The William Mills Prize for Non-Fiction Polar Books
(* indicates that it was shortlisted)
2014 William Mills Prize Recipient
Fox Gearheard, Shari, Lene Kielsen Holm, Henry Huntington, Joe Mello Leavitt, Andrew R. Mahoney, Margaret Opie, Toku Oshima and Joelie Sanguya, eds. The Meaning of Ice: People and Sea Ice in Three Arctic Communities. Hanover, NH: International Polar Institute Press, 2013.
2014 William Mills Prize Honourary Mentions
Dagnell, Lara and Hilary Shibata, translators. The Japanese South Polar Expedition 1910-12: a Record of Antarctica. Bluntisham, UK: Bluntisham Books; Eccles, UK: The Erskine Press, December 2011.
Krupnik, Igor and Michael Chlenov. Yupik Transitions: Change and Survival at Bering Strait, 1900-1960. Fairbanks: University of Alaska Press, 2013.
2014 William Mills Prize Nominees
Adams, Brian. I am Alaskan. Fairbanks: University of Alaska Press, 2013.
*Bart, Sheldon. Race to the Top of the World: Richard Byrd and the First Flight to the North Pole. Washington, DC: Regnery Publishing, 2013.
Burn, Dr. Christopher, ed. Herschel Island Qikiqtaryuk: a Natural and Cultural History of Yukon’s Arctic Island. Whitehorse: Wildlife Management Advisory Council (North Slope), 2012.
*Dathan, Wendy. The Reindeer Botanist: Alf Erling Porsild, 1901-1977. Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2012. Co-published with the Arctic Institute of North America.
Friesen, T. Max. When Worlds Collide: Hunter - Gatherer World-System Change in the Nineteenth Century Canadian Arctic. Tuscon: University of Arizona Press, 2013.
Haddelsey, Stephen. Shackleton’s Dream: Fuchs, Hillary and the Crossing of Antarctica. Stroud, UK: The History Press, November 2012.
Issaluk, Johnny. Games of Survival: Traditional Inuit Games for Elementary Students. Iqaluit: Inhabit Media, 2012.
*Kan, Sergei. A Russian American Photographer in Tlingit Country: Vincent Soboleff in Alaska. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 2013.
Kruse, Frigga. Frozen Assets: British Mining, Exploration, and Geopolitics on Spitsbergen, 1904-53. Eelde, NL: Barkhuis, 2013.
Lensu, Mikko and Paula Kankaanpää. 80 N - Kinnvika. Rovaniemi, FL: Arctic Centre, University of Lapland, 2013. Publication financed by Nordic Council of Ministers.
*McLeish, Todd. Narwhals: Arctic Whales in a Melting World. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2013.
Scott, Patrick. Talking Tools: Faces of Aboriginal Oral Tradition in Contemporary Society. Edmonton: CCI Press, 2012.
*Walton, David, ed. Antarctica: Global Science from a Frozen Continent. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Weyapunk, Winton, Jr. and Igor Krupnik, compilers. Kinikmi Sigum Qanuq Ilitaavut / Wales Inupiaq Sea Ice Dictionary. Washington, DC: Arctic Studies Center, Smithsonian Institution, 2012.
2012 William Mills Prize Recipient
Kobalenko, Jerry. Arctic Eden: Journeys through the Changing High Arctic. Vancouver: Greystone Books: David Suzuiki Foundation, 2010.
2012 William Mills Prize Nominees
Bryan, Rorke. Ordeal by Ice: Ships of the Antarctic. Dobbs Ferry, NY: Sheridan House, Inc., 2011.
Gray, Beverley. The Boreal Herbal: Wild Food and Medicine Plants of the North - A Guide to Harvesting, Preserving, and Preparing. Whitehorse, Yukon: Aroma Borealis and Edmonton, Alberta: CCI Press, 2011.
Heininen, Lassi and Chris Southcott, eds. Globalization and the Circumpolar North. Fairbanks: University of Alaska Press, 2010
IPY Joint Committee; editors, Igor Krupnik...[et al.]. Understanding Earth's Polar Challenges : International Polar Year 2007-2008: Summary. Edmonton, Alta.: CCI Press, 2011.
Jones, Jeffrey A. and Laurie K. Hoyle. Arctic Sanctuary: Images of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Fairbanks: Universtity of Alaska Press, 2010.
Kobalenko, Jerry. Arctic Eden: Journeys through the Changing High Arctic. Vancouver: Greystone Books: David Suzuiki Foundation, 2010.
Larson, Edward. An Empire of Ice: Scott, Shackleton, and the Heroic Age of Antarctic Science. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2011.
Lovecraft, Amy Lauren and Hajo Eicken, eds. North by 2020: Perspectives on Alaska's Changing Social-Ecological Systems. Fairbanks: University of Alaska Press, 2011.
Stump, Edmund. A Roof at the Bottom of the World. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2011.
2010 William Mills Prize Recipient
Bockstoce, John R. Furs and Frontiers in the Far North. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2009.
2010 William Mills Prize Nominees
*Akasofu, Syun. Northern Lights: Secrets of the Aurora Borealis. Anchorage: Alaska Northwest Books, 2009.
Daly, Regina W. The Shackelton Letters: Behind the Scenes of the Nimrod Expedition. Norwich, UK: The Erskine Press, 2009.
Francis, Gavin. True North: Travels in Arctic Europe. Edinburgh: Polygon press, 2009.
