The Top 75 Community College Titles: August 2023 Edition

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

Posted on August 24, 2023 in Top 75 Community College Titles

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Reference

Barnett, Christopher B. Historical dictionary of Kierkegaard’s philosophy.  Rowman & Littlefield, 2022.  338p bibl  ISBN 9781538122617, $150.00;  ISBN 9781538122624 ebook, $142.50;  60-3385

Pickett, Brent. Historical dictionary of homosexuality.  Rowman & Littlefield, 2022.  368p bibl  ISBN 9781538150443, $165.00;  ISBN 9781538150450 ebook, $156.50;  60-3394

Snodgrass, Mary Ellen. Asian women artists: a biographical dictionary, 2700 BCE to today.  McFarland, 2022.  257p bibl index  ISBN 9781476689258 pbk, $75.00;  ISBN 9781476646985 ebook, contact publisher for price;  60-3387

Tuten, Belle S. Daily life of women in medieval Europe.  Greenwood, 2022.  224p bibl index  ISBN 9781440872341, $63.00;  ISBN 9781440872358 ebook, contact publisher for price;  60-3395

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Humanities

Apostolos-Cappadona, Diane. Mary Magdalene: a visual history.  T&T Clark, 2023.  176p bibl index  ISBN 9780567705747, $24.95;  ISBN 9780567705761 ebook, contact publisher for price;  60-3474

Bautista, Anna Marie. Conspicuous feminism on television: gender, power, and #MeToo.  Lexington Books, 2023.  180p bibl index  ISBN 9781666923001, $95.00;  ISBN 9781666923018 ebook, $45.00;  60-3418

Bradbury, Dominic. Mid-century modern furniture.  Thames & Hudson, 2022.  448p bibl index  ISBN 9780500022221, $69.75;  60-3397

Cleland, Elizabeth A. H. The Tudors: art and majesty in Renaissance England, by Elizabeth Cleland and Adam Eaker with Marjorie E. Wieseman and Sarah Bochicchio.  Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2022.  (Dist. by Yale University Press) 352p bibl index  ISBN 9781588396921, $65.00;  60-3398

Great waves and mountains: perspectives and discoveries in collecting the arts of Japan, ed. by Natsu Oyobe and Allysa B. Peyton.  University Press of Florida, 2022.  304p bibl index  ISBN 9781683402657, $65.00;  60-3400

Harris, Jack L. Hyperlocal organizing: collaborating for recovery over time.  Lexington Books, 2022.  172p bibl index  ISBN 9781666927238, $95.00;  ISBN 9781666927245 ebook, $45.00;  60-3420

Heyward, Carter. The seven deadly sins of white Christian nationalism: a call to action.  Rowman & Littlefield, 2022.  290p bibl index  ISBN 9781538167892, $34.00;  ISBN 9781538167908 ebook, contact publisher for price;  60-3476

Jarlbrink, Johan. From big bang to big data: a history of the media, by Johan Jarlbrink, Patrik Lundell, and Pelle Snickars.  McGill-Queen’s, 2023.  336p bibl index  ISBN 9780228014263, $44.95;  60-3422

Kamin, Blair. Who is the city for?: architecture, equity, and the public realm in Chicago.  Chicago, 2022.  312p bibl index  ISBN 9780226822730, $29.00;  ISBN 9780226822877 ebook, contact publisher for price;  60-3415

Labatt, Annie Montgomery. Art history 101 … without the exams: looking closely at objects from the history of art.  Trinity University, 2022.  523p bibl index  ISBN 9781595348784 pbk, $34.95;  ISBN 9781595348791 ebook, $27.99;  60-3403

Mungwini, Pascah. African philosophy: emancipation and practice.  Bloomsbury, 2022.  224p bibl index  ISBN 9781350196490, $68.00;  ISBN 9781350196506 pbk, $22.95;  ISBN 9781350196520 ebook, contact publisher for price;  60-3468

