Islam Through Western Eyes: From the Crusades to the War on Terrorism
Jonathan Lyons

Choice Outstanding Academic Titles, 2012

Paper, $26.00 / £18.00 272 pages
ISBN: 978-0-231-15895-4

Cloth, $35.00 / £24.00 272 pages , January 2012
ISBN: 978-0-231-15894-7

Literature and Film in Cold War South Korea: Freedom's Frontier
Theodore Hughes

Choice Outstanding Academic Titles, 2012

Cloth, $55.00 / £38.00 304 pages , March 2012
ISBN: 978-0-231-15748-3

In Defense of Religious Moderation
William Egginton

Choice Outstanding Academic Titles, 2012

Cloth, $24.50 / £17.00 176 pages , June 2011
ISBN: 978-0-231-14878-8

Sufi Bodies: Religion and Society in Medieval Islam
Shahzad Bashir

Choice Outstanding Academic Titles, 2012

Paper, $28.00 / £19.50 296 pages
ISBN: 978-0-231-14491-9

Cloth, $55.00 / £38.00 296 pages , August 2011
ISBN: 978-0-231-14490-2

Why Civil Resistance Works: The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent Conflict
Erica Chenoweth and Maria J. Stephan

2013 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order

Paper, $22.00 / £15.00 320 pages
ISBN: 978-0-231-15683-7

Cloth, $29.50 / £20.50 320 pages , August 2011
ISBN: 978-0-231-15682-0

Fantasies of the New Class: Ideologies of Professionalism in Post-World War II American Fiction
Stephen Schryer

Co-winner, of the 2012 Robert K. Martin Prize for Best Book, Canadian Association for American Studies

Paper, $28.00 / £19.50 288 pages
ISBN: 978-0-231-15757-5

Cloth, $85.00 / £58.50 288 pages , March 2011
ISBN: 978-0-231-15756-8

Uncreative Writing: Managing Language in the Digital Age
Kenneth Goldsmith

2012 Association for the Arts of the Present (ASAP) Book Prize

Paper, $23.95 / £15.95 272 pages
ISBN: 978-0-231-14991-4

Cloth, $75.00 / £52.00 272 pages , September 2011
ISBN: 978-0-231-14990-7

Pretty: Film and the Decorative Image
Rosalind Galt

2012 Best Monograph Award from the The British Association for Film, Television and Screen Studies (BAFTSS)

Paper, $26.00 / £18.00 408 pages
ISBN: 978-0-231-15347-8

Cloth, $79.50 / £55.00 408 pages , May 2011
ISBN: 978-0-231-15346-1

Globalized Arts: The Entertainment Economy and Cultural Identity
J. P. Singh

Best Book Award, Information Technology and Politics section of the American Political Science Association

Paper, $28.00 / £19.50 240 pages
ISBN: 978-0-231-14719-4

Cloth, $45.00 / £30.95 240 pages , November 2010
ISBN: 978-0-231-14718-7

American Documentary Film: Projecting the Nation

Finalist - 2012 Richard Wall Memorial Award, Theatre Library Association

Paper, $30.00 224 pages
ISBN: 978-0-7486-2148-4

Cloth, $115.00 224 pages , August 2011
Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 978-0-7486-2147-7

Howard Andrew Knox: Pioneer of Intelligence Testing at Ellis Island
John T. E. Richardson

2012 Outstanding Book in the History of the Neurosciences, International Society for the History of the Neurosciences

Cloth, $60.00 / £41.50 352 pages , November 2011
ISBN: 978-0-231-14168-0

Why Civil Resistance Works: The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent Conflict
Erica Chenoweth and Maria J. Stephan

Woodrow Wilson Award, American Political Science Association

Paper, $22.00 / £15.00 320 pages
ISBN: 978-0-231-15683-7

Cloth, $29.50 / £20.50 320 pages , August 2011
ISBN: 978-0-231-15682-0

Zero and Other Fictions
Huang Fan

2012 Science Fiction and Fantasy Translation Award

Cloth, $24.00 / £16.50 160 pages , October 2011
ISBN: 978-0-231-15740-7

Pretty: Film and the Decorative Image
Rosalind Galt

Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2011

Paper, $26.00 / £18.00 408 pages
ISBN: 978-0-231-15347-8

Cloth, $79.50 / £55.00 408 pages , May 2011
ISBN: 978-0-231-15346-1

The Columbia Anthology of Chinese Folk and Popular Literature
Edited by Victor H. Mair and Mark Bender

Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2011

Paper, $39.00 / £27.00 800 pages
ISBN: 978-0-231-15313-3

Cloth, $115.00 / £79.50 800 pages , May 2011
ISBN: 978-0-231-15312-6

William Morris and the Idea of Community: Romance, History, and Propaganda, 1880–1914
Anna Vaninskaya

Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2011

Cloth, $105.00 256 pages , December 2010
Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 978-0-7486-4149-9

The Columbia History of the Vietnam War
Edited by David L. Anderson

Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2011

Cloth, $65.00 / £45.00 488 pages , November 2010
ISBN: 978-0-231-13480-4

Three Big Bangs: Matter-Energy, Life, Mind
Holmes Rolston III

Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2011

Cloth, $28.00 / £19.50 160 pages , October 2010
ISBN: 978-0-231-15639-4

Terror, Religion, and Liberal Thought
Richard B. Miller

Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2011

Cloth, $35.00 / £24.00 240 pages , September 2010
ISBN: 978-0-231-15098-9

An Introduction to Islamic Archaeology
Marcus Milwright

Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2011

Paper, $32.50 320 pages
ISBN: 978-0-7486-2311-2

Cloth, $105.00 320 pages , April 2010
Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 978-0-7486-2310-5

Theory of Literature and Other Critical Writings
Natsume Sōseki

Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for a Translation of a Scholarly Study of Literature, Modern Language Association

Paper, $29.00 / £20.00 304 pages
ISBN: 978-0-231-14657-9

Cloth, $85.00 / £58.50 304 pages , January 2009
ISBN: 978-0-231-14656-2

The Racial Discourses of Life Philosophy: Négritude, Vitalism, and Modernity
Donna V. Jones

Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies, Modern Language Association

Paper, $26.00 / £18.00 240 pages
ISBN: 978-0-231-14549-7

Cloth, $75.00 / £52.00 240 pages , March 2010
ISBN: 978-0-231-14548-0

Clouds Thick, Whereabouts Unknown: Poems by Zen Monks of China
Translated by Charles Egan

2011 Lucien Stryk Asian Translation Prize for Asian Literature, American Literary Translators Association

Paper, $29.50 / £20.50 328 pages
ISBN: 978-0-231-15039-2

Cloth, $99.50 / £68.50 328 pages , May 2010
ISBN: 978-0-231-15038-5

Beautiful Circuits: Modernism and the Mediated Life
Mark Goble

Honorable Mention – 2011 Modernist Studies Association Book Prize

Cloth, $45.00 / £30.95 392 pages , November 2010
ISBN: 978-0-231-14670-8

In the Company of Strangers: Family and Narrative in Dickens, Conan Doyle, Joyce, and Proust
Barry McCrea

Samuel and Ronnie Heyman Prize for Outstanding Scholarly Publication

Paper, $29.00 / £20.00 280 pages
ISBN: 978-0-231-15763-6

Cloth, $90.00 / £62.00 280 pages , June 2011
ISBN: 978-0-231-15762-9

Dialectical Passions: Negation in Postwar Art Theory
Gail Day

Shortlisted - 2011 Isaac and Tamara Deutscher Memorial Prize

Cloth, $55.00 / £38.00 320 pages , December 2010
ISBN: 978-0-231-14938-9

Memoir of Forgetting the Capital
Tanizaki Jun'ichiro; translated by Amy V. Heinrich

Publishers Association for Cultural Exchange (PACE), Japan Award

Cloth, $50.00 1 pages , March 2011
ISBN: 978-4-8419-0547-2

Fixing the Sky: The Checkered History of Weather and Climate Control
James Rodger Fleming

2012 American Meteorological Society Louis J. Battan Author's Award

Paper, $24.95 / £17.00 344 pages
ISBN: 978-0-231-14413-1

Cloth, $27.95 / £19.95 344 pages , September 2010
ISBN: 978-0-231-14412-4

Assuming a Body: Transgender and Rhetorics of Materiality
Gayle Salamon

Co-winner of the 2011 Lambda Literary Award in LGBT Studies.

