The Top 75 Community College Titles: January 2019 Edition

The best of all the titles appropriate for two-year colleges reviewed in the January 2019 issue of Choice.

Posted on January 24, 2019 in Top 75 Community College Titles

Reference

Balleck, Barry J. Modern American extremism and domestic terrorism: an encyclopedia of extremists and extremist groups. ABC-CLIO, 2018. 435p bibl index ISBN 9781440852749, $94.00; ISBN 9781440852756 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-1357

Critical survey of drama. Salem Press/Grey House, 2018. 8v bibl index ISBN 9781682176221, $599.00; ISBN 9781682176399 ebook, $599.00; 56-1339

The Encyclopedia of contemporary Spanish films, ed. by Salvador Jimenez Murguía and Alex Pinar. Row-man & Littlefield, 2018. 558p bibl index ISBN 9781442271326, $125.00; ISBN 9781442271333 ebook, $118.50; 56-1341

Encyclopedia of racism in American films, ed. by Salvador Jimenez Murguía. Rowman & Littlefield, 2018. 805p index ISBN 9781442269057, $99.99; ISBN 9781108136792 ebook, $80.00; 56-1342

Falola, Toyin. Historical dictionary of Nigeria, by Toyin Falola, Ann Genova, and Matthew M. Heaton. 2nd ed. Rowman & Littlefield, 2018. 471p bibl index ISBN 9781538113134, $115.00; ISBN 9781538113141 other, $109.00; 56-1333

Genetics and inherited conditions, ed. by Gary M. Flashner and Deanna M. Neff. 2nd ed. Salem Press, 2017. 3v bibl indexes ISBN 9781682176030, $395.00; ISBN 9781682176047 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-1351

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Hischak, Thomas S. 100 greatest American and British animated films. Rowman & Littlefield, 2018. 379p bibl index ISBN 9781538105689, $45.00; ISBN 9781538105696 ebook, $42.50; 56-1343

Hoopla. Hoopla Digital. Contact publisher for price.URL: hoopladigital.com 56-1335

Nowak, Ronald M. Walker’s mammals of the world: monotremes, marsupials, afrotherians, xenarthrans, and sundatherians. Johns Hopkins, 2018. 757p bibl index ISBN 9781421424675, $99.95; ISBN 9781421424682 ebook, $99.95; 56-1353

Perlmutter, David. The encyclopedia of American animated television shows. Rowman & Littlefield, 2018. 773p bibl index ISBN 9781538103739, $125.00; ISBN 9781538103746 ebook, $118.50; 56-1346

The SAGE encyclopedia of surveillance, security, and privacy, ed. by Bruce A. Arrigo. SAGE Reference, 2018. 3v bibl index ISBN 9781483359946, $425.00; ISBN 9781483359939 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-1356

Humanities

Asma, Stephen T. Why we need religion. Oxford, 2018. 256p index ISBN 9780190469672, $29.95; ISBN 9780190469689 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-1454

Diogenes Laertius. Lives of the eminent philosophers, tr. by Pamela Mensch; ed. by James Miller. Oxford, 2018. 676p bibl index ISBN 9780190862176, $45.00; ISBN 9780190862183 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-1436

Engaging musical practices: a sourcebook for elementary general music, ed. by Suzanne L. Burton and Ali-son Reynolds. Rowman & Littlefield, 2018. 289p bibl ISBN 9781475822687, $70.00; ISBN 9781475822694 pbk, $35.00; ISBN 9781475822700 ebook, $33.00; 56-1423

Hunter, Richard L. The measure of Homer: the ancient reception of the Iliad and the Odyssey. Oxford, 2018. 254p bibl index ISBN 9781108428316, $44.99; ISBN 9781108583848 ebook, $36.00; 56-1394

Jerryson, Michael K. If you meet the Buddha on the road: Buddhism, politics, and violence. Oxford, 2018. 226p bibl index ISBN 9780190683566, $99.00; ISBN 9780190683597 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-1466

Kellert, Stephen R. Nature by design: the practice of biophilic design. Yale, 2017. 214p bibl index ISBN 9780300214536, $35.00; ISBN 9780300235432 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-1382

McIlwaine, Catherine. Tolkien: maker of Middle-Earth. Bodleian Library, 2018. 416p bibl index ISBN 9781851244850, $65.00; 56-1405

