“Species” an ALA Choice Book 15 Jan 2011 I take what plaudits I can: Choice, from The American Library Association, has listed my book Species: A History of the Idea as an “Outstanding Academic Title” for 2010, a list they release each each January. Their criteria are: overall excellence in presentation and scholarship importance relative to other literature in the field distinction as a first treatment of a given subject in book or electronic form originality or uniqueness of treatment value to undergraduate students importance in building undergraduate library collections This is a nice bit of recognition. Book History Species concept History
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That accolade must be better than a blog award. Shows that the ALA has some intelligent people making the choices. Given the quality of this choice I suspect the others might be worth reading.
I look forward to finding the book in our university library. (It has the Defining Species book now.) Congratulations!
You inspire me to buy the paperback and donate it to my local library. And I’ll check the university up the road (CSULB) and see if they want a copy. $40 well spent.
I, for one, have been enjoying my copy. It continues to come in handy as a reference, and was a good read all the way through. Cheers!
A well deserved recognition. Congratulations! And I agree with Susan Silberstein, this just shows what idiots the Bond people have been.
I echo the congratulations! They got the last five right, and they got the first one right regarding scholarship. I would only ask that for your next book you give me a chance to proofread to improve some of your sentence construction. I can’t touch your erudition, but I have spent enough time correcting writing before it goes out the door that I think I am good at proofing.