The Top 75 Community College Titles: December Edition

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

Posted on December 30, 2021 in Top 75 Community College Titles

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Anishchenkova, Valerie. Modern Saudi Arabia. ABC-CLIO, 2020. 365p bibl index ISBN 9781440857041, $100.00; ISBN 9781440857058 ebook, contact publisher for price; 59-0926

The Cold War: the definitive encyclopedia and document collection, ed. by Spencer C. Tucker. ABC-CLIO, 2020. 5v bibl index ISBN 9781440860751, $563.00; ISBN 9781440860768 ebook, contact publisher for price; 59-0927

Education Source. EBSCO Information Services. Contact publisher for pricing. URL: https://www.ebsco.com/products/research-databases/education-source 59-0931

Hillstrom, Laurie Collier. Family separation and the U.S.-Mexico border crisis. ABC-CLIO, 2020. 156p bibl index ISBN 9781440876615, $40.00; ISBN 9781440876622 ebook, contact publisher for price; 59-0932

Music Index with Full Text. EBSCO Information Services. Contact publisher for pricing. URL: https://www.ebsco.com/products/research-databases/music-index-full-text 59-0919

Saunders, Christopher C. Historical dictionary of South Africa, by Christopher Saunders and Peter Limb. 3rd ed. Rowman & Littlefield, 2021. 566p bibl ISBN 9781538130254, $145.00; ISBN 9781538130261 ebook, $137.50; 59-0933

Williams, Victoria. Indigenous peoples: an encyclopedia of culture, history, and threats to survival. ABC-CLIO, 2020. 4v bibl index ISBN 9781440861178, $432.00; ISBN 9781440861185 ebook, contact publisher for price; 59-0934

Zander, Patrick G. Fascism through history: culture, ideology, and daily life. ABC-CLIO, 2020. 2v bibl index ISBN 9781440861932, $204.00; ISBN 9781440861949 ebook, contact publisher for price; 59-0935

Humanities

Anderson, Crystal S. Soul in Seoul: African American popular music and K-pop. University Press of Mississippi, 2020. 212p discography bibl index ISBN 9781496830098, $99.00; ISBN 9781496830104 pbk, $30.00; ISBN 9781496830111 ebook, contact publisher for price; 59-1000

Burkholder, J. Peter. Listening to Charles Ives: variations on his America. Amadeus, 2021. 366p bibl ISBN 9781442247949, $36.00; ISBN 9781442247956 ebook, $34.00; 59-1002

The Cambridge companion to Shakespeare on screen, ed. by Russell Jackson. Cambridge, 2020. 280p filmography bibl index ISBN 9781108431552, $99.99; ISBN 9781108431552 pbk, $29.99; ISBN 9781108373043 ebook, $24.00; 59-0977

Catalano, Joseph S. The saint and the atheist: Thomas Aquinas and Jean-Paul Sartre. Chicago, 2021. 176p bibl index ISBN 9780226719436, $30.00; ISBN 9780226719573 ebook, contact publisher for price; 59-1013

Collateral damage: women write about war, ed. by Bárbara Mujica. Virginia, 2021. 282p ISBN 9780813945736, $85.00; ISBN 9780813945736 pbk, $39.50; ISBN 9780813945743 ebook, $29.50; 59-0964

Comer, Christopher Mark. Brain, mind, and the narrative imagination, by Christopher Comer and Ashley Taggart. Bloomsbury Academic, 2020. 304p bibl index ISBN 9781350127807, $90.00; ISBN 9781350127791 pbk, $26.95; ISBN 9781350127814 ebook, contact publisher for price; 59-0965

Craft entrepreneurship, ed. by Annette Naudin and Karen Patel. Rowman & Littlefield, 2020. 236p index ISBN 9781786613745, $110.00; ISBN 9781786613752 ebook, $38.00; 59-0943

Darnton, Robert. Pirating and publishing: the book trade in the age of Enlightenment. Oxford, 2021. 400p bibl index ISBN 9780195144529, $34.95; ISBN 9780197529737 ebook, contact publisher for price; 59-0936

