The Top 75 Community College Titles: November 2023 Edition
The best of all the titles appropriate for two-year colleges reviewed in the November issue of Choice.
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Abjorensen, Norman. Historical dictionary of democracy. Rowman & Littlefield, 2019. 497p bibl ISBN 9781538120736, $125.00; ISBN 9781538120743 ebook, $118.50; 57-1196
American Antiquarian Society (AAS) Historical Periodicals Collection. EBSCO. Pricing is based on FTE. URL: ebscohost.com/archives/aas-historical-periodicals-collection 57-1187
ASME Digital Collection. Contact publisher for pricing. URL: asmedigitalcollection.asme.org/index.aspx 57-1195
Hagedorn, Sara L. The American Congress: a reference handbook, by Sara L. Hagedorn and Michael C. LeMay. ABC-CLIO, 2019. 385p index ISBN 9781440865800, $60.00; ISBN 9781440865817 ebook, contact publisher for price; 57-1199
Harper’s Weekly: 1857–1912. Alexander Street. Prices are for a one-time purchase of perpetual rights; consortial discounts are available. URL: alexanderstreet.com/content/harpers-weekly-1857-1912 57-1184
The Oxford handbook of terrorism, ed. by Erica Chenoweth et al. Oxford, 2019. 795p bibl index ISBN 9780198732914, $124.00; ISBN 9780191796944 ebook, contact publisher for price; 57-1200
Plath, James. The 100 greatest literary characters, by James Plath, Gail Sinclair, and Kirk Curnutt. Rowman & Littlefield, 2019. 267p bibl index ISBN 9781538103753, $45.00; ISBN 9781538103760 ebook, $42.50; 57-1189
Humanities
Ai, Weiwei. Ai Weiwei: good fences make good neighbors, by Nicholas Baume with texts by Daniel S. Palmer and Katerina Stathopoulou. Yale, 2019. 303p ISBN 9780300243796, $50.00; 57-1208
Armstrong, Simon. Street art. Thames & Hudson, 2019. 175p bibl index ISBN 9780500294338 pbk, $16.95; 57-1209
Billheimer, John W. Hitchcock and the censors. University Press of Kentucky, 2019. 370p bibl index ISBN 9780813177427, $50.00; ISBN 9780813177434 ebook, contact publisher for price; 57-1250
Bitonti, Francis. 3D printing design: additive manufacturing and the materials revolution. Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2019. 160p index ISBN 9781350065529 pbk, $100.00; ISBN 9781474220965 pbk, $29.95; ISBN 9781474220972 ebook, $26.95; 57-1211
The Cambridge companion to Sherlock Holmes, ed. by Janice M. Allan and Christopher Pittard. Cambridge, 2019. 261p bibl index ISBN 9781107155855, $64.99; ISBN 9781316609590 pbk, $19.99; ISBN 9781108601535 ebook, $16.00; 57-1236
The Cambridge history of travel writing, ed. by Nandini Das and Tim Youngs. Cambridge, 2019. 639p bibl index ISBN 9781107148185, $175.00; ISBN 9781108671460 ebook, $42.00; 57-1226
Connell, Joan. Healing all creation: Genesis, the Gospel of Mark, and the story of the universe, by Joan Connell and Adam Bartholomew. Rowman & Littlefield, 2019. 184p bibl index ISBN 9781538120972, $30.00; ISBN 9781538120989 ebook, $28.50; 57-1294
Early modern spectatorship: interpreting English culture, 1500–1780, ed. by Ronald Huebert and David McNeil. McGill-Queen’s, 2019. 414p bibl index ISBN 9780773556768, $120.00; ISBN 9780773556775 pbk, $39.95; ISBN 9780773557918 ebook, contact publisher for price; 57-1204
Foley, Barbara. Marxist literary criticism today. Pluto, 2019. 265p bibl index ISBN 9780745338842, $99.00; ISBN 9780745338835 pbk, $29.00; ISBN 9781786804129 ebook, $29.00; 57-1228
