The Top 75 Community College Titles: December 2022 Edition

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

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Brownstein, Rich. Holocaust cinema complete: a history and analysis of 400 films, with a teaching guide. McFarland, 2021. 488p bibl index ISBN 9781476684161 pbk, $49.95; ISBN 9781476641928 ebook, contact publisher for price; 60-0981

Novels into film: v2: Adaptations & interpretations, ed. by D. Alan Dean. Salem Press, 2021. 448p bibl index ISBN 9781637000366, $185.00; ISBN 9781637000373 ebook, $185.00; 60-0982

Wakin, Michelle. Homelessness in America: a reference handbook. ABC-CLIO, 2022. 372p bibl index ISBN 9781440874857, $63.00; ISBN 9781440874864 ebook, contact publisher for price; 60-0986


Humanities

The Art & science of illuminated manuscripts: a handbook, ed. by Stella Panayotova. Harvey Miller, 2020. 528p bibl index (Manuscripts in the making, 3) ISBN 9781912554591, $130.00; 60-0994

Clasen, Mathias F. A very nervous person’s guide to horror movies. Oxford, 2021. 208p bibl index ISBN 9780197535899, $99.00; ISBN 9780197535905 pbk, $19.95; ISBN 9780197535929 ebook, contact publisher for price; 60-1050

Everest, Kelvin. Keats and Shelley: winds of light. Oxford, 2022. 256p bibl index ISBN 9780192849502, $80.00; ISBN 9780191944628 ebook, contact publisher for price; 60-1030

Halbout, Grégoire. Hollywood screwball comedy 1934–1945: sex, love, and democratic ideals, tr. by Aliza Krefetz. Bloomsbury Academic, 2022. 352p bibl index ISBN 9781501347610, $130.00; ISBN 9781501347610 ebook, contact publisher for price; 60-1053

Herlihy, Stacey Mintzer. Disney. Greenwood, 2022. 142p bibl index ISBN 9781440876011, $52.00; ISBN 9781440876028 ebook, contact publisher for price; 60-1049

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Hume, David. Essays, moral, political, and literary: a critical edition, ed. by Tom L. Beauchamp et al. Ox-ford, 2021. 2v bibl index (The Clarendon edition of the works of David Hume, v 6-7) ISBN 9780198847090, $230.00; 60-1068

Latinx TV in the twenty-first century, ed. by Frederick Luis Aldama. Arizona, 2022. 408p bibl index ISBN 9780816545018 pbk, $35.00; ISBN 9780816545261 ebook, $35.00; 60-1005

Madrid, Alejandro L. Tania León’s Stride: a polyrhythmic life. Illinois, 2021. 280p bibl index ISBN 9780252043949, $110.00; ISBN 9780252086014 pbk, $24.95; ISBN 9780252052873 ebook, $24.95; 60-1062

The Oxford handbook of Byzantine art and architecture, ed. by Ellen C. Schwartz. Oxford, 2021. 664p bibl index ISBN 9780190277352, $150.00; ISBN 9780197572207 ebook, contact publisher for price; 60-0997

Ralph Ellison in context, ed. by Paul Devlin. Cambridge, 2021. 375p bibl index ISBN 9781108488969, $110.00; ISBN 9781108806480 ebook, $88.00; 60-1035

Šipka, Danko. The geography of words: vocabulary and meaning in the world’s languages. Cambridge, 2022. 370p bibl index ISBN 9781108841658, $99.00; ISBN 9781108795012 pbk, $34.99; ISBN 9781108899543 ebook, $28.00; 60-1015

Thrailkill, Jane F. Philosophical siblings: varieties of playful experience in Alice, William, and Henry James. Pennsylvania, 2022. 312p bibl index ISBN 9780812253320, $59.95; ISBN 9780812299922 ebook, $59.99; 60-1038


Science & Technology

Bainbridge, David. Paleontology: an illustrated history. Princeton, 2022. 256p bibl index ISBN 9780691220925, $29.95; ISBN 9780691235929 ebook, contact publisher for price; 60-1097

