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Books published by AAUP member presses regularly win awards from scholarly
societies, regional institutions, and national literary organizations.
What follows is a partial list of prizes received by our members, broken
down by press.
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THE UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA PRESS
East of Time
Jacob G. Rosenberg
National Biography Award, State Library of New South Wales, 2006
The Temple and the Forum: The American Museum and Cultural Authority in Hawthorne, Melville, Stowe, and Whitman
Les Harrison
Elizabeth Agee Manuscript Prize, The University of Alabama Press, 2006
A Conquering Spirit: For Mims and the Redstick War of 1813-1814
Gregory Waselkov
Anne B. & James B. McMillan Manuscript Prize, The University of Alabama Press, 2006
Inside Alabama: A Personal History of My State
Harvey H. Jackson III
Clinton Jackson Coley Book Award, Alabama Historical Association, 2006
Choice Magazine 2005 Outstanding Academic Titles
Dialect and Dichotomy: Literary Representations of African American Speech by Lisa Cohen Minnick
Faulkner the Storyteller by Blair Labatt
Game Work: Language, Power, and Computer Game Culture by Ken S. McAllister
The Rock Art of Eastern North America: Capturing images and Insight by Carol Diaz-Granados and James R. Duncan
Cradle of Freedom: Alabama and the Movement That Changed America
Frye Gaillard
Lillian Smith Book Award, Southern Regional Council, 2005
Alabama Folk Poetry
Joey Brackner
McMillan Manuscript Prize, University of Alabama Press, 2005
John Ashbery's Forms of Attention
Andrew DuBois
Elizabeth Agee Manuscript Prize, University of Alabama Press, 2005
George Garrett
Double Vision
2005 Cleanth Brooks Medal for Distinguished Achievement in Southern Letters
An Alabama Songbook: Ballads, Folksongs, and Spirituals Collected by Byron Arnold
Edited by Robert H. Halli Jr.
Eugene Current-Garcia Award for Distinction in Literary Scholarship, 2005
Alabama in the Twentieth Century
Wayne Flynt
James F. Sulzby Book Award, Alabama Historical Association, 2005
Differentials: Poetry, Poetics, Pedagogy
Marjorie Perloff
Robert Penn Warren-Cleanth Brooks Award for Outstanding Literary Criticism, cowinner, Center for RObert Penn Warren Studies, 2004
Robert Motherwell Book Award, Honorable Mention, Dedalus Foundation, 2004
Dividing Lines: Municipal Politics and the Struggle for Civil Rights
in Montgomery, Birmingham, and Selma
J. Mills Thornton, III
Liberty Legacy Award, Organization of American Historians, 2003
Our Elders Teach Us: Maya-Kaqchikel Historical Perspectives
David A. Carey, Jr.
