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“Invisible Wounds of War” Winner of 2008 PROSE Award
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At the annual meeting of the Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division of the Association of American Publishers, RAND's Invisible Wounds of War: Psychological and Cognitive Injuries, Their Consequences, and Services to Assist Recovery was awarded a 2008 PROSE Award in the categoryof Clinical Medicine. The American Publishers Awards for Professional and Scholarly Excellence, the awards annually recognize the very best in professional and scholarly publishing by bringing attention to distinguished books, journals, and electronic content in over 35 disciplines. Judged by peer publishers, librarians, and medical professionals since 1976, the PROSE Awards are extraordinary for their breadth and depth. |
New RAND Classics
Digital printing technology is helping RAND to bring many classic titles from our early history back into print. To celebrate RAND's 60th anniversary in 2008, we have recently produced new editions of eight RAND classics:
- The Operational Code of the Politburo
- The Compleat Strategyst: Being a Primer on the Theory of Games of Strategy
- Space Handbook: Astronautics and Its Applications
- Strategy in the Missile Age
- Games of Strategy: Theory and Applications
- Planets for Man
- Habitable Planets for Man
- The Road to Total War
These are all worthy additions to the growing list of RAND Classics which have been brought back into print, including Pacification in Algeria, 1956-1958, one of our best-selling titles in 2007.
RAND Publications Catalogs
Download your FREE copy of of the 2009 RAND Publications catalog or order a FREE printed copy.
Recent Book Reviews
The December 2008–January 2009 issue of “Survival” reviews the RAND Corporation book Byting Back: Regaining Information Superiority Against 21st-century Insurgents, stating that “the lesson is that getting not just warfighters but also governments and the public to make more and better use of technology is crucial in ‘regaining information superiority’ in the battle against the second of the global jihad’s ‘heads’, the regional al-Qaeda affiliates. The fundamental point of this book, part of a larger RAND series examining counter-insurgency, is that allied forces in Afghanistan and Iraq are failing to maximise the potential technological benefits they could be leveraging in countering insurgents on the battlefield … ”
See additional book reviews on RAND monographs.
RAND Books Recommended in Library Guide
Several new RAND books were recommended in the 2008 edition of University Press Books Selected for Public and Secondary School Libraries, an annual guide published by the Association of American University Presses.
RAND Partners with e-Publishing Leaders
RAND Publications collaborates with some of the leading companies in the electronic publishing field in order to bring RAND's cutting-edge research to a wider audience. RAND has developed partnerships with a number of companies, including Amazon.com, Books 24x7, EBL, ebooks.com, ebrary, Ingram Digital, netLibrary, and Questia to distribute RAND monographs as e-books.
For more information about RAND's e-commerce publishing and marketing programs, contact John Warren, at (310) 393-0411, ext. 6293, or john_warren@rand.org.
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