This week, Foreword Magazine announced the finalists for their 2009 Book of the Year Awards, which were selected from 1,400 entries in 60
categories, representing more than 360 publishers.

Yale University Press picked up 10 nominations in eight categories, with two YUP titles represented in both Philosophy and History. Click here to view a slideshow of YUP’s nominees. A full list of YUP finalists is available after the jump:

• Elephants
  on the Edge by G.A. Bradshaw
• Green
  Intelligence by John Wargo
• Heidegger
  by Emmanuel Faye
• Judaism
  by David Gelernter
• Paradoxical
  Life by Andreas Wagner
• Seasons
  of Life by Russell G. Foster and Leon Kreitzman
• Spies
  by John Earl Haynes, Harvey Klehr, and Alexander Vassiliev
• The
  Art of Not Being Governed by James C. Scott
• The
  Hanging of Thomas Jeremiah by William J. Harris
• Treasures
  of the Earth by Saleem Ali