The Top 75 Community College Titles: August 2024 Edition

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

Posted on August 22, 2024 in Top 75 Community College Titles

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Humanities

Agnew, Lois Peters. Fitter, happier: the eugenic strain in twentieth-century cancer rhetoric.  Alabama, 2024.  188p bibl index  ISBN 9780817321857, $120.00;  ISBN 9780817361341 pbk, $34.95;  ISBN 9780817394875 ebook, $34.95;  61-3253

Almond, Philip C. The Buddha: life and afterlife between East and West.  Cambridge, 2024.  300p bibl index  ISBN 9781009346795, $39.99;  ISBN 9781009346818 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-3330

Bloomsbury handbook of modern Chinese literature in translation, ed. by Cosima Bruno, Lucas Klein, and Chris Song.  Bloomsbury, 2023.  472p bibl index  ISBN 9781350215306, $190.00;  ISBN 9781350215313 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-3275

The Book by design: the remarkable story of the world’s greatest invention, ed. by P. J. M. Marks and Stephen Parkin.  Chicago, 2023.  288p bibl index  ISBN 9780226824093, $45.00;  ISBN 9780226824109 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-3237

The Cambridge history of European Romantic literature, ed. by Patrick Vincent.  Cambridge, 2024.  800p bibl index  ISBN 9781108497060, $155.00;  ISBN 9781108750004 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-3267

CoronAsur: Asian religions in the Covidian age, ed. by Emily Zoe Hertzman et al.  Hawai’i, 2023.  360p bibl index  ISBN 9780824894924, $70.00;  ISBN 9780824895785 pbk, $28.00;  ISBN 9780824894948 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-3335

Dau, Duc. Sex, celibacy, and deviance: the Victorians and the Song of Songs.  Ohio State, 2024.  178p bibl index  ISBN 9780814215036, $69.95;  ISBN 9780814283363 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-3284

Fava, Maria Cristina. Art music activism: aesthetics and politics in 1930s New York City.  Illinois, 2024.  232p bibl index  ISBN 9780252045714, $85.00;  ISBN 9780252056574 ebook, $19.95;  61-3306

Fuchs Abrams, Sabrina. New York women of wit in the twentieth century.  Pennsylvania State, 2023.  244p bibl index  ISBN 9780271095714, $119.95;  ISBN 9780271097039 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-3285

Gieskes, Edward. Generic innovation in Shakespeare and his contemporaries.  Edinburgh University Press, 2023.  312p bibl index  ISBN 9781474496735, $120.00;  ISBN 9781474496759 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-3286

Grande, Lance. The evolution of religion: a history of related traditions.  Columbia, 2024.  688p bibl index  ISBN 9780231216517, $195.00;  ISBN 9780231212304 pbk, $55.00;  ISBN 9780231559317 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-3337

Jewish virtue ethics, ed. by Geoffrey D. Claussen, Alexander Green, and Alan L. Mittleman.  SUNY Press, 2023.  531p bibl index  ISBN 9781438493916, $99.00;  ISBN 9781438493909 pbk, $39.95;  61-3340

Martin, Christopher. Spinoza’s argument for substance monism: why there is only one thing.  Lexington Books, 2023.  134p bibl index  ISBN 9781666927146, $90.00;  ISBN 9781666927153 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-3324

McDaniel, Byrd. Spectacular listening: music and disability in the digital age.  Oxford, 2024.  216p bibl index  ISBN 9780197620458, $125.00;  ISBN 9780197620465 pbk, $35.00;  ISBN 9780197620496 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-3308

Morgan, Victoria N. The poetry of Emily Dickinson.  Bloomsbury Academic, 2023.  226p bibl index  ISBN 9781350380110, $115.00;  ISBN 9781350380103 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-3292

Rudnick, Allison. The art of the literary poster.  Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2024.  248p bibl index  ISBN 9781588397744, $50.00;  61-3241

Rudnick, Allison. Art for the millions: American culture and politics in the 1930s, by Allison Rudnick with contributions by Kirsten Pai Buick, Max Fraser, and Rachel Mustalish.  Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2023.  208p bibl index  ISBN 9781588397690, $50.00;  61-3242

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Science & Technology

 LIQUIFER: living beyond Earth: architecture for extreme environments, ed. by Jennifer Cunningham et al.  Park Books, 2023.  224p bibl  ISBN 9783038603450 pbk, $45.00;  61-3355

Dawson, Gowan. Monkey to man: the evolution of the march of progress.  Yale, 2024.  392p bibl index  ISBN 9780300270624, $40.00;  ISBN 9780300277234 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-3357

Dinsmore, James J. Iowa’s changing wildlife: three decades of gain and loss, by James J. Dinsmore and Stephen J. Dinsmore.  Iowa, 2023.  294p bibl index  ISBN 9781609389253 pbk, $30.00;  ISBN 9781609389260 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-3362

