For Immediate Release

February 9, 2005

Contact: Barbara Meredith
Ph: 212/255-0200 ext.223
Email: bmeredith@publishers.org

Association of American Publishers Honors Outstanding Achievements in Professional and Scholarly Publishing

Continuing a 29-Year Tradition of Honoring Excellence in Professional and Scholarly Publishing

The Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division (PSP) of the Association of American Publishers (AAP) today announced that Huck's Raft: A History of American Childhood by Steven Mintz, published by Belknap of the Harvard University Press, has been chosen to receive the R.R. Hawkins Award for the Outstanding Professional, Reference or Scholarly Work of 2004. The award will be presented on Tuesday, February 8th at a special awards luncheon during the PSP Annual Conference in Washington, DC. In addition to the Hawkins Award, which is named for the former head of the Science and Technology Division of the New York Public Library, awards will be presented in over 25 categories for outstanding books, journals, and electronic products covering a wide range of academic disciplines. Noting that promoting and encouraging the dissemination of scholarship is one of AAP's primary missions, AAP President and CEO Pat Schroeder extended the Association's congratulations to Steven Mintz, Belknap, and all of the award recipients. Being recognized for excellence is always an honor, Mrs. Schroeder said, but when that recognition comes from your peers the honor is truly significant. The award winners in each category were selected for their unique contribution to scholarly publishing and are considered by our panel of judges to be the best of the best for 2004. The award winners were chosen by an eight-member expert panel consisting of librarians, academics, and working publishers who are themselves former academics. Information on the Hawkins Award winner and a complete list of the winners in all of the categories is attached. Please visit http://www.pspcentral.org/ for more information about PSP awards. 2004 R.R. Hawkins Award Winner Steven Mintz's Huck's Raft, the first comprehensive history of American childhood, places children at the center of the events that shaped our past. Colonization, the American Revolution, slavery, the Civil War, westward migration, the Industrial Revolution, foreign immigration, the Great Depression, two world wars, and the Civil Rights movement take on fresh meaning when viewed through the voices and experiences of children. No previous scholarly volume has examined the diverse facets of children's lives across the entire expanse of American history. Here, readers can discover how childrearing, children's health, schooling, play, toys, and literature, changed over time. Children's experiences in orphanages, reform schools, and factories, fields, and mines come to life in the book's pages. Huck's Raft is distinctive in its sustained discussion of the diversity of children's experience by class, gender, race, and region; its analysis of the shifting pathways to adulthood; and its emphasis on children's agency. Huck's Raft demonstrates that throughout American history children have been active agents who have served as a cultural avant-garde that has repeatedly transformed American values. Drawing on a wealth of letters, diaries, and other first-hand accounts, Huck's Raft provides essential historical perspective on topics that have absorbed public attention: Whether children's well-being is declining; whether television and consumer culture have stunted children's imagination; and whether children are growing up faster than in the past. The volume corrects nostalgia-laden images of childhood past, and lays bare the ways that American childhood has changed--for better and worse--over the past four centuries. About the AAP PSP Awards The PSP Awards are given annually by AAP's Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division to acknowledge excellence in book, journal, and electronic publishing in all the disciplines represented by professional, scholarly and reference publishing. The awards are open only to members of the AAP / PSP Division. A complete list of recipients, including honorable mentions, can be found on the AAP PSP website at www.pspcentral.org. For additional information on the PSP Awards Program please contact Barbara Meredith at 212-255-0200 ext 223 or Sarah Williams at 212-255-0200 ext 226. 2004 AAP PSP AWARDS WINNERS R. R. Hawkins Award Title: Huck’s Raft: A History of American Childhood By: Steven Mintz Publisher: Belknap of the Harvard University Press Architecture & Urban Planning Title: Color in Three-Dimensional Design By: Jeanne Kopacz Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional Honorable Mention: Hagia Sophia, 1850-1950: Holy Wisdom Modern Monument University of Chicago Press. By: Robert S. Nelson Arts Title: Christopher Wilmarth: Light and Gravity By: Steven Henry Madoff Publisher: Princeton University Press Honorable Mention: Cezanne in the Studio Getty Publications. By: Carol Armstrong and Deborah Gribbon Biography & Autobiography Title: The Heretic in Darwin's Court: The Life of Alfred Russel Wallace By: Ross A. Slotten Publisher: Columbia University Press Biological Science Title: Sea Turtles: A Complete Guide to their Biology, Behavior, and Conservation By: James R. Spotila Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press Honorable Mention: Assembling the Tree of Life Oxford University Press. By Joel Cracraft and Michael J. Donoghue