The Top 75 Community College Titles: April 2024 Edition
The best of all the titles appropriate for two-year colleges reviewed in the April issue of Choice.
Posted on April 25, 2024
Reference
Bonevac, Daniel. Historical dictionary of ethics. Rowman & Littlefield, 2023. 673p bibl ISBN 9781538175712, $250.00; ISBN 9781538175729 ebook, $237.50; 61-2108
Keywords for health humanities, ed. by Sari Altschuler, Jonathan M. Metzl, and Priscilla Wald. New York University, 2023. ISBN 9781479808090, $89.00; ISBN 9781479808106 pbk, $29.00; ISBN 9781479808069 ebook, contact publisher for price; 61-2111
Kubicek, Paul. History of Ukraine. Bloomsbury Academic, 2023. 280p bibl index ISBN 9781440880452, $75.00; ISBN 9798216171812 ebook, $67.50; 61-2112
Unger, Melvin P. Historical dictionary of choral music. Rowman & Littlefield, 2023. 698p bibl ISBN 9781538124338, $250.00; ISBN 9781538124345 ebook, $237.50; 61-2110
Humanities
Across the worlds of Islam: Muslim identities, beliefs, and practices from Asia to America, ed. by Edward E. Curtis IV. Columbia, 2023. 328p bibl index ISBN 9780231210645, $140.00; ISBN 9780231210652 , $35.00; ISBN 9780231558525 ebook, contact publisher for price; 61-2180
Albrecht Dürer’s material world, ed. by Edward H. Wouk and Jennifer Spinks. Manchester, 2023. 224p bibl index ISBN 9781526167606 pbk, $36.95; ISBN 9781526167590 ebook, contact publisher for price; 61-2121
Asawa, Ruth. Ruth Asawa: through line, ed. by Kim Conaty and Edouard Kopp. Whitney Museum of American Art, 2023. (Dist. by Yale) 231p bibl ISBN 9780300273281, $50.00; 61-2114
A century of modern Chinese poetry: an anthology, ed. by Michelle Yeh, Zhangbin Li, and Frank Stewart. Washington, 2023. 394p bibl index ISBN 9780295751146, $105.00; ISBN 9780295751160 pbk, $32.00; ISBN 9780295751153 ebook, contact publisher for price; 61-2142
Empirical ecocriticism: environmental narratives for social change, by Matthew Schneider-Mayerson et al. Minnesota, 2023. 408p bibl ISBN 9781517915346, $120.00; ISBN 9781517915353 pbk, $30.00; ISBN 9781452969466 ebook, $30.00; 61-2138
Evans, Robert C. LGBTQ+ literature in the West: from ancient times to the twenty-first century. Bloomsbury, 2023. ISBN 9781350371828, $115.00; ISBN 9781350371842 ebook, $103.50; 61-2139
Eyman, Scott. Charlie Chaplin vs. America: when art, sex, and politics collided. Simon & Schuster, 2023. 432p bibl index ISBN 9781982176358, $29.99; ISBN 9781982176372 ebook, $14.99; 61-2162
Glassie, Henry. Folk art: continuity, creativity, and the Brazilian quotidian, by Henry Glassie and Pravina Shukla. Indiana, 2023. 612p bibl index ISBN 9780253067210, $40.00; ISBN 9780253067234 ebook, contact publisher for price; 61-2116
Guy, John. Tree & serpent: early Buddhist art in India. Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2023. 344p bibl index ISBN 9781588396938, $65.00; 61-2117
Leslie, Thomas. Chicago skyscrapers, 1934–1986: how technology, politics, finance, and race reshaped the city. Illinois, 2023. 354p bibl index ISBN 9780252044953, $44.95; ISBN 9780252054112 ebook, $14.95; 61-2126
Meese, James. Digital platforms and the press. Intellect, 2023. 184p bibl index ISBN 9781789388336, $122.95; ISBN 9781789388794 pbk, $24.95; ISBN 9781789388350 ebook, contact publisher for price; 61-2130
Nuttall, Jenni. Mother tongue: the surprising history of women’s words. Viking, 2023. 304p bibl index ISBN 9780593299579, $29.00; ISBN 9780593299586 ebook, contact publisher for price; 61-2140
O’Donnell, Aoife. Public relations and communications: from theory to practice. Routledge, 2023. 238p bibl index ISBN 9781032182902, $170.00; ISBN 9781032170435 pbk, $52.95; ISBN 9781003253815 ebook, contact publisher for price; 61-2133
Potter, Jane. Selected letters of Wilfred Owen. Oxford, 2023. 464p bibl index ISBN 9780199689507, $32.95; ISBN 9780191003653 ebook, contact publisher for price; 61-2152
Seargeant, Philip. Future of language: how technology, politics and utopianism are transforming the way we communicate. Bloomsbury Academic, 2023. 256p bibl index ISBN 9781350278851, $27.00; ISBN 9781350278868 ebook, $24.30; 61-2134
