The Top 75 Community College Titles: December 2024 Edition

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

Posted on December 19, 2024 in Top 75 Community College Titles

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Humanities

Anderson, Jeffrey E. Voodoo: an African American religion.  Louisiana State, 2024.  272p bibl index  ISBN 9780807181324, $45.00;  ISBN 9780807181799 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-0949

Bands in American musical history: inflection points and reappraisals, ed. by Bryan Proksch and George Foreman.  Rochester, 2024.  378p index (Eastman studies in music, 194)  ISBN 9781648250828, $125.00;  ISBN 9781805432395 ebook, $29.95;  62-0931

Claverie, Ezra. Copyright vigilantes: intellectual property and the Hollywood superhero.  University Press of Mississippi, 2024.  358p bibl index  ISBN 9781496851338, $110.00;  ISBN 9781496851321 pbk, $30.00;  ISBN 9781496851314 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-0924

Crooks, James. Bach’s architecture of gratitude: on the genius of the Mass in B Minor.  McGill-Queen’s, 2024.  210p bibl index  ISBN 9780228020622, $120.00;  ISBN 9780228020639 pbk, $34.95;  ISBN 9780228020653 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-0932

Darby, Derrick. A realistic Blacktopia: why we must unite to fight.  Oxford, 2023.  320p bibl index  ISBN 9780197622124, $37.99;  ISBN 9780197622148 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-0943

Dwivedi, Divya. Indian philosophy, Indian revolution: on caste and politics, by Divya Dwivedi and Shaj Mohan.  Hurst & Company, 2024.  288p bibl index  ISBN 9781911723233, $34.95;  ISBN 9781805261742 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-0944

Emerson, Michael O. The religion of whiteness: how racism distorts Christianity, by Michael O. Emerson and Glenn E. Bracey II.  Oxford, 2024.  208p bibl index  ISBN 9780197746288, $24.99;  ISBN 9780197746295 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-0954

Griffin, Martin. Reading espionage fiction: narrative, conflict and commitment from World War I to the contemporary era.  Edinburgh University Press, 2024.  200p bibl index  ISBN 9781399520799, $110.00;  ISBN 9781399520829 ebook, $110.00;  62-0894

Hart, Adam Charles. Raising the dead: the work of George A. Romero.  Oxford, 2024.  250p bibl index  ISBN 9780197686478, $135.00;  ISBN 9780197686485 pbk, $39.95;  ISBN 9780197686492 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-0925

Hopson, Cheryl. Zora Neale Hurston.  Reaktion Books, 2024.  168p bibl  ISBN 9781789147957 pbk, $22.00;  ISBN 9781789148244 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-0908

Kane, Brian. Hearing double: jazz, ontology, auditory culture.  Oxford, 2024.  320p bibl index  ISBN 9780190600501, $49.99;  ISBN 9780190600525 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-0934

Kim, Yung Suk. How to read the Gospels: an introduction.  Rowman & Littlefield, 2024.  292p bibl index  ISBN 9781538186077, $68.00;  ISBN 9781538186084 pbk, $24.00;  ISBN 9781538186091 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-0957

Lasser, Michael L. Say it with a beautiful song: the art and craft of the great American songbook, by Michael Lasser and Harmon Greenblatt.  Rowman & Littlefield, 2024.  210p index  ISBN 9781538192887, $38.00;  ISBN 9781538192894 ebook, $36.00;  62-0935

Mikles, Natasha L. Shattered grief: how the pandemic transformed the spirituality of death in America.  Columbia, 2024.  264p bibl index  ISBN 9780231211468, $115.00;  ISBN 9780231211475 pbk, $28.00;  ISBN 9780231558921 ebook, $27.99;  62-0959

Morton, David. Motion picture paradise: a history of Florida’s film and television industry.  University Press of Florida, 2024.  338p bibl index  ISBN 9780813069999, $85.00;  62-0928

Murphy, Paula. AI in the movies.  Edinburgh University Press, 2024.  208p bibl index  ISBN 9781474448581, $110.00;  ISBN 9781474448604 ebook, $110.00;  62-0929

Olson, Carl. Nostalgia for origins: religion, evolution, cognition and memory.  Anthem Press, 2024.  166p bibl index  ISBN 9781839990519, $110.00;  ISBN 9781839990533 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-0961

Rae, Murray. Resurrection and renewal: Jesus and the transformation of creation.  Baker Academic, 2024.  208p bibl index  ISBN 9781540966209, $28.99;  ISBN 9781493446261 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-0962

Robert Lowell in context, ed. by Thomas Austenfeld and Grzegorz Kosc.  Cambridge, 2024.  338p bibl index  ISBN 9781009465717, $120.00;  ISBN 9781009465694 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-0913

