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Cambridge University Press takes PROSE Awards’ highest honour
Cambridge University Press has won the most prestigious prize at this year’s PROSE Awards from the Association of American Publishers (AAP), with Atlantic Cataclysm: Rethinking the Atlantic Slave Trades by David Eltis awarded the R.R. Hawkins Award, as well as the PROSE Award for Excellence in the Humanities.
The PROSE Award for Excellence in Physical Sciences and Mathematics has been awarded to Decoherence and Quantum Darwinism: From Quantum Foundations to Classical Reality by Wojciech Hubert Zurek.
cambridge.org/news-and-blogs/2026-PROSE-Awards
The PROSE Awards, which is currently enjoying its 50th Anniversary, celebrate publishers whose books, journals, and digital products make a significant contribution to their fields of study.
With more winners in 2026 than any other year, the strength and depth of Cambridge’s scholarly publishing has once again been recognised, with 23 titles honoured, including two Excellence winners, nine Subject Category winners and eleven Finalists.
Achievements from the 2026 PROSE Awards
R.R. Hawkins Award Winner and PROSE Award for Excellence in the Humanities
Atlantic Cataclysm
Rethinking the Atlantic Slave Trades
David Eltis, Emory University, Atlanta
The R.R. Hawkins Award was created in 1976 to recognize outstanding scholarly works in all disciplines of the arts and sciences. In his book, which was named as a Book of the Year by The Spectator in 2025, David Eltis offers a two-thousand-year perspective on the trafficking of people, and boldly intervenes in the expansive discussions about slavery in the last half-century.
Using new and underexplored data made available by slavevoyages.org, he offers compelling explanations of why the slave trades began and why they ended, and in the process debunks long-held assumptions.
Award for Excellence in Physical Science and Mathematics Decoherence and Quantum Darwinism
Decoherence and Quantum Darwinism
From Quantum Foundations to Classical Reality
Wojciech Hubert Zurek, Los Alamos National Laboratory
While the ‘Copenhagen’ and ‘Many Worlds’ interpretations have dominated discussion of this philosophically charged question, Zurek builds on the physics of decoherence and introduces the theory of ‘Quantum Darwinism’ to provide a novel account of the emergence of classical reality.
Wojciech Hubert Zurek
Flipping the traditional publishing model upside down
What is Flip it Open?
Flip it Open is a Cambridge University Press programme which aims to sustainably fund open access to over 100 book titles through existing purchasing habits. Once the titles meet a set revenue threshold, we have committed to making them available as open access on Cambridge Core, as well as affordable paperbacks. By making books open access in response to them being purchased early in their life, we are flipping the traditional publishing model upside down.
Explore recently flipped and about to flip titles
The Flip it Open pilot included 28 titles across HSS subjects and its success has led us to continue with the programme on an ongoing basis, with over 120 titles flipped. As we always make it clear to all that the purchased titles are part of the project, it is our customers’ buying habits and the simple process of flipping the titles that determine the success and sustainability of Flip it Open.
Explore our recently flipped titles, as well as forthcoming titles to the programme, on the next page.
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Critical Friendship in the Modern World
Laura Eramian, Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia
Peter Mallory, St. Francis Xavier University
9781009772822
Feb 2026 | Core | 236pp
Ane Berro, University of Deusto
Beatriz Fernández, University of the Basque Country
9781009072472
Apr 2026 | Core |
PSYCHOPATHY in ADOLESCENCE and its CONSEQUENCES in ADULTHOOD
EVAN M C CUISH
Psychopathy in Adolescence and its Consequences in Adulthood
Evan McCuish, Simon Fraser University, British Columbia
9781009273053
Mar 2026 | Core | 348pp
An
Tania
9781009504669 Apr
Ane Berro and Beatriz Fernández
Forthcoming Flip it Open titles
These titles will flip to open access once they reach the set revenue threshold.
We’ve highlighted them here to give you clearer visibility into what’s coming. Your library’s support can play a direct role in helping them flip, making the eBook freely available to read on Cambridge Core.
Out of 100 titles in the programme, 90 have been published so far and 42 titles have reached the threshold to flip.
Forthcoming titles
The Real Pain of Punishment Prison, Belonging, and the Quest for Humanized Justice
Federica Coppola, IE University Law School, Madrid
9781009255370 Jul 2026 | Core | 290pp
Federica Coppola
CAUL EXHIBITION EVENTS
The Council of Australasian University Librarians (CAUL) Exhibition Event 2026 is the premier opportunity to connect with key library personnel across Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand. The Exhibition Event provides a unique occasion for global publishers and vendors to showcase their products and services, engage with decision makers, and build long term relationships within the academic library community.
Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand
Date: 16 June 2026
Location: Te Papa Tongarewa | Museum of New Zealand
Stand Number: 18
Sydney, Australia
Date: 19 June 2026
Location Pullman Sydney, Hyde Park
Stand Number: 18
ALLA CONFERENCE
Date: 19–21 August 2026
Location: Evoqé Events, Melbourne, Australia
Theme: Architecture of Information
Melbourne, Australia
Date: 18 June 2026
Location: The Events Centre, Collins Square Stand Number: 18
The Australian Law Librarians’ Association (ALLA) is a national not-for-profit association that represents librarians and information professionals working in courts, universities, government departments, law firms and professional associations. The Conference is the key education and networking opportunity for law librarians to discuss issues and innovations in the legal information sector.
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9781009716819
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Anderson
9781009575973
Apr 2026 |
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Education
An Introduction for the Teaching Profession
Fourth edition
Price et al.
9781009640701
May 2026 | Core | 308pp
Connecting with Australian Tort Law
Third edition
Rizzi et al.
9781009593281
May 2026 | Core | 818pp
Popa
9781009548038 Apr
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Celebrating 40 years of Cambridge Companions
This year, we celebrate 40 years of Cambridge Companions – a series of authoritative guides, written by leading experts, offering lively, accessible introductions to major writers, artists, philosophers, topics, and periods.
The first two titles in the Companions series were the Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and the Cambridge Companion to Chaucer, which were both published in 1986 and have since been updated with new editions.
Now, there are over 900 Companion titles, which include over 4,000 essays as well as bibliographies and further reading. Online, they are fully searchable by author, title, topic or theme. Explore the collection online, and view some highlight series on the next page.
cambridge.org/core/publications/collections/cambridge-companions
The Cambridge Companions to Literature, Classics, Theatre and Performance
This collection offers thousands of comprehensive and accessible essays on major authors, periods and genres, written by experts and designed for student readers.
CAMBRIDGE COMPANIONS
The Cambridge Companion to Ignatius Sancho
Nicole N. Aljoe, Northeastern University, Boston, Kristina Huang, University of Wisconsin, Madison
One of the largest archives of writing by an eighteenth-century Black individual, this volume not only connects the letters of Ignatius Sancho to their social and historical contexts but also highlights their cultural and aesthetic significance.
The Cambridge Companions to Music
CAMBRIDGE COMPANIONS
The Cambridge Companion to American Literature and Empire
Anna Brickhouse, University of Virginia, Susan Gillman, University of California, Santa Cruz
The story of American literature and empire goes beyond the broad historical periodization of empire to reimagine that history. The central terms American and literature have always been tied up in US empire as well as other empires in the Americas.
This collection provides clear and accessible information on composers, instruments or musical topics, written with the student, the performer and the music lover in mind.
CAMBRIDGE COMPANIONS
The Cambridge Companion to French Art Song
Stephen Rumph, University of Washington
The twenty-first century has witnessed a surge of scholarly interest in the French art song, or mélodie, with a flood of new books, articles, and editions. This Companion draws on the best of this new research, with chapters by world-renowned scholars and performers examining French art song through the practicality of performance, both pianistic and vocal.
CAMBRIDGE COMPANIONS
The Cambridge Companion to Folk Music
Ross Cole, University of Leeds
A groundbreaking critical introduction to folk music and song focused on questions of identity, community, representation, politics, and popular culture. Written by a distinguished international team of authors, this Companion is an indispensable resource for rethinking the confluence of sound, heritage, and identity in the twenty-first century.
VOLUNTAS
International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations
Fredrik O. Andersson, O’Neill School at Indiana University, USA
Galia Chimiak, Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
Marlene Walk Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Germany
VOLUNTAS: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations is the official journal of the International Society for Third-Sector Research (ISTR) that publishes original peer-reviewed manuscripts from a plurality of disciplinary, methodological, and international perspectives on nonprofit organizations and voluntary action. The journal publishes full-length articles and book reviews.
CAMBRIDGE PRISMS
Antimicrobial Resistance
Professor Branwen Morgan, CSIRO, Australia
Professor Laura Shallcross, University College London, UK
Cambridge Prisms: Antimicrobial Resistance is dedicated to advancing and accelerating the development, uptake, and adoption of products, processes, and policies to help mitigate the impact of antimicrobial resistance (AMR).
Addressing AMR effectively requires an integrated, One Health approach, which recognises that human, animal and environmental health are interconnected.