The Top 75 Community College Titles: August 2018 Edition

Posted on August 30, 2018 in Top 75 Community College Titles

The best of all the titles appropriate for two-year colleges reviewed in the August 2018 issue of Choice.

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African American Poetry, 1760–1900 and Twentieth-Century African American Poetry. ProQuest. African-American Poetry, 1760–1900: $805.00 – $1,104.00; Twentieth-Century African-American Poetry: $1,446.00-$1,982.00; consortial discounts available. URL: proquest.com/products-services/afr_am_poetry.html 55-4304

The Cambridge handbook of psychology and economic behaviour, ed. by Alan Lewis. 2nd ed. Cambridge, 2018. 774p bibl index ISBN 9781107161399, $175.00; ISBN 9781316613900 pbk, $99.00; ISBN 9781108548786 ebook, $79.00; 55-4319

Connolly, Matthew. User privacy: a practical guide for librarians. Rowman & Littlefield, 2018. 165p bibl index (Practical guides for librarians, 37) ISBN 9781442276321 pbk, $65.00; ISBN 9781442276338 ebook, $61.50; 55-4309

Eastern Europe, Russia and Central Asia 2018. Routledge, 2017. 790p bibl index ISBN 9781857438826, $1,225.00; 55-4301

Grossman, Mark. Political corruption in America: an encyclopedia of scandals, power, and greed. Grey House, 2017. 2v bibl index ISBN 9781682175484, $255.00; 55-4321

Hamilton, Alexander. The political writings of Alexander Hamilton: v.1: 1769–1789; v.2.: 1789–1804, ed. by Carson Holloway and Bradford P. Wilson. Cambridge, 2017. 2v index ISBN 9781107088474, $250.00; 55-4322

Health technology sourcebook: basic consumer health information about medicine and technology, telemedicine…. Omni-graphics, 2018. 516p index ISBN 9780780815919, $85.00; ISBN 9780780815926 ebook, contact publisher for price; 55-4314

König, Michael. The Cambridge photographic atlas of galaxies, by Michael König and Stefan Binnewies, tr. by Phillip Helbig. Cambridge, 2017. 344p bibl index ISBN 9781107189485, $54.99; 55-4315

LGBTQ events, ed. by Robert C. Evans. 2nd ed. Salem Press/Grey House, 2018. 2v bibl indexes ISBN 9781682175910, $175.00; ISBN 9781682175927 ebook, contact publisher for price; 55-4323

Nations of the world: a political, economic & business handbook, [ed. by] Richard Gottlieb. 17th ed. Grey House, 2018. 2,262p ISBN 9781682173879, $180.00; 55-4302

Proquest Historical Newspapers. ProQuest. Pricing based on FTE; consortial discounts available. URL: proquest.com/products-services/pq-hist-news.html 55-4303

Spellman, Frank R. Environmental engineering dictionary. Bernan, 2018. 693p bibl ISBN 9781598889703, $189.00; ISBN 9781598889710 ebook, $179.50; 55-4317

Woehrel, Mary L. Mushrooms of the Georgia Piedmont and southern Appalachians: a reference, by Mary L. Woehrel and William H. Light. Georgia, 2017. 647p indexes ISBN 9780820350035, $59.95; 55-4318

Humanities

Babbage, Frances. Adaptation in contemporary theatre: performing literature. Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, 2018. 270p bibl index ISBN 9781472530523, $102.00; ISBN 9781472534163 ebook, contact publisher for price; 55-4401

Bigsby, C. W. E. Twenty-first century American playwrights. Cambridge, 2018. 228p index ISBN 9781108419581, $84.99; ISBN 9781108411448 pbk, $24.99; ISBN 9781108321372 ebook, $20.00; 55-4363

Bolton, Christopher. Interpreting anime. Minnesota, 2018. 322p bibl ISBN 9781517904029, $96.00; ISBN 9781517904036 pbk, $24.00; ISBN 9781452956831 ebook, contact publisher for price; 55-4346

Boyd, Barbara Weiden. Ovid’s Homer: authority, repetition, and reception. Oxford, 2017. 301p bibl indexes ISBN 9780190680046, $85.00; ISBN 9780190680053 ebook, contact publisher for price; 55-4358

Burrows, Roger. 3D thinking in design and architecture from antiquity to the future. Thames & Hudson, 2018. 328p bibl index ISBN 9780500519547, $60.00; 55-4345

The Cambridge companion to the writings of Julius Caesar, ed. by Luca Grillo and Christopher B. Krebs. Cambridge, 2018. 396p bibl indexes ISBN 9781107023413, $99.99; ISBN 9781107670495 pbk, $32.99; ISBN 9781108215541 ebook, $26.00; 55-4360

