The Top 75 Community College Titles: December 2016 Edition
The best of all the titles appropriate for two-year colleges reviewed in the December issue of Choice.
Posted on December 29, 2016
REFERENCE
APA college dictionary of psychology, ed. by Gary R. VandenBos. 2nd ed. American Psychological Association, 2016. 518p ISBN 9781433821585 pbk, $19.95; ISBN 9781433821592 ebook, contact publisher for price; 54-1521
Desmond, Kevin. Innovators in battery technology: profiles of 93 influential electrochemists. McFarland, 2016. 271p bibl index afp ISBN 9780786499335 pbk, $45.00; ISBN 9781476622781 ebook, contact publisher for price; 54-1518
Encyclopaedia of Islam Three, ed. by Kate Fleet et al. Brill. Annual academic subscription is $3,800.00; outright purchase for bundled editions is $31,730.00, with annual fee of $1,170.00. URL: referenceworks.brillonline.com/browse/encyclopaedia-of-islam-3, 54-1505
Garner, Bryan A. The Chicago guide to grammar, usage, and punctuation. Chicago, 2016. 583p bibl indexes afp ISBN 9780226188850, $45.00; ISBN 9780226191294 ebook, $45.00; 54-1506
Johnston, Coy H. Careers in law enforcement. SAGE Publishing, 2016. 254p index afp ISBN 9781483379067 pbk, $34.00; 54-1528
Kirschenbaum, Matthew G. Track changes: a literary history of word processing. Belknap, Harvard, 2016. 344p index afp ISBN 9780674417076, $29.95; ISBN 9780674969469 ebook, contact publisher for price; 54-1507
Lee, A. D. Pagans and Christians in late antiquity: a sourcebook. Routledge, 2016. 343p bibl indexes afp ISBN 9781138020313, $135.00; ISBN 9781138020320 pbk, $49.95; ISBN 9781315684253 ebook, contact publisher for price; 54-1515
Lively, Donald E. Contemporary Supreme Court cases: landmark decisions since Roe v. Wade, by Donald E. Lively and D. Scott Broyles. 2nd ed. ABC-CLIO, 2016. 2v bibl index afp ISBN 9781440837128, $189.00; ISBN 9781440837135 ebook, con-tact publisher for price; 54-1529
MLA handbook. Modern Language Association of America, 2016. 146p index afp ISBN 9781603292627 pbk, $12.00; ISBN 9781603292641 ebook, contact publisher for price; 54-1508
HUMANITIES
Brodie, Judith. Three centuries of American prints from the National Gallery of Art, [by] Judith Brodie, Amy Johnston, and Mi-chael J. Lewis; with contributions by John Fagg et al. Thames & Hudson, 2016. 347p bibl index afp ISBN 9780500239520, $60.00; 54-1539
Büttner, Nils. Hieronymus Bosch: visions and nightmares. Reaktion Books, 2016. 208p bibl index ISBN 9781780235790, $22.50; 54-1550
Caminero-Santangelo, Marta. Documenting the undocumented: Latino/a narratives and social justice in the era of Operation Gatekeeper. University Press of Florida, 2016. 296p bibl index afp ISBN 9780813062594, $79.95; ISBN 9780813055824 ebook, contact publisher for price; 54-1592
Cardinal-Pett, Clare. A history of architecture and urbanism in the Americas. Routledge, 2016. 526p bibl index ISBN 9780415534925, $180.00; ISBN 9780415534932 pbk, $95.00; ISBN 9781315691817 ebook, contact publisher for price; 54-1559
Collini, Stefan. Common writing: essays on literary culture and public debate. Oxford, 2016. 354p bibl index ISBN 9780198758969, $50.00; ISBN 9780191076763 ebook, contact publisher for price; 54-1593
Consalvo, Mia. Atari to Zelda: Japan’s videogames in global contexts. MIT, 2016. 259p index afp ISBN 9780262034395, $32.00; ISBN 9780262332187 ebook, $23.00; 54-1567
