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Eight Cambridge books win PROSE awards
Cambridge University Press titles have come top in eight categories in the Association of American Publishers Awards for Professional and Scholarly Excellence (PROSE), which honour scholarly works published in the last year.
The 47th annual PROSE awards recognise the excellence of Cambridge titles in a diverse range of subjects: from infertility to renaissance art history; from cosmology to critical race judgements.
With eight award-winning titles, Cambridge is joint top for category winners this year. An additional six Cambridge titles were also chosen as finalists. Find out more about our winners and finalists below.
Ben Denne, Director of Publishing, Academic Books, said: "Congratulations to our authors and editors for producing outstanding, award-winning work.
"This year, we built on our excellent history at the PROSE awards with another strong showing, tying for the most category winners among all publishers and sweeping the category of Mathematics and Statistics."
Our eight PROSE award-winners are:
A potential crisis in human fertility is brewing. As societies become more affluent, they experience changes that have a dramatic impact on reproduction. This book will address, in a unique and multi-faceted way, how the consequences of modern life affects fertility, so that we can consider behavioural, social, medical and environmental changes which could reduce the severity of what is about to come.
The frescoes of Peruzzi, Raphael and Sodoma still dazzle visitors to the Villa Farnesina, but they survive in a stripped-down environment bereft of its landscape. Turner takes you outside that box, restoring these canonical images to their original context, when each element joined in a productive conversation.
How should articulations of blackness from the fifth century BCE to twenty-first century be properly read and interpreted? This important and timely book is the first concerted treatment of black skin colour in the Greek literature and visual culture of antiquity.
In Egypt during the first centuries CE, men and women would meet discreetly in their homes, in temple sanctuaries, or insolitary places to learn a powerful practice of spiritual liberation. While many of their writings are lost, those that survived have been interpreted primarily as philosophical treatises about theological topics. Hanegraaff challenges this dominate narrative by demonstrating that Hermetic literature was concerned with experiential practices intended for healing the soul from mental delusion.
By re-writing US Supreme Court opinions that implicate critical dimensions of racial justice, Critical Race Judgements demonstrates that it's possible to be judge and a critical race theorist. This work is essential for everyone who needs to understand why critical race theory must be deployed in constitutional law to uphold and advance racial justice principles that are foundational to US democracy.
This magisterial new history elucidates a momentous transformation process that changed the world; the struggle to create, for the first time, a modern Atlantic order in the long twentieth century (1860-2020). In a broader perspective, this ground-breaking study shows what a decisive impact this epochal struggle has had not only for modern conceptions of peace, collective security and an integrative, rule-based international order but also for formative ideas of self-determination, liberal-democrative government and the West.
The author - a leading theoretical cosmologist - expands on his widely acclaimed lecture notes in this self-contained textbook, suitable for the advanced undergraduate or starting graduate level. Presenting the key theoretical foundations of cosmology and describing the observations that have turned the subject into a precision science, the author keeps the student in mind on every page by explaining concepts step-by-step, in an approachable manner.
The language of infinity categories provides an insightful new way of expressing many results in higher dimensional mathematics but can be challenging for the uninitiated. Equipped with exercises and appendices with background material, this first introduction is meant for students and researchers who have a strong foundation in classical 1-category theory.
Six PROSE finalists:
In addition to eight winners, the Association of American Publishers also recognised the following six Cambridge books as finalists in the 2023 PROSE awards:
- A Logical Foundation for Potentialist Set Theory, by Sharon Berry (Philosophy category)
- Mathematical Methods and Physical Insights: An Integrated Approach, by Alec J. Schramm (Chemistry, Physics, Astronomy, and Cosmology category)
- The Changing Flow of Energy Through the Climate System, by Kevin E. Trenberth (Environmental Science category)
- Statistical Hypothesis Testing in Context: Reproducibility, Inference, and Science, by Michael P. Fay & Erica H. Brittain (Mathematics and Statistics category)
- What is a Quantum Field Theory?, by Michel Talagrand (Mathematics and Statistics category)
- Administratively Adrift: Overcoming Institutional Barriers for College Student Success, by Scott A. Bass (Education Theory and Practice category)
You can browse the full range of our scholarly titles by visiting cambridge.org/academic