Du Bois, W. E. B. W. E. B. Du Bois and the sociology of the black church and religion, 1897–1914, ed. by Robert Wortham. Lexington Books, 2018. 281p bibl index ISBN 9781498530354, $100.00; ISBN 9781498530361 ebook, $95.00; 55-4422

Fitzgerald, Oscar P. American furniture: 1650 to the present. Rowman & Littlefield, 2018. 621p bibl index ISBN 9781442270381, $130.00; ISBN 9781442270404 ebook, $123.50; 55-4334

Griffith, R. Marie. Moral combat: how sex divided American Christians and fractured American politics. Basic Books, 2017. 395p index ISBN 9780465094752, $32.00; ISBN 9780465094769 ebook, $19.99; 55-4423

Herman Melville in context, ed. by Kevin Hayes. Cambridge, 2018. 384p bibl index ISBN 9781107169760, $120.00; ISBN 9781316755204 ebook, contact publisher for price; 55-4367

Ivanhoe, P. J. Oneness: East Asian conceptions of virtue, happiness, and how we are all connected. Oxford, 2017. 188p bibl index ISBN 9780190840518, $39.95; ISBN 9780190840525 ebook, contact publisher for price; 55-4410

Manning, Toby. John Le Carré and the Cold War. Bloomsbury Academic, 2018. 239p bibl index ISBN 9781350036390, $114.00; ISBN 9781350036406 ebook, contact publisher for price; 55-4372

The Oxford handbook of rhetorical studies, ed. by Michael J. MacDonald. Oxford, 2017. 819p bibl index ISBN 9780199731596, $150.00; ISBN 9780190681845 ebook, contact publisher for price; 55-4352

Powers, Peter Kerry. Goodbye Christ?: Christianity, masculinity, and the new Negro renaissance. Tennessee, 2017. 236p bibl index ISBN 9781621903734, $55.00; ISBN 9781621903741 ebook, $55.00; 55-4332

Scharnhorst, Gary. The life of Mark Twain: the early years, 1835–1871. Missouri, 2018. 686p bibl index ISBN 9780826221445, $36.95; ISBN 9780826274007 ebook, contact publisher for price; 55-4376

Vincent, Edgar. A. E. Housman: hero of the hidden life. Boydell Press, 2018. 416p bibl index ISBN 9781783272419, $34.95; ISBN 9781787440982 ebook, contact publisher for price; 55-4380

Science & Technology

Alexander, Bryan. The new digital storytelling: creating narratives with new media. Praeger, 2017. 291p bibl index ISBN 9781440849602, $48.00; ISBN 9781440849619 ebook, contact publisher for price; 55-4500

Davies, Janette. Living before dying: imagining and remembering home. Berghahn Books, 2017. 158p bibl index (New direc-tions in anthropology, 41) ISBN 9781785336140, $120.00; ISBN 9781785336157 ebook, contact publisher for price; 55-4489

Effective conservation science: data not dogma, ed. by Peter Kareiva, Michelle Marvier, and Brian Silliman. Oxford, 2018. 190p bibl index ISBN 9780198808978, $100.00; ISBN 9780198808985 pbk, $49.95; ISBN 9780192536662 ebook, contact publisher for price; 55-4436

Foundations for global health practice, [ed.] by Lori DiPrete Brown. Jossey-Bass, 2018. 528p bibl index ISBN 9781118505564 pbk, $90.00; ISBN 9781118603635 ebook, $72.99; 55-4492

Gunter, Michael M. Tales of an ecotourist: what travel to wild places can teach us about climate change. Excelsior Edi-tions/SUNY Press, 2018. 446p bibl index ISBN 9781438466798, $95.00; ISBN 9781438466781 pbk, $29.95; ISBN 9781438466804 ebook, contact publisher for price; 55-4478

Hensler, Paul. The new boys of summer: baseball’s radical transformation in the late sixties. Rowman & Littlefield, 2017. 301p bibl index ISBN 9781538102596, $40.00; ISBN 9781538102602 ebook, $38.00; 55-4527

Hessen, D. O. The many lives of carbon, [tr.] by Kerri Pierce. Reaktion Books, 2017. 261p bibl index ISBN 9781780238517, $29.00; 55-4472

Krantz, Steven G. Essentials of mathematical thinking. CRC Press, 2018. 335p bibl index ISBN 9781138042575, $149.95; ISBN 9781138197701 pbk, $69.95; ISBN 9781315116822 ebook, $69.95; 55-4514

Lemery, Jay. Enviromedics: the impact of climate change on human health, by Jay Lemery and Paul S. Auerbach. Rowman & Littlefield, 2017. 214p bibl index ISBN 9781442243187, $33.00; ISBN 9781442243194 ebook, $31.00; 55-4493

Lister, Adrian. Darwin’s fossils: the collection that shaped the theory of evolution. Smithsonian Books, 2018. 231p bibl index ISBN 9781588346179 pbk, $19.95; 55-4455

