The Top 75 Community College Titles: April 2020 Edition

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

Posted on April 30, 2020 in Top 75 Community College Titles

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Academic Writer. American Psychological Association. Contact publisher for pricing. URL: digitallearning.apa.org/academic-writer 57-2469

Art Museum Image Gallery. EBSCO. Contact publisher for pricing. URL: ebsco.com/products/research-databases/art-museum-image-gallery 57-2461

Damico, Amy M. Media, journalism, and “fake news”: a reference handbook. ABC-CLIO, 2019. 372p bibl index ISBN 9781440864063, $62.00; ISBN 9781440864070 ebook, contact publisher for price; 57-2462

Documents of Shakespeare’s England, ed. by John A. Wagner. ABC-CLIO, 2019. 273p bibl index ISBN 9781440867415, $97.00; ISBN 9781440867422 ebook, contact publisher for price; 57-2473

Gale Business: DemographicsNow. Gale, part of Cengage Learning. Contact publisher for pricing. URL: gale.com/c/business-demographicsnow 57-2474

The Oxford handbook of methods for public scholarship, ed. by Patricia Leavy. Oxford, 2019. 742p bibl index ISBN 9780190274481, $175.00; ISBN 9780190936396 ebook, contact publisher for price; 57-2475

PsycBOOKS. American Psychological Association. Contact publisher for pricing. URL: apa.org/pubs/databases/psycbooks/index 57-2476

Humanities

Basinger, Jeanine. The movie musical!. Knopf, 2019. 634p bibl index ISBN 9781101874066, $45.00; ISBN 9781101874073 ebook, $17.99; 57-2519

The Bloomsbury reader in the study of myth, ed. by Jonathan Miles-Watson and Vivian Asimos. Bloomsbury Academic, 2019. 302p bibl index ISBN 9781350082243, $117.00; ISBN 9781350082250 pbk, $39.95; ISBN 9781350082274 ebook, contact publisher for price; 57-2477

Boulez, Pierre. Music lessons: the Collège de France lectures, ed. and tr. by Jonathan Dunsby, Jonathan Goldman, and Arnold Whittall. Chicago, 2019. 662p index ISBN 9780226672595, $40.00; ISBN 9780226672625 ebook, $24.00; 57-2530

Coonin, Arnold Victor. Donatello and the dawn of Renaissance art. Reaktion Books, 2019. 288p index ISBN 9781789141306, $22.50; 57-2487

Humphreys, Kristi Rowan. The evil twins of American television: feminist alter egos since 1960. Lexington Books, 2019. 125p bibl index ISBN 9781498583299, $85.00; ISBN 9781498583305 ebook, $80.50; 57-2494

LoBrutto, Vincent. The art and craft of motion pictures: 25 movies to make you film literate. Praeger, 2019. 286p bibl index ISBN 9781440839184, $50.00; ISBN 9781440839191 ebook, contact publisher for price; 57-2521

Løvdal Stephens, Hilde. Family matters: James Dobson and Focus on the Family’s crusade for the Christian home. Alabama, 2019. 291p bibl index ISBN 9780817320331, $49.95; ISBN 9780817392604 ebook, $49.95; 57-2559

Marshall, Robert Lewis. Bach and Mozart: essays on the enigma of genius. Rochester, 2019. 330p bibl index (Eastman studies in music, 161) ISBN 9781580469623, $49.95; ISBN 9781787447233 ebook, contact publisher for price; 57-2536

Noll, Mark A. A history of Christianity in the United States and Canada. Eerdmans, 2019. 595p bibl index ISBN 9780802874900, $55.00; 57-2564

Olin-Ammentorp, Julie. Edith Wharton, Willa Cather, and the place of culture. Nebraska, 2019. 386p bibl index ISBN 9781496203243, $60.00; ISBN 9781496216885 ebook, contact publisher for price; 57-2510

Pardes, Ilana. The Song of songs: a biography. Princeton, 2019. 280p index ISBN 9780691146065, $24.95; ISBN 9780691194240 ebook, contact publisher for price; 57-2567

Readings of Śāntideva’s Guide to bodhisattva practice: (Bodhicaryāvatāra), ed. by Jonathan C. Gold and Douglas S. Duckworth. Columbia, 2019. 302p bibl index ISBN 9780231192668, $90.00; ISBN 9780231192675 pbk, $30.00; ISBN 9780231549905 ebook, $29.99; 57-2568

Science & Technology

Ball, Philip. How to grow a human: adventures in how we are made and who we are. Chicago, 2019. 372p bibl index ISBN 9780226654805, $25.00; ISBN 9780226676173 ebook, contact publisher for price; 57-2594

