Awards

Dimitri Gutas was awarded the 2015 I.R. Iran World Award for the Book of the Year for Avicenna and the Aristotelian Tradition: Introduction to Reading Avicenna's Philosophical Works. Second, Revised and Enlarged Edition, Including an Inventory of Avicenna’s Authentic Works (also available in paperback) in the field of Islamic/Iranian Studies.

Anne-Sylvie Boisliveau was awarded the 2015 I.R. Iran World Award for the Book of the Year for Le Coran par lui-même: Vocabulaire et argumentation du discours coranique autoréférentiel in the field of Islamic/Iranian Studies.

Women and the Roman City in the Latin West was named a 2014 "Outstanding Academic Title" by Choice Magazine, which was announced in the January 2015 issue. 

"The present volume aims to replicate van Bremen's work for the Latin West, and does so very well. Nineteen chapters by 19 scholars from Britain, Europe, and North America focus on cities, because cities were the centers of power and money, which in turn produced the inscriptions, buildings, and literature that are the authors' sources. A special feature is the authors' extensive and effective use of epigraphy and archaeology. [...] A fundamental
work for women's history." - R. I. Frank, University of California, Irvine

Aging Gracefully in the Renaissance was named a 2014 was named a 2014 "Outstanding Academic Title" by Choice Magazine, which was announced in the January 2015 issue. 

"Skenazi shows how Renaissance authors of essays, letters, and poems portrayed aging as not only a process of physical and cognitive decay, but also a new way to relate to oneself, the other, and the world. [...] This is an important, well-documented, and eloquent study of the effects of time on the human body and mind." - C. B. Kerr, Vassar College
 

Asian Tigers, African Lions was named a 2014 "Outstanding Academic Title" by Choice Magazine, which was announced in the January 2015 issue. 

"As a one-volume, evidence-based response to why Asia has done so well and Africa so poorly, this book has no peer." - J. H. Cobbe, Florida State University
 

Hunters in Transition was named a 2014 "Outstanding Academic Title" by Choice Magazine, which was announced in the January 2015 issue. 

"Hansen and Olsen (both, Univ. of Tromsø-The Arctic Univ. of Norway) have written an important addition to the study of the northern world. They provide a concise and informative overview of Sámi history to an English-speaking audience. [...] Overall, a fascinating read that should appeal to
anyone with an interest in the Sámi or the North Atlantic during the Iron Age, up until 1750." - A. E. Leykam, College of Staten Island (CUNY)
 

Memory and Cultural History of the Spanish Civil War was named a 2014 "Outstanding Academic Title" by Choice Magazine, which was announced in the January 2015 issue. 

"This lengthy, authoritative anthology brings together major themes and international scholarship grappling with the painful, lingering impact of the Spanish Civil War (1936-39) on contemporary Spanish society and culture. [...] Each article offers a model of painstaking research within interdisciplinary historical studies of social upheaval, cultural struggle, memory, and postmemories. [...] [T]his should be an indispensable reference for students of this tragedy and its legacies." - G. W. McDonogh, Bryn Mawr College
 

An Atlas of the World's Conifers was named a 2014 "Outstanding Academic Title" by Choice Magazine, which was announced in the January 2015 issue. 

"From a global perspective to a continental focus, this atlas is a superb example of rich species information. More than a basic atlas, this volume offers rich details for each map, ranging from biogeography to site diversity to conservation status." - J. Clemons, State University of New York-ESF
 

Asian Women and Intimate Work was named a 2014 "Outstanding Academic Title" by Choice Magazine, which was announced in the January 2015 issue. 

"Asian Women and Intimate Work was recognized as [...] a formidable volume on the construction of Asian women as skillful at intimate work, and how women live within this construction. The study stands out for its elucidation of the viewpoints of Asian women engaged in intimate labor, which the contributors define and investigate in capitalist and postsocialist states. [The book is] an important addition to the scholarship." – T. L. Loos, Cornell University

An Intellectual History of China, Volume One was named a 2014 "Outstanding Academic Title" by Choice Magazine, which was announced in the January 2015 issue. 

"This is a coherent, erudite, undogmatic, thoughtful account of a vast and complex subject by a distinguished and widely read senior professor of history at Fudan, one of China's premier universities. [...] This book is [..] welcome as a rare and much-needed work of synthesis that not only reflects the current Chinese sense of their past, but provides grounds for future dialogue and research."  - C. Schirokauer, Columbia University