Paper, $26.00 / £18.00 240 pages
ISBN: 978-0-231-14959-4

Cloth, $80.00 / £55.00 240 pages , March 2010
ISBN: 978-0-231-14958-7

Terror, Religion, and Liberal Thought
Richard B. Miller

Finalist - 2011 Montaigne Medal

Cloth, $35.00 / £24.00 240 pages , September 2010
ISBN: 978-0-231-15098-9

Genetic Justice: DNA Data Banks, Criminal Investigations, and Civil Liberties
Sheldon Krimsky and Tania Simoncelli

Independent Publisher Book Award (gold medal) for Current Events

Paper, $24.00 / £16.50 448 pages
ISBN: 978-0-231-14521-3

Cloth, $29.95 / £19.95 448 pages , November 2010
ISBN: 978-0-231-14520-6

Fate, Time, and Language: An Essay on Free Will
David Foster Wallace, Edited by Steven M. Cahn and Maureen Eckert; Introduction by James Ryerson and Epilogue by Jay Garfield

Independent Publisher Book Award (gold medal) for Classical Studies / Philosophy

Paper, $19.95 / £13.95 264 pages
ISBN: 978-0-231-15157-3

Cloth, $60.00 / £41.50 264 pages , December 2010
ISBN: 978-0-231-15156-6

Hollywood Lighting from the Silent Era to Film Noir
Patrick Keating

2011 Best First Book, Society for Cinema and Media Studies

Paper, $28.00 / £19.50 312 pages
ISBN: 978-0-231-14903-7

Cloth, $84.50 / £58.50 312 pages , December 2009
ISBN: 978-0-231-14902-0

Chinese Shakespeares: Two Centuries of Cultural Exchange
Alexander C. Y. Huang

ICAS 2011 Colleagues Choice Award

Paper, $28.00 / £19.50 368 pages
ISBN: 978-0-231-14849-8

Cloth, $85.00 / £58.50 368 pages , June 2009
ISBN: 978-0-231-14848-1

The Song of Everlasting Sorrow: A Novel of Shanghai
Wang Anyi; Translated by Michael Berry and Susan Chan Egan

Finalist - Man Booker International Prize 2011

Paper, $22.95 / £15.95 456 pages
ISBN: 978-0-231-14343-1

Cloth, $35.00 / £24.00 456 pages , February 2008
ISBN: 978-0-231-14342-4

Rage and Time: A Psychopolitical Investigation
Peter Sloterdijk; Translated by Mario Wenning

Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2010

Paper, $25.00 / £17.50 256 pages
ISBN: 978-0-231-14523-7

Cloth, $50.00 / £34.50 256 pages , April 2010
ISBN: 978-0-231-14522-0

Muhammad's Grave: Death Rites and the Making of Islamic Society
Leor Halevi

John Nicholas Brown Prize for an outstanding first book from the Medieval Academy of America

Paper, $28.00 / £19.50 416 pages
ISBN: 978-0-231-13743-0

Cloth, $85.00 / £58.50 416 pages , May 2007
ISBN: 978-0-231-13742-3

The International Politics of Intelligence Sharing
James Igoe Walsh

Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2010

Cloth, $45.00 / £30.95 208 pages , November 2009
ISBN: 978-0-231-15410-9

Virus Alert: Security, Governmentality, and the AIDS Pandemic
Stefan Elbe

Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2010

Cloth, $50.00 / £34.50 224 pages , July 2009
ISBN: 978-0-231-14868-9

Impaled Upon a Thistle: Scotland Since 1880
Ewen A. Cameron

Paper, $32.50 448 pages
ISBN: 978-0-7486-1315-1

Cloth, $95.00 448 pages , May 2010
Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 978-0-7486-1314-4

Triassic Life on Land: The Great Transition
Hans-Dieter Sues and Nicholas C. Fraser

Cloth, $70.00 / £48.50 224 pages , April 2010
ISBN: 978-0-231-13522-1

Yoga, Karma, and Rebirth: A Brief History and Philosophy
Stephen Phillips

Paper, $24.95 / £17.00 368 pages
ISBN: 978-0-231-14485-8

Cloth, $79.50 / £55.00 368 pages , May 2009
ISBN: 978-0-231-14484-1

Everyday Ethics and Social Change: The Education of Desire
Anna L. Peterson

Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2010

Paper, $27.00 / £18.50 216 pages
ISBN: 978-0-231-14873-3

Cloth, $80.00 / £55.00 216 pages , August 2009
ISBN: 978-0-231-14872-6

The Moral Fool: A Case for Amorality
Hans-Georg Moeller

Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2010

Paper, $26.00 / £18.00 224 pages
ISBN: 978-0-231-14509-1

Cloth, $79.50 / £55.00 224 pages , July 2009
ISBN: 978-0-231-14508-4

Pragmatism as Transition: Historicity and Hope in James, Dewey, and Rorty
Colin Koopman

