Prose Awards 2020

Sono stati annunciati i finalisti dell’edizione 2020 dei Prose Awards

Di seguito, l’elenco dei titoli finalisti pubblicati dagli editori che Reiser rappresenta in Italia. 

 

Anthropology, Criminology, and Sociology

Making Motherhood Work: How Women Manage Careers and Caregiving by Caitlyn Collins (PUP)

Remaking a Life: How Women Living with HIV/AIDS Confront Inequality by Celeste Watkins-Hayes (University of California Press)

Reproductive Injustice: Racism, Pregnancy, and Premature Birth by Dána-Ain Davis (New York University Press)

 

Archeology & Ancient History 

Escape from Rome: The Failure of Empire and the Road to Prosperity by Walter Scheidel (PUP)

 

Architecture & Urban Planning 

Brooklyn: The Once and Future City by Thomas J. Campanella (PUP)

 

Art Exhibitions

Caravans of Gold, Fragments in Time: Art, Culture, and Exchange across Medieval Saharan Africa by Kathleen Bickford Berzock (PUP)

 

Art History & Criticism

Gyorgy Kepes. Undreaming the Bauhaus by John R. Blakinger (MIT Press)

 

Biography & Autobiography

Chaucer: A European Life by Marion Turner (PUP)

 

Biological Science 

Ocean Outbreak: Confronting the Rising Tide of Marine Disease by Drew Harvell (University of California Press)

 

Business, Management & Finance 

The 360° Corporation: From Stakeholder Trade-offs to Transformation by Sarah Kaplan (Stanford University Press)

 

Classics

Herodotus and the Question Why by Christopher Pelling (University of Texas Press)

 

Computing & Information Sciences 

The Information Manifold: Why Computers Can't Solve Algorithmic Bias and Fake News by Antonio Badia (MIT Press)

The Joy of Search: A Google Insider's Guide to Going Beyond the Basics by Daniel M. Russell (MIT Press)

 

Cosmology & Astronomy 

More Things in the Heavens by Michael Werner & Peter Eisenhardt

 

Government Policy and Politics 

Dying for Rights: Putting North Korea’s Human Rights Abuses on the Record by Sandra Fahy (Columbia University Press)

 

History of Science, Medicine, and Technology

No Shadow of a Doubt by Daniel Kennefick (PUP). One of BBC Sky at Night Magazine's Best Astronomy and Space Books of 2019. One of Nature's Top Ten Books of 2019

The Slow Moon Climbs by Susan Mattern (PUP)

 

Music & the Performing Arts

Decomposed. The Political Ecology of Music by Kyle Devine (MIT Press)

 

Legal Studies

The Cult of the Constitution by Mary Anne Franks (Stanford University Press)

 

Mathematics

99 Variations on a Proof by Philip Ording (PUP) Japanese (Morikita Publishing) and German (Carl Hanser Verlag) rights licensed.

 

Philosophy

Artificial You by Susan Schneider (PUP). Turkish (Can Yayinlari) and Chinese Simplified (Hunan Science & Technology Press) rights licensed. 

The Scientific Attitude Defending Science from Denial, Fraud, and Pseudoscience by Lee McIntyre (MIT Press)

 

Popular Science & Popular Mathematics 

Quantum Strangeness: Wrestling with Bell's Theorem and the Ultimate Nature of Reality by George S. Greenstein (MIT Press)

Thermodynamic Weirdness: From Fahrenheit to Clausius  By Don S. Lemons (MIT Press)

 

Single Volume Reference 

The Solitary Bees: Biology, Evolution, Conservation by Bryan N. Danforth, Robert L. Minckley, John L. Neff, and Frances Fawcett (PUP)

 

Textbook

On the Brink of Paradox: Highlights from the Intersection of Philosophy and Mathematics by Agustín Rayo (MIT Press)

Urban Engineering for Sustainability by Sybil Derrible (MIT Press)

 

World History 

A World Divided: The Global Struggle for Human Rights in the Age of Nation-States by Eric D. Weitz (PUP)

Growth: From Microorganisms to Megacities by Vaclav Smil (MIT Press)