A. B. Thomas Prize, honorable mention, Southeastern Council of
Latin American Studies, 2003
One Day in the Life of a Born Again Loser and Other Stories
Helen Norris
Alabama Author Award, fiction, Alabama Library Association, 2003
Getting Right with God: Southern Baptists and Desegregation, 1945-1995
Mark Newman
Lillian Smith Book Award, Southern Regional Council, 2002
Powerful Days
Charles Moore and Michael S. Durham
Best Reprints, selection, Library Journal, 2002
Alabama Governors: A Political History of the State
Samuel L. Webb and Margaret Armbrester
Alabama Author Award, nonfiction, Alabama Library Association,
2003
It Wasn't All Dancing and Other Stories
Mary Ward Brown
Harper Lee Award, Alabama Writers' Forum, 2002
Hillsdale Award for Fiction, Conference of Southern Writers, 2002
Anthropologists and Indians in the New South
Rachel Bonney and J. Anthony Paredes
Outstanding Academic Title, Choice Magazine, 2002
Alabama Architecture: Looking at Building and Place
Alice Bowsher and Lewis Kennedy
Design Award, honorable mention, Southern Books Competition, 2002
Digital Poetics: Hypertext, Visual-Kinetic Text and Writing in Programmable
Media
Pequeno Glazier
Book of the Month December, Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies
to Loss, 2002
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UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA PRESS
No Foreign Bones in China
Peter Stursberg
Life Stories Book Award, The Word Guild, 2003
Rare Vascular Plants of Alberta
The Alberta Native Plant Council; Jane Lancaster, Derek Johnson, Joyce
Gould and Linda Kershaw, editors
published with Natural Resources Canada, Canadian Forest Service
Scholarly Book of the Year, Alberta Book Awards , 2002
A Painter's Year in the Forests of Bhutan
A.K. Hellum; Lara Minja, Lime Design, designer
Published with The University of Hawai'i Press
Wilfred Eggleston Award, Writers Guild of Alberta, 2002
Book Design of the Year, Alberta Book Awards, 2002
Cover Design of the Year, Alberta Book Awards, 2002
Book Illustration of the Year, Alberta Book Awards, 2002
Trade Book of the Year, Silver Award, Alberta Book Awards, 2002
Outstanding Book on Mountain Culture, Banff Mountain Book Festival,
2001
The Hornbooks of Rita K
Robert Kroetsch
Trade Book of the Year, nomination, Alberta Book Awards, 2002
Governor General Award for Poetry, nominated, 2001
Whir of Gold
Sinclair Ross; Alan Brownoff, designer
Alcuin Society Award, second place, fiction, Alcuin Society, 2002
From Rupert's Land to Canada: Essays in Honour of John E. Foster
Theodore Binnema, Gerhard Ens & R.C. Macleod, editors; Alan Brownoff,
designer
Alcuin Society Award, honorable mention, non-fiction, Alcuin Society, 2002
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more about prize-winning books and authors from The University of Alberta
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THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA PRESS
Secrets from the Center of the World
Joy Harjo
Arrell Gibson Award for Lifetime Achievement, Oklahoma Book Awards
The Underground Heart
Ray Gonzalez
Carr P. Collins Award, Texas Institute of Letters, 2003
Minnesota Book Award, finalist, nonfiction
Translating Southwestern Landscapes
Audrey Goodman
Thomas J. Lyon Award, Western Literature Association, 2003
Edward Abbey: A Life
James Cahalan
Thomas J. Lyon Award, Western Literature Association, 2002
I Am My Language
Norma Gonzalez
Best Book, Organization for the Study of Communication, Language,
and Gender, 2002
From the Other Side of Night/Del Otro Lado de la Noche
Francisco X. Alarcón
Poet Laureate of California, finalist
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more about prize-winning books and authors from The University of Arizona
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THE UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS PRESS
A Stranger and a Sojourner: Peter Caulder, Free Black Frontiersman in Antebellum Arkansas
Billy Higgins
Ragsdale Award, co-winner, 2005
Chattahoochee
Patrick Phillips