Dighe, Ranjit, S. The historian’s Huck Finn: reading Mark Twain’s masterpiece as social and economic history, annot. by Ranjit S. Dighe. Praeger, 2016. 352p bibl index afp ISBN 9781440833489, $58.00; ISBN 9781610699419 pbk, $35.00; ISBN 9781440833496 ebook, contact publisher for price; 54-1595
Hicks, Heather J. The post-apocalyptic novel in the twenty-first century: modernity beyond salvage. Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. 208p bibl index ISBN 9781137553669, $95.00; ISBN 9781137545848 ebook, $95.00; 54-1597
Love, Nancy S. Trendy fascism: white power music and the future of democracy. SUNY Press, 2016. 255p bibl index afp ISBN 9781438462035, $85.00; ISBN 9781438462059 ebook, contact publisher for price; 54-1637
Making love in the twelfth century: letters of two lovers in context, a new translation with commentary by Barbara Newman. Pennsylvania, 2016. 365p bibl indexes afp ISBN 9780812248098, $59.95; ISBN 9780812292725 ebook, $59.95; 54-1581
Melehy, Hassan. Kerouac: language, poetics, and territory. Bloomsbury Academic, 2016. 255p bibl index ISBN 9781501314346, $120.00; ISBN 9781501314353 ebook, contact publisher for price; 54-1603
The Oxford handbook of historical phonology, ed. by Patrick Honeybone and Joseph Salmons. Oxford, 2015. 792p bibl index ISBN 9780199232819, $150.00; ISBN 9780191750243 ebook, contact publisher for price; 54-1583
Paul, William. When movies were theater: architecture, exhibition, and the evolution of American film. Columbia, 2016. 422p bibl index afp ISBN 9780231176569, $120.00; ISBN 9780231176576 pbk, $40.00; ISBN 9780231541374 ebook, $39.99; 54-1630
Seibert, Brian. What the eye hears: a history of tap dancing. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015. 612p index ISBN 9780865479531, $35.00; ISBN 9780374536510 pbk, $18.00; ISBN 9781429947619 ebook, $16.99; 54-1641
Speicher, Allison. Schooling readers: reading common schools in nineteenth-century American fiction. Alabama, 2016. 237p bibl index afp ISBN 9780817319168, $54.95; ISBN 9780817389918 ebook, $54.95; 54-1609
Whitfield, Peter. Mapping Shakespeare’s world. Bodleian Library, 2016. 198p bibl index ISBN 9781851242573 pbk, $45.00; 54-1613
Wilson, Catherine. Epicureanism: a very short introduction. Oxford, 2016. 136p bibl index (Very short introductions, 452) ISBN 9780199688326 pbk, $11.95; ISBN 9780191808951 ebook, contact publisher for price; 54-1657
Wordsworth and the green Romantics: affect and ecology in the nineteenth century, ed. by Lisa Ottum and Seth T. Reno. New Hampshire, 2016. 253p bibl index afp ISBN 9781611688948, $85.00; ISBN 9781611688955 pbk, $40.00; ISBN 9781611689549 ebook, $34.99; 54-1614
Woven threads: patterned textiles of the Aegean Bronze Age, ed. by Maria C. Shaw and Anne P. Chapin. Oxbow Books, 2016. 279p bibl (Ancient textile series, 22) ISBN 9781785700583, $27.50; ISBN 9781785700590 ebook, $27.50; 54-1548
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Bolker, Ethan D. Common sense mathematics, by Ethan D. Bolker and Maura B. Mast. Mathematical Association of America, 2016. 308p bibl index ISBN 9781939512109, $60.00; ISBN 9781614446217 ebook, contact publisher for price; 54-1782
Chion, Michel. Sound: an acoulogical treatise, tr. and introd. by James A. Steintrager. Duke, 2016. 283p bibl index afp ISBN 9780822360223, $94.95; ISBN 9780822360391 pbk, $25.95; ISBN 9780822374824 ebook, contact publisher for price; 54-1794
