The Top 75 Community College Titles: April 2019 Edition

The best of all the titles appropriate for two-year colleges reviewed in the April issue of Choice.

Posted on April 30, 2019 in Top 75 Community College Titles

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The 20th century (1900–1950), ed. by Michael Shally-Jensen. Salem Press, 2018. 2v bibl index ISBN 9781682179246, $295.00; 56-3013

The Cambridge encyclopedia of historical performance in music, ed. by Colin Lawson and Robin Stowell. Cambridge, 2018. 739p bibl index ISBN 9781107108080, $175.00; ISBN 9781108698573 ebook, $140.00; 56-3006

Lohn, John. The 100 greatest swimmers in history. Rowman & Littlefield, 2018. 257p bibl index ISBN 9781538113820, $36.00; ISBN 9781538113837 ebook, $34.00; 56-3011

Lye, Keith. Oxford atlas of the world. Oxford, 2018. 448p index ISBN 9780190913038, $89.95; 56-3018

Miller, Donald C. Coming of age in popular culture: teenagers, adolescence, and the art of growing up. Greenwood, 2018. 350p bibl index ISBN 9781440840609, $94.00; ISBN 9781440840616 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-3019

Misogyny in American culture: causes, trends, and solutions, ed. by Letizia Guglielmo. ABC-CLIO, 2018. 2v bibl index ISBN 9781440853814, $198.00; ISBN 9781440853821 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-3020

Newton, David E. Steroids and doping in sports: a reference handbook. ABC-CLIO, 2018. 354p bibl index ISBN 9781440854811, $60.00; ISBN 9781440854828 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-3012

Political campaigns, candidates & debates (1787–2017), ed. by Michael Shally-Jensen. Salem Press/Grey House, 2018. 2v bibl index ISBN 9781682173008, $295.00; 56-3021

Secrets, leaks & scandals, ed. by Michael Shally-Jensen. Salem Press/Grey House, 2018. 2v bibl index ISBN 9781682176986, $295.00; ISBN 9781682176993 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-3002

Terrace, Vincent. Television series of the 2000s: essential facts and quirky details. Rowman & Littlefield, 2018. 235p index ISBN 9781538103791, $40.00; ISBN 9781538103807 ebook, $38.00; 56-3007

Very Short Introductions. Oxford. Contact publisher for pricing. URL: global.oup.com/academic/content/series/v/very-short-introductions-vsi/?cc=us&lang=en& 56-3022

Violence in popular culture: American and global perspectives, ed. by Laura L. Finley. Greenwood, 2019. 308p bibl index ISBN 9781440854323, $94.00; ISBN 9781440854330 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-3023

The World of antebellum America: a daily life encyclopedia: v.1: Arts to housing and community; v.2: Politics and warfare to science and technology, ed. by Alexandra Kindell. Greenwood, 2018. bibl index ISBN 9781440837104, $198.00; ISBN 9781440837111 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-3003

Humanities

Beal, Timothy K. The Book of Revelation: a biography. Princeton, 2018. 265p index ISBN 9780691145839, $26.95; ISBN 9780691185088 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-3140

Croall, Jonathan. Performing Hamlet: actors in the modern age. Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare, 2018. 198p bibl index ISBN 9781350030756 pbk, $29.95; ISBN 9781350030749 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-3099

Curnutt, Kirk. William Faulkner. Reaktion Books, 2018. 220p bibl ISBN 9781780239989 pbk, $19.00; 56-3063

Driscoll, Kerry. Mark Twain among the Indians and other indigenous peoples. California, 2018. 448p bibl index ISBN 9780520279421, $95.00; ISBN 9780520970663 ebook, $95.00; 56-3064

Eburne, Jonathan P. Outsider theory: intellectual histories of unorthodox ideas. Minnesota, 2018. 435p index ISBN 9781517905545, $120.00; ISBN 9781517905552 pbk, $29.95; 56-3109

Harris, Tracey. The tiny house movement: challenging our consumer culture. Lexington Books, 2018. 121p bibl index ISBN 9781498557450, $85.00; ISBN 9781498557467 ebook, $80.50; 56-3040

Inwood, Brad. Stoicism: a very short introduction. Oxford, 2018. 118p bibl index (Very short introductions, 571) ISBN 9780198786665 pbk, $11.95; ISBN 9780191828973 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-3116