Business, Management & Accounting Title: Strategic Investment: Real Options and Games By: Han T.J. Smit and Lenos Trigeorgis Publisher: Princeton University Press Honorable Mention: Applied Mergers and Acquisitions John Wiley and Sons, Inc. By Robert F. Bruner and Joseph R. Perella Chemistry NO WINNER Classics and Archeology Title: The Propylaia to the Athenian Akropolis II: The Classical Building By: William B. Dinsmoor and William B. Dinsmoor Jr., Edited by Anastasia Norre Dinsmoor Publisher: American School of Classical Studies at Athens Honorable Mention: Late Roman Spain and Its Cities Johns Hopkins University Press. By: Michael Kulikowski Clinical Medicine Title: Inborn Errors of Development: The Molecular Basis of Clinical Disorders of Morphogenesis By: Charles J. Epstein, Robert P. Erickson, and Anthony Wynshaw-Boris Publisher: Oxford University Press Honorable Mention: Textbook of Arthroscopy Elsevier. By: Mark D. Miller and Brian D. Cole Computer and Information Science Title: The Success of Open Source By: Steven Weber Publisher: Harvard University Press Honorable Mention: Physically Based Rendering: From Theory to Implementation Elsevier. By: Matt Pharr and Greg Humphreys Economics Title: The Coming Generational Storm: What You Need to Know about America's Economic Future By: Laurence J. Kotlikoff and Scott Burns Publisher: The MIT Press Honorable Mention: Growing Public: Social Spending and Economic Growth since the Eighteenth Century Cambridge University Press. By: Peter H. Lindhert Engineering Title: Handbook of Industrial Mixing: Science and Practice By: Edward L. Paul, Victor A. Atiemo-Obeng, and Suzanne M. Kresta Publisher: John Wiley and Sons, Inc. Geology & Earth Science Title: Nature: An Economic History By: Geerat J. Vermeij Publisher: Princeton University Press Honorable Mention: Beyond the Stony Mountains: Nature in the American West from Lewis and Clark to Today Oxford University Press. By: Daniel B. Botkin Government & Political Science Title: Bare Branches: The Security Implications of Asia’s Surplus Male Population By: Valerie M. Hudson and Andrea M. den Boer Publisher: The MIT Press Honorable Mention: A New World Order Princeton University Press. By: Anne- Marie Slaughter History Title: Landon Carter's Uneasy Kingdom: Revolution and Rebellion on a Virginia Plantation By: Rhys Isaac Publisher: Oxford University Press History of Science Title: Bicycle: The History By: David V. Herlihy Publisher: Yale University Press Honorable Mention: Conserving the Enlightenment: French Military Engineering from Vauban to the Revolution The MIT Press. By: Janis Langins Law Title: Hiding from Humanity: Disgust, Shame, and the Law By: Martha C. Nussbaum Publisher: Princeton University Press Honorable Mention: 100 Americans Making Constitutional History: A Biographical History CQ Press. By: Melvin I. Urofsky Literature and Language NO WINNER Mathematics and Statistics NO WINNER Medical Science Title: Strong Medicine: Creating Incentives for Pharmaceutical Research on Neglected Diseases By: Michael Kremer and Rachel Glennerster Publisher: Princeton University Press Honorable Mention: Vaccines: Preventing Disease and Protecting Health Pan American Health Organization. By: Ciro de Quadros Multi-Volume Reference / Humanities Title: The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography By: H.C.G. Matthew and Brian Harrison Publisher: Oxford University Press Multi-Volume Reference / Sciences Title: The Internet Encyclopedia By: Hossein Bidgoli Publisher: John Wiley and Sons, Inc. Philosophy Title: The Reasons of Love By: Harry G. Frankfurt Publisher: Princeton University Press Physics and Astronomy Title: Uncorked: The Science of Champagne By: Gérard Liger-Belair Publisher: Princeton University Press Psychology Title: Dr. Dolittle's Delusion: Animals and the Uniqueness of Human Language By: Stephen R. Anderson Publisher: Yale University Press Honorable Mention: On Apology - Oxford University Press. By: Aaron Lazarre Religion Title: The Jewish Century By: Yuri Slezkine Publisher: Princeton University Press Honorable Mention: American Judaism: A History Yale University Press. By: Jonathan D. Sarna Single Volume Reference / Humanities Title: The Encyclopedia of Chicago By: James R. Grossman, Ann Durkin Keating, and Janice L. Reiff Publisher: University of Chicago Press. Single Volume Reference / Sciences Title: The Black Flies (Simuliidae) of North America By: Peter H. Adler, Douglas C. Currie, and D. Monty Wood Publisher: Cornell University Press Honorable Mention: Flowering Plants of the Neotropics Princeton University Press. By: Nathan Smith, Scott A. Mori, Andrew Henderson, Dennis Wm. Stevenson, and Scott V. Heald Honorable Mention: Dictionary of Engineering Materials John Wiley and Sons, Inc. By: Harald Keller and Uwe Erb Sociology & Anthropology Title: The Human Fossil Record: Volume Three, Brain Endocasts - The Paleoneurological Evidence By: Ralph L. Halloway, Douglas C. Broadfield, and Michael S. Yuan Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Honorable Mention: Appalachian Folkways Johns Hopkins University Press. By: John B. Rehder Best New Journal (Any Category) Title: Collections: A Journal for Museum and Archives Professionals By: Hugh Genoways Publisher: Alta Mira Press Honorable Mention: IEEE Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics IEEE/ACM. By: IEEE Please visit the Professional Scholarly Publishing website at http://www.pspcentral.org/

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