The Royal Society of Literature announced the three winners of this year's Jerwood Awards for Nonfiction, which recognize authors engaged on their first commissioned works of nonfiction. Violet Moller took the £10,000 (about $12,730) award for The Geography of Knowledge, which "explores how the big ideas of the ancient world found their way into Western culture from 8th century Baghdad to Renaissance Venice."
The two £5,000 (about $6,365) prizes went to Afua Hirsch for BRIT(ish): Getting Under the Skin of Britain's Race Problem, which "looks at Britain's failure to allow non-white people a history and makes the case for change"; and Damian Le Bas for Stopping Places, "a Traveller history showing how 'alien' culture is an ancient part of the U.K. and how an urge for freedom co-exists in an increasingly restrictive environment."
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800-CEO-READ today announced the shortlist for its 10th annual Business Book Awards. Editorial director Dylan Schleicher commented: "The choices for this year's shortlist reflect the general attitude and outlook of the expert staff at 800-CEO-READ, and also represent a continuing trend in business books toward a more humanistic and inclusive view of the business world. You will see a broadening in the definition of what constitutes 'business,' who business is meant to serve, and who should be allowed--even welcomed--to sit at the table." For full descriptions and categories, click here.
Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World by Cal Newport (Grand Central)
Door to Door: The Magnificent, Maddening, Mysterious World of Transportation by Edward Humes (Harper)
An Everyone Culture: Becoming a Deliberately Developmental Organization by Robert Kegan and Lisa Laskow Lahey, with Matthew L. Miller, Andy Fleming and Deborah Helsing (Harvard Business Review Press)
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond (Crown)
Simply Brilliant: How Great Organizations Do Ordinary Things in Extraordinary Ways by William C. Taylor (Portfolio)
Small Data: The Tiny Clues That Uncover Huge Trends by Martin Lindstrom (St. Martin's Press)
What Works: Gender Equality by Design by Iris Bohnet (Belknap Press)
Wonderland: How Play Made the Modern World by Steven Johnson (Riverhead Books)