Dunbar, Paul Laurence. The selected literary letters of Paul Laurence Dunbar, ed. by Cynthia C. Murillo and Jennifer M. Nader. Alabama, 2021. 305p bibl index ISBN 9780817320782, $59.95; ISBN 9780817393342 ebook, $59.95; 59-0978

Friedman, Avi. Pre-fab living. Thames & Hudson, 2021. 232p bibl index ISBN 9780500343487, $39.95; 59-0952

Fumerton, Patricia. The broadside ballad in early modern England: moving media, tactical publics. Pennsylvania, 2020. 512p bibl index ISBN 9780812252316, $89.95; ISBN 9780812297270 ebook, contact publisher for price; 59-0980

Harold, Claudrena N. When Sunday comes: gospel music in the soul and hip-hop eras. Illinois, 2020. 272p bibl index ISBN 9780252043574, $125.00; ISBN 9780252085475 pbk, $22.95; ISBN 9780252052453 ebook, $14.95; 59-1004

Harold Pinter: stages, networks, collaborations, ed. by Basil Chiasson and Catriona Fallow. Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, 2021. 240p index ISBN 9781350133624, $110.00; ISBN 9781350211940 ebook, con-tact publisher for price; 59-0982

A History of the Harlem Renaissance, ed. by Rachel Farebrother and Miriam Thaggert. Cambridge, 2021. 432p bibl index ISBN 9781108493574, $44.99; ISBN 9781108656313 ebook, $36.00; 59-0983

Homestead, Melissa J. The only wonderful things: the creative partnership of Willa Cather and Edith Lewis. Oxford, 2021. 408p index ISBN 9780190652876, $39.95; ISBN 9780190652890 ebook, contact publisher for price; 59-0984

Intergenerational solidarity in children’s literature and film, ed. by Justyna Deszcz-Tryhubczak and Zoe Jaques. University Press of Mississippi, 2021. 284p bibl index ISBN 9781496831910, $99.00; ISBN 9781496831927 pbk, $30.00; ISBN 9781496831934 ebook, contact publisher for price; 59-0969

Keddie, Tony G. Republican Jesus: how the Right has rewritten the Gospels. California, 2020. 376p bibl index ISBN 9780520356238, $24.95; ISBN 9780520976023 ebook, $24.95; 59-1030

Kendall-Morwick, Karalyn. Canis modernis: human/dog coevolution in modernist literature. Pennsylvania State, 2021. 216p bibl index ISBN 9780271088020, $89.95; ISBN 9780271088402 ebook, contact pub-lisher for price; 59-0971

Koltun-Fromm, Ken. Drawing on religion: reading and the moral imagination in comics and graphic novels. Pennsylvania State, 2020. 264p bibl index ISBN 9780271087757 pbk, $34.95; 59-0939

Leibniz’s key philosophical writings: a guide, ed. by Paul Lodge and Lloyd Strickland. Oxford, 2020. 320p bibl index ISBN 9780198844983, $70.00; ISBN 9780192583581 pbk, contact publisher for price; 59-1015

Price, Hollie. Picturing home: domestic life and modernity in 1940s British film. Manchester University Press, 2021. 256p bibl index ISBN 9781526138200, $120.00; ISBN 9781526138224 ebook, contact pub-lisher for price; 59-0998

Resist!: protest media and popular culture in the Brexit-Trump era, ed. by Giuliana Monteverde and Victoria McCollum. Rowman & Littlefield, 2020. 284p bibl index ISBN 9781786615701, $125.00; ISBN 9781786615718 pbk, $44.95; ISBN 9781786615725 ebook, $42.50; 59-0961

Richard Strauss in context, ed. by Morten Kristiansen and Joseph E. Jones. Cambridge, 2020. 369p bibl index ISBN 9781108422000, $110.00; ISBN 9781108390095 ebook, $88.00; 59-1007

