The Top 75 Community College Titles: August 2022 Edition

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

Posted on August 30, 2022 in Top 75 Community College Titles

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Benson, Sara R. Compact copyright: quick answers to common questions. ALA Neal-Schuman, 2021. 176p bibl index ISBN 9780838937563 pbk, $54.99; ISBN 9780838938034 ebook, contact publisher for price; 59-3362

Collected Papers of Albert Einstein. Princeton. Contact publisher for pricing. URL: https://einsteinpapers.press.princeton.edu/ 59-3366

Ethnic Diversity Source. EBSCO. Contact publisher for pricing. URL: https://www.ebsco.com/products/research-databases/ethnic-diversity-source 59-3368

Political Extremism and Radicalism: Far-Right Groups in America. Gale, part of Cengage Learning. Con-tact publisher for pricing. URL: https://www.gale.com/c/political-extremism-and-radicalism-far-right-groups-in-america 59-3369

The Routledge international handbook of domestic violence and abuse, ed. by John Devaney et al. Routledge, 2021. 834p index ISBN 9780367334857, $250.00; ISBN 9780429331053 ebook, $52.95; 59-3370

Women and religion: global lives in focus, ed. by Susan M. Shaw. ABC-CLIO, 2021. 320p bibl index ISBN 9781440871962, $63.00; ISBN 9781440871979 ebook, contact publisher for price; 59-3365

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Humanities

Bloomsbury research handbook of Chinese aesthetics and philosophy of art, ed. Marcello Ghilardi and Hans-Georg Moeller. Bloomsbury Academic, 2021. 416p bibl index ISBN 9781350129764, $175.00; ISBN 9781350129788 ebook, contact publisher for price; 59-3443

Borowski, Tadeusz. Here in our Auschwitz and other stories, tr. by Madeline G. Levine. Yale, 2021. 392p bibl ISBN 9780300116908, $28.00; ISBN 9780300160208 ebook, contact publisher for price; 59-3425

Bufacchi, Vittorio. Everything must change: philosophical lessons from lockdown. Manchester University Press, 2021. 183p bibl indexes ISBN 9781526158772, $29.95; ISBN 9781526158765 ebook, contact publisher for price; 59-3444

The Cambridge companion to American Catholicism, ed. by Margaret M. McGuinness and Thomas F. Rzeznik. Cambridge, 2021. 384p index ISBN 9781108472654, $99.99; ISBN 9781108460088 pbk, $34.99; ISBN 9781108634922 ebook, $28.00; 59-3459

Dunkley, Daive A. Women and resistance in the early Rastafari movement. Louisiana State, 2021. 208p bibl index ISBN 9780807175699, $45.00; ISBN 9780807176283 ebook, contact publisher for price; 59-3461

Dusenbury, David Lloyd. The innocence of Pontius Pilate: how the Roman trial of Jesus shaped history. Oxford, 2021. 272p bibl index ISBN 9780197602799, $35.00; ISBN 9781787386723 ebook, contact publisher for price; 59-3462

Foucault, Michel. Speaking the truth about oneself: lectures at Victoria University, Toronto, 1982, ed. by Henri-Paul Fruchaud and Daniele Lorenzini; English ed. by Daniel Louis Wyche. Chicago, 2021. 304p index ISBN 9780226616865, $30.00; ISBN 9780226623054 ebook, $29.99; 59-3446

Grimley, Daniel M. Jean Sibelius: life, music, silence. Reaktion Books, 2021. (Dist. by Chicago) 256p bibl index ISBN 9781789144659, $35.00; ISBN 9781789144666 ebook, $35.00; 59-3434

Huizing, Jan Marisse. Ludwig van Beethoven: the piano sonatas: history, notation, interpretation, tr. by Gerald R. Mettam. Yale, 2021. 322p bibl index ISBN 9780300251609 pbk, $40.00; ISBN 9780300262742 ebook, contact publisher for price; 59-3436