Fox, Susannah. Rebel health: a field guide to the patient-led revolution in medical care.  MIT, 2024.  200p bibl index  ISBN 9780262048897, $29.95;  ISBN 9780262378079 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-3367

Gunkel, David J. Person, thing, robot: a moral and legal ontology for the 21st century and beyond.  MIT, 2023.  246p bibl index  ISBN 9780262546157, $45.00;  ISBN 9780262375238 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-3371

Harding, Verity. AI needs you: how we can change AI’s future and save our own.  Princeton, 2024.  288p bibl index  ISBN 9780691244877, $24.95;  ISBN 9780691244907 ebook, $24.95;  61-3372

Houck, Judith A. Looking through the speculum: examining the women’s health movement.  Chicago, 2024.  384p bibl index  ISBN 9780226830841, $105.00;  ISBN 9780226830865 pbk, $35.00;  ISBN 9780226830858 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-3368

Jackson, Roland. Scientific advice to the nineteenth-century British state.  Pittsburgh, 2023.  420p bibl index  ISBN 9780822947905, $65.00;  ISBN 9780822990055 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-3351

McDonald, Peter. Run and jump: the meaning of the 2D platformer.  MIT, 2024.  184p bibl index  ISBN 9780262547390, $35.00;  ISBN 9780262377454 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-3376

Miller, Kenneth. Mapping the darkness: the visionary scientists who unlocked the mysteries of sleep.  Hachette Books, 2023.  432p bibl index  ISBN 9780306924958, $32.50;  ISBN 9780306924972 ebook, $16.99;  61-3358

O’Brien, Elizabeth. Surgery and salvation: the roots of reproductive injustice in Mexico, 1770–1940.  North Carolina, 2023.  336p bibl index  ISBN 9781469675862, $99.00;  ISBN 9781469675879 pbk, $32.95;  ISBN 9781469675886 ebook, $32.95;  61-3352

Parry, John. The burden of sports: how and why athletes struggle with mental health.  Rowman & Littlefield, 2024.  376p bibl index  ISBN 9781538175538, $38.00;  ISBN 9781538175545 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-3377

Sutter, Paul M. Rescuing science: restoring trust in an age of doubt.  Rowman & Littlefield, 2024.  248p bibl index  ISBN 9781538181614, $38.00;  ISBN 9781538181621 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-3348

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Social & Behavioral Sciences

The 1973 Arab-Israeli war, ed. by Galen Jackson.  Rowman & Littlefield, 2023.  202p bibl index  ISBN 9781538172025, $89.00;  ISBN 9781538172032 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-3460

Alaniz, Katie. A learning community built on strengths: inspiring educators to positively impact student lives.  Rowman & Littlefield, 2024.  92p bibl  ISBN 9781475871685, $75.00;  ISBN 9781475871692 pbk, $32.00;  ISBN 9781475871708 ebook, $30.00;  61-3423

Balogh, Brian. Not in my backyard: how citizen activists nationalized local politics in the fight to save Green Springs.  Yale, 2024.  384p bibl index  ISBN 9780300253788, $35.00;  ISBN 9780300274400 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-3432

Benjamin, Ruha. Viral Justice: how we grow the world we want.  Princeton, 2023.  392p bibl index  ISBN 9780691222882, $29.95;  ISBN 9780691224930 pbk, $19.95;  ISBN 9780691222899 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-3522

​Bilen’kyĭ, Serhiĭ. Laboratory of modernity: Ukraine between empire and nation, 1772–1914.  McGill-Queen’s/Canadian Institute for Ukrainian Studies, 2023.  688p bibl index  ISBN 9780228017561, $150.00;  ISBN 9780228017578 pbk, $49.95;  ISBN 9780228018582 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-3452

Carpenter-Song, Elizabeth. Families on the edge: experiences of homelessness and care in rural New England.  MIT, 2023.  192p bibl index  ISBN 9780262546188 pbk, $35.00;  ISBN 9780262375337 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-3389

Cash transfers for inclusive societies: a behavioral lens, ed. by Jiaying Zhao, Saugato Datta, and Dilip Soman.  Toronto, 2023.  264p bibl  ISBN 9781487545178, $34.95;  ISBN 9781487549473 ebook, $34.95;  61-3413

Dictatorship and daily life in 20th-century Europe, ed. by Lisa Pine.  Bloomsbury Academic, 2023.  280p bibl index  ISBN 9781350209015, $90.00;  ISBN 9781350208988 pbk, $34.95;  ISBN 9781350209077 ebook, $34.95;  61-3433