Big data applications in industry 4.0, ed. by P. Kaliraj and T. Devi. Routledge, 2022. 446p bibl index ISBN 9781032008110, $140.00; ISBN 9781003175889 ebook, $140.00; 60-1119

Bisbee, Gary. The new health economy: ground rules for leaders, by Gary Bisbee, Donald Trigg, and Sanjula Jain. Georgetown University, 2022. 232p bibl index ISBN 9781647122539, $89.95; ISBN 9781647122546 pbk, $29.95; ISBN 9781647122553 ebook, contact publisher for price; 60-1109

Black women and public health: strategies to name, locate, and change systems of power, ed. by Stephanie Y. Evans, Sarita K. Davis, Leslie R. Hinkson, and Deanna J. Wathington. SUNY Press, 2022. 336p bibl in-dex ISBN 9781438487311, $95.00; ISBN 9781438487328 pbk, $32.95; ISBN 9781438487335 ebook, contact publisher for price; 60-1110

Careers in biology. Salem Press, 2022. 350p bibl index ISBN 9781637000915, $125.00; ISBN 9781637000922 ebook, $125.00; 60-1089

Chrystal, Paul. The history of the world in 100 pandemics, plagues and epidemics: from prehistory to COVID-19. Pen & Sword History, 2021. 320p bibl index ISBN 9781399005425, $42.95; ISBN 9781399005432 ebook, contact publisher for price; 60-1111

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Ebeling, Mary F. E. Afterlives of data: life and debt under capitalist surveillance. California, 2022. 218p bibl index ISBN 9780520307728, $85.00; ISBN 9780520307735 pbk, $29.95; ISBN 9780520973824 ebook, $29.95; 60-1080

Goslin, Kyle. Applied user data collection and analysis using JavaScript and PHP, by Kyle Goslin and Markus Hofmann. CRC Press, 2021. 346p ISBN 9780367756826, $149.95; ISBN 9780367756802 pbk, $79.95; ISBN 9781003163541 ebook, $79.95; 60-1121

Hannah, Michael. Extinctions: living and dying in the margin of error. Cambridge, 2021. 264p bibl index ISBN 9781108843539, $24.95; ISBN 9781108911900 ebook, $20.00; 60-1098

Latiff, Robert H. Future peace: technology, aggression, and the rush to war. Notre Dame, 2022. 200p bibl index ISBN 9780268201890, $27.00; ISBN 9780268201883 ebook, $21.99; 60-1081

Mackowski, Maura Phillips. Life in space: NASA life sciences research during the late twentieth century. University Press of Florida, 2022. 392p bibl index ISBN 9781683402602, $35.00; ISBN 9781683403241 ebook, contact publisher for price; 60-1087

Nicolson, Adam. Life between the tides, illustrated by Kate Boxer and Rosie Nicolson. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2022. 384p bibl index ISBN 9780374251437, $30.00; ISBN 9781250862952 pbk, $20.00; ISBN 9780374721282 ebook, $14.99; 60-1090

Proot, Catherine. Challenges and choices for patient, carer and professional at the end of life: living with uncertainty, by Catherine Proot and Michael Yorke. Routledge, 2021. 194p bibl index ISBN 9780367544478, $160.00; ISBN 9780367544461 pbk, $32.95; ISBN 9781003089346 ebook, $32.95; 60-1114

Richards, Bernadette. Technology, innovation and healthcare: an evolving relationship, by Bernadette J. Richards, Mark Taylor, and Susannah Sage Jacobson. E. Elgar, 2022. 192p bibl index ISBN 9781788973137, $110.00; ISBN 9781788973144 ebook, contact publisher for price; 60-1116

Stamm, Julie M. The brain on youth sports: the science, the myths, and the future. Rowman & Littlefield, 2021. 248p bibl index ISBN 9781538143193, $30.00; ISBN 9781538143209 ebook, $28.50; 60-1128

