The Top 75 Community College Titles: February 2021 Edition

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

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American Archive of Public Broadcasting. Library of Congress. Contact publisher for pricing. URL: https://americanarchive.org/ 58-1533

Conflict in the modern Middle East: an encyclopedia of civil war, revolutions, and regime change, ed. by Jonathan K. Zartman. ABC-CLIO, 2020. 409p bibl index ISBN 9781440865022, $97.00; ISBN 9781440865039 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-1535

Fischel, Jack R. Historical dictionary of the Holocaust. Rowman & Littlefield, 2020. 452p ISBN 9781538130155, $95.00; ISBN 9781538130162 ebook, $90.00; 58-1536

Smith, Merril D. Sexual harassment: a reference handbook. ABC-CLIO, 2020. 360p bibl index ISBN 9781440867699, $62.00; ISBN 9781440867705 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-1537

Humanities

Barchas, Janine. The lost books of Jane Austen. Johns Hopkins, 2019. 304p bibl index ISBN 9781421431598, $35.00; ISBN $z 9781421431604 ebook, $35.00; 58-1577

Bel-vedére or The garden of the muses: an early modern printed commonplace book, ed. by Lukas Erne and Devani Singh. Cambridge, 2020. 486p index ISBN 9781107190023, $125.00; ISBN 9781316996775 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-1578

Belletto, Steven. The Beats: a literary history. Cambridge, 2020. 476p index ISBN 9781107176683, $34.95; ISBN 9781316821282 ebook, $32.00; 58-1579

Brandão, Raul. The unknown islands: notes and landscapes, tr. by David Brookshaw. Tagus Press, 2020. 204p ISBN 9781951470005 pbk, $19.95; 58-1590

Brumfield, William Craft. Journeys through the Russian Empire: the photographic legacy of Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky. Duke, 2020. 528p index ISBN 9781478006022, $49.95; ISBN 9781478007463 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-1551

Burdan, Amanda C. America’s Impressionism: echoes of a revolution. Yale, 2020. 192p ISBN 9780300247701, $45.00; 58-1548

Campany, David. On photographs. MIT, 2020. 272p ISBN 9780262044240, $34.95; 58-1552

Davis, John. Art of the United States, 1750–2000: primary sources, by John Davis and Michael Leja; ed. by Francesca Rose with contributions by Lacey Baradel. Terra Foundation for American Art, 2020. (Dist. by Chicago) 543 pages ISBN 9780932171689 pbk, $39.00; 58-1542

Edgar, Amanda Nell. Culturally speaking: the rhetoric of voice and identity in a mediated culture. Ohio State, 2019. 212p bibl index ISBN 9780814214060, $99.95; ISBN 9780814255476 pbk, $29.95; ISBN 9780814277225 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-1555

Heinz, Donald. After Trump: achieving a new social gospel. Cascade Books, 2020. 250p bibl ISBN 9781532695322, $43.00; ISBN 9781532695315 pbk, $28.00; 58-1623

Horace. Horace: Epodes, Odes, and Carmen saeculare, ed. and tr. by Stephanie McCarter. Oklahoma, 2020. 594p (Oklahoma series in classical culture, 60) ISBN 9780806164878 pbk, $34.95; 58-1574

Irish literature in transition: 1700–2020, ed. by Claire Connolly et al. Cambridge, 2020. 6v bibl index ISBN 9781108427500, $110.00 v.1; ISBN 9781108689045 ebook, $88.00 v.1; ISBN 9781108492980, $110.00 v.2; ISBN 9781108632218 ebook, $88.00 v.2; ISBN 9781108480482, $120.00 v.3; ISBN 9781108634977 ebook, $96.00 v.3; ISBN 9781108480451, $120.00 v.4; ISBN 9781108616379 ebook, $96.00 v.4; ISBN 9781108480444, $115.00 v.5; ISBN 9781108616348 ebook, $92.00 v.5; ISBN 9781108474047, $115.00 v.6; ISBN 9781108564373 ebook, $92.00 v.6; 58-1566

Marrs, Cody. Not even past: the stories we keep telling about the Civil War. Johns Hopkins, 2020. 240p bibl index ISBN 9781421436654, $28.00; ISBN 9781421436661 ebook, $28.00; 58-1582

Matsuo, Bashō. Travel writings, tr. and ed. by Steven D. Carter. , 2020. 320p bibl index ISBN 9781624668845, $54.00; ISBN 9781624668579 pbk, $18.00; 58-1572

Nemanic, Mary Lou. Metro dailies in the age of multimedia journalism. Temple, 2020. 208p bibl index ISBN 9781439916766, $74.50; ISBN 9781439916773 pbk, $27.95; ISBN 9781439916773 ebook, $27.95; 58-1560