Disability, intersectionality, and belonging in special education: socioculturally sustaining practices, ed. by Elizabeth Harkins Monaco et al.  Rowman & Littlefield, 2024.  450p bibl index  ISBN 9781538175811, $110.00;  ISBN 9781538175828 pbk, $39.00;  ISBN 9781538175835 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-3425

Dubcovsky, Alejandra. Talking back: native women and the making of the early South.  Yale, 2023.  280p index  ISBN 9780300266122, $38.00;  ISBN 9780300271362 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-3467

Gabel, Shirley Gatenio. A human rights-based approach to justice in social work practice.  Oxford, 2024.  232p bibl index  ISBN 9780197570647 pbk, $49.95;  ISBN 9780197570661 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-3381

Hornsby, Robert. The Soviet sixties.  Yale, 2023.  496p bibl index  ISBN 9780300250527, $35.00;  ISBN 9780300275063 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-3454

Howard, R. T. Spying on the Reich: the cold war against Hitler.  Oxford, 2023.  384p index  ISBN 9780192862990, $37.99;  ISBN 9780192677600 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-3434

Hund, Emily. The influencer industry: the quest for authenticity on social media.  Princeton, 2023.  232p bibl index  ISBN 9780691231020, $29.95;  ISBN 9780691234076 ebook, $29.95;  61-3526

Husain, Fauzia. The stigma matrix: gender, globalization, and the agency of Pakistan’s frontline women.  Stanford, 2024.  306p bibl index  ISBN 9781503632370, $120.00;  ISBN 9781503636057 pbk, $30.00;  ISBN 9781503636064 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-3400

Irwin, Julia F. Catastrophic diplomacy: US foreign disaster assistance in the American century.  North Carolina, 2024.  354p bibl index  ISBN 9781469676234, $99.00;  ISBN 9781469677231 pbk, $29.95;  ISBN 9781469676241 ebook, contact publicity for price;  61-3435

Jeffres, Travis. The forgotten diaspora: Mesoamerican migrations and the making of the U.S.-Mexico borderlands.  Nebraska, 2023.  268p bibl index  ISBN 9781496226846, $65.00;  ISBN 9781496236425 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-3456

Leather, Carol. Succeeding and adult dyslexia: personal perspectives, practical ideas, and theoretical directions, by Carol Leather and John Everatt.  Cambridge, 2024.  334p bibl index  ISBN 9781108844819, $90.00;  ISBN 9781108948883 pbk, $29.99;  ISBN 9781108957236 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-3427

Luthra, Rashmi. Destination Detroit: discourses on the refugee in a post-industrial city.  Michigan, 2024.  210p bibl index  ISBN 9780472076451, $70.00;  ISBN 9780472056453 pbk, $29.95;  ISBN 9780472221349 ebook, open access;  61-3384

Márquez, Cecilia. Making the Latino South: a history of racial formation.  North Carolina, 2023.  284p bibl index  ISBN 9781469676043, $99.00;  ISBN 9781469676050 pbk, $27.95;  ISBN 9781469676067 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-3469

Maguire, Mark. Trapped: life under security capitalism and how to escape it, by Mark Maguire and Setha Low.  Stanford Briefs, 2024.  182p bibl  ISBN 9781503632967 pbk, $14.00;  ISBN 9781503639201 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-3392

Manning, Kimberley Ens. Party family: revolutionary attachments and the gendered origins of state power in China.  Cornell, 2023.  402p bibl index  ISBN 9781501715518, $125.00;  ISBN 9781501771415 pbk, $26.95;  ISBN 9781501715525 ebook, $23.99;  61-3448

Marcy, William L. Narcostates: civil war, crime, and the war on drugs in Mexico and Central America.  L. Rienner, 2023.  359p bibl index  ISBN 9781685853273, $115.00;  ISBN 9781685859787 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-3457

McArdle, Karen. Community work: theory into practice, by Karen Mcardle et al.  Policy Press, 2024.  298p bibl index  ISBN 9781447365327 pbk, $49.50;  61-3402

Milowski, Daniel. Route 66 and the formation of a national cultural icon: mother road to mythic American byway.  Lexington Books, 2024.  282p bibl index  ISBN 9781666922196, $110.00;  ISBN 9781666922202 ebook, $45.00;  61-3471

Moffat, Michelle. Scottish society in the Second World War: tradition, tension, transformation.  Edinburgh University Press, 2023.  296p bibl index  ISBN 9781399522533, $110.00;  ISBN 9781399522557 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-3479

Pettegree, Andrew. The book at war: how reading shaped conflict and conflict shaped reading.  Basic Books, 2023.  480p index  ISBN 9781541604346, $35.00;  ISBN 9781541604353 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-3437

