The Top 75 Community College Titles: September 2023 Edition
The best of all the titles appropriate for two-year colleges reviewed in the September issue of Choice.
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Fees, Clay. The age of the muscle car. McFarland, 2022. 412p bibl index ISBN 9781476678146 pbk, $39.95; ISBN 9781476642451 ebook, contact publisher for price; 60-1589
Notable crime fiction writers, ed. by Robert C. Evans. Salem Press, 2021. 930p 2v bibl index ISBN 9781637000311, $225.00; ISBN 9781637000328 ebook, $225.00; 60-1583
Bell, Bill. Crusoe’s books: readers in the empire of print, 1800–1918. Oxford, 2022. 304p bibl index ISBN 9780192894694, $45.00; ISBN 9780191938344 ebook, contact publisher for price; 60-1593
Buurman, Erica. The Viennese ballroom in the age of Beethoven. Cambridge, 2021. 300p bibl index ISBN 9781108495851, $99.00; ISBN 9781108863278 ebook, $80.00; 60-1649
Chapman, Caroline. Nineteenth-century women artists: sisters of the brush. Unicorn Press, 2021. 224p bibl index ISBN 9781913491413, $37.95; ISBN 9781914414084 ebook, contact publisher for price; 60-1604
Debenedetti, Ana. Botticelli: artist and designer. Reaktion Books, 2021. 232p bibl index ISBN 9781789144383, $22.50; ISBN 9781789144376 ebook, contact publisher for price; 60-1605
Fisher, James. The theater of Tony Kushner: living past hope. Routledge, 2022. 354p bibl index ISBN 9780367026738, $160.00; ISBN 9780367026745 pbk, $44.95; ISBN 9780429398391 ebook, contact publisher for price; 60-1667
Friedman, Jonathan C. Haunted laughter: representations of Adolf Hitler, the Third Reich, and the Holocaust in comedic film and television. Lexington Books, 2022. 240p bibl index ISBN 9781793640154, $105.00; ISBN 9781793640161 ebook, $45.00; 60-1653
Gennaro, Liza. Making broadway dance. Oxford, 2021. 256p bibl index ISBN 9780190631093, $39.95; ISBN 9780190631116 ebook, contact publisher for price; 60-1668
Haitian revolutionary fictions: an anthology, ed. with tr. by Marlene L. Daut, Grégory Pierrot, and Marion C. Rohrleitner. Virginia, 2022. 1,008p bibl index ISBN 9780813945699, $135.00; ISBN 9780813945705 pbk, $65.00; ISBN 9780813945712 ebook, $48.50; 60-1627
Hersey, Curt. History of television news parody in America: nothing but the truthiness. Lexington Books, 2022. 296p ISBN 9781793637789, $110.00; ISBN 9781793637796 ebook, $45.00; 60-1615
Hill, Constance Valis. Brotherhood in rhythm: The jazz tap dancing of the Nicholas Brothers. Oxford, 2021. 384p bibl index ISBN 9780197523971, $35.00; ISBN 9780197523995 ebook, contact publisher for price; 60-1670
Hurston, Zora Neale. You don’t know us Negroes: and other essays, ed. by Genevieve West and Henry Louis Gates Jr. Amistad, 2022. 464p bibl index ISBN 9780063043855, $29.99; ISBN 9780063043879 ebook, contact publisher for price; 60-1641
Jenkins, Earnestine. Black artists in America: from the Great Depression to civil rights. Yale, 2021. 167p bibl index ISBN 9780300260908, $40.00; ISBN 9780300269932 ebook, contact publisher for price; 60-1598
Joannides, Paul. Raphael. Thames & Hudson, 2022. 320p ISBN 9780500204849 pbk, $23.95; 60-1606
Montero, Barbara Gail. Philosophy of mind: a very short introduction. Oxford, 2022. 160p bibl index (Very short introductions, 691) ISBN 9780198809074 pbk, $11.95; ISBN 9780192536730 ebook, contact publisher for price; 60-1675
