The Top 75 Community College Titles: April 2021 Edition

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

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Encyclopedia of Jewish history and culture: v.3 G-Le, ed. by Dan Diner. Brill, 2020. 760p index ISBN 9789004309449, $419.00; 58-2144

Kille, Kent J. The United Nations: 75 years of promoting peace, human rights, and development, by Kent Kille and Alynna J. Lyon. ABC-CLIO, 2020. 353p bibl index ISBN 9781440851568, $97.00; ISBN 978144085157 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-2146

Stone, Lora. Religion and environmentalism: exploring the issues. ABC-CLIO, 2020. 199p bibl index ISBN 9781440868566, $40.00; ISBN 978144086857 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-2139

Zirpolo, Lilian H. Michelangelo: a reference guide to his life and works. Rowman & Littlefield, 2020. 276p bibl index ISBN 9781538123034, $50.00; ISBN 9781538123041 ebook, $47.50; 58-2140

Humanities

American Jewish thought since 1934: writings on identity, engagement, and belief, ed. by Michael Marmur and David Ellenson. Brandeis, 2020. 317p bibl index ISBN 9781684580132, $90.00; ISBN 9781684580149 pbk, $26.00; ISBN 9781684580126 ebook, $24.99; 58-2229

Bari, Shahidha K. Dressed: a philosophy of clothes. Basic Books, 2020. 352p bibl index ISBN 9781541645981, $30.00; ISBN 9781541645998 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-2151

The Cambridge companion to queer studies, ed. by Siobhan B. Somerville. Cambridge, 2020. 300p index ISBN 9781108741897, $99.99; ISBN 9781108741897 ebook, $29.99; ISBN 9781108621939 ebook, $24.00; 58-2147

Coleman, Billy. Harnessing harmony: music, power, and politics in the United States, 1788–1865. North Carolina, 2020. 268p bibl index ISBN 9781469658865, $95.00; ISBN 9781469658872 pbk, $27.95; ISBN 9781469658889 ebook, $21.99; 58-2208

A Companion to world literature, general ed. Ken Seigneurie. Wiley-Blackwell, 2020. 6v bibl index ISBN 9781118993187, $876.00; ISBN 9781118635193 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-2166

Engelland, Chad. Phenomenology. MIT, 2020. 254p bibl index ISBN 9780262539319 pbk, $15.95; 58-2218

Gill, Stephen. William Wordsworth: a life. Oxford, 2020. 688p bibl index ISBN 9780198817116, $32.95; ISBN 9780192551283 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-2180

Herwitz, Daniel Alan. Cosmopolitan aesthetics: art in a global world. Bloomsbury Academic, 2020. 232p bibl index ISBN 9781350075238, $130.00; ISBN 9781350075238 pbk, $39.99; ISBN 9781350075269 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-2153

Hinds, Michael. Johnny Cash international: how and why fans love the man in black, by Michael Hinds and Jonathan Silverman. Iowa, 2020. 270p bibl index ISBN 9781609387013 pbk, $27.50; ISBN 9781609387020 ebook, $27.50; 58-2209

Hubbard, Melanie. Emily Dickinson: poetics in context. Cambridge, 2020. 256p bibl indexes ISBN 9781108491761, $99.99; ISBN 9781108657808 ebook, $80.00; 58-2182

Hudgins, Nicole. The gender of photography: how masculine and feminine values shaped the history of nineteenth-century photography. Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2020. 295p bibl index ISBN 9781474271561, $115.00; ISBN 9781474271578 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-2161

Jules-Rosette, Bennetta. African art reframed: reflections and dialogues on museum culture, by Bennetta Jules-Rosette and J.R. Osborn. Illinois, 2020. 408p bibl index ISBN 9780252043277, $125.00; ISBN 9780252085192 pbk, $24.95; ISBN 9780252052156 ebook, $14.95; 58-2154

June, Pamela B. Solidarity with the other beings on the planet: Alice Walker, ecofeminism, and animals in literature. Northwestern University, 2020. 189p index ISBN 9780810141698, $99.95; ISBN 9780810141681 pbk, $34.95; ISBN 9780810141704 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-2183

Kerby, Lauren R. Saving history: how white Evangelicals tour the nation’s capital and redeem a Christian America. North Carolina, 2020. 196p bibl index ISBN 9781469655895, $90.00; ISBN 9781469658773 pbk, $22.00; ISBN 9781469655901 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-2239

Krasnyanskaya, Kristina. Soviet design: from constructivism to modernism 1920–1980, by Kristina Krasnyanskaya and Alexander Semenov. Scheidegger & Spiess, 2020. 446p ISBN 9783858818461, $135.00; 58-2150