Nadler, Steven M. The portraitist: Frans Hals and his world.  Chicago, 2022.  360p bibl index  ISBN 9780226698366, $35.00;  ISBN 9780226698533 ebook, contact publisher for price;  60-3412

Neglected classics of philosophy: volume 2, ed. by Eric Schliesser.  Oxford, 2022.  312p bibl index  ISBN 9780190097196, $99.00;  ISBN 9780190097202 pbk, $35.00;  ISBN 9780190097226 ebook, contact publisher for price;  60-3469

Representing childhood and atrocity, ed. by Victoria Nesfield and Philip Smith.  SUNY Press, 2022.  322p bibl index  ISBN 9781438490755, $95.00;  ISBN 9781438490762 ebook, contact publisher for price;  60-3433

Riding, Christine. Winslow Homer: force of nature, by Christine Riding, Christopher Riopelle, and Chiara Di Stefano.  National Gallery, London, 2022.  128p bibl  ISBN 9781857096873 pbk, $25.00;  60-3413

Sholette, Gregory. The art of activism and the activism of art.  Lund Humphries, 2022.  176p bibl index  ISBN 9781848224414, $49.99;  ISBN 9781848224421 ebook, contact publisher for price;  60-3408

Smith, Courtenay. Houses that can save the world, by Courtenay Smith and Sean Topham.  Thames & Hudson, 2022.  256p bibl index (;)  ISBN 9780500343715, $34.95;  60-3416

Wardlow, Gayle Dean. King of the delta blues: the life and music of Charlie Patton, by Gayle Dean Wardlow, Stephen Calt, and Edward Komara.  2nd ed.  Tennessee, 2022.  496p bibl index  ISBN 9781621906612 pbk, $45.00;  ISBN 9781621906629 ebook, contact publisher for price;  60-3458

Weiss, Daniel H. Why the museum matters.  Yale, 2022.  224p bibl index  ISBN 9780300259353, $26.00;  ISBN 9780300269352 ebook, contact publisher for price;  60-3396

Welch, Rosanne. American women’s history on film, by Rosanne Welch and Peg A. Lamphier.  ABC-CLIO, 2022.  170p bibl index  ISBN 9781440866609, $63.00;  ISBN 9781440866616 ebook, contact publisher for price;  60-3454

A World history of women photographers, ed. by Luce Lebart and Marie Robert; tr. by Ruth Taylor and Bethany Wright.  Thames & Hudson, 2022.  504p bibl index  ISBN 9780500025413, $85.00;  60-3417

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Science & Technology

Bittle, Jake. The great displacement: climate change and the next American migration.  Simon & Schuster, 2023.  345p index  ISBN 9781982178253, $28.99;  ISBN 9781982178277 ebook, contact publisher for price;  60-3494

Breaching safe nursing practice: case studies of failures, omissions, commissions and crimes, ed. by Zane Robinson Wolf and Denise Nagle Bailey.  McFarland, 2022.  281p bibl index  ISBN 9781476683393 pbk, $39.99;  ISBN 9781476644769 ebook, contact publisher for price;  60-3504

Careers in cybersecurity.  Salem Press, 2023.  450p bibl  index  ISBN 9781637004128, $125.00;  ISBN 9781637004135 ebook, $125.00;  60-3500

Dalelio, Corinne M. Interactive media and society.  Lexington Books, 2022.  312p bibl index  ISBN 9781793633002, $120.00;  ISBN 9781793633019 ebook, $45.00;  60-3515

Goudie, Andrew. Geological pioneers of the Jurassic Coast, by Andrew S. Goudie and Denys Brunsden.  Oxford, 2023.  208p bibl  index  ISBN 9780197638088, $83.00;  ISBN 9780197638101 ebook, contact publisher for price;  60-3497

Heywood, Peter. The life, extinction, and rebreeding of quagga zebras: significance for conservation.  Cambridge, 2022.  242p bibl index  ISBN 9781108831604, $110.00;  ISBN 9781108926911 pbk, $49.99;  ISBN 9781108934688 ebook, $49.99;  60-3489

