The Top 75 Community College Titles: August 2019 Edition

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

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Chaves, Kelly K. Explorers of the American East: mapping the world through primary documents, by Kelly K. Chaves and Oliver C. Walton with Jay H. Buckley and Jeffery D. Nokes. ABC-CLIO, 2019. 329p bibl index ISBN 9781440839306, $108.00; ISBN 9781440839313 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-4546

Possible minds: twenty-five ways of looking at AI, ed. by John Brockman. Penguin Press, 2019. 293p in-dex ISBN 9780525557999, $28.00; ISBN 9780525558002 ebook, $14.99; 56-4545

ProQuest One Academic. ProQuest. Contact publisher for pricing. URL: proquest.com/products-services/ProQuest-One-Academic.html 56-4536

The Routledge Performance Archive. Routledge. Pricing ranges from $3,400 to $5,600. URL: routledgeperformancearchive.com 56-4539

Social Explorer. Social Explorer. Contact publisher for pricing. URL: socialexplorer.com 56-4550

Vaporis, Constantine Nomikos. Samurai: an encyclopedia of Japan’s cultured warriors. ABC-CLIO, 2019. 419p bibl index ISBN 9781440842702, $94.00; ISBN 9781440842719 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-4551

Humanities

The Beatles through a glass onion: reconsidering the White Album, ed. by Mark Osteen. Michigan, 2019. 324p bibl index ISBN 9780472074082, $80.00; ISBN 9780472124848 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-4629

Cassam, Quassim. Vices of the mind: from the intellectual to the political. Oxford, 2019. 202p bibl index ISBN 9780198826903, $34.95; ISBN 9780191865824 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-4635

Dowling, David O. A delicate aggression: savagery and survival in the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Yale, 2019. 420p index ISBN 9780300215847, $35.00; 56-4587

Erigha, Maryann. The Hollywood Jim Crow: the racial politics of the movie industry. New York Universi-ty, 2019. 225p bibl index ISBN 9781479847877 pbk, $25.00; ISBN 9781479816644 ebook, contact pub-lisher for price; 56-4622

Gilbert, Pamela K. Victorian skin: surface, self, history. Cornell, 2019. 434p bibl index ISBN 9781501731594, $49.95; ISBN 9781501731600 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-4592

Hibbett, J. Ryan. Philip Larkin, popular culture, and the English individual. Lexington Books, 2019. 183p bibl index ISBN 9781498543026, $90.00; ISBN 9781498543033 ebook, $85.50; 56-4593

Insko, Jeffrey. History, abolition, and the ever-present now in antebellum American writing. Oxford, 2018. 255p index ISBN 9780198825647, $65.00; ISBN 9780191864285 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-4595

The Literature of the Ozarks: an anthology, ed. by Phillip Douglas Howerton. Arkansas, 2019. 322p ISBN 9781682260852, $74.95; ISBN 9781682260852 pbk, $29.95; ISBN 9781610753890 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-4598

Loske, Alexandra. Color: a visual history from Newton to modern color matching guides. Smithsonian Books, 2019. 240p bibl index ISBN 9781588346575, $40.00; 56-4561

Marcus, Leonard S. The ABC of it: why children’s books matter. Minnesota, 2019. 231p bibl ISBN 9781517908010 pbk, $39.95; 56-4554

Medieval philosophy: a multicultural reader, general editor Bruce V. Foltz with Mohammad Azadpur et al. Bloomsbury Academic, 2019. 715p bibl index ISBN 9781472580405, $136.00; ISBN 9781472580399 pbk, $44.95; ISBN 9781472580429 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-4640

Polischuk, Derek Kealii. Transformational piano teaching: mentoring students from all walks of life. Oxford, 2019. 219p index ISBN 9780190664664, $74.00; ISBN 9780190664664 pbk, $24.95; ISBN 9780190664671 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-4631

The Routledge research companion to Ford Madox Ford, ed. by Sara Haslam, Laura Colombino, and Seamus O’Malley. Routledge, 2018. 478p bibl index ISBN 9781472427380, $220.00; ISBN 9781315612980 ebook, $53.95; 56-4605

Singer, Marc. Breaking the frames: Populism and prestige in comics studies. Texas, 2018. 292p bibl index ISBN 9781477317099, $105.00; ISBN 9781477317105 pbk, $34.95; ISBN 9781477317112 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-4573

