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 •

Resources for College Libraries Title Selections (1940-2015)

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