Kate Tufts Discovery Award, Claremont Graduate University, 2005
Jimmy Carter
2002 Nobel Peace Prize
Keeping the Faith: Memoirs of a President
Blood of Abraham: Insights Into the Middle East
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BEACON PRESS
From the Palmer Raids to the Patriot Act
Christopher M. Finan
Eli M. Oboler Memorial Award, Intellectual Freedom Round Table of the American Library Association, 2008
The Tricky Part
Martin Moran
Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Award, Second Place, Nonfiction, 2006
Randy Shilts Award for Gay Nonfiction, 18th Annual Triangle Awards, 2006
UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA PRESS
The Cost of Climate Policy
Mark Jaccard, John Nyboer, and Bryn Sadownik
Donner Prize, shortlisted, Donner Canadian Foundation, 2003
A Trading Nation
Michael Hart
Donner Prize, shortlisted, Donner Canadian Foundation, 2003
Donald Smiley Prize, shortlisted, Canadian Political Science Association,
2003
Globalization and Well-Being
John F. Helliwell
Donner Prize, shortlisted, Donner Canadian Foundation, 2003
Flexible Crossroads: The Restructuring of British Columbia's Forest
Economy
Roger Hayter
Harold Adams Innis Prize, shortlisted, Humanities and Social
Sciences Federation of Canada
Cis dideen kat: When the Plumes Rise: The Way of the Lake Babine Nation
Jo-Anne Fiske and Betty Patrick
Harold Adams Innis Prize, shortlisted
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more about prize-winning books and authors from University of British
Columbia Press
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BROOKINGS INSTITUTION PRESS
Roberta Cohen and Francis Deng
Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order, University of Louisville, 2005
Masses in Flight: The Global Crisis of Internal Displacement
The Forsaken People: Case Studies of the Internally Displaced
America Unbound
Ivo H. Daalder and James M. Lindsay
The Gelber Prize, Munk Centre for International Studies, 2003
Arthur Ross Award, shortlisted, Council on Foreign Relations,2004
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UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS
They Called Me Mayer July: Painted Memories of a Jewish Childhood in
Poland before the Holocaust
Mayer Kirshenblatt and Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett
Canadian Jewish Book Award, Biography and Memoir, 2008
National Jewish Book Award Finalist, Biography, Autobiography, and Memoir, 2007
National Jewish Book Award Finalist, Eastern European Studies, 2007
National Jewish Book Award Finalist, Visual Arts, 2007
Beyond Chutzpah
Norman Finkelstein
Academic Freedom Award, Middle Eastern Studies Association, 2005
Winslow Homer: The Nature of Observation
Elizabeth Johns
Charles C. Eldredge Prize, Distinguished Scholarship in American Art, The Smithsonian American Art Museum, 2005
MeXicana Encounters: The Making of Social Identitites on the Borderlands
Linda Fregoso
MLA Prize in United States Latina and Latino and Chicana and Chicano Literary and Cultural Studies, Modern Language Association, 2004
American Empire: Roosevelt's Geographer and the Prelude to Globalization
Neil Smith
Los Angeles Times Book Prize, finalist, biography, Los Angeles
Times, 2003
Terror in the Mind of God: The Global Rise of Religious Violence
Mark Jeurgensmeyer
Grawemeyer Award In Religion, 2003
Sleeping with the Dictionary
Harryette Mullen
National Book Critics Circle Award, nominee, 2002
National Book Award, finalist, 2002
Beyond the Pale: The Jewish Encounter With Late Imperial Russia
Benjamin Nathans
Koret Jewish Book Award, history, Koret Foundation, 2002
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CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fourth Assessment Report (3 vols.)
Nobel Peace Prize, 2007
Actual Ethics
James R. Otteson
Templeton Enterprise Award, First Prize, 2007
A Vision for Universal Preschool Education
Edward Zigler, Walter S. Gilliam, and Stephanie M. Jones
Grawemeyer Award, Education, 2008
Cambridge History of Judaism, vol. 4: The Late Roman-Rabbinic Period
Steven T. Katz, ed.