Redman, Thomas. People and data: uniting to transform your business.  Kogan Page, 2023.  264p  ISBN 9781398610873, $131.00;  ISBN 9781398610828 pbk, $35.99;  ISBN 9781398610866 ebook, $35.99;  61-3406

Reinkowski, Maurus. The history of Turkey: grandeur and grievance, tr. by William J. Walsh.  Academic Studies Press, 2023.  365p bibl index  ISBN 9798887192161, $139.00;  ISBN 9798887192178 pbk, $28.95;  ISBN 9798887192192 ebook, $28.95;  61-3463

Roe v. Dobbs: the past, present, and future of a constitutional right to abortion, ed. by Lee C. Bollinger and Geoffrey R. Stone.  Oxford, 2024.  504p bibl index  ISBN 9780197760352, $99.00;  ISBN 9780197760369 pbk, $27.95;  ISBN 9780197760390 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-3514

Saunders, Richard L. Dale L. Morgan: Mormon and western histories in transition.  Utah, 2023.  536p bibl index  ISBN 9781647691202, $95.00;  ISBN 9781647691219 pbk, $34.95;  ISBN 9781647691226 ebook, $27.95;  61-3475

Schulz, Joy. When women ruled the Pacific: power and politics in nineteenth-century Tahiti and Hawai’i.  Nebraska, 2023.  166p bibl index  ISBN 9781496231802, $50.00;  ISBN 9781496236715 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-3451

Short, John Rennie. Insurrection: what the January 6 assault on the Capitol reveals about America and democracy.  Reaktion Books, 2024.  224p bibl index  ISBN 9781789148411 pbk, $18.00;  ISBN 9781789148893 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-3515

Shrier, David L. Welcome to AI: a human guide to artificial intelligence.  Harvard Business Review Press, 2024.  256p bibl index  ISBN 9781647827526, $30.00;  ISBN 9781647827533 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-3408

Shrout, Anelise Hanson. Aiding Ireland: the Great Famine and the rise of transnational philanthropy.  New York University, 2024.  272p bibl index  ISBN 9781479824595, $35.00;  ISBN 9781479824601 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-3438

Simmons, Ric. Private criminal justice: how private parties are enforcing criminal law and transforming our justice system.  Cambridge, 2024.  254p bibl index  ISBN 9781009347174, $120.00;  ISBN 9781009347136 pbk, $39.99;  ISBN 9781009347150 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-3530

Social work and the arts: expanding horizons, ed. by Shelley Cohen Konrad and Michal Sela-Amit.  Oxford, 2024.  304p bibl index  ISBN 9780197579541, $70.00;  ISBN 9780197579572 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-3387

Social work and the grand challenge to eliminate racism: concepts, theory, and evidence based approaches, ed. by Martell L. Teasley, Michael S. Spencer, and Melissa Bartholomew.  Oxford, 2023.  608p bibl index  ISBN 9780197674949, $49.95;  ISBN 9780197674970 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-3531

Southworth, Stephanie. Homelessness in the 21st century: living the impossible American dream, by Stephanie Southworth and Sara Brallier.  Routledge, 2023.  200p index  ISBN 9781032351605, $160.00;  ISBN 9781032351599 pbk, $44.95;  ISBN 9781000864656 ebook, $44.95;  61-3532

Stewart, Whitney Nell. This is our home: slavery and struggle on southern plantations.  North Carolina, 2023.  296p bibl index  ISBN 9781469675671, $99.00;  ISBN 9781469675688 pbk, $29.95;  61-3477

Stone, Damien. The Hittites: lost civilizations.  Reaktion Books, 2023.  192p bibl index  ISBN 9781789146844, $25.00;  ISBN 9781789147360 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-3442

Teaching Israel: studies of pedagogy from the field, ed. by Sivan Zakai and Matt Reingold.  Brandeis, 2024.  384p index  ISBN 9781684581160, $120.00;  ISBN 9781684581177 pbk, $40.00;  ISBN 9781684581184 ebook, $39.95;  61-3430

Thaler, Gregory M. Saving a rainforest and losing the world: conservation and displacement in the global tropics.  Yale, 2024.  312p bibl index  ISBN 9780300272505, $110.00;  ISBN 9780300272482 pbk, $40.00;  ISBN 9780300277753 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-3422

Tungohan, Ethel. Care activism: migrant domestic workers, movement-building, and communities of care.  Illinois, 2023.  256p bibl index  ISBN 9780252045264, $110.00;  ISBN 9780252087400 pbk, $28.00;  ISBN 9780252054785 ebook, $85.00;  61-3410

Yacovone, Donald. Teaching white supremacy: America’s democratic ordeal and the forging of our national identity.  Vintage Books, 2022.  464p bibl index  ISBN 9780593316634, $32.50;  ISBN 9780593467169 pbk, $20.00;  ISBN 9780593316641 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-3431

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