Krohn, Bill. Letters from Hollywood: 1977–2017. SUNY Press, 2020. 324p bibl index ISBN 9781438477633, $95.00; ISBN 9781438477640 pbk, $32.95; ISBN 9781438477657 ebook, contact pub-lisher for price; 58-2201

Mason, Clifford. Macbeth in Harlem: Black theater in America from the beginning to Raisin in the sun. Rutgers, 2020. 246p bibl index ISBN 9781978809994, $32.95; ISBN 9781978810006 ebook, $32.95; 58-2214

Matijas-Mecca, Christian. Listen to psychedelic rock!: exploring a musical genre. Greenwood, 2020. 220p bibl index ISBN 9781440861970, $63.00; ISBN 9781440861987 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-2211

McCoy, Marina. Image and argument in Plato’s Republic. SUNY Press, 2020. 352p bibl index ISBN 9781438479132, $95.00; 58-2177

Nerds, goths, geeks, and freaks: outsiders in Chicanx and Latinx young adult literature, ed. by Trevor Boffone and Cristina Herrera. University Press of Mississippi, 2020. 198p index ISBN 9781496827456, $90.00; ISBN 9781496827463 pbk, $30.00; ISBN 9781496827500 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-2186

Palumbo, Allison P. Love and the fighting female: a critical study of onscreen depictions. McFarland, 2020. 245p bibl index ISBN 9781476677392 pbk, $39.95; ISBN 9781476639772 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-2203

Villeneuve, Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot Gallon. Beauty and the beast: the original story, ed. and tr. by Aurora Wolfgang. Iter Press/ACMRS Press, 2020. 191p (The other voice in early modern Europe: the Toronto se-ries, 74) ISBN 9780866986274 pbk, $41.95; ISBN 978086698760 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-2197

White, Luke. Legacies of the Drunken master: politics of the body in Hong Kong kung fu comedy films. Hawai’i, 2020. 254p bibl index ISBN 9780824881573, $68.00; ISBN 9780824882983 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-2207

Science & Technology

Bioimaging: imaging by light and electromagnetics in medicine and biology, ed. by Shoogo Ueno. CRC Press, 2020. 254p bibl index ISBN 9780367203047, $150.00; ISBN 9780429260971 ebook, $59.95; 58-2267

Cobb, Matthew. The idea of the brain: the past and future of neuroscience. Basic Books, 2020. 496p index ISBN 9781541646858, $32.00; ISBN 9781549159084 ebook, $19.99; 58-2256

Experimental physics: principles and practice for the laboratory, ed. by Walter Fox Smith. CRC Press, 2020. 456p bibl index ISBN 9781498778473, $120.00; ISBN 9780429194894 ebook, $120.00; 58-2278

Fombu, Emmanuel. Predictive medicine: artificial intelligence and its impact on health care business strategy. Business Expert Press, 2020. 150p index ISBN 9781951527044, $36.95; ISBN 9781951527051 ebook, $19.95; 58-2268

Maxted, Nigel. Plant genetic conservation, by Nigel Maxted, Danny Hunter, and Rodomiro Ortiz Ríos. Cambridge, 2020. 566p bibl index ISBN 9780521806565, $115.00; ISBN 9780521001304 pbk, $59.99; ISBN 9781108907774 ebook, $48.00; 58-2254

Mech, L. David. Wolf Island: discovering the secrets of a mythic animal, by L. David Mech with Greg Breining; foreword by Rolf O. Peterson. Minnesota, 2020. 188p index ISBN 9781517908256, $24.95; ISBN 9781452962092 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-2255

Oldstone, Michael B. A. Viruses, plagues, and history: past, present, and future. Oxford, 2020. 512p bibl index ISBN 9780190056780 pbk, $19.95; ISBN 9780190056803 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-2271

Otter, Christopher. Diet for a large planet: industrial Britain, food systems, and world ecology. Chicago, 2020. 400p bibl index ISBN 9780226697109, $49.00; ISBN 9780226705965 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-2247

Svensson, Patrik. The book of eels: our enduring fascination with the most mysterious creature in the natural world, tr. by Agnes Broomé. Ecco, 2020. 256p bibl index ISBN 9780062968814, $28.99; ISBN 9780062968821 pbk, $17.99; ISBN 9780062968838 ebook, $2.99; 58-2258

Social & Behavioral Sciences

Aberth, John. The Black Death: a new history of the great mortality in Europe, 1347–1500. Oxford, 2021. 416p bibl index ISBN 9780199937981 pbk, $24.95; ISBN 9780197520109 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-2381