Cloth, $50.00 / £34.50 288 pages , November 2009
ISBN: 978-0-231-14874-0

Firestorm: American Film in the Age of Terrorism
Stephen Prince

Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2010

Paper, $29.00 / £20.00 400 pages
ISBN: 978-0-231-14871-9

Cloth, $90.00 / £62.00 400 pages , August 2009
ISBN: 978-0-231-14870-2

A Desert Named Peace: The Violence of France’s Empire in the Algerian Sahara, 1844-1902
Benjamin Claude Brower

2010 Albert Hourani Book Award

Paper, $28.00 / £19.50 480 pages
ISBN: 978-0-231-15493-2

Cloth, $85.00 / £58.50 480 pages , July 2009
ISBN: 978-0-231-15492-5

Chinese Shakespeares: Two Centuries of Cultural Exchange
Alexander C. Y. Huang

Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies, Modern Language Association.

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Honorable Mention—Joe A. Callaway Prize for the Best Book on Drama or Theatre

Paper, $28.00 / £19.50 368 pages
ISBN: 978-0-231-14849-8

Cloth, $85.00 / £58.50 368 pages , June 2009
ISBN: 978-0-231-14848-1

Sex Trafficking: Inside the Business of Modern Slavery
Siddharth Kara

Co-winner of the 2010 Frederick Douglas Book Prize from Yale University’s Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition.

Paper, $18.95 / £12.95 320 pages
ISBN: 978-0-231-13961-8

Cloth, $29.95 / £19.95 320 pages , November 2008
ISBN: 978-0-231-13960-1

The Struggle for Sustainability in Rural China: Environmental Values and Civil Society
Bryan Tilt

Cecil B. Currey Book Award from the Association of Third World Studies.

Paper, $29.50 / £20.50 216 pages
ISBN: 978-0-231-15001-9

Cloth, $95.00 / £65.50 216 pages , December 2009
ISBN: 978-0-231-15000-2

Stalking the Black Swan: Research and Decision Making in a World of Extreme Volatility
Kenneth A. Posner

Best Foreign Book in the Sharjah International Book Fair: Business Book

Cloth, $29.95 / £19.95 288 pages , March 2010
ISBN: 978-0-231-15048-4

Triumph of Order: Democracy and Public Space in New York and London
Lisa Keller

Co-recipient of the 2009 Kenneth Jackson Award from the Urban History Association

Paper, $26.00 / £18.00 368 pages
ISBN: 978-0-231-14673-9

Cloth, $80.00 / £55.00 368 pages , November 2008
ISBN: 978-0-231-14672-2

Zeami: Performance Notes
Translated by Tom Hare

2010 Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission Prize for the Translation of Japanese Literature from the Donald Keene Center of Japanese Culture at Columbia University

Paper, $29.00 / £20.00 528 pages
ISBN: 978-0-231-13959-5

Cloth, $90.00 / £62.00 528 pages , April 2008
ISBN: 978-0-231-13958-8

The Late Age of Print: Everyday Book Culture from Consumerism to Control
Ted Striphas

