Choice Outstanding Academic Titles of 2010

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.

2010 Business, Management & Labour Titles

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The AMA handbook of leadership, [ed.] by Marshall Goldsmith, John Baldoni, and Sarah McArthur.  AMACOM, 2010.  269p index  ISBN 9780814415139, $29.95  Jun’10, 47-5743

Auletta, Ken. Googled: the end of the world as we know it.  Penguin, 2009.  384p bibl  index  ISBN 9781594202353, $27.95  Jul’10, 47-6349

Bornstein, David. Social entrepreneurship: what everyone needs to know, by David Bornstein and Susan Davis.  Oxford, 2010.  147p bibl  index  afp  ISBN 9780195396348, $74.00;  ISBN 9780195396331 pbk, $16.95  Oct’10, 48-0968

Getman, Julius G. Restoring the power of unions: it takes a movement.  Yale, 2010.  381p bibl  index  afp  ISBN 9780300137002, $55.00  Nov’10, 48-1569

Gossieaux, Francois. The hyper-social organization: eclipse your competition by leveraging social media, by Francois Gossieaux and Edward K. Moran.  McGraw-Hill, 2010.  359p bibl  index  ISBN 9780071714020, $29.95  Dec’10, 48-2176

Kirkpatrick, David. The Facebook effect: the inside story of the company that is connecting the world.  Simon & Schuster, 2010.  372p bibl  index  ISBN 9781439102114, $26.00  Dec’10, 48-2179

Kleiner, Art. The age of heretics: a history of the radical thinkers who reinvented corporate management.  Jossey-Bass, 2008.  391p bibl  index  ISBN 9780470190708, $29.95  Mar’10, 47-3908

Mintzberg, Henry. Managing.  Berrett-Koehler, 2009.  306p bibl  index  afp  ISBN 9781576753408, $26.95  Feb’10, 47-3263

Qfinance: the ultimate resource.  Bloomsbury, 2009.  2,160p index  ISBN 9781849300001, $250.00  Mar’10, 47-3909

Steers, Richard M. Management across cultures: challenges and strategies, by Richard M. Steers, Carlos J. Sanchez-Runde, and Luciara Nardon.  Cambridge, 2010.  439p index  ISBN 9780521513432, $125.00;  ISBN 9780521734974 pbk, $50.00  Oct’10, 48-0978

Taylor, Alex, III. Sixty to zero: an inside look at the collapse of General Motors--and the Detroit auto industry.  Yale, 2010.  254p index  afp  ISBN 9780300158687, $26.00  Oct’10, 48-0979

Yunus, Muhammad. Building social business: the new kind of capitalism that serves humanity's most pressing needs, by Muhammad Yunus with Karl Weber.  PublicAffairs, 2010.  226p index  ISBN 9781586488246, $25.95  Sep’10, 48-0381

Economics

Appleby, Joyce. The relentless revolution: a history of capitalism.  W.W. Norton, 2010.  494p index  ISBN 9780393068948, $29.95  Jul’10, 47-6368

Barth, James R. The rise and fall of the U.S. mortgage and credit markets: a comprehensive analysis of the market meltdown, by James R. Barth et al.  Wiley-Blackwell, 2009.  526p bibl  index  ISBN 9780470477243, $60.00  Jan’10, 47-2672

Better living through economics, ed. by John J. Siegfried.  Harvard, 2010.  315p bibl  index  ISBN 9780674036185, $45.00  Aug’10, 47-6971

Brautigam, Deborah. The dragon's gift: the real story of China in Africa.  Oxford, 2009.  397p index  afp  ISBN 9780199550227, $29.95  Sep’10, 48-0383

Brohé, Arnaud. Carbon markets: an international business guide, by Arnaud Brohé, Nick Eyre, and Nicholas Howarth.  Earthscan Publications Ltd., 2009.  307p bibl  index  afp  ISBN 9781844077274, $58.50  Apr’10, 47-4515

Chichilnisky, Graciela. Saving Kyoto: an insider's guide to how it works, why it matters and what it means for the future, by Graciela Chichilnisky and Kristen A. Sheeran.  New Holland, 2009.  198p index  ISBN 9781847734310 pbk, $14.95  May’10, 47-5128

