Awards & Recognition
91ÌÒÉ« books have won numerous awards, including seven Pulitzer Prizes, five Bancroft Prizes, three National Book Awards, and hundreds of major awards from academic organizations. Dozens of Press authors have been awarded the most prestigious academic prizes in the world, including the Nobel Prize in economics, physics, chemistry, medicine, and literature, the Fields Medal, the Holberg Prize, and the Cundill Prize. Every year, 91ÌÒÉ« books are named among the year’s best reads by publications around the world.
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Nobel Prize–Winning Authors
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Winner of the Research Prize, Asociación Internacional de Historia y Civilización de la Vid y el Vino
Honorable Mention for the Award for Best Professional/Scholarly Book in Geology and Earth Sciences Professional/Scholarly Award, Association of American Publishers

One of CHOICE’s Outstanding Academic Titles for 2017
Winner of the 2018 Nancy Lapp Popular Book Award, American Schools of Oriental Research

Winner of the 2016 Gregory Bateson Prize, The Society for Cultural Anthropology
Finalist for the 2016 Northern California Book Awards in General Nonfiction, Northern California Book Reviewers
One of Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Books of 2015 in Business and Economics
One of Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Books of 2015 in Science
One of Flavorwire’s 10 Best Books by Academic Publishers in 2015
One of Times Higher Education’s Best Books of 2015

Honorable Mention for the 2015 Delmos Jones and Jagna Scharff Memorial Book Award, Society for the Anthropology of North America