McKellar, Shelley. Artificial hearts: the allure and ambivalence of a controversial medical technology. Johns Hopkins, 2018. 376p index ISBN 9781421423555, $54.95; ISBN 9781421423562 ebook, $54.95; 55-4494

Park, R. G. Mountains: the origins of the earth’s mountain systems. Dunedin Academic, 2018. 212p index ISBN 9781780460666, $40.00; ISBN 9781780465791 ebook, contact publisher for price; 55-4479

Prothero, Donald R. The story of the Earth in 25 rocks: tales of important geological puzzles and the people who solved them. Columbia, 2018. 354p bibl index ISBN 9780231182607, $35.00; ISBN 9780231544276 ebook, $34.99; 55-4480

Pseudoscience: the conspiracy against science, ed. by Allison B. Kaufman and James C. Kaufman. MIT, 2018. 510p bibl in-dex ISBN 9780262037426, $40.00; ISBN 9780262344807 ebook, $28.00; 55-4441

Saoub, Karin R. A tour through graph theory. CRC Press, 2018. 304p bibl index ISBN 9781138070844, $159.95; ISBN 9781138197800 pbk, $79.95; ISBN 9781315116839 ebook, $71.96; 55-4516

Sigmund, Karl. Exact thinking in demented times: the Vienna Circle and the epic quest for the foundations of science. Basic Books, 2017. 449p bibl index ISBN 9780465096954, $32.00; ISBN 9780201608977 ebook, $17.99; 55-4447

Singer, Adam B. Practical C++ design: from programming to architecture. Apress, 2017. 246p bibl index ISBN 9781484230565, $24.99; ISBN 9781484230572 ebook, $24.99; 55-4509

Streeby, Shelley. Imagining the future of climate change: world-making through science fiction and activism. California, 2018. 157p bibl ISBN 9780520294448, $85.00; ISBN 9780520294455 pbk, $18.95; ISBN 9780520967557 ebook, contact publish-er for price; 55-4481

Social & Behavioral Sciences

Babicz, Martin C. National pastime: U.S. history through baseball, by Martin C. Babicz and Thomas W. Zeiler. Rowman & Lit-tlefield, 2017. 277p index ISBN 9781442235847, $36.00; ISBN 9781442235854 ebook, $34.00; 55-4594

Beorn, Waitman Wade. The Holocaust in eastern Europe: at the epicenter of the Final Solution. Bloomsbury, 2018. 342 pages ISBN 9781474232197, $102.00; ISBN 9781474232180 pbk, $32.95; ISBN 9781474232210 ebook, contact publisher for price; 55-4578

Cohan, Peter S. Startup cities: why only a few cities dominate the global startup scene and what the rest should do about it. Apress, 2018. 271p index ISBN 9781484233924 pbk, $19.99; ISBN 9781484233931 ebook, $19.99; 55-4541

Comfort food: meanings and memories, ed. by Michael Owen Jones and Lucy M. Long. University Press of Mississippi, 2018. 254p bibl index ISBN 9781496810847, $85.00; ISBN 9781496810854 pbk, $35.00; ISBN 9781496810861 ebook, contact publisher for price; 55-4532

Congress and the people’s contest: the conduct of the Civil War, ed. by Paul Finkelman and Donald R. Kennon. Ohio State, 2018. 249p index ISBN 9780821423042, $55.00; ISBN 9780821423059 pbk, $29.95; ISBN 9780821446164 ebook, contact pub-lisher for price; 55-4598

De Pontet, Stephanie Brun. Transitioning from the top: personal continuity planning for the retiring family business leader. Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. 198p bibl index ISBN 9781137578037, $34.99; ISBN 9781137578044 ebook, contact publisher for price; 55-4543

Deitche, Scott M. Garden State gangland: the rise of the mob in New Jersey. Rowman & Littlefield, 2018. 215p bibl index ISBN 9781442267299, $35.00; ISBN 9781442267305 , $33.00; 55-4599

Eltchaninoff, Michel. Inside the mind of Vladimir Putin, [tr.] by James Ferguson. [Updated English ed.]. Hurst & Company, 2018. vii, 195 pages ISBN 9781849049337 pbk, $19.95; ISBN 9781787380004 ebook, contact publisher for price; 55-4662

The History of modern Spain: chronologies, themes, individuals, ed. by Adrian Shubert and José Álvarez Junco. Bloomsbury Academic, 2018. 484p bibl index ISBN 9781472591982, $108.00; ISBN 9781472591975 pbk, $36.95; ISBN 9781472591999 ebook, contact publisher for price; 55-4632

