HEB Best Sellers, Spring 2012

ACLS Humanities E-Book recently reported and paid its latest round of royalties to our participating publishers and authors. Please find the top ten most frequently hit titles in our collection of over 3,300 titles for this latest royalty period listed below.

Benedict Anderson’s Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism (Verso) remains in first place. Also making repeat appearances on this list are Clifford Geertz, The Interpretation of Cultures: Selected Essays (Basic Books), Eugen Weber, Peasants into Frenchmen: The Modernization of Rural France, 1870–1914 (Stanford University Press), Joel Mokyr, The Lever of Riches: Technological Creativity and Economic Progress (Oxford University Press), Karl Polanyi, The Great Transformation (Beacon Press), Henry Jenkins, Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide (NYU Press), and Anne McClintock’s Imperial Leather: Race, Gender and Sexuality in the Colonial Contest (Routledge).

Titles in Latin American studies, gender studies, and U.S. history are new in this round. They are Inga Clendinnen's Ambivalent Conquests: Maya and Spaniard in Yucatan, 1517–1570 (Cambridge University Press, 2003; first published in 1987), Joan Wallach Scott's Gender and the Politics of History (Columbia University Press, 1999; first published in 1989) and Steven Mintz, Huck's Raft: A History of American Childhood (Harvard University Press, 2004). New titles making a jump into the top ten hit books can indicate course adoption for a semester and/or general shifting interests in academia and the scholarly community.

1. Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism (Verso, 2006)
2. Geertz, The Interpretation of Cultures: Selected Essays (Basic Books, 1973)
3. Weber, Peasants into Frenchmen: The Modernization of Rural France, 1870–1914 (Stanford University Press, 1976)
4. Mokyr, The Lever of Riches: Technological Creativity and Economic Progress (Oxford University Press, 1990)
5. Polanyi, The Great Transformation (Beacon Press, 1957)
6. Jenkins, Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide (New York University Press, 2006)
7. Clendinnen, Ambivalent Conquests: Maya and Spaniard in Yucatan, 1517–1570 (Cambridge University Press, 2003)
8. McClintock, Imperial Leather: Race, Gender and Sexuality in the Colonial Contest (Routledge, 1995)
9. Scott, Gender and the Politics of History (Columbia University Press, 1999)
10. Mintz, Huck's Raft: A History of American Childhood (Harvard University Press, 2004)