The Top 75 Community College Titles: April 2018 Edition
The best of all the titles appropriate for two-year colleges reviewed in the April issue of Choice.
Posted on April 26, 2018
Reference
Archive of American Television, from the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Foundation. URL: emmytvlegends.org 55-2700
Atlas of the Irish Revolution, ed. by John Crowley, Donal Ó Drisceoil, and Mike Murphy with John Borgonovo. New York University, 2017. 963p index ISBN 9781479834280, $75.00; 55-2710
Cumming, Valerie. The dictionary of fashion history, by Valerie Cumming, C. W. Cunnington, and P. E. Cunnington. 2nd ed. Bloomsbury, 2017. 366p bibl ISBN 9781472577696, $122.00; ISBN 9781472577702 pbk, $39.95; 55-2711
Ebook Central. ProQuest. Contact publisher for pricing. URL: proquest.com 55-2701
Encyclopedia of Martin Luther and the Reformation, ed. by Mark A. Lamport. Rowman & Littlefield, 2017. 2v bibl indexes ISBN 9781442271586, $250.00; ISBN 9781442271593 ebook, $237.50; 55-2705
HathiTrust Digital Library. URL: hathitrust.org 55-2702
The Holocaust: an encyclopedia and document collection, ed. by Paul R. Bartrop and Michael Dickerman. ABC-CLIO, 2017. 4v bibl index ISBN 9781440840838, $435.00; ISBN 9781440840845 ebook, contact pubisher for price; 55-2712
Mendoza, Barbara. Artifacts from Ancient Egypt. Greenwood, 2017. 339p bibl index ISBN 9781440844003, $100.00; ISBN 9781440844010 ebook, contact publisher for price; 55-2713
Newton, David E. Sex and gender: a reference handbook. ABC-CLIO, 2017. 362p bibl index ISBN 9781440854798, $60.00; ISBN 9781440854804 ebook, contact publisher for price; 55-2714
Patient Care and Health Information–Mayo Clinic. URL:mayoclinic.org/patient-care-and-health-information 55-2709
Tzvetkova, Juliana. Pop culture in Europe. ABC-CLIO, 2017. 414p bibl index ISBN 9781440844652, $97.00; ISBN 9781440844669 ebook, contact publisher for price; 55-2706
Welch, David. World War II propaganda: analyzing the art of persuasion during wartime. ABC-CLIO, 2017. 196p bibl index ISBN 9781610696739, $79.00; ISBN 9781610696746 ebook, contact publisher for price; 55-2717
Humanities
Batchelor, Bob. Stan Lee: the man behind Marvel. Rowman & Littlefield, 2017. 229p index ISBN 9781442277816, $22.95; ISBN 9781442277823 ebook, $21.99; 55-2742
Bergdoll, Barry. Frank Lloyd Wright: unpacking the archive, by Barry Bergdoll and Jennifer Gray with essays by Michael Desmond et al. Museum of Modern Art, 2017. 256p index ISBN 9781633450264, $65.00; 55-2739
Bordwell, David. Reinventing Hollywood: how 1940s filmmakers changed movie storytelling. Chicago, 2017. 592p index ISBN 9780226487755, $40.00; ISBN 9780226487892 ebook, $24.00; 55-2788
The Comics of Charles Schulz: the good grief of modern life, ed. by Jared Gardner and Ian Gordon. University Press of Mississippi, 2017. 220p index ISBN 9781496812896, $65.00; ISBN 9781496812902 ebook, contact publisher for price; 55-2745
Gussow, Adam. Beyond the crossroads: the Devil & the blues tradition. North Carolina, 2017. 404p bibl index ISBN 9781469633657, $90.00; ISBN 9781469633664 pbk, $29.95; ISBN 9781469633671 ebook, contact publisher for price; 55-2795
Hagan, Joe. Sticky fingers: the life and times of Jann Wenner and Rolling stone magazine. Knopf, 2017. 547p bibl index ISBN 9781101874370, 29.95; ISBN 9781101874387 ebook, contact publisher for price; 55-2751
Kirkpatrick, Kate. Sartre and theology. Blooms-bury Academic, 2017. 226p bibl index ISBN 9780567664501, $68.00; ISBN 9780567664495 pbk, $22.95; ISBN 9780567664518 ebook, contact publisher for price; 55-2806
