Awards in your library

Summary: 14 Awards.

The 100 Most Influential Books Ever Written: The History of Thought from Ancient Times to Today

• The way of life. A new translation of the Tao tê ching by Laozi., (3rd century BCE)

ALA Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults

• Ophelia speaks : adolescent girls write about their search for self by Sara Shandler ( Self-Help, 2000)

C. Wright Mills Award

• The social order of the slum; ethnicity and territory in the inner city by Gerald D. Suttles (1968)

CounterPunch's Top 100 [and a few more] Non-fiction Works of the 20th Century

• Custer Died for Your Sins by Vine Deloria
• The Great Transformation by Karl Polanyi

Extreme Classics: The 100 Greatest Adventure Books of All Time

• The exploration of the Colorado River and its canyons by John Wesley Powell (004)

McGraw Hill Award for best popular writing on science

• Mirror for Man: The Relation of the Anthropology to Modern Life by Clyde Kluckhohn

The Modern Library's 100 Best Nonfiction: The Reader's List

• The rise of the unmeltable ethnics; politics and culture in the seventies by Michael Novak (97)

National Book Award

• The panda's thumb : more reflections in natural history by Stephen Jay Gould (Science (Hardcover), 1981)

National Book Award finalist

• Harmless People V289 by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas (Nonfiction, 1960)
• THE MAKING OF A COUNTER CULTURE by Theodore Roszak (Philosophy and Religion, 1970)

National Book Critics Circle Award

• The Content of Our Character: A New Vision of Race In America by Shelby Steele (General Nonfiction, 1990)

NCSS Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People

• Thicker Than Water: Coming-of-Age Stories by Irish & Irish American Writers by Gordon Snell (2002)

New York Times Best Books of the Year

• Against our will : men, women, and rape by Susan Brownmiller (1975)

New York Times bestseller

• America as a civilization; life and thought in the United States today by Max Lerner (General, 1958)
• Crisis in black and white by Charles E. Silberman (General, 1964)
• I saw Red China by Lisa Hobbs Birnie (General, 1966)
• Culture and Commitment: A Study of the Generation Gap by Margaret Mead (General, 1970)

Victor Turner Prize

• Of Two Minds: The Growing Disorder in American Psychiatry by T.M. Luhrmann (Ethnographic Writing, 2001)