Gauguin: portraits, ed. by Cornelia Homburg and Christopher Riopelle with by Elizabeth C. Childs et al. Yale, 2019. 271p bibl index ISBN 9780300242737, $40.00; 57-1218
Glasby, Matt. Britpop cinema: from Trainspotting to This is England. Intellect, 2019. 224p ibibl ndex ISBN 9781783209873 pbk, $24.00; ISBN 9781789380354 ebook, $1.00; 57-1251
Indigenous literatures from Micronesia, ed, by Evelyn Flores and Emelihter Kihleng. Hawai’i, 2019. 358p ISBN 9780824875411, $90.00; ISBN 9780824877460 pbk, $30.00; ISBN 9780824877385 ebook, contact publisher for price; 57-1233
Kaltner, John. Sleuthing the Bible: clues that unlock the mysteries of the text, by John Kaltner and Steven L. McKenzie. Eerdmans, 2019. 279p bibl index ISBN 9780802875228 pbk, $25.00; ISBN 9781467456739 ebook, contact publisher for price; 57-1300
Lacorne, Denis. The limits of tolerance: Enlightenment values and religious fanaticism, tr. by C. Jon Delogu and Robin Emlein. Columbia, 2019. 280p index ISBN 9780231187145, $35.00; ISBN 9780231547048 ebook, $34.99; 57-1273
Mitscherling, Jeffrey Anthony. Artistic creation: a phenomenological account, by Jeff Mitscherling and Paul Fairfield. Lexington Books, 2019. 157p bibl index ISBN 9781498593533, $90.00; ISBN 9781498593540 ebook, 85.50; 57-1276
Muir, Elizabeth Gillan. A women’s history of the Christian church: two thousand years of female leadership. Toronto, 2019. 415p bibl index ISBN 9781487593841 pbk, $34.95; ISBN 9781487593865 ebook, $27.95; 57-1303
The New Cambridge companion to Nietzsche, ed. by Tom Stern. Cambridge, 2019. 447p bibl index ISBN 9781107161368, $94.99; ISBN 9781316613863 pbk, $34.99; ISBN 9781108638562 ebook, $28.00; 57-1278
A New companion to Malory, ed. by Megan G. Leitch and Cory James Rushton. D. S. Brewer, 2019. 325p bibl index (Arthurian studies, 87) ISBN 9781843845232, $99.00; ISBN 9781787444447 ebook, contact publisher for price; 57-1239
Price, Cheryl Blake. Chemical crimes: science and poison in Victorian crime fiction. Ohio State, 2019. 195p bibl index ISBN 9780814213919, $69.95; ISBN 9780814276822 ebook, $19.95; 57-1240
Santos, Jorge. Graphic memories of the Civil Rights Movement: reframing history in comics. Texas, 2019. 242p bibl index ISBN 9781477318263, $90.00; ISBN 9781477318270 pbk, $29.95; ISBN 9781477318287 ebook, contact publisher for price; 57-1224
Ward, Keith. Religion in the modern world: celebrating pluralism and diversity. Cambridge, 2019. 213p bibl index ISBN 9781108492492, $99.99; ISBN 9781108716840 pbk, $28.99; ISBN 9781108632683 ebook, $23.00; 57-1311
William Blake in context, ed. by Sarah Haggarty. Cambridge, 2019. 371p bibl index ISBN 9781107144910, $89.00; ISBN 9781108602037 ebook, $72.00; 57-1245
Wyver, John. Screening the Royal Shakespeare Company: a critical history. Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare, 2019. 268p bibl index ISBN 9781350006584, $100.00; ISBN 9781350006591 ebook, contact publisher for price; 57-1262
Advances in psychedelic medicine: state-of-the-art therapeutic applications, ed. by Michael Winkelman and Ben Sessa. Praeger, 2019. 386p bibl index ISBN 9781440864100, $73.00; ISBN 9781440864117 ebook, contact publisher for price; 57-1334