2010 Outstanding Book Award from the National Communication Association's Critical Cultural Studies Division

Paper, $20.00 / £14.00 272 pages
ISBN: 978-0-231-14815-3

Cloth, $60.00 / £41.50 272 pages , April 2009
ISBN: 978-0-231-14814-6

The Power of the Internet in China: Citizen Activism Online
Guobin Yang

2010 CITASA Book Award

Paper, $24.00 / £16.50 320 pages
ISBN: 978-0-231-14421-6

Cloth, $75.00 / £52.00 320 pages , June 2009
ISBN: 978-0-231-14420-9

Film, a Sound Art
Michel Chion

2010 Richard Wall Memorial Award, Theatre Library Association

Paper, $34.00 / £23.50 560 pages
ISBN: 978-0-231-13777-5

Cloth, $105.00 / £72.50 560 pages , July 2009
ISBN: 978-0-231-13776-8

The African Diaspora: A History Through Culture
Patrick Manning

2010 Association of Third World Studies Toyin Falola Africa Book Award

Paper, $26.00 / £18.00 424 pages
ISBN: 978-0-231-14471-1

Cloth, $50.00 / £34.50 424 pages , May 2009
ISBN: 978-0-231-14470-4

A Dictionary of Maqiao
Han Shaogong

2011 Newman Prize for Chinese Literature

Cloth, $35.00 / £24.00 400 pages , July 2003
ISBN: 978-0-231-12744-8

Chinese Shakespeares: Two Centuries of Cultural Exchange
Alexander C. Y. Huang

Honorable Mention, Joe A. Callaway Prize for the Best Book on Drama or Theatre

Paper, $28.00 / £19.50 368 pages
ISBN: 978-0-231-14849-8

Cloth, $85.00 / £58.50 368 pages , June 2009
ISBN: 978-0-231-14848-1

Acts of Conscience: Christian Nonviolence and Modern American Democracy
Joseph Kip Kosek

2010 Best First Book in the History of Religions from the American Academy of Religion

Paper, $28.00 / £19.50 376 pages
ISBN: 978-0-231-14419-3

Cloth, $85.00 / £58.50 376 pages , February 2009
ISBN: 978-0-231-14418-6

The Sacred Universe: Earth, Spirituality, and Religion in the Twenty-first Century
Thomas Berry; Edited and with a Foreword by Mary Evelyn Tucker

2010 Nautilus Awards, Silver Winner for Religion

Cloth, $23.95 / £15.95 200 pages , September 2009
ISBN: 978-0-231-14952-5

There’s Nothing I Can Do When I Think of You Late at Night
Cao Naiqian; Translated by John Balcom

2010 Northern California Book Award for Translation of Fiction

Cloth, $26.50 / £18.50 248 pages , May 2009
ISBN: 978-0-231-14810-8

A Desert Named Peace: The Violence of France’s Empire in the Algerian Sahara, 1844-1902
Benjamin Claude Brower

David H. Pinkney Prize from The Society for French Historical Studies

Paper, $28.00 / £19.50 480 pages
ISBN: 978-0-231-15493-2

Cloth, $85.00 / £58.50 480 pages , July 2009
ISBN: 978-0-231-15492-5

Film, a Sound Art
Michel Chion

Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2009

Paper, $34.00 / £23.50 560 pages
ISBN: 978-0-231-13777-5

Cloth, $105.00 / £72.50 560 pages , July 2009
ISBN: 978-0-231-13776-8

African Film and Literature: Adapting Violence to the Screen
Lindiwe Dovey

Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2009

Paper, $34.00 / £23.50 360 pages
ISBN: 978-0-231-14755-2

Cloth, $105.00 / £72.50 360 pages , May 2009
ISBN: 978-0-231-14754-5

Weimar Cinema: An Essential Guide to Classic Films of the Era
Edited by Noah Isenberg

Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2009

Paper, $29.00 / £20.00 376 pages
ISBN: 978-0-231-13055-4

Cloth, $90.00 / £62.00 376 pages , January 2009
ISBN: 978-0-231-13054-7

Europe Through Arab Eyes, 1578-1727
Nabil Matar

Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2009

Cloth, $50.00 / £34.50 344 pages , November 2008
ISBN: 978-0-231-14194-9

The Garden and the Fire: Heaven and Hell in Islamic Culture
Nerina Rustomji

Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2009

Paper, $28.00 / £19.50 240 pages
ISBN: 978-0-231-14085-0

Cloth, $55.00 / £38.00 240 pages , November 2008
ISBN: 978-0-231-14084-3

Hard-Boiled Sentimentality: The Secret History of American Crime Stories
Leonard Cassuto

Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2009

Paper, $28.00 / £19.50 344 pages
ISBN: 978-0-231-12691-5

Cloth, $85.00 / £58.50 344 pages , November 2008
ISBN: 978-0-231-12690-8

Hyping Health Risks: Environmental Hazards in Daily Life and the Science of Epidemiology
Geoffrey C. Kabat

Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2009

Paper, $26.00 / £18.00 272 pages
ISBN: 978-0-231-14149-9

Cloth, $50.00 / £34.50 272 pages , July 2008
ISBN: 978-0-231-14148-2

The Star as Icon: Celebrity in the Age of Mass Consumption
Daniel Herwitz

Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2009

Cloth, $35.00 / £24.00 176 pages , October 2008
ISBN: 978-0-231-14540-4

CBS’s Don Hollenbeck: An Honest Reporter in the Age of McCarthyism
Loren Ghiglione

Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2009

Paper, $25.00 / £17.50 352 pages
ISBN: 978-0-231-14497-1

Cloth, $75.00 / £52.00 352 pages , October 2008
ISBN: 978-0-231-14496-4

The Columbia Guide to West African Literature in English Since 1945
Oyekan Owomoyela

Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2009

Cloth, $90.00 / £62.00 216 pages , October 2008
ISBN: 978-0-231-12686-1

Autism's False Prophets: Bad Science, Risky Medicine, and the Search for a Cure
Paul A. Offit, MD, FAAP

Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2009

Paper, $16.95 / £11.95 328 pages
ISBN: 978-0-231-14637-1

Cloth, $29.95 / £19.95 328 pages , September 2008
ISBN: 978-0-231-14636-4

Zoographies: The Question of the Animal from Heidegger to Derrida
Matthew Calarco

Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2009

Paper, $28.00 / £19.50 184 pages
ISBN: 978-0-231-14023-2

Cloth, $89.50 / £62.00 184 pages , June 2008
ISBN: 978-0-231-14022-5

The Song of Everlasting Sorrow: A Novel of Shanghai
Wang Anyi; Translated by Michael Berry and Susan Chan Egan

Honorable Mention, Lois Roth Award for a Translation of a Literary Work, Modern Language Association

Paper, $22.95 / £15.95 456 pages
ISBN: 978-0-231-14343-1

Cloth, $35.00 / £24.00 456 pages , February 2008
ISBN: 978-0-231-14342-4

Betrayal: How Black Intellectuals Have Abandoned the Ideals of the Civil Rights Era
Houston A. Baker Jr.

2009 American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation

Paper, $22.95 / £13.95 272 pages
ISBN: 978-0-231-13965-6

Cloth, $60.00 / £41.50 272 pages , March 2008
ISBN: 978-0-231-13964-9

Jewish Property Claims Against Arab Countries
Michael R. Fischbach

Runner-up, British-Kuwait Friendship Society Book Prize

Cloth, $50.00 / £34.50 376 pages , August 2008
ISBN: 978-0-231-13538-2

Reworking Race: The Making of Hawaii's Interracial Labor Movement
Moon-Kie Jung

2008 Oliver Cromwell Cox Book Award from the Section on Racial and Ethnic Minorities of the American Sociological Association

Paper, $28.00 / £19.50 320 pages
ISBN: 978-0-231-13535-1

Cloth, $80.00 / £55.00 320 pages , May 2006
ISBN: 978-0-231-13534-4

In Love and Struggle: Letters in Contemporary Feminism
Margaretta Jolly

Winner of the 2009 Feminist and Women's Studies Association UK & Ireland (FWSA) Annual Book Prize (http://www.fwsa.org.uk).

Paper, $28.00 / £19.50 328 pages
ISBN: 978-0-231-13793-5

Cloth, $85.00 / £58.50 328 pages , January 2008
ISBN: 978-0-231-13792-8

Thin Places: A Pilgrimage Home
Ann Armbrecht

2009 Nautilus Award, Gold winner for Memoir / Personal Journey

Paper, $25.00 / £17.50 296 pages
ISBN: 978-0-231-14653-1

Cloth, $75.00 / £52.00 296 pages , November 2008
ISBN: 978-0-231-14652-4

Rhythm and Race in Modernist Poetry and Science
Michael Golston

2008 Louis Martz Prize from the William Carlos Williams Society

Cloth, $60.00 / £41.50 296 pages , December 2007
ISBN: 978-0-231-14276-2

The Crusades, Christianity, and Islam
Jonathan Riley-Smith

Selected as Booklist Editors' Choice

Paper, $22.00 / £15.00 136 pages
ISBN: 978-0-231-14625-8

Cloth, $40.00 / £27.50 136 pages , September 2008
ISBN: 978-0-231-14624-1

Dogs: Their Fossil Relatives and Evolutionary History
Xiaoming Wang and Richard H. Tedford; Illustrations by Mauricio Antón

