Stephanie Feuer wins 2018 MIT Press Pitchfest at the Boston Book Festival
October 29, 2018
MIT Press Pitchfest winner Stephanie Feuer describes her winning project on scent and human sensibilities.
Category: Awards
Tiago Saraiva awarded 2017 Pfizer Prize
November 14, 2017
We are thrilled to announce that this year’s Pfizer Prize, sponsored by the History of Science Society (HSS), was awarded to Tiago Saraiva for his recent book Fascist Pigs: Technoscientific Organisms and the History of Fascism.
Engaging the Everyday wins first annual Clay Morgan Award for the Best Book in Environmental Political Theory
September 13, 2017
We’re very pleased to announce that John Meyer’s Engaging the Everyday is the recipient of the first annual Clay Morgan Award for the Best Book in Environmental Political Theory, sponsored by the Western Political Science Association (WPSA).
Building Old Cambridge selected as Julia Ward Howe Award finalist
August 1, 2017
We’re pleased to announce that Building Old Cambridge by Susan Maycock and Charles Sullivan was selected as a finalist in the 20th Annual Julia Ward Howe Award competition, sponsored by the Boston Authors Club (BAC).
Environmentalism of the Rich wins the Michael Harrington Book Award 2017
July 13, 2017
We’re pleased to announce that Environmentalism of the Rich by Peter Dauvergne recently received the Michael Harrington Book Award, sponsored by the New Political Science section of the American Political Science Association (APSA).
The Power of Resilience wins strategy+business Best Business Book of the Year 2016
July 10, 2017
We are pleased to announce that The Power of Resilience, by MIT Professor Yossi Sheffi, was just named one of strategy+business’s Best Business Books of 2016! The book was one of three winners in the “Strategy” category, under the theme “Planning for Unpredictability.” The book has also been named by the company as a “Top Shelf Pick.”
Reclaiming the Atmospheric Commons wins 2017 Lynton Keith Caldwell Prize
June 12, 2017
We are happy to start this week off with more good news! Leigh Raymond’s Reclaiming the Atmospheric Commons has won the Lynton Keith Caldwell Prize.
Off-Track and Online receives Honorable Mention
June 8, 2017
We are pleased to announce that Holly Kruse, author of Off-Track and Online, has received an honourable mention in the Nancy Baym Book Award competition, sponsored by the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR).
Reiko Tomii wins the Robert Motherwell Book Award
May 31, 2017
We are thrilled to announce that Reiko Tomii’s Radicalism in the Wilderness has been selected for the 2017 Robert Motherwell Book Award, sponsored by the Dedalus Foundation.
Shannon Bell receives gold medal in Nautilus Book Awards
May 3, 2017
We are pleased to announce that Shannon Bell, author of Fighting King Coal, recently won a Gold medal in the “Journalism and Investigative Reporting” category from the Nautilus Book Awards.