The Science and psychology of music: from Beethoven at the office to Beyoncé at the gym, ed. by William Forde Thompson and Kirk N. Olsen. Greenwood, 2021. 349p bibl index ISBN 9781440857713, $97.00; ISBN 9781440857720 ebook, contact publisher for price; 59-1008

Stiles, Anne. Children’s literature and the rise of “mind cure”: positive thinking and pseudo-science at the fin de siècle. Cambridge, 2020. 272p bibl index (Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture, 126) ISBN 9781108830942, $99.99; ISBN 9781108910729 ebook, $80.00; 59-0988

Swenson, Kristin M. A most peculiar book: the inherent strangeness of the Bible. Oxford, 2021. 288p index ISBN 9780190651732, $24.95; ISBN 9780190651756 ebook, contact publisher for price; 59-1037

Williams, Jay. Author under sail: the imagination of Jack London: v.2: 1902–1907. Nebraska, 2021. 732p bibl index ISBN 9780803249929, $100.00; ISBN 9781496223029 ebook, $100.00; 59-0990

Wink, Paul. Prima donna: the psychology of Maria Callas. Oxford, 2021. 206p bibl index ISBN 9780190857738, $34.95; ISBN 9781003084945 ebook, contact publisher for price; 59-1009

Science & Technology

Carr, Caleb T. Computer-mediated communication: a theoretical and practical introduction to online human communication. Rowman & Littlefield, 2021. 348p index ISBN 9781538131701, $130.00; ISBN 9781538131718 pbk, $65.00; ISBN 9781538131725 ebook, $63.00; 59-1065

Environmental issues today: choices and challenges: v.1: The United States; v.2 International, ed. by Robert J. Duffy and Susan M. Opp. ABC-CLIO, 2020. bibl index ISBN 9781440859847, $204.00; ISBN 9781440859854 ebook, contact publisher for price; 59-1050

Fox, Richard. Information technology: an introduction for today’s digital world. CRC Press, 2021. 582p index ISBN 9780367507206, $230.00; ISBN 9780367820213 pbk, $89.95; ISBN 9781003050971 ebook, $89.95; 59-1066

Harvey-Smith, Lisa. The secret life of stars: astrophysics for everyone. Thames & Hudson, 2021. 182p ISBN 9781760761585, $19.95; ISBN 9781760761363 ebook, contact publisher for price; 59-1042

Themes in old world zooarchaeology: from the Mediterranean to the Atlantic, ed. by Umberto Albarella et al. Oxbow Books, 2021. 224p ISBN 9781789255348, $80.00; ISBN 9781789255355 ebook, contact publisher for price; 59-1053

Social & Behavioral Sciences

Blum, Rachel M. How the Tea Party captured the GOP: insurgent factions in American politics. Chicago, 2020. 176p bibl index ISBN 9780226687490, $90.00; ISBN 9780226687520 pbk, $25.00; ISBN 9780226687667 ebook, contact publisher for price; 59-1193

Bradley, Guy. Early Roman Italy to 290 BC: the origins of Rome and the rise of the Republic. Edinburgh University Press, 2020. 432p index ISBN 9780748621095, $160.00; ISBN 9780748621101 pbk, $39.95; ISBN 9781474480680 ebook, $39.95; 59-1118

Calvillo, Jonathan. The saints of Santa Ana: faith and ethnicity in a Mexican majority city. Oxford, 2020. 288p bibl index ISBN 9780190097790, $99.00; ISBN 9780190097806 pbk, $24.95; ISBN 9780190097820 ebook, contact publisher for price; 59-1209

Cote, Amanda C. Gaming sexism: gender and identity in the era of casual video games. New York University, 2020. 265p index ISBN 9781479838523, $89.00; ISBN 9781479802203 pbk, $30.00; ISBN 9781479802210 ebook, contact publisher for price; 59-1211