PROSE Award in Earth Sciences, Association of American Publishers, Honorable Mention

Paper, $24.95 / £16.95 232 pages
ISBN: 978-0-231-13529-0

Cloth, $34.95 / £23.95 232 pages , July 2008
ISBN: 978-0-231-13528-3

Autism's False Prophets: Bad Science, Risky Medicine, and the Search for a Cure
Paul A. Offit, MD, FAAP

Selected as a Best of 2008 Consumer Health in Library Journal

Paper, $16.95 / £11.95 328 pages
ISBN: 978-0-231-14637-1

Cloth, $29.95 / £19.95 328 pages , September 2008
ISBN: 978-0-231-14636-4

American Pests: The Losing War on Insects from Colonial Times to DDT
James E. McWilliams

Hiett Prize in the Humanities

Cloth, $26.95 / £18.50 312 pages , June 2008
ISBN: 978-0-231-13942-7

Hard-Boiled Sentimentality: The Secret History of American Crime Stories
Leonard Cassuto

Edgar Award Nominee for Best Critical / Biographical Work

Paper, $28.00 / £19.50 344 pages
ISBN: 978-0-231-12691-5

Cloth, $85.00 / £58.50 344 pages , November 2008
ISBN: 978-0-231-12690-8

Political Manhood: Red Bloods, Mollycoddles, and the Politics of Progressive Era Reform
Kevin P. Murphy

Finalist: Lambda Literary Awards—LGBT Studies

Paper, $28.00 / £19.50 320 pages
ISBN: 978-0-231-12997-8

Cloth, $85.00 / £58.50 320 pages , July 2008
ISBN: 978-0-231-12996-1

TCM International Film Guide 2008: The Definitive Annual Review of World Cinema
Edited by Ian Haydn Smith

Choice Outstanding Academic Title

Paper, $29.95 / £20.50 440 pages , March 2008
International Film Guide
ISBN: 978-1-905674-61-9

The Columbia Gazetteer of the World
Edited by Saul Cohen

Choice Outstanding Academic Title

Cloth, $650.00 / £448.50 4424 pages , June 2008
ISBN: 978-0-231-14554-1

Performing Illusions: Cinema, Special Effects and the Virtual Actor
Dan North

Shortlisted: And/or Moving Image Book Award

Paper, $28.00 / £19.50 256 pages
ISBN: 978-1-905674-53-4

Cloth, $85.00 / £58.50 256 pages , October 2008
Wallflower Press
ISBN: 978-1-905674-54-1

Secularism Confronts Islam
Olivier Roy

Choice Outstanding Academic Title

Paper, $22.00 / £15.00 144 pages
ISBN: 978-0-231-14103-1

Cloth, $65.00 / £45.00 144 pages , July 2007
ISBN: 978-0-231-14102-4

The Columbia Guide to Central African Literature in English Since 1945
Adrian Roscoe

Choice Outstanding Academic Title

Cloth, $85.00 / £58.50 220 pages , October 2007
ISBN: 978-0-231-13042-4

One Hundred Poets, One Poem Each: A Translation of the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu
Peter McMillan; with a foreword by Donald Keene

Donald Keene Center Special Prize

Paper, $26.00 / £18.00 240 pages
ISBN: 978-0-231-14399-8

Cloth, $45.00 / £30.95 240 pages , January 2008
ISBN: 978-0-231-14398-1

Hollywood Science: Movies, Science, and the End of the World
Sidney Perkowitz

Choice Outstanding Academic Title

Paper, $24.00 / £16.50 272 pages
ISBN: 978-0-231-14281-6

Cloth, $50.00 / £34.50 272 pages , December 2007
ISBN: 978-0-231-14280-9

Technology in Postwar America: A History
Carroll Pursell

Choice Outstanding Academic Title

Cloth, $40.00 / £27.50 320 pages , June 2007
ISBN: 978-0-231-12304-4

The Politics of Postsecular Religion: Mourning Secular Futures
Ananda Abeysekara

Choice Outstanding Academic Title

Cloth, $60.00 / £41.50 324 pages , May 2008
ISBN: 978-0-231-14290-8