The Top 75 Community College Titles: August 2021 Edition

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

Posted on August 31, 2021 in Top 75 Community College Titles

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African American Communities. Adam Matthew. Contact publisher for pricing. URL: https://www.amdigital.co.uk/primary-sources/african-american-communities 58-3383

Drama Online. Bloomsbury. Contact publisher for pricing. URL: http://www.dramaonlinelibrary.com/ 58-3377

MEDLINE Complete. EBSCO. Contact publisher for pricing. URL: https://www.ebsco.com/products/research-databases/medline-complete 58-3382

Roydhouse, Marion W. Votes for women!: the American woman suffrage movement and the Nineteenth Amendment: a reference guide. ABC-CLIO, 2020. 298p bibl index ISBN 9781440836701, $65.00; ISBN 9781440836718 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-3386

Humanities

Adams, Sean. How design makes us think: and feel and do things. Princeton Architectural, 2021. 256p ISBN 9781616899776 pbk, $35.00; 58-3389

Any, Carol Joyce. The Soviet Writers’ Union and its leaders: identity and authority under Stalin. North-western University, 2020. 318p bibl index ISBN 9780810142770, $120.00; ISBN 9780810142756 pbk, $39.95; ISBN 9780810142763 ebook, $39.95; 58-3442

Chard, Holly. Mainstream maverick: John Hughes and new Hollywood cinema. Texas, 2020. 284p ISBN 9781477321294, $50.00; ISBN 9781477321324 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-3445

A Cultural history of tragedy, general editor, Rebecca Bushnell. Bloomsbury Academic, 2020. 6v bibl in-dex ISBN 9781474288149, $550.00; 58-3406

Davis, Robert Leigh. Playful wisdom: reimagining the sacred in American literature, from Walden to Gilead. Lexington Books, 2020. 252p bibl index ISBN 9781793626288, $105.00; ISBN 9781793626295 ebook, $99.50; 58-3426

Gormley, Antony. Shaping the world: sculpture from prehistory to now, by Antony Gormley and Martin Gayford. Thames & Hudson, 2020. 392p index ISBN 9780500022672, $60.00; 58-3393

Inscoe, John C. Movie-made Appalachia: history, Hollywood, and the highland South. North Carolina, 2021. 248p bibl index ISBN 9781469660134, $95.00; ISBN 9781469660141 pbk, $29.95; ISBN 9781469660158 ebook, $22.99; 58-3447

Jato, Mónica. Fractured frontiers: the exile writing of Nazi Germany and Francoist Spain, by Mónica Jato and John Klapper. Camden House, 2020. 304p bibl index ISBN 9781640140516, $99.00; ISBN 978178744860 ebook, $24.99; 58-3408

Mahdi, Waleed F. Arab Americans in film: from Hollywood and Egyptian stereotypes to self-representation. Syracuse, 2020. 304p filmography bibl index ISBN 9780815636717, $75.00; ISBN 9780815636816 pbk, $29.95; ISBN 9780815654964 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-3449

McKinley, Catherine E. African lookbook: a visual history of 100 years of African womanhood. Blooms-bury, 2020. 240p ISBN 9781620403532, $30.00; ISBN 9781620403532 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-3399

Mind reeling: psychopathology on film, ed. by Homer B. Pettey. SUNY Press, 2020. 258p bibl index ISBN 9781438481012, $95.00; ISBN 9781438481029 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-3450

Musegades, Paula. Aaron Copland’s Hollywood film scores. Rochester, 2020. 212p bibl index (Eastman studies in music, 169) ISBN 9781580469913, $99.00; ISBN 9781800100138 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-3458

Norwood, Janice. Victorian touring actresses: crossing boundaries and negotiating the cultural landscape. Manchester University Press, 2020. 275p bibl index ISBN 9781526133328, $120.00; ISBN 9781526133335 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-3463

Once upon a time in the twenty-first century: unexpected exercises in creative writing, ed. by Robin Behn. Alabama, 2020. 400p index ISBN 9780817359423 pbk, $24.95; ISBN 9780817392321 ebook, $24.95; 58-3411

The Oxford handbook of mobile communication and society, ed. by Rich Ling et al. Oxford, 2020. 736p index ISBN 9780190864385, $150.00; ISBN 9780190079215 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-3401

Philosophy for girls: an invitation to the life of thought, ed. by Melissa M. Shew and Kimberly K. Garchar. Oxford, 2020. 320p bibl index ISBN 9780190072919, $99.00; ISBN 9780190072926 pbk, $35.00; ISBN 9780190072940 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-3472

Reed, T. J. Genesis: the making of literary works from Homer to Christa Wolf. Camden House, 2020. 314p bibl index (Studies in German literature, linguistics and culture, 213) ISBN 9781640140820, $99.00; ISBN 9781787448889 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-3413