Taylor, Marianne. How birds live together: colonies and communities in the avian world. Princeton, 2022. 224p index ISBN 9780691231907, $29.95; ISBN 9780691231921 ebook, contact publisher for price; 60-1096

White, G. Edward. Soccer in American culture: the beautiful game’s struggle for status. Missouri, 2022. 314p bibl index ISBN 9780826222534, $45.00; ISBN 9780826274700 ebook, $40.00; 60-1129


Social & Behavioral Sciences

Acabado, Stephen B. Indigenous archaeology in the Philippines: decolonizing Ifugao history, by Marlon M. Martin. Arizona, 2022. 248p bibl index ISBN 9780816545025, $60.00; ISBN 9780816545322 , $60.00; 60-1137

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Ashford, Emma. Oil, the state, and war: the foreign policies of petrostates. Georgetown University, 2022. 365p bibl index ISBN 9781647122379, $34.95; ISBN 9781647122393 ebook, $34.95; 60-1231

Baldwin, Davarian L. In the shadow of the ivory tower: how universities are plundering our cities. Bold Type Books, 2021. 272p bibl index ISBN 9781568588926, $28.00; ISBN 9781568588919 ebook, $16.99; 60-1173

Burrow, Sylvia Jane. Gender violence: resistance, resilience, and autonomy. Lexington Books, 2022. 126p bibl index ISBN 9781498578851, $90.00; ISBN 9781498578868 ebook, $40.00; 60-1131

Cassino, Dan. Gender threat: American masculinity in the face of change, by Dan Cassino and Yasemin Besen-Cassino. Stanford, 2022. 200p bibl index ISBN 9781503610361, $90.00; ISBN 9781503629899 pbk, $28.00; ISBN 9781503629905 ebook, contact publisher for price; 60-1272

Coates, Laura. Just pursuit: a Black prosecutor’s fight for fairness in an unfair system. Simon & Schuster, 2022. 272p ISBN 9781982173760, $27.00; ISBN 9781982173784 ebook, contact publisher for price; 60-1252

Critical race judgments: rewritten US court opinions on race and the law, ed. by Bennett Capers et al. Cambridge, 2022. 600p bibl index ISBN 9781107164529, $120.00; ISBN 9781316616451 pbk, $39.99; ISBN 9781316730669 ebook, $32.00; 60-1241

Cullen, Jim. The Case for long-term value investing: a guide to the data and strategies that drive stock market success. Harriman House, 2022. 272p bibl index ISBN 9780857199478, $30.00; ISBN 9780857199485 ebook, contact publisher for price; 60-1147

Debating Malthus: a documentary reader on population, resources, and the environment, ed. and introd. by Robert J. Mayhew. Washington, 2022. 278p bibl index ISBN 9780295749891, $99.00; ISBN 9780295749907 pbk, $30.00; ISBN 9780295749914 ebook, contact publisher for price; 60-1242

Deciding where to live: information studies on where to live in America, ed. by Melissa G. Ocepek and Wil-liam Aspray. Rowman & Littlefield, 2020. 342p bibl index ISBN 9781538139691, $100.00; ISBN 9781538139707 ebook, contact publisher for price; 60-1148

Decker, Scott H. On gangs, by Scott H. Decker, David C. Pyrooz, and James A. Densley. Temple, 2022. 490p bibl index ISBN 9781439920633, $139.50; ISBN 9781439920640 pbk, $49.95; ISBN 9781439920657 ebook, $49.95; 60-1273

DiIulio, John Peter. Completely free: the moral and political vision of John Stuart Mill. Princeton, 2022. 328p bib index ISBN 9780691211220, $35.00; ISBN 9780691211237 ebook, contact publisher for price; 60-1243

Eisler, Dale. From left to right: Saskatchewan’s political and economic transformation. University of Regina, 2022. 392p bibl index ISBN 9780889778665, $89.00; ISBN 9780889778641 pbk, $34.95; ISBN 9780889778665 ebook, contact publisher for price; 60-1224

