Resources for College Libraries Title Selections (1940-2015)
View the Resources for College Libraries (RCL) title selections and editorial commentary in commemoration of the ACRL 75th anniversary.
1940-01-01 00:00:00
Three Plays: My Heart's in the Highlands, The Time of Your Life, Love's Old Sweet Song
• Author: William Saroyan • Publisher: Harcourt, Brace and Company • RCL Subject: American Literature •
1941-01-01 00:00:00
Social and Economic History of the Hellenistic World
• Author: Mikhail I. Rostovtzeff • Publisher: Oxford University Press RCL Subject: Ancient History •
1942-01-01 00:00:00
The Oceans, their Physics, Chemistry, and General Biology
• Author: Harald Sverdrup; Martin Johnson; Richard Fleming • Publisher: Prentice-Hall • RCL Subject: Geology •
1943-01-01 00:00:00
Phonetics: A Critical Analysis of Phonetic Theory and a Technic for the Practical Description of Sounds
• Author: Kenneth L. Pike • Publisher: University of Michigan Press • RCL Subject: General Language and Literature •
1944-01-01 00:00:00
Configurations of Culture Growth
• Author: Alfred L. Kroeber • Publisher: University of California Press • RCL Subject: Anthropology •
1945-01-01 00:00:00
General Education in a Free Society
• Author: Harvard University. Committee on the Objectives of General Education in a Free Society • Publisher: Harvard University Press • RCL Subject: Education •
1946-01-01 00:00:00
Encyclopedia of Chemical Reactions, 8 v.
• Author: Carl Alfred Jacobson (Ed.) • Publisher: Reinhold Pub. Corp. • RCL Subject: Chemistry •
1947-01-01 00:00:00
Music in the Romantic Era
• Author: Alfred Einstein • Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated • RCL Subject: Music •
1948-01-01 00:00:00
1948: The Development of Southern Sectionalism, 1819-1848
• Author: Charles S. Sydnor • Publisher: Louisiana State University Press • RCL Subject: United States and Canadian History•
1949-01-01 00:00:00
Jane Austen: Facts and Problems
• Author: R.W. Chapman • Publisher: Oxford, Clarendon Press • RCL Subject: British Literature •
1950-01-01 00:00:00
History of Experimental Psychology
• Author: Edwin G. Boring • Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR • RCL Subject: Psychology •
1951-01-01 00:00:00
Theology of the New Testament
• Author: Rudolf Bultmann • Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR • RCL Subject: Religion •
1952-01-01 00:00:00
Windows for the Crown Prince: An American Woman's Four Years as Private Tutor to the Crown Prince of Japan
• Author: Elizabeth G. Vining • Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers • RCL Subject: Asian History, Languages, and Literatures •
1953-01-01 00:00:00
Vector and Tensor Analysis
• Author: George E. Hay • Publisher: Dover Publications, Incorporated • RCL Subject: Mathematics •
1954-01-01 00:00:00
The Black Swan
• Author: Thomas Mann • Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group • RCL Subject: Germanic Languages and Literatures •
1955-01-01 00:00:00
Russian Marxists and the Origins of Bolshevism
• Author: Leopold H. Haimson • Publisher: Harvard University Press • RCL Subject: European History •
1956-01-01 00:00:00
Errand into the Wilderness
• Author: Perry G. Miller • Publisher: Harvard University Press • RCL Subject: American Studies •
1957-01-01 00:00:00
Theory of the Consumption Function
• Author: Milton Friedman • Publisher: Princeton University Press • RCL Subject: Economics •
1958-01-01 00:00:00
Patterns of Discovery: An Enquiry into the Conceptual Foundations of Science
• Author: Norwood R. Hanson • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • RCL Subject: General Science •
1959-01-01 00:00:00
Class and Class Conflict in Industrial Society
• Author: Ralf Dahrendorf • Publisher: Stanford University Press • RCL Subject: Sociology •
1960-01-01 00:00:00
The Image of the City
• Author: Kevin Lynch • Publisher: MIT Press • RCL Subject: Urban Studies •
1961-01-01 00:00:00
Mountain Wolf Woman, Sister of Crashing Thunder: The Autobiography of a Winnebago Indian
• Author: Nancy O. Lurie (Ed) • Publisher: University of Michigan Press • RCL Subject: Native American Studies •
1962-01-01 00:00:00
Being and Time
• Author: Martin Heidegger • Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers • RCL Subject: Philosophy •
1963-01-01 00:00:00
Istanbul and the Civilization of the Ottoman Empire
• Author: Bernard Lewis • Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press • RCL Subject: Middle Eastern History, Languages, and Literatures •
1964-01-01 00:00:00
Theory of Superconductivity
• Author: J. Robert Schrieffer • Publisher: Addison-Wesley Longman, Incorporated • RCL Subject: Physics •