Animals and ourselves: essays on connections and blurred boundaries, ed. by Kathy Merlock Jackson, Kathy Shepherd Stolley, and Lisa Lyon Payne. McFarland, 2020. 293p bibl index ISBN 9781476671734, $45.00; ISBN 9781476640143 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-2421

Ball, Simon J. Secret history: writing the rise of Britain’s intelligence services. McGill-Queen’s, 2020. 280p bibl index ISBN 9780228000815, $120.00; ISBN 9780228000822 pbk, $34.95; ISBN 9780228002215 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-2375

Bauman, Sheri. Political cyberbullying: perpetrators and targets of a new digital aggression. Praeger, 2019. 168p bibl index ISBN 9781440866876 pbk, $36.00; ISBN 9781440866883 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-2422

Cahill, Cathleen D. Recasting the vote: how women of color transformed the suffrage movement. North Carolina, 2020. 376p bibl index ISBN 9781469659329, $32.50; ISBN 9781469659336 ebook, $22.99; 58-2360

Chin, Margaret May. Stuck: why Asian Americans don’t reach the top of the corporate ladder. New York University, 2020. 232p bibl index ISBN 9781479816811, $28.00; ISBN 9781479845682 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-2433

Choi-Fitzpatrick, Austin. The good drone: how social movements democratize surveillance. MIT, 2020. 324p bibl index ISBN 9780262538886 pbk, $25.00; ISBN 9780262358460 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-2392

Collaborating for change: transforming cultures to end gender-based violence in higher education, ed. by Susan B. Marine and Ruth Lewis. Oxford, 2020. 265p bibl index ISBN 9780190071820, $55.00; ISBN 9780190071844 pbk, contact publisher for price; 58-2311

Crotty, Martin. The politics of veteran benefits in the twentieth century: a comparative history, by Martin Crotty, Neil J. Diamant, and Mark Edele. Cornell, 2020. 240p bibl index ISBN 9781501751639, $35.00; ISBN 9781501751646 ebook, $17.99; 58-2327

Engstrom, Erik J. Race, class, and social welfare: American populism since the New Deal, by Erik J. Engstrom and Robert Huckfeldt. Cambridge, 2020. 199p bibl index ISBN 9781108836920, $110.00; ISBN 9781108871334 ebook, $88.00; 58-2414

Glymph, Thavolia. The women’s fight: the Civil War’s battles for home, freedom, and nation. North Carolina, 2020. 379p bibl indexes ISBN 9781469653631, $34.95; ISBN 9781469653648 ebook, $26.99; 58-2363

Greenspan, Nancy Thorndike. Atomic spy: the dark lives of Klaus Fuchs. Viking, 2020. 416p bibl index ISBN 9780593083390, $30.00; ISBN 9780593083413 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-2384

Haass, Richard. The world: a brief introduction. Penguin Press, 2020. 378p bibl index ISBN 9780399562396, $28.00; ISBN 9780399562402 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-2328

Herzog, Don. Sovereignty, RIP. Yale, 2020. 320p index ISBN 9780300247725, $40.00; 58-2411

Jackson, Andrew. The papers of Andrew Jackson: v. 11: 1833, ed. by Daniel Feller. Tennessee, 2019. 1,007p ISBN 9781621905387, $110.00; 58-2366

Ladd, Brian. The streets of Europe: the sights, sounds, and smells that shaped its great cities. Chicago, 2020. 320p bibl index ISBN 9780226677941, $30.00; ISBN 9780226678139 ebook, $18.00; 58-2386

Living Earth community: multiple ways of being and knowing, ed. by Sam Mickey, Mary Evelyn Tucker, and John Grim. Open Book Publishers, 2020. 288p ISBN 9781783748044, $40.00; ISBN 9781783748037 pbk, $27.95; ISBN 9781783748051 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-2330

Lomborg, Bjørn. False alarm: how climate change panic costs us trillions, hurts the poor, and fails to fix the planet. Basic Books, 2020. 320p bibl index ISBN 9781541647466, $30.00; ISBN 9781541647480 ebook, $17.99; 58-2395

Manion, Jen. Female husbands: a trans history. Cambridge, 2020. 350p index ISBN 9781108483803, $24.95; ISBN 9781108596046 ebook, $20.00; 58-2331

McCarthy, Helen. Double lives: a history of working motherhood in modern Britain. Bloomsbury, 2020. 560p bibl index ISBN 9781408870730, $30.00; ISBN 9781408870761 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-2378