Deliso, Christopher. The history of Croatia and Slovenia. Greenwood, 2020. 249p bibl index ISBN 9781440873225, $65.00; ISBN 9781440873232 ebook, contact publisher for price; 59-1128

Dorling, Daniel. Slowdown: the end of the great acceleration – and why it’s good for the planet, the economy, and our lives. Yale, 2020. 400p bibl index ISBN 9780300243406, $28.50; ISBN 9780300257960 pbk, $16.00; ISBN 9780300252408 ebook, contact publisher for price; 59-1212

Doubt, Keith. Sociocide: reflections on today’s wars, by Keith Doubt with Jeffrey Boucher. Lexington Books, 2020. 100p bibl index ISBN 9781793623843, $85.00; ISBN 9781793623850 ebook, $45.00; 59-1213

Hackett, Ursula. America’s voucher politics: how elites learned to hide the state. Cambridge, 2020. 276p bibl index ISBN 9781108491419, $99.00; ISBN 9781108858144 ebook, $80.00; 59-1175

Handbook of political violence and children: psychosocial effects, intervention, and prevention policy, ed. by Charles W. Greenbaum, Muhammad M. Haj-Yahia, and Carolyn Hamilton. Oxford, 2020. 688p indexes ISBN 9780190874551 pbk, $80.00; ISBN 9780190874575 ebook, contact publisher for price; 59-1217

Hawkins, Jeff. A thousand brains: a new theory of intelligence. Basic Books, 2021. 288p bibl index ISBN 9781541675810, $30.00; ISBN 9781541675803 ebook, $17.99; 59-1202

Horn, Jeff. The making of a terrorist: Alexandre Rousselin and the French Revolution. Oxford, 2020. 262p bibl index ISBN 9780197529928, $49.95; ISBN 9780197529942 ebook, contact publisher for price; 59-1169

Horowitz, Daniel. Entertaining entrepreneurs: reality TV’s Shark tank and the American dream in uncertain times. North Carolina, 2020. 272p index ISBN 9781469662602, $95.00; ISBN 9781469662602 pbk, $27.95; ISBN 9781469659442 ebook, $22.99; 59-1150

Ingrao, Charles W. The Habsburg monarchy, 1618–1815. Cambridge, 2019. 332p bibl index (New approaches to European history, 21) ISBN 9781108499255, $105.00; ISBN 9781108713337 pbk, $33.99; ISBN 9781108634168 , $27.00; 59-1130

Introduction to Africana demography: lessons from founders E. Franklin Frazier, W.E.B. Du Bois, and the Atlanta School of Sociology, ed. by Lori Latrice Martin. Brill, 2021. 229p index (Studies in critical social sciences, 169) ISBN 9789004433120, $204.00; ISBN 9789004433168 ebook, $204.00; 59-1219

Kennedy, Liam. Who was responsible for the Troubles?: the Northern Ireland conflict. McGill-Queen’s, 2020. 274p bibl index ISBN 9780228003687, $34.95; ISBN 9780228004707 ebook, contact publisher for price; 59-1165

Kupchan, Charles. Isolationism: a history of America’s efforts to shield itself from the world. Oxford, 2020. 464p bibl index ISBN 9780199393022, $29.95; ISBN 9780199393251 ebook, contact publisher for price; 59-1152

Livingstone, Sonia M. Parenting for a digital future: how hopes and fears about technology shape children’s lives, by Sonia Livingstone and Alicia Blum-Ross. Oxford, 2020. 274p bibl index ISBN 9780190874698, $99.00; ISBN 9780190874704 pbk, $27.95; ISBN 9780190874728 ebook, contact publisher for price; 59-1075

Making civilizations: the world before 600, ed. by Hans-Joachim Gehrke; tr. by Erik Butler and Peter Lewis. Belknap, Harvard, 2020. 1,216p index ISBN 9780674047174, $45.00; 59-1120

McIntyre, Shauna M. Organic food and farming: a reference handbook. ABC-CLIO, 2021. 338p bibl index ISBN 9781440870033, $38.00; ISBN 9781440870040 ebook, contact publisher for price; 59-1090

