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10 Years of PROSE WinnersLooking Back at Top Awards Since 2006

The PROSE Awards recognize outstanding scholarly books, journals and electronic products in arts, humanities, sciences and math

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Within the PROSE Awards, the R.R. Hawkins Recognizes the best of the best

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10 Years of R.R. Hawkins Awards Kick Off With…

Evolutionary DynamicsBy Martin A. NowakHarvard University Press

Winning Quality: book offers introductory material while also addressing active areas of research

9 The Dream of the PoemBy Peter ColePrinceton University Press

Winning Quality: was the first to offer a comprehensive collection in English of what is now considered to be some of the finest poetry of the European Middle ages

8 The Race Between Education and TechnologyBy Claudia Goldin and Lawrence F. KatzHarvard University Press

Winning Quality: a survey of American education from a unique economic lens, a superb piece of economics and historical scholarship, rendered in accessible prose

7 A tie! Plato’s Philosophers: By Catherine H. Zuckert University of Chicago Press

Winning Quality: a new understanding of Platonic philosophy, revealing Plato’s true ideas from the contradictory voices he used to express them

Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews (WIRE)John Wiley & SonsWinning

Quality: innovative hybrid publications that combine the most powerful features of online reference works and review journals; first e-product to win the top prize

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6 Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade By David Eltis and David RichardsonYale University PressWinning Quality: offers the fullest possible picture of the extent and inhumanity of one of the largest forced migrations in history

5 The Diffusion Handbook: Applied Solutions for EngineersBy R.K. Michael ThambynayagamMcGraw-Hill ProfessionalWinning Quality: provides over 1,000 quick-reference solutions that form the basis for professional engineers of all kind to work out solutions to practical problems humans face daily

4 Through the Eye of a NeedleBy Peter BrownPrinceton University Press

Winning Quality: the transformation of the early Christian Church is examined by the world’s foremost scholar of late antiquity

3 Alan Turing: His Work and ImpactEdited by S. Barry Cooper and Jan van LeeuwenElsevier

Winning Quality: the products of Alan Turing’s unique mind are made accessible to both specialists and general readers by this touching and learned book

2 Capital in the Twenty-First CenturyBy Thomas Piketty and Translated by Arthur Goldhammer The Belknap Press of Harvard University PressWinning Quality: timely, well-written look at income and wealth distribution that sold half a million copies in its English edition

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