National Jewish Book Award, Reference, 2007
Cambridge History of Christianity: Origins to Constantine
Margaret M. Mitchell, Frances M. Young, editors
First Place, History, Catholic Press Association, 2007
Growing Public: Social Spending and Economic Growth since the Eighteenth Century
Peter H. Lindhert
PSP Book Award, Economics Honorable Mention, Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division, Association of American Publishers, 2004
Global Business Regulation
John Braithwaite, Peter Drahos
2004 Grawemeyer Award
Charles Granger
2003 Nobel Prize in Economics
Essays in Econometrics: Collected Papers of Clive W. J. Granger
Deliberate Discretion? The Institutional Foundations of Bureaucratic
Autonomy
John D. Huber and Charles R. Shipan
William H. Riker Book Award, co-winner, political economy section,
American Political Science Association, 2003
Literacy in American Lives
Deborah Brandt
The Grawemeyer Award in Education
Extreme Stars: At the Edge of Creation
James B. Kaler
Award for Physics and Astronomy, Association of American Publishers
The Parthenon Frieze
Jenifer Neils
Award for Arts, Association of American Publishers
Kant: A Biography
Manfred Keuhn
Award for Biography and Autobiography, Association of American
Publishers
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CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY PRESS
Bent to Earth
Manuel Blas de Luna
The National Book Critics Circle Award, Poetry Finalist, 2006
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS
The History of Cartography, volume three: Cartography in the European Renaissance, parts 1 and 2
Margie Towery (Index)
David Woodward, editor
ASI/H.W. Wilson Excellence in Indexing Award, American Society for Indexing, 2008
Distorting the Law: Politics, Media and the Litigation Crisis
William Haltom and Michael McCann
Herbert Jacob Book Prize, Law and Society Association, 2005
Leaving
Laton Carter
Stafford/Hall Award for Poetry, Oregon Book Awards, 2005
Downtown America: A History of the Place and the People Who Made It
Alison Isenberg
Historic Preservation Book Prize, Center for Historic Preservation at the University of Mary Washington, 2005
The Encyclopedia of Chicago
James R. Grossman, et al
PSP Book Award, Single Volume Reference / Humanities, Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division, Association of American Publishers, 2004
The Anonymous Marie de France
R. Howard Bloch
Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for French and Francophone Studies, Modern Language Assocation, 2004
J.M. Coetzee
2003 Nobel Prize in Literature
Giving Offense: Essays on Censorship
Elizabeth Arnold
2002 Whiting Writer's Award
The Reef
David Gewanter
2002 Whiting Writer's Award
In the Belly
The World's Room
Joshua Weiner
2002 Whiting Writer's Award
Educating Intuition
Robin M. Hogarth
Award for Psychology, Association of American Publishers
Fools Are Everywhere: The Court Jester Around the World
Beatrice K. Otto
Award for Literature and Language, Association of American Publishers
Victorian Sensation: The Extraordinary Publication, Reception, and
Secret Authorship of Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation
James A. Secord
Award for History, Association of American Publishers
Debt and Dispossession: Farm Loss in America's Heartland
Kathryn Marie Dudley
Margaret Mead Award of the Society for Applied Anthropology.
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UNIVERSITY PRESS OF COLORADO
Color of Law
David Milofsky
Colorado Book Award Winner for Best Fiction, 2002
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COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESS
The Undiscovered Country: Poetry in the Age of Tin
William Logan
The National Book Critics Circle Award, Criticism, 2006
The Heretic in Darwin’s Court: The Life of Alfred Russel Wallace
Ross A. Slotten
PSP Book Award, Biography, Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division, Association of American Publishers, 2004
Randall Jarrell and His Age
Stephen Burt
Robert Penn Warren/Cleanth Brooks Award, Center for Robert Penn
Warren Studies, Western Kentucky University, 2002
Wondrous Difference: Cinema, Anthropology, and Turn-of-the-Century
Visual Culture
Alison Griffiths
Katherine Singer Kovács Book Award, The Society for Cinema
and Media Studies, 2003
The Kraszna-Krausz Award, Special Commendation, 2003
Breaking the Slump: Baseball in the Depression Era
Charles C. Alexander
Seymour Medal, The Society for American Baseball Research, 2003
From Judgment to Passion: Devotion to Christ and the Virgin Mary,
800–1200
Rachel Fulton
Morris D. Forkosch Prize, The Journal of the History of Ideas,
2003
Outstanding Academic Title, Choice Magazine, 2003
Hearst Over Hollywood: Power, Passion, and Propaganda in the Movies
Louis Pizzitola
Special Jury Prize for Distinguished Achievement, Theatre Library
Association, 2003
In Another Country: Colonialism, Culture, and the English Novel in
India
Priya Joshi
Modern Language Association Prize for a First Book, Modern Language