Image: three inquiries in technology and imagination, ed. by Mark C. Taylor, Mary-Jane Rubenstein, and Thomas A. Carlson. Chicago, 2021. 240p bibl index ISBN 9780226782140, $95.00; ISBN 9780226782287 pbk, $25.00; ISBN 9780226782317 ebook, $24.99; 59-3465

Keiser, Sandra J. The Fairchild Books dictionary of fashion, by Sandra Keiser and Phyllis G. Tortora. 5th ed. Fairchild Books, 2021. 216p ISBN 9781501366697, $230.00; ISBN 9781501365300 ebook, contact publisher for price; 59-3382

Litwa, M. David. The evil creator: origins of an early Christian idea. Oxford, 2021. 224p bibl index ISBN 9780197566428, $74.00; ISBN 9780197566442 ebook, contact publisher for price; 59-3468

Parker, Jan. The Iliad and the Odyssey: the Trojan War: tragedy and aftermath. Pen & Sword Military, 2021. 312p bibl index ISBN 9781526779939, $34.95; ISBN 9781526779946 ebook, contact publisher for price; 59-3409

Potter, W. James. Digital media effects. Rowman & Littlefield, 2021. 264p bibl index ISBN 9781538140017, $120.00; ISBN 9781538140017 pbk, $60.00; ISBN 9781538140024 ebook, $57.00; 59-3398

Smith, Gary Scott. Mark Twain: preacher, prophet, and social philosopher. Oxford, 2021. 272p bibl index ISBN 9780192894922, $40.00; ISBN 9780192647955 ebook, contact publisher for price; 59-3421

Surrealism and film after 1945: absolutely modern mysteries, ed. by Kristoffer Noheden and Abigail Susik. Manchester University Press, 2021. 272p bibl index ISBN 9781526149985, $120.00; ISBN 9781526149978 ebook, contact publisher for price; 59-3431

Trudgill, Peter. European language matters: English in its European context: columns from the New European. Cambridge, 2022. 275p bibl index ISBN 9781108832960, $99.00; ISBN 9781108965927 pbk, $32.99; ISBN 9781108967716 ebook, $26.00; 59-3404

Whyte, Malcolm. Gorey secrets: artistic and literary inspirations behind divers books by Edward Gorey. University Press of Mississippi, 2021. 159p bibl index ISBN 9781496831552, $35.00; ISBN 9781496836809 ebook, contact publisher for price; 59-3377

Women philosophers in the long nineteenth century: the German tradition, ed. by Dalia Nassar and Kristin Gjesdal; tr. by Anna C. Ezekiel. Oxford, 2021. 336p bibl index ISBN 9780190868031, $99.00; ISBN 9780190868048 pbk, $39.95; ISBN 9780190868062 ebook, contact publisher for price; 59-3457

The Women who changed architecture, ed. by Jan Cigliano Haertman. Princeton Architectural, 2022. 336p bibl index ISBN 9781616898717, $50.00; 59-3393

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Science & Technology

Bednarski, Lukasz. Lithium: the global race for battery dominance and the new energy revolution. Hurst & Company, 2021. 256p bibl index ISBN 9781787385634, $34.95; ISBN 9781787386730 ebook, contact publisher for price; 59-3474

Benedictow, Ole Jørgen. The complete history of the Black Death. Boydell Press, 2021. 1,058p bibl index ISBN 9781783275168, $165.00; ISBN 9781787449312 ebook, $24.99; 59-3478

Biological control: global impacts, challenges and future directions of pest management, ed. by Peter G. Mason. CSIRO, 2021. 644p bibl index ISBN 9781032109275, $220.00; ISBN 9781486309368 ebook, contact publisher for price; 59-3483

Boggs, Johnny D. Sports on film. ABC-CLIO, 2021. 320p bibl index ISBN 9781440875557, $63.00; ISBN 9781440875564 ebook, contact publisher for price; 59-3532

Ford, Martin. Rule of the robots: how artificial intelligence will transform everything. Basic Books, 2021. 320p bibl index ISBN 9781541674738, $30.00; ISBN 9781541674745 pbk, $17.99; ISBN 9781541674721 ebook, $1.7.99; 59-3475

