Every year, Choice subject editors single out for recognition the most significant print and electronic works reviewed in Choice during the previous calendar year. Appearing annually in Choice’s January issue, this prestigious list of publications reflects the best in scholarly titles and attracts extraordinary attention from the academic library community.
In awarding Outstanding Academic Title status, the editors apply several criteria to reviewed titles:
• 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
The list cites only bibliographic information. The number and publication issue of each review are also provided to assist readers wishing detailed evaluations of the titles.
Business, Management & Labor
Buffington, Jack. The death of management: restoring value to the U.S. economy. Praeger, 2009. 188p bibl index afp ISBN 9780313362125, $29.95 Dec’09, 47-2092
Business management and environmental stewardship: environmental thinking as a prelude to management action, ed. by Robert Staib. Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. 319p bibl index ISBN 9780230535619 pbk, $49.95 Nov’09, 47-1516
Cairns, George. A very short, fairly interesting and reasonably cheap book about international business, by George Cairns and Martyna Sliwa. Sage Publications, CA, 2008. 176p bibl index afp ISBN 9781412947626, $79.95 Apr’09, 46-4537
Clikeman, Paul M. Called to account: fourteen financial frauds that shaped the American accounting profession. Routledge, 2009. 345p bibl index ISBN 9780415996976, $160.00 Aug’09, 46-6897
Dobbin, Frank. Inventing equal opportunity. Princeton, 2009. 310p bibl index afp ISBN 9780691137438, $35.00 Dec’09, 47-2093
Erickson, Tamara. Plugged in: the Generation Y guide to thriving at work. Harvard Business School Press, 2008. 278p bibl index afp ISBN 9781422120606, $16.95 Apr’09, 46-4540
Fairlie, Robert W. Race and entrepreneurial success: black-, Asian-, and white-owned businesses in the United States, by Robert W. Fairlie and Alicia M. Robb. MIT, 2008. 240p bibl index afp ISBN 9780262062817, $35.00 Mar’09, 46-3936
Friend, Graham. Guide to business planning, by Graham Friend and Stefan Zehle. Bloomberg Press, 2009. (Dist. by Ingram Publishing Services) 282p index afp ISBN 9781576603284, $32.95 Aug’09, 46-6899
Funk, Tom. Web 2.0 and beyond: understanding the new online business models, trends, and technologies. Praeger, 2009. 172p index afp ISBN 9780313351877, $34.95 May’09, 46-5124
Handbook of finance: v.1: Financial markets and instruments; v.2: Investment management and financial management; v.3: Valuation, financial modeling, and quantitative tools, ed. by Frank Fabozzi. Wiley, 2008. 3v bibl index ISBN 9780470042564, $750.00 Jan’09, 46-2774
Miller, Geoffrey. Spent: sex, evolution, and consumer behavior. Viking, 2009. 374p bibl index ISBN 9780670020621, $26.95 Dec’09, 47-2098
Mishel, Lawrence. The state of working America, 2008/2009, by Lawrence Mishel, Jared Bernstein, and Heidi Shierholz. ILR Press, 2009. 458p bibl index ISBN 9780801447549, $59.95 Oct’09, 47-0956
The Organization of the future 2: visions, strategies, and insights on managing in a new era, ed. by Frances Hesselbein and Marshall Goldsmith . Jossey-Bass, 2009. 348p index ISBN 9780470185452, $29.95 Jul’09, 46-6296
Ross, Andrew. Nice work if you can get it: life and labor in precarious times. New York University, 2009. 264p bibl index afp ISBN 0814776299, $27.95 Sep’09, 47-0373
Sivulka, Juliann. Ad women: how they impact what we need, want, and buy. Prometheus Books, 2009. 415p bibl index afp ISBN 9781591026723, $27.00 May’09, 46-5128
Economics
Aldred, Jonathan. The skeptical economist: revealing the ethics inside economics. Earthscan Publications Ltd., 2009. 281p bibl index afp ISBN 9781844077052, $35.00 Oct’09, 47-0962
Barndt, Deborah. Tangled routes: women, work, and globalization on the tomato trail. Rowman & Littlefield, 2008. 335p index afp ISBN 9780742555563, $80.00; ISBN 9780742555570 pbk, $29.95 Jun’09, 46-5714
