The Top 75 Community College Titles: February 2022

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

Posted on February 24, 2022 in Top 75 Community College Titles

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Declassified Documents Online: Twentieth-Century British Intelligence: An Intelligence Empire. Gale, part of Cengage Learning. Contact publisher for pricing. URL: https://www.gale.com/c/declassified-documents-online-twentieth-century-british-intelligence-intelligence-empire 59-1537

Hansen, William F. Classical mythology: a guide to the mythical world of the Greeks and Romans. Oxford, 2020. 432p bibl index ISBN 9780197506646 pbk, $19.99; 59-1533

ProQuest One Business. ProQuest. Contact publisher for pricing. URL: https://about.proquest.com/products-services/ProQuest-One-Business.html 59-1540

Sex and Sexuality Module II: Self-expression, Community, and Identity. Adam Matthew. Contact publisher for pricing. URL: https://www.sexandsexuality.amdigital.co.uk/ 59-1542

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Humanities

Bergo, Bettina. Anxiety: a philosophical history. Oxford, 2021. 538p bibl indexes ISBN 9780197539712, $49.95; ISBN 9780197539736 ebook, contact publisher for price; 59-1622

Brandt, Kenneth K. Jack London. Reaktion Books, 2021. 224p bibl ISBN 9781789143874 pbk, $19.00; ISBN 9781789143881 ebook, contact publisher for price; 59-1582

Brown, Noel. Contemporary Hollywood animation: style, storytelling, culture and ideology since the 1990s. Edinburgh University Press, 2021. 232p bibl filmography index ISBN 9781474410564, $100.00; ISBN 9781474410588 ebook, $100.00; 59-1605

Clarke, Michael. Inside computer music, by Michael Clarke, Frédéric Dufeu, and Peter Manning. Oxford, 2020. 432p bibl index ISBN 9780190659646, $99.00; ISBN 9780190659653 pbk, $35.00; ISBN 9780190659684 ebook, contact publisher for price; 59-1612

Dodd, Bill. Solutions journalism: news at the intersection of hope, leadership, and expertise. Lexington Books, 2021. 190p bibl index ISBN 9781793618719, $95.00; ISBN 9781793618726 ebook, $45.00; 59-1564

Hoffmann, Tobias. Free will and the rebel angels in medieval philosophy. Cambridge, 2021. 292p bibl indexes ISBN 9781107155381, $99.99; ISBN 9781108922913 ebook, $80.00; 59-1625

Keywords for comics studies, ed. by Ramzi Fawaz, Shelley Streeby, and Deborah Elizabeth Whaley. New York University, 2021. 274p bibl ISBN 9781479816682, $89.00; ISBN 9781479831968 pbk, $28.00; ISBN 9781479825431 ebook, contact publisher for price; 59-1565

Kinderman, William. Beethoven: a political artist in revolutionary times. Chicago, 2021. 256p bibl index ISBN 9780226669052, $35.00; ISBN 9780226669199 ebook, $34.99; 59-1615

Lapidus, Benjamin L. New York and the international sound of Latin music, 1940–1990. University Press of Mississippi, 2021. 440p bibl index ISBN 9781496831286, $90.00; ISBN 9781496831293 pbk, $30.00; ISBN 9781496831316 ebook, contact publisher for price; 59-1616

Life magazine and the power of photography, ed. by Katherine A. Bussard and Kristen Gresh. Yale, 2020. 336p bibl index ISBN 9780300250886, $60.00; 59-1562

Mills, Dana. Dance and activism: a century of radical dance across the world. Bloomsbury Academic, 2021. 216p bibl index ISBN 9781350137011, $105.00; ISBN 9781350137035 ebook, contact publisher for price; 59-1620

Mori, Masaki. Haruki Murakami and his early work: the loneliness of the long-distance running artist. Rowman & Littlefield, 2021. 134p bibl index ISBN 9781793635976, $90.00; ISBN 9781793635983 ebook, $45.00; 59-1577

Morrison, Ronald D. Thomas Hardy: a companion to the novels. McFarland, 2021. 264p bibl index ISBN 9781476673653 pbk, $49.95; ISBN 9781476643014 ebook, contact publisher for price; 59-1592

Nersessian, Anahid. Keats’s odes: a lover’s discourse. Chicago, 2021. 260p index ISBN 9780226762678, $20.00; ISBN 9780226762708 ebook, $20.00; 59-1593

The Oxford handbook of media, technology, and organization studies, ed. by Timon Beyes, Robin Holt, and Claus Pias. Oxford, 2021. 560p ISBN 9780198809913, $125.00; ISBN 9780191882395 ebook, contact publisher for price; 59-1566

Paintings on stone: science and the sacred, ed. by Judith W. Mann with Mario Casaburo et al. Hirmer, 2021. 320p ISBN 9783777435565, $50.00; 59-1557