Fennell, Dana. The world of obsessive-compulsive disorder: the experiences of living with OCD. New York University, 2022. 288p bibl index ISBN 9781479881406, $89.00; ISBN 9781479872343 pbk, $30.00; ISBN 9781479820320 ebook, contact publisher for price; 60-1256

Foner, Nancy. One quarter of the nation: immigration and the transformation of America. Princeton, 2022. 233p bibl index ISBN 9780691206394, $27.95; ISBN 9780691206554 ebook, contact publisher for price; 60-1274

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Gough, Barry. Possessing Meares Island: a historian’s journey into the past of Clayoquot Sound. Harbour, 2022. 288p index ISBN 9781550179576, $36.95; 60-1208

Hahnel, Robin. A participatory economy. AK Press, 2022. 304p bibl index ISBN 9781849354844 pbk, $22.00; 60-1166

Hardesty, Jared. Mutiny on the Rising Sun: a tragic tale of slavery, smuggling, and chocolate. New York University, 2021. 280p bibl index ISBN 9781479812486, $25.00; ISBN 9781479810215 ebook, contact publisher for price; 60-1184

Holl, Jack M. The religious journey of Dwight D. Eisenhower: duty, God, and country. Eerdmans, 2021. 366p bibl index ISBN 9780802878731, $29.99; 60-1209

Horn, Martin. J.P. Morgan & Co. and the crisis of capitalism: from the Wall Street crash to World War II. Cambridge, 2022. 406p bibl index ISBN 9781108498371, $39.99; ISBN 9781108663564 ebook, contact publisher for price; 60-1167

Hunt, Andrew E. We begin bombing in five minutes: late Cold War culture in the age of Reagan. Massachusetts, 2021. 232p index ISBN 9781625345776, $90.00; ISBN 9781625345769 pbk, $28.95; ISBN 9781613768327 ebook, contact publisher for price; 60-1210

Katsinas, Stephen G. Educating the top 100 percent: policy pathways for public higher education, by Stephen G. Katsinas, Nathaniel J. Bray, and Martha J. Kanter. Harvard Education Press, 2022. 312p bibl index ISBN 9781682537107 pbk, $35.00; 60-1179

Kottler, Jeffrey A. On being a therapist. Oxford, 2022. 384p bibl index ISBN 9780197604458 pbk, $29.95; ISBN 9780197604465 ebook, contact publisher for price; 60-1261

Kyle, Brett J. Military courts, civil-military relations, and the legal battle for democracy: the politics of military justice, by Brett J. Kyle and Andrew G. Reiter. Routledge, 2021. 252p bibl index ISBN 9780367029944, $160.00; ISBN 9780429019869 ebook, $48.95; 60-1235

Levitin, Michael. Generation occupy: reawakening American democracy. Counterpoint, 2021. 368p bibl index ISBN 9781640094499, $27.00; ISBN 9781640094505 ebook, contact publisher for price; 60-1134

Lewis, Steven. Incredible communication: uncover the invaluable art of selling yourself, by Steven Lewis and Rebecca Weintraub. Bloomsbury, 2022. 256p bibl index ISBN 9781472991720, $28.00; ISBN 9781472991706 ebook, contact publisher for price; 60-1153

McDonald, Robert A. J. A long way to paradise: a new history of British Columbia politics. UBC Press, 2021. 428p index ISBN 9780774864718, $39.95; ISBN 9780774864749 ebook, contact publisher for price; 60-1212

Mills, Melinda A. The colors of love: multiracial people in interracial relationships. New York University, 2021. 312p bibl index ISBN 9781479802401, $89.00; ISBN 9781479802418 pbk, $30.00; ISBN 9781479802425 ebook, contact publisher for price; 60-1276