Foster, Elvis C. Software engineering: a methodical approach, by Elvis C. Foster and Bradford A. Towle Jr. 2nd ed. CRC Press/Auerback Publications, 2021. 579p ISBN 9780367769437, $160.00; ISBN 9780367746018 pbk, $79.95; ISBN 9780367746025 ebook, $79.95; 59-3523

Lee, Victoria. The arts of the microbial world: fermentation science in twentieth-century Japan. Chicago, 2021. 304p bibl index ISBN 9780226812748, $45.00; ISBN 9780226812885 ebook, $44.99; 59-3481

Linzey, Donald W. The mammals of Virginia. McDonald & Woodward, 2021. 546p bibl index ISBN 9781935778417, $69.95; 59-3487

Peachey, John T. What you need to know about sleep disorders, by John T. Peachey and Diane C. Zelman. Greenwood, 2021. 178p bibl index ISBN 9781440873362, $40.00; ISBN 9781440873379 ebook, contact publisher for price; 59-3513

Richardson, Sarah S. The maternal imprint: the contested science of maternal-fetal effects. Chicago, 2021. 376p bibl index ISBN 9780226544779, $95.00; ISBN 9780226544809 pbk, $26.00; ISBN 9780226807072 ebook, $25.99; 59-3515

Ruth, Greg. Tennis: a history from American amateurs to global professionals. Illinois, 2021. 360p bibl index ISBN 9780252043895, $125.00; ISBN 9780252085888 pbk, $24.95; ISBN 9780252052798 ebook, $14.95; 59-3533

Science, technology, and virtues: contemporary perspectives, ed. by Emanuele Ratti and Thomas A. Stapleford. Oxford, 2021. 312p bibl index ISBN 9780190081713, $99.00; ISBN 9780190081737 ebook, contact publisher for price; 59-3476

The Tower of Pisa: history, construction and geotechnical stabilization, by J.B. Burland et al. CRC Press, 2021. 54p bibl index (Built heritage and geotechnics, 3) ISBN 9780367469047, $69.95; ISBN 9781003046127 ebook, $69.95; 59-3502

Venkat, Bharat Jayram. At the limits of cure. Duke, 2021. 304p bibl index ISBN 9781478013792, $104.95; ISBN 9781478014720 pbk, $27.95; ISBN 9781478022022 ebook, contact publisher for price; 59-3518

What’s in the syringe?: principles of early integrated palliative care, by Juliet Jacobsen et al. Oxford, 2021. 192p bibl index ISBN 9780197525173 pbk, $39.95; ISBN 9780197525197 ebook, contact publisher for price; 59-3520

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Social & Behavioral Sciences

The Anthroposcene of weather and climate: ethnographic contributions to the climate change debate, ed. by Paul Sillitoe. Berghahn Books, 2021. 354p bibl index ISBN 9781800732315, $145.00; ISBN 9781800732322 ebook, contact publisher for price; 59-3544

Autor, David H. The work of the future: building better jobs in an age of intelligent machines, by David Autor, David A. Mindell, and Elisabeth B. Reynolds. MIT, 2021. 192p bibl index ISBN 9780262046367, $29.95; ISBN 9780262367752 ebook, contact publisher for price; 59-3553

Bauer, Kelly. Negotiating autonomy: Mapuche territorial demands and Chilean land policy. Pittsburgh, 2021. 190p bibl index ISBN 9780822946663, $50.00; ISBN 9780822988113 ebook, $50.00; 59-3599

Black, Rachel. Cheffes de cuisine: women and work in the professional French kitchen. Illinois, 2021. 254p bibl index ISBN 9780252044007, $110.00; ISBN 9780252086052 pbk, $26.00; ISBN 9780252052934 ebook, $19.95; 59-3547