Pugh, Tison. On the queerness of early English drama: sex in the subjunctive. Toronto, 2021. 256p bibl index ISBN 9781487508746, $65.00; ISBN 9781487538873 ebook, $65.00; 59-1595

Race in young adult speculative fiction, ed. by Meghan Gilbert-Hickey and Miranda A. Green-Barteet. University Press of Mississippi, 2021. 280p index ISBN 9781496833815, $99.00; ISBN 9781496833822 ebook, $30.00; ISBN 9781496833860 ebook, contact publisher for price; 59-1574

Returning Southeast Asia’s past: objects, museums and restitution, ed. by Louise Tythacott and Panggah Ardiyansyah with Gabrielle Abbe et al. National University of Singapore, 2021. 320p ISBN 9789813251243, $46.00; 59-1551

The Routledge companion to medieval philosophy, ed. by Richard Cross and JT Paasch. Routledge, 2021. 442p index ISBN 9780415658270, $250.00; ISBN 9781315709604 ebook, $52.95; 59-1631

T & T Clark reader in political theology, ed. by Elizabeth Phillips, Anna Rowlands, and Amy Daughton. Bloomsbury T & T Clark, 2021. 721p bibl ISBN 9780567666970, $220.00; ISBN 9780567666963 pbk, $67.95; 59-1638

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Science & Technology

Blockchain-enabled fog and edge computing: concepts, architectures and applications, ed. by Muhammad Maaz Rehan and Mubashir Rehmani. CRC Press, 2020. 320p bibl index ISBN 9780367457358, $94.95; ISBN 9781003034087 ebook, $94.95; 59-1639

Cassidy, Mike. Biological evolution: an introduction. Cambridge, 2021. 268p bibl index ISBN 9780521812689, $105.00; ISBN 9780521012058 pbk, $39.99; ISBN 9781009028462 ebook, $32.00; 59-1645

Corbett, Julia B. Communicating the climate crisis: new directions for facing what lies ahead. Lexington Books, 2021. 230p index ISBN 9781793638021, $100.00; ISBN 9781793638038 ebook, $45.00; 59-1657

Erickson, John R. Bad smoke, good smoke: a Texas rancher’s view of wildfire. Texas Tech, 2021. 208p index ISBN 9781682830871, $24.95; ISBN 9781682830888 ebook, $9.95; 59-1658

Funk, Chris. Drought, flood, fire: how climate change contributes to catastrophes. Cambridge, 2021. 325p bibl index ISBN 9781108839877, $24.95; ISBN 9781108881159 ebook, $20.00; 59-1686

Germs and governance: the past, present and future of hospital infection, prevention and control, ed. by Anne Marie Rafferty, Marguerite Dupree, and Fay Bound Alberti. Manchester University Press, 2021. 301p bibl index ISBN 9781526140784, $120.00; ISBN 9781526140807 ebook, contact publisher for price; 59-1677

Kahn, Matthew E. Adapting to climate change: markets and the management of an uncertain future. Yale, 2021. 304p bibl index ISBN 9780300246711, $30.00; ISBN 9780300258578 ebook, contact pub-lisher for price; 59-1661

Nail, Thomas. Theory of the Earth. Stanford, 2021. 352p bibl index ISBN 978150361 4956, $90.00; ISBN 9781503627550 pbk, $28.00; ISBN 9781503627567 ebook, contact publisher for price; 59-1662

Newton, David E. Plastics and microplastics: a reference handbook. ABC-CLIO, 2021. 311p bibl index ISBN 9781440875397, $63.00; ISBN 9781440875403 ebook, contact publisher for price; 59-1663

Pandey, Arun K. Plant systematics, by Arun K. Pandey and Shruti Kasana. Routledge, 2021. 326p bibl index ISBN 9781032024660, $120.00; ISBN 9781003183464 ebook, $58.95; 59-1649

Pellis, Sergio. Understanding animal behaviour: what to measure and why, by Sergio Pellis and Vivien Pellis. Cambridge, 2021. 164p bibl index ISBN 9781108483452, $84.99; ISBN 9781108705103 pbk, $34.99; ISBN 9781108577847 ebook, $28.00; 59-1654

Robins, Nicholas. Introducing hydrogeology. Dunedin Academic, 2020. 115p bibl ISBN 9781780460789 pbk, $24.50; ISBN 9781780466163 ebook, contact publisher for price; 59-1665

The Routledge handbook of sport in Asia, ed. by Hong Fan and Zhouxiang Lu. Routledge, 2021. 650p index ISBN 9780367183776, $250.00; ISBN 9780367183776 ebook, $48.95; 59-1690