Serazio, Michael. The authenticity industries: keeping it “real” in media, culture, and politics. Stanford, 2023. 304p bibl index ISBN 9781503635487, $30.00; ISBN 9781503637290 ebook, contact publisher for price; 61-2135
Smith, Emma. The making of Shakespeare’s First folio. Bodleian Library, 2023. 258p bibl index ISBN 9781851245987, $33.38; 61-2155
Soskice, Janet Martin. Naming God: addressing the divine in philosophy, theology and scripture. Cambridge, 2023. 256p bibl ISBN 9781108834469, $39.99; ISBN 9781108999298 ebook, contact publisher for price; 61-2186
Streaming video: storytelling across borders, ed. by Amanda D. Lotz and Ramon Lobato. New York University, 2023. 376p bbl index ISBN 9781479816835, $89.00; ISBN 9781479816842 pbk, $30.00; ISBN 9781479816866 ebook, contact publisher for choice; 61-2136
Tehve, Karin. Taste: media and interior design. Routledge, 2023. 266p bibl index ISBN 9780367758790, $170.00; ISBN 9780367758806 pbk, $48.95; ISBN 9781003164388 ebook, contact publisher for price; 61-2120
Tochka, Nicholas. Rocking in the free world: popular music and the politics of freedom in postwar America. Oxford, 2023. 248p bibl index ISBN 9780197566510, $29.95; ISBN 9780197566534 ebook, contact publisher for price; 61-2167
Wolohojian, Stephan. Manet/Degas, by Stephan Wolohojian and Ashley Dunn. Illinois, 2023. 316p bibl index ISBN 9781588397638, $51.95; 61-2123
Science & Technology
Budrys, Grace. Our unsystematic healthcare system. Rowman & Littlefield, 2023. 166p bibl index ISBN 9781538177037, $90.00; ISBN 9781538177044 pbk, $35.00; ISBN 9781538177051 ebook, $33.00; 61-2206
Buizza, Roberto. Weather prediction. Oxford, 2023. 298p bibl index ISBN 9780197652138, $74.00; ISBN 9780197652121 pbk, $18.95; ISBN 9780197652152 ebook, contact publisher for price; 61-2199
Diversity and marginalisation in forensic mental health care, ed. by Jack Tomlin and Birgit Völlm. Routledge, 2023. 222p bibl index ISBN 9781032027111, $170.00; 61-2207
Flanagan, Mary. Playing oppression: the legacy of conquest and empire in colonialist board games, by Mary Flanagan and Mikael Jakobsson. MIT, 2023. 240p bibl index ISBN 9780262047913, $35.00; ISBN 9780262373722 ebook, contact publisher for price; 61-2218
Grush, Loren. The six: the untold story of America’s first women astronauts. Scribner, 2023. 432p bibl index ISBN 9781982172800, $32.50; ISBN 9781982172824 ebook, contact publisher for price; 61-2193
Hannam, James. The globe: how the Earth became round. Reaktion Books, 2023. 376p bibl index ISBN 9781789147582, $23.59; ISBN 9781789148084 ebook, contact publisher for price; 61-2190
Martin, Piero. The seven measures of the world, tr. by Gregory Conti. Yale, 2023. 224p index ISBN 9780300266276, $28.00; ISBN 9780300271645 ebook, contact publisher for pricing; 61-2217
Ocean life in the time of dinosaurs, by Nathalie Bardet et al; tr. by Mark Epstein; illustrated by Alain Bénéteau. Princeton, 2023. 208p bibl ISBN 9780691243948, $29.95; ISBN 9780691243993 ebook, $29.95; 61-2203
Robles, Whitney Barlow. Curious species: how animals made natural history. Yale, 2024. 328p bibl index ISBN 9780300266184, $40.00; ISBN 9781529233636 ebook, contact publisher for price; 61-2197
Russell, Adrienne. The mediated climate: how journalists, Big Tech, and activists are vying for our future. Columbia, 2023. 272p bibl index ISBN 9780231201735, $140.00; ISBN 9780231201735 pbk, $35.00; ISBN 9780231554237 ebook, contact publisher for price; 61-2204
Steingart, Alma. Axiomatics: mathematical thought and high modernism. Chicago, 2023. 300p bibl index ISBN 9780226824185, $105.00; ISBN 9780226824208 pbk, $35.00; ISBN 9780226824192 ebook, $34.99; 61-2215
Turner, James Morton. Charged: a history of batteries and lessons for a clean energy future. Washington, 2022. 256p bibl index ISBN 9780295750248, $34.95; ISBN 9780295750262 ebook, contact publisher for price; 61-2191