Adventures in managing water: real-world engineering experiences, ed. by Pete Loucks and Laurel Saito. American Society of Civil Engineers, 2019. 222p index ISBN 9780784415337 pbk, $60.00; ISBN 9780784482278 ebook, contact publisher for price; 57-1332
Amos, Evan. The game console: a photographic history from Atari to Xbox. No Starch Press, 2018. 251p ISBN 9781593277437, $24.95; ISBN 9781593277727 ebook, $19.95; 57-1344
Broadbent, Alex. Philosophy of medicine. Oxford, 2019. 274p bibl index ISBN 9780190612139, $90.00; ISBN 9780190612146 pbk, $29.95; ISBN 9780190612160 ebook, contact publisher for price; 57-1336
The Cambridge history of science: v.1: Ancient science, ed. by Alexander Jones and Liba Taub. Cambridge, 2019. 642p index ISBN 9780521571623, $160.00; 57-1315
Grzybowski, David. Mr. all-around: the life of Tom Gola. Temple, 2019. 193p bibl index ISBN 9781439916797, $27.95; ISBN 9781439916810 ebook, $27.95; 57-1361
Handbook of evidence-based mental health practice with sexual and gender minorities, ed. by John E. Pachankis and Steven A. Safren. Oxford, 2019. 494p bibl index ISBN 9780190669300, $65.00; ISBN 9780190669317 ebook, contact publisher for price; 57-1338
Hanes, Samuel P. The aquatic frontier: oysters and aquaculture in the Progressive Era. Massachusetts, 2019. 230p index ISBN 9781625344120, $90.00; ISBN 9781625344137 pbk, $26.95; 57-1312
The Ideals of global sport: from peace to human rights, ed. by Barbara J. Keys. Pennsylvania, 2019. 237p index ISBN 9780812251500, $49.95; ISBN 9780812295993 ebook, contact publisher for price; 57-1362
Juniper, Tony. Rainforest: dispatches from Earth’s most vital frontlines. Island Press, 2019. 447p index ISBN 9781642830729 pbk, $22.00; ISBN 9781642830736 ebook, $21.00; 57-1322
Klein, Grady. The cartoon introduction to calculus, by Grady Klein and Yoram Bauman. Hill and Wang, 2019. 207p ISBN 9780809033690 pbk, $18.95; 57-1351
Lovegrove, Barry Gordon. Fires of life: endothermy in birds and mammals. Yale, 2019. 356p bibl index ISBN 9780300227161, $35.00; ISBN 9780300245202 ebook, contact publisher for price; 57-1327
Mendenhall, Emily. Rethinking diabetes: entanglements with trauma, poverty, and HIV. Cornell, 2019. 215p bibl index ISBN 9781501738302, $95.00; ISBN 9781501738432 pbk, $28.95; 57-1339
Mumford, Stephen. Football: the philosophy behind the game. Polity, 2019. 124p bibl ISBN 9781509535316, $45.00; ISBN 9781509535323 pbk, $12.95; ISBN 9781509535330 ebook, $8.99; 57-1363
Prothero, Donald R. The story of the dinosaurs in 25 discoveries: amazing fossils and the people who found them. Columbia, 2019. 472p bibl ndex ISBN 9780231186025, $35.00; ISBN 9780231546461 ebook, $34.99; 57-1331
Shapiro, Susan P. Speaking for the dying: life-and-death decisions in intensive care. Chicago, 2019. 336p bibl index ISBN 9780226615608, $90.00; ISBN 9780226615745 pbk, $30.00; ISBN 9780226615882 ebook, contact publisher for price; 57-1340
Tijms, H. C. Basic probability: what every math student should know. World Scientific, 2019. 122p index ISBN 9789811202353, $48.00; ISBN 9789811203763 pbk, $28.00; ISBN 9789811202360 ebook, contact publisher for price; 57-1353
Torre, Dan. Carnivorous plants. Reaktion Books, 2019. 228p bibl index ISBN 9781789140521, $27.00; ISBN 9781789141139 ebook, contact publisher for price; 57-1325
White, Derrick E. Blood, sweat, and tears: Jake Gaither, Florida A&M, and the history of black college football. North Carolina, 2019. 303p bibl indix ISBN 9781469652443, $30.00; ISBN 9781469652450 ebook, contact publisher for price; 57-1364
