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Reviews and awards

Princeton University Press books are reviewed in dozens of scholarly and trade publications including The New York Times, The Atlantic, The New York Review of Books, The Guardian, The London Review of Books, and The Times Literary Supplement.  

They count among their authors some 50 Nobel Prize winners. A full listing of prizes received in the last 10 years can be found on the Princeton University Press Awards page, or you can see a sampling of awards received by authors below: 

The Loneliness of the Black Republican: Pragmatic Politics and the Pursuit of Power 
Leah Wright Rigueur 
Winner of the 2017 Crader Family Book Prize in American Values, Crader Family Endowment at Southeast Missouri State University 
Winner of the 2016 James P. Hanlan Book Award, New England Historical Association 

The Good Immigrants: How the Yellow Peril Became the Model Minority 
Madeline Y. Hsu 
Winner of the 2017 Association for Asian American Studies Award for Best Book in History Winner of the 2016 Robert H. Ferrell Book Prize, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations   
Runner-Up for the 2016 Hamilton Book Awards, University Co-operative Society, University of Texas at Austin 

Economic Interdependence and War 
Dale C. Copeland 
Winner of the 2017 ISA Annual Best Book Award, International Studies Association 

Strangers No More: Immigration and the Challenges of Integration in North America and Western Europe 
Richard Alba & Nancy Foner 
Honorable Mention for the 2017 ENMISA Distinguished Book Award, Ethnicity, Nationalism, and Migration Section the International Studies Association 

Recursive Models of Dynamic Linear Economies 
Lars Peter Hansen & Thomas J. Sargent 
Lars Peter Hansen, Co-Winner of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Economics 
Thomas J. Sargent, Winner of the 2011 Nobel Prize in Economics 

The Irresistible Fairy Tale: The Cultural and Social History of a Genre 
Jack Zipes 
Co-Winner of the 2012 Wayland D. Hand Prize, History and Folklore Section of the American Folklore Society 
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2012 

Why Tolerate Religion? 
Brian Leiter 
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2013 

White Backlash: Immigration, Race, and American Politics 
Marisa Abrajano & Zoltan L. Hajnal 
Winners of the 2016 Ralph J. Bunche Award, American Political Science Association 
Selected for The New York Times Book Review’s “The Year in Reading” 2016 
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2015 

F.B. Eyes: How J. Edgar Hoover's Ghostreaders Framed African American Literature 
William J. Maxwell 
Winner of a 2016 American Book Award, Before Columbus Foundation 
Shortlisted for the 2016 MSA Book Prize, Modernist Studies Association 

Power Lines: Phoenix and the Making of the Modern Southwest 
Andrew Needham 
Winner of the 2016 George Perkins Marsh Prize, American Society for Environmental History 

The Color of Success: Asian Americans and the Origins of the Model Minority 
Ellen D. Wu 
Winner of the 2016 AAAS Award for Best Book in History, Association for Asian American Studies 

Statistics, Data Mining, and Machine Learning in Astronomy: A Practical Python Guide for the Analysis of Survey Data 
Zeljko Ivezic, Andrew J. Connolly, Jacob T. VanderPlas & Alexander Gray 
Winner of the 2016 IAA Outstanding Publication Award, International Astrostatistics Association 

Mutualistic Networks 
Jordi Bascompte & Pedro Jordano 
Winner of the 2016 BES Marsh Christian Trust Book Award, British Ecological Association 

Sexing the World: Grammatical Gender and Biological Sex in Ancient Rome 
Anthony Corbeill; 
Winner of a 2016 Charles Goodwin Award of Merit, Society for Classical Studies 

The Weimar Century: German Émigrés and the Ideological Foundations of the Cold War 
Udi Greenberg 
Winner of the 2016 European Studies Book Award, Council for European Studies 

What's Divine about Divine Law? Early Perspectives 
Christine Hayes 
Winner of the 2016 PROSE Award in Theology & Religious Studies, Association of American Publishers 
Winner of the 2016 Jordan Schnitzer Book Award in Biblical Studies, Rabbinics, and Jewish History & Culture in Antiquity, Association for Jewish Studies 

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