Weddell, Bertie J. Conservation in the context of a changing world: concepts, strategies, and evidence. Cambridge, 2023. 490p bibl index ISBN 9781108986502 pbk, $64.99; ISBN 9781108987936 ebook, $64.99; 61-2205
Wheeler, Tom. Techlash: who makes the rules in the digital gilded age? Brookings Institution Press, 2023. 264p bibl index ISBN 9780815739937, $23.87; ISBN 9781402438431 ebook, contact publisher for price; 61-2214
A Wilder kingdom, ed. by Ben A. Minteer and Harry W. Greene. Columbia, 2023. 271p bibl index ISBN 9780231201520, $130.00; ISBN 9780231201537 pbk, $32.00; ISBN 9780231554145 ebook, $31.99; 61-2198
Social & Behavioral Sciences
Acemoglu, Daron. Power and progress: our thousand-year struggle over technology and prosperity, by Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson. PublicAffairs, 2023. 560p bibl index ISBN 9781541702530, $32.00; ISBN 9781541702554 ebook, $19.99; 61-2242
Braga, Anthony A. Policing gun violence: strategic reforms for controlling our most pressing crime problem, by Anthony A. Braga and Philip J. Cook. Oxford, 2023. 240p bibl index ISBN 9780199929283, $34.95; ISBN 9780197521748 ebook, contact publisher for price; 61-2324
The Cambridge history of the Mongol Empire, ed. by Michal Biran and Hodong Kim. Cambridge, 2023. 1300p 2v. bibl index ISBN 9781107116481, $315.00; ISBN 9781316337424 ebook, contact publisher for price; 61-2272
Carruthers, Caroline. Halo data: understanding and leveraging the value of your data, by Caroline Carruthers and Peter Jackson. Facet Publishing, 2023. 160p bibl index ISBN 9781783306176 pbk, $32.99; ISBN 9781783306190 ebook, contact publisher for price; 61-2237
Coates, John. The problem of twelve: when a few financial institutions control everything. Columbia Global Reports, 2023. 190p bibl index ISBN 9798987053546, $17.00; ISBN 9798987053553 ebook, contact publisher for price; 61-2245
Conn, Steven. The lies of the land: seeing rural America for what it is—and isn’t. Chicago, 2023. 320p b ISBN 9780226826905, $29.00; ISBN 9780226826912 ebook, contact publisher for pricing; 61-2325
Garlick, Jeremy. Advantage China: agent of change in an era of global disruption. Bloomsbury Academic, 2023. 232p bibl index ISBN 9781350252325, $90.00; ISBN 9781350252318 pbk, $29.95; ISBN 9781350252332 ebook, $26.95; 61-2246
Ginsberg, Rick. Duck and cover: confronting and correcting dubious practices in education, by Rick Ginsberg and Yong Zhao. Teachers College Press, 2023. 192p bibl index ISBN 9780807767917, $105.00; ISBN 9780807767900 pbk, $34.95; ISBN 9780807781500 ebook, contact publisher for price; 61-2256
Hagerty, Alexa. Still life with bones: genocide, forensics, and what remains. Crown, 2023. 320p bibl index ISBN 9780593443132, $32.00; ISBN 9780593443149 ebook, contact publisher for price; 61-2228
Hecht, Gabrielle. Residual governance: how South Africa foretells planetary futures. Duke, 2023. 288p bibl index ISBN 9781478020288, $104.95; ISBN 9781478024941 pbk, $27.95; ISBN 9781478027263 ebook, contact publisher for price; 61-2296
Hill, Marc Lamont. Seen and unseen: technology, social media, and the fight for racial justice, by Marc Lamont Hill and Todd Brewster. Atria, 2023. 320p index ISBN 9781982180393, $18.99; ISBN 9781982180416 ebook, contact publisher for price; 61-2223
Horne, Gerald. Revolting captial. International Publishers, 2023. 542p bibl index ISBN 9780717800360, $21.99; 61-2285
Jordan, Mark D. Queer callings: untimely notes on names and desires. Fordham, 2023. 176p bibl index ISBN 9781531504533, $27.95; ISBN 9781531504557 ebook, contact publisher for price; 61-2224
Kanellos, Nicolás. Latinos and nationhood: two centuries of intellectual thought. Arizona, 2023. 230p bibl index ISBN 780816551842, $1105.00; ISBN 9780816551842 pbk, $35.00; ISBN 9780816551866 ebook, $35.00; 61-2225
Kuperus, Gerard. Ecopolitics: redefining the polis. SUNY Press, 2023. 228p bibl index ISBN 9781438494258, $99.00; ISBN 9781438494272 ebook, contact publisher for price; 61-2311
Lembcke, Jerry. The cult of the victim veteran: MAGA fantasies in lost-war America. Routledge, 2023. 130p bibl index ISBN 9781032490267, $170.00; ISBN 9781032490243 pbk, $48.95; ISBN 9781000912470 ebook, $48.95; 61-2329