Hogge, Fred. Of ice and men: how we’ve used cold to transform humanity.  Pegasus Books, 2022.  352p bibl index  ISBN 9781639361830, $27.95;  60-3498

The Oxford handbook of sport and society, ed. by Lawrence A. Wenner.  Oxford, 2022.  1,200p bibl index  ISBN 9780197519011, $175.00;  ISBN 9780197519035 ebook, contact publisher for price;  60-3525

Petrzela, Natalia Mehlman. Fit nation: the gains and pains of America’s exercise obsession.  Chicago, 2022.  424p bibl index  ISBN 9780226651101, $29.00;  ISBN 9780226651248 ebook, $28.99;  60-3526

Quammen, David. Breathless: the scientific race to defeat a deadly virus.  Simon & Schuster, 2022.  416p bibl index  ISBN 9781982164362, $29.95;  ISBN 9781982164386 ebook, $14.99;  60-3511

Schobert, Harold H. Rethinking coal: chemicals and carbon-based materials in the 21st century.  Oxford, 2022.  376p bibl index  ISBN 9780199767083, $35.00;  ISBN 9780199912377 ebook, contact publisher for price;  60-3480

Smil, Vaclav. Invention and innovation: a brief history of hype and failure.  MIT, 2023.  232p bibl index  ISBN 9780262048057, $24.95;  ISBN 9780262374255 ebook, contact publisher for price;  60-3483

Uperesa, Lisa. Gridiron capital: how American football became a Samoan game.  Duke, 2025.  240p bibl index  ISBN 9781478015468, $102.95;  ISBN 9781478018094 pbk, $26.95;  ISBN 9781478022701 ebook, contact publisher for price;  60-3527

Vanishing sands: losing beaches to mining, by Orrin H. Pilkey et al.  Duke, 2022.  248p bibl  index  ISBN 9781478016168, $99.95;  ISBN 9781478018797 pbk, $25.95;  ISBN 9781478023432 ebook, contact publisher for price;  60-3499

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Social & Behavioral Sciences

Amazon: at the intersection of culture and capital, ed. by Paul Smith, Alexander Monea, and Maillim Santiago.  Rowman & Littlefield, 2022.  366p bibl index  ISBN 9781538165225, $125.00;  ISBN 9781538165232 ebook, $45.00;  60-3544

Andreas, Peter. Border games: the politics of policing the U.S.-Mexico divide.  Cornell, 2022.  210p bibl index  ISBN 9781501765773, $125.00;  ISBN 9781501765780 pbk, $25.95;  ISBN 9781501765797 ebook, $16.99;  60-3628

Benton, James C. Fraying fabric: how trade policy and industrial decline transformed America.  Illinois, 2022.  304p bibl index  ISBN 9780252044656, $125.00;  ISBN 9780252086724 pbk, $30.00;  ISBN 9780252053665 ebook, $19.95;  60-3553

Bers, Marina Umaschi. Beyond coding: how children learn human values through programming.  MIT, 2022.  232p bibl  ISBN 9780262543323 pbk, $25.00;  ISBN 9780262368544 ebook, contact publisher for price;  60-3565

Bixby, Patrick. License to travel: a cultural history of the passport.  California, 2022.  248p bibl index  ISBN 9780520375857, $24.95;  ISBN 9780520976276 ebook, $24.95;  60-3575

Brooks, Justin. You might to go prison, even though you’re innocent.  California, 2023.  222p index  ISBN 9780520386839, $29.95;  ISBN 9780520386846 ebook, $29.95;  60-3643

Cooper, Anne M. SilverComm: marketing practices and messages for the age of aging, by Anne M. Cooper and Young Joon Lim.  Rowman & Littlefield, 2023.  165p bibl  index  ISBN 9781538175132, $70.00;  ISBN 9781538175149 pbk, $34.00;  ISBN 9781538175156 ebook, $29.00;  60-3546