Myerson, Jeremy. Designing a world for everyone: 30 years of inclusive design. Lund Humphries, 2021. 144p index ISBN 9781848224636, $69.99; 60-1600
Opstad, Gillian. Emma and Claude Debussy: the biography of a relationship. Boydell Press, 2022. 408p bibl ISBN 9781783276585, $70.00; ISBN 9781800104044 ebook, contact publisher for price; 60-1666
Richards, William. Together by design: the art and architecture of communal living. Princeton Architectural, 2022. 160p bibl index ISBN 9781648960277, $24.95; 60-1611
Sachs, Aaron. Up from the depths: Herman Melville, Lewis Mumford, and rediscovery in dark times. Princeton, 2022. 472p bibl index ISBN 9780691215419, $32.00; ISBN 9780691236940 ebook, contact publisher for price; 60-1645
Sturgill, Amanda. We are #ALTGOV: social media resistance from the inside. Rowman & Littlefield, 2022. 230p bibl index ISBN 9781538162095, $36.00; ISBN 9781538162101 ebook, $34.00; 60-1624
Antonelli, Alexandre. Hidden universe: adventures in biodiversity. Chicago, 2022. 276p bibl index ISBN 9780226821870, $22.00; ISBN 9780226821887 ebook, $21.99; 60-1684
Beyond the lab and the field: infrastructures as places of knowledge production since the late nineteenth century, ed. by Eike-Christian Heine and Martin Meiske. Pittsburgh, 2022. 292p bibl index ISBN 9780822946373, $60.00; ISBN 9780822987789 ebook, contact publisher for price; 60-1680
Bremner, Brian. Man versus microbe: what will it take to win?. World Scientific, 2022. 324p bibl index ISBN 9781800611139, $68.00; ISBN 9781800611207 pbk, $28.00; ISBN 9781800611146 ebook, contact publisher for price; 60-1686
Brown, Lawrence D. Political exercise: active living, public policy, and the built environment. Columbia, 2022. 320p bibl index ISBN 9780231173506, $120.00; ISBN 9780231173513 pbk, $30.00; ISBN 9780231553445 ebook, $29.99; 60-1708
Chittka, Lars. The mind of a bee. Princeton, 2022. 272p bibl index ISBN 9780691180472, $29.95; ISBN 9780691236247 ebook, contact publisher for price; 60-1687
Conover, Michael R. Human-wildlife interactions: from conflict to coexistence, by Michael R. Conover and Denise O. Conover. 2nd ed. CRC Press, 2022. 508p ISBN 9781138394094, $200.00; ISBN 9781032134499 pbk, $69.95; ISBN 9780429685712 ebook, $69.95; 60-1688
Hathaway, Michael J. What a mushroom lives for: matsutake and the worlds they make. Princeton, 2022. 296p bibl index ISBN 9780691225883, $26.95; ISBN 9780691225890 ebook, contact publisher for price; 60-1697
Henning, April. Doping: a sporting history, by April Henning and Paul Dimeo. Reaktion Books, 2022. 240p bibl index ISBN 9781789145274, $22.50; ISBN 9781789145281 ebook, contact publisher for price; 60-1725
Hill, Jennifer J. Birthing the West: mothers and midwives in the Rockies and Plains. Nebraska, 2022. 290p bibl index ISBN 9781496226853 pbk, $24.95; ISBN 9781496231079 ebook, $24.95; 60-1711
Hone, David. How fast did T. rex run?: unsolved questions from the frontiers of dinosaur science. Princeton, 2022. 280p bibl index ISBN 9780691242514, $29.95; ISBN 9780691242521 ebook, contact publisher for price; 60-1704
Hutson, Tony. Bats: their biology and behavior. Comstock Publishing Associates, 2022. 160p bibl index ISBN 9781501767777 pbk, $23.95; 60-1699
