The Top 75 Community College Titles: December 2020

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

Posted on December 29, 2020 in Top 75 Community College Titles

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The Global Jukebox. The Association for Cultural Equity. Contact publisher for pricing. URL: http://www.culturalequity.org/resources/gjb 58-0916

Territorial Papers of the United States, 1764–1953. Readex. Contact publisher for pricing.URL: https://www.readex.com/content/territorial-papers-united-states-1764-1953 58-0921

Humanities

Blackstock, Alan. Willa Cather and E. M. Forster: transatlantic transcendence. Fairleigh Dickinson, 2020. 150p bibl index ISBN 9781611479799, $90.00; ISBN 9781611479805 ebook, $85.50; 58-0954

Breiding, Dirk H. Arms and armor: highlights from the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Yale, 2020. 312p index ISBN 9780876332924, $45.00; 58-0928

The British aristocracy in popular culture: essays on 200 years of representations, ed. by Stefania Michelucci, Ian Duncan, and Luisa Villa. McFarland, 2020. 277p filmography bibl index ISBN 9781476674872 pbk, $55.00; ISBN 9781476639055 ebook, con-tact publisher for price; 58-0955

Chapple, Christopher Key. Living landscapes: meditations on the five elements in Hindu, Buddhist, and Jain yogas. SUNY Press, 2020. 233p index ISBN 9781438477930, $$90.00; ISBN 9781438477947 pbk, $24.95; ISBN 9781438477954 ebook, contact pub-lisher for price; 58-0990

Day, Maureen K. Catholic activism today: individual transformation and the struggle for social justice. New York University, 2020. 320p bibl index ISBN 9781479851331, $39.00; ISBN 9781479821419 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-0991

Exploring Star trek: voyager: critical essays, ed. by Robert L. Lively. McFarland, 2020. 277p ISBN 9781476678214 pbk, $39.94; ISBN 9781476638737 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-0942

Fiction and the sixth mass extinction: narrative in an era of loss, ed. by Jonathan Elmore with Michael Fuchs et al. Lexington Books, 2020. 178p bibl ISBN 9781793619198, $90.00; ISBN 9781793619204 ebook, $85.50; 58-0946

Garth, John. The worlds of J. R. R. Tolkien: the places that inspired Middle-Earth. Princeton, 2020. 208p bibl index ISBN 9780691196947, $29.95; 58-0960

Gooding, Frederick W. Black Oscars: from Mammy to Minny, what the Academy Awards tell us about African Americans. Rowman & Littlefield, 2020. 320p index ISBN 9781538123720, $39.00; ISBN 9781538123737 ebook, $37.00; 58-0971

Helwig, Timothy. Cross-racial class protest in antebellum American literature. Massachusetts, 2020. 234p index ISBN 9781625344977, $90.00; ISBN 9781625344977 pbk, $27.95; ISBN 9781613767429 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-0961

Jenkins, Henry. Comics and stuff. New York University, 2020. 352p bibl index ISBN 9781479852741, $89.00; ISBN 9781479800933 pbk, $32.00; ISBN 9781479831258 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-0943

Kolentsis, Alysia. Shakespeare’s common language. The Arden Shakespeare, 2020. 194p bibl index ISBN 9781350007017, $100.00; ISBN 9781350006997 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-0962

The Odyssey, ed. by Robert C. Evans. Salem Press/Grey House, 2019. 329p bibl index ISBN 9781642652710, $105.00; ISBN 9781642652727 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-0952

Roots of the Black Chicago renaissance: new Negro writers, artists, and intellectuals, 1893–1930, ed. by Richard A. Courage and Christopher Robert Reed. Illinois, 2020. 296p index ISBN 9780252043055, $126.00; ISBN 9780252084928 pbk, $28.00; 58-0924

Schultz, Anne-Marie. Plato’s Socrates on Socrates: Socratic self-disclosure and the public practice of philosophy. Lexington Books, 2020. 151p bibl index ISBN 9781498599641, $90.00; ISBN 9781498599658 ebook, $27.00; 58-0984

Smith, Tom. Comrades in arms: military masculinities in East German culture. Berghahn Books, 2020. 280p index ISBN 9781789205558, $135.00; ISBN 9781789206722 ebook, open access; 58-0948

Stahr, Celia. Frida in America: the creative awakening of a great artist. St. Martin’s, 2020. 383p bibl index ISBN 9781250113382, $29.99; ISBN 9781250113399 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-0934

Thomas, Charlotte C. S. The female drama: the philosophical feminine in the soul of Plato’s Republic. Mercer University, 2020. 301p bibl index ISBN 9780881467437, $35.00; 58-0986

