Wiley Receives Nine Prestigious PROSE Awards

    John Wiley & Sons, Inc. (NYSE: JWa and JWb), a global knowledge-based services provider, is honored to be the recipient of nine PROSE Awards for 2015.  The PROSE Awards recognize excellence in professional and scholarly publishing by highlighting distinguished books, journals and electronic content.

    This year, Wiley titles won in six categories and were awarded honorable mentions in three categories: biological & life sciences, computing & information science, environmental science, best new humanities and social sciences journal, multivolume/science, popular science & popular mechanics, single volume/humanities & social sciences, textbook/physical sciences & mathematics, and theology & religious studies.

    Each year the Professional and Scholarly Publishing division of the Association of American Publishers organizes the PROSE Awards, which are awarded in more than 40 categories and are judged by peer publishers, librarians, and medical professional. Winners of the 2015 PROSE Awards were recently announced at a luncheon in Washington, D.C.:

    Biological & Life Sciences

    Ultrastructure Atlas of Human Tissues

    By Fred E. Hossler

     

    Computing & Information Science (honorable mention)

    Software War Stories: Case Studies in Software Management

    By Donald J. Reifer

     

    Environmental Science

    Bioprocessing of Renewable Resources to Commodity Bioproducts

    Edited by Virendra S. Bisaria and Akihiko Kondo

     

    Journal/Best New Humanities & Social Sciences

    Thought: A Journal of Philosophy

    Editors Crispin Wright, John Divers and Carrie Ichikawa Jenkins

     

    Multivolume/Science

    The Handbook of Liquid Crystals

    Edited by J.W. Goodby, P.J. Collings, T.Kato, C. Tschierski, H.F. Gleeson and P. Raynes

     

    Popular Science & Popular Mathematics

    The Perfect Meal: The Multisensory Science of Food and Dining

    By Charles Spence and Betina Piqueras-Fiszman

     

    Single Volume/Humanities & Social Sciences (honorable mention)

    A Companion to Ethnicity in the Ancient Mediterranean

    Edited by Jeremy McInerney

     

    Textbook/Physical Sciences & Mathematics

    Arrow Pushing in Inorganic Chemistry: A Logical Approach to the Chemistry of the Main Group Elements

    By Abhik Ghosh and Steffen Berg

     

    Theology & Religious Studies (honorable mention)

    Emil Brunner-A Reappraisal

    By Alister E. McGrath