Award-Winning Books: General Interest
Animals at Play
Rules of the Game
32 pages
9 x 7
24 color illustrations
HC: 978-1-59213-551-6 $19.95 Sep 08
Ebook: 978-1-59213-553-0 $19.95 Sep 08
Animal Behavior Society's Outstanding Children's Book Award, 2009
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
Closure
The Rush to End Grief and What It Costs Us
228 pages
6 x 9
1 table
PB: 978-1-4399-0577-7 $27.95 Aug 11
HC: 978-1-4399-0576-0 $81.50 Aug 11
Ebook: 978-1-4399-0578-4 $27.95
Charles Horton Cooley Award for Best Book from the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction, 2013
Honorable Mention from the Sociology of Emotions section of the American Sociological Association, 2012
Critical White Studies
Looking Behind the Mirror
704 pages
7 x 10
PB: 978-1-56639-532-8 $51.95 Jun 97
Ebook: 978-1-4399-0151-9 $51.95 Jun 97
Honorable Mention for Outstanding Books Awards, Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights in North America, 1997
Death in the Dining Room and Other Tales of Victorian Culture
280 pages
8.5 x 11
192 halftones
PB: 978-1-56639-333-1 $42.95 Feb 96
HC: 978-0-87722-891-2 $49.95 Feb 92
Outstanding Academic Title, Choice, 1994
Do Right by Me
Learning to Raise Black Children in White Spaces
192 pages
5.5 x 8.25
2 color illustrations
PB: 978-1-4399-1995-8 $20.00 Nov 20
Ebook: 978-1-4399-1996-5 $20.00 Nov 20
2021 NAACP Image Award Nominee: Outstanding Literary Work - Instructional
The Eagles Encyclopedia
Champions Edition
512 pages
8.3125 x 10.875
33 color photos, 368 halftones
HC: 978-1-4399-1848-7 $40.00 Oct 18
Ray Didinger, recipient of the 2019 Stan Hochman Award
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 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
HC: 978-1-59213-527-1 $39.50 Aug 06
Second prize winner of 2006 UCF Jane Jacobs Publication Award
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
Poisoned Ivy
Lesbian and Gay Academics Confronting Homophobia
256 pages
6 x 9
PB: 978-1-56639-488-8 $32.95 Nov 96
HC: 978-1-56639-487-1 $70.50 Nov 96
Honorable Mention for Outstanding Books Awards, Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights in North America, 1997
The Red Atlantis
Communist Culture in the Absence of Communism
326 pages
5 x 9
PB: 978-1-56639-767-4 $32.95 Apr 00
HC: 978-1-56639-643-1 $84.50 Nov 98
Outstanding Academic Title, Choice, 1999
Philadelphia Book Clinic Certificate of Award, 1999
Association of American University Presses Book Jacket Award, 1999
Regarding Animals
256 pages
5.5 x 8.25
PB: 978-1-56639-441-3 $30.95 Jun 96
HC: 978-1-56639-440-6 $81.50 Jun 96
Ebook: 978-1-4399-0388-9 $30.95 Jun 96
Charles Horton Cooley Award, Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction, 1997
Rude Democracy
Civility and Incivility in American Politics
216 pages
5.5 x 8.25
4 tables
PB: 978-1-4399-0336-0 $14.95 Apr 20
HC: 978-1-4399-0335-3 $26.95 Aug 10
Ebook: 978-1-4399-0337-7 $14.95 Apr 20
Doris Graber Award, American Political Science Association, 2013
Association of American University Presses Book Jacket Award, 2011
Rude Democracy
Civility and Incivility in American Politics
226 pages
5.5 x 8.25
4 tables
PB: 978-1-4399-0336-0 $14.95 Apr 20
HC: 978-1-4399-0335-3 $26.95 Aug 10
Ebook: 978-1-4399-0337-7 $14.95 Apr 20
Awards from the previous edition:
Doris Graber Award, American Political Science Association, 2013
Association of American University Presses Book Jacket Award, 2011
The Scrapbook in American Life
344 pages
7 x 10
72 halftones
PB: 978-1-59213-478-6 $33.95 Apr 06
HC: 978-1-59213-477-9 $81.50 Apr 06
Winner of the Allen Noble Award for best edited book, 2006
The Smoke of the Gods
A Social History of Tobacco
296 pages
6 x 9
HC: 978-1-59213-480-9 $41.50 Oct 06
Ebook: 978-1-59213-482-3 $41.50
A "Best of the Best from the University Presses" program selection at the 2007 American Library Association Annual Conference
The Spirits of America
A Social History of Alcohol
344 pages
6 x 9
PB: 978-1-59213-269-0 $31.95 Aug 04
HC: 978-1-59213-214-0 $51.50 Sep 03
Ebook: 978-1-59213-769-5 $31.95
A "Best of the Best from the University Presses" program selection at the 2004 American Library Association Annual Conference
Suicide Squeeze
Taylor Hooton, Rob Garibaldi, and the Fight against Teenage Steroid Abuse
256 pages
6 x 9
1 figure, 35 halftones
HC: 978-1-4399-1438-0 $35.00 Jan 17
Ebook: 978-1-4399-1440-3 $35.00 Jan 17
Outstanding Academic Title, Choice, 2017
The Textures of Time
Agency and Temporal Experience
192 pages
6 x 9
2 tables
PB: 978-1-4399-0263-9 $29.95 Nov 10
HC: 978-1-4399-0262-2 $76.50 Nov 10
Ebook: 978-1-4399-0264-6 $29.95
Charles Horton Cooley Award for Best Book from the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction, 2012
The Trial Lawyer's Art
264 pages
6 x 9
PB: 978-1-56639-799-5 $33.95 May 00
Outstanding Academic Title, Choice, 1999
Voice Over
The Making of Black Radio
334 pages
6 x 9
21 halftones
PB: 978-1-56639-667-7 $33.95 Dec 98
HC: 978-1-56639-666-0 $63.50 Dec 98
Ebook: 978-1-4399-0688-0 $33.95
Outstanding Academic Title, Choice, 1999
The Wild Animal Story
328 pages
6 x 9
4 figs., 15 halftones
PB: 978-1-56639-918-0 $30.95 Aug 01
HC: 978-1-56639-593-9 $81.50 Apr 98
Ebook: 978-1-4399-0150-2 $30.95 Aug 01
Association of American University Presses Book Jacket Award, 1999