Robert Provine, professor of psychology, has won an Association of American Publishers’ 2012 PROSE Award for “Curious Behavior: Yawning, Laughing, Hiccupping, and Beyond.” The book received the award in the category of Biomedicine and Neuroscience.
The PROSE Awards – the American Publishers Awards for Professional and Scholarly Excellence –honors the best in professional and scholarly publishing, as judged by peer publishers, librarians and academics. This year’s competition attracted 518 entries of books, reference works, journals and electronic products in more than 40 categories.
“The winners and honorable mentions announced this year are high caliber works and genuinely represent the best in scholarly publishing,” said John A. Jenkins, Chairman, PROSE Awards and President and Publisher Emeritus, CQ Press.
The Association of American Publishers is the national trade association representing 300 premier US publishers of high-quality scholarly, professional, education and entertainment content produced using the most current technology, reaching the world.