Rowlands, Mark. World on fire: humans, animals, and the future of the planet. Oxford, 2021. 256p bibl index ISBN 9780197541890, $35.00; ISBN 9780197541913 ebook, contact publisher for price; 59-1666

Schwartz, David Asa. Modern sports around the world: history, geography, and sociology. ABC-CLIO, 2021. 381p bibl index ISBN 9781440868795, $97.00; ISBN 9781440868801 ebook, contact publisher for price; 59-1691

State of the apes: v.4: Killing, capture, trade and ape conservation, ed. by Helga Rainer, Alison White, and Annette Lanjouw. Cambridge/Arcus Foundation, 2020. 408p bibl index ISBN 9781108487948, $99.99; ISBN 9781108738262 pbk, $39.99; ISBN 9781108768351 ebook, contact publisher for price; 59-1655

Theodore, Louis. Water resource management issues: basic principles and applications, by Louis Theodore and R. Ryan Dupont. CRC Press, 2020. 444p bibl index ISBN 9780367183851, $149.95; ISBN 9780429061271 ebook, $150.00; 59-1674

Wald, Lucien. Fundamentals of solar radiation. CRC Press, 2021. 270p index ISBN 9780367725884, $160.00; ISBN 9781003155454 ebook, $58.95; 59-1644

Wylie, Caitlin Donohue. Preparing dinosaurs: the work behind the scenes. MIT, 2021. 264p bib index ISBN 9780262542678 pbk, $75.00; ISBN 9780262365963 ebook, contact publisher for price; 59-1668

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Social & Behavioral Sciences

Adkison-Johnson, Carla. Child discipline in African American families: culturally responsive policies. Lexington Books, 2021. 134p index ISBN 9781793620934, $90.00; ISBN 9781793620941 ebook, $45.00; 59-1724

Barton, Bernadette. The pornification of America: how raunch culture is ruining our society. New York University, 2021. 232p bibl index ISBN 9781479894437, $24.95; ISBN 9781479828340 ebook, contact publisher for price; 59-1817

Bittman, Mark. Animal, vegetable, junk: a history of food, from sustainable to suicidal. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2021. 384p bibl index ISBN 9781328974624, $28.00; ISBN 9781328971623 ebook, contact publisher for price; 59-1694

Charest, Brian. Civic literacy in schools and communities: teaching and organizing for a revitalized democracy. Teachers College Press, 2021. 160p bibl index ISBN 9780807765258, $99.00; ISBN 9780807765241 pbk, $32.95; ISBN 9780807779514 ebook, $32.95; 59-1726

Clogg, Richard. A concise history of Greece. Cambridge, 2021. 352p bibl index ISBN 9781108844895, $79.99; ISBN 9781108948999 pbk, $25.99; ISBN 9781108957311 ebook, $21.00; 59-1755

Covey, R. Alan. Inca apocalypse: the Spanish conquest and the transformation of the Andean world. Oxford, 2020. 592p bibl index ISBN 9780190299125, $34.95; ISBN 9780190299149 ebook, contact pub-lisher for price; 59-1758

Critchlow, Donald T. In defense of populism: protest and American democracy. Pennsylvania, 2020. 220p index ISBN 9780812252767, $29.95; ISBN 9780812297737 ebook, contact publisher for price; 59-1804

Darda, Joseph. How white men won the culture wars: a history of veteran America. California, 2021. 280p bibl index ISBN 9780520381445, $27.95; ISBN 9780520381452 ebook, $27.95; 59-1771

De La Pedraja Tomán, René. Putin confronts the West : the logic of Russian foreign relations, 1999–2020. McFarland, 2021. 297p bibl index ISBN 9781476684994, $39.95; ISBN 9781476642406 ebook, contact publisher for price; 59-1756

Debating medieval Europe: the early Middle Ages, c.450–c.1050, ed. by Stephen Mossman. Manchester University Press, 2020. 397p index ISBN 9781526117328, $120.00; ISBN 9781526117335 pbk, $27.95; ISBN 9781526117342 ebook, contact publisher for price; 59-1787

Dos Santos, Pedro A. G. Women’s empowerment and disempowerment in Brazil: the rise and fall of President Dilma Rousseff, by Pedro A. G. dos Santos and Farida Jalalzai. Temple, 2021. 198p bibl index ISBN 9781439916179, $104.50; ISBN 9781439916186 pbk, $29.95; ISBN 9781439916193 ebook, $29.95; 59-1792

Dyja, Tom. New York, New York, New York: four decades of success, excess, and transformation. Simon & Schuster, 2021. 544p bibl index ISBN 9781982149789, $30.00; ISBN 9781982149802 ebook, $14.99; 59-1772