Johnson, W. Carter. Ecology of Dakota landscapes: past, present, and future, by W. Carter Johnson and Dennis H. Knight. Yale, 2022. 336p bibl index ISBN 9780300253818 pbk, $45.00; ISBN 9780300265293 ebook, contact publisher for price; 60-1692
Neuropsychology of depression, ed. by Shawn M. McClintock and Jimmy Choi. Guilford, 2022. 464p bibl index ISBN 9781462549276, $75.00; ISBN 9781462549320 ebook, $75.00; 60-1714
Committee on Chemical Engineering in the 21st Century: New directions for chemical engineering. National Academies Press, 2022. 368p bibl index ISBN 9780309268424 pbk, $50.00; ISBN 9780309268448 ebook, contact publisher for price; 60-1703
Randall, David K. Monster’s bones: the discovery of T. Rex and how it shook our world. W. W. Norton, 2022. 288p bibl index ISBN 9781324006534, $27.95; ISBN 9781324006541 ebook, contact publisher for price; 60-1706
Sandy beaches as endangered ecosystems: environmental problems and possible assessment and management solutions, ed. by Sílvia C. Gonçalves and Susana M. F. Ferreira. CRC Press, 2022. 310p bibl index ISBN 9780367147495, $199.95; ISBN 9780429053252 ebook, $58.95; 60-1695
Sexton-Radek, Kathy. Sleep disorders: elements, history, treatments, and research, by Kathleen J. Sexton-Radek and Gina Graci. Praeger, 2022. 167p bibl index ISBN 9781440864452, $62.00; ISBN 9781440864469 ebook, contact publisher for price; 60-1715
Anderson, Elijah. Black in white space: the enduring impact of color in everyday life. Chicago, 2022. 288p bibl index ISBN 9780226657233, $25.00; ISBN 9780226815176 ebook, $24.99; 60-1871
Anderson, Kristen Layne. Immigration in American history. Routledge, 2021. 212p bibl index ISBN 9780367416362, $160.00; ISBN 9780367415723 pbk, $42.95; ISBN 9780367815448 ebook, $42.95; 60-1799
Auer, Stefan. European disunion: democracy, sovereignty and the politics of emergency. Oxford, 2022. 288p bibl index ISBN 9780197659601, $35.00; ISBN 9780197674505 ebook, contact publisher for price; 60-1829
Burke, W. Warner. Profitably healthy companies: principles of organizational growth and development, by Warner W. Burke and Michael O’Malley. Columbia Business School, 2022. 344p bibl index ISBN 9780231186902, $140.00; ISBN 9780231186919 pbk, $35.00; ISBN 9780231546881 ebook, contact publisher for price; 60-1743
The cancer of colonialism: W. Alphaeus Hunton, Black liberation and the Daily Worker, 1944–1946, ed. by Tony Pecinovsky. International Publishers, . 372p bibl ISBN 9780717808816 pbk, $19.99; ISBN 9780717808861 ebook, contact publisher for price; 60-1800
Cart, Michael. Young adult literature: from romance to realism. ALA Neal-Schuman, 2022. 288p bibl index ISBN 9780838947470, $59.99; ISBN 9780838937471 ebook, contact publisher for price; 60-1766
Ciccariello-Maher, George. Anticolonial eruptions: racial hubris and the cunning of resistance. California, 2022. 156p bibl (American studies now: critical histories of the present, 15) ISBN 9780520379350, $85.00; ISBN 9780520379367 pbk, $18.95; ISBN 9780520976689 ebook, $18.95; 60-1846
Continetti, Matthew. The right: the hundred-year war for American conservatism. Basic Books, 2022. 496p bibl index ISBN 9781541600508, $32.00; ISBN 9781541600515 pbk, $19.99; ISBN 9781541600522 ebook, $18.99; 60-1854