Crifasi, Robert. R. Western water A-to-Z: the history, nature, and culture of a vanishing resource.  University Press of Colorado, 2023.  375p bibl  index  ISBN 9781646423279 pbk, $34.95;  ISBN 9781646423286 ebook, $27.95;  60-3594

Cross, William P. The political party in Canada, by William P. Cross, Scott Pruysers, and Rob Currie-Wood.  UBC Press, 2022.  328p bibl index  ISBN 9780774868235, $45.00;  ISBN 9780774868235 ebook, $34.95;  60-3611

Daas, Martha Mary. Medieval fare: food and culture in medieval Iberia.  Lexington Books, 2022.  182p bibl index  ISBN 9781498589598, $95.00;  ISBN 9781498589604 ebook, $45.00;  60-3606

The Egyptian economy in the twenty-first century: the hard road to inclusive prosperity, ed. by Khalid Ikram and Heba Nassar.  American University in Cairo, 2022.  449p bibl  ISBN 9781649031778, $119.00;  60-3555

Ehrenberg, John. White nationalism and the Republican Party: toward minority rule in America.  Routledge, 2022.  140p bibl  index  ISBN 9781032023427, $170.00;  ISBN 9781032023410 pbk, $48.95;  ISBN 9781003182962 ebook, $48.95;  60-3647

Erickson, Jon D. The progress illusion: reclaiming our future from the fairytale of economics.  Island Press, 2022.  272p bibl index  ISBN 9781642832525 pbk, $32.00;  ISBN 9781642832532 ebook, contact publisher for price;  60-3556

Escott, Paul D. Black suffrage: Lincoln’s last goal.  Virginia, 2022.  288p bibl index  ISBN 9780813948171, $39.50;  ISBN 9780813948188 ebook, $29.50;  60-3595

Fenwick, Leslie T. Jim Crow’s pink slip: the untold story of black principal and teacher leadership.  Harvard Education Press, 2022.  216p bibl index  ISBN 9781682537190, $34.00;  ISBN 9781682537206 ebook, contact publisher for price;  60-3568

Fried, Richard M. A genius for confusion: Joseph R. McCarthy and the politics of deceit.  Rowman & Littlefield, 2022.  434p bibl index  ISBN 9781538145777, $45.00;  ISBN 9781538145784 ebook, $42.50;  60-3597

Gagné, Michel Jacques. Thinking critically about the Kennedy assassination: debunking the myths and conspiracy theories.  Routledge, 2022.  508p bibl index  ISBN 9781032119786, $160.00;  ISBN 9781032114477 pbk, $29.95;  ISBN 9781000544121 ebook, $26.95;  60-3530

Hernández, Kelly Lytle. Bad Mexicans: race, empire, and revolution in the borderlands.  W. W. Norton, 2022.  384p bibl index  ISBN 9781324004370, $30.00;  ISBN 9781324004387 ebook, contact publisher for price;  60-3589

Hollander, Justin B. The first city on Mars: an urban planner’s guide to settling the red planet.  Springer/Praxis, 2022.  255p bibl  index  ISBN 9783031075278 pbk, $37.99;  ISBN 9783031075285 ebook, $29.99;  60-3548

Janin, Hunt. Yellowstone: the history, ecology and future of America’s first national park, by Hunt Janin and Nicole Sheehan.  McFarland, 2022.  196p bibl  index  ISBN 9781476681078 pbk, $29.95;  ISBN 9781476644066 ebook, contact publisher for price;  60-3599

​Levy, Philip. The permanent resident: excavations and explorations of George Washington’s life.  Virginia, 2022.  264p bibl index  ISBN 9780813948515, $34.50;  ISBN 9780813948522 ebook, $34.50;  60-3601

Matejowsky, Ty. Smothered and covered: Waffle House and the Southern imaginary.  Alabama, 2022.  232p bibl index  ISBN 9780817321444, $39.95;  ISBN 9780817394301 ebook, contact publisher for price;  60-3539

