Choice names 37 Outstanding Academic Titles from the Press in 2021

We are proud to announce that 37 Press books have been chosen for Choice’s prestigious Outstanding Academic Titles list in 2021.

Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries is a publication of the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL). Every year, they release their list of Outstanding Academic Titles that represents the best in scholarly titles, including books and digital resources, reviewed during the past year. The complete 2021 list includes 440 books and digital resources from among the more than 3,600 titles reviewed, roughly 12 percent of the titles reviewed and less than 3 percent of the 17,000+ titles submitted.

The criteria for selection in this list includes overall the reviewer's evaluation, excellence in presentation and scholarship, importance relative to other literature in the field, distinction as a first treatment of a given subject in book or electronic form, originality or uniqueness of treatment, value to undergraduate students, and importance in building undergraduate library collections.

The following Press titles were selected in 2021:

• A History of West Central Africa to 1850

• After the Digital Tornado: Networks, Algorithms, Humanity

• Barn Owls: Evolution and Ecology

• Bel Vedere, or The Garden of Muses: An Early Modern Printed Commonplace Book

• Boom and Bust: A Global History of Financial Bubbles

• Challenges to Tackling Antimicrobial Resistance: Economic and Policy Responses

• Chimpanzee: Lessons from Our Sister Species

• Constitutionalizing World Politics: The Logic of Democratic Power and the Unintended Consequences of International Treaty Making

• Fighting the First Wave: Why the Coronavirus was Tackled so Differently Across the Globe

• France’s Wars in Chad: Military Intervention and Decolonization in Africa

• Hometown Inequality: Race, Class, and Representation in American Local Politics

• Human-Robot Interaction: An Introduction

• Humanitarianism in the Modern World: The Moral Economy of Famine Relief

• Islam and Asia: A History

• On Justice: Philosophy, History, Foundations

• Policing the Womb: Invisible Women and the Criminalization of Motherhood

• Political Leadership in Africa: Leaders and Development South of the Sahara

• Race, Class, and Social Welfare: American Populism since the New Deal

• Reluctant Reception: Refugees, Migration, and Governance in the Middle East and North Africa

• Shakespeare’s Accents: Voicing Identity in Performance

• Spatial Analysis in Field Primatology

• The Arab Winter: Democratic Consolidation, Civil War, and Radical Islamists

• The Art of Sculpture in Fifteenth Century Italy

• The Beats: A Literary History

• The Cambridge Companion to Legal Positivism 

• The Cambridge Handbook of Intercultural Communication

• The Cambridge History of Native American Literature

• The Cambridge History of Science V.8: Modern Science in National, Transnational, and Global Context

• The Caravan: Abdallah Azzam and the Rise of Global Jihad

• The New Feminist Literary Studies

• The Origins of the Syrian Conflict: Climate Change and Human Security

• The Second Founding: An Introduction to the Fourteenth Amendment

• The UN Friendly Relations Declaration at 50: An Assessment of the Fundamental Principles of International Law

• The World Imagined: An Assessment of the Fundamental Principles of International Law

• Thou Shalt Have No Other Gods Before Me: Why Governments Discriminate Against Minorities

• Warfare in the Roman World

• Words Matter: Meaning and Power

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