The Top 75 Community College Titles: September 2023 Edition
The best of all the titles appropriate for two-year colleges reviewed in the September issue of Choice.
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Addictions, substance abuse & alcoholism, ed. by Paul Moglia. 2nd ed. Salem Press/Grey House, 2018. 2v bibl ISBN 9781682179444, $275.00; ISBN 9781682179413 ebook, $275.00; 56-4147
American prisons and jails: an encyclopedia of controversies and trends, ed. by Vidisha Barua Worley and Robert M. Worley. ABC-CLIO, 2019. 2v bibl index ISBN 9781610695008, $198.00; ISBN 9781610695015 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-4155
Clark, Jerome. The UFO encyclopedia: the phenomenon from the beginning. Omnigraphics, 2018. 2v bibl index ISBN 9780780816596, $139.00; ISBN 9780780816602 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-4148
Disability in American life: an encyclopedia of concepts, policies, and controversies, ed by Tamar Heller et al. ABC-CLIO, 2019. 2v bibl index ISBN 9781440834226, $198.00; ISBN 9781440834233 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-4157
Encyclopedia of polymer applications, ed. by Munmaya Mishra. CRC Press, 2019. ISBN 9781498729932, $1,280.00; ISBN 9781351019408 ebook, $1,280.00; 56-4149
Gender history: critical readings, ed. by Bonnie G. Smith. Bloomsbury Academic, 2019. 4v index ISBN 9781474265218, $804.00; 56-4159
Hillstrom, Laurie Collier. The #MeToo movement. ABC-CLIO, 2019. 149p bibl index ISBN 9781440867491, $39.00; ISBN 9781440867507 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-4160
Hip hop around the world: an encyclopedia, by Melissa Ursula Dawn Goldsmith and Anthony J. Fonseca. Greenwood, 2019. 2v bibl index ISBN 9780313357589, $198.00; ISBN 9780313357596 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-4138
Hollywood heroines: the most influential women in film history, ed. by Laura L. S. Bauer. Greenwood, 2019. 407p index ISBN 9781440836480, $94.00; ISBN 9781440836497 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-4139
Issitt, Micah L. The environment. Grey House, 2019. 783p bibl index (Opinions throughout history, 5) ISBN 9781682179536, $195.00; ISBN 9781682179543 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-4151
Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology. Wiley. Contact publisher for pricing. URL: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/0471238961 56-4152
Maass, Vera Sonja. Personality disorders: elements, history, examples, and research. Praeger, 2019. 236p bibl index ISBN 9781440860454, $60.00; ISBN 9781440860461 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-4162
The Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism. Routledge. Contact publisher for pricing. URL: rem.routledge.com/about/about-rem 56-4142
ULLMANN’S Encyclopedia of Industrial Chemistry. Wiley. Contact publisher for pricing. URL: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/14356007 56-4154
Women in the American political system: an encyclopedia of women as voters, candidates, and office holders, ed. by Dianne G. Bystrom and Barbara Burrell. ABC-CLIO, 2019. 2v bibl index ISBN 9781610699730, $198.00; ISBN 9781610699747 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-4165
After queer studies: literature, theory and sexuality in the 21st century, ed. by Tyler Bradway and E. L. McCallum. Cambridge, 2019. 210p index ISBN 9781108498036, $89.99; ISBN 9781108739733 pbk, $27.99; 56-4192
Appified: culture in the age of apps, ed. by Jeremy Wade Morris and Sarah Murray. Michigan, 2018. 390p bibl index ISBN 9780472074044, $85.00; ISBN 9780472054046 pbk, $39.95; ISBN 9780472124350 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-4190
Baker, Christina N. Contemporary black women filmmakers and the art of resistance. Ohio State, 2018. 195p bibl index ISBN 9780814213827, $99.95; ISBN 9780814254998 pbk, $29.95; ISBN 9780814276587 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-4239
