Taylor & Francis Group Presents all our Choice Outstanding Academic Titles.

The Choice "Outstanding Academic Title" Award is presented each year to a prestigious selection of academic material.  The OAT Award represents the highest caliber of scholarly titles that have been reviewed by Choice and conveys the extraordinary recognition of the academic community.

  To obtain recognition as an "Outstanding Academic Title", scholarly works must demonstrate:

  • 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

  • Value to undergraduate students

  • Importance in building undergraduate library selections

  Explore the works by Taylor & Francis that were selected as 2022 Outstanding Academic Titles below, according to a variety of subject areas and disciplines:

2022 OAT Award Winners

Interactive Visual Data Analysis - 1st Edition book cover
1st Edition
Interactive Visual Data Analysis
By Christian Tominski, Heidrun Schumann
USD $200.00
April 15, 2020 by A K Peters/CRC Press
ISBN: 9781498753982
Hardback
364 Pages

Big Data Applications in Industry 4.0 - 1st Edition book cover
1st Edition
Big Data Applications in Industry 4.0
By P Kaliraj, T. Devi
USD $150.00
February 10, 2022 by Auerbach Publications
ISBN: 9781032008110
Hardback
446 Pages

Object-Oriented Design Choices - 1st Edition book cover
1st Edition
Object-Oriented Design Choices
By Adair Dingle
USD $190.00
January 19, 2021 by Chapman & Hall
ISBN: 9780367820817
Hardback
348 Pages

How Things Work : The Computer Science Edition - 1st Edition book cover
1st Edition
How Things Work: The Computer Science Edition
By Charles F. Bowman
USD $170.00
August 26, 2021 by Chapman & Hall
ISBN: 9780367568375
Hardback
272 Pages

Blockchain, Big Data and Machine Learning : Trends and Applications - 1st Edition book cover
1st Edition
Blockchain, Big Data and Machine Learning: Trends and Applications
By Neeraj Kumar, N. Gayathri, Md Arafatur Rahman, B. Balamurugan
USD $180.00
September 25, 2020 by CRC Press
ISBN: 9780367370688
Hardback
360 Pages

How Life Increases Biodiversity : An Autocatalytic Hypothesis - 1st Edition book cover
1st Edition
How Life Increases Biodiversity: An Autocatalytic Hypothesis
By David Seaborg
USD $220.00
September 10, 2021 by CRC Press
ISBN: 9781138341401
Hardback
264 Pages

Phenotypic Plasticity & Evolution : Causes, Consequences, Controversies - 1st Edition book cover
1st Edition
Phenotypic Plasticity & Evolution: Causes, Consequences, Controversies
By David W. Pfennig
USD $250.00
June 01, 2021 by CRC Press
ISBN: 9780367357047
Hardback
436 Pages

Remote Sensing Applications in Environmental and Earth System Sciences - 1st Edition book cover
1st Edition
Remote Sensing Applications in Environmental and Earth System Sciences
By Nicolas R. Dalezios
USD $180.00
May 12, 2021 by CRC Press
ISBN: 9781138054561
Hardback
388 Pages

Age-Dating Stars : From the Sun to Distant Galaxies - 1st Edition book cover
1st Edition
Age-Dating Stars: From the Sun to Distant Galaxies
By Maurizio Salaris
USD $160.00
May 25, 2021 by CRC Press
ISBN: 9780367443993
Hardback
294 Pages

Africa's Soft Power : Philosophies, Political Values, Foreign Policies and Cultural Exports - 1st Edition book cover
1st Edition
Africa's Soft Power: Philosophies, Political Values, Foreign Policies and Cultural Exports
By Oluwaseun Tella
USD $180.00
May 25, 2021 by Routledge
ISBN: 9781032008356
Hardback
226 Pages

Archaeology and its Discontents : Why Archaeology Matters - 1st Edition book cover
1st Edition
Archaeology and its Discontents: Why Archaeology Matters
By John C. Barrett
USD $51.99
March 31, 2021 by Routledge
ISBN: 9780367556457
Paperback
180 Pages

