Choice annual list includes 26 Yale Press books
A publication of the Association of College & Research Libraries, Choice, recently announced its list of the Outstanding Academic Titles of 2007. This list, released on January 1, “reflects the best titles reviewed by Choice in 2007 and brings with it the extraordinary recognition of the academic library community.” Yale University Press appears on this prestigious list 26 times among the 646 titles in 54 disciplines and subsections. Here is a list of the titles chosen from Yale Press:
John Wilkes: The Scandalous Father of Civil Liberty, by Arthur H. Cash
Bellini, Giorgione, Titian, and the Renaissance of Venetian Painting, by David Alan Brown and Sylvia Ferino-Pagden
Britannia and Muscovy: English Silver at the Court of the Tsars, by Natalya Abramova and Irina Zagarodnaya
On Political Equality, by Robert A. Dahl
Art in the Making: Rembrandt, by David Bomford, Jo Kirby, Ashok Roy, Axel Rüger, and Raymond White
Caesar: Life of a Colossus, by Adrian Goldsworthy
The Talking Book: African Americans and the Bible, by Allen Dwight Callahan
The Yale Book of Quotations, ed. by Fred R. Shapiro
On Opera, by Bernard Williams
The Unfree French: Life Under the Occupation, by Richard Vinen
Fugitive Landscapes: The Forgotten History of the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands, by Samuel Truett
Saul Steinberg: Illuminations, by Joel Smith
Wagner and the Art of the Theatre, by Patrick Carnegy
A Republic of Mind and Spirit: A Cultural History of American Metaphysical Religion, by Catherine L. Albanese
The Nonprofit Sector: A Research Handbook, ed. by Walter W. Powell and Richard Steinberg
John Singer Sargent: Figures and Landscapes, 1874-1882; Complete Paintings: Volume IV, by Richard Ormond and Elaine Kilmurray
Eero Saarinen: Shaping the Future, ed. by Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen and Donald Albrecht
Claude Lorrain–The Painter as Draftsman: Drawings from the British Museum, by Richard Rand
Thinking in Circles: An Essay on Ring Composition, by Mary Douglas
William Powell Frith: Painting in the Victorian Age, by Mark Bills and Vivien Knight
The Case for Literature, by Gao Xingjian
Shakespeare the Thinker, by A. D. Nuttall
Robert Rauschenberg: Cardboards and Related Pieces, by Yve-Alain Bois
The Gates of Paradise: Lorenzo Ghiberti’s Renaissance Masterpiece, ed. by Gary M. Radke
The Last Human: A Guide to Twenty-Two Species of Extinct Humans, created by G. J. Sawyer and Viktor Deak; text by Esteban Sarmiento, G.J. Sawyer, and Richard Milner
Russia’s Islamic Threat, by Gordon M. Hahn
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