The Top 75 Community College Titles: January 2018 Edition

The best of all the titles appropriate for two-year colleges reviewed in the January 2018 issue of Choice.

Posted on January 25, 2018 in Top 75 Community College Titles

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Acuña, Rodolfo. U.S. Latino issues. Greenwood, 2017. 317p bibl index ISBN 9781440853227, $61.00; ISBN 9781440853234 ebook, contact publisher for price. 55-1598

Alexander Hamilton Papers, from the Library of Congress. URL: loc.gov/collections/alexander-hamilton-papers 55-1599

Fashion Photography Archive. Bloomsbury Digital Resources. Contact publisher for consortial pricing information; subscriptions begin at $779.00 and perpetual access purchases begin at $7,750.00 based on FTE. URL: fashionphotographyarchive.com 55-1585

Gillespie, Gordon. Historical dictionary of the Northern Ireland conflict. Rowman & Littlefield, 2017. 367p bibl ISBN 9781442263048, $100.00; ISBN 9781442263055 ebook, $95.00. 55-1604

Giordano, Ralph G. Pop goes the decade: the fifties, by Ralph G. Giordano with Matthew R. Giordano, Jeff Benjamin, and Omar Swartz. Greenwood, 2017. 360p bibl index ISBN 9781440844713, $89.00; ISBN 9781440844720 ebook, contact publisher for price. 55-1605

Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record/Historic American Land-scapes Survey, from the Library of Congress. URL: loc.gov/pictures/collection/hh 55-1596

Immigration & immigrant communities (1650–2016), ed. James S. Pula. Salem Press/Grey House, 2017. 270p bibl index ISBN 9781682172858, $175.00; ISBN 9781682172865 ebook, $175.00. 55-1606

Iran 2, ed. by Parviz Jahed. Intellect, 2015. 437p bibl filmography (Directory of world cinema; 35) ISBN 9781783204700 pbk, $57.00; ISBN 9781783204717 ebook, contact publisher for price. 55-1587

Nationalism & populism (320 BCE–2017 CE), ed. by David Simonelli. Salem Press/Grey House, 2017. 2v bibl index ISBN 9781682172933, $295.00; ISBN 9781682172940 ebook, $295.00. 55-1608

Olson, James S. The Great Depression and the New Deal: key themes and documents, by James S. Olson with Mariah Gumpert. ABC-CLIO, 2017. 295p bibl index ISBN 9781440834622, $48.00; ISBN 9781440834639 ebook, contact publisher for price. 55-1609

Race in American film: voices and visions that shaped a nation, ed. by Daniel Bernardi and Michael Green. Greenwood, 2017. 3v bibl index ISBN 9780313398391, $294.00; ISBN 9780313398407 ebook, con-tact publisher for price. 55-1590

The World of Renaissance Italy: a daily life encyclopedia: v.1: Arts to food and drink; v.2: Housing and community to science and technology, ed. by Joseph P. Byrne. Greenwood, 2017. 2v bibl index ISBN 9781440829598, $198.00; ISBN 9781440829604 ebook, contact publisher for price. 55-1612

Humanities

Berman, Ronald. F. Scott Fitzgerald and the American scene. Alabama, 2017. 97p bibl index ISBN 9780817319649, $39.95; ISBN 9780817391492 ebook, $39.95. 55-1654

Bhushan, Nalini. Minds without fear: philosophy in the Indian renaissance, by Nalini Bhusan and Jay L. Garfield. Oxford, 2017. 334p bibl index ISBN 9780190457594, $49.95; ISBN 9780190457617 ebook, contact publisher for price. 55-1688

Billy Graham: American pilgrim, ed. by Andrew Finstuen, Anne Blue Wills, and Grant Wacker. Oxford, 2017. 326p index ISBN 9780190683528, $34.95; ISBN 9780190683535 ebook, contact publisher for price. 55-1705

Civil rights literature, past & present, ed. by Christopher Allen Varlack. Salem Press, 2017. 370p bibl index ISBN 9781682172681, $105.00; ISBN 9781682172698 ebook, contact publisher for price. 55-1655

Davies, Oliver Ford. Shakespeare’s fathers and daughters. Bloomsbury, 2017. 213p bibl index ISBN 9781474290135, $88.00; ISBN 9781350038462 pbk, $26.95; ISBN 9781474290142 ebook, contact publisher for price. 55-1684

Fitzgerald, Frances. The Evangelicals: the struggle to shape America. Simon & Schuster, 2017. 740p bibl index ISBN 9781439131336, $35.00; ISBN 9781439131343 pbk, $20.00; ISBN 9781439143155 ebook, $13.99. 55-1708