Beyond the Code : A Philosophical Guide to Engineering Ethics - 1st Edition book cover
1st Edition
Beyond the Code: A Philosophical Guide to Engineering Ethics
By Heidi Furey, Scott Hill, Sujata K. Bhatia
USD $66.99
July 28, 2021 by Routledge
ISBN: 9781138183865
Paperback
274 Pages

Digital Fascism : Media, Communication and Society Volume Four - 1st Edition book cover
1st Edition
Digital Fascism: Media, Communication and Society Volume Four
By Christian Fuchs
USD $36.95
March 15, 2022 by Routledge
ISBN: 9781032187600
Paperback
344 Pages

Military Courts, Civil-Military Relations, and the Legal Battle for Democracy : The Politics of Military Justice - 1st Edition book cover
1st Edition
Military Courts, Civil-Military Relations, and the Legal Battle for Democracy: The Politics of Military Justice
By Brett J. Kyle, Andrew G. Reiter
USD $180.00
December 23, 2020 by Routledge
ISBN: 9780367029944
Hardback
252 Pages

Plant Systematics - 1st Edition book cover
1st Edition
Plant Systematics
By Arun K. Pandey, Shruti Kasana
USD $140.00
June 01, 2021 by CRC Press
ISBN: 9781032024660
Hardback
340 Pages

The Routledge Companion to Black Women’s Cultural Histories - 1st Edition book cover
1st Edition
The Routledge Companion to Black Women’s Cultural Histories
By Janell Hobson
USD $280.00
March 17, 2021 by Routledge
ISBN: 9780367198374
Hardback
408 Pages

2021 OAT Award Winners

Particulate Plastics in Terrestrial and Aquatic Environments - 1st Edition book cover
1st Edition
Particulate Plastics in Terrestrial and Aquatic Environments
By Nanthi S. Bolan, M.B. Kirkham, Claudia Halsband, Dayanthi Nugegoda, Yong Sik Ok
USD $230.00
July 17, 2020 by CRC Press
ISBN: 9781138543928
Hardback
466 Pages

Learn R : As a Language - 1st Edition book cover
1st Edition
Learn R: As a Language
By Pedro J. Aphalo
USD $200.00
July 29, 2020 by Chapman & Hall
ISBN: 9780367182557
Hardback
364 Pages

The Complex Lives of British Freshwater Fishes - 1st Edition book cover
1st Edition
The Complex Lives of British Freshwater Fishes
By Mark Everard
USD $44.99
May 28, 2020 by CRC Press
ISBN: 9780367440329
Hardback
369 Pages

Sustainability and the Rights of Nature in Practice - 1st Edition book cover
1st Edition
Sustainability and the Rights of Nature in Practice
By Cameron La Follette, Chris Maser
USD $170.00
October 24, 2019 by CRC Press
ISBN: 9781138584518
Hardback
436 Pages

Bioremediation : A Sustainable Approach to Preserving Earth’s Water - 1st Edition book cover
1st Edition
Bioremediation: A Sustainable Approach to Preserving Earth’s Water
By Sanjay K. Sharma
USD $230.00
October 23, 2019 by CRC Press
ISBN: 9781138593077
Hardback
280 Pages

Introduction to Web Mapping - 1st Edition book cover
1st Edition
Introduction to Web Mapping
By Michael Dorman
USD $230.00
February 04, 2020 by Chapman & Hall
ISBN: 9780367371395
Hardback
366 Pages

Differential Equations : A Modern Approach with Wavelets - 1st Edition book cover
1st Edition
Differential Equations: A Modern Approach with Wavelets
By Steven Krantz
USD $140.00
January 21, 2020 by Chapman & Hall
ISBN: 9780367444099
Hardback
481 Pages

Collaborations : Anthropology in a Neoliberal Age - 1st Edition book cover
1st Edition
Collaborations: Anthropology in a Neoliberal Age
By Emma Heffernan, Fiona Murphy, Jonathan Skinner
USD $140.00
July 27, 2020 by Routledge
ISBN: 9781350002265
Hardback
296 Pages

Sport, Physical Education, and Social Justice : Religious, Sociological, Psychological, and Capability Perspectives - 1st Edition book cover
1st Edition
Sport, Physical Education, and Social Justice: Religious, Sociological, Psychological, and Capability Perspectives
By Nick J. Watson, Grant Jarvie, Andrew Parker
USD $180.00 $144.00
September 02, 2020 by Routledge
ISBN: 9780367481049
Hardback
206 Pages