Cox, Gerry R. Sociology of death and the American Indian. Lexington Books, 2022. 394p bibl index ISBN 9781666908503, $120.00; ISBN 9781666908510 ebook, $45.00; 60-1872
The dark side of reform: exploring the impact of public policy on racial equity, ed. by Tyrell Connor and Daphne M. Penn. Lexington Books, 2022. 208p bibl index ISBN 9781793643759, $95.00; ISBN 9781793643766 ebook, $45.00; 60-1874
Friedberg, Ahron. Through a screen darkly: psychoanalytic reflections during the pandemic, by Ahron Friedberg and Sandra Sherman. Routledge, 2021. 198p bibl index ISBN 9780367771515, $136.00; ISBN 9780367764043 pbk, $27.96; ISBN 9781003169994 ebook, contact publisher for price; 60-1867
Garrard, Graeme. The return of the state: and why it is essential for our health, wealth and happiness. Yale, 2022. 240p bibl index ISBN 9780300256758, $25.00; 60-1847
Gellman, Irwin F. Campaign of the century: Kennedy, Nixon, and the election of 1960. Yale, 2022. 473p bibl index ISBN 9780300218268, $35.00; ISBN 9780300245035 ebook, contact publisher for price; 60-1801
Genova, Thomas. Imperial educación: race and republican motherhood in the nineteenth-century Americas. Virginia, 2021. 342p bibl index ISBN 9780813946238, $115.00; ISBN 9780813946245 pbk, $39.50; ISBN 9780813946252 ebook, contact publisher for price; 60-1793
Goldstein, Robin S. Can legal weed win?: the blunt realities of Cannabis economics, by Robin Goldstein and Daniel Sumner. California, 2022. 232p bibl index ISBN 9780520383265, $24.95; ISBN 9780520383272 , $24.95; 60-1754
Haviv-Horiner, Anita. Nothing new in Europe?: Israelis look at antisemitism today. Berghahn Books, 2022. 186p bibl index ISBN 9781800733176, $120.00; ISBN 9781800733183 ebook, $34.95; 60-1877
Holden, Vanessa M. Surviving Southampton: African American women and resistance in Nat Turner’s community. Illinois, 2021. 160p bibl index ISBN 9780252043864, $110.00; ISBN 9780252085857 pbk, $22.95; ISBN 9780252052767 ebook, $14.95; 60-1802
Johnson, Terrence L. Blacks and Jews in America: an invitation to dialogue, by Terrence L. Johnson and Jacques Berlinerblau. Georgetown University, 2022. 224p bibl index ISBN 9781647121402, $26.95; ISBN 9781647121419 ebook, $26.95; 60-1858
McCloskey, Erin. A world away from IEPs: how disabled students learn in out-of-school spaces. Teachers College Press, 2022. 128p bibl index ISBN 9780807766736, $111.00; ISBN 9780807766729 , $36.95; ISBN 9780807780916 ebook, contact publisher for price; 60-1769
McLerran, Jennifer. A New Deal for Navajo weaving: reform and revival of Diné textiles. Arizona, 2022. 261p bibl index ISBN 9780816543243, $50.00; ISBN 9780816546244 ebook, $50.00; 60-1739
Miller, Jennifer. The transformative potential of LGBTQ+ children’s picture books. University Press of Mississippi, 2022. 270p bibl index ISBN 9781496839992, $99.00; ISBN 9781496840004 pbk, $25.00; ISBN 9781496840011 ebook, contact publisher for price; 60-1770
Mouradian, Khatchig. The resistance network: the Armenian genocide and humanitarianism in Ottoman Syria, 1915–1918. Michigan State, 2021. 262p bibl index ISBN 9781611863857, $44.95; ISBN 9781611863949 pbk, $24.95; ISBN 9781609176600 ebook, 9781609176600; 60-1798