Urban humanities: new practices for reimagining the city, by Dana Cuff et al. MIT, 2020. 338p bibl index ISBN 9780262538220 pbk, $30.00; ISBN 9780262356985 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-0926

Value and vulnerability: an interfaith dialogue on human dignity, ed. by Matthew R. Petrusek and Jonathan Rothchild. Notre Dame, 2020. 505p index ISBN 9780268106652, $150.00; ISBN 9780268106683 ebook, $119.99; 58-1000

Walker, Aidan. Furniture in architecture: the work of Luke Hughes. Thames & Hudson, 2020. 256p ISBN 9780500022542, $75.00; 58-0932

Science & Technology

The Bearded lady project: challenging the face of science, ed. by Lexi Jamieson Marsh and Ellen Currano; photographs by Kelsey Vasnce and Draper White. Columbia, 2020. 208p bibl ISBN 9780231198042, $40.00; ISBN 9780231552462 ebook, $39.99; 58-1003

Dutta, Hemen. Concise introduction to basic real analysis, by Hemen Dutta, Pinnangudi N. Natarajan, and Yeol Je Cho. CRC Press, 2020. 240p bibl index ISBN 9781138612464, $159.95; ISBN 9780429464676 ebook, $57.95; 58-1064

Hartzband, David. Information technology and data in healthcare: using and understanding data. CRC Press, 2019. 190p index ISBN 9780367183790, $69.95; ISBN 9780429590269 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-1052

Jacobsen, Chris J. X-ray microscopy. Cambridge, 2020. 579p bibl index ISBN 9781107076570, $135.00; ISBN 9781108781732 ebook, $108.00; 58-1019

Leng, Gareth. The matter of facts: skepticism, persuasion, and evidence in science, by Gareth Leng and Rhodri Ivor Leng. MIT, 2020. 360p index ISBN 9780262043885, $29.95; ISBN 9780262358279 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-1004

Lewis, Tania. Digital food: from paddock to platform. Bloomsbury Academic, 2020. 208p index ISBN 9781350055100, $90.00; ISBN 9781350055094 pbk, $29.95; ISBN 9781350055124 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-1005

Navigating miscarriage: social, medical, and conceptual perspectives, ed. by Susie Kilshaw and Katie Borg. Berghahn Books, 2020. 243p index (Fertility, reproduction and sexuality, 45) ISBN 9781789206630, $149.00; ISBN 9781789206647 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-1056

Principles of botany, ed. by Richard M. Renneboog. Salem Press/Grey House, 2020. 430p bibl index ISBN 9781642653915, $165.00; ISBN 9781642653922 ebook, $165.00; 58-1020

Prothero, Donald R. Fantastic fossils: a guide to finding and identifying prehistoric life, illustrated by Mary Persis Williams. Columbia, 2020. 323p index ISBN 9780231195782, $35.00; ISBN 9780231551489 ebook, $34.99; 58-1038

The Saguaro cactus: a natural history, by David Yetman et al. Arizona, 2020. 191p bibl index ISBN 9780816540044 pbk, $19.95; ISBN 9780816541256 ebook, $19.95; 58-1021

Science, technology, and society: new perspectives and directions, ed. by Todd L. Pittinsky. Cambridge, 2019. 270p bibl index ISBN 9781107165120, $99.99; ISBN 9781316616895 pbk, $34.99; ISBN 9781316730829 ebook, $28.00; 58-1006

Whitfield, John. Lost animals: extinct, endangered, and rediscovered species. Smithsonian Books, 2020. 224p ISBN 9781588346988, $35.00; 58-1031

Social & Behavioral Sciences

Tschachler, Heinz. George Washington and political fatherhood: the endurance of a national myth. McFarland, 2020. 262p bibl index ISBN 9781476681092 pbk, $35.00; ISBN 9781476639178 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-1142

Alcohol and humans: a long and social affair, ed. by Kimberley J. Hockings and Robin Dunbar. Oxford, 2020. 224p bibl index ISBN 9780198842460, $45.00; ISBN 9780192579980 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-1083

Are you entertained?: Black popular culture in the twenty-first century, ed. by Simone C. Drake and Dwan K. Henderson. Duke, 2020. 336p index ISBN 9781478005179, $104.95; ISBN 9781478006787 pbk, $27.95; ISBN 9781478009009 ebook, contact pub-lisher for price; 58-1072