Japanese prints: the collection of Vincent van Gogh, by Chris Uhlenbeck, Louis van Tilborgh, and Shigeru Oikawa. Thames & Hudson, 2018. 223p bibl index ISBN 9780500239896, $45.00; 56-3035

Leader, Zachary. The life of Saul Bellow: love and strife, 1965–2005. Knopf, 2018. 767p index ISBN 9781101875162, $40.00; ISBN 9781101875179 ebook, $16.99; 56-3068

Maier, Harry O. New Testament Christianity in the Roman world. Oxford, 2018. 238p bibl indexes ISBN 9780190264390, $99.00; ISBN 9780190264406 pbk, $24.95; ISBN 9780190264437 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-3149

The Meaning of life and the great philosophers, ed. by Stephen Leach and James Tartaglia. Routledge, 2018. 301p bibl index ISBN 9781138220935, $150.00; ISBN 9781138220959 pbk, $39.95; ISBN 9781315385945 ebook, $39.95; 56-3122

Pauly, Danièle. Le Corbusier: drawing as process, tr. by Genevieve Hendricks. Yale, 2018. 304p index ISBN 9780300230994, $50.00; 56-3029

Perone, James E. Listen to pop!: exploring a musical genre. Greenwood, 2018. 247p bibl index ISBN 9781440863769, $61.00; ISBN 9781440863776 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-3094

Philo, Simon. Glam rock: music in sound and vision. Rowman & Littlefield, 2018. 193p bibl index ISBN 9781442271470, $38.00; ISBN 9781442271487 ebook, $36.00; 56-3095

The Philosophy of knowledge: a history, general editor Stephen Hetherington. Bloomsbury Academic, 2018. 4v bibl index ISBN 9781474258876, $430.00; 56-3125

Whidden, Seth Adam. Arthur Rimbaud. Reaktion Books, 2018. 204p bibl ISBN 9781780239804 pbk, $19.00; 56-3081

Wootton, David. Power, pleasure, and profit: insatiable appetites from Machiavelli to Madison. Belknap, Harvard, 2018. 386p index ISBN 9780674976672, $35.00; ISBN 9780674989887 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-3137

Science & Technology

Abraham, Thomas. Polio: the odyssey of eradication. Hurst & Company, 2018. 252p bibl index ISBN 9781849049566, $29.95; ISBN 9781787380868 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-3209

Barres, Ben. The autobiography of a transgender scientist. MIT, 2018. 142p index ISBN 9780262039116, $21.95; 56-3156

Bohn, John L. A student’s guide to analytical mechanics. Cambridge, 2018. 205p bibl index ISBN 9781107145764, $49.99; ISBN 9781316509074 pbk, $24.99; ISBN 9781108693172 ebook, $20.00; 56-3236

Dutch, Jennifer Rachel. Look who’s cooking: the rhetoric of American home cooking traditions in the twenty-first century. University Press of Mississippi, 2018. 183p bibl index ISBN 9781496818751, $90.00; ISBN 9781496821126 pbk, $30.00; ISBN 9781496818799 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-3158

Geissinger, Eric. Gamer nation: the rise of modern gaming and the compulsion to play again. Prometheus Books, 2018. 277p index ISBN 9781633883796, $25.00; ISBN 9781633883802 ebook, $11.99; 56-3226

Haltom, Bill. Full court press: how Pat Summitt, a high school basketball player, and a legal team changed the game, by Bill Haltom and Amanda Swanson. Tennessee, 2018. 150p bibl index ISBN 9781621904359 pbk, $19.95; ISBN 9781621904366 ebook, $19.95; 56-3242

Haygood, Wil. Tigerland: 1968–1969, a city divided, a nation torn apart, and a magical season of healing. Knopf, 2018. 420p bibl index ISBN 9781524731861, $27.95; ISBN 9781524731878 ebook, $13.99; 56-3243

Heine, Peter. Culinary crescent: a history of Middle Eastern cuisine, tr. by Peter Lewis. Gingko Library, 2018. 232p bibl index ISBN 9781909942257, $44.95; ISBN 9781909942264 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-3159