Rice, Julian. Abbas Kiarostami’s cinema of life: from Homework to Like someone in love. Rowman & Littlefield, 2020. 292p bibl index ISBN 9781538137000, $95.00; ISBN 9781538137017 ebook, $90.00; 58-3452

Rodriguez, Amardo. Introducing communication: perspectives, assumptions, and implications. Toronto, 2020. 208p bibl index ISBN 9781487507145, $75.00; ISBN 9781487524821 pbk, $35.95; ISBN 9781487535667 ebook, $28.76; 58-3402

Smith, Jeffrey Chipps. Albrecht Dürer and the embodiment of genius: decorating museums in the nineteenth century. Pennsylvania State, 2020. 256p bibl index ISBN 9780271085944, $99.95; 58-3390

Smith, Macklin. Rhymes in the flow: how rappers flip the beat, by Macklin Smith and Aurko Joshi. Michi-gan, 2020. 302p bibl index ISBN 9780472073894, $85.00; ISBN 9780472053896 pbk, $39.95; ISBN 9780472124046 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-3461

Thuesen, Peter Johannes. Tornado God: American religion and violent weather. Oxford, 2020. 312p bibl index ISBN 9780190680282, $29.95; ISBN 9780190680305 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-3489

VanDiver, Rebecca. Designing a new tradition: Loïs Mailou Jones and the aesthetics of Blackness. Pennsylvania State, 2020. 256p bibl index ISBN 9780271086040, $59.95; 58-3395

Wisniewski, Gene. The art of looking at art. Rowman & Littlefield, 2020. 296p bibl index ISBN 9781538133729, $52.00; ISBN 9781538133736 ebook, $52.00; 58-3392

Science & Technology

Aquatic plants: pharmaceutical and cosmetic applications, ed. by Namrita Lall. CRC Press, 2021. 366p bibl index ISBN 9781138368118, $200.00; ISBN 9780367518462 pbk, $79.95; ISBN 9780429429095 ebook, $79.95; 58-3497

Bauer, Craig P. Discrete encounters. Chapman & Hall, 2020. 732p bibl index ISBN 9781498735865, $149.95; ISBN 9780429400506 ebook, $89.95; 58-3516

Best, Troy L. Mammals of the southeastern United States, by Troy L. Best and John L. Hunt. Alabama, 2020. 496p bibl index ISBN 9780817320522, $64.95; ISBN 9780817392840 ebook, $64.95; 58-3499

Chakraborty, Arup. Viruses, pandemics, and immunity, by Arup K. Chakraborty and Andrey S. Shaw; illustrated by Philip J. S. Stork. MIT, 2021. 206p bibl index ISBN 9780262542388 pbk, $19.95; ISBN 9780262363464 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-3510

Dennell, Robin. From Arabia to the Pacific: how our species colonised Asia. Routledge, 2020. 386p bibl index ISBN 9780367482398, $160.00; ISBN 9780367482411 pbk, $44.95; ISBN 9781003038788 ebook, $44.95; 58-3502

Dumes, Abigail Anne. Divided bodies: Lyme disease, contested illness, and evidence-based medicine. Duke, 2020. 360p bibl index ISBN 9781478005988, $104.95; ISBN 9781478006664 pbk, $27.95; ISBN 9781478007395 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-3511

Ethics of artificial intelligence, ed. by S. Matthew Lia. Oxford, 2020. 542p bibl index ISBN 9780190905033, $129.99; ISBN 9780190905040 pbk, $45.00; ISBN 9780190905064 ebook, contact pub-lisher for price; 58-3491

Gaukroger, Stephen. Civilization and the culture of science: science and the shaping of modernity, 1795–1935. Oxford, 2020. 544p bibl index ISBN 9780198849070, $50.00; ISBN 9780191883347 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-3492

The Handbook of natural resources: v.5: Coastal and marine environments, ed. by Yeqiao Wang. 2nd ed. CRC Press, 2020. 387p index ISBN 9781138339637, $180.00; ISBN 9780429441004 ebook, $58.95; 58-3503

Prothero, Donald R. The story of evolution in 25 discoveries: the evidence and the people who found it. Columbia, 2020. 360p bibl index ISBN 9780231190367, $35.00; ISBN 9780231548854 ebook, $34.99; 58-3496

Stanley, Richard P. Conversational problem solving. American Mathematical Society, 2020. 178p bibl index ISBN 9781470456351 pbk, $50.00; ISBN 9781470456948 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-3520