Hanley, Ryan Patrick. Love’s enlightenment: rethinking charity in modernity. Cambridge, 2017. 182p index ISBN 9781107105225, $99.99; ISBN 9781316985991 ebook, $80.00. 55-1693

Jeffries, Michael P. Behind the laughs: community and inequality in comedy. Stanford, 2017. 223p index ISBN 9780804798082, $85.00; ISBN 9781503602908 pbk, $24.95; ISBN 9781503602977 ebook, contact publisher for price. 55-1670

Landau, Iddo. Finding meaning in an imperfect world. Oxford, 2017. 297p bibl index ISBN 9780190657666, $24.95; ISBN 9780190657680 ebook, contact publisher for price. 55-1695

Lubar, Steven. Inside the lost museum: curating, past and present. Harvard, 2017. 408p index ISBN 9780674971042, $35.00; ISBN 9780674982901 ebook, contact publisher for price. 55-1621

Moore, Geneva Cobb. Maternal metaphors of power in African American women’s literature: from Phillis Wheatley to Toni Morrison. South Carolina, 2017. 361p bibl index ISBN 9781611177480, $59.99; ISBN 9781611177497 ebook, $59.99. 55-1660

Nel, Philip. Was the cat in the hat black?: the hidden racism of children’s literature, and the need for di-verse books. Oxford, 2017. 278p bibl index ISBN 9780190635077, $29.95; ISBN 9780190635084 ebook, contact publisher for price. 55-1646

The Oxford history of the Protestant dissenting traditions: v.3: The nineteenth century, ed. by Timothy Larsen and Michael Ledger-Lomas. Oxford, 2017. 546p bibl index ISBN 9780199683710, $145.00; ISBN 9780191081156 ebook, contact publisher for price. 55-1715

Schiffer, Adam J. Evaluating media bias. Rowman & Littlefield, 2017. 150p bibl index ISBN 9781442265653, $64.00; ISBN 9781442265660 pbk, $27.00; ISBN 9781442265677 ebook, $25.00. 55-1640

Shaw, Daniel. Movies with meaning: existentialism through film. Bloomsbury, 2017. 266p index ISBN 9781474299299, $88.00; ISBN 9781474299305 pbk, $29.95; ISBN 9781474299312 ebook, contact pub-lisher for price. 55-1678

Skyscraper Gothic: medieval style and modernist buildings, ed. by Kevin D. Murphy and Lisa Reilly. Vir-ginia, 2017. 228p bibl index ISBN 9780813939728, $39.50; ISBN 9780813939735 ebook, $39.50. 55-1631

Thomson, David. Warner Bros: the making of an American movie studio. Yale, 2017. 220p index ISBN 9780300197600, $25.00. 55-1679

Vox, Lisa. Existential threats: American apocalyptic beliefs in the technological era. Pennsylvania, 2017. 266p bbl index ISBN 9780812249194, $55.00; ISBN 9780812294019 ebook, $55.00. 55-1719

Science & Technology

Allchin, Douglas. Sacred bovines: the ironies of misplaced assumptions in biology. Oxford, 2017. 249p bibl index ISBN 9780190490362, $34.95; ISBN 9780190490379 ebook, contact publisher for price. 55-1729

Brown, Kendall H. Visionary landscapes: Japanese garden design in North America: the work of five contemporary masters, photography by David Cobb. Tuttle Publishing, 2017. 128p bibl ISBN 9784805313862, $24.95. 55-1733

Burrows, Terry. The art of sound: a visual history for audiophiles. Thames & Hudson, 2017. 349p ISBN 9780500519288, $50.00. 55-1725

Davies, Sarah R. Hackerspaces: making the maker movement. Polity, 2017. 192p index ISBN 9781509501168, $69.95; ISBN 9781509501175 pbk, $24.95; ISBN 9781509501205 ebook, $24.95. 55-1722

Eilers, Søren. Introduction to experimental mathematics, by Søren Eilers and Rune Johansen. Cambridge, 2017. 303p bibl index ISBN 9781107156135, $59.99; ISBN 9781108133753 ebook, $48.00. 55-1754

Hamblyn, Richard. Clouds: nature and culture. Reaktion Books, 2017. 251p bibl index ISBN 9781780237237 pbk, $24.95. 55-1742

McMahon, Patrick E. Survival guide to organic chemistry: bridging the gap from general chemistry, by Pat-rick E. McMahon, Bohdan B. Khomtchouk, and Claes Wahlestedt. CRC Press, 2017. 654p index ISBN 9781498777070, $129.95; ISBN 9781315380186 ebook, $90.97. 55-1741

Oates, Thomas P. Football and manliness: an unauthorized feminist account of the NFL. Illinois, 2017. 213p index ISBN 9780252040948, $95.00; ISBN 9780252082443 pbk, $25.95; ISBN 9780252099489 ebook, $23.36. 55-1762