Moyn, Samuel. Humane: how the United States abandoned peace and reinvented war. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021. 416p bibl index ISBN 9780374173708, $30.00; ISBN 9780374719920 ebook, $14.99; 60-1804
Murray, Alexander C. The Merovingians: kingship, institutions, law, and history. Routledge, 2022. 400p bibl index ISBN 9781032054230, $190.00; ISBN 9781003197508 ebook, contact publisher for price; 60-1814
Nemer, David. Technology of the oppressed: inequity and the digital mundane in favelas of Brazil. MIT, 2022. 230p bibl index ISBN 9780262543347 pbk, $35.00; ISBN 9780262368636 ebook, contact publisher for price; 60-1733
O’Neil, Cathy. The shame machine: who profits in the new age of humiliation, by Cathy O’Neil with Stephen Baker. Crown, 2022. 272p bibl index ISBN 9781984825452, $27.00; ISBN 9781984825469 ebook, contact publisher for price; 60-1869
Parker, Robert E. The misuse, misrepresentation, and politicization of statistics in American society. Lexington Books, 2022. 146p bibl index ISBN 9781793625526, $90.00; ISBN 9781793625533 ebook, $45.00; 60-1860
Piketty, Thomas. A brief history of equality, tr. by Steven Rendall. Harvard, 2022. 274p bibl index ISBN 9780674273559, $27.95; ISBN 9780674275898 ebook, contact publisher for price; 60-1761
Quicker, John C. Before Crips: fussin’, cussin’, and discussin’ among South Los Angeles juvenile gangs, by John C. Quicker and Akil S. Batani-Khalfani. Temple, 2022. 464p bibl index ISBN 9781439921975, $115.50; ISBN 9781439921982 pbk, $29.95; ISBN 9781439921999 ebook, $29.95; 60-1880
Resnikoff, Jason. Labor’s end: how the promise of automation degraded work. Illinois, 2022. 251p bibl index ISBN 9780252044250, $110.00; ISBN 9780252086298 pbk, $24.95; ISBN 9780252053214 ebook, $14.95; 60-1805
Ringen, Stein. How democracies live: power, statecraft, and freedom in modern societies. Chicago, 2022. 227p bibl index ISBN 9780226818870, $105.00; ISBN 9780226819129 pbk, $30.00; ISBN 9780226819112 ebook, contact publisher for price; 60-1850
Sadurski, Wojciech. A pandemic of populists. Cambridge, 2022. 212p bibl index ISBN 9781009224505, $89.99; ISBN 9781009224536 pbk, $29.99; ISBN 9781009224550 ebook, $24.00; 60-1826
Sim, Stuart. A call to dissent: defending democracy against extremism and populism. Edinburgh University Press, 2022. 216p bibl index ISBN 9781474494946, $110.00; ISBN 9781474494953 pbk, $19.95; ISBN 9781474494977 ebook, $19.95; 60-1851
Sloss, David. Tyrants on Twitter: protecting democracies from information warfare. Stanford, 2022. 352p bibl index ISBN 9781503628441, $28.00; ISBN 9781503631151 ebook, contact publisher for price; 60-1841
Tajali, Mona. Women’s political representation in Iran and Turkey: demanding a seat at the table. Edinburgh University Press, 2022. 352p bibl index ISBN 9781474499460, $110.00; ISBN 9781474499477 pbk, $29.95; ISBN 9781474499484 ebook, contact publisher for price; 60-1827
Tamis-LeMonda, Catherine S. Child development: context, culture, and cascades. Oxford, 2021. 800p bibl index ISBN 9780190216900 pbk, $125.00; ISBN 9780190216979 ebook, contact publisher for price; 60-1870
Trosper, Ronald L. Indigenous economics: sustaining peoples and their lands. Arizona, 2022. 272p bibl index ISBN 9780816546619, $100.00; ISBN 9780816533459 pbk, $30.00; ISBN 9780816546626 ebook, $30.00; 60-1763
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