Auslander, Lisa. Creating responsive classroom communities: a cross-case study of schools serving students with interrupted schooling. Lexington Books, 2019. 143p bibl index ISBN 9781498588492, $85.00; ISBN 9781498588508 ebook, $80.50; 57-1394
Beck, David. Unfair labor?: American Indians and the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago. Nebraska, 2019. 299p index ISBN 9781496206831, $65.00; ISBN 9781496214843 ebook, $65.00; 57-1427
Blume Oeur, Freeden. Black boys apart: racial uplift and respectability in all-male public schools. Minnesota, 2018. 260p bibl index ISBN 9780816696383, $108.00; ISBN 9780816696468 pbk, $26.95; ISBN 9781452957531 ebook, contact publisher for price; 57-1395
Conspiracies and conspiracy theories in American history, ed. by Christopher R. Fee and Jeffrey B. Webb with Anika N. Jensen et al. ABC-CLIO, 2019. 2v bibl index ISBN 9781440858109, $198.00; ISBN 9781440858116 ebook, contact publisher for price; 57-1429
The Cuba reader: history, culture, politics, by Aviva Chomsky et al. 2nd ed, rev. and updated. Duke, 2019. 727p index ISBN 9781478003649, $119.95; ISBN 9781478003939 pbk, $32.95; ISBN 9781478004561 ebook, contact publisher for price; 57-1418
Douglas, Susan J. Celebrity: a history of fame, by Susan J. Douglas and Andrea McDonnell. New York University, 2019. 315p bibl index ISBN 9781479852437, $89.00; ISBN 9781479862030 pbk, $25.00; 57-1482
Feldman, Christina. Mindfulness: ancient wisdom meets modern psychology, by Christina Feldman and Willem Kuyken. Guilford, 2019. 284p bibl index ISBN 9781462540105, $75.00; ISBN 9781462540105 pbk, $30.00; ISBN 9781462540143 ebook, contact publisher for price; 57-1472
Ginsberg, Benjamin. Congress: the first branch, by Benjamin Ginsberg and Kathryn Wagner Hill. Yale, 2019. 368p index ISBN 9780300220537 pbk, $30.00; 57-1465
Harmon, Alexandra. Reclaiming the reservation: histories of Indian sovereignty suppressed and renewed. Washington, 2019. 410p bibl index ISBN 9780295745862, $95.00; ISBN 9780295745855 pbk, $35.00; ISBN 9780295745879 ebook, contact publisher for price; 57-1431
Health care social work: a global perspective, ed. by Ren Winnett et al. Oxford, 2019. 246p bibl index ISBN 9780190942168, $45.00; ISBN 9780190942175 ebook, contact publisher for price; 57-1484
Lauderbaugh, George. Historical dictionary of Ecuador. Rowman & Littlefield, 2019. 323p bibl ISBN 9781538102459, $95.00; ISBN 9781538102466 ebook, $90.00; 57-1420
Lerman, Amy E. Good enough for government work: the public reputation crisis in America (and what we can do to fix it). Chicago, 2019. 317p index ISBN 9780226630175, $82.50; ISBN 9780226630205 pbk, $27.50; ISBN 9780226630342 ebook, contact publisher for price; 57-1432
Martínez., David. Life of the indigenous mind: Vine Deloria Jr. and the birth of the Red Power movement. Nebraska, 2019. 463p bibl index ISBN 9781496211903, $75.00; ISBN 9781496213563 ebook, contact publisher for price; 57-1426
Purnell, David F. Building communities through food: strengthening communication, families, and social capital. Lexington Books, 2019. 137p bibl index ISBN 9781498558907, $85.00; ISBN 9781498558914 ebook, $80.50; 57-1486
