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:

  • Robert Shiller: The New Financial Order[19][20]
  • Paul Glen: Leading Geeks[21][22]

2003 - German:

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

2004 - English:

  • Benoît Mandelbrot: The (Mis)behavior of Markets

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 Archived 2009-10-16 at the Wayback Machine The Meltdown Years
  3. McGraw-Hill Catalogue 2009 Archived 2009-10-17 at the Wayback Machine 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". Archived from the original on 2010-06-15. Retrieved 2009-08-21.
  17. International Institute of Public Finance website
  18. MIT Press website Archived 2009-10-05 at the Wayback Machine 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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