Deadline: 31 December, yearly

A committee awards the annual prize for a book that conveys most powerfully the nature and importance of geography to the non-academic world. An award of $1,000 will be made to the author(s).

Eligibility: Books must be written or co-authored by a geographer. Books published in calendar year 2007 are now eligible for the awards.

Submissions: Nomination statements (two page maximum length) should document the ways the nominated work conveys the nature and importance of geography to the non-academic world.

Please submit nomination statements and four copies of each nominated book to: Association of American Geographers, attn: Globe Book Award, 1710 Sixteenth Street NW, Washington DC 20009-3198.

2006
Bruce D'Arcus, Boudaries of Dissent: Protest and State Power in the Media Age. New York, NY. Routledge Taylor and Francis Group, LLC.

2005
Dydia DeLyser, Ramona Memories: Tourism and the Shaping of Southern California, University of Minnesota Press.

2004
John R. Shortridge, Cities on the Plains: The Evolution of Urban Kansas, University of Kansas Press.

2003
Neil Smith, American Empire, Roosevelt’s Geographer and the Prelude to Globalization, University of California Press.

2002
Mark Monmonier, Spying with Maps: Surveillance Technologies and Future of Privacy. University of Chicago Press.

2001
William G. Loy, Atlas of Oregon, University of Oregon Press

2000
James R. Shortridge, Our Town on the Plains: J.J. Pennell's Photographs of Junction City, Kansas 1893-1922 University of Kansas Press

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