Bradley, James T. Re-creating nature: science, technology, and human values in the twenty-first century. Alabama, 2019. 381p bibl index ISBN 9780817320294, $39.95; ISBN 9780817392437 ebook, $39.95; 57-2590

Coles, Kenneth S. The atlas of Mars: mapping its geography and geology, by Kenneth S. Coles, Kenneth L. Tanaka, and Philip R. Christensen with James M. Dohm et al. Cambridge, 2019. 289p bibl index ISBN 9781107036291, $49.99; ISBN 9781108641326 ebook, $40.00; 57-2592

Hargittai, István. Science in Moscow: memorials of a research empire, by István Hargittai and Magdolna Hargittai. World Scientific, 2019. 383p bibl indexes ISBN 9789811203442, $88.00; ISBN 9789811203459 ebook, contact publisher for price; 57-2576

Havil, Julian. Curves for the mathematically curious: an anthology of the unpredictable, historical, beautiful, and romantic. Princeton, 2019. 259p bibl index ISBN 9780691180052, $29.95; ISBN 9780691197784 ebook, contact publisher for price; 57-2610

Jordan-Young, Rebecca M. Testosterone: an unauthorized biography, by Rebecca M. Jordan-Young and Katrina Karkazis. Harvard, 2019. 274p index ISBN 9780674725324, $29.95; ISBN 9780674242647 ebook, contact publisher for price; 57-2583

Mackovjak, James R. Alaska codfish chronicle: a history of the Pacific cod fishery in Alaska. University of Alaska, 2019. 559p bibl index ISBN 9781602233898 pbk, $29.95; ISBN 9781602233904 ebook, $26.95; 57-2584

Navon, Daniel. Mobilizing mutations: human genetics in the age of patient advocacy. Chicago, 2019. 396p bibl index ISBN 9780226638096, $40.00; ISBN 9780226638126 ebook, contact publisher for price; 57-2598

Özilgen, Z. Sibel. Cooking as a chemical reaction: culinary science with experiments. CRC Press, 2020. 391p bibl index ISBN 9781138597129, $79.95; ISBN 9780429487088 ebook, $79.95; 57-2574

Pinkerton, Alasdair. Radio: making waves in sound. Reaktion Books, 2019. 240p bibl index ISBN 9781789140781, $25.00; 57-2577

Russell, Daniel M. The joy of search: a Google insider’s guide to going beyond basics. MIT, 2019. 323p index ISBN 9780262042871, $29.95; 57-2606

Scerri, Eric R. The periodic table: its story and its significance. Oxford, 2020. 472p bibl index ISBN 9780190914363, $34.95; ISBN 9780190914387 ebook, contact publisher for price; 57-2591

Snowden, Frank M. Epidemics and society: from the black death to the present. Yale, 2019. 582p bibl index ISBN 9780300192216, $40.00; 57-2600

Tucker, Allen B. Client-centered software development: the CO-FOSS approach. CRC Press, 2019. 329p bibl index ISBN 9781138583849, $99.95; ISBN 9780429506468 ebook, $99.95; 57-2607

Youde, Jeremy R. Globalization and health. Rowman & Littlefield, 2019. 241p bibl index ISBN 9781538121818, $85.00; ISBN 9781538121825 pbk, $32.00; ISBN 9781538121832 ebook, $30.00; 57-2603

Social & Behavioral Sciences

Balfour, Alan. The walls of Jerusalem: preserving the past, controlling the future. Wiley-Blackwell, 2019. 358p index ISBN 9781119182290, $46.75; ISBN 9781119182320 ebook, $46.75; 57-2709

Bukharbayeva, Bagila. The vanishing generation: faith and uprising in modern Uzbekistan. Indiana, 2019. 229p bibl ISBN 9780253040800, $80.00; ISBN 9780253040817 pbk, $36.00; ISBN 9780253040848 ebook, $35.99; 57-2693

Bullock, Julia C. Coeds ruining the nation: women, education, and social change in postwar Japanese media. Michigan, 2019. 227p bibl index (Michigan monograph series in Japanese studies, 87) ISBN 9780472074174, $70.00; ISBN 9780472054176 pbk, $24.95; ISBN 9780472125593 ebook, contact publisher for price; 57-2694

Cameron, Christopher. Black freethinkers: a history of African American secularism. Northwestern University, 2019. 236p bibl index ISBN 9780810140790, $99.95; ISBN 9780810140783 pbk, $34.95; ISBN 9780810140806 ebook, $39.95; 57-2719

Carter, Niambi Michele. American while black: African Americans, immigration, and the limits of citizenship. Oxford, 2019. 278p bibl index ISBN 9780190053543, $27.95; ISBN 9780190053581 ebook, con-tact publisher for price; 57-2720