Jordan, Ann Westcot. Antidepressants: history, science, and issues. Greenwood, 2018. 229p bibl index ISBN 9781440839269, $60.00; ISBN 9781440839276 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-3216

Mathez, Edmond A. Climate change: the science of global warming and our energy future, by Edmond A. Mathez and Jason E. Smerdon. Columbia, 2018. 503p bibl index ISBN 9780231172820, $150.00; ISBN 9780231172837 pbk, $50.00; ISBN 9780231547871 ebook, $49.99; 56-3202

Metcalf, Michael. Modern Fortran explained: incorporating Fortran 2018, by Michael Metcalf, John Reid, and Malcolm Cohen. Oxford, 2018. 522p index ISBN 9780198811893, $105.00; ISBN 9780198811886 pbk, $50.00; 56-3229

Millard, A. J. Equipping James Bond: guns, gadgets, and technological enthusiasm. Johns Hopkins, 2018. 212p index ISBN 9781421426648, $49.95; ISBN 9781421426655 ebook, $49.95; 56-3161

Neufeld, Michael J. Spaceflight: a concise history. MIT, 2018. 223p bibl index ISBN 9780262536332 pbk, $15.95; ISBN 9780262350457 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-3169

Powell, Jonathan. Rare astronomical sights and sounds. Springer, 2018. 219p index ISBN 9783319977003 pbk, $27.99; ISBN 9783319977010 ebook, $19.99; 56-3171

Priyadarshini, Anjali. Molecular biology: different facets, by Anjali Priyadarshini and Prerna Pandey. Apple Academic Press, 2018. 317p bibl index ISBN 9781771886413, $149.95; ISBN 9781315099279 ebook, $49.46; 56-3179

Reich, David. Who we are and how we got here: ancient DNA and the new science of the human past. Pantheon Books, 2018. 335p index ISBN 9781101870327, $28.95; ISBN 9781101870334 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-3181

Slonosky, Victoria C. Climate in the age of empire: weather observers in colonial Canada. American Meteorological Society, 2018. 325p bibl index ISBN 9781944970208 pbk, $35.00; ISBN 9781944970215 ebook, $35.00; 56-3206

Women and sports in the United States: a documentary reader, ed. by Jaime Schultz, Jean O’Reilly, and Susan K. Cahn. 2nd ed. Dartmouth College, 2018. 426p bibl index ISBN 9781512603200 pbk, $40.00; ISBN 9781555537876 ebook, contact publish-er for price; 56-3245

Zuk, M. Sexual selection: a very short introduction, by Marlene Zuk and Leigh W. Simmons. Oxford, 2018. 141p bibl index (Very short introductions, 568) ISBN 9780198778752, $11.95; ISBN 9780191823930 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-3198

Social & Behavioral Sciences

Balay, Anne. Semi queer: inside the world of gay, trans, and black truck drivers. North Carolina, 2018. 214p bibl index ISBN 9781469647098, $27.95; ISBN 9781469647104 ebook, $19.99; 56-3404

Boardman, John. Alexander the Great: from his death to the present day. Princeton, 2019. 160p index ISBN 9780691181752, $29.95; 56-3270

Boot, Max. The corrosion of conservatism: why I left the Right. Liveright, 2018. 260p index ISBN 9781631495670, $24.95; ISBN 9781980023371 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-3380

Boswell, Angela. Women in Texas history. Texas A&M, 2018. 345p bibl index ISBN 9781623497071, $37.00; ISBN 9781623497088 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-3302

Brewer, Mark D. Parties and elections in America: the electoral process, by Mark D. Brewer and L. Sandy Maisel. 8th ed. Rowman & Littlefield, 2018. 491p bibl index ISBN 9781538114346, $72,00; ISBN 9781538114353 ebook, $68.00; 56-3381

Cuthbertson, Guy. Peace at last: a portrait of Armistice Day, 11 November 1918. Yale, 2018. 293p bibl index ISBN 9780300233384, $27.50; ISBN 9780300240658 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-3271

Dodgson, Mark. Playful entepreneur: how to adapt and thrive in uncertain times, by Mark Dodgson and David M. Gann. Yale, 2018. 265p bibl index ISBN 9780300233926, $30.00; 56-3256