Eyetsemitan, Frank E. Death, dying, and bereavement around the world: theories, varied views and customs. Charles C. Thomas, 2021. 236p bibl indexes ISBN 9780398093488 pbk, $35.95; ISBN 9780398093495 ebook, $35.95; 59-1809

Goldman, Samuel. After nationalism: being American in an age of division. Pennsylvania, 2021. 208p bibl index ISBN 9780812251647, $24.95; 59-1773

Gordon, Philip H. Losing the long game: the false promise of regime change in the Middle East. St. Martin’s, 2021. 368pp bibl index ISBN 9781250217035, $29.99; ISBN 9781250217042 ebook, contact pub-lisher for price; 59-1765

Hébert, Keith S. Cornerstone of the Confederacy: Alexander Stephens and the speech that defined the Lost Cause. Tennessee, 2021. 277p index ISBN 9781621906346, $45.00; ISBN 9781621906520 ebook, $45.00; 59-1774

Hobbs, Renee. Media literacy in action: questioning the media. Rowman & Littlefield, 2021. 408p bibl index ISBN 9781538115275, $130.00; ISBN 9781538115282 pbk, $80.00; ISBN 9781538115299 ebook, $76.00; 59-1728

Kamali, Sara. Homegrown hate: why white nationalists and militant Islamists are waging war against the United States. California, 2021. 440p bibl index ISBN 9780520360020, $29.95; ISBN 9780520976115 ebook, $29.95; 59-1824

Lund, Mary Ann. A user’s guide to melancholy. Cambridge, 2021. 256p bibl index ISBN 9781108838849, $24.99; ISBN 9781108985956 ebook, $20.00; 59-1811

Luttrell, Regina. Gen Z: the superhero generation, by Regina Luttrell and Karen McGrath. Rowman & Littlefield, 2021. 208p bibl index ISBN 9781538127988, $34.00; ISBN 9781538127995 ebook, $32.00; 59-1699

Martin, Susan F. A nation of immigrants. Cambridge, 2021. 423p bibl index ISBN 9781108830287, $99.99; ISBN 9781108820592 pbk, $29.99; ISBN 9781108902076 ebook, $24.00; 59-1805

Meredith, Patricia. Better boardrooms: repairing corporate governance for the 21st century. Toronto, 2020. 224p bibl index ISBN 9781442649750, $34.95; ISBN 9781442621381 ebook, $34.95; 59-1718

Mikaberidze, Alexander. The Napoleonic Wars: a global history. Oxford, 2020. 910p index ISBN 9780199951062, $39.95; ISBN 9780199951079 ebook, contact publisher for price; 59-1789

The Pan-African pantheon: prophets, poets, and philosophers, ed. by Adekeye Adebajo. Manchester University Press, 2021. 648p bibl index ISBN 9781526156815, $160.00; ISBN 9781526156822 pbk, $30.00; ISBN 9781526156808 ebook, contact publisher for price; 59-1745

Pineda, Erin R. Seeing like an activist : civil disobedience and the Civil Rights Movement. Oxford, 2021. 280p bibl index ISBN 9780197526422, $99.00; ISBN 9780197526439 pbk, $29.95; ISBN 9780197526453 ebook, contact publisher for price; 59-1779

Pyne, Peter. The Panama Railroad. Indiana, 2021. 418p bibl index ISBN 9780253052070, $50.00; ISBN 9780253052094 ebook, $49.99; 59-1761

Roberson, Cliff. Juvenile delinquency: why do youths commit crime?, by Cliff Roberson and Elena Azaola. Rowman & Littlefield, 2021. 316p index ISBN 9781538151945, $120.00; ISBN 9781538131893 pbk, $90.00; ISBN 9781538131909 ebook, $85.50; 59-1828

Rosino, Michael L. Debating the drug war: race, politics, and the media. Routledge, 2021. 196p bibl index ISBN 9781138239685, $120.00; ISBN 9781138239692 pbk, $42.95; ISBN 9781315295176 ebook, $42.95; 59-1829

Skitolsky, Lissa. Hip-hop as philosophical text and testimony: can I get a witness?. Lexington Books, 2021. 189p bibl index ISBN 9781498566704, $95.00; ISBN 9781498566711 ebook, $45.00; 59-1831

Social geographies: an introduction, The Newcastle Social Geographies Collective. Rowman & Littlefield, 2020. 440p bibl index ISBN 9781786612298, $120.00; ISBN 9781786612304 pbk, $39.95; ISBN 9781786612311 ebook, $38.00; 59-1741

Valdes, Francisco. LatCrit: from critical legal theory to academic activism, by Francisco Valdes and Steven W. Bender . New York University, 2021. 189p bibl index ISBN 9781479809295, $89.00; ISBN 9781479809301 pbk, $27.00; ISBN 9781479809325 ebook, contact publisher for price; 59-1834

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