The University of Arizona Press

January 30, 2018

We are delighted to announce that two University of Arizona Press titles have been selected as 2017 Outstanding Academic Titles by Choice magazine:

Mars: The Pristine Beauty of the Red Planet, by Alfred S. McEwen, Candice Hansen-Koharcheck, and Ari Espinoza

“Splendidly illustrated. . . . Every picture puzzles and delights.”—Choice

Starving for Justice: Hunger Strikes, Spectacular Speech, and the Struggle for Dignity, by Ralph Armbruster-Sandoval

“The author bases his book on historical archival and oral interviews, making it original and organic. This is the first scholarship that investigates the Chicana/o studies social movements of the 1990s, and [it] is a major contribution for future scholarly development of this critical subject.”—Choice

Choice confers their Outstanding Academic Titles to award “outstanding works for their excellence in presentation and scholarship, the significance of their contribution to the field, their originality and value as an essential treatment of their subject, and significance in building undergraduate collections.”