The Rise of the Dutch New Right : An Intellectual History of the Rightward Shift in Dutch Politics - 1st Edition book cover
1st Edition
The Rise of the Dutch New Right: An Intellectual History of the Rightward Shift in Dutch Politics
By Merijn Oudenampsen
USD $180.00
September 14, 2020 by Routledge
ISBN: 9781138624153
Hardback
244 Pages

The Routledge International Handbook of Fat Studies - 1st Edition book cover
1st Edition
The Routledge International Handbook of Fat Studies
By Cat Pausé, Sonya Renee Taylor
USD $280.00
April 19, 2021 by Routledge
ISBN: 9780367502928
Hardback
310 Pages

Legalizing Cannabis : Experiences, Lessons and Scenarios - 1st Edition book cover
1st Edition
Legalizing Cannabis: Experiences, Lessons and Scenarios
By Tom Decorte, Simon Lenton, Chris Wilkins
USD $180.00
February 25, 2020 by Routledge
ISBN: 9781138370906
Hardback
484 Pages

Ethnographies of Home and Mobility : Shifting Roofs - 1st Edition book cover
1st Edition
Ethnographies of Home and Mobility: Shifting Roofs
By Alejandro Miranda Nieto, Aurora Massa, Sara Bonfanti
USD $140.00
August 19, 2020 by Routledge
ISBN: 9781350084254
Hardback
196 Pages

Nuclear Modernization in the 21st Century - 1st Edition book cover
1st Edition
Nuclear Modernization in the 21st Century
By Aiden Warren, Philip M. Baxter
USD $180.00
February 21, 2020 by Routledge
ISBN: 9781138350557
Hardback
222 Pages

From Arabia to the Pacific : How Our Species Colonised Asia - 1st Edition book cover
1st Edition
From Arabia to the Pacific: How Our Species Colonised Asia
By Robin Dennell
USD $51.99
May 27, 2020 by Routledge
ISBN: 9780367482411
Paperback
386 Pages

School Leadership for Refugees’ Education : Social Justice Leadership for Immigrant, Migrants and Refugees - 1st Edition book cover
1st Edition
School Leadership for Refugees’ Education: Social Justice Leadership for Immigrant, Migrants and Refugees
By Khalid Arar
USD $180.00
May 28, 2020 by Routledge
ISBN: 9780367076368
Hardback
222 Pages

Disability, Media, and Representations : Other Bodies - 1st Edition book cover
1st Edition
Disability, Media, and Representations: Other Bodies
By Jacob Johanssen, Diana Garrisi
USD $180.00
March 04, 2020 by Routledge
ISBN: 9781138603011
Hardback
196 Pages

Class, Gender and Migration : Return Flows between Mexico and the United States in Times of Crisis - 1st Edition book cover
1st Edition
Class, Gender and Migration: Return Flows between Mexico and the United States in Times of Crisis
By María Eugenia D’Aubeterre Buznego, Alison Elizabeth Lee, María Leticia Rivermar Pérez
USD $180.00
July 21, 2020 by Routledge
ISBN: 9781138318946
Hardback
194 Pages

Red Money for the Global South : East–South Economic Relations in the Cold War - 1st Edition book cover
1st Edition
Red Money for the Global South: East–South Economic Relations in the Cold War
By Max Trecker
USD $180.00
March 05, 2020 by Routledge
ISBN: 9780367244750
Hardback
254 Pages

Routledge International Handbook of Green Criminology - 2nd Edition book cover
2nd Edition
Routledge International Handbook of Green Criminology
By Nigel South, Avi Brisman, Avi Brisman, Nigel South
USD $280.00
May 05, 2020 by Routledge
ISBN: 9781138633803
Hardback
726 Pages

Human-Canine Collaboration in Care : Doing Diabetes - 1st Edition book cover
1st Edition
Human-Canine Collaboration in Care: Doing Diabetes
By Fenella Eason
USD $180.00
October 17, 2019 by Routledge
ISBN: 9780367227777
Hardback
208 Pages

