TEMPLE UNIVERSITY PRESS books recommended in the University Press Books Selected for Public and Secondary School Libraries annual guide

Each year, a committee of librarians from the American Association of School Librarians and the Public Library Association recommends notable books for public and high school libraries. Titles selected for the University Press Books Selected for Public and Secondary School Libraries annual guide have been examined, reviewed, and recommended by the American University Press Books Publication Selection Committee. The guide is published annually by the Association of American University Presses (AAUP) and available online at aaupnet.org/librarybooks.

TEMPLE UNIVERSITY PRESS Titles Recommended in the 2012 Guide

• Closure: The Rush to End Grief and What it Costs
• How Racism Takes Place
• The Disability Rights Movement: From Charity to Confrontation
• Why Our Drug Laws Have Failed and What We Can Do About It: A Judicial Indictment of the War on Drugs
• Tutoring Matters: Everything You Always Wanted to Know about How to Tutor, Second Edition
• Distant Corners: American Soccer's History of Missed Opportunities and Lost Causes
• Asian American Plays for a New Generation
• Race Appeal: How Candidates Invoke Race in U.S. Political Campaigns, chosen as "Outstanding" by the Committee

TEMPLE UNIVERSITY PRESS Titles Recommended in the 2011 Guide

• Invasion of the Mind Snatchers: Television's Conquest of America in the Fifties
• Behind the Backlash: Muslim Americans after 9/11
• Rude Democracy: Civility and Incivility in American Politics
• Men CAN: The Changing Image and Reality of Fatherhood in America
• Tasting Freedom: Octavius Catto and the Battle for Equality in Civil War America, chosen as "Outstanding" by the Committee
• One Less Car: Bicycling and the Politics of Automobility
• I Walked with Giants: The Autobiography of Jimmy Heath

TEMPLE UNIVERSITY PRESS Titles Recommended in the 2010 Guide

• Behind the Mask: Voice and the Embodiment of a Costly Performance
• Afro Caribbean Religions: An Introduction to Their Historical, Cultural, and Sacred Traditions
• DES Daughters: Embodied Knowledge and the Transformation of Women's Health Politics
• James Naismith: The Man Who Invented Basketball
• On Any Given Sunday: A Life of Bert Bell, chosen as "Outstanding" by the Committee

TEMPLE UNIVERSITY PRESS Titles Recommended in the 2009 Guide

• The End of Empires: African Americans and India
• Theorizing Discrimination in an Era of Contested Prejudice
• Damaged Goods?: Women living With Incurable Sexually Transmitted Diseases
• Race and Class Matters at an Elite College
• Messiahs of 1933: How American Yiddish Theatre Survived Adversity through Satire
• Wheelchair Warrior: Gangs, Disability, and Basketball
• Soccer in a Football World: The Story of America's Forgotten Game
• Tomboys: A literary and Cultural History

TEMPLE UNIVERSITY PRESS Titles Recommended in the 2008 Guide

• The Racial Logic of Politics: Asian Americans and Party Competition
• Citizen Lobbyists: Local Efforts to Influence Public Policy
• Surviving Mexico's Dirty War: A Political Prisoner's Memoir
• Lawn People: How Grasses, Weeds, and Chemicals Make Us Who We Are
• A Guide to the Great Gardens of the Philadelphia Region
• Musicians from a Different Shore: Asians and Asian Americans in Classical Music
• Equal Play: Title IX and Social Change
• Silent Gesture: Autobiography of Tommie Smith
• Savoring the Salt: The Legacy of Toni Cade Bambara, chosen as "Outstanding" by the Committee
• Hapa Girl: A Memoir, chosen as "Outstanding" by the Committee

TEMPLE UNIVERSITY PRESS Titles Recommended in the 2007 Guide

• Jobs Aren't Enough: Toward a New Economic Mobility for Low-Income Families
• Challenging the Chip: Labor Rights and Environmental Justice in the Global Electronics Industry
• The Bottom Line: Observations and Arguments on the Sports Business
• Judging Children as Children: A Proposal for a Juvenile Justice System
• Arsenio Rodríguez and the Transnational Flows of Latin Popular Music
• The Scrapbook in American Life
• There Goes the 'Hood: Views of Gentrification from the Ground Up, chosen as "Outstanding" by the Committee
• The Smoke of the Gods: A Social History of Tobacco, chosen as "Outstanding" by the Committee