Association, 2003
Sonya Rudikoff Prize, Victorian Studies Association, 2003
Korea Between Empires
Andre Schmid
John Whitney Hall Book Prize, The Association for Asian Studies,
2004
The Literature of Lesbianism
Edited by Terry Castle
Lambda Literary Editor's Choice Award, Lambda Literary Foundation,
2004
Audience Economics
Philip M. Napoli
Robert Picard Award, Association for Education in Journalism and
Mass Communication, 2004
Lothagam
Edited by Meave G. Leakey and John M. Harris
PSP Book Award, sociology and anthropology, Professional and Scholarly
Publishing Division, Association of American Publishers, 2003
The Columbia Companion to Modern East Asian Literature
edited by Joshua Mostow
PSP Book Award, honorable mention, single volume reference/humanities,
2003
Choice Magazine 2003 Outstanding Academic Titles
Trekking Through History: The Huaorani of Amazonian Ecuador
Laura M. Rival
The Columbia Guide to the Vietnam War
David L. Anderson
Early Modern Japanese Literature: An Anthology, 1600-1900
Edited by Haruo Shirane
Emperor of Japan: Meiji and His World, 1852-1912
Donald Keene
The Columbia Guide to Digital Publishing
Edited by William E. Kasdorf; The Columbia Gazetteer of the World
The Columbia Guide to the Literatures of Eastern Europe Since 1945
Harold B. Segel
History of Indian Literature in English
Edited by Arvind Krishna Mehrotra
A Celebration of the World's Barrier Islands
Orrin H. Pilkey
Freedom on My Mind: The Columbia Documentary History of the African
American Experience
Edited by Manning Marable
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CORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Paradiso Seasons
Denis Cotter
Best Vegetarian Book in the World Award, Gourmand World Cookbook
Awards, 2003
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CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
The Remnants of War
John Mueller
Lepgold Prize, Georgetown University, 2006
Condemned to Repeat? The Paradox of Humanitarian Action
Fiona Terry
Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order, University of Louisville, 2006
The Black Flies (Simuliidae) of North America
Peter H. Adler, et al
PSP Book Award, Single Volume Reference / Sciences, Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division, Association of American Publishers, 2004
The Copywrights: Intellectual Property and the Literary Imagination
Paul K. Saint-Amour
Modern Language Association Prize for a First Book, 2004
The Corporate Warriors
Peter W. Singer
The Gelber Prize, shortlisted, Munk Centre for International Studies,
2003
Modern Hatreds: The Symbolic Politics of Ethnic War
Stuart Kaufman
Grawemeyer World Order Award, 2003
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DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
The Archive and the Repertoire: Performing Cultural Memory in the Americas
Diana Taylor
Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize, Modern Language Association, 2004
Extinct Lands, Temporal Geographies: Chicana Literature and the Urgency
of Space
Mary Pat Brady
MLA Prize in U.S. Latina and Latino and Chicana and Chicano Literary
and Cultural Studies, Modern Language Association, 2004
Contructing the Black Masculine: Identity and Ideality in African
American Men's Literature and Culture, 1775-1995
Maurice O. Wallace
William Sanders Scarborough Prize, Modern Language Association,
2004
Appetites
Judith Farquhar
Victor Turner Prize, honorable mention, The Society for Humanistic
Anthropology
Forgotten Readers
Elizabeth McHenry
SHARP Book History Prize, Society for the History of Authorship,
Reading, and Publishing (SHARP), 2003
Literary Award, nonfiction, Black Caucus of the American Library Association, 2003
Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, nonfiction, Hurston-Wright Foundation,
2003
Passed On
Karla FC Holloway
Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, finalist, nonfiction, Hurston-Wright
Foundation, 2003
Eugene M. Kayden Press Book Award, Colorado University at Boulder,
2003
Research and Book Award, College Language Association, 2003
Postcolonial Vietnam
Patricia Pelley
First Book Prize, Berkshire Conference of Women Historians, 2003
Cultures in Contact
Dirk Hoerder
Sharlin Prize, Social Science History Association, 2002
Farm, Shop, Landing
Martin Bruegel
Best First Book Prize, Society for Historians for the Early American
Republic
Theodore Saloutos Memorial Book Award, Agricultural History Society, 2002
Urvashi Butalia
Nikkei Asia Prize for Culture, 2003
The Other Side of Silence
Neglected Policies
Ira Strauber
C. Herman Pritchett Award, Law and Courts Section of the American
Political Science Association
In the Shadows of State and Capital
Steve Striffler
Book Award, Labor Section of Latin American Studies Association,
2003
President's Book Award, Social Science History Association
Fabricating Women
Clare Haru Crowston
Berkshire Prize
Shakespeare, Brecht, and the Intercultural Sign
Antony Tatlow
Association of Theatre in Higher Education Book Award, 2002.