Tucker, Joshua. Making music indigenous: popular music in the Peruvian Andes. Chicago, 2019. 279p bibl index ISBN 9780226607160, $90.00; ISBN 9780226607337 pbk, $30.00; ISBN 9780226607474 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-4632

Vezzosi, Alessandro. Leonardi da Vinci: the complete paintings in detail. Prestel, 2018. 318p bibl ISBN 9783791384979, $85.00; 56-4567

Warren, Nagueyalti. Alice Walker’s metaphysics: literature of spirit. Rowman & Littlefield, 2019. 205p bibl index ISBN 9781538123973, $80.00; ISBN 9781538123980 ebook, $76.00; 56-4612

Whitted, Qiana J. EC Comics: race, shock, and social protest. Rutgers, 2019. 181p bibl index ISBN 9780813566320, $99.95; ISBN 9780813566313 pbk, $29.95; ISBN 9780813573106 ebook, $29.95; 56-4575

Science & Technology

Allen, Gary. Sauces reconsidered: après Escoffier. Rowman & Littlefield, 2019. 199p bibl index ISBN 9781538115138, $28.00; ISBN 9781538115145 ebook, $26.00; 56-4657

Bales, Jack. Before they were the Cubs: the early years of Chicago’s first professional baseball team. McFarland, 2019. 254p bibl index ISBN 9781476674674 pbk, $39.95; ISBN 9781476635064 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-4746

Barth, Joe. Pepper: a guide to the world’s favorite spice. Rowman & Littlefield, 2019. 167p bibl index ISBN 9781442273924, $30.00; ISBN 9781442273931 ebook, $28.00; 56-4685

Bhatia, Rajani. Gender before birth: sex selection in a transnational context. Washington, 2018. 249p bibl index ISBN 9780295999203, $90.00; ISBN 9780295999210 pbk, $30.00; ISBN 9780295742946 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-4712

Bjarkman, Peter C. Fidel Castro and baseball: the untold story. Rowman & Littlefield, 2019. 364p bibl index ISBN 9781538110300, $38.00; ISBN 9781538110317 ebook, $36.00; 56-4747

Brown, Kate. Manual for survival: a Chernobyl guide to the future. W. W. Norton, 2019. 420p index ISBN 9780393652512, $27.95; ISBN 9780393652529 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-4664

Clotfelter, Charles T. Big-time sports in American universities. Cambridge, 2019. 374p bibl index ISBN 9781108421126, $99.99; ISBN 9781108431392 pbk, $24.99; ISBN 9781108373005 ebook, $20.00; 56-4748

Crump, Martha L. A year with nature: an almanac, illustrated by Bronwyn McIvor. Chicago, 2018. 416p bibl ISBN 9780226449708, $30.00; ISBN 9780226449845 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-4677

Endsley, Kezia. Dental assistants and hygienists: a practical career guide. Rowman & Littlefield, 2019. 105p bibl ISBN 9781538111819 pbk, $35.00; ISBN 9781538111826 ebook, $33.00; 56-4715

Fanchi, John R. The Goldilocks policy: the basis for a grand energy bargain. World Scientific, 2019. 215p bibl index ISBN 9789813276390, $88.00; ISBN 9789813277441 pbk, $38.00; ISBN 9789813276406 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-4705

Gottlieb, Roger S. Morality and the environmental crisis. Cambridge, 2019. 140p ndex ISBN 9781107140738, $99.99; ISBN 9781316506127 pbk, $29.99; ISBN 9781316493083 ebook, contact pub-lisher for price; 56-4701

Hansman, Heather. Downriver: into the future of water in the West. Chicago, 2019. 221p index ISBN 9780226432670, $25.00; ISBN 9780226432700 ebook, $18.00; 56-4680

Harvell, C. Drew. Ocean outbreak: confronting the rising tide of marine disease. California, 2019. 216p bibl index ISBN 9780520296978, $26.95; ISBN 9780520969506 ebook, $26.95; 56-4681

Helmer, Jodi. Protecting pollinators: how to save the creatures that feed our world. Island Press, 2019. 220p bibl index ISBN 9781610919364 pbk, $28.00; ISBN 9781610919371 ebook, $27.99; 56-4691

