By Gerard Passannante, Catastrophizing: Materialism and the Making of Disaster
University of Chicago Press
University of Chicago Press
The Phi Beta Kappa Society has announced the 2020 Book Awards Short List
The ΦΒΚ Book Awards are administered in the following three, non-fiction categories:
The Christian Gauss Award: Celebrates outstanding books in the field of literary scholarship or criticism.
The Phi Beta Kappa Award for Science: Recognizes superior books by scientists written to illuminate aspects of science for a broad readership.
The Ralph Waldo Emerson Award: Honors scholarly studies that contribute significantly to interpretations of the intellectual and cultural condition of humanity.
Finalists and award-winning authors are selected by a panel of experts in each category. Award-winning authors will each receive a $10,000 prize. For more information please email Aurora Sherman.
By Leo Damrosch (ϕBK, Yale College),The Club: Johnson, Boswell, and the Friends Who Shaped an Age
Yale University Press
Meander, Spiral, Explode: Design and Pattern in Narrative
By Jane Alison,
Catapult
By Lewis Hyde, A Primer for Forgetting: Getting Past the Past
Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
By Leah Price (ϕBK, Harvard),What We Talk About When We Talk About Books: The History and Future of Reading
Basic Books
By Susan Hockfield,The Age of Living Machines: How Biology Will Build the Next Technology Revolution
W.W. Norton & Company
By Sarah Parcak,Archaeology from Space: How the Future Shapes the Past
Henry Holt and Co.
By Azra Raza,The First Cell: And the Human Cost of Pursuing Cancer to the Last
Basic Books
By Frans De Waal,Mama's Last Hug: Animal Emotions and What They Tell Us About Ourselves
W. W. Norton & Company
By Sean Carroll (ϕBK, Villanova University),Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime
Dutton
By Erika Lee,America for Americans: A History of Xenophobia in the United States
Basic Book
By Camilla Townsend,Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs
Oxford University Press
By Nicholas Buccola,The Fire is Upon Us: James Baldwin, William F. Buckley, and the Debate Over Race in America
Princeton University Press
By Sarah A. Seo (ϕBK, Princeton University),Policing the Open Road: How Cars Transformed American Freedom
Harvard University Press
By Christina Thompson (ϕBK, Dartmouth College)Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia
Harper
Please email Aurora Sherman at asherman@pbk.org with any inquiries or call (202) 745-3287.