1965-01-01 00:00:00
The Logic of Collective Action: Public Goods and the Theory of Groups
• Author: Mancur Olson • Publisher: Harvard University Press • RCL Subject: Political Science •
1966-01-01 00:00:00
The Modern Dance: Seven Statements of Belief
• Author: Selma Jeanne Cohen (Ed.) • Publisher: Wesleyan University Press • RCL Subject: Dance •
1967-01-01 00:00:00
Freedom of the Press from Hamilton to the Warren Court
• Author: Harold N. Nelson (Ed.) • Publisher: Macmillan Publishing Company, Incorporated • RCL Subject: Law •
1968-01-01 00:00:00
French Literature and Its Background, Vol. 1-6
• Author: John Cruickshank (Ed.) • Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated • RCL Subject: French Language and Literature •
1969-01-01 00:00:00
I'll Get There, It Better Be Worth the Trip: A Novel
• Author: John Donovan • Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers • RCL Subject: Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgendered Studies •
1970-01-01 00:00:00
The Foundations of Early Modern Europe, 1460-1559, Vol. 1
• Author: Eugene F. Rice Jr. • Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated • RCL Subject: Renaissance Studies •
1971-01-01 00:00:00
A History of Spanish Literature
• Author: Guillermo Díaz-Plaja (Ed.) • Publisher: New York University Press • RCL Subject: Spanish and Portuguese Languages and Literatures •
1972-01-01 00:00:00
Suffer and Be Still: Women in the Victorian Age
• Author: Martha Vicinus (Ed.) • Publisher: Indiana University Press • RCL Subject: Victorian Studies •
1973-01-01 00:00:00
Galenism: Rise and Decline of a Medical Philosophy
• Author: Owsei Temkin • Publisher: Cornell University Press • RCL Subject: Classical Languages and Literatures •
1974-01-01 00:00:00
Dramatic Theory and Criticism
• Author: B.F. Dukore • Publisher: Harcourt College Publishers • RCL Subject: Drama and Theater •
1975-01-01 00:00:00
Before Silent Spring: Pesticides in Pre-DDT America
• Author: James C. Whorton • Publisher: Princeton University Press • RCL Subject: Environmental Sciences •
1976-01-01 00:00:00
A Theory of Semiotics
• Author: Umberto Eco • Publisher: Indiana University Press • RCL Subject: Journalism and Communication •
1977-01-01 00:00:00
Victims of the Miracle: Development and the Indians of Brazil
• Author: S.H. Davis • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • RCL Subject: Latin American History •
1978-01-01 00:00:00
Printmaking: History and Process
• Author: Donald Saff; Deli Sacilotto • Publisher: Holt McDougal • RCL Subject: Visual Arts •
1979-01-01 00:00:00
Computers and Intractability: A Guide to the Theory of NP-Completeness
• Author: Michael R. Garey; David S. Johnson • Publisher: W. H. Freeman & Company • RCL Subject: Computer Science•
1980-01-01 00:00:00
Political Thought in Medieval Times
• Author: John B. Morrall • Publisher: University of Toronto Press • RCL Subject: Medieval Studies •
1981-01-01 00:00:00
Bitter Harvest: A History of California Farmworkers, 1870-1941
• Author: Cletus E. Daniel • Publisher: Cornell University Press • RCL Subject: Latino Studies •
1982-01-01 00:00:00
The Physical Universe: An Introduction to Astronomy
• Author: Frank H. Shu • Publisher: University Science Books • RCL Subject: Astronomy •
1983-01-01 00:00:00
African Folktales: Traditional Stories of the Black World
• Author: Roger D. Abrahams (Ed.) • Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group • RCL Subject: African History, Languages, and Literatures •
1984-01-01 00:00:00
Problems of Dostoevsky's Poetics
• Author: Mikhail M. Bakhtin; Caryl Emerson (Trans. and Ed.) • Publisher: University of Minnesota Press • RCL Subject: Russian and Eastern European Languages and Literatures •
1985-01-01 00:00:00
Altered Harvest: Agriculture, Genetics and the Fate of the World's Food Supply
• Author: Jack Doyle • Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated • RCL Subject: Agriculture •
1986-01-01 00:00:00
The Uses of Literature
• Author: Italo Calvino • Publisher: Harcourt Trade Publishers • RCL Subject: Italian Language and Literature •
1987-01-01 00:00:00
Beyond the Veil: Male-Female Dynamics in Modern Muslim Society
• Author: Fatima Mernissi • Publisher: Indiana University Press • RCL Subject: Gender Studies •
1988-01-01 00:00:00
But Is It Science?: The Philosophical Question in the Evolution-Creation Controversy
• Author: Michael Ruse (Ed.) • Publisher: Prometheus Books • RCL Subject: Biology •
1989-01-01 00:00:00
Making Meaning: Inference and Rhetoric in the Interpretation of Cinema
• Author: David Bordwell • Publisher: Harvard University Press • RCL Subject: Film Studies •