Pimparkhede, Kunal. Computer programming with C++. Cambridge, 2017. 1,001p bibl ISBN 9781316506806 pbk, $99.99; ISBN 9781316758793 ebook, $80.00. 55-1750

Powell, Jonathan. Cosmic debris: what it is and what we can do about it. Springer, 2017. 267p index ISBN 9783319510156 pbk, $39.99; ISBN 9783319510163 ebook, $29.99. 55-1728

Pretty tough plants: 135 resilient, water-smart choices for a beautiful garden, by the experts at Plant Select. Timber, 2017. 254p bibl index ISBN 9781604697353 pbk, $24.95; ISBN 9781604698039 ebook, contact publisher for price. 55-1735

Santos, David A. Algebra essentials, by David A. Santos and Olgha B. Davis. Mercury Learning and Infor-mation, 2016. 180p index afp CD ISBN 9781937585228 pbk, $39.95; ISBN 9781937585334 ebook, $39.95. 55-1756

Smith, Andrew F. Fast food: the good, the bad and the hungry. Reaktion Books, 2016. 224p bibl index ISBN 9781780235745 pbk, $19.95. 55-1724

Social & Behavioral Sciences

Adas, Michael. Everyman in Vietnam: a soldier’s journey into the quagmire, by Michael Adas and Joseph J. Gilch. Oxford, 2017. 264p bibl index ISBN 9780190455873 pbk, $24.95; ISBN 9780190647605 ebook, contact publisher for price. 55-1807

Andersen, Kurt. Fantasyland: how America went haywire: a 500-year history. Random House, 2017. 462p index ISBN 9781400067213, $30.00; ISBN 9781588366870 ebook, $14.99. 55-1830

Beckett, I. F. W. The British army and the First World War, by Ian Beckett, Timothy Bowman, and Mark Connelly. Cambridge, 2017. 476p bibl index ISBN 9781107005778, $89.99; ISBN 9780521183741 pbk, $29.99; ISBN 9781316825501 ebook, $24.00. 55-1848

Corning, Trevor. Inside Congress: a guide for navigating the politics of the House and Senate floors, by Trevor Corning, Reema Dodin, and Kyle Nevins. Brookings, 2017. 110p ISBN 9780815727323 pbk, $11.88; ISBN 9780815727347 ebook, contact publisher for price. 55-1922

Dam, Nikolaos van. Destroying a nation: the civil war in Syria. I. B. Tauris, 2017. 242p bibl index ISBN 9781784537975 pbk, $15.95; ISBN 9781786722485 ebook, contact publisher for price. 55-1873

Dillard, Philip D. Jefferson Davis’s final campaign: Confederate nationalism and the fight to arm slaves. Mercer University, 2017. 286p bibl index ISBN 9780881466058, $35.00. 55-1834

Eriksen, Thomas Hylland. What is anthropology? Pluto, 2017. 177p bibl index ISBN 9780745399669, $79.88; ISBN 9780745399652 pbk, $26.00; ISBN 9781786800909 ebook, contact publisher for price. 55-1766

Everly, George S., Jr. The Johns Hopkins guide to psychological first aid, by George S. Everly Jr. and Jeffrey M. Lating. Johns Hopkins, 2017. 204p bibl index ISBN 9781421422718 pbk, $24.95; ISBN 9781421422725 ebook, $24.95. 55-1939

Fullam, Brandon. The lost colony of Roanoke: new perspectives. McFarland, 2017. 258p bibl index ISBN 9781476667867 pbk, $35.00; ISBN 9781476628493 ebook, contact publisher for price. 55-1836

Janning, Michelle Yvonne. The stuff of family life: how our homes reflect our lives. Rowman & Littlefield, 2017. 225p index ISBN 9781442254794, $34.00; ISBN 9781442254800 , $32.00. 55-1946

Jobs, Richard Ivan. Backpack ambassadors: how youth travel integrated Europe. Chicago, 2017. 360p bibl index ISBN 9780226438979, $105.00; ISBN 9780226462035 pbk, $35.00; ISBN 9780226439020 ebook, $35.00. 55-1857

Kukla, Jon. Patrick Henry: champion of liberty. Simon & Schuster, 2017. 541p index ISBN 9781439190814, $35.00; ISBN 9781439190838 ebook, $16.99. 55-1838

Kupchik, Ken. The sales survival handbook: cold calls, commissions, and caffeine addiction—the real truth about life in sales. AMACOM, 2017. 192p index ISBN 9780814438640, $17.95; ISBN 9780814438657 ebook, contact publisher for price. 55-1772

