Award-Winning Books: Philadelphia Region
Boathouse Row
Waves of Change in the Birthplace of American Rowing
288 pages
10 x 8
63 color photos, 3 line drawings, 110 halftones
HC: 978-1-4399-1282-9 $35.00 Oct 16
The Preservation Alliance for Greater Philadelphia 2018 Preservation Education Award
Dr. Radway's Sarsaparilla Resolvent
198 pages
5.5 x 8.5
PB: 978-0-9840429-6-8 $15.95 Apr 13
Parrott Library Award from the St. Albans School Library, 2014
Kirkus Reviews' Best in Children's Books, 2013
Forklore
Recipes and Tales from an American Bistro
288 pages
8 x 9.25
115 color illustrations
HC: 978-1-59213-651-3 $51.50 Oct 07
Ebook: 978-1-59213-653-7 $51.50 Oct 07
Winner of a Pewter award in the Gold Ink Awards in the cookbook category, 2008
Winner of the Gold ADDY Award — Publication Design — Cover, 2008
Winner of the Silver ADDY Award — Publication Design — Editorial Spread or Feature, 2008
A Guide to the Great Gardens of the Philadelphia Region
192 pages
5.375 x 9.125
195 color photos, 1 map
PB: 978-1-59213-510-3 $26.95 Feb 07
Ebook: 978-1-59213-511-0 $26.95 Feb 07
Received a Gold Award of Achievement for best book in the Garden Writers Association Media Awards Program, 2008
Received a Gold Award of Achievement for best photography (overall) in the Garden Writers Association Media Awards Program, 2008
Silver Award of Achievement for book photography in the Garden Writers Association Media Awards Program, 2008 (awarded to Rob Cardillo)
I Walked with Giants
The Autobiography of Jimmy Heath
344 pages
6 x 9
35 halftones
HC: 978-1-4399-0198-4 $39.50 Jan 10
Ebook: 978-1-4399-0200-4 $39.50
Best Book of the Year from the Jazz Journalists Association, 2011
A is for Art Museum
64 pages
8.25 x 8.25
145 tables, 37 color illustrations
HC: 978-1-59213-963-7 $18.95 Sep 08
Honorable mention in the AAM (American Association of Museums) design competition
More Philadelphia Murals and the Stories They Tell
160 pages
9 x 11
114 color illustrations
PB: 978-1-59213-528-8 $
HC: 978-1-59213-527-1 $39.50 Aug 06
Ebook: 978-1-59213-529-5 $
Second prize winner of 2006 UCF Jane Jacobs Publication Award
The Philadelphia Area Weather Book
264 pages
8.375 x 10
16 color illustrations, 36 tables, 36 figs., 159 halftones, 64 maps
PB: 978-1-59213-391-8 $27.95 Feb 05
HC: 978-1-56639-956-2 $51.50 May 02
Winner of the Louis J. Battan Author's Award from The American Meteorological Society, 2005
Philadelphia Murals and the Stories They Tell
160 pages
9 x 11
HC: 978-1-56639-951-7 $39.50 Nov 02
Athenæum of Philadelphia’s Literary Award, 2004
The Philadelphia Orchestra
A Century of Music
256 pages
9 x 12
241 duotones
HC: 978-1-56639-712-4 $102.50 Nov 99
Philadelphia Book Clinic Certificate of Award, 2000
Rave Culture
The Alteration and Decline of a Philadelphia Music Scene
240 pages
6 x 9
8 tables, 2 figs., 9 halftones
PB: 978-1-59213-934-7 $30.95 Jun 09
HC: 978-1-59213-933-0 $86.50 Jun 09
Ebook: 978-1-59213-935-4 $30.95
Charles Horten Cooley Award, 2010
Rebuilding the News
Metropolitan Journalism in the Digital Age
236 pages
6 x 9
1 tables, 2 figs., 16 halftones
PB: 978-1-4399-0934-8 $29.95 Jan 13
HC: 978-1-4399-0933-1 $86.50 Jan 13
Ebook: 978-1-4399-0935-5 $29.95
International Communications Association Journalism Studies Division Book Award, 2017
St. Peter's Church
Faith in Action for 250 Years
272 pages
8 x 10
125 color illustrations
HC: 978-1-4399-0795-5 $41.50 Oct 11
Ebook: 978-1-4399-0797-9 $41.50
Laurence D. Fish Award for Outstanding Parish History from the National Episcopal Historians and Archivists, 2014
Whisper Not
The Autobiography of Benny Golson
352 pages
6 x 9
33 halftones
HC: 978-1-4399-1333-8 $39.50 May 16
Ebook: 978-1-4399-1335-2 $39.50 May 16
Association for Recorded Sound Collections' award for Best History Book in the category of Best Historical Research in Recorded Jazz, 2017
One of the Best Jazz books of 2017 by New York City Jazz Record
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