Naeem, Asma. Black out: silhouettes then and now, with Penley Knipe et al. National Portrait Gal-lery/Princeton, 2018. 181p bibl index ISBN 9780691180588, $45.00; 56-1369

Photography and other media in the nineteenth century, ed. by Nicoletta Leonardi and Simone Natale. Pennsylvania State, 2018. 239p bibl index ISBN 9780271079158, $94.95; 56-1386

Rodriguez, Ralph. Latinx literature unbound: undoing ethnic expectation. Fordham, 2018. 181p bibl index ISBN 9780823279234, $105.00; ISBN 9780823279241 pbk, $30.00; 56-1414

Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilich. The Tchaikovsky papers: unlocking the family archive, ed. by Marina Kostalevsky; tr. by Stephen Pearl. Yale, 2018. 297p index ISBN 9780300191363, $45.00; ISBN 9780300235449 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-1429

Ward, Brian. A & R pioneers: architects of American roots music on record, by Brian Ward and Patrick Huber. Vanderbilt, 2018. 457p bibl index ISBN 9780826521750, $39.99; ISBN 9780826521774 ebook, $9.99; 56-1430

Ward, Keith. The Christian idea of God: a philosophical foundation for faith. Cambridge, 2017. 229p bibl index ISBN 9781108419215, $99.99; ISBN 9781108410212 pbk, $32.99; ISBN 9781108321280 ebook, $26.00; 56-1480

Wehnert, Jay. Outsider art in Texas: Lone Stars. Texas A&M, 2018. 117p bibl index (Joe and Betty Moore Texas art series, 20) ISBN 9781623496203, $40.00; ISBN 9781623496234 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-1373

White, Christopher G. Other worlds: spirituality and the search for invisible dimensions. Harvard, 2018. 376p index ISBN 9780674984295, $35.00; ISBN 9780674919440 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-1481

Zack, Naomi. Philosophy of race: an introduction. Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. 258p bibl index ISBN 9783319787282 pbk, $49.99; ISBN 9783319787299 ebook, $39.99; 56-1453

Science & Technology

Aklin, Michaël. Renewables: the politics of a global energy transition, by Michaël Aklin and Johannes Ur-pelainen. MIT, 2018. 330p bibl index ISBN 9780262037471, $95.00; ISBN 9780262534949 pbk, $35.00; ISBN 9780262344609 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-1537

Anctil, Michel. Luminous creatures: the history and science of light production in living organisms. McGill-Queen’s, 2018. 467p bibl index ISBN 9780773553125, $49.95; ISBN 9780773554092 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-1523

Atkins, P. W. Conjuring the universe: the origins of the laws of nature. Oxford, 2018. 187p index ISBN 9780198813378, $19.95; ISBN 9780192542793 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-1578

Broughton, R. Peter. Northern star: J. S. Plaskett. Toronto, 2018. 539p bibl index ISBN 9781442630178, $90.00; ISBN 9781442630185 ebook, $90.00; 56-1507

DeWitt, Richard. Worldviews: an introduction to the history and philosophy of science. Wiley-Blackwell, 2018. 362p bibl index ISBN 9781119118893 pbk, $36.95; ISBN 9781119118992 ebook, $29.99; 56-1500

Falk, Dean. Geeks, genes, and the evolution of Asperger syndrome, by Dean Falk and Eve Penelope Schofield. New Mexico, 2018. 243p bibl index ISBN 9780826356925 pbk, $24.95; ISBN 9780826356932 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-1549

Francis, Gavin. Shapeshifters: a journey through the changing human body. Basic Books, 2018. 282p index ISBN 9781541697522, $27.00; ISBN 9781541616950 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-1550

Kelleher, John D. Data science, by John D. Kelleher and Brendan Tierney. MIT, 2018. 264p bibl index ISBN 9780262535434 pbk, $15.95; 56-1568

Lezotte, Chris. Power under her foot: women enthusiasts of American muscle cars. McFarland, 2018. 190p bibl index ISBN 9781476670164 pbk, $39.95; ISBN 9781476631738 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-1491

Lynas, Mark. Seeds of science: why we got it so wrong on GMOs. Bloomsbury Sigma, 2018. 304p index ISBN 9781472946980, $27.00; ISBN 9781472946997 pbk, $16.90; ISBN 9781472946959 ebook, $18.90; 56-1521