Baer, Judith A. Feminist post-liberalism. Temple, 2020. 202p bibl index ISBN 9781439917275, $99.50; ISBN 9781439917282 pbk, $34.95; ISBN 9781439917299 ebook, $34.95; 58-1073

Byrne, Bridget. All in the mix: race, class and school choice, by Bridget Byrne and Carla de Tona. Manchester University Press, 2019. 184p bibl index ISBN 9780719091155, $120.00; ISBN 9781526139313 ebook, $120.00; 58-1100

Changing neighbourhoods: social and spatial polarization in Canadian cities, ed. by Jill L. Grant, Alan Walks, and Howard Ramos. UBC Press, 2020. 352p index ISBN 9780774862028, $110.00; ISBN 9780774862035 pbk, $43.95; ISBN 9780774862042 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-1210

Chess, Shira. Play like a feminist. MIT, 2020. 176p index ISBN 9780262044387, $26.95; 58-1075

Chirot, Daniel. You say you want a revolution?: radical idealism and its tragic consequences. Princeton, 2020. 171p indexes ISBN 9780691193670, $29.95; ISBN 9781705214077 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-1179

Cohen, David S. Obstacle course: the everyday struggle to get an abortion in America, by David S. Cohen and Carol E. Joffe. California, 2020. 296p bibl index ISBN 9780520306646, $24.95; ISBN 9780520973725 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-1212

Dlamini, Jacob. The terrorist album: apartheid’s insurgents, collaborators, and the security police. Harvard, 2020. 375p index ISBN 9780674916555, $29,95; ISBN 9780674245587 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-1120

Dorman, Jacob S. The princess and the prophet: the secret history of magic, race, and Moorish Muslims in America. Beacon Press, 2020. 311p bibl index ISBN 9780807067260, $29.95; ISBN 9780807067482 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-1146

Farer, Tom. Migration and integration: the case for liberalism with borders. Cambridge, 2020. 260p bibl index ISBN 9781108485715, $84.99; ISBN 9781108707503 pbk, $28.99; ISBN 9781108621809 ebook, $23.00; 58-1181

Freeman, Mark. Negotiating transitional justice: firsthand lessons from Colombia and beyond, by Mark Freeman and Iván Oroz-co. Cambridge, 2020. 264p bibl index ISBN 9781107187566, $105,00; ISBN 9781316638156 pbk, $34.99; ISBN 9781316941485 ebook, $28.00; 58-1183

Frum, David. Trumpocalypse: restoring American democracy. Harper, 2020. 261p index ISBN 9780062978417, $28.99; ISBN 9780062978431 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-1188

Zitkala-Ša. Help Indians help themselves: the later writings of Gertrude Simmons Bonnin (Zitkala-Ša), ed. by P. Jane Hafen. Texas Tech, 2020. 400p bibl index ISBN 9781682830482, $33.79; ISBN 9781682830536 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-1149

Hnatiuk, Aleksandra. Courage and fear. Academic Studies Press, 2019. 534p bibl index ISBN 9781644692516, $45.00; ISBN 9781644692523 ebook, $32.00; 58-1130

Johnson, Walter. The broken heart of America: St. Louis and the violent history of the United States. Basic Books, 2020. 528p index ISBN 9780465064267, $35.00; ISBN 9781541646063 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-1150

Koch, Gabriele. Healing labor: Japanese sex work in the gendered economy. Stanford, 2020. 248p bibl index ISBN 9781503611344, $90.00; ISBN 9781503611344 pbk, $28.00; ISBN 9781503611351 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-1088

Latin America and the global Cold War, ed. by Thomas C. Field Jr., Stella Krepp, and Vanni Pettinà. North Carolina, 2020. 422p index ISBN 9781469655697, $39.95; ISBN 9781469655703 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-1135

Ma, Yingyi. Ambitious and anxious: how Chinese college students succeed and struggle in American higher education. Columbia, 2020. 294p bibl index ISBN 9780231184588, $35.00; ISBN 9780231545563 ebook, $34.99; 58-1102

Making waves: French feminisms and their legacies, 1975–2015, by Margaret Atack et al. Liverpool University Press, 2019. 279p bibl index (Contemporary French and Francophone cultures, 66) ISBN 9781789620429, $120.00; ISBN 9781789624557 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-1217

Mars, Laura. Careers working with infants & children. Salem Press, 2020. 350p index ISBN 9781642653939, $125.00; ISBN 9781642653946 ebook, $125.00; 58-1103

McCabe, Kimberly A. Acts of violence in the school setting: national and international responses, by Kimberly A. McCabe with Brianna Egan and Toy D. Eagle. Rowman & Littlefield, 2020. 256p bibl index ISBN 9781538125342, $85.00; ISBN 9781538125359 pbk, $40.00; ISBN 9781538125366 ebook, $38.00; 58-1218

