Hoboken, NJ, February 7, 2007 -- Global publisher John Wiley & Sons, Inc., is proud to announce that it is the recipient of two awards and three honorable mentions in the 2006 Professional/Scholarly Publishing Division (PSP) Annual Awards Program of the Association of American Publishers. Each year, the PSP recognizes excellence and innovation in professional, scholarly, and reference publishing by presenting awards in more than 40 categories. This year, Wileys Scientific, Technical and Medical Division excelled in the categories of Chemistry and Mathematics & Statistics.
The awards were presented at a luncheon ceremony on Tuesday, February 6, 2007 during the PSP Annual Conference in Washington, D.C.
The winners are:
Best New PSP Book - Chemistry
Biochemical Thermodynamics: Applications of Mathematica
By Robert A. Alberty
Best New PSP Book - Mathematics & Statistics
Visual Statistics: Seeing Data with Dynamic Interactive Graphics
By Forrest W. Young, Pedro M. Valero-Mora and Michael Friendly
Honorable Mention - Mathematics & Statistics
Understanding Uncertainty
By Dennis V. Lindley
Honorable Mention - Undergraduate Textbook
Modern Nuclear Chemistry
By Walter D. Loveland, David Morrissey and Glenn T. Seaborg
Honorable Mention - Multi Volume Reference Works (Science)
Wiley Encyclopedia of Biomedical Engineering
Edited by Metin Akay