The Evolving Relationship between China, the EU and the USA : A New Global Order? - 1st Edition book cover
1st Edition
The Evolving Relationship between China, the EU and the USA: A New Global Order?
By Jing Men, Simon Schunz, Duncan Freeman
USD $180.00
December 05, 2019 by Routledge
ISBN: 9780367133887
Hardback
252 Pages

2020 OAT Award Winners

Correction of Differential Settlements in Mexico City's Metropolitan Cathedral and Sagrario Church - 1st Edition book cover
1st Edition
Correction of Differential Settlements in Mexico City's Metropolitan Cathedral and Sagrario Church
By Efraín Ovando-Shelley, Enrique Santoyo
USD $160.00
December 11, 2019 by CRC Press
ISBN: 9780367344887
Hardback
98 Pages

Advancing Diversity, Inclusion, and Social Justice Through Human Systems Engineering - 1st Edition book cover
1st Edition
Advancing Diversity, Inclusion, and Social Justice Through Human Systems Engineering
By Rod D. Roscoe, Erin K. Chiou, Abigail R. Wooldridge
USD $200.00 $160.00
October 17, 2019 by CRC Press
ISBN: 9781138387980
Hardback
308 Pages

Fermented Food Products - 1st Edition book cover
1st Edition
Fermented Food Products
By A. Sankaranarayanan, N. Amaresan, D. Dhanasekaran
USD $240.00
December 09, 2019 by CRC Press
ISBN: 9780367224226
Hardback
430 Pages

Lessons in Environmental Microbiology - 1st Edition book cover
1st Edition
Lessons in Environmental Microbiology
By Roger Tim Haug
USD $180.00
August 07, 2019 by CRC Press
ISBN: 9781138336582
Hardback
790 Pages

Medical Imaging : Artificial Intelligence, Image Recognition, and Machine Learning Techniques - 1st Edition book cover
1st Edition
Medical Imaging: Artificial Intelligence, Image Recognition, and Machine Learning Techniques
By K.C. Santosh, Sameer Antani, DS Guru, Nilanjan Dey
USD $180.00
August 28, 2019 by CRC Press
ISBN: 9780367139612
Hardback
250 Pages

The Giant Vesicle Book - 1st Edition book cover
1st Edition
The Giant Vesicle Book
By Rumiana Dimova, Carlos Marques
USD $280.00
October 07, 2019 by CRC Press
ISBN: 9781498752176
Hardback
676 Pages

Social Media Analytics for User Behavior Modeling : A Task Heterogeneity Perspective - 1st Edition book cover
1st Edition
Social Media Analytics for User Behavior Modeling: A Task Heterogeneity Perspective
By Arun Reddy Nelakurthi, Jingrui He
USD $140.00 $112.00
January 16, 2020 by CRC Press
ISBN: 9780367211585
Hardback
114 Pages

Fundamentals of Graphics Using MATLAB - 1st Edition book cover
1st Edition
Fundamentals of Graphics Using MATLAB
By Ranjan Parekh
USD $115.00
December 10, 2019 by CRC Press
ISBN: 9780367184827
Hardback
426 Pages

Natural Language Understanding and Cognitive Robotics - 1st Edition book cover
1st Edition
Natural Language Understanding and Cognitive Robotics
By Masao Yokota
USD $220.00
October 24, 2019 by CRC Press
ISBN: 9780367360313
Hardback
210 Pages

Essentials of Soft Matter Science - 1st Edition book cover
1st Edition
Essentials of Soft Matter Science
By Francoise Brochard-Wyart, Pierre Nassoy, Pierre-Henri Puech
USD $250.00
August 19, 2019 by CRC Press
ISBN: 9781138742765
Hardback
290 Pages

Waves, Particles and Fields : Introducing Quantum Field Theory - 1st Edition book cover
1st Edition
Waves, Particles and Fields: Introducing Quantum Field Theory
By Anthony C. Fischer-Cripps
USD $100.00
July 06, 2019 by CRC Press
ISBN: 9780367198763
Paperback
350 Pages

VR Developer Gems - 1st Edition book cover
1st Edition
VR Developer Gems
By William R. Sherman
USD $170.00
June 26, 2019 by A K Peters/CRC Press
ISBN: 9781138030121
Hardback
696 Pages