Langworth, Richard M. Winston Churchill, myth and reality: what he actually did and said. McFarland, 2017. 250p bibl index ISBN 9781476665832, $49.95; ISBN 9781476628783 ebook, contact publisher for price. 55-1850

Lung-Amam, Willow S. Trespassers?: Asian Americans and the battle for suburbia. California, 2017. 250p bibl index ISBN 9780520293892, $85.00; ISBN 9780520293908 pbk, $29.95; ISBN 9780520967229 ebook, $29.95. 55-1947

Miksic, John N. Ancient Southeast Asia, by John N. Miksic and Geok Yian Goh. Routledge, 2017. 631p bibl index ISBN 9780415735537, $150.00; ISBN 9780415735544 pbk, $49.95; ISBN 9781315641119 ebook, $49.95. 55-1821

The Oxford handbook of prehistoric figurines, ed. by Timothy Insoll. Oxford, 2017. 931p bibl index ISBN 9780199675616, $175.00; ISBN 9780191767913 ebook, contact publisher for price. 55-1768

Paid: tales of dongles, checks, and other money stuff, ed. by Bill Maurer and Lana Swartz. MIT, 2017. 288p index ISBN 9780262035750, $27.95; ISBN 9780262535212 pbk, $17.95; ISBN 9780262338325 ebook, $19.95. 55-1791

Phillips, D. C. A companion to John Dewey’s Democracy and education. Chicago, 2016. 198p bibl ISBN 9780226408231, $68.00; ISBN 9780226408378 pbk, $22.50; ISBN 9780226408408 ebook, $22.50. 55-1803

Regnerus, Mark. Cheap sex: the transformation of men, marriage, and monogamy. Oxford, 2017. 262p index ISBN 9780190673611, $29.95; ISBN 9780190673628 ebook, contact publisher for price. 55-1949

The Routledge history of East Central Europe since 1700, ed. by Irina Livezeanu and Árpád von Klimó. Routledge, 2017. 522p bibl index ISBN 9780415584333, $225.00; ISBN 9781315230894 ebook, $54.95. 55-1826

Russell, Peter H. Canada’s odyssey: a country based on incomplete conquests. Toronto, 2017. 535p bibl index ISBN 9781487502041, $39.95; ISBN 9781487514488 ebook, $39.95. 55-1841

Samli, A. Coskun. Who stole our market economy?: the desperate need for socioeconomic progress. Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. 152p bibl index ISBN 9783319538006, $89.99; ISBN 9783319538013 ebook, contact publisher for price. 55-1792

Schneider, William E. Lead right for your company’s type: how to connect your culture with your customer promise. AMACOM, 2017. 200p bibl index ISBN 9780814437995, $27.95; ISBN 9780814438008 ebook, contact publisher for price. 55-1775

Segal, Alvin Cramer. My peerless story: it starts with the collar. McGill-Queen’s, 2017. 209p index (Footprints series, 24) ISBN 9780773550162, $34.95; ISBN 9780773550179 ebook, contact publisher for price. 55-1776

Segal, Julia. The trouble with illness: how illness and disability affect relationships. Jessica Kingsley, 2017. 312p bibl index ISBN 9781785923326 pbk, $19.95; ISBN 9781784506513 ebook, $19.95. 55-1944

Shaw, Greg M. The dysfunctional politics of the Affordable Care Act. Praeger, 2017. 208p bibl index ISBN 9781440840029, $60.00; ISBN 9781440840036 ebook, contact publisher for price. 55-1933

Slavin, Steve. The great American economy: how inefficiency broke it and what we can do to fix it. Prometheus Books, 2017. 414p index ISBN 9781633883055, $25.00; ISBN 9781633883062 ebook, $11.99. 55-1793

Sparks, Edith. Boss lady: how three women entrepreneurs built successful big businesses in the mid-twentieth century. North Carolina, 2017. 309p bibl index ISBN 9781469633015, $85.00; ISBN 9781469633022 pbk, $27.50; ISBN 9781469633039 ebook, $19.99. 55-1777

U.S. Naval Institute on mentorship, ed. by P. J. Neal. Naval Institute, 2017. 192p bibl index ISBN 9781682470619 pbk, $21.95; ISBN 9781682470626 ebook, contact pubisher for price. 55-1778

Viteritti, Joseph R. The pragmatist: Bill de Blasio’s quest to save the soul of New York. Oxford, 2017. 272p index ISBN 9780190679507, $29.95; ISBN 978019067952 ebook, contact publisher for price. 55-1936

Zager, Tracy. Becoming the math teacher you wish you’d had: ideas and strategies from vibrant classrooms. Stenhouse, 2017. 376p bibl index ISBN 9781571109965 pbk, $52.00; ISBN 9781625311283 ebook, $46.65. 55-1806

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