The Top 75 Community College Titles: February 2024

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

Posted on February 22, 2024 in Top 75 Community College Titles

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The Routledge history of antisemitism, ed. by Mark Weitzman, Robert J. Williams, and James Wald.  Routledge, 2023.  458p bibl index  ISBN 9781138369443, $216.00;  ISBN 9780429428616 ebook, $56.95;  61-1519

Stroud, Allen. Historical dictionary of fantasy literature.  Rowman & Littlefield, 2023.  578p bibl  ISBN 9781538166062, $200.00;  ISBN 9781538166079 ebook, $190.00;  61-1510

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Humanities

Art of classic sci-fi movies: an illustrated history, ed. by Adam Newell.  Applause, 2023.  284p  ISBN 9781493071036, $45.00;  61-1559

Brown, Jeremy. Eleventh plague: Jews, plagues, and pandemics from the Bible to COVID-19.  Oxford, 2022.  504p bibl index  ISBN 9780197607183, $49.00;  ISBN 9780197607206 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-1589

A Dark, a light, a bright: the designs of Dorothy Liebes, ed. by Susan Brown and Alexa Griffith Winton.  Yale, 2023.  256p index  ISBN 9780300266153, $50.00;  61-1526

Dobson, Eleanor. Victorian alchemy: science, magic and ancient Egypt.  UCL Press, 2023.  279p bibl index  ISBN 9781787358508, $45.00;  ISBN 9781787358492 pbk, $25.00;  ISBN 9781787358485 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-1549

Driver, Richard D. That was me: Paul McCartney’s career and the legacy of the Beatles.  Lexington Books, 2023.  292p bibl index  ISBN 9781793632074, $110.00;  ISBN 9781793632081 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-1560

Dunbar-Treadwell, Brooke. The case for community in online spaces: taking back connection.  Lexington Books, 2023.  124p bibl index  ISBN 9781666934670, $85.00;  ISBN 9781666934687 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-1538

Epic / everyday: moments in television, ed. by Sarah Cardwell, Jonathan Bignell, and Lucy Fife Donaldson.  Manchester University Press, 2023.  264p bibl index  ISBN 9781526170224, $140.00;  ISBN 9781526170217 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-1539

Foster, Alicia. Gwen John: art and life in London and Paris.  Thames & Hudson, 2023.  272p bibl index  ISBN 9780500025574, $39.95;  61-1527

Graves, Alun. Studio ceramics: British studio pottery 1900 to now.  Thames & Hudson, 2023.  416p bibl index  ISBN 9780500480892, $70.00;  61-1528

Lampert, Laurence. How Socrates became Socrates: a study of Plato’s Phaedo, Parmenides, and Symposium.  Chicago, 2021.  248p bibl index  ISBN 9780226746333, $45.00;  ISBN 9780226746470 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-1569

McLeod, Alexus. An introduction to Mesoamerican philosophy.  Cambridge, 2023.  280p bibl index  ISBN 9781009218771, $105.00;  ISBN 9781009218733 pbk, $29.99;  ISBN 9781009218764 ebook, $29.99;  61-1573

McMahan, David L. Rethinking meditation: Buddhist meditative practices in ancient and modern worlds.  Oxford, 2023.  264p bibl index  ISBN 9780197661741, $29.95;  ISBN 9780197661765 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-1594

Simon, Julia. Debt and redemption in the blues: the call for justice.  Pennsylvania State, 2023.  254p bibl index discography  ISBN 9780271094953, $104.95;  61-1562

Simon, Robin. Shakespeare, Hogarth and Garrick: plays, painting and performance.  Paul Holberton, 2023.  256p bibl index  ISBN 9781913645441, $65.00;  61-1523

Skelton, Christine. Charles Dickens and Georgina Hogarth: a remarkable relationship.  Manchester University Press, 2023.  312p bibl index  ISBN 9781526166081, $29.95;  ISBN 9781526166074 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-1552

Spalding, Frances. The real and the romantic: English art between two world wars.  Thames & Hudson, 2023.  384p bibl index  ISBN 9780500518649, $50.00;  ISBN 9780500777374 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-1529

Stanfill, Mel. Rock this way: cultural constructions of musical legitimacy.  Michigan, 2023.  240p bibl index  ISBN 9780472076284, $70.00;  ISBN 9780472056286 pbk, $29.95;  ISBN 9780472903627 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-1563

Volpilhac-Auger, Catherine. Montesquieu: let there be enlightenment, ed. and tr. by Philip Stewart.  Cambridge, 2023.  262p bibl index  ISBN 9781009249096, $39.99;  ISBN 978100924907 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-1556