Bell-Metereau, Rebecca Louise. Transgender cinema. Rutgers, 2019. 165p bibl index ISBN 9780813597348, $65.00; ISBN 9780813597331 pbk, $17.95; ISBN 9780813597355 ebook, $17.95; 56-4240
Bilston, Sarah. The promise of the suburbs: a Victorian history in literature and culture. Yale, 2019. 282p bibl index ISBN 9780300179330, $40.00; ISBN 9780300186369 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-4204
Chicano and Chicana art: a critical anthology, by Jennifer A. González et al. Duke, 2019. 534p index ISBN 9781478001874, $119.95; ISBN 9781478003007 pbk, $32.95; ISBN 9781478003403 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-4172
Cinema between Latin America and Los Angeles: origins to 1960, ed. by Colin Gunckel, Jan-Christopher Horak, and Lisa Jarvinen. Rutgers, 2019. 180p bibl index ISBN 9781978801257, $99.95; ISBN 9781978801240 , $29.95; ISBN 9781978801264 ebook, $29.95; 56-4241
D. H. Lawrence in context, ed. by Andrew Harrison. Cambridge, 2018. 369p bibl index ISBN 9781108429399, $110.00; ISBN 9781108649698 ebook, $88.00; 56-4208
DeLong, Anne. The Victorian world: a historical exploration of literature. Greenwood, 2019. 237p bibl index ISBN 9781440860430, $63.00; ISBN 9781440860447 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-4210
Florence and its painters: from Giotto to Leonardo da Vinci, ed. by Andreas Schumacher. Hirmer, 2019. 383p ISBN 9783777430621, $49.95; 56-4182
Havenhand, Lucinda Kaukas. Mid-century modern interiors: the ideas that shaped interior design in America. Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2019. 154p bibl index ISBN 9781350045705, $88.00; ISBN 9781350045712 pbk, $29.95; ISBN 9781350045729 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-4175
Hergenrader, Trent. Collaborative worldbuilding for writers and gamers. Bloomsbury Academic, 2018. 257p index ISBN 9781350016675, $88.00; ISBN 9781350016668 pbk, $24.26; ISBN 9781350016699 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-4196
Nethersole, Scott. Art of Renaissance Florence: a city and its legacy. Laurence King, 2019. 223p bibl in-dex ISBN 9781786273420, $34.99; 56-4183
The Oxford handbook of Charles Dickens, ed. by Robert L. Patten, John O. Jordan, and Catherine Waters. Oxford, 2018. 819p bibl index ISBN 9780198743415, $150.00; ISBN 9780191866036 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-4223
Politics & portraits in the United States & France during the age of revolution, ed. by T. Lawrence Larkin. Smithsonian Institution Press, 2019. 294p bibl index ISBN 9781944466206, $49.95; 56-4185
Southern history on screen: race and rights, 1976–2016, ed. by Bryan M. Jack. University Press of Ken-tucky, 2019. 234p index ISBN 9780813176444, $50.00; ISBN 9780813176468 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-4247
Sullivan, James. Which side are you on?: 20th century American history in 100 protest songs. Oxford, 2019. 242p bibl index ISBN 9780190660307, $24.95; ISBN 9780190660321 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-4257
Vaclavik, Kiera. Fashioning Alice: the career of Lewis Carroll’s icon, 1860–1901. Bloomsbury Academic, 2019. 215p bibl index ISBN 9781474290388, $114.00; ISBN 9781474290395 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-4227
Vaughan, Virginia Mason. Shakespeare and the gods. Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare, 2019. 240p bibl index ISBN 9781474284271, $102.00; ISBN 9781474284295 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-4228
Whitesell, Lloyd. Wonderful design: glamour in the Hollywood musical. Oxford, 2018. 255p bibl index ISBN 9780190843816, $99.00; ISBN 9780190843823 pbk, $3.500; ISBN 9780190843847 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-4236
Williamson, Timothy. Doing philosophy: from common curiosity to logical reasoning. Oxford, 2018. 154p bibl index ISBN 9780198822516, $18.95; ISBN 9780192555458 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-4281
Woodfield, Ian. Cabals and satires: Mozart’s comic operas in Vienna. Oxford, 2019. 265p bibl index ISBN 9780190692636, $55.00; ISBN 9780190692667 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-4259