Levy, Benjamin R. Metamorphosis in music: the compositions of György Ligeti in the 1950s and 1960s. Oxford, 2017. 292p bibl index ISBN 9780199381999, $74.00; ISBN 9780199382019 ebook, contact publisher for price; 55-2798
Lewis, Rhodri. Hamlet and the vision of darkness. Princeton, 2017. 365p bibl index ISBN 9780691166841, $39.95; 55-2777
Mark Twain and money: language, capital, and culture, ed. by Henry B. Wonham and Lawrence Howe. Alabama, 2017. 271p bibl index ISBN 9780817319441, $44.95; ISBN 9780817390877 ebook, $44.95; 55-2778
Ravetto-Biagioli, Kriss. Mythopoetic cinema: on the ruins of European identity. Columbia, 2017. 314p bibl index ISBN 9780231182188, $90.00; ISBN 9780231182195 pbk, $30.00; ISBN 9780231544108 ebook, $29.99; 55-2792
Salisbury, Martin. The illustrated dust jacket 1920–1970. Thames & Hudson, 2017. 199p bibl index ISBN 9780500519134, $39.95; 55-2729
Schewel, Benjamin. Seven ways of looking at religion: the major narratives. Yale, 2017. 238p bibl index ISBN 9780300218473, $40.00; ISBN 9780300231410 ebook, contact publisher for price; 55-2822
Siker, Jeffrey S. Liquid scripture: the Bible in a digital world. Fortress, 2017. 288p bibl indexes ISBN 9781506407869 pbk, $29.00; ISBN 9781506407876 ebook, $29.00; 55-2823
Thinking about the emotions: a philosophical history, ed. by Alix Cohen and Robert Stern. Oxford, 2017. 321p bibl index ISBN 9780198766858, $70.00; ISBN 9780191840494 ebook, contact publisher for price; 55-2808
Ulrich, Laurel Thatcher. A house full of females: plural marriage and women’s rights in early Mormonism, 1835–1870. Knopf, 2017. 484p index ISBN 9780307594907, $35.00; ISBN 9780307742124 pbk, $18.00; ISBN 9781101947975 ebook, $15.99; 55-2824
Volner, Ian. Michael Graves: design for life. Princeton Architectural, 2017. 239p index ISBN 9781616895631, $30.00; 55-2730
Science & Technology
Alexander, Rosemary. The essential garden design workbook, by Rosemary Alexander and Rachel Myers. Timber, 2017. 391p bibl index ISBN 9781604696615, $34.95; 55-2834
Fleming, Theodore H. No species is an island: bats, cacti, and secrets of the Sonoran Desert. Arizona, 2017. 72p bibl index ISBN 9780816535897, $14.95; 55-2830
Germain, Gilbert. Thinking about technology: how the technological mind misreads reality. Lexington Books, 2017. 161p bibl index ISBN 9781498549530, $90.00; ISBN 9781498549547 ebook, $85.00; 55-2825
Hammond, Philip S. Whales: their biology and behavior, by Philip Hammond et al. Cornell, 2017. 144p bibl index ISBN 9781501716560 pbk, $19.95; 55-2836
Marché, Jordan D. The green menace: emerald ash borer and the invasive species problem. Oxford, 2017. 300p bibl index ISBN 9780190668921, $69.95; ISBN 9780190668938 ebook, contact publisher for price; 55-2837
May, Andrew. The telescopic tourist’s guide to the Moon. Springer, 2017. 230p index ISBN 9783319607405, $39.99; ISBN 9783319607412 ebook, $29.99; 55-2829
Parry, John Weston. The athlete’s dilemma: sacrificing health for wealth and fame. Rowman & Littlefield, 2017. 343p bibl index ISBN 9781442275409, $36.00; ISBN 9781442275416 ebook, $34.00; 55-2842
Wadhams, Peter. A farewell to ice: a report from the Arctic. Oxford, 2017. 240p bibl index ISBN 9780190691158 pbk, $15.95; ISBN 9780241009420 ebook, contact publisher for price; 55-2839
Weeks, Jonathan. Latino stars in major league baseball: from Bobby Abreu to Carlos Zambrano. Rowman & Littlefield, 2017. 283p bibl index ISBN 9781442281721, $36.00; ISBN 9781442281738 ebook, $34.00; 55-2851
Social & Behavioral Science
Ackroyd, Peter. Revolution: the history of England from the Battle of the Boyne to the Battle of Waterloo. Thomas Dunne, 2017. 403p bibl index (History of England, 4) ISBN 9781250003645, $29.99; ISBN 9781466880160 ebook, $14.99; 55-2950
