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1. Elephant-Shaped Hole In her book Postcolonialism and Science Fiction, science fiction scholar Jessica Langer recounts a conversation she had with SF writer Nalo Hopkinson in 2005, in which they [...]

The book trade magazine the Bookseller last week revealed its shortlist for a literary prize that matters: the Diagram prize for oddest book title of the year. Will the winner [...]

Each year, the Skipping Stones Honor Awards recognize outstanding multicultural, international, and nature awareness books, and teaching resources. In 2020, we recommended 33 books and teaching resources to our readers. [...]

In 2013, the Goldsmiths prize was established 'to celebrate the qualities of creative daring associated with the College'--not that the prize's website, which we're quoting here, says who is doing [...]

This simple headstone in the obscure cemetery of a small eastern Ontario village echoes the poignancy of America's most dramatic exodus. These United Empire Loyalists who fled into the night [...]

2015 Forsey Winners Jeremy Milloy, ''If You Want Blood': Violence at Work in the North American Auto Industry, 1960-1980,' Ph.D. dissertation, Simon Fraser University, 2015. Thomas McGrath, 'The Hillcrest Mine [...]

The books and essays on Western history which were awarded prizes by the Western History Association in 1995 are scholarly, readable and innovative. They testify to the vitality of western history as an academic field. Some of the prize-winning books and essays are Donald Pisani's 'Squatter Law in California: 1850-1856,' Peter Reich's 'Mission Revival Jurisprudence: State Courts and Hispanic Water Law Since 1850,' Alexandra Harmon's 'Lines in Sand: Shifting Boundaries Between Indians and Non-Indians in the Puget Sound Region,' and 'The Oxford History of the American West.'

NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR THE SOCIAL STUDIES is pleased to celebrate the thirtieth anniversary of the Carter G. Woodson Book Awards. This award, established in 1973 by an NCSS committee on [...]

Dr. Carter G. Woodson, an important African-American historian, scholar, and activist, is often acclaimed as the 'Father of Negro History' and is credited with establishing Negro History Week in 1926 [...]

At the January 2018 AMS Annual Meeting in Austin, the Atmospheric Science Librarians International (ASLI) announced their ASLI Choice winners for 2017. The awards, now in their 13th year, are [...]

The judges' decision to shortlist 15 entries and have joint placings for runners-up, speaks of the high standard of books submitted for the 1995 Katherine Briggs Award. While the nominations for the second runners-up were valuable referential and interpretative works on folklore, the first runners-up nominations pointed to the continuing popularity of British studies such as Robin Hood. Timothy Mitchell's 'Flamenco Deep Song' won the 1995 Katherine Briggs Award for its analysis of flamenco folksongs and performance.

A major new book by Patsy Healey, professor emeritus at Newcastle University's school of architecture, planning and landscape, has been published by Palgrave Macmillan. Making Better Places - The Planning [...]

"Wooden Beams and Railroad Ties: the History of Oregon's Built Environment," a narrative of the Oregon Historical Society's online Oregon History Project and a series of workshops for teachers and […]

2000 Carter G. Woodson Book Award Winners and Honor Books National Council for the Social Studies is pleased to celebrate the 2000 Carter G. Woodson Book Awards. In this, the [...]

The 2001 Selection of Recent Titles RUSA CODES Reference Sources Committee The 2001 list of Outstanding Reference Sources for small and medium-sized libraries has been announced by the Reference and [...]

RUSA Notable Books Council This list has been compiled for use by the general reader and by librarians who work with adults. The titles have been selected by the Notable [...]

LOUISVILLE, KY. Educators Derek Bok and Dr. William G. Bowen will receive the 2001 Grawemeyer Award in Education for their book on race-sensitive admissions policies, the University of Louisville announced [...]

The Warren E. Miller Prize, awarded every two or three years for an outstanding career of intellectual accomplishment and service to the profession in the elections, public opinion, and voting [...]

Robert S. Ehlers's Targeting the Third Reich, Air Intelligence and the Allied Bombing Campaigns won the Foundation's Best Air Power History Book award for 2010. The award is given annually [...]