Cribb, Julian. Food or war. Cambridge, 2019. 336p index ISBN 9781108712903 pbk, $12.95; ISBN 9781108690126 ebook, $10.00; 57-2650

Drumbl, Michelle L. Tax credits for the working poor: a call for reform. Cambridge, 2019. 222p index ISBN 9781108415057, $105.00; ISBN 9781108400206 pbk, $34.99; ISBN 9781108245715 ebook, $28.00; 57-2651

Duffy, Bobby. Why we’re wrong about nearly everything: a theory of human misunderstanding. Basic Books, 2019. 296p index ISBN 9781541618084, $28.00; ISBN 9781541618091 ebook, contact publisher for price; 57-2798

Dumm, Thomas. Home in America: on loss and retrieval. Belknap, Harvard, 2019. 297p index ISBN 9780674057715, $35.00; ISBN 9780674243781 ebook, contact publisher for price; 57-2616

Educational psychology: history, practice, research, and the future, [ed.] by Jennifer L. Martin and Sarah E. Torok-Gerard. Praeger, 2019. 332p bibl index ISBN 9781440864490, $63.00; ISBN 9781440864506 ebook, contact publisher for price; 57-2664

Faulkner, Valerie N. The stories we tell: math, race, bias, and opportunity, by Valerie N. Faulkner, Patricia L. Marshall, and Lee V. Stiff. Rowman & Littlefield, 2019. 150p bibl index ISBN 9781475841626, $70.00; ISBN 9781475841633 pbk, $35.00; ISBN 9781475841640 ebook, $33.00; 57-2665

Ferrara, Mark S. American community: radical experiments in intentional living. Rutgers, 2020. 222p bibl index ISBN 9781978808232, $24.95; ISBN 9781978808249 ebook, $24.95; 57-2724

Grant, H. Roger. Transportation and the American people. Indiana, 2019. 249p index ISBN 9780253043306, $40.00; ISBN 9780253043344 ebook, $39.99; 57-2638

Henig, Jeffrey R. Outside money in school board elections: the nationalization of education politics, by Jeffrey R. Henig, Rebecca Jacobsen, and Sarah Reckhow. Harvard Education Press, 2019. 232p index ISBN 9781682532836, $64.00; ISBN 9781682532829 pbk, $33.00; 57-2667

Hou, Yue. The private sector in public office: selective property rights in China. Cambridge, 2019. 184p bibl index ISBN 9781108498159, $99.99; ISBN 9781108705530 pbk, $34.99; ISBN 9780813943275 ebook, $28.00; 57-2652

Houghton, Vince. The nuclear spies: America’s atomic intelligence operation against Hitler and Stalin. Cornell, 2019. 239p bibl index ISBN 9781501739590, $27.95; ISBN 9781501739613 ebook, $13.99; 57-2727

Huerta, Alvaro. Defending Latina/o immigrant communities: the xenophobic era of Trump and beyond. Hamilton Books, 2019. 193p bibl index ISBN 9780761871279, $19.99; ISBN 9780761871286 ebook, $19.00; 57-2630

Klein, Menachem. Arafat and Abbas: portraits of leadership in a state postponed. Oxford, 2019. 225p bibl index ISBN 9780190087586, $39.95; ISBN 9781787381438 ebook, contact publisher for price; 57-2713

Krehbiel, Randy. Tulsa, 1921: reporting a massacre. Oklahoma, 2019. 309p bibl index ISBN 9780806163314, $29.95; ISBN 9780806165837 ebook, contact publisher for price; 57-2729

Krishna, K. R. Unmanned aerial vehicle systems in crop production: a compendium. Apple Academic Press, 2020. 689p bibl index ISBN 9781771887564, $179.95; ISBN 9780429425264 ebook, $57.95; 57-2639

Maybee, Julie E. Making and unmaking disability: the three-body approach. Rowman & Littlefield, 2020. 245p bibl index ISBN 9781538127728, $80.00; ISBN 9781538127735 pbk, $33.00; ISBN 9781538127742 ebook, $31.00; 57-2802

Menashy, Francine. International aid to education: power dynamics in an era of partnership. Teachers College Press, 2019. 139p bibl index ISBN 9780807761816, $114.00; ISBN 9780807761281 pbk, $37.95; ISBN 9780807777688 ebook, $37.95; 57-2670

Mezey, Susan Gluck. Transgender rights: from Obama to Trump. Routledge, 2020. 215p bibl index ISBN 9780815359395, $150.00; ISBN 9780815359401 pbk, $39.95; ISBN 9781351120869 ebook, $39.95; 57-2803

Moller, Violet. The map of knowledge: a thousand-year history of how classical ideas were lost and found. Doubleday, 2019. 312p bibl index ISBN 9780385541763, $30.00; ISBN 9780385541770 ebook, $14.99; 57-2680

