The Top 75 Community College Titles: January 2020 Edition

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

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ArXiv. Contact publisher for pricing. URL: arxiv.org 57-1504

An Atlas of geographical wonders: from mountaintops to riverbeds, by Jean-Christophe Bailly et al. Princeton Architectural, 2019. 208p index ISBN 9781616898236, $50.00; 57-1506

Bloomsbury Design Library. Bloomsbury.. Contact publisher for pricing. URL: https://www.bloomsburydesignlibrary.com 57-1493

The Cambridge history of French thought, ed. by Michael Moriarty and Jeremy Jennings. Cambridge, 2019. 570p bibl index ISBN 9781107163676, $130.00; ISBN 9781316730393 ebook, $104.00; 57-1507

The International encyclopedia of journalism studies, ed. by Tim P. Vos and Folker Hanusch; associate eds. Dimitra Dimitrakopoulou, Margaretha Geertsema-Sligh, and Annika Sehl. Wiley-Blackwell, 2019. 3v bibl index ISBN 9781118841679, $525.00; 57-1508

Laird, Paul R. Historical dictionary of Leonard Bernstein, by Paul R. Laird and Hsun Lin. Rowman & Lit-tlefield, 2019. 333p bibl ISBN 9781538113448, $90.00; ISBN 9781538113455 ebook, $85.50; 57-1496

National Coalition against Censorship (NCAC). Open access. URL: ncac.org 57-1497

Palmer, Allison Lee. Historical dictionary of Romantic art and architecture. Rowman & Littlefield, 2019. 392p bibl ISBN 9781538122952, $95.00; ISBN 9781538122969 ebook, $90.00; 57-1498

Religions of America. Gale, part of Cengage Learning. Contact publisher for pricing. URL: https://www.gale.com/c/religions-of-america 57-1499

The Routledge companion to popular music and humor, ed. by Thomas M. Kitts and Nick Baxter-Moore. Routledge, 2019. 421p bibl index ISBN 9781138577565, $220.00; ISBN 9781351266642 ebook, $54.95; 57-1500

Routledge Historical Resources: History of Feminism. Routledge. Contact publisher for pricing. URL: routledgehistoricalresources.com/feminism 57-1501

The World of Jim Crow America: a daily life encyclopedia, ed. by Steven A. Reich. Greenwood, 2019. 2v bibl index ISBN 9781440850806, $198.00; ISBN 9781440850813 ebook, contact publisher for price; 57-1511

Humanities

Approaches to videogame discourse: lexis, interaction, textuality, ed. by Astrid Ensslin and Isabel Balteiro. Bloomsbury Academic, 2019. 319p bibl index ISBN 9781501338458, $130.00; ISBN 9781501338465 ebook, contact publisher for price; 57-1530

Baggett, Jerome P. Varieties of nonreligious experience: atheism in American culture. New York Univer-sity, 2019. 273p index ISBN 9781479874200, $89.00; ISBN 9781479884520 pbk, $30.00; ISBN 9781479857395 ebook, contact publisher for price; 57-1621

The Cambridge handbook of wisdom, ed. by Robert J. Sternberg and Judith Glück. Cambridge, 2019. 815p bibl index ISBN 9781108476416, $185.00; ISBN 9781108700344 pbk, $56.99; ISBN 9781108751193 ebook, $46.00; 57-1598

Carson, Andrea. Investigative journalism, democracy and the digital age. Routledge, 2020. 252p bibl index ISBN 9781138200524, $140.00; ISBN 9781315514291 ebook, $57.95; 57-1531

Caws, Mary Ann. Creative gatherings: meeting places of modernism. Reaktion Books, 2019. 352p bibl index ISBN 9781789140552, $35.00; 57-1512

Epistemology: the key thinkers, ed. by Stephen Hetherington. 2nd ed. Bloomsbury Academic, 2019. 310p bibl index ISBN 9781350085336, $90.00; ISBN 9781350085312 pbk, $26.95; ISBN 9781350085299 ebook, contact pubisher for price; 57-1603

Gertz, Nolen. Nihilism. MIT, 2019. 209p bibl index ISBN 9780262537179 pbk, $15.95; ISBN 9780262353328 ebook, contact publisher for price; 57-1606

Hemingway in the digital age: reflections on teaching, reading, and understanding, ed. by Laura Godfrey. Kent State, 2019. 232p bibl index ISBN 9781606353813 pbk, $34.95; ISBN 9781631013751 ebook, contact publisher for price; 57-1552

Hodgson, Jay. Understanding records: a field guide to recording practice. Bloomsbury Academic, 2019. 233p index ISBN 9781501342387, $120.00; ISBN 9781501342370 pbk, $34.95; ISBN 9781501342394 ebook, contact publisher for price; 57-1586

Honig, Elizabeth A. Pieter Bruegel and the idea of human nature. Reaktion Books, 2019. 269p bibl index ISBN 9781789140767, $22.50; 57-1524

Kells, Stuart. Shakespeare’s library: unlocking the greatest mystery in literature. Counterpoint, 2019. 322p bibl index ISBN 9781640091832, $26.00; 57-1553