Rosvally, Danielle. Theatres of value: buying and selling Shakespeare in nineteenth-century New York City.  SUNY Press, 2024.  275p bibl index  ISBN 9781438498348, $99.00;  ISBN 9781438498355 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-0914

The Routledge handbook of megachurches, ed. by Afe Adogame et al.  Routledge, 2024.  508p bibl index  ISBN 9781032120072, $280.00;  ISBN 9781003222613 ebook, $58.99;  62-0963

Singer, Robert. Beyond realism: naturalist film in theory and practice.  Edinburgh University Press, 2024.  280p bibl index  ISBN 9781474426336, $120.00;  ISBN 9781474426350 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-0930

Smith, Troy D. Shaolin brew: race, comics, and the evolution of the superhero.  University Press of Mississippi, 2024.  284p bibl index  ISBN 9781496851673, $110.00;  ISBN 9781496851680 pbk, $30.00;  ISBN 9781496851697 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-0916

Tye, Larry. Jazzmen: how Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, and Count Basie transformed America.  Mariner Books, 2024.  416p bibl index  ISBN 9780358380436, $32.50;  62-0936

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Science & Technology

Bateman, Aaron. Weapons in space: technology, politics, and the rise and fall of the Strategic Defense Initiative.  MIT, 2024.  336p bibl index  ISBN 9780262547369 pbk, $60.00;  ISBN 9780262377393 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-0971

Digital health care outside of traditional clinical settings: ethical, legal, and regulatory challenges and opportunities, ed. by I. Glenn Cohen et al.  Cambridge, 2024.  228p bibl  ISBN 9781009373241, $105.00;  ISBN 9781009373265 pbk, $34.99;  ISBN 9781009373234 ebook, open access;  62-0979

Ferren, Richard L. Birds of Rhode Island: seasonal distribution and ecological history, by Richard L. Ferren; ed. by Richard R. Veit.  Comstock Publishing Associates, 2024.  576p bibl index (Memoirs of the Nuttall Ornithological Club, 27)  ISBN 9781501771330, $59.95;  62-0975

Mindell, David P. The network of life: a new view of evolution.  Princeton, 2024.  272p bibl index  ISBN 9780691228778, $27.95;  ISBN 9780691228761 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-0973

Pranger, Susan. Old materials, new climate: traditional building materials in a changing world.  Routledge, 2024.  408p bibl index  ISBN 9780367749569, $180.00;  ISBN 9780367749576 , $45.99;  ISBN 9781003160489 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-0977

Shadbolt, Nigel. As if human: ethics and artificial intelligence, by Nigel Shadbolt and Roger Hampson.  Yale, 2024.  272p bibl index  ISBN 9780300268294, $28.00;  ISBN 9780300277692 ebook, $28.00;  62-0980

Speaking beyond Earth: perspectives on messaging across deep space and cosmic time, ed. by Paul E. Quast and David Dunér.  McFarland, 2024.  298p bibl index  ISBN 9781476690001, $75.00;  ISBN 9781476649863 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-0972

Webb, Richard. A field guide to the larger mammals of South America, by Richard Webb and Jeff Blincow.  Princeton, 2024.  500p index  ISBN 9780691174099, $49.95;  ISBN 9780691254975 ebook, $49.95;  62-0976

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Social & Behavioral Sciences

Accompaniment with im/migrant communities: engaged ethnography, ed. by Kristin E. Yarris and Whitney L. Duncan.  Arizona, 2024.  216p bibl index  ISBN 9780816553440, $100.00;  ISBN 9780816553433 pbk, $35.00;  ISBN 9780816553457 ebook, $35.00;  62-0988

Anderson, Terry H. Why the nineties matter.  Oxford, 2024.  360p bibl index  ISBN 9780197763018, $29.99;  ISBN 9780197763049 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-1052

Arnold, Ellen F. Medieval riverscapes: environment and memory in Northwest Europe, c. 300–1100.  Cambridge, 2024.  328p bibl index  ISBN 9781009299398, $110.00;  ISBN 9781009299367 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-1064

Arsenault, Raymond. John Lewis: in search of the beloved community.  Yale, 2024.  583p  ISBN 9780300253757, $35.00;  ISBN 9780300274394 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-1053

Baum, Angela C. Teacher well-being in early childhood: a resource for early care and education professionals, by Angela C. Baum and Kerrie L. Schnake.  Teachers College Press, 2024.  208p bibl index  ISBN 9780807769133, $111.00;  ISBN 9780807769126 pbk, $39.95;  ISBN 9780807782101 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-1019

Bennett, Daniel. Uneasy citizenship: embracing the tension in faith and politics.  Cascade Books, 2024.  166p bibl index  ISBN 9781666702323, $38.00;  ISBN 9781666702316 pbk, $23.00;  ISBN 9781666702330 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-1090