Norrander, Barbara. The imperfect primary: oddities, biases, and strengths of U.S. presidential nomination politics. Routledge, 2020. 202p bibl index ISBN 9780367274931, $150.00; ISBN 9780367274948 pbk, $39.95; ISBN 9780429296376 ebook, $39.95; 57-2782

Oeser, Alexandra. When will we talk about Hitler?: German students and the Nazi past, tr. by Katharine Throssell. Berghahn Books, 2019. 394p bibl index ISBN 9781789202861, $140.00; ISBN 9781789202878 ebook, contact publisher for price; 57-2742

Patterson, Thomas E. How America lost its mind: the assault on reason that’s crippling our democracy. Oklahoma, 2019. 193p bibl index (The Julian J. Rothbaum distinguished lecture series, 15) ISBN 9780806164328, $24.95; ISBN 9780806166001 ebook, contact publisher for price; 57-2784

Piscatori, James P. Islam beyond borders: the umma in world politics, by James Piscatori and Amin Saikal. Cambridge, 2020. 217p bibl index ISBN 9781108481250, $89.99; ISBN 9781108740555 pbk, $29.99; ISBN 9781108614467 ebook, $29.00; 57-2714

Rector, John L. The history of Chile. Greenwood, 2019. 359p bibl index ISBN 9781440863721, $63.00; ISBN 9781440863738 ebook, contact publisher for price; 57-2707

Reid, Debra Ann. Interpreting the environment at museums and historic sites, by Debra A. Reid and David D. Vail. Rowman & Littlefield, 2019. 205p index (Interpreting history, 17) ISBN 9781538115480, $95.00; ISBN 9781538115497 pbk, $42.00; ISBN 9781538115503 ebook, $39.50; 57-2733

Roschelle, Anne R. Struggling in the land of plenty: race, class, and gender in the lives of homeless families. Lexington Books, 2019. 201p bibl index ISBN 9781793600769, $95.00; ISBN 9781793600776 ebook, $90.00; 57-2807

Shiller, Robert J. Narrative economics: how stories go viral and drive major economic events. Princeton, 2019. 377p bibl index ISBN 9780691182292, $27.95; ISBN 9780691189970 ebook, contact publisher for price; 57-2659

Skotnicki, Andrew. Conversion and the rehabilitation of the penal system: a theological rereading of criminal justice. Oxford, 2019. 192p index ISBN 9780190880835, $24.95; ISBN 9780190880859 ebook, contact publisher for price; 57-2786

Squire, Peverill. State legislatures today: politics under the domes, by Peverill Squire and Gary Moncrief. 3rd ed. Rowman & Littlefield, 2020. 272p index ISBN 9781538123355, $70.00; ISBN 9781538123362 pbk, $35.00; ISBN 9781538123379 ebook, $33.00; 57-2788

Strachan, J. Cherie. Why don’t women rule the world?: understanding women’s civic and political choices, by J. Cherie Strachan et al. SAGE Publishing, 2019. 515p bibl index ISBN 9781544317243 pbk, $60.00; ISBN 9781544317250 ebook, contact publisher for price; 57-2747

Strausz, Michael. Help (not) wanted: immigration politics in Japan. SUNY Press, 2019. 197p bibl index ISBN 9781438475516, $95.00; ISBN 9781438475523 pbk, $22.95; ISBN 9781438475530 ebook, contact publisher for price; 57-2756

Su, Amy Jen. The leader you want to be: five essential principles for bringing out your best self—every day. Harvard Business Review Press, 2019. 241p index ISBN 9781633695917, $28.00; ISBN 9781633695924 ebook, contact publisher for price; 57-2647

Symons, Jonathan. Ecomodernism: technology, politics and the climate crisis. Polity, 2019. 232p bibl index ISBN 9781509531196, $64.95; ISBN 9781509531202 pbk, $19.95; ISBN 9781509531226 ebook, $9.99; 57-2660

Taylor, Keeanga-Yamahtta. Race for profit: how banks and the real estate industry undermined black homeownership. North Carolina, 2019. 349p bibl index ISBN 9781469653662, $30.00; ISBN 9781469653679 ebook, $22.99; 57-2809

Teaching resistance: radicals, revolutionaries, and cultural subversives in the classroom, ed. by John Mink. 3rd ed. PM Press, 2019. 362p ISBN 9781629637099 pbk, $24.95; ISBN 9781629637723 ebook, contact publisher for price; 57-2673

Wright, Richard G. American violence: survival, healing, and the failure of American policy. Lexington Books, 2019. 281p bibl index ISBN 9781793600578, $95.00; ISBN 9781793600585 ebook, $90.00; 57-2628

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