2008 Award-Winning Books
Another Arabesque
Syrian-Lebanese Ethnicity in Neoliberal Brazil
232 pages
6 x 9
PB: 978-1-59213-540-0 $31.95 Dec 06
HC: 978-1-59213-539-4 $81.50 Dec 06
Ebook: 978-1-59213-541-7 $31.95 Dec 06
Winner of the Roberto Reis BRASA Book Award, 2008
Arab American National Museum Book Award in the Adult Non-Fiction Category, 2007
The Coolie Speaks
Chinese Indentured Laborers and African Slaves in Cuba
336 pages
6 x 9
6 tables, 3 figures, 1 halftone
PB: 978-1-59213-582-0 $31.95 Feb 09
HC: 978-1-59213-581-3 $61.50 Feb 08
Ebook: 978-1-59213-583-7 $31.95 Feb 08
Outstanding Academic Title, Choice, 2008
Dark Days in the Newsroom
McCarthyism Aimed at the Press
216 pages
5.5 x 8.25
PB: 978-1-59213-342-0 $30.95 Jun 07
HC: 978-1-59213-341-3 $76.50 Jun 07
Ebook: 978-1-59213-343-7 $30.95
Winner of the 2008 national Tankard Book Award from the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication
Named 2008 Best Book of the Year: Adult Non-Fiction by the Connecticut Press Club
Drug Smugglers on Drug Smuggling
Lessons from the Inside
224 pages
5.5 x 8.25
13 tables 2 halftones
PB: 978-1-59213-643-8 $28.95 Jan 08
HC: 978-1-59213-642-1 $76.50 Jan 08
Ebook: 978-1-59213-644-5 $28.95
Outstanding Academic Title, Choice, 2008
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)
Hapa Girl
A Memoir
232 pages
5.5 x 8.25
12 halftones
PB: 978-1-59213-616-2 $26.95 Oct 08
HC: 978-1-59213-615-5 $66.50 Mar 07
Ebook: 978-1-59213-617-9 $26.95 Mar 07
Named one of the Notable Books in the Kiriyama Prize, 2008
Honorable Mention at the Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Awards, 2007
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
Messiahs of 1933
How American Yiddish Theatre Survived Adversity through Satire
304 pages
6 x 9
10 figs., 15 halftones
HC: 978-1-59213-872-2 $51.50 Apr 08
Ebook: 978-1-59213-874-6 $51.50 Apr 08
Outstanding Academic Title, Choice, 2008
Model City Blues
Urban Space and Organized Resistance in New Haven
296 pages
6 x 9
1 tables, 5 figs., 45 halftones
PB: 978-1-59213-604-9 $31.95 Apr 08
HC: 978-1-59213-603-2 $81.50 Apr 08
Ebook: 978-1-59213-605-6 $31.95 Apr 08
Urban Communication Foundation Jane Jacobs Urban Communication Publication Award, 2008
Savoring the Salt
The Legacy of Toni Cade Bambara
320 pages
6 x 9
16 halftones
PB: 978-1-59213-625-4 $31.95 Nov 07
HC: 978-1-59213-624-7 $86.50 Nov 07
Ebook: 978-1-59213-626-1 $31.95 Nov 07
Selected as “‘The Best of the Best’ from the University Presses” Books You Should Know About” for the ALA Annual Conference, 2008
Silent Gesture
The Autobiography of Tommie Smith
288 pages
6 x 9
16 halftones
PB: 978-1-59213-640-7 $27.95 Apr 08
HC: 978-1-59213-639-1 $71.50 Jan 07
Ebook: 978-1-59213-641-4 $27.95 Jan 07
Author Tommie Smith received the Arthur Ashe Courage Award at the ESPYs, 2008
Named one of two “Adult Nonfiction Honor Books” by The Black Caucus of the American Library Association (BCALA)., 2008
Nominated for an NAACP Image Award in the category “Outstanding Literary Work – Biography/Autobiography”, 2008
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