A book by Coastal Carolina University professor Pamela Martin was recently acknowledged as one of the best scholarly titles in 2015 by Choice magazine, which claims an audience of more than 22,000 people.

"Ending the Fossil Fuel Era," coedited by Martin, a professor in CCU's Department of Politics and Geography, was selected by Choice as an outstanding academic title in 2015. Of the book's 13 chapters, Martin wrote one and co-wrote three.

A review in Choice said: "One can find many books that analyze and critique the downside of dependence on fossil fuels. This book differs slightly from the rest by focusing on what is needed for a positive transition to a post-fossil-fuel era."

"Ending the Fossil Fuel Era," which Martin coedited with Thomas Princen of the University of Michigan and Jack P. Manno of the State University of New York, has also been nominated for Best Book by the International Studies Association.

Martin earned her Ph.D. from the University of Maryland, College Park. She has taught at La Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Ecuador. In 1999, she joined the Department of Politics and Geography at CCU, where she teaches international relations, global environmental politics, and comparative politics.

She is also the author of "Oil in the Soil: The Politics of Paying to Preserve the Amazon," published in 2011 by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. Martin was the 2015 recipient of the HTC Distinguished Teacher-Scholar Lecturer Award and CCU's commencement speaker in Summer 2015.

Choice magazine is a source for reviews of academic books and digital resources of interest to scholars and students in higher education. In choosing the outstanding academic titles, Choice looks for overall excellence in presentation and scholarship, importance relative to other literature in the field, distinction as a first treatment of a given subject in book or electronic form, originality or uniqueness of treatment, value to undergraduate students and importance in building undergraduate library collections.