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Phi Beta Kappa Book Awards 2008, Williamsburg, Va.

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The Phi Beta Kappa Book Awards are given annually in December. This year, Leor Halevi received the Ralph Waldo Emerson Award for Muhammad’s Grave: Death Rites and the Making of Islamic Society, Peter Brooks received the Christian Gauss Award for Henry James Goes to Paris and Neil Shubin received the Phi Beta Kappa Book Award in Science for Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body. The Society presented the awards on December 5 at the Williamsburg Lodge in Colonial Williamsburg, Va. Donald Lamm, former chairman of the board of W. W. Norton, was the keynote speaker.