The Association of American Publishers' Professional/Scholarly Publishing Division has just announced that three books published by the Johns Hopkins University Press in 2002 have been awarded the top honor in their respective categories in the 27th Annual AAP/PSP Awards Program. The three winning these prestigious awards are:

Architecture and Town Planning in Colonial North America by James D. Kornwolf, in the category of Architecture and Urban Studies.

Herman Melville, A Biography: Volume 2, 1851-1891 by Hershel Parker, for Biography and Autobiography.

Bathsheba's Breast: Women, Cancer and History by James S. Olson, for History of Science.

Tops in History of Science: 'Bathsheba's Breast: Women, Cancer and History'

In addition, two of the Press's books were awarded honorable mentions. War Under Heaven: Pontiac, the Indian Nations and the British Empire, by Gregory Evans Dowd, was recognized in the History category, and The Penitente Brotherhood: Patriarchy and Hispano-Catholicism in New Mexico by Michael Carroll, in Sociology and Anthropology.