Peppiatt, Michael. The making of modern art: selected writings. Yale, 2020. 254 pages ISBN 9780300246780, $35.00; 58-1545

Sciannameo, Franco. Reflections on the music of Ennio Morricone: fame and legacy. Lexington Books, 2020. 200p bibl index ISBN 9781498569002, $90.00; ISBN 978149856901 ebook, $85.50; 58-1604

Sierz, Aleks. Good nights out: a history of popular British theatre, 1940–2015. Bloomsbury Methuen Dra-ma, 2019. 240p bibl index ISBN 9781350046214, $100.00; ISBN 9781350046221 ebook, contact pub-lisher for price; 58-1607

Science & Technology

Bodies in transition in the health humanities: representations of corporeality, ed. by Lisa M. DeTora and Stephanie M. Hilger. Routledge, 2019. 170p bibl index ISBN 9780815356066, $155.00; ISBN 9781351128742 ebook, $57.95; 58-1639

Colman, Benjamin. Detroit style: car design in the Motor City, 1950–2020. Detroit Institute of the Arts/Yale, 2020. 150p ISBN 9780300247084, $40.00; 58-1638

Connected lives: families, households, health and care in South Africa, ed. by Nolwazi Mkhwanazi and Lenore Manderson. HSRC Press, 2020. 280p bibl index ISBN 9780796925855 pbk, $22.75; 58-1641

Dorman, Michael. Introduction to web mapping. CRC Press, 2020. 366p bibl index ISBN 9780367371395, $200.00; ISBN 9780367861186 pbk, $79.95; ISBN 9780429352874 ebook, $79.95; 58-1647

Eason, Fenella. Human-canine collaboration in care: doing diabetes. Routledge, 2020. 194p bibl index ISBN 9780367227777, $140.00; ISBN 9780429276781 ebook, $54.95; 58-1642

Hjorth, Larissa. Ambient play, by Larissa Hjorth and Ingrid Richardson. MIT, 2020. 200p index ISBN 9780262044363, $21.95; ISBN 9780262360425 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-1651

Hoenig, Steven L. Basic chemical concepts & tables. CRC Press, 2020. 264p bibl index ISBN 9780367230142, $149.95; ISBN 9780367230135 pbk, $59.95; ISBN 9780429277948 ebook, $59.96; 58-1635

Lasseter, Benjamin F. Biochemistry in the lab: a manual for undergraduates. CRC Press, 2020. 187p bibl index ISBN 9781138589926, $150.00; ISBN 9781138589964 pbk, $59.95; ISBN 9780429491269 ebook, $59.95; 58-1636

Microbiomes of soils, plants and animals: an integrated approach, ed. by Rachael E. Antwis, Xavier A. Harrison, and Michael J. Cox. Cambridge, 2020. 248p bibl index ISBN 9781108473712, $115.00; ISBN 9781108601566 ebook, $36.00; 58-1629

Smart healthcare systems, ed. by Adwitiya Sinha and Megha Rathi. CRC Press, 2020. 248p index ISBN 9780367030568, $150.00; ISBN 978042967028 ebook, $58.95; 58-1645

Social & Behavioral Sciences

Acerbi, Alberto. Cultural evolution in the digital age. Oxford, 2020. 272p bibl index ISBN 9780198835943 pbk, $40.00; ISBN 9780192572899 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-1821

Augé, C. Riley. The archaeology of magic: gender and domestic protection in seventeenth-century New England. University Press of Florida, 2020. 246p bibl index ISBN 9780813066110, $90.00; ISBN 9780813057484 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-1663

Berry, Daina Ramey. A black women’s history of the United States, by Daina Ramey Berry and Kali Nicole Gross. Beacon Press, 2020. 288p index ISBN 9780807033555, $27.95; ISBN 9780807033562 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-1742

Bickham, Troy O. Eating the Empire: food and society in eighteenth-century Britain. Reaktion Books, 2020. 288p bibl index ISBN 9781789142075, $35.00; ISBN 9781789142457 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-1756

Case studies in suburban sustainability, ed. by Sandra J. Garren and Robert Brinkmann. University Press of Florida, 2020. 344p bibl index ISBN 9781683401599, $95.00; ISBN 9781683401872 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-1680

Connelly, John. From peoples into nations: a history of Eastern Europe. Princeton, 2020. 968p index ISBN 9780691167121, $35.00; ISBN 9780691189185 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-1732

Early modern childhood: an introduction, ed. by Anna French. Routledge, 2020. 310p index ISBN 9781138038417, $150.00; ISBN 9781138038424 pbk, $49.95; ISBN 9781315177380 ebook, $49.95; 58-1701