Levine, Peter. What should we do?: a theory of civic life. Oxford, 2023. 248p bibl index ISBN 9780197570494, $32.99; ISBN 9780197570517 ebook, contact publisher for price; 61-2298
Lowery, Brian. Selfless: the social creation of “you”. HarperCollins, 2023. 259p bibl index ISBN 9780062913005, $29.99; ISBN 9780062913029 pbk, $19.99; ISBN 9780062913036 ebook, $12.99; 61-2320
Mallett, Alex. Christian-Muslim relations during the Crusades. ARC Humanities Press, 2023. 120p bibl ISBN 9781641890199 pbk, $19.95; ISBN 9781802701326 ebook, $19.95; 61-2280
McAleer, John. Atlantic voyages: the East India Company and the British route to the East in the age of sail. Oxford, 2023. 272p bibl index ISBN 9780192894748, $110.00; ISBN 9780192647603 ebook, contact publisher for price; 61-2290
Morgan, Rachel. Sins of the shovel: looting, murder, and the evolution of American archaeology. Chicago, 2023. 328p bibl index ISBN 9780226822389, $30.00; ISBN 9780226822396 ebook, contact publisher for price; 61-2230
Orser, Charles E., Jr. Living ceramics, storied ground: a history of African American archaeology. University Press of Florida, 2023. 264p bibl index ISBN 9780813069791, $85.00; ISBN 9780813080260 pbk, $35.00; ISBN 9780813072975 ebook, contact publisher for price; 61-2232
Parker, Thomas R. American presidents in diplomacy and war: statecraft, foreign policy, and leadership. Notre Dame, 2023. 212p index ISBN 9780268207236, $45.00; ISBN 9780268207250 ebook, $35.99; 61-2315
Peden, G. C. Churchill, Chamberlain and appeasement. Cambridge, 2023. 418p bibl index ISBN 9781009201988, $39.00; ISBN 9781009201971 ebook, $39.99; 61-2293
Rethinking Freire and Illich: historical, philosophical, and theological perspectives, ed. by Rosa Bruno-Jofré, Michael Attridge, and Jon Igelmo Zaldívar. Toronto, 2023. 352p bibl index ISBN 9781487550431, $75.00; ISBN 9781487550479 ebook, contact publisher for price; 61-2260
Sarafian, Iliana. Contesting moralities: Roma identities, state and kinship. Berghahn Books, 2023. 174p bibl index (new directions in Romani studies, 5) ISBN 9781800739062, $135.00; ISBN 9781800739079 ebook, contact publisher for price; 61-2233
Shteir, Rachel. Betty Friedan: magnificent disrupter. Yale, 2023. 384p ISBN 9780300220025, $27.00; 61-2287
Streimikiene, Dalia. Corporate social hypocrisy: CSR in the era of global crises, by Dalia Streimikiene, Asta Mikalauskiene, and Gabija Stanislovaityte. Routledge, 2023. 185p bibl index ISBN 9781032489957, $170.00; ISBN 9781000911237 ebook, $52.95; 61-2239
Toyota, Tritia. Intimate strangers: shin Issei women and contemporary Japanese American community, 1980–2020. Temple, 2023. 244p bibl index ISBN 9781439923511, $110.00; ISBN 9781439923528 pbk, $32.95; ISBN 9781439923535 ebook, $32.95; 61-2227
Viestad, Vibeke Maria. Living with the dead: how we care for the deceased, by Vibeke Maria Viestad and Andreas Viestad; tr. by Matt Bagguley. Reaktion Books, 2023. 240p bibl ISBN 9781789147681, $25.00; ISBN 9781789148121 ebook, contact publisher for price; 61-2235
Williams, Mark A. The connected species: how the evolution of the human brain can save the world. Rowman & Littlefield, 2023. 230p bibl index ISBN 9781538179000, $35.00; ISBN 9781538179017 ebook, $33.00; 61-2321
Wuthnow, Robert. Faith communities and the fight for racial justice: what has worked, what hasn’t, and lessons we can learn. Princeton, 2023. 288p bibl index ISBN 9780691250830, $35.00; ISBN 9780691250885 ebook, $35.00; 61-2332
Yeo, ShinJoung. Behind the search box: Google and the global internet industry. Illinois, 2023. 236p bibl index ISBN 9780252044991, $110.00; ISBN 9780252087127 pbk, $28.00; ISBN 9780252054174 ebook, $19.95; 61-2241
Yu, Fu-Lai Tony. China’s long and winding road to modernization: uncertainty, learning, and policy change, by Fu-Lai Tony Yu and Diana S. Kwan. Lexington Books, 2023. 312p bibl ISBN 9781666934403, $110.00; ISBN 9781666934410 ebook, $45.00; 61-2251