Millington, Chris. France in the Second World War: collaboration, resistance, Holocaust, empire. Bloomsbury Academic, 2020. 272p bibl index ISBN 9781350094963, $95.00; ISBN 9781350094970 pbk, $30.95; ISBN 9781350094987 ebook, $27.85; 58-2388

Nossel, Suzanne. Dare to speak: defending free speech for all. Dey Street, 2020. 320p index ISBN 9780062966032, $28.99; ISBN 9780062966063 ebook, $14.99; 58-2416

Packer, Jeremy. Killer apps: war, media, machine, by Jeremy Packer and Joshua Reeves. Duke, 2020. 280p index ISBN 9781478005872, $99.95; ISBN 9781478006572 pbk, $26.95; ISBN 9781478007272 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-2396

Papaconstantinou, George. Whatever it takes: the battle for post-crisis Europe. Agenda Publishing, 2020. 205p bibl index ISBN 9781911116974, $90.00; ISBN 9781911116981 pbk, $30.00; ISBN 9781911116998 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-2398

Perrodin, David P. School of errors: rethinking school safety in America. Rowman & Littlefield, 2019. 204p bibl index ISBN 9781475837445, $30.00; ISBN 9781475837469 ebook, $28.50; 58-2318

Purdy, Chase. Billion dollar burger: inside big tech’s race for the future of food. Portfolio/Penguin, 2020. 272p index ISBN 9780525536949, $28.00; ISBN 9780525536956 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-2288

Rawls, Anne Warfield. Tacit racism, by Anne Warfield Rawls and Waverly Duck. Chicago, 2020. 289p bibl index ISBN 9780226703558, $82.50; ISBN 9780226703695 pbk, $27.50; ISBN 9780226703725 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-2439

Rosenberger, Leif. Economic statecraft and US foreign policy: reducing the demand for violence. Routledge, 2020. 174p index ISBN 9780367134204, $160.00; ISBN 9780429026362 ebook, $48.95; 58-2406

Ross, Howard J. Everyday bias: identifying and navigating unconscious judgments in our daily lives. Rowman & Littlefield, 2020. 214p bibl index ISBN 9781442258655, $28.00; ISBN 9781538142295 ebook, $26.50; 58-2430

Saito, Natsu Taylor. Settler colonialism, race, and the law: why structural racism persists. New York Uni-versity, 2020. 368p bibl index ISBN 9780814723944, $60.00; ISBN 9780814708026 ebook, contact pub-lisher for price; 58-2418

Social work, criminal justice, and the death penalty, ed. by Lauren A. Ricciardell. Oxford, 2020. 312p bibl index ISBN 9780190937232, $50.00; ISBN 9780190937249 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-2291

Taiwan: the development of an Asian tiger, ed. by Hans Stockton and Yao-Yuan Yeh. L. Rienner, 2019. 247p index ISBN 9781626378346, $85.00; ISBN 9781626378360 ebook, $85.00; 58-2345

Tallis, Nicola. Uncrowned queen: the life of Margaret Beaufort, mother of the Tudors. Basic Books, 2020. 391p index ISBN 9781541617872, $32.00; ISBN 9781541617889 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-2380

Taylor, Brian. Fighting for citizenship: Black Northerners and the debate over military service in the Civil War. North Carolina, 2020. 248p bibl index ISBN 9781469659763, $95.00; ISBN 9781469659770 pbk, $29.95; ISBN 9781469659787 ebook, $22.99; 58-2372

Trump’s America: political culture and national identity, ed. by Liam Kennedy. Edinburgh University Press, 2020. 384p bibl index ISBN 9781474458870, $110.00; ISBN 9781474458900 ebook, $110.00; 58-2292

Unchanam, Puangchon. Royal capitalism: wealth, class, and monarchy in Thailand. Wisconsin, 2020. 336p bibl index ISBN 9780299326005, $75.95; ISBN 9780299326036 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-2346

Wang, Fanxi. Mao Zedong thought, ed., tr., and introd. by Gregor Benton. Brill, 2020. 326p bibl index (Historical materialism book series, 251) ISBN 9789004358904, $180.00; ISBN 9789004421561 ebook, $180.00; 58-2348

Watts, Jill. The Black cabinet: African-Americans, politics, and the age of Roosevelt. Grove Atlantic, 2020. 560p bibl index ISBN 9780802129109, $30.00; ISBN 9780802146922 ebook, $30.00; 58-2373

Weinberger, Joel L. The unconscious: theory, research, and clinical implications, by Joel Weinberger and Valentina Stoycheva. Guilford, 2020. 396p bibl index ISBN 9781462541058, $45.00; ISBN 9781462541089 ebook, $45.00; 58-2431