The Top 75 Community College Titles: February 2023 Edition

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


Humanities

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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

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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


Science & Technology

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

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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


Social & Behavioral Sciences

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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

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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

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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