Archer, Emerald M. Women, warfare and representation: American servicewomen in the twentieth century. Bloomsbury, 2017. 238p bibl index ISBN 9781474238038, $114.00; ISBN 9781474238137 ebook, contact publisher for price; 55-2922
Bad girls of the Arab world, ed. by Nadia Yaqub and Rula Quawas. Texas, 2017. 239p bibl index ISBN 9781477313350, $85.00; ISBN 9781477313367 pbk, $27.95; ISBN 9781477313374 ebook, contact publisher for price; 55-3041
Baylor, Christopher. First to the party: the group origins of party transformation. Pennsylvania, 2017. 321p index ISBN 9780812249637, $69.95; ISBN 9780812294514 ebook, $69.95; 55-3022
Bethlehem, Jelke. Understanding public opinion polls. CRC Press, 2018. 286p index ISBN 9781138066557, $149.95; ISBN 9781498769747 pbk, $59.95; ISBN 9781315154220 ebook, $26.96; 55-2980
Brenner, Philip. Cuba libre: a 500–year quest for independence, by Philip Brenner and Peter Eisner. Rowman & Littlefield, 2017. 428p bibl index ISBN 9780742566699, $89.00; ISBN 9780742566705 pbk, $35.00; ISBN 9780742566712 ebook, $33.00; 55-2913
Brown, Susan L. Families in America. California, 2017. 231p bibl index ISBN 9780520285880, $85.00; ISBN 9780520285897 pbk, $29.95; ISBN 9780520961241 ebook, $29.95; 55-3043
Carver, George Washington. George Washington Carver in his own words, ed. by Gary R. Kremer. 2nd ed. Missouri, 2017. 248p index ISBN 9780826221391, $29.95; ISBN 9780826207852 pbk, $24.95; ISBN 9780826260895 ebook, $24.95; 55-2924
Clary, David. Gangsters to governors: the new bosses of gambling in America. Rutgers, 2017. 331p bibl index ISBN 9780813584546, $27.95; ISBN 9780813584553 ebook, contact publisher for price; 55-3023
Contemporary Chinese diasporas, ed. by Min Zhou. Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. 435p bibl index ISBN 9789811055942, $179.00; ISBN 9789811055959 ebook, contact publisher for price; 55-2906
Corneo, Giacomo G. Is capitalism obsolete?: a journey through alternative economic systems, tr. by Daniel Steuer. Harvard, 2017. 304p bibl index ISBN 9780674495289, $29.95; 55-2878
Elsenhans, Hartmut. BRICS or bust?: escaping the middle-income trap, by Hartmut Elsenhans and Salvatore J. Babones. Stanford Briefs, 2017. 115p bibl ISBN 9780804799898 pbk, $12.99; 55-2881
Fish, coast and communities: a history of Norway, by Nils Kolle et al. Fagbokforlaget, 2017. (Dist. by ISBS) 378p bibl index ISBN 9788245018783, $74.00; 55-2961
Flores-González, Nilda. Citizens but not Americans: race and belonging among Latino millennials. New York University, 2017. 177p bibl index ISBN 9781479825523, $89.00; ISBN 9781479840779 pbk, $27.00; 55-3044
Formisano, Ronald P. American oligarchy: the permanent political class. Illinois, 2017. 270p index ISBN 9780252041273, $95.00; ISBN 9780252082825 pbk, $19.95; ISBN 9780252099878 ebook, $17.96; 55-3024
Gates, John. How leaders improve: a playbook for leaders who want to get better now, by John Gates, Jeff Graddy, and Sacha Lindekens. Praeger, 2017. 180p index ISBN 9781440860577, $37.00; ISBN 9781440860584 ebook, contact publisher for price; 55-2869
Ginn, Geoffrey A. C. Culture, philanthropy and the poor in late-Victorian London. Routledge, 2017. 310p bibl index (Perspectives in economic and social history, 50) ISBN 9781848936089, $140.00; ISBN 9781315184999 ebook, $54.95; 55-2952
Gottlieb, Marvin R. Motivation: the manager’s key to closing the commitment gap. Praeger, 2017. 195p bibl index ISBN 9781440859335, $37.00; ISBN 9781440859342 ebook, contact publisher for price; 55-2870
Gupta, Devashree. Protest politics today. Polity, 2017. 344p bibl index ISBN 9780745671147, $69.95; ISBN 9780745671154 pbk, $26.95; 55-3026