Steidinger, Joan. Stand up and shout out: women’s fight for equal pay, equal rights, and equal opportunities in sports. Rowman & Littlefield, 2020. 232p bibl index ISBN 9781538125977, $24.95; ISBN 9781538125984 ebook, $23.95; 58-3525

Stein, James D. The fate of Schrodinger’s cat: using math and computers to explore the counterintuitive. World Scientific, 2020. 172p bibl index (Problem solving in mathematics and beyond, 17) ISBN 9789811218637, $58.00; ISBN 9789811218156 pbk, $28.00; ISBN 9789811218170 ebook, $22.00; 58-3522

Vick, Brian. Applied engineering mathematics. CRC Press, 2020. 246p bibl index ISBN 9780367432775, $130.00; ISBN 9780367432768 pbk, $64.95; ISBN 9781003002260 ebook, $64.95; 58-3523

Social & Behavioral Sciences

Abbott, Ryan. The reasonable robot: artificial intelligence and the law. Cambridge, 2020. 156p index ISBN 9781108472128, $110.00; ISBN 9781108459020 pbk, $29.99; ISBN 9781108626330 ebook, $24.00; 58-3542

Ball, Edward. Life of a Klansman: a family history in white supremacy. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020. 416p bibl ISBN 9780374186326, $28.00; 58-3592

Bennett Jones, Owen. The Bhutto dynasty: the struggle for power in Pakistan. Yale, 2020. 320p bibl index ISBN 9780300246674, $28.00; ISBN 9780300255805 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-3575

Brown, Phillip. The death of human capital?: its failed promise and how to renew it in an age of disruption, by Phillip Brown, Hugh Lauder and Sin Yi Cheung. Oxford, 2020. 304p bib index ISBN 9780190644307, $99.00; ISBN 9780190644314 pbk, $27.95; ISBN 9780190644321 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-3527

Digital lives in the global city: contesting infrastructures, ed. by Deborah Cowen et al. UBC Press, 2020. 308p index ISBN 9780774862387 pbk, $39.95; ISBN 9780774862394 ebook, $39.95; 58-3528

Grant, Don S. Super polluters: tackling the world’s largest sites of climate-disrupting emissions, by Don Grant, Andrew Jorgenson, and Wesley Longhofer. Columbia, 2020. 296p bibl index ISBN 9780231192163, $95.00; ISBN 9780231192170 ebook, $30.00; ISBN 9780231549691 ebook, $28.99; 58-3666

Holmes, Carolyn E. Black and white rainbow: reconciliation, opposition, and nation-building in democratic South Africa. Michigan, 2020. 264p bibl index ISBN 9780472074631, $75.00; ISBN 9780472054633 pbk, $29.00; ISBN 9780472127177 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-3571

Islamophobia and the law, ed. by Cyra Akila Choudhury and Khaled A. Beydoun. Cambridge, 2020. 283p index ISBN 9781108433716, $110.00; ISBN 9781108433716 pbk, $34.99; ISBN 9781108390217 ebook, $28.00; 58-3597

Judis, John B. The socialist awakening: what’s different now about the Left. Columbia Global Reports, 2020. 167p bibl index ISBN 9781734420708 pbk, $15.99; ISBN 9781734420715 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-3619

King, Elisabeth. Diversity, violence, and recognition: how recognizing ethnic identity promotes peace, by Elisabeth King and Cyrus Samii. Oxford, 2020. 236p bibl index ISBN 9780197509456, $99.00; ISBN 9780197509463 pbk, $27.95; ISBN 9780197509494 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-3627

Lambert, Nicolas. Practical handbook of thematic cartography: principles, methods, and applications, by Nicolas Lambert and Christine Zanin. CRC Press, 2020. 224p bibl index ISBN 9780367261290, $130.00; ISBN 9780429291968 ebook, $58.95; 58-3567

Lara, Ana-Mauríne. Queer freedom: Black sovereignty. SUNY Press, 2020. 190p bibl index ISBN 9781438481098, $95.00; ISBN 9781438481104 ebook, $32.95; ISBN 9781438481111 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-3538

The Legacy of racism for children: psychology, law, and public policy, ed. by Margaret C. Stevenson, Bette L. Bottoms, and Kelly C. Burke. Oxford, 2020. 284p bibl index ISBN 9780190056742, $65.00; ISBN 9780190056766 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-3659

Levine, Bruce C. Thaddeus Stevens: Civil War revolutionary, fighter for racial justice. Simon & Schuster, 2021. 320p ISBN 9781476793375, $28.00; 58-3598

Mandler, Peter. The crisis of the meritocracy: Britain’s transition to mass education since the Second World War. Oxford, 2020. 384p bibl index ISBN 9780198840145, $32.95; ISBN 9780192576477 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-3609