Clinical exercise science, ed. by Andrew Scott and Christopher Gidlow. Routledge, 2016. 313p bibl index ISBN 9780415708401, $160.00; ISBN 9780415708418 pbk, $59.95; ISBN 9781134617845 ebook, contact publisher for price; 54-1757
Darkroom dynamics: a guide to creative darkroom techniques: 35th anniversary annotated reissue, ed. by Jim Stone. Focal Press, 2016. 199p index ISBN 9781138944640, $150.00; ISBN 9781138944633 pbk, $44.95; ISBN 9781315671789 ebook, contact publisher for price; 54-1687
Frisbee, Meg. Counterpunch: the cultural battles over heavyweight prizefighting in the American West. Washington, 2016. 245p bibl index afp ISBN 9780295995465, $40.00; ISBN 9780295806440 ebook, contact publisher for price; 54-1801
Gershwin, Lisa-Ann. Jellyfish: a natural history. Chicago, 2016. 224p bibl index afp ISBN 9780226287676, $40.00; ISBN 9780226287706 ebook, $24.00; 54-1721
Hastings, Kevin J. Introduction to financial mathematics. CRC Press, 2016. 407p index afp ISBN 9781498723909, $92.95; ISBN 9781498723954 ebook, $65.07; 54-1784
Kramer, Peter D. Ordinarily well: the case for antidepressants. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016. 310p index ISBN 9780374280673, $27.00; ISBN 9780374708962 ebook, $12.99; 54-1764
The Palgrave handbook of society, culture and outer space, ed. by Peter Dickens and James S. Ormrod. Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. 480p bibl index ISBN 9781137363510, $216.00; ISBN 9781137363527 ebook, $169.00; 54-1691
River algae, ed. by Orlando Necchi Jr. Springer, 2016. 279p bibl index afp ISBN 9783319319834, $129.00; ISBN 9783319319841 ebook, contact publisher for price; 54-1711
Ruparelia, Nayan B. Cloud computing. MIT, 2016. 260p bibl index afp ISBN 9780262529099 pbk, $15.95; ISBN 9780262334112 ebook, $11.95; 54-1780
Schecter, Stephen. Game theory in action: an introduction to classical and evolutionary models, by Stephen Schecter and Herbert Gintis. Princeton, 2016. 274p index afp ISBN 9780691167640, $80.00; ISBN 9780691167657 pbk, $39.95; ISBN 9781400880881 ebook, contact publisher for price; 54-1791
Science and the internet: communicating knowledge in a digital age, ed. by Alan G. Gross and Jonathan Buehl. Baywood Pub-lishing, 2016. 323p bibl index afp ISBN 9780895038975, $78.95; ISBN 9780895038982 pbk, $63.95; ISBN 9780895038999 ebook, contact publisher for price; 54-1685
Stellabotte, Fred. Weight training without injury: over 350 step-by-step pictures including what not to do!, by Fred Stellabotte and Rachel Straub. Regalis, 2016. 280p index ISBN 9780996263849, $99.99; ISBN 9780996263818 pbk, $59.99; 54-1802
Taylor, Nicole. Schooled on fat: what teens tell us about gender, body image, and obesity. Routledge, 2016. 185p bibl index afp ISBN 9781138924208, $130.00; ISBN 9781138924215 pbk, $35.95; ISBN 9781317409366 ebook, contact publisher for price; 54-1773
Wilkinson, John. The solar system in close-up. Springer, 2016. 291p index afp ISBN 9783319276274 pbk, $34.99; ISBN 9783319276298 ebook, contact publisher for price; 54-1695
SOCIAL & BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES
Anderson, Betty S. A history of the modern Middle East: rulers, rebels, and rogues. Stanford, 2016. 520p bibl index afp ISBN 9780804783248 pbk, $44.95; ISBN 9780804798754 ebook, contact publisher for price; 54-1887
