The William Mills Prize for Non-Fiction Polar Books
(* indicates that it was shortlisted)
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)