COLLEGE
STATION—Choice Magazine has named Late Pleistocene Archaeology and Ecology in
the Far Northeast, edited by
Claude Chapdelaine and Texas Labor
History, edited by Bruce A.
Glasrud and James C. Maroney Outstanding Academic Titles for 2014.
Choice: Current Reviews for Academic
Libraries is a magazine that
annually reviews more than 7,000 academic books, electronic media and Internet
resources of interest to those in higher education. The books reviewed in Choice are given recommendation levels to
indicate to readers which books are essential to their collections of academic
books.
Each January Choice also releases a list of Outstanding Academic Titles that
were reviewed in the previous calendar year; only about 10 percent of the
thousands of books reviewed annually are selected to be a part of this list. Choice editors look at several criteria
when identifying the best titles: overall excellence in presentation and
scholarship, relative importance to other literature of the field, originality
or uniqueness, value to undergraduate students and importance in building
undergraduate libraries.
An Outstanding Academic Title, Late Pleistocene Archaeology and Ecology in
the Far Northeast focuses on the Clovis pioneers and their eastward
migration into the Far Northeast, a peninsula incorporating the six New England
states, New York east of the Hudson, Quebec south of the St. Lawrence River and
Gulf of St. Lawrence and the Maritime Provinces, inhospitable before 13,500
years ago, especially in its northern latitudes.
In Texas Labor History, the editors and contributors tackle a number
of presumptions—that a viable labor movement never existed in the Lone Star
State; that black, brown and white laborers, both male and female, were unable
to achieve even short-term solidarity; that labor unions in Texas were
ineffective because of laborers’ inability to confront employers— and lay the
foundation for establishing the importance of labor to a fuller understanding
of Texas history.
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