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Science & Technology

Abel, Daniel C. Lives of sharks: a natural history of shark life, by Daniel C. Abel and R. Dean Grubbs.  Princeton, 2023.  288p (The lives of the natural world, 7)  ISBN 9780691244310, $35.00;  ISBN 9780691252209 ebook, $24.50;  61-1617

After Apollo: cultural legacies of the race to the moon, ed. by J Bret Bennington and Rodney F. Hill.  University Press of Florida, 2023.  210p bibl index  ISBN 9781683403579, $90.00;  ISBN 9781683403692 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-1605

Bortolotti, Lisa. Why delusions matter.  Bloomsbury Academic, 2023.  200p bibl index  ISBN 9781350163300, $90.00;  ISBN 9781350163294 pbk, $26.95;  ISBN 9781350163300 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-1635

Brodie, Janet Farrell. The first atomic bomb: the Trinity Site in New Mexico.  Nebraska, 2023.  318p bibl index  ISBN 9781496232977, $60.00;  ISBN 9781496236555 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-1606

Campbell, Heather. Ants: a visual guide, by Heather Campbell and Benjamin Blanchard.  Princeton, 2023.  224p bibl index  ISBN 9780691228525, $32.00;  ISBN 9780691248967 ebook, $32.00;  61-1618

The Complete insect: anatomy, physiology, evolution, and ecology, ed. by David A. Grimaldi.  Princeton, 2023.  368p index  ISBN 9780691243108, $35.00;  ISBN 9780691243115 ebook, $35.00;  61-1610

Ervin, Gary N. The biology of aquatic and wetland plants.  CRC Press, 2023.  398p bibl index  ISBN 9781482232042, $160.00;  ISBN 9781032465395 pbk, $69.95;  ISBN 9781315156835 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-1615

Forces of nature: new perspectives on Korean environments, ed. by David Fedman, Eleana J. Kim, and Albert L. Park.  Cornell, 2023.  258p bibl index  ISBN 9781501768781, $125.00;  ISBN 9781501768798 pbk, $31.95;  ISBN 9781501768804 ebook, open access;  61-1627

Friedman, Louis. Alone but not lonely: exploring for extraterrestrial life.  Arizona, 2023.  162p bibl index  ISBN 9780816549504, $24.95;  ISBN 9780816549511 ebook, $24.95;  61-1609

Hartzheim, Bryan Hikari. Hideo Kojima: progressive game design from Metal Gear to Death Stranding.  Bloomsbury Academic, 2023.  240p bibl index  ISBN 9798765101681, $90.00;  ISBN 9798765101698 pbk, $27.95;  ISBN 9798765101650 ebook, $25.12;  61-1646

Koppenborg, Florentine. Japan’s nuclear disaster and the politics of safety governance.  Cornell, 2023.  234p bibl index  ISBN 9781501770043, $46.95;  ISBN 9781501770067 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-1634

Monosson, Emily. Blight: fungi and the coming pandemic.  W. W. Norton, 2023.  272p bibl index  ISBN 9781324007012, $28.95;  ISBN 9781324007029 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-1616

Mueller, Tom. How to make a killing: blood, death and dollars in American medicine.  Oxford, 2023.  288p bibl index  ISBN 9780393866513, $30.00;  61-1637

Packer, Laurence. Bees of the world: a guide to every family.  Princeton, 2023.  240p bibl index  ISBN 9780691226620, $29.45;  ISBN 9780691247342 ebook, $20.97;  61-1620

Pyne, Stephen J. Pyrocene Park: a journey into the fire history of Yosemite National Park.  Arizona, 2023.  192p bibl index  ISBN 9780816549238 pbk, $14.95;  ISBN 9780816549245 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-1631

Rudel, Thomas K. Reforesting the earth: the human drivers of forest conservation, restoration, and expansion.  Columbia, 2023.  296p bibl index  ISBN 9780231210683, $140.00;  ISBN 9780231210690 pbk, $35.00;  ISBN 9780231558549 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-1632

Tremblay, Kaitlin. Collaborative worldbuilding for video games.  CRC Press, 2023.  214p bibl index  ISBN 9781032385587, $125.00;  ISBN 9781032385549 pbk, $49.95;  ISBN 9781000846362 ebook, 49.95;  61-1648

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Social & Behavioral Sciences

Barak, Maya Pagni. Slow violence of immigration court: procedural justice on trial.  New York University, 2023.  240p bibl index  ISBN 9781479821037, $89.00;  ISBN 9781479821044 pbk, $30.00;  ISBN 9781479821051 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-1794

Beukelaer, Christiaan De. Trade winds: a sailing voyage to a sustainable future for shipping.  Manchester University Press, 2023.  376p  ISBN 9781526163097, $29.95;  ISBN 9781526163080 ebook, contact publisher for pricing;  61-1667