Manning, William Joseph. Trees and global warming: the role of forests in cooling and warming the atmosphere. Cambridge, 2020. 330p index ISBN 9781108471787, $64.99; ISBN 9781108653350 ebook, $52.00; 58-3549

McCormick, Mary Lou. Creating a democratic climate for kids: a new guide for educators, parents and other significant adults in kids’ lives. Rowman & Littlefield, 2020. 100p ISBN 9781475857993, $50.00; ISBN 9781475858006 pbk, $25.00; ISBN 9781475858013 ebook, $23.50; 58-3559

McKinney, Cait. Information activism: a queer history of lesbian media technologies. Duke, 2020. 304p bibl index ISBN 9781478007821, $104.95; ISBN 9781478008286 pbk, $27.95; ISBN 9781478009337 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-3669

Michelson, Melissa R. Transforming prejudice: identity, fear, and transgender rights, by Melissa R. Mi-chelson and Brian F. Harrison. Oxford, 2020. 262p bibl index ISBN 9780190068882, $99.00; ISBN 9780190068899 pbk, $29.95; ISBN 9780190068912 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-3670

Monsutti, Alessandro. Homo itinerans: towards a global ethnography of Afghanistan, tr. Patrick Camiller. Berghahn Books, 2021. 148p bibl index ISBN 9781789209297, $120.00; ISBN 9781789209303 ebook, $27.95; 58-3539

Newton, David E. Waste management: a reference handbook. ABC-CLIO, 2020. 324p bibl index ISBN 9781440872822, $63.00; ISBN 9781440872839 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-3550

The Oxford handbook of political representation in liberal democracies, ed. by Robert Rohrschneider and Jacques Thomassen. Oxford, 2020. 712p bibl indexes ISBN 9780198825081, $145.00; ISBN 9780191863769 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-3641

Panda, Ankit. Kim Jong Un and the bomb: survival and deterrence in North Korea. Oxford, 2020. 416p index ISBN 9780190060367, $27.95; ISBN 9781787384477 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-3637

Paradis, Michel. Last mission to Tokyo: the extraordinary story of the Doolittle Raiders and their final fight for justice. Simon & Schuster, 2020. 480p bibl index ISBN 9781501104718, $28.00; ISBN 9781501104749 ebook, $14.99; 58-3600

Patterson, Sara M. Pioneers in the attic: place and memory along the Mormon Trail. Oxford, 2020. 300p bibl index ISBN 9780190933869, $29.95; ISBN 9780190933883 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-3601

Protecting whiteness: whitelash and the rejection of racial equality, ed. by Cameron D. Lippard, J. Scott Carter, and David G. Embrick. Washington, 2020. 296p bibl index ISBN 9780295747989, $95.00; ISBN 9780295747996 pbk, $30.00; ISBN 9780295748009 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-3673

Raz, Mical. Abusive policies: how the American child welfare system lost its way. North Carolina, 2020. 180p index ISBN 9781469661209, $95.00; ISBN 9781469661216 pbk, $26.95; ISBN 9781469661223 ebook, $19.99; 58-3603

Recoding the boys’ club: the experiences and future of women in political technology, by Daniel Kreiss et al. Oxford, 2020. 208p bibl index ISBN 9780197535943, $99.00; ISBN 9780197535950 pbk, $24.95; ISBN 9780197535967 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-3623

Roth, Cassia. A miscarriage of justice: women’s reproductive lives and the law in early twentieth-century Brazil. Stanford, 2020. 376p bibl index ISBN 9781503610477, $95.00; ISBN 9781503611320 pbk, $32.00; ISBN 9781503611337 ebook, $32.00; 58-3585

Rutishauser, Kerry Decker. Empowered students: educating flexible minds for a flexible future. Rowman & Littlefield, 2021. 141p bibl index ISBN 9781475858358, $50.00; ISBN 9781475858365 pbk, $25.00; ISBN 9781475858372 ebook, $23.50; 58-3562

Schwenkel, Christina. Building socialism: the afterlife of East German architecture in urban Vietnam. Duke, 2020. 432p ISBN 9781478010012, $114.95; ISBN 9781478090656 ebook, $32.95; 58-3540

The Spirit of the Blitz: home intelligence and British morale, September 1940–June 1941, ed. by Paul Addison and Jeremy A. Crang. Oxford, 2020. 489p index ISBN 9780198848509, $38.95; ISBN 9780192588067 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-3611

Stuart, Diana. Climate change solutions: beyond the capital-climate contradiction, by Diana Stuart, Ryan Gunderson, and Brian Petersen. Michigan, 2020. 204p bibl index ISBN 9780472131983, $90.00; ISBN 9780472038473 pbk, $24.95; ISBN 9780472126804 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-3534

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