Cybersecurity: current writings on threats and protection, ed. by Joaquin Jay Gonzalez III and Roger L. Kemp. McFarland, 2019. 274p index ISBN 9781476674407 pbk, $39.95; ISBN 9781476635415 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-4365
Desalle, Rob. A natural history of beer, by Rob Desalle and Ian Tattersall; illustrated by Patricia J. Wynne. Yale, 2019. 242p index ISBN 9780300233674, $28.00; ISBN 9780300244984 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-4300
Engel, Jonathan. Fat nation: a history of obesity in America. Rowman & Littlefield, 2018. 207p bibl index ISBN 9781538117743, $32.00; ISBN 9781538117750 ebook, $30.00; 56-4352
Godwin, Ian. Good enough to eat?: next generation GM crops. Royal Society of Chemistry, 2019. 321p bibl index ISBN 9781788010856 pbk, $33.90; ISBN 9781788016810 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-4327
Henin, Bernard. Exploring the ocean worlds of our solar system. Springer, 2018. 303p bibl index ISBN 9783319934754, $29.99; ISBN 9783319934761 ebook, $19.99; 56-4310
History of anatomy: an international perspective, by R. Shane Tubbs et al. Wiley-Blackwell, 2019. 312p bibl index ISBN 9781118524251, $114.99; ISBN 9781118524312 ebook, $91.99; 56-4354
How plants work: form, diversity, survival, ed. by Stephen Blackmore. Princeton, 2018. 368p bibl index ISBN 9780691177496, $35.00; 56-4328
The Human-animal boundary: exploring the line in philosophy and fiction, ed. by Nandita Batra and Mario Wenning. Lexington Books, 2019. 223p bibl index ISBN 9781498557825, $95.00; ISBN 9781498557832 ebook, $90.00; 56-4333
Jasanoff, Sheila. Can science make sense of life? Polity, 2019. 208p bibl index ISBN 9781509522705, $59.95; ISBN 9781509522712 pbk, $19.95; ISBN 9781509522743 ebook, $19.95; 56-4318
Norell, Mark. The world of dinosaurs: an illustrated tour. Chicago, 2019. 239p index ISBN 9780226622729, $32.50; ISBN 9780226622866 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-4342
Nutrition and diabetes: pathophysiology and management, ed. by Emmanuel C. Opara and Sam Da-gogo-Jack. 2nd ed. CRC Press, 2019. 452p bibl index ISBN 9781138710009, $139.95; ISBN 9781315200781 ebook, $57.95; 56-4356
O’Shea, Janet. Risk, failure, play: what dance reveals about martial arts training. Oxford, 2018. 230p bibl index ISBN 9780190871536, $99.00; ISBN 9780190871543 pbk, $35.00; ISBN 9780190871550 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-4378
Paulson, Dennis. Dragonflies & damselflies: a natural history. Princeton, 2019. 224p bibl index ISBN 9780691180366, $29.95; ISBN 9780691192536 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-4335
Pyle, Rod. Space 2.0: how private spaceflight, a resurgent NASA, and international partners are creating a new space age. BenBella Books, 2019. 317p index ISBN 9781944648459 pbk, $21.95; ISBN 9781946885746 ebook, $9.99; 56-4312
Ropelewski, C. F. Climate analysis, by Chester F. Ropelewski and Phillip A. Arkin. Cambridge, 2019. 341p bibl index ISBN 9780521896160, $54.99; ISBN 9781139034746 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-4343
Santore, Marcia. Medical office professionals: a practical career guide. Rowman & Littlefield, 2019. 135p bibl ISBN 9781538111871 pbk, $35.00; ISBN 9781538111888 ebook, $33.00; 56-4360
Schiffer, Michael B. Spectacular flops: game-changing technologies that failed. Eliot Werner, 2019. 308p bibl index ISBN 9780989824996 pbk, $32.95; 56-4307
Sydney Brenner’s 10-on-10: the chronicles of evolution, ed. by Shuzhen Sim and Benjamin Seet. Wildtype Books, 2019. 264p bibl index ISBN 9789811187186, $68.00; ISBN 9789811197154 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-4324
Walker, Kevin D. The grand food bargain: and the mindless drive for more. Island Press, 2019. 327p index ISBN 9781610919470, $30.00; ISBN 9781610919487 ebook, $29.99; 56-4331
Werrett, Simon. Thrifty science: making the most of materials in the history of experiment. Chicago, 2019. 315p bibl index ISBN 9780226610252, $45.00; ISBN 9780226610399 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-4308