Barnard, Alex V. Freegans: diving into the wealth of food waste in America. Minnesota, 2016. 294p index afp ISBN 9780816698110, $87.50; ISBN 9780816698134 pbk, $24.95; ISBN 9781452945408 ebook, contact publisher for price; 54-1803
Budiansky, Stephen. Code warriors: NSA’s codebreakers and the secret intelligence war against the Soviet Union. Knopf, 2016. 389p bibl index ISBN 9780385352666, $30.00; ISBN 9780385352673 ebook, contact publisher for price; 54-1893
Civil rights and beyond: African American and Latino/a activism in the twentieth-century United States, ed. by Brian D. Behnken. Georgia, 2016. 270p index afp ISBN 9780820349169, $79.95; ISBN 9780820349176 pbk, $27.95; ISBN 9780820349152 ebook, contact publisher for price; 54-1895
Derber, Charles. Bully nation: how the American establishment creates a bullying society, by Charles Derber and Yale R. Magrass. University Press of Kansas, 2016. 272p index afp ISBN 9780700622603, $24.95; ISBN 9780700622641 ebook, contact publisher for price; 54-2016
Goff, Lisa. Shantytown, USA: forgotten landscapes of the working poor. Harvard, 2016. 305p index ISBN 9780674660458, $35.00; ISBN 9780674968967 ebook, contact publisher for price; 54-1836
Gray, Drew D. Crime, policing and punishment in England, 1660–1914. Bloomsbury Academic, 2016. 393p bibl index ISBN 9781441135636, $120.00; ISBN 9781441117656 pbk, $39.95; ISBN 9781472579287 ebook, contact publisher for price; 54-1928
Hardman, John. The life of Louis XVI. Yale, 2016. 499p bibl index afp ISBN 9780300220421, $40.00; ISBN 9780300221657 ebook, contact publisher for price; 54-1933
Hayes, Danny. Women on the run: gender, media, and political campaigns in a polarized era, by Danny Hayes and Jennifer L. Lawless. Cambridge, 2016. 185p bibl index ISBN 9781107115583, $99.99; ISBN 9781107535862 pbk, $24.99; 54-1999
Henry, Lyell D. The Jefferson Highway: blazing the way from Winnipeg to New Orleans. Iowa, 2016. 214p bibl index afp ISBN 9781609384210 pbk, $29.95; ISBN 9781609384227 ebook, $29.95; 54-1901
A History of the global economy: from 1500 to the present, ed. by Joerg Baten. Cambridge/International Economic History Asso-ciation, 2016. 369p bibl index ISBN 9781107104709, $119.99; ISBN 9781107507180 pbk, $39.99; 54-1838
Hulme, David. Should rich nations help the poor? Polity, 2016. 139p bibl ISBN 9780745686059, $45.00; ISBN 9780745686066 pbk, $12.95; ISBN 9780745686097 ebook, contact publisher for price; 54-1965
Immigrant and refugee children and families: culturally responsive practice, ed. by Alan J. Dettlaff and Rowena Fong. Colum-bia, 2016. 524p bibl index afp ISBN 9780231172844, $120.00; ISBN 9780231172851 pbk, $40.00; ISBN 9780231541794 ebook, $39.99; 54-1806
Inazu, John D. Confident pluralism: surviving and thriving through deep difference. Chicago, 2016. 168p index afp ISBN 9780226365459, $29.00; ISBN 9780226365596 ebook, $29.00; 54-1979
Jenkins, Earnestine Lovelle. Race, representation & photography in 19th-century Memphis: from slavery to Jim Crow. Ashgate, 2016. 303p bibl index afp ISBN 9781409468196, $149.95; 54-1903
Kim, Hyun Jin. The Huns. Routledge, 2015 (c2016). 193p bibl index afp ISBN 9781138841710, $140.00; ISBN 97811
38841758 pbk, $44.95; ISBN 9781315661704 ebook, contact publisher for price; 54-1854