Borch-Jacobsen, Mikkel. Freud’s patients: a book of lives, tr. by Andrew Brown. Reaktion Books, 2021. 256p bibl ISBN 9781789144550, $26.68; ISBN 9781789144543 ebook, contact publisher for price; 59-3640

Bornet, Pascal. Intelligent automation: welcome to the world of hyperautomation: learn how to harness artificial intelligence to boost business & make our world more human, by Pascal Bornet, Ian Barkin, and Jochen Wirtz. World Scientific, 2021. 432p bibl index ISBN 9789811235481, $48.00; ISBN 9789811235597 pbk, $24.99; 59-3554

Brunson, Takkara K. Black women, citizenship, and the making of modern Cuba. University Press of Florida, 2021. 278p index ISBN 9781683402084, $80.00; ISBN 9781683402428 pbk, contact publisher for price; 59-3600

The Cambridge economic history of the modern world, ed. by Stephen Broadberry and Kyoji Fukao. Cambridge, 2021. 2v index ISBN 9781108953771, $260.00; ISBN 9781316671603 ebook, contact publisher for price; 59-3576

Dieckmann, Christoph. How did it happen?: understanding the Holocaust, by Christoph Dieckmann and Rūta Vanagaitė. Rowman & Littlefield, 2021. 416p bibl index ISBN 9781538150313, $35.00; ISBN 9781538150320 ebook, $33.00; 59-3595

Ellis, Christopher. The other side of the coin: public opinion toward social tax expenditures, by Christopher Ellis and Christopher Faricy. Russell Sage Foundation, 2021. 153p bibl index ISBN 9780871544407 pbk, $29.95; ISBN 9781610449045 ebook, contact publisher for price; 59-3556

Fergusson, Ross. Global youth unemployment: history, governance and policy, by Ross Fergusson and Ni-cola Yeates. E. Elgar, 2021. 296p bibl index ISBN 9781789900415, $145.00; ISBN 9781789900422 ebook, contact publisher for price; 59-3557

Freeman, Jim. Rich thanks to racism: how the ultra-wealthy profit from racial injustice. ILR Press, 2021. 312p ISBN 9781501755132, $29.95; ISBN 9781501755156 ebook, $14.99; 59-3538

Griffin, Maryam Susan. Vehicles of decolonization: public transit in the Palestinian West Bank. Temple, 2021. 224p bibl index ISBN 9781439920787, $104.50; ISBN 9781439920794 pbk, $32.95; ISBN 9781439920800 ebook, $32.95; 59-3603

Guillerat, Nicolas. Ancient Rome infographics, by Nicolas Guillerat, John Scheid, and Milan Melocco. Thames & Hudson, 2021. 132p bibl ISBN 9780500252628, $29.95; 59-3588

Halvorson, Charles. Valuing clean air: the EPA and the economics of environmental protection. Oxford, 2021. 312p bibl index ISBN 9780197538845, $35.00; ISBN 9780197538869 ebook, contact publisher for price; 59-3610

Henkin, David M. The week: a history of the unnatural rhythms that made us who we are. Yale, 2021. 288p bibl index ISBN 9780300257328, $30.00; ISBN 9780300263060 ebook, contact publisher for price; 59-3578

Jewish women’s history from antiquity to the present, ed. by Federica Francesconi and Rebecca Lynn Winer. Wayne State, 2021. 520p ISBN 9780814346303, $99.99; ISBN 9780814346310 pbk, $49.99; ISBN 9780814346327 ebook, contact publisher for price; 59-3579

Lancaster, Guy. American atrocity: the types of violence in lynching. Arkansas, 2021. 200p bibl index ISBN 9781682261866 pbk, $19.95; ISBN 9781610757553 ebook, contact publisher for price; 59-3540

Latinas in the criminal justice system: victims, targets, and offenders, ed. by Vera Lopez and Lisa Pasko. New York University, 2021. 384p bibl index ISBN 9781479804634, $99.00; ISBN 9781479891962 pbk, $35.00; ISBN 9781479806324 ebook, contact publisher for price; 59-3657

