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 collections

Explore the works by Taylor & Francis that were selected as 2021 OAT Titles below, according to a variety of subject areas and disciplines:

Behavioral Science & Education

1st Edition
School Leadership for Refugees’ Education: Social Justice Leadership for Immigrant, Migrants and Refugees
GBP £120.00 £96.00
May 27, 2020 by Routledge
ISBN: 9780367076368
Hardback
222 Pages

1st Edition
Sport, Physical Education, and Social Justice: Religious, Sociological, Psychological, and Capability Perspectives
GBP £120.00 £96.00
September 02, 2020 by Routledge
ISBN: 9780367481049
Hardback
206 Pages


Engineering

1st Edition
Sustainability and the Rights of Nature in Practice
GBP £115.00 £92.00
October 15, 2019 by CRC Press
ISBN: 9781138584518
Hardback
436 Pages

Humanities & Media Arts

1st Edition
Ethnographies of Home and Mobility: Shifting Roofs
GBP £90.00 £72.00
August 19, 2020 by Routledge
ISBN: 9781350084254
Hardback
196 Pages

1st Edition
From Arabia to the Pacific: How Our Species Colonised Asia
GBP £34.99 £27.99
May 27, 2020 by Routledge
ISBN: 9780367482411
Paperback
386 Pages


1st Edition
Disability, Media, and Representations: Other Bodies
GBP £120.00 £96.00
March 06, 2020 by Routledge
ISBN: 9781138603011
Hardback
196 Pages

1st Edition
Red Money for the Global South: East–South Economic Relations in the Cold War
GBP £120.00 £96.00
March 10, 2020 by Routledge
ISBN: 9780367244750
Hardback
254 Pages


Science

1st Edition
Particulate Plastics in Terrestrial and Aquatic Environments
GBP £150.00 £120.00
July 17, 2020 by CRC Press
ISBN: 9781138543928
Hardback
466 Pages

1st Edition
Learn R: As a Language
GBP £140.00 £112.00
July 29, 2020 by Chapman and Hall/CRC
ISBN: 9780367182557
Hardback
364 Pages


1st Edition
The Complex Lives of British Freshwater Fishes
GBP £28.99 £23.19
June 12, 2020 by CRC Press
ISBN: 9780367440329
Hardback
369 Pages

1st Edition
Bioremediation: A Sustainable Approach to Preserving Earth’s Water
GBP £150.00 £120.00
October 28, 2019 by CRC Press
ISBN: 9781138593077
Hardback
280 Pages


1st Edition
Introduction to Web Mapping
GBP £150.00 £120.00
February 12, 2020 by Chapman and Hall/CRC
ISBN: 9780367371395
Hardback
366 Pages

1st Edition
Differential Equations: A Modern Approach with Wavelets
GBP £89.99 £71.99
January 23, 2020 by Chapman and Hall/CRC
ISBN: 9780367444099
Hardback
481 Pages


1st Edition
Bacterial Genetics and Genomics
GBP £150.00 £120.00
March 30, 2020 by Garland Science
ISBN: 9780367263768
Hardback
416 Pages

1st Edition
The Chemical Evolution of Phosphorus: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Astrobiology
GBP £124.00 £99.20
November 27, 2019 by Apple Academic Press
ISBN: 9781771888042
Hardback
402 Pages


Social Science

1st Edition
Legalizing Cannabis: Experiences, Lessons and Scenarios
GBP £120.00 £96.00
February 26, 2020 by Routledge
ISBN: 9781138370906
Hardback
484 Pages

1st Edition
Nuclear Modernization in the 21st Century
GBP £120.00 £96.00
February 21, 2020 by Routledge
ISBN: 9781138350557
Hardback
222 Pages


2nd Edition
Routledge International Handbook of Green Criminology
GBP £190.00 £152.00
April 27, 2020 by Routledge
ISBN: 9781138633803
Hardback
726 Pages


1st Edition
Human-Canine Collaboration in Care: Doing Diabetes
GBP £120.00 £96.00
October 18, 2019 by Routledge
ISBN: 9780367227777
Hardback
208 Pages

1st Edition
The Evolving Relationship between China, the EU and the USA: A New Global Order?
GBP £120.00 £96.00
December 18, 2019 by Routledge
ISBN: 9780367133887
Hardback
252 Pages


1st Edition
The Routledge International Handbook of Fat Studies
GBP £190.00 £152.00
April 19, 2021 by Routledge
ISBN: 9780367502928
Hardback
310 Pages

1st Edition
The Rise of the Dutch New Right: An Intellectual History of the Rightward Shift in Dutch Politics
GBP £120.00 £96.00
September 14, 2020 by Routledge
ISBN: 9781138624153
Hardback
244 Pages


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