Krasovic, Mark. The Newark frontier: community action in the Great Society. Chicago, 2016. 366p index afp ISBN 9780226352794, $45.00; ISBN 9780226352824 ebook, contact publisher for price; 54-1905
Madley, Benjamin. An American genocide: the United States and the California Indian catastrophe, 1846-1873. Yale, 2016. 692p bibl index afp ISBN 9780300181364, $38.00; ISBN 9780300182170 ebook, contact publisher for price; 54-1908
McPhee, Peter. Liberty or death: the French Revolution. Yale, 2016. 468p bibl index afp ISBN 9780300189933, $35.00; ISBN 9780300219500 ebook, contact publisher for price; 54-1935
McWilliams, Carey. North from Mexico: the Spanish-speaking people of the United States. Praeger, 2016. 448p index afp ISBN 9781440836824, $75.00; ISBN 9781440849855 pbk, $37.00; ISBN 9781440836831 ebook, contact publisher for price; 54-1910
Means, Howard. 67 shots: Kent State and the end of American innocence. Da Capo Press, 2016. 261p bibl index ISBN 9780306823794, $25.99; ISBN 9780306823800 ebook, $17.99; 54-1911
Milroy, Elizabeth. The grid and the river: Philadelphia’s green places, 1682–1876. Pennsylvania State, 2016. 418p bibl index afp ISBN 9780271066769, $64.95; 54-1912
The Oxford handbook of Asian American history, ed. by David K. Yoo and Eiichiro Azuma. Oxford, 2016. 524p bibl index afp ISBN 9780199860463, $150.00; ISBN 9780199983216 ebook, contact publisher for price; 54-1914
The Psychic hold of slavery: legacies in American expressive culture, ed. by Soyica Diggs Colbert, Robert J. Patterson, and Aida Levy-Hussen. Rutgers, 2016. 246p bibl index ISBN 9780813583969, $90.00; ISBN 9780813583952 pbk, $28.95; ISBN 9780813583976 ebook, $28.95; 54-1916
Reséndez, Andrés. The other slavery: the uncovered story of Indian enslavement in America. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016. 431p index ISBN 9780547640983, $30.00; ISBN 9780544602670 ebook, contact publisher for price; 54-1918
Scher, Richard K. Political campaigns in the United States. Routledge, 2016. 208p index ISBN 9781138181830, $140.00; ISBN 9781138181861 pbk, $49.95; 54-2004
Sovacool, Benjamin K. Fact and fiction in global energy policy: fifteen contentious questions, by Benjamin K. Sovacool, Marilyn A. Brown, and Scott V. Valentine. Johns Hopkins, 2016. 370p index afp ISBN 9781421418971 pbk, $34.95; ISBN 9781421418988 ebook, contact publisher for price; 54-1943
Sulosky Weaver, Carrie L. The bioarchaeology of classical Kamarina: life and death in Greek Sicily. University Press of Florida, 2015. 336p bibl index afp ISBN 9780813061122, $84.95; ISBN 9780813055541 ebook, contact publisher for price; 54-1821
Tulloch, Carol. The birth of cool: style narratives of the African diaspora. Bloomsbury Academic, 2016. 254p bibl index ISBN 9781859734650, $94.00; ISBN 9781859734704 pbk, $34.95; ISBN 9781474262873 ebook, contact publisher for price; 54-2023
Virelli, Louis J, III. Disqualifying the high court: Supreme Court recusal and the constitution. University Press of Kansas, 2016. 275p index afp ISBN 9780700622719, $39.95; ISBN 9780700622726 ebook, contact publisher for price; 54-1945
Zug, Marcia A. Buying a bride: an engaging history of mail-order matches. New York University, 2016. 305p index afp ISBN 9780814771815, $30.00; ISBN 9781479882830 ebook, contact publisher for price; 54-1925