Hammond, Sarah Ruth. God’s businessmen: entrepreneurial Evangelicals in depression and war, ed. by Darren Dochuk. Chicago, 2017. 228p index ISBN 9780226509778, $45.00; ISBN 9780226509808 ebook, $45.00; 55-2872
Johnson, Joan Marie. Funding feminism: monied women, philanthropy, and the women’s movement, 1870–1967. North Carolina, 2017. 303p bibl index ISBN 9781469634692, $39.95; ISBN 9781469634708 ebook, $29.99; 55-2931
Kennedy, James C. A concise history of the Netherlands. Cambridge, 2017. 484p bibl index ISBN 9780521875882, $99.99; ISBN 9780521699174 pbk, $28.99; ISBN 9781108365055 ebook, ccntact publisher for price; 55-2964
Merry, Robert W. President McKinley: architect of the American century. Simon & Schuster, 2017. 608p bibl index ISBN 9781451625448, $35.00; ISBN 9781451625462 ebook, $16.99; 55-2936
Mushaben, Joyce Marie. Becoming Madam Chancellor: Angela Merkel and the Berlin Republic. Cambridge, 2017. 342p bibl index ISBN 9781108417730, $89.99; ISBN 9781108405638 pbk, $29.99; ISBN 9781108286909 ebook, $24.00; 55-2989
Peck, Graham A. Making an antislavery nation: Lincoln, Douglas, and the battle over freedom. Illinois, 2017. 264p index ISBN 9780252041365, $34.95; ISBN 9780252099960 ebook, $30.00; 55-2941
Peterson, James W. Russian-American relations in the post–Cold War world. Manchester University Press, 2017. 181p bibl index ISBN 9781526105783, $110.00; ISBN 9781526105790 pbk, $29.95; 55-3007
Red and yellow, black and brown: decentering whiteness in mixed race studies, ed. by Joanne L. Rondilla, Rudy P. Guevarra Jr., and Paul Spickard. Rutgers, 2017. 267p bibl index ISBN 9780813587318, $95.00; ISBN 9780813587301 pbk, $29.95; ISBN 9780813587325 ebook, contact publisher for price; 55-3047
Sebestyen, Victor. Lenin: the man, the dictator, and the master of terror. Pantheon Books, 2017. 569p bibl index ISBN 9781101871638, $35.00; ISBN 9781101871645 ebook, $14.99; 55-2912
Simon, Linda. Lost girls: the invention of the flapper. Reaktion Books, 2017. 293p bibl index ISBN 9781780238128, $24.00; 55-3048
Skidmore, Emily. True sex: the lives of trans men at the turn of the twentieth century. New York University, 2017. 253p bibl index ISBN 9781479870639, $27.00; ISBN 9781479860500 ebook, contact publisher for price; 55-2944
Smith, Jeffrey. The rural cemetery movement: places of paradox in nineteenth-century America. Lexington Books, 2017. 165p bibl index ISBN 9781498529006, $90.00; ISBN 9781498529013 ebook, $85.50; 55-2946
Sondhaus, Lawrence. German submarine warfare in World War I: the onset of total war at sea. Rowman & Littlefield, 2017. 258p bibl index ISBN 9781442269545, $36.00; ISBN 9781442269552 ebook, $34.00; 55-2966
Stahl, Ronit Y. Enlisting faith: how the military chaplaincy shaped religion and state in modern America. Harvard, 2017. 348p index ISBN 9780674972155, $39.95; ISBN 9780674981300 ebook, contact publisher for price; 55-2947
Urban, Jennifer Brown. Designing and proposing your research project, by Jennifer Brown Urban and Bradley Matheus van Eeden-Moorefield. American Psychological Association, 2017. 139p index ISBN 9781433827082 pbk, $29.95; 55-3039
Wallace, Mike. Greater Gotham: a history of New York City from 1898 to 1919. Oxford, 2017. 1,182p bibl indexes (Gotham, 2) ISBN 9780195116359, $45.00; ISBN 9780199723058 ebook, contact publisher for price; 55-2948
Waxman, Zoë Vania. Women in the Holocaust: a feminist history. Oxford, 2017. 181p bibl index ISBN 9780199608683, $50.00; 55-2897
West, Thomas G. Seeing what others cannot see: the hidden advantages of visual thinkers and differently wired brains. Prometheus Books, 2017. 277p bibl index ISBN 9781633883017, $19.00; ISBN 9781633883024 ebook, $13.99; 55-3040