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Best Books of 2018
Books from several review sources are listed as the best titles from 2018.
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CHOICE Outstanding Academic Titles
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Fiction
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A - F
An African American and Latinx History of the United States
by
Paul Ortiz (Contribution by)
Call Number:
Wilm Circulating Books E 184 .S75 O79 2018
ISBN: 9780807013106
Publication Date: 2018-01-30
After Extinction
by
Richard Grusin (Editor)
Call Number:
Wilm Circulating Books GF 75 .A4 2018
ISBN: 9781517902896
Publication Date: 2018-03-20
All In: The Spread of Gambling in Twentieth-century United States
by
Jonathan D. Cohen (Editor); David G. Schwartz (Editor)
Call Number:
Wilm Circulating Books HV 6715 .A485 2018
ISBN: 9781943859603
Publication Date: 2018-03-30
America Classifies the Immigrants: From Ellis Island to the 2020 Census
by
Joel Perlmann
Call Number:
Wilm Circulating Books JV 6483 .P45 2018
ISBN: 9780674425057
Publication Date: 2018-03-26
The Ark and Beyond: The Evolution of Zoo and Aquarium Conservation
by
Ben A. Minteer (Editor); Jane Maienschein (Editor); James P. Collins (Editor)
Call Number:
Wilm Circulating Books QL 76 .A75 2018
ISBN: 9780226538327
Publication Date: 2018-02-20
Basic Experimental Strategies and Data Analysis for Science and Engineering
by
John Lawson; John Erjavec
Call Number:
Wilm Circulating Books TA 160 .L39 2017
ISBN: 9781466512177
Publication Date: 2016-12-15
Best Before: The Evolution and Future of Processed Food
by
Nicola Temple
Call Number:
Wilm Circulating Books TP 370 .T46 2018
ISBN: 9781472941435
Publication Date: 2018-02-22
Beyond Mobility: PLanning Cities for People and Places
by
Robert Cervero; Erick Guerra; Stefan Al
Call Number:
North Circulating Books HT 166 .C356 2017
ISBN: 9781610918343
Publication Date: 2017-12-05
The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect
by
Judea Pearl; Dana Mackenzie
Call Number:
Wilm Circulating Books Q 175.32 .C38 P43 2018
ISBN: 9780465097609
Publication Date: 2018-05-15
CBT for Beginners
by
Jane Simmons; Rachel Griffiths
Call Number:
Wilm Circulating Books RC 489 .C63 S56 2018
ISBN: 9781526424075
Publication Date: 2017-11-23
Cells Are the New Drugs: The Dutting-edge Medical Breakthroughs That Are Transforming Our Health
by
Robin L. Smith; Max Gomez; Sanjay Gupta (Foreword by)
Call Number:
Wilm Circulating Books RM 370 .S65 2017
ISBN: 9781944648800
Publication Date: 2017-10-24
Christian: The Politics of a Word in America
by
Matthew Bowman
Call Number:
Wilm Circulating Books BR 115 .P7 B6675 2018
ISBN: 9780674737631
Publication Date: 2018-04-02
Conquering Lyme Disease: Science Bridges to Great Divide
by
Brian A. Fallon; Jennifer Sotsky
Call Number:
Wilm Circulating Books RC 155.5 .F35 2018
ISBN: 9780231183840
Publication Date: 2017-12-12
Counting Americans: How the US Census Classified the Nation
by
Paul Schor
Call Number:
Wilm Circulating Books HA 181 .S3413 2017
ISBN: 9780199917853
Publication Date: 2017-07-03
The Cross: History, Art, and Controversy
by
Robin M. Jensen
Call Number:
Wilm Circulating Books BV 160 .J46 2017
ISBN: 9780674088801
Publication Date: 2017-04-17