Boyd, Christina L. Supreme bias: gender and race in U.S. Supreme Court confirmation hearings, by Christina L. Boyd, Paul M. Collins, Jr., and Lori A. Ringhand.  Stanford, 2023.  290p bibl index  ISBN 9781503632691, $120.00;  ISBN 9781503636880 pbk, $30.00;  ISBN 9781503636897 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-1776

Brown, Kerry. China incorporated: the politics of a world where China is number one.  Bloomsbury Academic, 2023.  208p bibl index  ISBN 9781350267244, $27.00;  ISBN 9781350267251 ebook, $24.30;  61-1762

Cha, Victor D. Korea: a new history of south and north, by Victor D. Cha and Ramon Pacheco Pardo.  Yale, 2023.  288p bibl index  ISBN 9780300259810, $30.00;  ISBN 9780300271287 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-1703

Cottrell, Robert C. The activist 1960s: striving for political and social empowerment in America.  McFarland, 2023.  351p bibl index  ISBN 9781476690261 pbk, $55.00;  ISBN 9781476647777 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-1722

Dabashi, Hamid. The Persian prince: the rise and resurrection of an imperial archetype.  Stanford, 2023.  352p bibl index  ISBN 9781503628823, $90.00;  ISBN 9781503636231 pbk, $30.00;  ISBN 9781503635753 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-1719

Devine, Michael J. The Korean War remembered: contested memories of an unended conflict.  Nebraska, 2023.  346p bibl index  ISBN 9781496234698, $65.00;  ISBN 9781496236043 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-1691

Emotions in culture and everyday life: conceptual, theoretical and empirical explorations, ed. Michael Hviid Jacobsen.  Routledge, 2023.  263p bibl index  ISBN 9781032073385, $170.00;  ISBN 9781003208556 ebook, $52.95;  61-1799

Escott, Paul D. The Civil War political tradition: ten portraits of those who formed it.  Virginia, 2023.  241p bibl index  ISBN 9780813949673, $100.00;  ISBN 9780813949680 pbk, $35.00;  ISBN 9780813949697 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-1724

The essentials of special education advocacy for teachers, by Andrew M. Markelz et al.  Rowman & Littlefield, 2023.  204p bibl index  ISBN 9781538172469, $95.00;  ISBN 9781538172476 pbk, $29.00;  ISBN 9781538172483 ebook, $27.00;  61-1682

Frosh, Stephen. Antisemitism and racism: ethical challenges for psychoanalysis.  Bloomsbury Academic, 2023.  208p bibl index  ISBN 9798765104712, $80.00;  ISBN 9798765104705 pbk, $24.95;  ISBN 9798765104729 ebook, $22.45;  61-1788

Harris, Malcolm. Palo Alto: a history of California, capitalism, and the world.  Little, Brown, 2023.  720p bibl index  ISBN 9780316592031, $36.00;  ISBN 9780316592031 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-1726

Heartfield, James. Britain’s empires: a history, 1600–2020.  Anthem Press, 2023.  506p bibl index  ISBN 9781839987243, $150.00;  ISBN 9781839987267 ebook, $39.95;  61-1739

Holliday, Trenton. Cro-Magnon: the story of the last Ice Age people of Europe.  Columbia, 2023.  296p bibl index  ISBN 9780231204965, $120.00;  ISBN 9780231204972 pbk, $30.00;  ISBN 9780231555777 ebook, $29.99;  61-1658

Keeler, Kasey R. American Indians and the American dream: policies, place, and property in Minnesota.  Minnesota, 2023.  242p bibl index  ISBN 9781517909246, $100.00;  ISBN 9781517909253 pbk, $25.00;  ISBN 9781452963464 ebook, $25.00;  61-1652

Kleiman, Alter. Holocaust survival in Antwerp: on foreign soil, ed. and tr. by Jeff Kleiman.  Lexington Books, 2023.  198p bibl index  ISBN 9781666907940, $95.00;  ISBN 9781666907940 ebook, $45.00;  61-1747

Konaté, Mariam. Sub-Saharan African immigrants’ stories of resilience and courage, by Mariam Konaté and Fredah Mainah.  Anthem Press, 2023.  186p bibl index  ISBN 9781839987861, $125.00;  ISBN 9781839987878 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-1698

Lawson, Thomas. Imagining the cognitive science of religion: magic bullets, complex theories, experimental adventures.  Bloomsbury Academic, 2023.  184p bibl index  ISBN 9781350355866, $90.00;  ISBN 9781350355873 pbk, $29.95;  ISBN 9781350355859 ebook, $26.95;  61-1789

