Awards in your library

Summary: 15 Awards.

ALA Outstanding Books for the College Bound

• Eine kurze Geschichte von fast allem by Bill Bryson (Science & Technology, 2004)

And/Or Book Award

• Total digital : Die Welt zwischen 0 und 1 oder Die Zukunft der Kommunikation by Nicholas Negroponte (Moving Image, 1995)

Aventis Prize for Science Books

• Eine kurze Geschichte von fast allem by Bill Bryson (2004)

George Wittenborn Memorial Book Award

• Envisioning Information by Edward R. Tufte (1991)

Jolt Awards

• Code Complete : A Practical Handbook of Software Construction by Steve McConnell (1993)
• Objektorientierte Analyse und Design : Mit praktischen Anwendungsbeispielen by Grady Booch (1993)
• The Essential Client/Server Survival Guide by Robert Orfali (1994)
• Rapid Development :Taming Wild Software Schedules. by Steve McConnell (1996)
• Object-oriented Software Construction by Bertrand Meyer (1997)
• Effective Java by Joshua Bloch (2001)
• Beautiful Code : Leading Programmers Explain How They Think by Andy Oram (2007)
• Release It! : Design and Deploy Production-ready Software by Michael T. Nygard (Productivity 2007)

National Book Award

• Gödel, Escher, Bach : Ein Endloses Geflochtenes Band by Douglas R. Hofstadter (Science (Hardcover), 1980)

National Book Critics Circle Award finalist

• Gödel, Escher, Bach : Ein Endloses Geflochtenes Band by Douglas R. Hofstadter (General Nonfiction, 1979)

New York Times Best Books of the Year

• Gödel, Escher, Bach : Ein Endloses Geflochtenes Band by Douglas R. Hofstadter (1979)
• Consciousness Explained by Daniel Clement Dennett (1991)

New York Times bestseller

• Eine kurze Geschichte von fast allem by Bill Bryson (Nonfiction, 2003)
• The Long Tail : Why the Future of Business Is Selling Less of More by Chris Anderson (Nonfiction, 2006)

Pulitzer Prize

• Gödel, Escher, Bach : Ein Endloses Geflochtenes Band by Douglas R. Hofstadter (General Non-Fiction, 1980)

Royal Society Prize for Science Books

• Eine kurze Geschichte von fast allem by Bill Bryson (General, 2004)

Royal Society Prize for Science Books Shortlist

• Eine kurze Geschichte von fast allem by Bill Bryson (2004)

Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-fiction shortlist

• Eine kurze Geschichte von fast allem by Bill Bryson (2004)

The Telegraph's 110 Best Books: The Perfect Library

• Schotts Sammelsurium by Ben Schott (2008)

Whitcoulls top 100

• Eine kurze Geschichte von fast allem by Bill Bryson (2008, #77)