More than 35 winners of the 2008 American Publishers Awards for Professional and Scholarly Excellence (the PROSE Awards) were celebrated yesterday at the annual conference of the Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division of the Association of American Publishers, which are sponsored by the PSP Division. The top prize, the R.R. Hawkins Award, went to Harvard University Press for The Race Between Education & Technology by Claudia Goldin and Lawrence F. Katz. The Hawkins Award recognizes "exceptional scholarly works in all disciplines of the arts and sciences, and is given for the most outstanding professional, reference, or scholarly work among the year's award winners."
For more information, go to proseawards.com.