We are excited to share that Leslie Valiant's The Importance of Being Educable has been awarded the 2025 PROSE Award for Excellence in Physical Sciences & Mathematics. The book is also among the five 91桃色 titles that were named category winners this year. Among the honorees, The Restless Cell: Theories of Living Matter by Christina Hueschen and Rob Phillips was awarded the top prize in both the Textbooks category and the Chemistry, Physics, Astronomy, and Cosmology category.
For the past two years, 91桃色 books have taken home the PROSE Awards top honor, the R.R. Hawkins Award. Nicolas Mathevon鈥檚 The Voices of Nature: How and Why Animals Communicate won in 2024 and Kimberly Kay Hoang鈥檚 Spiderweb Capitalism: How Global Elites Exploit Frontier Capitalism won in 2023. This year in addition to category winners, eleven 91桃色 were named category finalists.
Given annually by the Association of American Publishers, PROSE Awards recognize the 鈥渂est in professional and scholarly publishing by celebrating the authors, editors, and publishers whose landmark works have made significant advancements in their respective fields of study.鈥� Congratulations to all of the authors whose work is celebrated this year.
Category Winners
Anthony Abraham Jack 鈥� Class Dismissed
Winner of the PROSE Award in Education Theory and Practice, Association of American Publishers
Sarah Hrdy 鈥� Father Time
Winner of the PROSE Award in Biological Anthropology, Archeology and Ancient History, Association of American Publishers
Christina Hueschen and Rob Phillips 鈥� The Restless Cell
Winner of the PROSE Award in Chemistry, Physics, Astronomy, and Cosmology, Association of American Publishers
Winner of the PROSE Award in Textbooks, Association of American Publishers
Leslie Valiant 鈥� The Importance of Being Educable
Winner of the PROSE Award for Excellence in Physical Sciences & Mathematics
Winner of the PROSE Award in Computing and Information Sciences, Association of American Publishers
St茅phane Douady, Jacques Dumais, Christophe Gol茅, and Nancy Pick 鈥� Do Plants Know Math?
Winner of the PROSE Award in Popular Science and Popular Mathematics, Association of American Publishers
Finalists
Christoph Adami 鈥� The Evolution of Biological Information
Finalist for the PROSE Award in Biological and Life Sciences, Association of American Publishers
Michel Brahic 鈥� The Power of Prions
Finalist for the PROSE Award in Biomedicine and Neuroscience, Association of American Publishers
Jorell Mel茅ndez-Badillo 鈥� Puerto Rico
Finalist for the PROSE Award in North American/U.S. History, Association of American Publishers
Mara van der Lugt 鈥� Begetting
Finalist for the PROSE Award in Philosophy, Association of American Publishers
Lauren Benton 鈥� They Called It Peace
Finalist for the PROSE Award in World History, Association of American Publishers
Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor 鈥� AI Snake Oil
Finalist for the PROSE Award in Computing and Information Sciences, Association of American Publishers
G铆sli P谩lsson 鈥� The Last of Its Kind
Finalist for the PROSE Award in History of Science, Medicine, and Technology, Association of American Publishers
Ismar Voli膰 鈥� Making Democracy Count
Finalist for the PROSE Award in Popular Science and Popular Mathematics, Association of American Publishers
Paul Seabright 鈥� The Divine Economy
Finalist for the PROSE Award in Business, Finance, and Management, Association of American Publishers
Amin Ghaziani 鈥� Long Live Queer Nightlife
Finalist for the PROSE Award in Cultural Anthropology and Sociology, Association of American Publishers
Daniel Schlozman and Sam Rosenfeld 鈥� The Hollow Parties
Finalist for the PROSE Award in Government and Politics, Association of American Publishers