The Big lie about race in America’s schools, ed. by Royel M. Johnson and Shaun R. Harper.  Harvard Education Press, 2024.  248p bibl index  ISBN 9781682539132 pbk, $36.00;  ISBN 9781682539149 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-1023

Blackwill, Robert D. Lost decade: the US pivot to Asia and the rise of Chinese power, by Robert D. Blackwill and Richard Fontaine.  Oxford, 2024.  464p bibl index  ISBN 9780197677940, $29.99;  ISBN 9780197677957 ebook, contact publisher;  62-1006

Cahn, Naomi. Fair shake: women and the fight to build a just economy, by Naomi Cahn, June Carbone, and Nancy Levit.  Simon & Schuster, 2024.  368p bibl index  ISBN 9781982115128, $29.99;  ISBN 9781982115142 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-1007

Charles, Cleopatra. Financial leadership for the arts: sustainable strategies for creative organizations, by Cleopatra Charles and Margaret F. Sloan.  North Carolina, 2024.  284p bibl index  ISBN 9781469678788 pbk, $25.95;  ISBN 9781469678795 ebook, $19.99;  62-0997

Chasson, Greg. Flawed: why perfectionism is a challenge for management.  Translational Mental Health Press, 2024.  314p bibl index  ISBN 9798990068803 pbk, $14.99;  62-0998

Eizenstat, Stuart. The art of diplomacy: how American negotiators reached historic agreements that changed the world.  Rowman & Littlefield, 2024.  520p bibl index  ISBN 9781538167991, $35.00;  ISBN 9781538168004 ebook, $33.00;  62-1074

Evaluating accessibility in museums: a practical guide, ed. by Laureen Trainer.  Rowman & Littlefield, 2024.  200p bibl index  ISBN 9781538186305, $95.00;  ISBN 9781538186312 pbk, $42.50;  ISBN 9781538186329 ebook, $42.50;  62-1000

Fox, Muriel. The women’s revolution: how we changed your life.  New Village Press, 2024.  320p bibl index  ISBN 9781613322444, $28.00;  ISBN 9781613322468 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-1056

Gershon, Ilana. The pandemic workplace: how we learned to be citizens in the office.  Chicago, 2024.  183p bibl index  ISBN 9780226832616, $115.00;  ISBN 9780226832630 pbk, $27.50;  ISBN 9780226832623 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-1001

Griffin, Sean. The root and the branch: working-class reform and antislavery, 1790–1860.  Pennsylvania, 2024.  296p bibl index  ISBN 9781512825923, $49.95;  ISBN 9781512825930 ebook, $49.95;  62-1057

Grono, Nick. How to lead nonprofits: turning purpose into impact to change the world.  Matt Holt Books, 2024.  256p bibl  ISBN 9781637745199, $30.00;  ISBN 9781637745205 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-1002

Higgins, Chris. Undeclared: a philosophy of formative higher education.  MIT, 2024.  416p bibl index  ISBN 9780262547499 pbk, $50.00;  ISBN 9780262377614 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-1024

Im, ​Chae-ch’ŏn. Power and the elite in North Korea: Paektu and Kanbu.  Routledge, 2024.  278p bibl index  ISBN 9781032731841, $180.00;  ISBN 9781003427131 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-1040

Judaken, Jonathan. Critical theories of anti-Semitism.  Columbia, 2024.  360p bibl index  ISBN 9780231212922, $140.00;  ISBN 9780231212939 pbk, $35.00;  ISBN 9780231559638 ebook, $34.99;  62-1028

Judd, Robin. Between two worlds: Jewish war brides after the Holocaust.  North Carolina, 2023.  256p bibl index  ISBN 9781469675442, $29.95;  ISBN 9781469675459 ebook, $22.99;  62-1029

Kirby, David. Britain 1947: hope amid hardship.  Hurst & Company, 2024.  400p bibl index  ISBN 9781911723219, $37.50;  ISBN 9781805261490 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-1063

Llewellyn-Jones, Lloyd. The Cleopatras: the forgotten queens of Egypt.  Basic Books, 2024.  361p bibl index  ISBN 9781541602922, $34.00;  ISBN 9781541602939 ebook, $19.99;  62-1037

Macleod, David I. Inflation decade, 1910–1920: Americans confront the high cost of living.  Palgrave Macmillan, 2024.  355p bibl index  ISBN 9783031553929, $129.99;  ISBN 9783031553936 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-1014

​Marquetti, Adalmir Antonio. Unequal development and capitalism: catching up and falling behind in the global economy, by Adalmir Antonio Marquetti, Alessandro Miebach, and Henrique Morrone.  Routledge, 2024.  186p bibl index  ISBN 9781032121642, $180.00;  ISBN 9781040034538 ebook, $54.99;  62-1015