Miller, David L. The state of American hot rodding: interviews on the craft and the road ahead. McFar-land, 2018. 200p index ISBN 9781476672915 pbk, $29.95; ISBN 9781476631813 ebook, contact pub-lisher for price; 56-1492

Offit, Paul A. Bad advice: or why celebrities, politicians, and activists aren’t your best source of health in-formation. Columbia, 2018. 251p bibl index ISBN 9780231186988, $24.95; ISBN 9780231546935 ebook, $23.99; 56-1557

Quinn, Paul. Sexually transmitted diseases: your questions answered. Greenwood, 2018. 154p bibl index ISBN 9781440853166, $39.00; ISBN 9781440853173 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-1560

Roman, Adam. Thinking-driven testing: the most reasonable approach to quality control. Springer, 2018. 305p bibl ISBN 9783319731940, $59.99; ISBN 9783319731957 ebook, $44.99; 56-1570

Sale, Richard. Wildlife of the Arctic, by Richard Sale and Per Michelsen. Princeton, 2018. 335p bibl index ISBN 9780691180540 pbk, $19.95; ISBN 9780008205577 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-1517

Urban raptors: ecology and conservation of birds of prey in cities, ed. by Clint W. Boal and Cheryl R. Dykstra. Island Press, 2018. 320p bibl index ISBN 9781610918398, $80.00; ISBN 9781610918404 pbk, $40.00; ISBN 9781610918411 ebook, $39.99; 56-1529

Weintraub, David A. Life on Mars: what to know before we go. Princeton, 2018. 302p index ISBN 9780691180533, $29.95; ISBN 9781400889945 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-1510

Social & Behavioral Sciences

Ang, Cheng Guan. Southeast Asia’s Cold War: an interpretive history. Hawai’i, 2018. 306p bibl index ISBN 9780824872571, $68.00; 56-1618

Benton-Cohen, Katherine. Inventing the immigration problem: the Dillingham Commission and its legacy. Harvard, 2018. 342p index ISBN 9780674976443, $29.95; ISBN 9780674985667 ebook, contact pub-lisher for price; 56-1636

Big water: the making of the borderlands between Brazil, Argentina, and Paraguay, ed. by Jacob Blanc and Frederico Freitas. Arizona, 2018. 329p bibl idex ISBN 9780816537143, $55.00; ISBN 9780816538294 ebook, $55.00; 56-1627

Boterbloem, Kees. A history of Russia and its empire: from Mikhail Romanov to Vladimir Putin. Row-man & Littlefield, 2018. 351p filmography bibl index ISBN 9781538104392, $110.00; ISBN 9781538104408 pbk, $49.00; ISBN 9781538104415 ebook, $46.50; 56-1622

Chan-Malik, Sylvia. Being Muslim: a cultural history of women of color in American Islam. New York University, 2018. 275p bibl index ISBN 9781479850600, $89.00; ISBN 9781479823420 pbk, $29.00; ISBN 9781479881550 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-1742

Crabtree, Pam J. Early medieval Britain: the rebirth of towns in the post-Roman West. Cambridge, 2018. 227p bibl index ISBN 9780521885942, $105.00; ISBN 9780521713702 pbk, $34.99; ISBN 9781108651257 ebook, $28.00; 56-1588

Cunningham, Carolyn. Games girls play: contexts of girls and video games. Lexington Books, 2018. 181p bibl index ISBN 9781498554565, $90.00; ISBN 9781498554572 ebook, $85.50; 56-1586

Dasgupta, Amitava. The science of stress management: a guide to best practices for better well-being. Rowman & Littlefield, 2018. 331p index ISBN 9781538101209, $38.00; ISBN 9781538101216 ebook, $36.00; 56-1726

Dowd, Nancy E. Reimagining equality: a new deal for children of color. New York University, 2018. 237p bibl index ISBN 9781479893355, $39.00; ISBN 9781479802333 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-1744

Fliter, John A. Child labor in America: the epic legal struggle to protect children. University Press of Kan-sas, 2018. 319p bibl index ISBN 9780700626304, $44.00; ISBN 9780700626311 pbk, $24.95; ISBN 9780700626328 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-1644

Furtak, Rick Anthony. Knowing emotions: truthfulness and recognition in affective experience. Oxford, 2018. 232p bibl index ISBN 9780190492045, $74.00; ISBN 9780190862077 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-1728

