GetAbstract International Book Award

The getAbstract International Book Award is focused on business books that have made a significant impact worldwide. Each year since 2001, the abstracting service getAbstract's editors assess more than 10,000 English and German non-fiction books. From these, they select 10 finalists[1][2][3] and four winners in English and German.

Every year, the official awards ceremony takes place at the Frankfurt Book Fair [4][5] in Germany and is open to the public. The award has been covered by Financial Times [6][7] Germany, Handelszeitung & The Wall Street Journal,[8][9] The Boston Globe,[10] Reuters,[11] Handelsblatt,[12] Bloomberg Television,[13] and several other newspapers,[14] magazines and websites.[15][16] [17][18]

Winners of the getAbstract International Book Award

2001 - English:

  • Howard Means: Money and Power
  • Benjamin Mark Cole: The Pied Pipers of Wall Street

2001 - German:

  • Rolf W. Habbel: Faktor Menschlichkeit
  • Hartmut Knüppel und Christian Lindner: Die Aktie als Marke

2002 - English:

  • Kenneth Cloke: The End of Management

2002 - German:

  • Joseph Stiglitz: Die Schatten der Globalisierung
  • Werner G. Seifert, Markus Habbel, Frank Mattern, Clara C. Streit und Hans-Joachim Voth: Performance ist kein Schicksal
  • Bjørn Lomborg: Apocalypse No!

2003 - English:

2003 - German:

  • Burkhard Spinnen: Der schwarze Grat
  • Hans-Werner Sinn: Ist Deutschland noch zu retten?

2004 - English:

2004 - German:

  • Oskar Negt: Wozu noch Gewerkschaften?
  • Alain de Botton: StatusAngst
  • Thomas Ramge: Die Flicks

2005 - English:

2005 - German:

  • Malcolm Gladwell: Blink!
  • Ulrich Hemel: Wert und Werte
  • Peter Sloterdijk: Im Weltinnenraum des Kapitals

2006 - English:

2006 - German:

  • Gunter Dueck: Lean Brain Management
  • Niels Pfläging: Führen mit flexiblen Zielen

2007 - English:

  • Nassim Nicholas Taleb: The Black Swan
  • Phil Rosenzweig: The Halo Effect

2007 - German:

  • Norbert Häring und Olaf Storbeck: Ökonomie 2.0
  • Anja Förster und Peter Kreuz: Alles, außer gewöhnlich

2008 - English:

2008 - German:

  • Wolfgang Münchau: Vorbeben
  • Uwe Jean Heuser: Humanomics

2009 - English:

2009 - German:

  • Miriam Meckel, Christian Fieseler und Christian Hoffmann: Verkauft und nichts verraten
  • Ludwig Siegele und Joachim Zepelin: Matrix der Welt

2010 - English:

  • David Rhodes and Daniel Stelter: Accelerating out of the Great Recession
  • Peter Schiff and Andrew Schiff: How an Economy Grows and Why it Crashes

2010 - German:

  • Susanne Schmidt: Markt ohne Moral
  • Meinhard Miegel: Exit

2011 - English:

2011 - German:

  • Manfred Hoefle: Managerismus
  • Tobias Schrödel: Hacking for Manager

2012 - English:

2012 - German:

  • Josef Braml: Der amerikanische Patient
  • Uli Burchardt: Ausgegeizt

2013 - English:

  • Jared Diamond: The World Until Yesterday
  • Nate Silver: The Signal and the Noise

2013 - German:

  • Reinhard K. Sprenger: Radikal führen
  • Thomas Fricke: Wie viel Bank braucht der Mensch?

2014 - English:

  • Christopher Surdak: Data Crush
  • Gregory Zuckerman: The Frackers

2014 - German:

  • Pero Mićić: Warum wir uns täglich die Zukunft versauen
  • Christian Felber: Geld

2015 - English:

  • Peter H. Diamandis and Steven Kotler: Bold
  • Yuval Noah Harari: Sapiens

2015 - German:

  • Thomas Mayer: Die neue Ordnung des Geldes
  • Michael Steinbrecher und Rolf Schumann: Update

References

  1. ↑ Princeton University Press Akerlof/Shiller: Animal Spirits is finalist for the getAbstract International Book Award 2009
  2. ↑ McGraw-Hill (leading academic publisher) website The Meltdown Years
  3. ↑ McGraw-Hill Catalogue 2009 The Meltdown Years
  4. ↑ Frankfurt Book Fair official website, 2008
  5. ↑ Program Frankfurt Book Fair, 2009
  6. ↑ Financial Times and getAbstract present the International Book Award, October 8, 2001
  7. ↑ "Von der Renaissance zur Matrix", October 15, 2009
  8. ↑ Article in Handelszeitung Online & the Wall Street Journal, October 10, 2007
  9. ↑ Article in Handelszeitung Online & the Wall Street Journal 2009
  10. ↑ The Boston Globe
  11. ↑ Reuters
  12. ↑ getAbstract International Book Award in Handelsblatt, July 26, 2007
  13. ↑ Interview with Philip Ruppel, Publisher McGraw-Hill Trade
  14. ↑ Handelszeitung & The Wall Street Journal, Switzerland edition, 10.10.2007
  15. ↑ Website of Hugendubel, one of the two major book retailers in Germany
  16. ↑ The World Federation of Exchanges website
  17. ↑ International Institute of Public Finance website
  18. ↑ MIT Press website Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press Catalogue
  19. ↑ Princeton University Press. Robert Shiller: The New Financial Order
  20. ↑ Association of American University Presses website
  21. ↑ John Wiley & Sons. Paul Glen: Leading Geeks
  22. ↑ GetAbstract International Book Award mentioned multiple times by John Wiley (leading business and academic publisher)
  23. ↑ John Wiley & Sons, December 9, 2008 Official Statement scroll down to Professional/Trade (P/T)
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