Milteer, Warren E. Beyond slavery’s shadow: free people of color in the South. North Carolina, 2021. 376p index ISBN 9781469664385, $95.00; ISBN 9781469664392 pbk, $29.95; ISBN 9781469664408 ebook, $24.99; 60-1213

Munn, Luke. Automation is a myth. Stanford, 2022. 184p bibl index ISBN 9781503631113, $70.00; ISBN 9781503631427 pbk, $22.00; ISBN 9781503631434 ebook, contact publisher for price; 60-1169

Nicholson, Helen J. The Knights Templar. ARC Humanities Press, 2021. 102p bibl index ISBN 9781641891684 pbk, $16.95; ISBN 9781641891707 ebook, $16.95; 60-1222

Nisbet, Jan. Pain and shock in America: politics, advocacy, and the controversial treatment of people with disabilities, by Jan A. Nisbet with Nancy R. Weiss. Brandeis, 2021. 432p bibl index ISBN 9781684580743, $40.00; ISBN 9781684580750 ebook, contact publisher for price; 60-1136

Pearson, Chris. Dogopolis: how dogs and humans made modern New York, London, and Paris. Chicago, 2021. 248p bibl index ISBN 9780226796994, $95.00; ISBN 9780226798165 pbk, $24.00; ISBN 9780226797045 ebook, $23.99; 60-1187

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Powell, David L. Ninety miles and a lifetime away: memories of early Cuban exiles. University Press of Florida, 2022. 326p bibl index ISBN 9781683402572, $30.00; ISBN 9781683403418 ebook, contact pub-lisher for price; 60-1201

Ranson, Gillian. Front-wave boomers: growing (very) old, staying connected, and reimagining aging. UBC Press, 2022. 192p bibl index ISBN 9780774890502 pbk, $22.95; ISBN 9780774890526 ebook, $22.95; 60-1278

Reflections from pioneering women in psychology, ed. by Jamila Bookwala and Nicky J. Newton. Cambridge, 2022. 384p bibl index ISBN 9781108835572, $120.00; ISBN 9781108812917 pbk, $39.99; ISBN 9781108891004 ebook, $32.00; 60-1265

Rozum, Molly Patrick. Grasslands grown: creating place on the U.S. Northern plains and Canadian prairies. Nebraska, 2021. 504p bibl index ISBN 9780803285767, $75.00; ISBN 9781496226716 pbk, $35.00; ISBN 9781496227966 ebook, $35.00; 60-1214

Simpson, Dick W. Democracy’s rebirth: the view from Chicago. Chicago, 2022. 272p bibl index ISBN 9780252044304, $110.00; ISBN 9780252086380 pbk, $19.95; ISBN 9780252053290 ebook, $14.95; 60-1255

Sliwa, Joanna. Jewish childhood in Kraków: a microhistory of the Holocaust. Rutgers, 2021. 218p bibl index ISBN 9781978822948, $120.00; ISBN 9781978822931 pbk, $29.95; ISBN 9781978822955 ebook, $29.95; 60-1198

Snow, Donald M. Cases in international relations: principles and application. Rowman & Littlefield, 2022. 278p bibl index ISBN 9781538153437, $99.00; ISBN 9781538153444 pbk, $35.00; ISBN 9781538153451 ebook, $33.00; 60-1237

Stephenson, Paul. New Rome: the empire in the East. Belknap, Harvard, 2021. 464p bibl index ISBN 9780674659629, $35.00; ISBN 9780674269453 ebook, contact publisher for price; 60-1193

Wilson, Jason W. Clinical anthropology 2.0: improving medical education and patient experience, by Jason W. Wilson and Roberta D. Baer. Lexington Books, 2022. 210p bibl index ISBN 9781498597685, $95.00; ISBN 9781498597692 ebook, $45.00; 60-1144

Zimring, James C. Partial truths: how fractions distort our thinking. Columbia, 2022. 256p bibl index ISBN 9780231201384, $28.00; ISBN 9780231554077 ebook, $27.99; 60-1270