Moore, Charles. Margaret Thatcher: herself alone. Knopf, 2019. 1,056p bibl ISBN 9781101947203, $40.00; ISBN 9781101971154 pbk, $25.00; ISBN 9781101947210 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-1168

Nolan, James L. Atomic doctors: conscience and complicity at the dawn of the nuclear age. Belknap, Harvard, 2020. 304p bibl index ISBN 9780674248632, $29.95; 58-1117

Piekalkiewicz, Jaroslaw. Dance with death: a holistic view of saving Polish Jews during the Holocaust, ed. by Joanna Drzewienicki. Hamilton Books, 2020. 320p ISBN 9780761871668 pbk, $40.00; ISBN 9780761871675 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-1131

Psychotherapy for bipolar disorders: an integrative approach, ed. by María Reinares, Anabel Martínez-Arán, and Eduard Vieta. Cambridge, 2020. 126p bibl index ISBN 9781108460095 pbk, $24.99; ISBN 9781108589802 ebook, $20.00; 58-1205

Rugged individualism and the misunderstanding of American inequality, by Lawrence M. Eppard et al. Lehigh, 2020. 302p bibl index ISBN 9781611462340, $115.00; ISBN 9781611462357 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-1222

Sleeter, Christine E. Transformative ethnic studies in schools: curriculum, pedagogy, and research, by Christine E. Sleeter and Miguel Zavala. Teachers College Press, 2020. 176p bibl index ISBN 9780807763469, $90.00; ISBN 9780807763452 pbk, $29.95; ISBN 9780807778388 ebook, $29.95; 58-1106

Smith, Abbe. Guilty people. Rutgers, 2020. 216p index ISBN 9781978803398, $27.95; ISBN 9781978803404 ebook, $27.95; 58-1192

Tapia, Mike. Gangs of the El Paso-Juarez borderland: a history. New Mexico, 2019. 188p bibl index ISBN 9780826361097, $29.95; ISBN 9780826361103 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-1223

Truman, Harry S. The memoirs of Harry S. Truman: a reader’s edition, ed. by Raymond H. Geselbracht. Missouri, 2019. 512p index ISBN 9780826221957, $44.95; ISBN 9780826274380 ebook, $44.95; 58-1159

Uscinski, Joseph E. Conspiracy theories: a primer. Rowman & Littlefield, 2020. 159p bibl index ISBN 9781538121191, $58.00; ISBN 9781538121207 pbk, $27.00; ISBN 9781538121214 ebook, $25.50; 58-1081

Wakeman, Rosemary. A modern history of European cities: 1815 to the present. Bloomsbury Academic, 2020. 382p bibl index ISBN 9781350017665, $100.00; ISBN 9781350017658 pbk, $24.95; ISBN 9781350017689 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-1118

Warner, Kathryn. Following in the footsteps of Edward II: a historical guide to the medieval king. Pen & Sword History, 2019. 136p bibl ISBN 9781526732934 pbk, $24.95; ISBN 9781526732941 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-1172

Wellman, Henry M. Reading minds: how childhood teaches us to understand people, by Henry M. Wellman, with Karen Lind. Oxford, 2020. 185p index ISBN 9780190878672, $35.00; ISBN 9780190878689 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-1207

Working together: how community colleges and their partners help immigrants succeed, ed. by Jill Casner-Lotto with Teresita B. Wisell. Rowman & Littlefield, 2019. 143p ISBN 9781475852530, $80.00; ISBN 9781475852547 pbk, $40.00; ISBN 9781475852554 ebook, $38.00; 58-1108

Working toward an equitable and prosperous future for all: how community colleges and immigrants are changing America, ed. by Jill Casner-Lotto with Teresita B. Wisell. Rowman & Littlefield, 2019. 152p ISBN 9781475847246, $80.00; ISBN 9781475847253 pbk, $40.00; ISBN 9781475847260 ebook, $38.00; 58-1109

Worth, Rachel. Fashion and class. Bloomsbury Academic, 2020. 197p bibl index ISBN 9781847888167, $100.00; ISBN 9781847888150 pbk, $32.95; ISBN 9780857854957 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-1082

Zeidel, Robert F. Robber barons and wretched refuse: ethnic and class dynamics during the era of American industrialization. Cornell, 2020. 289p bibl index ISBN 9781501748318, $49.95; ISBN 9781501748325 ebook, $24.99; 58-1164

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