Berend, Ivan T. From the Soviet Bloc to the European Union: the economic and social transformation of Central and Eastern Europe since 1973. Cambridge, 2009. 299p bibl index ISBN 9780521493659, $99.00; ISBN 9780521729505 pbk, $37.99 Aug’09, 46-6909
O Gráda, Cormac. Famine: a short history. Princeton, 2009. 327p bibl index afp ISBN 9780691122373, $27.95 Sep’09, 47-0400
The Elgar companion to social economics, ed. by John B. Davis and Wilfred Dolfsma. E. Elgar, 2008. 682p bibl index ISBN 9781845422806, $285.00 Mar’09, 46-3954
FDIC: Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. URL: http://www.fdic.gov/ Apr’09, 46-4554
The Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco. URL: http://www.frbsf.org/ Sep’09, 47-0386
Ferguson, Niall. The ascent of money: a financial history of the world. Penguin, 2008. 441p bibl index ISBN 9781594201929, $29.95 Apr’09, 46-4555
Fisman, Raymond. Economic gangsters: corruption, violence, and the poverty of nations, by Raymond Fisman and Edward Miguel. Princeton, 2008. 240p bibl index afp ISBN 9780691134543, $24.95 Feb’09, 46-3354
Fouquet, Roger. Heat, power and light: revolutions in energy services. E. Elgar, 2008. 470p bibl indexes ISBN 9781845426606, $160.00 Feb’09, 46-3355
Fourcade, Marion. Economists and societies: discipline and profession in the United States, Britain, and France, 1890s to 1990s. Princeton, 2009. 388p bibl index afp ISBN 9780691117607, $35.00 Nov’09, 47-1537
Geisst, Charles R. Collateral damaged: the marketing of consumer debt to America. Bloomberg Press, 2009. 274p bibl index afp ISBN 9781576603253, $27.95 Dec’09, 47-2113
Goldthwaite, Richard A. The economy of Renaissance Florence. Johns Hopkins, 2009. 649p index afp ISBN 9780801889820, $55.00 Aug’09, 46-6925
Guthrie, Doug. China and globalization: the social, economic and political transformation of Chinese society. Routledge, 2009. 367p bibl index afp ISBN 9780415990394, $135.00 Apr’09, 46-4558
Marsh, David. The euro: the politics of the new global currency. Yale, 2009. 340p bibl index afp ISBN 9780300127300, $35.00 Oct’09, 47-0979
Mayer, Thomas. Invitation to economics: understanding argument and policy. Wiley-Blackwell, 2009. 334p index afp ISBN 9781405183932 pbk, $35.00 Jun’09, 46-5724
Measuring inequality of opportunities in Latin America and the Caribbean, by Ricardo Paes de Barros et al. with Mirela de Carvalho et al. Palgrave Macmillan/World Bank, 2009. 195p bibl index ISBN 9780821377451 pbk, $30.00 Aug’09, 46-6930
Neumark, David. Minimum wages, by David Neumark and William L. Wascher. MIT, 2008. 376p bibl index afp ISBN 9780262141024, $40.00 May’09, 46-5142
OECD-FAO agricultural outlook, 2008-2017. Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development/Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2008. 229p ISBN 9789264045903 pbk, $124.00 Mar’09, 46-3959
Parker, David. The official history of privatisation: v.1: The formative years, 1970-1987. Routledge, 2009. 598p bibl index ISBN 9780415469166, $100.00 Sep’09, 47-0403
Reducing global poverty: patterns of potential human progress, by Barry B. Hughes et al. University of Denver/Paradigm Publishers/Oxford, 2009. 334p index afp ISBN 9781594516399, $99.00; ISBN 9781594516405 pbk, $29.95 Jul’09, 46-6317
Sachs, Jeffrey D. Common wealth: economics for a crowded planet. Penguin, 2009 (c2008). 386p bibl index ISBN 9780143114871 pbk, $17.00 Jul’09, 46-6318
Shaviro, Daniel N. Decoding the U.S. corporate tax. Urban Institute, 2009. 206p bibl index ISBN 9780877667575 pbk, $26.50 Aug’09, 46-6933
Skousen, Mark. The making of modern economics: the lives and ideas of the great thinkers. M.E. Sharpe, 2009. 494p bibl index afp ISBN 9780765622266, $89.95; ISBN 9780765622273 pbk, $35.95 Jun’09, 46-5732
Spencer, David A. The political economy of work. Routledge, 2009. 170p bibl index ISBN 9780415457934, $130.00 Jul’09, 46-6320
Winter, Harold. The economics of crime: an introduction to rational crime analysis. Routledge, 2008. 131p bibl index ISBN 9780415771740 pbk, $41.95 Apr’09, 46-4571
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