Wake the Town and Tell the People
Norman Stolzoff
Book Award, United States Branch of the International Association
for the Study of Popular Music
Yellow Music
Andrew F. Jones
Best Research in Recorded Folk or Ethnic Music, Association for
Recorded Sound Collections Award, 2002
Uncovering Heian Japan
Thomas Lamarre
John Whitney Hall Book Prize, Northeast Asia Council of the Association
for Asian Studies, 2002
Race on the Line
Venus Green
Book of the Year Award, International Labor History Association.
Men without Women
Eliot Borenstein
AATSEEL Prize, The American Association of Teachers of Slavic and
East European Languages
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UNIVERSITY PRESS OF FLORIDA
Land of Sunshine, State of Dreams
Gary R. Mormino
Charlton Tebeau Book Award, Florida Historical Society, 2006
The Lost Florida Manuscript of Frank Hamilton Cushing
Phyllis E. Kolianos and Brent R. Weisman
Rembert Patrick Best Academic Book Award, Florida Historical Society, 2006
The Florida Journals of Frank Hamilton Cushing
Phyllis E. Kolianos and Brent R. Weisman
Rembert Patrick Best Academic Book Award, Florida Historical Society, 2006
Uncle Sam in Barbary: A Diplomatic History
Richard B. Parker
Douglas Dillon Award, for a Book of Distinction on the Practice of American Diplomacy, American Academy of Diplomacy, 2004
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GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY PRESS
Loyal Dissent: Memoir of a Catholic Theologian
Charles E. Curran
First Place, Biography, Catholic Press Association, 2007
For All Peoples and All Nations: The Ecumenical Church and Human Rights
Reverend Canon Dr. John Nurser
Albert C. Outler Prize, The American Society of Church History, 2007
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THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA PRESS
Elemental South
Ed. Dorinda Dallmeyer
Special Recognition, Southern Environmental Law Center, 2005
Liquid Land: A Journey through the Florida Everglades
Ted Levin
The John Burroughs Medal, The John Burroughs Association, 2004
Leaving Saturn
Major Jackson
National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry, finalist, 2002
Whiting Writers' Award, 2003
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GETTY PUBLICATIONS
Cezanne in the Studio
Carol Armstrong and Deborah Gibson
PSP Book Award, Arts Honorable Mention, Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division, Association of American Publishers, 2004
A Passion for Performance: Sarah Siddons and Her Portraitists
Robyn Asleson, editor
History Books of the Year, BBC History Magazine.
The following have won American Graphic Design Awards:
Nadar/Warhol: Paris/New York
Gordon Baldwin and Judith Keller
In Focus Boxed Set: Andre?L Kerte?Lsz, La?Lszlo?L Moholy-Nagy, and Man Ray:
Photographs from the J. Paul Getty Musuem
Departures: Eleven Artists at the Getty
Lisa Lyons
Palace Sculptures of Abomey: History Told on Walls
Frencesca Pique?L, Leslie H. Rainer
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