Glatthaar, Joseph T. The American military: a concise history. Oxford, 2018. 142p bibl index ISBN 9780190692810, $18.95; ISBN 9780190692834 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-1645

Gosnell, Jonathan K. Franco-America in the making: the Creole nation within. Nebraska, 2018. 347p bibl index ISBN 9780803285279, $60.00; ISBN 9781496207135 ebook, $60.00; 56-1646

Gresham, LeRoy Wiley. The war outside my window: the Civil War diary of LeRoy Wiley Gresham, 1860–1865, ed. by Janet Elizabeth Croon. Savas Beatie, 2018. 440p bibl index ISBN 9781611213881, $34.95; ISBN 9781611213898 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-1647

Grodzki, Lynn. Therapy with a coaching edge: partnership, action and possibility in every session. W. W. Norton, 2018. 269p index ISBN 9780393712476, $35.00; 56-1729

Harrold, Stanley. Lincoln and the abolitionists. Southern Illinois, 2018. 155p bibl index ISBN 9780809336418, $24.95; ISBN 9780809336425 ebook, $24.95; 56-1650

Hatred of America’s presidents: personal attacks on the White House from Washington to Trump, ed. by Lori Cox Han. ABC-CLIO, 2018. 396p bibl index ISBN 9781440854361, $94.00; ISBN 9781440854378 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-1651

Josephs, Lawrence. The dynamics of infidelity: applying relationship science to psychotherapy practice. American Psychological Association, 2018. 287p bibl index ISBN 9781433827983, $69.95; 56-1731

Kastan, David Scott. On color, by David Scott Kastan with Stephen Farthing. Yale, 2018. 254p index ISBN 9780300171877, $28.00; ISBN 9780300235425 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-1733

Landry, Bart. The new black middle class in the twenty-first century. Rutgers, 2018. 230p index ISBN 9780813593975, $99.95; ISBN 9780813593968 pbk, $28.95; ISBN 9780813593982 ebook, $28.95; 56-1746

Mahood, Linda. Thumbing a ride: hitchhikers, hostels, and counterculture in Canada. UBC Press, 2018. 331p index ISBN 9780774837330, $89.95; ISBN 9780774837361 ebook, $32.95; 56-1747

Meadow, Tey. Trans kids: being gendered in the twenty-first century. California, 2018. 300p bibl index ISBN 9780520275034, $85.00; ISBN 9780520275041 pbk, $29.95; ISBN 9780520964167 ebook, $29.95; 56-1748

Money in American politics: an encyclopedia, ed. by David Schultz. ABC-CLIO, 2018. 368p bibl index ISBN 9781440851766, $94.00; ISBN 9781440851773 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-1721

Pegues, Jeff. Kompromat: how Russia undermined American democracy. Prometheus Books, 2018. 287p index ISBN 9781633884298, $24.00; ISBN 9781633884304 ebook, $11.99; 56-1723

Pinsker, Shachar. A rich brew: how cafés created modern Jewish culture. New York University, 2018. 371p index ISBN 9781479827893, $35.00; ISBN 9781479806966 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-1608

Pitcaithley, Dwight T. The U.S. Constitution and secession: a documentary anthology of slavery and white supremacy. University Press of Kansas, 2018. 364p bibl index ISBN 9780700626250, $45.00; ISBN 9780700626267 pbk, $24.95; ISBN 9780700626274 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-1660

Thomason, Krista K. Naked: the dark side of shame and moral life. Oxford, 2018. 236p bibl index ISBN 9780190843274, $85.00; ISBN 9780190843304 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-1740

Travers, Ann. The trans generation: how trans kids (and their parents) are creating a gender revolution. New York University, 2018. 263p bibl index ISBN 9781479885794, $25.00; ISBN 9781479879939 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-1753

Western, Bruce. Homeward: life in the year after prison. Russell Sage Foundation, 2018. 216p bibl index ISBN 9780871549556 pbk, $29.95; ISBN 9781610448710 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-1754

Worth, Rachel. Clothing and landscape in Victorian England: working-class dress and rural life. I. B. Tauris, 2018. 212p bibl index ISBN 9781784533960, $99.00; ISBN 9781786723451 ebook, contact pub-lisher for price; 56-1671

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