Deadly Justice: A Statistical Portrait of the Death Penalty
by
Frank Baumgartner; Marty Davidson; Kaneesha Johnson; Arvind Krishnamurthy; Colin Wilson
Call Number:
Wilm Circulating Books KF 9227 .C2 D39 2018
ISBN: 9780190841546
Publication Date: 2017-12-06
Enemies of the State: The Radical Right in America from FDR to Trump
by
Darren J. Mulloy
Call Number:
Wilm Circulating Books E 183 .M878 2018
ISBN: 9781442276512
Publication Date: 2018-07-15
Equal under the Sky: Georgia O'Keeffe and Twentieth-century Feminism
by
Linda M. Grasso
Call Number:
Wilm Circulating Books N 6537 .O39 G73 2017
ISBN: 9780826358813
Publication Date: 2017-10-01
Essential Fish Biology: Diversity, Structure, and Function
by
Derek Burton; Margaret Burton
Call Number:
Wilm Circulating Books QL 615 .B84 2018
ISBN: 9780198785552
Publication Date: 2017-12-05
Evidence
by
Howard S. Becker
Call Number:
Wilm Circulating Books H 61 .B433 2017
ISBN: 9780226466231
Publication Date: 2017-07-10
Choice Top 10
Faster, Smarter, Greener: The Future of the Car and Urban Mobility
by
Venkat Sumantran; Charles Fine; David Gonsalvez
Call Number:
Wilm Circulating Books HE 5611 .S86 2017
ISBN: 9780262036665
Publication Date: 2017-09-22
First Exposures: Writings from the Beginning of Photography
by
Steffen Siegel (Editor)
Call Number:
Wilm Circulating Books TR 15 .N44713 2017
ISBN: 9781606065242
Publication Date: 2017-08-29
The First Railroads: Atlas of Early Railroads
by
Derek Hayes
Call Number:
Wilm Circulating Books TF 15 .H393 2017
ISBN: 9780228100096
Publication Date: 2017-09-29
Forged in Crisis: The Power of Courageous Leadership in Turbulent Times
by
Nancy Koehn
Call Number:
Wilm Circulating Books HM 1261 .K63 2017
ISBN: 9781501174445
Publication Date: 2017-10-03
Choice Top 10
Frenemies: Feminists, Conservatives, and Sexual Violence
by
Nancy Whittier
Call Number:
Wilm Circulating Books HV 6592 .W45 2018
ISBN: 9780190235994
Publication Date: 2018-02-06
G - O
Getting a Life: The Social Worlds of Geek Culture
by
Benjamin Woo
Call Number:
Wilm Circulating Books HM 646 .W65 2018
ISBN: 9780773552845
Publication Date: 2018-02-28
Grasping Shadows: The Dark Side of Literature, Painting, Photography, and Film
by
William Chapman Sharpe
Call Number:
Wilm Circulating Books NX 650 .S55 S53 2017
ISBN: 9780190675271
Publication Date: 2017-09-06
Guide to the Geology and Natural History of the Blue Ridge Mountains
by
Edgar W. Spencer; Shawn Spencer (Designed by)
Call Number:
Wilm Circulating Books QE 174 .B58 S64 2017
ISBN: 9780983747161
Publication Date: 2017-04-05
A Handbook of Food Crime: Immoral and Illegal Practices in the Food Industry and What To Do About Them
by
Ronald Hinch (Editor); Allison Gray (Editor)
Call Number:
Wilm Circulating Books HD 9000.5 .H356 2018
ISBN: 9781447336013
Publication Date: 2018-05-15
Henry David Thoreau: A Life
by
Laura Dassow Walls
Call Number:
Wilm Circulating Books PS 3053 .W28 2018
ISBN: 9780226599373
Publication Date: 2018-09-28
Homeward: Life in the Year after Prison
by
Bruce Western
Call Number:
Wilm Circulating Books HV 9275 .W424 2018
ISBN: 9780871549556
Publication Date: 2018-05-15
How to Write and Present Technical Information, 4th Edition
by
Charles H. Sides
Call Number:
Wilm Circulating Books T 11 .S528 2017
ISBN: 9781440855054
