Cambridge scoops top prizes at PROSE Awards
The American Publishers Awards for Professional and Scholarly Excellence (PROSE) has awarded one of their top prizes to a Cambridge University Press title.
The Cambridge History of Religions in America, edited by Stephen J Stein,won the Award for Excellence in Reference Works.
Cambridge was competing with seventy publishers from across the US, who submitted an unprecedented total of 518 entries of books, reference works, journals and electronic products.
The PROSE Awards have been running since 1976 and recognises ‘the best in professional and scholarly publishing, as judged by peer publishers, librarians, and academics.’
Other Cambridge titles also won first place in three other categories:
- Modern Statistical Methods for Astronomy, with R Applications by Eric D. Feigelson and G. Jogesh Babu (Cosmology & Astronomy)
- Networked Life: 20 Questions and Answers by Mung Chiang (Engineering & Technology)
- The Wars for Asia, 1911-1949 by SCM Paine (European and World History)
Honorable mentions were awarded to Cambridge titles in three further categories:
- Constantine, Divine Emperor by Jonathan Bardill (Classics and Ancient History)
- Network Information Theory by Abbas El Gamal and Young-Han Kim (Engineering and Technology)
- Classical Algebraic Geometry: A Modern View by Igor V Dolgachev (Mathematics)
For more information about these and other similar titles, please go to: www.cambridge.org/knowledge
