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46 Cambridge books win Choice 'Outstanding Academic Title' in 2024
Choice announces the 2024 award winners
Each December, Choice, a part of the American Library Association, releases its list of Outstanding Academic Titles. This highly regarded collection highlights the best scholarly works, both print and digital, reviewed over the past year and is a mark of excellence within the academic library community.
The highly selective list features about ten percent of the approximately 5,000 works reviewed annually by Choice.
Criteria include:
overall 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
importance in building undergraduate library collections
Congratulations to the authors of our 46 books awarded the 2024 Choice 'Outstanding Academic Title'.
The full list:
- An Introduction to Mesoamerican Philosophy, Alexus McLeod
- Applied Narrative Psychology, Nigel Hunt
- Applied Science: Knowledge, Modernity and Britain’s Public Realm, Robert Bud
- Babylonian Jews and Sasanian Imperialism in Late Antiquity, Simcha Gross
- Child Slavery and Guardianship in Colonial Senegal, Bernard Moitt
- China’s Chance to Lead: Acquiring Global Influence via Infrastructure Development and Digitalization, Richard W. Carney
- Data Science for Complex Systems, Anindya S. Chakrabarti, K. Shuvo Bakar, Anirban Chakraborti
- Democracy’s Resilience to Populism’s Threat: Countering Global Alarmism, Kurt Weyland
- Emotions and Surgery in Britain, 1793—1912, Michael Brown
- Enmity and Violence in Early Modern Europe, Stuart Carroll
- Equality Unfulfilled: How Title IX’s Policy Design Undermines Change to College Sports, James N. Druckman, Elizabeth A. Sharrow
- Fake News in America: Contested Meanings in the Post-Truth Era, Anthony R. DiMaggio
- Fluid Dynamics of Particles, Drops, and Bubbles, Eric Loth
- Fluvial Megafans on Earth and Mars, Justin Wilkinson, Yanni Gunnell
- How to Think About Climate Change: Insights from Economics for the Perplexed but Open-Minded Citizen, Riccardo Rebonato
- Isostasy and Flexure of the Lithosphere, A. B. Watts
- Jazz and American Culture, Michael Borshuk
- Jubilee’s Experiment: The British West Indies and American Abolitionism, Dexter J. Gabriel
- Magmatism in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica, Bruce Marsh
- Montesquieu: Let There Be Enlightenment, Catherine Volpilhac-Auger
- Motherhood: Contemporary Transitions and Generational Change, Tina Miller
- Nature Conservation in Europe: Approaches and Lessons, Graham Tucker
- Opioid Epidemic: Origins, Current State and Potential Solutions, Ethan O. Bryson, Christine E. Boxhorn
- Pricing the Priceless: A History of Environmental Economics, H. Spencer Banzhaf
- Proven Impossible: Elementary Proofs of Profound Impossibility from Arrow, Bell, Chaitin, Gödel, Turing and More, Dan Gusfield
- Sensory Anthropology: Culture and Experience in Asia, Kelvin E. Y. Low
- Staël, Romanticism and Revolution: The Life and Times of the First European, John Claiborne Isbell
- State and Nation Making in Latin America and Spain: The Neoliberal State and Beyond, Miguel A. Centeno, Agustin E. Ferraro
- Taming the Cycles of Finance? Central Banks and the Macro-Prudential Shift in Financial Regulation, Matthias Thiemann
- The Archaeology of Patagonia and the Pampas, Gustavo G. Politis, Luis A. Borrero
- The Cambridge Handbook of Prosociality: Development, Mechanisms, Promotion, Tina Malti, Maayan Davidov
- The Cambridge Handbook of Race and Surveillance, Michael Kwet
- The Cambridge Handbook of the Development of Coping, Ellen A. Skinner, Melanie J. Zimmer-Gembeck
- The Cambridge History of the American Essay, Christy Wampole, Jason Childs
- The Cambridge History of the Mongol Empire, Michal Biran, Hodong Kim
- The Literary Criticism of Samuel Johnson: Forms of Artistry and Thought, Philip Smallwood
- The Long Journey of English: A Geographical History of the Language, Peter Trudgill
- The Making of the Doric Temple: Architecture, Religion, and Social Change in Archaic Greece, Gabriel Zuchtriegel
- The Philosophy of Evolutionary Theory: Concepts, Inferences, and Probabilities, Elliott Sober
- Toxic Stress: How Stress Is Making Us Ill and What We Can Do About It, Lawson R. Wulsin
- Transforming Food Systems Under Climate Change Through Innovation, Bruce Campbell, Philip Thornton, Ana Maria Loboguerrero, Dhanush Dinesh, Andreea Nowak
- Understanding Reproduction, Giuseppe Fusco, Alessandro Minelli
- Unequal Health: Anti-Black Racism and the Threat to American Health, Louis A. Penner, John F. Dovidio, Nao Hagiwara, Brian D. Smedley
- Untied Kingdom: A Global History of the End of Britain, Stuart Ward
- Why Mothers Died and How Their Lives Are Saved: The Story of Confidential Enquiries into Maternal Deaths, James Owen Drife, Gwyneth Lewis, James P Neilson, Marian Knight, Griselda Cooper, Roch Cantwell
- Women and Medieval Literary Culture: From the Early Middle Ages to the Fifteenth Century, Corinne Saunders, Diane Watt