Mascarenhas, Michael. Toxic water, toxic system: environmental racism and Michigan’s water war.  California, 2024.  334p bibl index  ISBN 9780520343863, $85.00;  ISBN 9780520343870 pbk, $27.95;  ISBN 9780520975217 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-1105

Mastro, Oriana Skylar. Upstart: China’s rise to great power status.  Oxford, 2024.  240p bibl index  ISBN 9780197695067, $29.99;  ISBN 9780197695074 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-1078

Miller, Christopher. The war came to us: life and death in Ukraine.  Bloomsbury, 2024.  400p bibl index  ISBN 9781399406857, $28.00;  ISBN 9781399406789 pbk, $19.99;  ISBN 9781399406826 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-1042

Panagia, Davide. Sentimental empiricism: politics, philosophy, and criticism in postwar France.  Fordham, 2024.  288p bibl index  ISBN 9781531506704, $110.00;  ISBN 9781531506711 pbk, $32.00;  ISBN 9781531506728 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-1087

Pozen, David. The constitution of the war on drugs.  Oxford, 2024.  304p bibl index  ISBN 9780197685457, $27.95;  ISBN 9780197685488 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-1098

Reflections on Stalinism, ed. by J. Arch Getty and Lewis H. Siegelbaum.  Northern Illinois, 2024.  246p bibl index  ISBN 9781501775543, $130.00;  ISBN 9781501775550 pbk, $26.95;  ISBN 9781501775574 ebook, $17.99;  62-1043

Reparations and reparatory justice: past, present, and future, ed. by Sundiata Keita Cha-Jua, Mary Frances Berry, and V. P. Franklin.  Illinois, 2024.  249p bibl index  ISBN 9780252045776, $110.00;  ISBN 9780252087875 pbk, $19.95;  ISBN 9780252056642 ebook, $14.95;  62-0984

Rosenblatt, Adam. Cemetery citizens: reclaiming the past and working for justice in American burial grounds.  Stanford, 2024.  286p bibl index  ISBN 9781503613973, $110.00;  ISBN 9781503639119 pbk, $28.00;  ISBN 9781503639126 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-0995

Ross, Jeffrey Ian. Introduction to convict criminology.  Bristol University Press, 2024.  222p bibl index  ISBN 9781529221190, $159.95;  ISBN 9781529221206 pbk, $34.95;  ISBN 9781529221213 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-1109

Rubinson, Eyal. Growing strong, growing apart: the erosion of democracy as a core pillar of NATO enlargement, 1949–2023.  SUNY Press, 2024.  232p bibl index  ISBN 9781438497310, $99.00;  ISBN 9781438497334 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-1079

Shestakofsky, Benjamin. Behind the startup: how venture capital shapes work, innovation, and inequality.  California, 2024.  328p bibl index  ISBN 9780520395022, $85.00;  ISBN 9780520395039 pbk, $29.95;  ISBN 9780520395046 ebook, $29.95;  62-1018

Sparacino, Anthony. Governors go national: the Democratic and Republican Governors Associations and the nationalization of American party politics.  Lexington Books, 2024.  274p bibl index  ISBN 9781666933710, $120.00;  ISBN 9781666933727 ebook, $50.00;  62-1100

Spencer, F. Scott. Vote Jesus Christ: a political riff on Luke’s Gospel and cautionary tale for evangelicals and other concerned citizens.  Cascade Books, 2024.  248p bibl index  ISBN 9798385207893, $47.00;  ISBN 9798385207886 pbk, $32.00;  ISBN 9798385207909 ebook, $32.00;  62-1101

Sustainability and the fashion industry: can fashion save the world?, ed. by Annick Schramme and Nathalie Verboven.  Routledge, 2024.  268p bibl index  ISBN 9781032641102, $180.00;  ISBN 9781032659053 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-1004

Trenta, Luca. The president’s kill list: assassination and US foreign policy since 1945.  Edinburgh University Press, 2024.  400p bibl index  ISBN 9781399519496, $125.00;  ISBN 9781399519519 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-1102

Van Reybrouck, David. Revolusi: Indonesia and the birth of the modern world, tr. by David Colmer and David McKay.  W. W. Norton, 2024.  656p bibl index  ISBN 9781324073697, $32.50;  ISBN 9781324073703 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-1041

Ward, Alexander. The internationalists: the fight to restore American foreign policy after Trump.  Portfolio/Penguin, 2024.  368p bibl index  ISBN 9780593539071, $32.00;  ISBN 9780593539088 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-1081

​Peçe, Uğur Zekeriy. Island and empire: how civil war in Crete mobilized the Ottoman world.  Stanford, 2024.  272p bibl index  ISBN 9781503638723, $110.00;  ISBN 9781503639232 pbk, $28.00;  ISBN 9781503639249 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-1051

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