Festle, Mary Jo. Transforming history: a guide to effective, inclusive, and evidence-based teaching. Wisconsin, 2020. 295p index ISBN 9780299326807, $34.95; ISBN 9780299326838 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-1690

Foster, R. F. On Seamus Heaney. Princeton, 2020. 248p bibl index ISBN 9780691174372, $19.95; ISBN 9780691211473 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-1758

Glickman, Carl D. The essential renewal of America’s schools: a leadership guide for democratizing schools from the inside out, by Carl Glickman and Ian M. Mette. Teachers College Press, 2020. 146p bibl index ISBN 9780807764039, $90.00; ISBN 9780807764022 pbk, $29.95; ISBN 9780807778630 ebook, $29.95; 58-1692

Hansen, Mary E. Bankrupt in America: a history of debtors, their creditors, and the law in the twentieth century, by Mary Eschelbach Hansen and Bradley A. Hansen. Chicago, 2020. 224p bibl index ISBN 9780226679563, $55.00; ISBN 9780226679563 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-1682

Head, David. A crisis of peace: George Washington, the Newburgh conspiracy, and the fate of the American Revolution. Pegasus Books, 2019. 284p index ISBN 9781643130811, $28.95; ISBN 9781643136073 pbk, $17.95; ISBN 9781643131788 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-1744

Hudson, Darren. The irrational terrorist: and other persistent terrorism myths, by Darren Hudson et al. L. Rienner, 2020. 165p bibl index ISBN 9781626378490, $75.00; ISBN 9781626378506 pbk, $25.00; ISBN 9781626379053 ebook, $25.00; 58-1776

Hurt, R. Douglas. The green revolution in the Global South: science, politics, and unintended consequences. Alabama, 2020. 264p bibl index ISBN 978081732051, $49.95; ISBN 9780817392826 ebook, $49.95; 58-1706

Hurtado-Torres, Sebastián. The gathering storm: Eduardo Frei’s revolution in liberty and Chile’s cold war. Cornell, 2020. 253p bibl index ISBN 9781501747182, $49.95; ISBN 9781501747205 ebook, $24.95; 58-1738

Jarrige, François. The contamination of the earth: a history of pollution in the industrial age, by François Jarrige and Thomas Le Roux; tr. by Janice Egan and Michael Egan. MIT, 2020. 480p index ISBN 9780262043830, $39.95; ISBN 9780262358132 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-1707

Jefferson, Thomas. The papers of Thomas Jefferson: retirement series, v.16: 1 June 1820 to 28 February 1821, ed. by J. Jefferson Looney. Princeton, 2020. 725p index ISBN 9780691197272, $150.00; ISBN 9780691199856 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-1747

Karamanski, Theodore J. Mastering the inland seas: how lighthouses, navigational aids, and harbors transformed the Great Lakes and America. Wisconsin, 2020. 384p index ISBN 9780299326302, $36.95; ISBN 9780299326333 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-1748

King, Stephen J. The Arab winter: democratic consolidation, civil war, and radical Islamists. Cambridge, 2020. 329p bibl index ISBN 9781108477413, $99.99; ISBN 9781108708661 pbk, $29.99; ISBN 9781108850773 ebook, $24.00; 58-1802

Knoop, Todd A. Understanding economic inequality: bigger pies and just deserts. E. Elgar, 2020. 247p bibl index ISBN 9781788971591, $125.00; ISBN 9781788971607 ebook, $40.00; 58-1684

Kottler, Jeffrey A. Myths, misconceptions, and invalid assumptions of counseling and psychotherapy, by Jeffrey A. Kottler and Richard S. Balkin. Oxford, 2020. 288p bibl index ISBN 9780190090692, $35.00; ISBN 9780190090708 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-1817

Kroupa, Daniel. The Velvet Revolution 30 years after, by Daniel Kroupa et al.; tr. by Ian Finlay Stone. Ka-rolinum, 2020. 141p bibl ISBN 9788024644486 pbk, $30.00; 58-1734

Life in Stalin’s Soviet Union, ed. by Kees Boterbloem. Bloomsbury Academic, 2019. 264p bibl index ISBN 9781474285513, $94.00; ISBN 9781474285520 pbk, $31.95; ISBN 9781474285490 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-1735

Lupton, Danielle L. Reputation for resolve: how leaders signal determination in international politics. Cornell, 2020. 264p bibl index ISBN 9781501747717, $49.95; ISBN 9781501747724 ebook, $24.99; 58-1789

Miles, Steven B. Chinese diasporas: a social history of global migration. Cambridge, 2020. 278p index ISBN 9781107179929, $89.99; ISBN 9781316631812 pbk, $25.99; ISBN 9781316846247 ebook, $21.00; 58-1725