Farman, Jason. Delayed response: the art of waiting from the ancient to the instant world. Yale, 2018. 217p index ISBN 9780300225679, $28.00; ISBN 9780300240726 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-3407

Fukuyama, Francis. Identity: the demand for dignity and the politics of resentment. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2018. 218p bibl index ISBN 9780374129293, $26.00; ISBN 9780374717483 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-3376

Hatton, Barry. Queen of the sea: a history of Lisbon. Hurst & Company, 2018. 328p index ISBN 9781849049979 pbk, $21.95; 56-3336

Helkowski, Camille. SAGE guide to careers for counseling and clinical practice. SAGE Publishing, 2019. 127p bibl ISBN 9781544327075 pbk, $25.00; 56-3397

Hunt, Keel. Crossing the aisle: how bipartisanship brought Tennessee to the twenty-first century and could save America. Vanderbilt, 2018. 337p bibl index ISBN 9780826522399, $29.95; ISBN 9780826522412 ebook, $9.99; 56-3385

Karppi, Tero. Disconnect: Facebook’s affective bonds. Minnesota, 2018. 184p index ISBN 9781517903060, $88.00; ISBN 9781517903077 pbk, $22.00; ISBN 9781452957470 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-3413

Klotter, James C. A new history of Kentucky, by James C. Klotter and Craig Thompson Friend. 2nd ed. University Press of Ken-tucky, 2018. 563p bibl index ISBN 9780813176307, $44.95; ISBN 9780813176505 ebook, $44.95; 56-3311

Koncewicz, Michael. They said no to Nixon: Republicans who stood up to the president’s abuses of power. California, 2018. 225p bibl index ISBN 9780520299054, $29.95; ISBN 9780520970960 ebook, $29.95; 56-3312

Lieberman, Daniel Z. The molecule of more: how a single molecule in your brain drives love, sex, and creativity—and will de-termine the fate of the human race, by Daniel Z. Lieberman and Michael E. Long. BenBella Books, 2018. 237p bibl index ISBN 9781946885111, $26.95; ISBN 9781946885296 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-3399

Marvel, William. Lincoln’s mercenaries: economic motivation among Union soldiers during the Civil War. Louisiana State, 2018. 329p bibl index ISBN 9780807169520, $48.00; 56-3316

Oldridge, Matthew. Teaching mathematics through problem-solving in K-12 classrooms. Rowman & Littlefield, 2018. 117p bibl index ISBN 9781475843323, $54.00; ISBN 9781475843330 pbk, $27.00; ISBN 9781475843347 ebook, $25.50; 56-3268

Parker, Sandra. Side saddle on a comet’s tail: the life of Frances Dana Gage. [Publisher not identified], 2018. 238p bibl ISBN 9781717750198 pbk, $25.00; 56-3320

Pyle, Kenneth B. Japan in the American century. Belknap, Harvard, 2018. 457p index ISBN 9780674983649, $35.00; ISBN 9780674989108 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-3292

Reysen, Stephen. The psychology of global citizenship: a review of theory and research, by Stephen Reysen and Iva Kat-zarska-Miller. Lexington Books, 2018. 185p bibl index ISBN 9781498570299, $90.00; ISBN 9781498570305 ebook, $85.50; 56-3403

Shoup, John A. The history of Syria. Greenwood, 2018. 219p bibl index ISBN 9781440858345, $63.00; ISBN 9781440858352 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-3301

Spawforth, Antony. The story of Greece and Rome. Yale, 2018. 375p index ISBN 9780300217117, $30.00; ISBN 9780300241105 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-3282

Trautsch, Jasper M. The genesis of America: U.S. foreign policy and the formation of national identity, 1793–1815. Cambridge, 2018. 314p bibl index ISBN 9781108428248, $49.99; ISBN 9781108638036 ebook, $40.00; 56-3328

Wolff, Josephine. You’ll see this message when it is too late: the legal and economic aftermath of cybersecurity breaches. MIT, 2018. 318p bibl index ISBN 9780262038850, $29.95; ISBN 9781982622404 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-3371

Wynne, Ben. The man who punched Jefferson Davis: the political life of Henry S. Foote, Southern Unionist. Louisiana State, 2018. 323p bibl index ISBN 9780807169339, $47.50; ISBN 9780807170144 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-3329

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