Mannino, Edward F. Reinterpreting the Constitution: how the Supreme Court changes the law.  Lexington Books, 2023.  302p bibl index  ISBN 9781666938302, $105.00;  ISBN 9781666938319 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-1778

Mattingly, David J. Between Sahara and sea: Africa in the Roman Empire.  Michigan, 2023.  744p bibl index  ISBN 9780472133451, $44.95;  61-1661

Michel, Konrad. The suicidal person: a new look at a human phenomenon.  Columbia, 2023.  376p bibl index  ISBN 9780231205306, $32.00;  ISBN 9780231555944 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-1791

Miller, Norman C. Economic myths and magic: debunking the illusions of conventional economic thinking.  E. Elgar, 2023.  152p bibl index  ISBN 9781803925622, $105.00;  ISBN 9781803925639 ebook, $40.00;  61-1675

Moffett, Luke. Reparations and war: finding balance in repairing the past.  Oxford, 2023.  336p bibl index  ISBN 9780192865588, $125.00;  ISBN 9780192689337 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-1753

Morgan Brett, Bethany. Child-parent caregiving relationship in later life: psychosocial experiences.  Policy Press, 2023.  168p bib index  ISBN 9781447319290, $139.95;  ISBN 9781447319696 pbk, $45.95;  ISBN 9781447324317 ebook, $45.95;  61-1653

Nyabola, Nanjala. Travelling while Black: essays inspired by a life on the move.  Hurst & Company, 2021.  264p bibl index  ISBN 9781787383821 pbk, $19.15;  ISBN 9781787385238 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-1699

Oschema, Klaus. “Europe” in the Middle Ages.  ARC Humanities Press, 2023.  136p bib  ISBN 9781641891592 pbk, $19.95;  ISBN 9781802701364 ebook, $19.95;  61-1694

Purinton, Malcolm F. Globalization in a glass: the rise of Pilsner beer through technology, taste and empire.  Bloomsbury, 2023.  192p bibl index  ISBN 9781350324374, $115.00;  ISBN 9781350324381 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-1696

The rule is for none but Allah: Islamist approaches to governance, ed. by Joana Cook and Shiraz Maher.  Oxford, 2023.  304p bibl index  ISBN 9780197690390, $65.00;  ISBN 9781805260950 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-1759

Simon, Rebecca. The pirates’ code: laws and life aboard ship.  Reaktion Books, 2023.  336p bibl index  ISBN 9781789147117, $20.11;  ISBN 9781789147414 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-1697

Siniscalchi, Valeria. Slow food: the economy and politics of a global movement.  Bloomsbury, 2023.  256p bibl index  ISBN 9781474282321, $95.00;  ISBN 9781474282444 pbk, $30.95;  ISBN 9781474282338 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-1663

Space law in a networked world, ed. by P. J. Blount and Mahulena Hofmann.  Brill | Nijhoff, 2023.  296p bibl index (Studies in Space Law, 19)  ISBN 9789004527263, $174.00;  ISBN 9789004527270 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-1755

Stojanowski, Christopher M. Forensic anthropology: an introductory lab manual, by Christopher M. Stojanowski and Andrew C. Seidel.  University Press of Florida, 2023.  408p bibl index  ISBN 9781683403562 pbk, $65.00;  ISBN 9781683403685 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-1664

Suskind, Dorothy. Workplace bullying: finding your way to big tent belonging.  Rowman & Littlefield, 2023.  222p bibl index  ISBN 9781538172087, $32.00;  ISBN 9781538172094 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-1670

Sustaining disabled youth: centering disability in asset pedagogies, ed. by Frederico R. Waitoller and Kathleen King Thorius.  Teachers College Press, 2022.  254p bibl index  ISBN 9780807767696, $144.00;  ISBN 9780807767689 pbk, $47.95;  ISBN 9780807781395 ebook, $47.95;  61-1689

Suttell, Brian. Campus to counter: civil rights activism in Raleigh and Durham, North Carolina, 1960–1963.  Mercer University, 2023.  248p bibl index  ISBN 9780881468779 pbk, $30.00;  ISBN 9780881468786 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-1733

Vitiello, Michael. The victims’ rights movement: what it gets right, what it gets wrong.  New York University, 2023.  256p bibl index  ISBN 9781479820726, $39.00;  ISBN 9781479820740 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-1785

White, Jonathan W. Shipwrecked: a true Civil War story of mutinies, jailbreaks, blockade-running, and the slave trade.  Rowman & Littlefield, 2023.  336p bibl index  ISBN 9781538175019, $29.95;  ISBN 9781538175026 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-1736

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