Letheby, Chris. Philosophy of psychedelics. Oxford, 2021. 272p bibl index ISBN 9780198843122, $35.00; ISBN 9780191879029 ebook, contact publisher for price; 59-3644

Loiacono, Gabriel. How welfare worked in the early United States: five microhistories. Oxford, 2021. 248p bibl index ISBN 9780154339751 pbk, $35.00; ISBN 9780197515457 ebook, contact publisher for price; 59-3615

Love, Heather. Underdogs: social deviance and queer theory. Chicago, 2021. 224p index ISBN 9780226668697, $95.00; ISBN 9780226761107 pbk, $26.00; ISBN 9780226761244 ebook, $25.99; 59-3658

Manko, Katina. Ding dong! Avon calling!: the women and men of Avon Products, Incorporated. Oxford, 2021. 304p index ISBN 9780190499822, $34.95; ISBN 9780190499853 ebook, contact publisher for price; 59-3616

Millennial feminism at work: bridging theory and practice, ed. by Jane Juffer. Cornell, 2021. 194p bibl index ISBN 9781501760273, $125.00; ISBN 9781501760280 pbk, $21.95; ISBN 9781501760297 ebook, $14.99; 59-3542

The Oxford handbook of evolutionary psychology and religion, ed. by James R. Liddle and Todd K. Shackelford. Oxford, 2021. 400p bibl index ISBN 9780199397747, $175.00; ISBN 9780199397754 ebook, contact publisher for price; 59-3646

Ritter, Luke. Inventing America’s first immigration crisis: political nativism in the antebellum West. Fordham, 2020. 253p index ISBN 9780823289844, $105.00; ISBN 9780823289851 pbk, $35.00; ISBN 9780823289875 ebook, contact publisher for price; 59-3617

Spirituality and mental health across cultures, ed. by Alexander Moreira-Almeida, Bruno Paz Mosqueiro, and Dinesh Bhugra. Oxford, 2021. 496p bibl index ISBN 9780198846833, $70.00; ISBN 9780192586100 ebook, contact publisher for price; 59-3649

Taplin-Kaguru, Nora E. Grasping for the American dream: racial segregation, social mobility, and homeownership. Routledge, 2022. 158p bibl index ISBN 9780367075927, $150.00; ISBN 9780367075941 pbk, $36.95; ISBN 9780429664564 ebook, $36.95; 59-3662

Teaching American studies: state of the classroom as state of the field, ed. by Elizabeth Duclos-Orsello, Joseph Entin, and Rebecca Hill. University Press of Kansas, 2021. 344p bibl index ISBN 9780700632367, $75.00; ISBN 9780700632374 pbk, $29.95; ISBN 9780700632381 ebook, contact publisher for price; 59-3574

Téllez, Michelle. Border women and the community of Maclovio Rojas: autonomy in the spaces of neoliberal neglect. Arizona, 2021. 193p bibl index ISBN 9780816542482, $100.00; ISBN 9780816542475 pbk, $24.95; ISBN 9780816544189 ebook, $24.95; 59-3602

Vermeulen, Karla. Generation disaster: coming of age post-9/11. Oxford, 2021. 264p bibl index ISBN 9780190061630 pbk, $65.00; ISBN 9780190061654 ebook, contact publisher for price; 59-3650

Watts, Edward Jay. The eternal decline and fall of Rome: the history of a dangerous idea. Oxford, 2021. 320p bibl index ISBN 9780190076719, $27.95; ISBN 9780190076733 ebook, contact publisher for price; 59-3590

Whitlock, Craig. The Afghanistan papers: a secret history of the war. Simon & Schuster, 2021. 368p bibl index ISBN 9781982159009, $30.00; ISBN 9781982159023 ebook, contact publisher for price; 59-3620

Wickenden, Dorothy. The agitators: three friends who fought for abolition and women’s rights. Simon & Schuster, 2021. 400p bibl index ISBN 9781476760735, $30.00; ISBN 9781476760766 ebook, $14.99; 59-3621

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