Moussawi, Ghassan. Disruptive situations: fractal Orientalism and queer strategies in Beirut. Temple, 2020. 210p bibl index ISBN 9781439918494, $94.50; ISBN 9781439918500 pbk, $29.95; ISBN 9781439918517 ebook, $29,95; 58-1828

Murray-Miller, Gavin. Revolutionary Europe: politics, community and culture in transnational context, 1775–1922. Bloomsbury Academic, 2020. 359p bibl index ISBN 9781350020009, $95.00; ISBN 9781350019997 pbk, $30.95; ISBN 9781350020023 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-1711

Okechukwu, Amaka. To fulfill these rights: political struggle over affirmative action and open admissions. Columbia, 2019. 328p bibl index ISBN 9780231183093, $90.00; ISBN 9780231183093 pbk, $30.00; ISBN 9780231544740 ebook, $29.99; 58-1693

Perera, B. Yasanthi. Uber, by B. Yasanthi Perera and Pia A. Albinsson. Greenwood, 2020. 236p bibl in-dex ISBN 9781440864247, $52.00; ISBN 9781440864254 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-1676

The Populist manifesto, ed. by Emmy Eklundh and Andy Knott. Rowman & Littlefield, 2020. 132p bibl index ISBN 9781786612625, $90.00; ISBN 9781786612632 pbk, $29.95; ISBN 9781786612649 ebook, $28.50; 58-1804

Posner, Eric A. The demagogue’s playbook: the battle for American democracy from the founders to Trump. All Points Books, 2020. 310p index ISBN 9781250303035, $28.99; ISBN 9781250303028 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-1810

Pritikin, Trisha T. The Hanford plaintiffs: voices from the fight for atomic justice, introd. by Karen Dorn Steele. University Press of Kansas, 2020. 364p index ISBN 9780700629046, $60.00; ISBN 9780700629046 pbk, $28.95; ISBN 9780700629053 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-1750

Protest and dissent, ed. by Melissa Schwartzberg. New York University, 2020. 304p index (Nomos, 62) ISBN 9781479810512, $65.00; ISBN 9781479837564 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-1830

Sanderson, Catherine Ashley. Why we act: turning bystanders into moral rebels. Belknap, Harvard, 2020. 259p index ISBN 9780674241831, $27.95; ISBN 9780674241817 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-1820

Superheroes and masculinity: unmasking the gender performance of heroism, ed. by Sean Parson and J. L. Schatz. Lexington Books, 2020. 152p bibl index ISBN 9781498591492, $90.00; ISBN 9781498591508 ebook, $85.50; 58-1660

Translated memories: transgenerational perspectives on the Holocaust, ed. by Bettina Hofmann and Ursula Reuter. Lexington Books, 2020. 404p bibl index ISBN 9781793606068, $120.00; ISBN 9781793606075 ebook, $114.00; 58-1714

Trinch, Shonna L. What the signs say: language, gentrification, and place-making in Brooklyn, by Shonna Trinch and Edward Snajdr. Vanderbilt, 2020. 296p bibl index ISBN 9780826522771, $99.95; ISBN 9780826522795 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-1670

Tyler, Imogen. Stigma: the machinery of inequality. Zed Books, 2020. 368p bibl index ISBN 9781786993304, $25.00; ISBN 9781786993311 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-1835

Voices from the Chinese century: public intellectual debate from contemporary China, ed. by Timothy Cheek, David Ownby, and Joshua A. Fogel. Columbia, 2020. 388p index ISBN 9780231195225, $90.00; ISBN 9780231195232 pbk, $30.00; ISBN 9780231551250 ebook, $29.99; 58-1731

Wallace, Karen O. Trauma informed teaching through play art narrative (PAN), by Karen O. Wallace and Patrick J. Lewis. Brill | Sense, 2020. 210p bibl index ISBN 9789004432727, $119.00; ISBN 9789004432710 pbk, $54.00; ISBN 9789004432734 ebook, $119.00; 58-1698

White, Geoff. Crime dot com: from viruses to vote rigging, how hacking went global. Reaktion Books, 2020. 344p bibl index ISBN 9781789142853, $27.50; ISBN 9781789142860 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-1836

Woodhouse, Barbara Bennett. The ecology of childhood: how our changing world threatens children’s rights. New York University, 2020. 357p bibl index ISBN 9780814794845, $50.00; ISBN 9780814794852 ebook, $50.00; 58-1661

Writing anthropology: essays on craft & commitment, ed by Carole McGranahan. Duke, 2020. 320p bibl index ISBN 9781478006848, $104.95; ISBN 9781478008125 pbk, $27.95; ISBN 9781478009160 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-1671