University Press Books for
Public and Secondary School Libraries
The Best of the Best from the University Presses
2010 American Library Association Annual Conference
Washington, DC
June 27, 2010
1:30 PM
Live Broadcast on C-SPAN's BookTV
The "Best of the Best" program is presented annually at the ALA Conference. University presses represent an often-undiscovered gold mine of resources for school and public libraries. Public and secondary school librarians who served on the 2009-10 selection committees for University Press Books for Public and Secondary School Libraries will introduce recent titles they have found to be “the best” for a variety of reasons. Copies of the books presented will be raffled to program attendees. Read the press release.
The complete 2010 University Press Books is now online.
Titles were selected and will be presented by the following members of the 2010 University Press Books Committee:
Hilary Albert, Mahopac Public Library, Mahopac, NY
Judi Repman, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, GA
Teri Maggio, Assumption Parish Library, Napoleonville, LA
Jo Ann Carr, University of Wisconsin–Madison MERIT Library, Madison, WI
Nann Blaine Hilyard, Zion-Benton Public Library, Zion, IL
Sabrina Carnesi, Crittenden Middle School, Newport News, VA
TITLES (alphabetical by press):
BEACON PRESS
Early Spring: An Ecologist and Her Children Wake to a Warming World
by Amy Seidl
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS
The Book of Codes: Understanding the World of Hidden Messages: An Illustrated Guide to Signs, Symbols, Ciphers, and Secret Languages
edited by Paul Lunde
Historical Atlas of the American West: With Original Maps
by Derek Hayes
Leonard Bernstein: The Political Life of an American Musician
by Barry Seldes
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS
Bigfoot: The Life and Times of a Legend
by Joshua Blu Buhs
Great Plains: America's Lingering Wild
by Michael Forsberg
Nature's Great Events: The Most Amazing Natural Events on the Planet
edited by Karen Bass
GETTY PUBLICATIONS
The Great Empires of the Ancient World
edited by Thomas Harrison
HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS
The Generalissimo: Chiang Kai-shek and the Struggle for Modern China
by Jay Taylor (The Belknap Press)
INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
Making Music and Having a Blast!
by Bonnie Blanchard (with Cynthia Blanchard Acree)
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
The Blue Tattoo: The Life of Olive Oatman
by Margot Mifflin
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS PRESS
Jade Visions: The Life and Music of Scott LaFaro
by Helene LaFaro-Fernandez
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815
by Gordon Wood
PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Ice Cream U: The Story of the Nation's Most Successful Collegiate Creamery
by Lee Stout
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS
The Princeton Encyclopedia of American Political History
by Michael Kazin
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY PRESS
Picturing Medical Progress from Pasteur to Polio: A History of Mass Media Images and Popular Attitudes in America
by Bert Hansen
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS
Together, Alone: A Memoir of Marriage and Place
by Susan Wittig Albert
Shooting Stars of the Small Screen: Encyclopedia of TV Western Actors, 1946-present
by Douglas Brode
VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY PRESS
The Ghosts of Harlem: Sessions with Jazz Legends
by Hank O’Neal
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS
Genghis Khan and the Mongol Empire
edited by William Fitzhugh, Morris Rossabi, and William Honeychurch
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