The military and the market, ed. by Jennifer Mittelstadt and Mark R. Wilson.  Pennsylvania, 2022.  256p bibl index  ISBN 9781512823233, $55.00;  ISBN 9781512823240 ebook, contact publisher for price;  60-3579

Moscato, Derek. Dirt persuasion: civic environmental populism and the heartland’s pipeline fight.  Nebraska, 2022.  246p bibl index  ISBN 9781496208392, $60.00;  ISBN 9781496232106 ebook, $60.00;  60-3549

Phinney, Harriet M. Single mothers and the state’s embrace: reproductive agency in Vietnam.  Washington, 2022.  236p bibl index  ISBN 9780295749426, $105.00;  ISBN 9780295749433 pbk, $32.00;  ISBN 9780295749440 ebook, contact publisher for price;  60-3541

Ratcliffe, Matthew. Grief worlds: a study of emotional experience.  MIT, 2023.  286p bibl index  ISBN 9780262544801 pbk, $45.00;  ISBN 9780262372602 ebook, $45.00;  60-3663

The Routledge global history of feminism, ed. by Bonnie G. Smith and Nova Robinson.  Routledge, 2022.  600p bibl index  ISBN 9781138999114, $175.00;  ISBN 9781003050049 ebook, contact publisher for price;  60-3533

Schulze, Peter C. Obstacles to environmental progress: a U.S. perspective.  UCL Press, 2022.  376p bibl index  ISBN 9781800082090, $80.00;  ISBN 9781800082083 pbk, $50.00;  ISBN 9781800082106 ebook, contact publisher for price;  60-3551

Schwartz, Noah S. On target: gun culture, storytelling, and the NRA.  Toronto, 2022.  264p bibl index  ISBN 9781487546618, $85.00;  ISBN 9781487548445 pbk, $34.95;  ISBN 9781487550301 ebook, contact publisher for price;  60-3674

Shermer, Michael. Conspiracy: why smart people believe wrong things for rational reasons.  Johns Hopkins, 2025.  355p bibl index  ISBN 9781421444451, $29.95;  ISBN 9781421444468 ebook, $29.95;  60-3534

Taylor, Catherine S. Culturally and socially responsible assessment: theory, research, and practice, by Catherine S. Taylor and Susan Bobbitt Nolen.  Teachers College Press, 2022.  288p bibl index  ISBN 9780807766897, $111.00;  ISBN 9780807766880 pbk, $36.95;  ISBN 9780807780992 ebook, contact publisher for price;  60-3570

What do we know about civil wars?, ed. by T. David Mason and Sara McLaughlin Mitchell.  2nd ed.  Rowman & Littlefield, 2023.  422p bibl index  ISBN 9781538169155, $120.00;  ISBN 9781538169162 pbk, $48.00;  ISBN 9781538169179 ebook, $45.50;  60-3626

Zaremba, Marcin. Entangled in fear: everyday terror in Poland, 1944–1947.  Indiana, 2022.  366p bibl index  ISBN 9780253063083, $90.00;  ISBN 9780253063090 pbk, $37.00;  ISBN 9780253063113 ebook, contact publisher for price;  60-3588

Zhao, Suisheng. The dragon roars back: transformational leaders and dynamics of Chinese foreign policy.  Stanford, 2022.  358p bibl index  ISBN 9781503630888, $95.00;  ISBN 9781503634145 pbk, $32.00;  ISBN 9781503634152 ebook, contact publisher for price;  60-3635

Ziegler, Mary. Roe: the history of a national obsession.  Yale, 2022.  248p bibl index  ISBN 9780300266108, $27.00;  ISBN 9780300271874 ebook, contact publisher for price;  60-3655

Zuckert, Michael P. A nation so conceived: Abraham Lincoln and the paradox of democratic sovereignty.  University Press of Kansas, 2022.  416p bibl index  ISBN 9780700633920, $34.95;  ISBN 9780700633937 ebook, contact publisher for price;  60-3656

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