Freeman, Milton M. R. and Lee Foote, eds. Inuit, Polar Bears, and Sustainable Use: Local, National, and International Perspectives. Edmonton, AB: Canadian Circumpolar Institute, 2009.
Hauser, Michael. Traditional Inuit Songs from the Thule Area. Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press, 2010.
Kanter, Seth. Shopping for Porcupine: A Life in Arctic Alaska. Minneapolis: Milkweed Editions, 2008.
Kerry, Knowles, R. And Martin J. Riddle, eds. Health of Antarctic Wildlife: A Challenge for Science and Policy. New York: Springer, 2009.
*Pollack, Henry. A World Without Ice. New York: Avery, 2009.
*Streever, Bill. Cold: Adventures in the World's Frozen Places. New York: Little Brown and Co., 2009.
*Vermeer, Jan and Van Essen, Frieda. Arctic. Deventer, Netherlands: Thiene Art, 2009.
*Wamsely, Douglas. Polar Hayes: A Biography of Isaac Israel Hayes. Philadelphia, PA: American Philosophical Society, 2009.
2008 William Mills Prize Recipient
Riffenburgh, Beau, ed. Encyclopedia of the Antarctic. New York, London: Routledge, 2007.
2008 William Mills Prize Honourary Mention
Fienup-Riordan, Ann. Yuungnaqpiallerput / The Way We Genuinely Live : Masterworks of Yup'ik Science and Survival. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2007.
2008 William Mills Prize Nominees
Alia, Valerie. Names & Nunavut: Culture and Identity in the Inuit Homeland. New York, Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2007.
*Fukuchi, Mitsuo and Harvey J. Marchant. Antarctic Fishes. Illustrated in the gyotaku method by Boshu Nagase. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007.
*Green, Jeannine M. and Robert J. Desmarais. A Most Dangerous Voyage: An Exhibition of Books and Maps Documenting Four Centuries of Exploration in Search of a Northwest Passage. Edmonton: University of Alberta Libraries, 2008.
Herbert, Sir Wally. The Polar World: The Unique Vision of Sir Wally Herbert. Edited by Kari Herbert. Weybridge, Surrey: Polarworld ltd., 2007.
Korhonen, Marja. Resilience: Overcoming Challenges and Moving On Positively. Ottawa: National Aboriginal Health Organization, 2007.
*Pfeffer, W. Tad. The Opening of a New Landscape: Columbia Glacier at Mid-retreat. Washington, D.C.: American Geophysical Union, 2007.
*Potter, Russell A. Arctic Spectacles: The Frozen North in Visual Culture, 1818-1875. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2007.
Semeniuk, Robert. Among the Inuit. Foreward by Hugh Brody, afterword by Wade Davis. Vancouver: Raincoast, 2007.
Weber, Andrzej, Katzenberg, M. Anne and Olga I. Goriunova, eds. Khuzhir-Nuge XIV, a Middle Holocene Hunter-Gatherer Cemetery on Lake Baikal, Siberia: Volume 1: Osteological Materials and companion Volume 2: Archaeological Materials. Edmonton: CCI Press, 2007.
2006 William Mills Prize Recipient
Nuttall, Mark, ed. Encyclopedia of the Arctic. New York: Routledge, 2005.
2006 William Mills Prize Nominees
Auld, James and Robert Kershaw, eds. The Sahtu Atlas: Maps and Stories from the Sahtu Settlement Area in Canada's Northwest Territories. Compiled by Robert Kershaw et al. [Norman Wells, N.W.T.]: Sahtu GIS Project, 2005.
*Cone, Marla. Silent Snow: the slow poisoning of the arctic. New York: Grove Press, 2005.
*Fox, William L. Terra Antarctica: Looking into the Emptiest Continent. San Antonio: Trinity University Press, 2005.
*Kalland, Arne and Frank Sejersen. Marine Mammals and Northern Cultures. Circumpolar Research Series No. 9 / Studies in Whaling No. 7. Edmonton, AB: CCI Press, 2005.
Keith, Darren with Jerry Arqviq, Louie Kamookak, Jackie Ameralik and the Gjoa Haven Hunters’ and Trappers’ Organization. Inuit Qaujimaningit Nanurnut [Inuit Knowledge of Polar Bears]. Solstice Series No. 4. Edmonton, AB: CCI Press, 2005.
Krause, Reinhard A. and Lars U. Scholl. The Magic of Antarctic Colours. David Abbey Paige (1901-1978) Artist of the Byrd Antarctic Expedition 1933-1935. Bremerhaven: German Maritime Museum & the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, 2005.
*Lubin, Dan and Robert Massom. Polar remote sensing. Vol.1: Atmosphere and oceans and Vol.2: Ice sheets. Chichester, UK: Springer, 2006.
Stuckenberger, A. Nicole. Community at Play: Social and religious dynamics in the modern Inuit community of Qikiqtarjuaq. Amsterdam: Rozenberg Publishers, 2005.
*Wohlforth, Charles. The Whale and the Supercomputer: on the northern front of climate change. New York: North Point Press, 2004.
Krause, R., G. Schönharting, and J. Thiede, eds. Alfred Wegener's Die Entstehung der Kontinente und Ozeane (1915, "The Origin of Continents and Oceans"). Berlin: AWI / Gebr. Borntraeger Verl., 2005.
(* indicates that it was shortlisted)