Recent Awards

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, $18.95 / £13.95 272 pages
ISBN: 978-0-231-13965-6

Cloth, $24.95 / £16.95 272 pages , April 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, $35.00 / £24.00 376 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, $26.50 / £18.50 320 pages
ISBN: 978-0-231-13535-1

Cloth, $48.50 / £33.50 320 pages , June 2006
ISBN: 978-0-231-13534-4

In Love and Struggle: Letters in Contemporary Feminism
Margaretta Jolly

2009 Feminist and Women's Studies Association Book Prize

Paper, $26.50 / £18.50 328 pages
ISBN: 978-0-231-13793-5

Cloth, $40.00 / £27.50 328 pages , March 2008
ISBN: 978-0-231-13792-8

Thin Places: A Pilgrimage Home
Ann Armbrecht

2009 Nautilus Award, Gold winner for Memoir / Personal Journey

Cloth, $27.50 / £19.00 296 pages , December 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, $50.00 / £34.50 296 pages , January 2008
ISBN: 978-0-231-14276-2

The Crusades, Christianity, and Islam
Jonathan Riley-Smith

Selected as Booklist Editors' Choice

Cloth, $24.50 / £17.00 136 pages , October 2008
ISBN: 978-0-231-14624-1

Dogs: Their Fossil Relatives and Evolutionary History
Xiaoming Wang and Richard H. Tedford

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

Paper, $22.95 / £15.95 232 pages
ISBN: 978-0-231-13529-0

Cloth, $29.95 / £19.95 232 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, M.D.

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, $24.95 / £16.95 328 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, $24.95 / £16.95 312 pages , July 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, $27.50 / £19.00 344 pages
ISBN: 978-0-231-12691-5

Cloth, $79.50 / £55.00 344 pages , October 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, $26.50 / £18.50 320 pages
ISBN: 978-0-231-12997-8

Cloth, $35.00 / £24.00 320 pages , May 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, $29.95 440 pages , February 2008
Wallflower Press
ISBN: 978-1-905674-61-9

The Columbia Gazetteer of the World
Edited by Saul Cohen

Choice Outstanding Academic Title

Cloth, $595.00 / £410.50 4424 pages , July 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, $28.00 256 pages
ISBN: 978-1-905674-53-4

Cloth, $85.00 256 pages , January 2008
Wallflower Press
ISBN: 978-1-905674-54-1

Secularism Confronts Islam
Olivier Roy

Choice Outstanding Academic Title

Paper, $19.95 / £13.95 144 pages
ISBN: 978-0-231-14103-1

Cloth, $25.50 / £17.50 144 pages , August 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, $75.00 / £52.00 328 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

Cloth, $39.50 / £27.50 240 pages , March 2008
ISBN: 978-0-231-14398-1

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

Choice Outstanding Academic Title

Paper, $18.95 / £12.95 272 pages
ISBN: 978-0-231-14281-6

Cloth, $24.95 / £16.95 272 pages , November 2007
ISBN: 978-0-231-14280-9

Technology in Postwar America: A History
Carroll Pursell

Choice Outstanding Academic Title

Cloth, $36.50 / £25.00 320 pages , July 2007
ISBN: 978-0-231-12304-4

Keeping Out the Other: A Critical Introduction to Immigration Enforcement Today
Edited by David C. Brotherton and Philip Kretsedemas

Choice Outstanding Academic Title

Paper, $24.50 / £17.00 432 pages , April 2008
ISBN: 978-0-231-14129-1

Cloth, $74.50 / £51.50 432 pages
ISBN: 978-0-231-14128-4

The Politics of Postsecular Religion: Mourning Secular Futures
Ananda Abeysekara

Choice Outstanding Academic Title

Cloth, $50.00 / £34.50 324 pages , May 2008
ISBN: 978-0-231-14290-8