Artificial Intelligence and the Environmental Crisis : Can Technology Really Save the World? - 1st Edition book cover
1st Edition
Artificial Intelligence and the Environmental Crisis: Can Technology Really Save the World?
By Keith Ronald Skene
USD $200.00
January 29, 2020 by Routledge
ISBN: 9780367152000
Hardback
276 Pages

Blockchain and Web 3.0 : Social, Economic, and Technological Challenges - 1st Edition book cover
1st Edition
Blockchain and Web 3.0: Social, Economic, and Technological Challenges
By Massimo Ragnedda, Giuseppe Destefanis
USD $180.00
July 23, 2019 by Routledge
ISBN: 9780367139841
Hardback
334 Pages

Psychoanalysis, History, and Radical Ethics : Learning to Hear - 1st Edition book cover
1st Edition
Psychoanalysis, History, and Radical Ethics: Learning to Hear
By Donna Orange
USD $46.95 $37.56
September 30, 2019 by Routledge
ISBN: 9780367339302
Paperback
192 Pages

Humanitarianism and the Quantification of Human Needs : Minimal Humanity - 1st Edition book cover
1st Edition
Humanitarianism and the Quantification of Human Needs: Minimal Humanity
By Joël Glasman
USD $200.00
December 11, 2019 by Routledge
ISBN: 9780367222154
Hardback
274 Pages

The Melanesian World - 1st Edition book cover
1st Edition
The Melanesian World
By Eric Hirsch, Will Rollason
USD $280.00
April 11, 2019 by Routledge
ISBN: 9781138693715
Hardback
612 Pages

Gringo Injustice : Insider Perspectives on Police, Gangs, and Law - 1st Edition book cover
1st Edition
Gringo Injustice: Insider Perspectives on Police, Gangs, and Law
By Alfredo Mirandé
USD $200.00
October 01, 2019 by Routledge
ISBN: 9780367276058
Hardback
260 Pages

Rethinking Diversity Frameworks in Higher Education - 1st Edition book cover
1st Edition
Rethinking Diversity Frameworks in Higher Education
By Edna Chun, Joe Feagin
USD $54.99
July 29, 2019 by Routledge
ISBN: 9780367279530
Paperback
248 Pages

The Global Economy : A Concise History - 1st Edition book cover
1st Edition
The Global Economy: A Concise History
By Franco Amatori, Andrea Colli
USD $51.99
July 30, 2019 by Routledge
ISBN: 9780367265076
Paperback
348 Pages

Firsting in the Early-Modern Atlantic World - 1st Edition book cover
1st Edition
Firsting in the Early-Modern Atlantic World
By Lauren Beck
USD $180.00
June 24, 2019 by Routledge
ISBN: 9780367334680
Hardback
276 Pages

Social Justice in Globalized Fitness and Health : Bodies Out of Sight - 1st Edition book cover
1st Edition
Social Justice in Globalized Fitness and Health: Bodies Out of Sight
By Laura Azzarito
USD $180.00
January 21, 2019 by Routledge
ISBN: 9781138059894
Hardback
136 Pages

Women Speak Nation : Gender, Culture, and Politics - 1st Edition book cover
1st Edition
Women Speak Nation: Gender, Culture, and Politics
By Panchali Ray
USD $180.00
July 25, 2019 by Routledge India
ISBN: 9780367253998
Hardback
242 Pages

Traces and Memories of Slavery in the Atlantic World - 1st Edition book cover
1st Edition
Traces and Memories of Slavery in the Atlantic World
By Lawrence Aje, Nicolas Gachon
USD $180.00
July 02, 2019 by Routledge
ISBN: 9780367321277
Hardback
316 Pages

Development and Deprivation in the Indian Sub-continent - 1st Edition book cover
1st Edition
Development and Deprivation in the Indian Sub-continent
By Utpal De, Manoranjan Pal
USD $190.00
June 25, 2019 by Routledge
ISBN: 9780367354879
Hardback
476 Pages

Routledge Handbook of Radical Politics - 1st Edition book cover
1st Edition
Routledge Handbook of Radical Politics
By Ruth Kinna, Uri Gordon
USD $280.00
May 29, 2019 by Routledge
ISBN: 9781138665422
Hardback
564 Pages

2019 -2012 OAT Award Winners