Hilary Putnam on logic and mathematics, ed. by Geoffrey Hellman and Roy T. Cook. Springer, 2018. 274p bibl index (Outstanding contributions to logic, 9) ISBN 9783319962733, $109.99; ISBN 9783319962740 ebook, $84.99; 56-4732

Jordan, John M. 3D printing. MIT, 2018. 224p index ISBN 9780262536684 pbk, $15.95; ISBN 9780262352413 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-4659

Leonardi, Cesare. The architecture of trees, by Cesare Leonardi and Franca Stagi; tr. by Natalie Danford. Princeton Architectural, 2019. 421p bibl ISBN 9781616898069, $125.00; 56-4689

Lyth, D. H. The road to Einstein’s relativity: following in the footsteps of the giants. CRC Press, 2019. 160p bibl index ISBN 9780367022853, $99.95; ISBN 9780367002534 pbk, $26.95; ISBN 9780429400445 ebook, $26.95; 56-4741

Made modern: science and technology in Canadian history, ed. by Edward Jones-Imhotep and Tina Adcock. UBC Press, 2018. 376p index ISBN 9780774837231, $89.95; ISBN 9780774837262 ebook, $34.95; 56-4667

Mansoulié, Bruno. All of physics (almost) in 15 equations. World Scientific, 2019. 138p index ISBN 9789813273405 pbk, $28.00; ISBN 9789813273412 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-4742

Mee, Nicholas. The cosmic mystery tour: a high-speed journey through space & time. Oxford, 2019. 207p bibl index ISBN 9780198831860, $24.95; ISBN 9780191869785 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-4673

Mulvaney, Dustin. Solar power: innovation, sustainability, and environmental justice. California, 2019. 329p bibl index ISBN 9780520288164, $95.00; ISBN 9780520288171 pbk, $29.95; ISBN 9780520963191 ebook, $29.95; 56-4706

Overman, Steven J. Sports crazy: how sports are sabotaging American schools. University Press of Missis-sippi, 2019. 252p bibl index ISBN 9781496821300, $99.99; ISBN 9781496821317 pbk, $30.00; 56-4750

Parisi, Jason. The future of fusion energy, by Jason Parisi and Justin Ball. World Scientific, 2019. 378p bibl index ISBN 9781786345424, $98.00; ISBN 9781786347497 pbk, $48.00; ISBN 9781786345448 ebook, $19.95; 56-4707

Parker, James R. Game development using Python. Mercury Learning and Information, 2019. 301p bibl index DVD ISBN 9781683921806 pbk, $54.95; 56-4729

Searight, H. Russell. Health and behavior: a multidisciplinary perspective. Rowman & Littlefield, 2019. 356p bibl index ISBN 9781442274068, $130.00; ISBN 9781442274075 pbk, $64.00; ISBN 9781442274082 ebook, $60.50; 56-4723

Sears, Derek W. G. Gerard P. Kuiper and the rise of modern planetary science. Arizona, 2019. 350p in-dex ISBN 9780816539000, $45.00; ISBN 9780816539734 ebook, $45.00; 56-4674

Sedjo, Roger A. Surviving global warming: why eliminating greenhouse gases isn’t enough. Prometheus Books, 2019. 245p index ISBN 9781633885288, $24.00; ISBN 9781633885295 ebook, $11.99; 56-4703

Selby, Christine L. B. Obesity: your questions answered. Greenwood, 2019. 126p bibl index ISBN 9781440861468, $39.00; ISBN 9781440861475 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-4724

Seo, Sarah A. Policing the open road: how cars transformed American freedom. Harvard, 2019. 339p index ISBN 9780674980860, $28.95; 56-4670

Skinner, Julia. Afternoon tea: a history. Rowman & Littlefield, 2019. 225p bibl index ISBN 9781442271012, $38.00; ISBN 9781442271029 ebook, $36.00; 56-4660

Withuhn, William L. American steam locomotives: design and development, 1880–1960. Indiana, 2019. 451p index ISBN 9780253039330, $40.00; ISBN 9780253039347 ebook, $39.99; 56-4709