Merchant, Emily Klancher. Building the population bomb. Oxford, 2021. 312p bibl index ISBN 9780197558942, $74.00; ISBN 9780197558973 ebook, contact publisher for price; 59-1098

Mills, Brandon. The world colonization made: the racial geography of early American empire. Pennsylvania, 2020. 253p index ISBN 9780812252507, $45.00; 59-1153

Noe, Kenneth W. The howling storm: weather, climate, and the American Civil War. Louisiana State, 2020. 680p bibl index ISBN 9780807173206, $59.95; ISBN z 9780807174197 ebook, contact publisher for price; 59-1155

Rauchway, Eric. Why the New Deal matters. Yale, 2021. 232p index ISBN 9780300252002, $26.00; ISBN 9780300258219 ebook, contact publisher for price; 59-1157

Reingold, Beth. Race, gender, and political representation: toward a more intersectional approach, by Beth Reingold, Kerry L. Haynie, and Kirsten Widner. Oxford, 2020. 248p b ISBN 9780197502174, $39.95; ISBN 9780197502198 pbk, contact publisher for price; 59-1198

Richardson, Allissa V. Bearing witness while Black: African Americans, smartphones, and the new protest #journalism. Oxford, 2020. 296p bibl index ISBN 9780190935528, $99.00; ISBN 9780190935535 pbk, $27.95; ISBN 9780190935559 ebook, contact publisher for price; 59-1077

The Science of violent behavior development and prevention: contributions of the Second World War generation, ed. by Richard E. Tremblay. Cambridge, 2021. 388p bibl index ISBN 9781108834810, $110.00; ISBN 9781108883191 ebook, $80.00; 59-1224

Setty, Emily. Risk and harm in youth sexting: young people’s perspectives. Routledge, 2020. 200p bibl index ISBN 9780367228798, $160.00; ISBN 9780429277344 ebook, $48.95; 59-1225

Slater, Jerome. Mythologies without end: the US, Israel, and the Arab-Israeli conflict, 1917–2020. Oxford, 2020. 512p bibl index ISBN 9780190459086, $29.95; ISBN 9780190459109 ebook, contact publisher for price; 59-1141

The Storytelling human: Lithuanian folk tradition today, comp. and ed. by Lina Būgienė. Academic Stud-ies Press, 2020. 290p bibl index ISBN 9781644694237, $109.00; ISBN 9781644694251 ebook, contact publisher for price; 59-1133

Strempel, Eileen. Beyond free college: making higher education work for 21st-century students, by Eileen L. Strempel and Stephen J. Handel. Rowman & Littlefield, 2021. 182p index ISBN 9781475848649, $70.00; ISBN 9781475848656 pbk, $35.00; ISBN 9781475848663 ebook, $33.00; 59-1104

Sundén, Jenny. Who’s laughing now?: feminist tactics in social media, by Jenny Sundén and Susanna Paasonen. MIT, 2020. 208p bibl index ISBN 9780262044721, $30.00; ISBN 9780262361132 ebook, contact publisher for price; 59-1078

Swedberg, Sarah L. Liberty and insanity in the age of the American Revolution. Lexington Books, 2020. 276p bibl index ISBN 9781498573863, $110.00; ISBN 9781498573870 ebook, $45.00; 59-1159

Tagliapietra, Simone. Global energy fundamentals: economics, politics, and technology. Cambridge, 2020. 248p bibl index ISBN 9781108495219, $115.00; ISBN 9781108817707 pbk, $39.99; ISBN 9781108861595 ebook, contact publisher for price; 59-1095

Urofsky, Melvin I. The campaign finance cases: Buckley, McConnell, Citizens United, and McCutcheon. University Press of Kansas, 2020. 256p bibl index ISBN 9780700629879, $50.00; ISBN 9780700629886 pbk, $22.95; ISBN 9780700629893 ebook, contact publisher for price; 59-1199

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