Rainville, Lynn. Invisible founders: how two centuries of African American families transformed a plantation into a college. Berghahn Books, 2019. 218p bibl index ISBN 9781789202311, $130.00; ISBN 9781789202328 ebook, contact publisher for price; 57-1400
Raz, Amir. How (not) to train the brain: enhancing what’s between your ears with (and without) science, by Amir Raz and Sheida Rabipour. Oxford, 2019. 349p bibl indexes ISBN 9780198789673 pbk, 35.00; ISBN 9780192506801 ebook, contact publisher for price; 57-1477
A Research agenda for global crime, ed. by Tim Hall and Vincenzo Scalia. E. Elgar, 2019. 181p bibl index ISBN 9781786438669, $120.00; ISBN 9781786438676 ebook, contact publisher for price; 57-1368
Ryan, Hugh. When Brooklyn was queer. St. Martin’s, 2019. 320p index ISBN 9781250169914, $29.99; 57-1369
Schildkraut, Jaclyn. Columbine, 20 years later and beyond: lessons from tragedy, by Jaclyn Schildkraut and Glenn W. Muschert; foreword by Frank DeAngelis. Praeger, 2019. 234p bibl index ISBN 9781440862526, $48.00; ISBN 9781440862533 ebook, contact publisher for price; 57-1402
Schumaker, Kathryn. Troublemakers: students’ rights and racial justice in the long 1960s. New York University, 2019. 283p index ISBN 9781479875139, $45.00; ISBN 9781479821365 ebook, contact publisher for price; 57-1436
Smith, Jean Edward. The liberation of Paris: how Eisenhower, de Gaulle, and von Choltitz saved the City of Light. Simon & Schuster, 2019. 242p bibl index ISBN 9781501164927, $27.00; ISBN 9781501164941 ebook, contact publisher for price; 57-1410
Stephenson, David. Medieval Wales c. 1050–1332: centuries of ambiguity. University of Wales Press, 2019. 210p bibl index ISBN 9781786833860 pbk, $24.00; ISBN 9781786833877 ebook, contact publisher for price; 57-1439
Teachers, teaching, and media: original essays about educators in popular culture, ed. by Mary M. Dalton and Laura R. Linder. Brill | Sense, 2019. 213p bibl index (Transgressions: cultural studies and education, v132) ISBN 9789004390409, $119.00; ISBN 9789004398085 pbk, $54.00; ISBN 9789004398092 ebook, contact publisher for price; 57-1404
Woods, Tryon P. Blackhood against the police power: punishment and disavowal in the “post-racial” era. Michigan State, 2019. 346p bibl index ISBN 9781611863185, $39.95; ISBN 9781609175979 ebook, $31.95; 57-1371
Yamin, Rebecca. The archaeology of prostitution and clandestine pursuits, by Rebecca Yamin and Donna J. Seifert. University Press of Florida, 2019. 182p bibl index ISBN 9780813056456, $85.00; ISBN 9780813057217 ebook, contact publisher for price; 57-1379
Zafar, Rafia. Recipes for respect: African American meals and meaning. Georgia, 2019. 137p bibl ISBN 9780820353661, $99.95; ISBN 9780820353678 pbk, $24.95; ISBN 9780820353654 ebook, $24.95; 57-1437
The best of all the titles appropriate for two-year colleges reviewed in the November issue of Choice.
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The best of all the titles appropriate for two-year colleges reviewed in the October issue of Choice.
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The best of all the titles appropriate for two-year colleges reviewed in the September issue of Choice.
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The best of all the titles appropriate for two-year colleges reviewed in the August issue of Choice.
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