Wohlleben, Peter. The secret wisdom of nature: trees, animals, and the extraordinary balance of all living things: stories from science and observation, tr. by Jane Billinghurst. Greystone, 2019. 260p index ISBN 9781771643887, $29.95; ISBN 9781771643894 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-4683

Social & Behavioral Sciences

Arora, Payal. The next billion users: digital life beyond the West. Harvard, 2019. 269p bibl index ISBN 9780674983786, $35.00; ISBN 9780674238879 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-4899

Bradley, Christine A. The once and future silver queen of the Rockies: Georgetown, Colorado, and the fight for survival into the twentieth century, by Christine Bradley and Duane A. Smith. University Press of Colorado, 2019. 315p index ISBN 9781607326076 pbk, $32.95; ISBN 9781607326083 ebook, $26.95; 56-4817

Bravo, Michael. North Pole. Reaktion Books, 2019. 254p bibl index ISBN 9781789140088 pbk, $24.95; ISBN 9781789140309 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-4786

Cohen, Michael A. Clear and present safety: the world has never been better and why that matters to Americans. Yale, 2019. 256p index ISBN 9780300222555, $27.50; ISBN 9780300235111 ebook, con-tact publisher for price; 56-4875

Does America need more innovators?, ed. by Matthew Wisnioski, Eric S. Hintz, and Marie Stettler Kleine. MIT, 2019. 399p index ISBN 9780262536738 pbk, $45.00; ISBN 9780262352598 ebook, contact pub-lisher for price; 56-4764

Fincher-Kiefer, Rebecca. How the body shapes knowledge: empirical support for embodied cognition. American Psychological Association, 2019. 194p bibl index ISBN 9781433829604 pbk, $64.99; ISBN 9781433830846 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-4889

Frankopan, Peter. The new silk roads: the present and future of the world. Knopf, 2018. 285p index ISBN 9780525656401, $26.95; ISBN 9780525656418 ebook, $12.99; 56-4848

Glosserman, Brad. Peak Japan: the end of great ambitions. Georgetown University, 2019. 263p index ISBN 9781626166684, $32.95; ISBN 9781626166707 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-4802

Hamnett, Brian R. A concise history of Mexico. Cambridge, 2019. 537p bibl index ISBN 9781316626610, $84.99; ISBN 9781316626610 pbk, $29.99; ISBN 9781316795958 ebook, contact pub-lisher for price; 56-4809

Johnson, David K. Buying gay: how physique entrepreneurs sparked a movement. Columbia, 2019. 308p index ISBN 9780231189101, $32.00; ISBN 9780231548175 ebook, $31.99; 56-4907

Knott, Sarah. Mother is a verb: an unconventional history. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019. 306p ISBN 9780374213589, $27.00; 56-4790

Lasso, Marixa. Erased: the untold story of the Panama Canal. Harvard, 2019. 344p index ISBN 9780674984448, $35.00; ISBN 9780674239746 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-4810

Lukowski, Jerzy. A concise history of Poland, by Jerzy Lukowski and Hubert Zawadzki. 3rd ed. Cam-bridge, 2019. 487p bibl index ISBN 9781108424363, $79.99; ISBN 9781108440127 pbk, $24.99; ISBN 9781108333993 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-4808

Mandela, Nelson. The prison letters of Nelson Mandela, ed. by Sahm Venter; foreword by Zamaswazi Dlamini-Mandela. Liveright, 2018. 620p index ISBN 9781631491177, $35.00; 56-4795

Rose, Mark H. Market rules: bankers, presidents, and the origins of the Great Recession. Pennsylvania, 2019. 258p index ISBN 9780812251029, $39.95; ISBN 9780812295665 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-4781

To feast on us as their prey: cannibalism and the early modern Atlantic, ed. by Rachel B. Herrmann. Arkansas, 2019. 282p index ISBN 9781682260821, $74.95; ISBN 9781682260821 pbk, $27.95; ISBN 9781610756563 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-4793

Ukockis, Gail L. Misogyny: the new activism. Oxford, 2019. 311p index ISBN 9780190876340, $24.95; ISBN 9780190876364 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-4910

Wadsworth, James E. Global piracy: a documentary history of seaborne banditry. Bloomsbury Academic, 2019. 328p bibl index ISBN 9781350058194, $88.00; ISBN 9781350058187 pbk, $29.95; ISBN 9781350058200 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-4794