Climate change and global poverty: a billion lives in the balance?, ed. by Lael Brainard, Abigail Jones, and Nigel Purvis.  Brookings, 2009.  299p index  afp  ISBN 9780815702818 pbk, $22.95  May’10, 47-5131

Fitzgerald, Joan. Emerald cities: urban sustainability and economic development.  Oxford, 2010.  242p bibl  index  afp  ISBN 9780195382761, $29.95  Jul’10, 47-6374

Greenwood, Daphne T. Local economic development in the 21st century: quality of life and sustainability, by Daphne T. Greenwood and Richard P. F. Holt.  M.E. Sharpe, 2010.  215p bibl  index  afp  ISBN 9780765620934, $89.95  Oct’10, 48-0988

Harvey, David. A companion to Marx's Capital.  Verso, 2010.  356p index  ISBN 9781844673599 pbk, $19.95  Oct’10, 48-0989

The Long-term international economic position of the United States, ed. by C. Fred Bergsten.  Peterson Institute for International Economics, 2009.  83p bibl  index  ISBN 9780881324327 pbk, $17.95  Feb’10, 47-3286

Lucy, William H. Foreclosing the dream: how America's housing crisis is reshaping our cities and suburbs.  APA Planners Press, 2010.  195p index  ISBN 9781932364781 pbk, $52.95  Sep’10, 48-0395

Lynn, Barry C. Cornered: the new monopoly capitalism and the economics of destruction.  Wiley, 2010.  312p bibl  index  ISBN 9780470186381, $26.95  May’10, 47-5140

Marján, Attila. Europe's destiny: the old lady and the bull, tr. by Péter Szücs.  Woodrow Wilson Center/Johns Hopkins, 2010.  393p bibl  index  afp  ISBN 9780801895470, $60.00;  ISBN 9780801895487 pbk, $30.00  Oct’10, 48-0993

McGuire, James W. Wealth, health, and democracy in East Asia and Latin America.  Cambridge, 2010.  406p bibl  index  ISBN 9780521515467, $85.00;  ISBN 9780521139342 pbk, $27.99  Sep’10, 48-0397

Meltzer, Allan H. A history of the Federal Reserve: v.2, bk. 1, 1951-1969; v.2, bk. 2, 1970-1986.  Chicago, 2009.  2v bibl  index  afp  ISBN 9780226519944, $75.00  Jul’10, 47-6381

Noam, Eli M. Media ownership and concentration in America.  Oxford, 2009.  489p bibl  index  afp  ISBN 9780195188523, $99.00  May’10, 47-5144

Reinhart, Carmen M. This time is different: eight centuries of financial folly, by Carmen M. Reinhart and Kenneth S. Rogoff.  Princeton, 2009.  463p bibl  indexes  afp  ISBN 9780691142166, $35.00  Feb’10, 47-3289

Russia after the global economic crisis, ed. by Anders Åslund, Sergei Guriev, and Andrew C. Kuchins.  Peterson Institute for International Economics, 2010.  287p index  ISBN 9780881324976 pbk, $22.95  Oct’10, 48-0999

Schwartz, Alex F. Housing policy in the United States.  Routledge, 2010.  368p bibl  index  ISBN 9780415802338, $145.00;  ISBN 9780415802345 pbk, $45.95  Nov’10, 48-1594

Smith, Ron. Military economics: the interaction of power and money.  Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.  194p bibl  index  ISBN 9780230228535, $89.95  Sep’10, 48-0399

Sperling, Daniel. Two billion cars: driving toward sustainability, by Daniel Sperling and Deborah Gordon.  Oxford, 2009.  304p bibl  index  afp  ISBN 9780195376647, $24.95  Feb’10, 47-3292

Stiglitz, Joseph E. Freefall: America, free markets, and the sinking of the world economy.  W.W. Norton, 2010.  361p bibl  ISBN 9780393075960, $27.95  Jul’10, 47-6385

Todorova, Zdravka. Money and households in a capitalist economy: a gendered post Keynesian-institutional analysis.  E. Elgar, 2009.  165p bibl  index  ISBN 9781847209535, $100.00  Feb’10, 47-3293

Wessel, David. In Fed we trust: Ben Bernanke's war on the great panic.  Crown Business, 2009.  323p index  ISBN 9780307459688, $26.99  Feb’10, 47-3294