Publication Date: 2017-09-15
Improv Nation: How We Made a Great American Art
by
Sam Wasson
Call Number:
Wilm Circulating Books PN 2071 .I5 W37 2017
ISBN: 9780544557208
Publication Date: 2017-12-05
Insects: Their Natural History and Diversity: With A Photographic Guide to Insects of Eastern North America
by
Stephen Marshall
Call Number:
Wilm Circulating Books QL 473 .M33 2017
ISBN: 9781770859623
Publication Date: 2017-09-01
Introduction to Energy: Resources, Technology, and Society
by
Edward S. Cassedy; Peter Z. Grossman
Call Number:
Wilm Circulating Books TJ 163.2 .C4 2017
ISBN: 9781107605046
Publication Date: 2017-07-06
Iran: A Modern History
by
Abbas Amanat
Call Number:
Wilm Circulating Books DS 272 .A424 2017
ISBN: 9780300112542
Publication Date: 2017-10-24
Is Entrepreneurship Dead?: The Truth About Startups in America
by
Scott A. Shane
Call Number:
Wilm Circulating Books HB 615 .S53 2018
ISBN: 9780300212112
Publication Date: 2018-05-08
Islam: An American Religion
by
Nadia Marzouki; Christopher Jon Delogu; Olivier Roy (Foreword by); Richard Bulliet; Gerhard Endress; Carole Hillenbrand
Call Number:
Wilm Circulating Books BP 67 .U6 M3713 2017
ISBN: 9780231176804
Publication Date: 2017-04-04
Choice Top 10
It's All a Game: The History of Board Games from Monopoly to Settlers of Catan
by
Tristan Donovan
Call Number:
Wilm Circulating Books GV 1312 .D66 2017
ISBN: 9781250082725
Publication Date: 2017-05-30
The Last Utopians: Four Late Nineteenth-century Visionaries and Their Legacy
by
Michael Robertson
Call Number:
Wilm Circulating Books PN 56 .U8 R58 2018
ISBN: 9780691154169
Publication Date: 2018-05-29
Making Sense: The Glamorous Story of English Grammar
by
David Crystal
Call Number:
Wilm Circulating Books PE 1095 .C79 2017
ISBN: 9780190660574
Publication Date: 2017-06-01
Making the Most of the Anthropocene: Facing the Future
by
Mark Denny
Call Number:
Wilm Circulating Books GF 21 .D46 2017
ISBN: 9781421423005
Publication Date: 2017-09-01
Miracle Brew: Hops, Barley, Water, Yeast and the Nature of Beer
by
Pete Brown
Call Number:
Wilm Circulating Books TP 577 .B755 2017
ISBN: 9781603587693
Publication Date: 2017-10-12
Modern Humans: Their African Origin and Global Dispersal
by
John F. Hoffecker
Call Number:
Wilm Circulating Books GN 281 .H625 2017
ISBN: 9780231160766
Publication Date: 2017-10-31
The Moon
by
Bill Leatherbarrow
Call Number:
Wilm Circulating Books QB 581 .L373 2018
ISBN: 9781780239149
Publication Date: 2018-05-15
Mountains: The Origins of the Earth's Mountain Systems
by
Graham Park
Call Number:
North Circulating Books QE 621 .P34 2018
ISBN: 9781780460666
Publication Date: 2017-11-09
The Odyssey: A New Translation
by
Homer; Peter Green
Call Number:
North Circulating Books PA 4025 .A5 G74 2018
ISBN: 9780520293632
Publication Date: 2018-03-28
On Color
by
David Kastan; Stephen Farthing
Call Number:
Wilm Circulating Books BF 789 .C7 K37 2018
ISBN: 9780300171877
Publication Date: 2018-05-22
On Gravity: A Brief Tour of a Weighty Subject
by
A. Zee
Call Number:
Wilm Circulating Books QB 331 .Z44 2018
ISBN: 9780691174389
Publication Date: 2018-04-24
P - Z
Philosophy of Race: An Introduction
by
Naomi Zack
Call Number:
Wilm Circulating Books HT 1521 .Z33 2018
ISBN: 9783319787282
Publication Date: 2018-04-25
The Presidency of Ulysses S. Grant
