Columbia University Press Outstanding Academic Titles from 2008
Every year, Choice subject editors single out for recognition the most significant print and electronic works reviewed in Choice during the previous calendar year. This prestigious list of publications reflects the best in scholarly titles and attracts extraordinary attention from the academic library community. The 2008 feature includes 679 titles in 54 disciplines and subsections.
11 Columbia University Press titles and 2 Wallflower titles were selected:
The Politics of Postsecular Religion: Mourning Secular Futures, by Ananda Abeysekara
Keeping Out the Other: A Critical Introduction to Immigration Enforcement Today, edited by David C. Brotherton and Philip Kretsedemas
The Columbia Gazetteer of the World, edited by Saul B. Cohen
The Columbia Sourcebook of Muslims in the United States, edited by Edward E. Curtis IV
The Cinematic Tango: Contemporary Argentine Film, by Tamara L. Falicov
Human Ecology of Beringia, by John F. Hoffecker and Scott A. Elias
China Rising: Peace, Power, and Order in East Asia, by David C. Kang
American Pests: The Losing War on Insects from Colonial Times to DDT, by James E. McWilliams
Hollywood Science: Movies, Science, and the End of the World, by Sidney Perkowitz
Technology in Postwar America: A History, by Carroll Pursell
The Columbia Guide to Central African Literature in English since 1945, by Adrian Roscoe
Secularism Confronts Islam, by Olivier Roy; translated by George Holoch
International Film Guide, 2008: The Definitive Annual Review of World Cinema, edited by Ian Haydn Smith