Izzo, Amanda L. Liberal Christianity and women’s global activism: the YWCA of the USA and the Maryknoll Sisters. Rutgers, 2018. 275p bibl index ISBN 9780813588483, $99.95; ISBN 9780813588476 pbk, $28.95; ISBN 9780813588490 ebook, $28.95; 55-4609

The Korean War in Asia: a hidden history, ed. by Tessa Morris-Suzuki. Rowman & Littlefield, 2018. 226p bibl index ISBN 9781538111895, $80.00; ISBN 9781538111901 pbk, $35.00; ISBN 9781538111918 ebook, $33.00; 55-4575

Kurie, Peter. In chocolate we trust: the Hershey company town unwrapped. Pennsylvania, 2018. 209p bibl index ISBN 9780812249873, $34.95; ISBN 9780812294736 ebook, $34.95; 55-4546

Law enforcement in the age of Black Lives Matter: policing black and brown bodies, ed. by Sandra E. Weissinger and Dwayne A. Mack. Lexington Books, 2018. 216p bibl index ISBN 9781498553599, $95.00; ISBN 9781498553605 ebook, $90.00; 55-4704

Lawrence, John A. The class of ‘74: Congress after Watergate and the roots of partisanship. Johns Hopkins, 2018. 380p bibl index ISBN 9781421424699, $29.95; ISBN 9781421424705 ebook, $29.95; 55-4679

Leins, Stefan. Stories of capitalism: inside the role of financial analysts. Chicago, 2018. 194p bibl index ISBN 9780226523392, $75.00; ISBN 9780226523422 pbk, $25.00; ISBN 9780226523569 ebook, $25.00; 55-4554

Levinson, David. Jewish Germany: an enduring presence from the fourth to the twenty-first century. Vallentine Mitchell, 2018. 150p bibl index ISBN 9781910383605, $64.95; ISBN 9781910383612 pbk, $29.95; ISBN 9781910383629 ebook, contact publisher for price; 55-4634

Lim, Julian. Porous borders: multiracial migrations and the law in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands. North Carolina, 2017. 302p bibl index ISBN 9781469635491, $32.50; ISBN 9781469635507 ebook, $14.99; 55-4612

MacDowall, Simon. The Goths: conquerors of the Roman Empire. Pen & Sword, 2017. 161p bibl ISBN 9781473837645, $34.95; 55-4635

Malthus, T. R. An essay on the principle of population: the 1803 edition, ed. and introd. by Shannon C. Stimson; essays by Niall O’Flaherty et al. Yale, 2018. 588p bibl index ISBN 9780300177411 pbk, $18.00; ISBN 9780300231892 ebook, contact publisher for price; 55-4666

Miller, John P. Love and compassion: exploring their role in education. Toronto, 2018. 157p bibl index ISBN 9781487503314, $70.00; ISBN 9781487522575 pbk, $24.95; ISBN 9781487517687 ebook, contact publisher for price; 55-4558

Morris, Marcia. The campus cure: a parent’s guide to mental health and wellness for college students. Rowman & Littlefield, 2018. 235p bibl index ISBN 9781538104521, $34.00; ISBN 9781538104538 ebook, $32.00; 55-4696

Norrell, Tracey Hayes. For the honor of our Fatherland: German Jews on the Eastern Front during the Great War. Lexington Books, 2017. 187p bibl index ISBN 9781498564878, $95.00; ISBN 9781498564885 ebook, $90.00; 55-4564

Pryor, Francis. Stonehenge: the story of a sacred landscape. Pegasus Books, 2018. 207p index ISBN 9781681776408, $26.95; ISBN 9781681777030 ebook, contact publisher for price; 55-4629

Rabe-Hemp, Cara E. Thriving in an all-boys club: female police and their fight for equality. Rowman & Littlefield, 2018. 207p bibl index ISBN 9781442274297, $38.00; ISBN 9781442274303 ebook, $36.00; 55-4706

Rice, Monika. “What! Still alive?!”: Jewish survivors in Poland and Israel remember homecoming. Syracuse, 2017. 253p bibl index ISBN 9780815635536, $60.00; ISBN 9780815635390 pbk, $29.95; ISBN 9780815654193 ebook, contact publish-er for price; 55-4584

Snyder, Jeffrey Aaron. Making black history: the color line, culture, and race in the age of Jim Crow. Georgia, 2018. 243p bibl index ISBN 9780820351834, $86.95; ISBN 9780820352831 pbk, $26.95; ISBN 9780820351841 ebook, contact publisher for price; 55-4618

Sokol, Jason. The heavens might crack: the death and legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr. Basic Books, 2018. 343p bibl index ISBN 9780465055913, $32.00; ISBN 9781541697393 ebook, contact publisher for price; 55-4619

Tyldesley, Joyce A. Nefertiti’s face: the creation of an icon. Harvard, 2018. 228p bibl index ISBN 9780674983755, $25.95; 55-4572

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