by
Charles W. Calhoun
Call Number:
North Circulating Books E 671 .C25 2017
ISBN: 9780700624843
Publication Date: 2017-08-28
Probability: a Lively Introduction
by
Henk Tijms
Call Number:
Wilm Circulating Books QA 273.2 .T55 2018
ISBN: 9781108418744
Publication Date: 2017-10-19
Pseudoscience - the Conspiracy Against Science
by
Allison B. Kaufman; James C. Kaufman; David K. Hecht; Emilio Lobato; Corrine Zimmerman
Call Number:
Wilm Circulating Books Q 172.5 .P77 P73 2018
ISBN: 9780262537049
Publication Date: 2019-03-01
Raising Government Children: A History of Foster Care and The American Welfare State
by
Catherine E. Rymph
Call Number:
Wilm Circulating Books HV 881 .R95 2017
ISBN: 9781469635637
Publication Date: 2017-10-23
The Rise of Victimhood Culture: Microaggressions, Safe Spaces, and the New Culture Wars
by
Bradley Campbell; Jason Manning
Call Number:
Wilm Circulating Books HN 1121 .C358 2018
ISBN: 9783319703282
Publication Date: 2018-02-27
Shame: A Brief History
by
Peter N. Stearns
Call Number:
Wilm Circulating Books BF 575 .S45 S74 2017
ISBN: 9780252082924
Publication Date: 2017-09-11
Smoketown: The Untold Story of the Other Great Black Renaissance
by
Mark Whitaker
Call Number:
Wilm Circulating Books F 159 .P69 N487 2018
ISBN: 9781501122392
Publication Date: 2018-01-30
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Spirituals and the Birth of a Black Entertainment Industry
by
Sandra Jean Graham
Call Number:
Wilm Circulating Books ML 3556 .G77 2018
ISBN: 9780252041631
Publication Date: 2018-02-26
Stonehenge: The Story of a Sacred Landscape
by
Francis Pryor
Call Number:
Wilm Circulating Books DA 142 .P79 2018
ISBN: 9781681776408
Publication Date: 2018-02-06
They Knew Lincoln
by
John E. Washington; Kate Masur (Editor)
Call Number:
Wilm Circulating Books E 457.15 .W32 2018
ISBN: 9780190270964
Publication Date: 2018-02-07
They Should Stay There: The Story of Mexican Migration and Repatriation During the Great Depression
by
Fernando Saúl Alanís Enciso; Russ Davidson (Translator); Mark Overmyer-Velazquez (Foreword by)
Call Number:
Wilm Circulating Books E 184.M5 A65313 2017
ISBN: 9781469634258
Publication Date: 2017-09-11
Trans Kids: Being Gendered in the Twenty-first Century
by
Tey Meadow
Call Number:
Wilm Circulating Books HQ 1075 .M425 2018
ISBN: 9780520275034
Publication Date: 2018-08-17
Universe in Creation: A New Understanding of the Big Bang and the Emergence of Life
by
Roy R. Gould
Call Number:
Wilm Circulating Books QH 325 .G68 2018
ISBN: 9780674976078
Publication Date: 2018-05-07
Veer Ecology: A Companion for Environmental Thinking
by
Jeffrey Jerome Cohen (Editor); Lowell Duckert (Editor)
Call Number:
Wilm Circulating Books GF 75 .V45 2017
ISBN: 9781517900762
Publication Date: 2017-12-15
Was the Cat in the Hat Black?: The Hidden Racism of Children's Literature, and the Need for diverse Books
by
Philip Nel
Call Number:
Wilm Circulating Books PN 1009.5 .R32 N47 2017
ISBN: 9780190635077
Publication Date: 2017-08-07
Choice Top 10
When Montezuma Met Cortés: The True Story of the Meeeting That Changed History
by
Matthew Restall (Contribution by)
Call Number:
Wilm Circulating Books F 1230 .R473 2018
ISBN: 9780062427267
Publication Date: 2018-01-30
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