Dorr, Lisa Lindquist. A thousand thirsty beaches: smuggling alcohol from Cuba to the South during Prohibition. North Carolina, 2018. 299p bibl index ISBN 9781469643274, $39.95; ISBN 9781469643281 ebook, $29.99; 56-4430
Dunne, David. Design thinking at work: how innovative organizations are embracing design. Toronto, 2018. 214p index ISBN 9781487501709, $32.95; ISBN 9781487513795 ebook, $32.95; 56-4386
Essig, Laurie. Love, Inc: dating apps, the big white wedding, and chasing the happily neverafter. Califor-nia, 2019. 239p bibl index ISBN 9780520295018, $85.00; ISBN 9780520300491 pbk, $26.95; ISBN 9780520967922 ebook, $29.95; 56-4525
Garcia, Hector A. Sex, power, and partisanship: how evolutionary science makes sense of our political divide. Prometheus Books, 2019. 254p index ISBN 9781633885141 pbk, $18.00; ISBN 9781633885158 ebook, $11.99; 56-4506
Hattery, Angela. Gender, power, and violence: responding to sexual and intimate partner violence in society today, by Angela J. Hattery and Earl Smith. Rowman & Littlefield, 2019. 246p bibl index ISBN 9781538118177, $32.00; ISBN 9781538118184 ebook, $30.00; 56-4527
Kaushal, Neeraj. Blaming Immigrants: nationalism and the economics of global movement. Columbia, 2019. 224p index ISBN 9780231181440, $90.00; ISBN 9780231181457 pbk, $30.00; ISBN 9780231543606 ebook, $29.99; 56-4472
Kempker, Erin M. Big sister: feminism, conservatism, and conspiracy in the heartland. Illinois, 2018. 201p index ISBN 9780252041976, $99.00; ISBN 9780252083662 pbk, $24.95; ISBN 9780252050701 ebook, $14.95; 56-4498
Krane, Jim. Energy kingdoms: oil and political survival in the Persian Gulf. Columbia, 2019. 206p index ISBN 9780231179300, $32.00; ISBN 9780231548922 ebook, $31.99; 56-4473
Kupperman, Karen Ordahl. Pocahontas and the English boys: caught between cultures in early Virginia. New York University, 2019. 233p index ISBN 9781479825820, $24.95; ISBN 9781479868803 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-4439
Mental health disorders sourcebook. Omnigraphics, 2019. 634p index ISBN 9780780816794, $85.00; ISBN 9780780816800 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-4513
Metzl, Jonathan. Dying of whiteness: how the politics of racial resentment is killing America’s heartland. Basic Books, 2019. 341p index ISBN 9781541644984, $32.00; ISBN 9781541644960 ebook, $17.99; 56-4487
Moskalenko, Sophia. The marvel of martyrdom: the power of self-sacrifice in a selfish world, by Sophia Moskalenko and Clark McCauley. Oxford, 2019. 245p index ISBN 9780190689322, $35.00; ISBN 9780190939526 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-4516
Norwood, F. Bailey. Meet the food radicals, by F. Bailey Norwood and Tamara L. Mix. Oxford, 2019. 270p index ISBN 9780190620431, $27.95; ISBN 9780190620448 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-4405
Ownby, Ted. Hurtin’ words: debating family problems in the twentieth-century South. North Carolina, 2018. 334p bibl index ISBN 9781469646992, $90.00; ISBN 9781469647005 pbk, $29.95; ISBN 9781469647012 ebook, $22.99; 56-4531
Pinho, Patricia de Santana. Mapping diaspora: African American roots tourism in Brazil. North Carolina, 2018. 253p bibl index ISBN 9781469645322, $90.00; ISBN 9781469645322 pbk, $29.95; ISBN 9781469645339 ebook, $22.99; 56-4426
Taylor, Jami K. The remarkable rise of transgender rights, by Jami K. Taylor, Daniel C. Lewis, and Donald P. Haider-Markel. Michigan, 2018. 431p bibl index ISBN 9780472074013, $90.00; ISBN 9780472124275 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-4533
Wasserman, Noam. Life is a startup: what founders can teach us about making choices and managing change. Stanford Business Books, 2019. 184p bibl index ISBN 9781503601758, $29.95; ISBN 9781503607422 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-4396
Youngs, Richard. Civic activism unleashed: new hope or false dawn for democracy?. Oxford, 2019. 183p index ISBN 9780190931704, $29.95; ISBN 9780190931711 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-4534
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