A three-member panel of judges chose as Best Air Power History Book for 2008 Donald Caldwell's and Richard Muller's The Luftwaffe Over Germany. The award is given annually after carefully [...]

A project of the International Reading Association The Teachers' Choices logo that Chris Van Allsburg created (see above) illuminates the idea that good books reach out and tap us on [...]

National Council for the Social Studies has sponsored the Carter G. Woodson Book Awards for more than 30 years. The idea evolved out of the Committee on Racism and Social [...]

Miscellaneous Notes. Winter 2003-04 ZACHARIS AWARD Ploughshares is pleased to present Maile Meloy with the thirteenth annual John C. Zacharis First Book Award for her collection of stories, Half in [...]

The Katharine Briggs Folklore Award for 2001 was announced on 6 November at University College London by outgoing Folklore Society President, Professor W. F. H. Nicolaisen, following a lecture by [...]

The Wallace Collection Catalogues: Gold Boxes Charles Truman Paul Holberton Publishing, 100 £ ISBN 9780900785948 Collected by Sir Richard Wallace and his father, the 4th Marquess of Hertford, the 99 [...]

Dr. Michael E. Stevenson, editor of the Journal of Failure Analysis and Prevention (JFAP), announced that the JFAP Volume 11 Best Paper is 'Failure Analysis and Prevention of Fires and [...]

A book collector located and reviewed a previously unvisited bookshop in London, where a neglected work by a foreign author was found. The book collector passed 'The Brook' over Kew Bridge. The historical background of the anti-Semitic pamphlet 'Bagatelles pour un massacre' is presented, along with books that won the Kate Adie Award for the most unoriginal title in 2010.

Legacy: Treasures of Black History is the recipient of the Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference's Arline Custer Award for the best book of 2007. Edited by Dr. Thomas C. Battle, director [...]

The Museum of the Confederacy is pleased to announce the winners of its thirty-seventh annual literary awards competition. The recipient of the 2006 Jefferson Davis Award is Eric H. Walther, [...]

The Best Article A team of three judges has selected Lt. Col. John Plating's 'Cannon, Egg, Charlie and Baker: Airlift Links between World War II and the Chinese Civil War' [...]

The Frederick W. Lanchester Prize for 2006 was awarded to Paul Glasserman for his book, 'Monte Carlo Methods in Financial Engineering' (Springer, New York, 2004). Committee Chair John Birge presented […]

The 2005 West Australia Premier's Book Award, and the 2005 West Australia Premier's History Award were awarded to Cleared Out: First contact in the Western Desert (2005, ISBN 0 85575 [...]

Larry Chambers' (University of Utah) book, Recondo, has been named editor's choice by the Military Book Club. Chambers served as a 'Lurp' in the 101st Airborne, earning two Bronze Stars, [...]

Sinews of Survival: The Living Legacy of Inuit Clothing, by Canadian ethnologist and AINA member Betty Kobayashi Issenman, was selected as one of the ten best anthropological books of all [...]

Marlin Shipman University of Missouri Press, Columbia, Mo. When Arkansas resumed executions for the first time in more than 20 years, journalism educator Marlin Shipman was captivated by the immense [...]

Ten adult books that will appeal to teen readers have been selected to receive the Alex Awards. The books were selected by the Adult Books for Young Adults Task Force, [...]

Many book prizes encourage academic writers to make their books accessible to the general public. The newest prize is the British Academy Book Prize, which is for humanities and social science writers. Its first awards went to Rees Davies for 'The First English Empire' and Ian Kershaw for 'Nemesis.'

The Cold War and Soviet Insecurity: The Stalin Years. By Vojtech Mastny. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996. Pp. 285. $50.00.) Professor Vojtech Mastny of the Institute for Advanced Studies in [...]

Private Wealth and Public Life: Foundation Philanthropy and the Reshaping of American Social Life. By Judith Sealander. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997. Pp. 349. $39.95.) The Ohio Academy of [...]

History in Three Keys: The Boxers as Event, Experience, and Myth. By Paul A. Cohen. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1997. Pp. 428. $34.50.) The American Historical Association awarded the [...]