Kersten, Carool. Contemporary thought in the Muslim world: trends, themes and issues. Routledge, 2019. 218p bibl index ISBN 9780415855075, $150.00; ISBN 9780415855082 pbk, $39.95; ISBN 9780203740255 ebook, $39.95; 57-1630

Lopes, Paul Douglas. Art rebels: race, class, and gender in the art of Miles Davis and Martin Scorsese. Princeton, 2019. 234p index ISBN 9780691159492, $29.95; ISBN 9780691189819 ebook, contact pub-lisher for price; 57-1579

Meisel, Jürgen M. Bilingual children: a guide for parents. Cambridge, 2019. 259p bibl index ISBN 9781107181366, $77.99; ISBN 9781316632611 pbk, $25.99; ISBN 9781316859353 ebook, $21.00; 57-1538

The Museum of the Bible: a critical introduction, ed. by Jill Hicks-Keeton and Cavan Concannon. Lexing-ton Books/Fortress Academic, 2019. 305p bibl index ISBN 9781978702820, $125.00; ISBN 9781978702844 ebook, $44.99; ISBN 9781978702837 ebook, $42.50; 57-1635

Nochimson, Martha. Television rewired: the rise of the auteur series. Texas, 2019. 313p bibl index ISBN 9780292759442, $95.00; ISBN 9781477318959 pbk, $34.95; ISBN 9781477318478 ebook, contact publisher for price; 57-1532

Quiviger, François. Leonardo da Vinci: self, art and nature. Reaktion Books, 2019. 221p bibl index ISBN 9781789140705, $22.50; ISBN 9781789141078 ebook, contact publisher for price; 57-1527

Reconsidering Laura Ingalls Wilder: Little house and beyond, ed. by Miranda A. Green-Barteet and Anne K. Phillips. University Press of Mississippi, 2019. 224p bibl index ISBN 9781496823083, $99.00; ISBN 9781496823083 pbk, $30.00; ISBN 9781496823090 ebook, contact publisher for price; 57-1564

Riley, Peter. Whitman, Melville, Crane, and the labors of American poetry: against vocation. Oxford, 2019. 197p bibl index ISBN 9780198836254, $65.00; ISBN 9780192573292 ebook, contact publisher for price; 57-1565

Scharnhorst, Gary. The life of Mark Twain: the middle years, 1871–1891. Missouri, 2019. 767p bibl in-dex ISBN 9780826221896, $36.95; ISBN 9780826274304 ebook, contact publisher for price; 57-1566

Strong, Roy. The Elizabethan image: an introduction to English portraiture, 1558 to 1603. Yale, 2019. 223p bibl index ISBN 9780300244298, $50.00; 57-1528

Toward a global Middle Ages: encountering the world through illuminated manuscripts, ed. by Bryan C. Keene with contributions by Suzanne Conklin Akbari et al. Getty Publications, 2019. 285p bibl index ISBN 9781606065983 pbk, $60.00; 57-1519

William S. Burroughs cutting up the century, ed. by Joan Hawkins and Alex Wermer-Colan with Charles Cannon, Tony Brewer, and Landon Palmer. Indiana, 2019. 434p bibl index ISBN 9780253041326, $85.00; ISBN 9780253041333 pbk, $35.00; ISBN 9780253041357 ebook, $34.99; 57-1568

Yomota, Inuhiko. What is Japanese cinema?: a history, tr. by Philip Kaffen. Columbia, 2019. 228p index ISBN 9780231191630, $80.00; ISBN 9780231191630 pbk, $26.00; ISBN 9780231549486 ebook, $25.99; 57-1584

Science & Technology

Alford, D. V. Beneficial insects. CRC Press, 2019. 383p bibl indexes ISBN 9781482262605, $99.95; ISBN 9780429161940 ebook, $99.95; 57-1657

Bessette, Alan. Mushrooms of the Gulf Coast States: a field guide to Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida, by Alan E. Bessette, Arleen F. Bessette, and David P. Lewis. Texas, 2019. 614p bibl indexes ISBN 9781477318157 pbk, $39.95; ISBN 9781477318164 ebook, contact publisher for price; 57-1655

Bressoud, David M. Calculus reordered: a history of the big ideas. Princeton, 2019. 224p bibl index ISBN 9780691181318, $29.95; ISBN 9780691189161 ebook, contact publisher for price; 57-1676

Gertner, Jon. The ice at the end of the world: an epic journey into Greenland’s buried past and our perilous future. Random House, 2019. 418p bibl index ISBN 9780812996623, $28.00; ISBN 9780812996630 ebook, contact publisher for price; 57-1659

Hall, Matthew. The imagination of plants: a book of botanical mythology. SUNY Press, 2019. 298p bibl ISBN 9781438474373, $95.00; ISBN 9781438474397 ebook, $95.00; 57-1656

Heath, Rachel Ann. A guide to transgender health: state-of-the-art information for gender-affirming peo-ple and their supporters, by Rachel Ann Heath and Katie Wynne. Praeger, 2019. 268p index ISBN 9781440863080, $48.00; ISBN 9781440863097 ebook, contact publisher for price; 57-1668

Koutchma, Tatiana N. Ultraviolet light in food technology: principles and applications. CRC Press, 2019. 343p bibl index ISBN 9781138081420, $199.95; ISBN 9780429244414 ebook, $199.95; 57-1663

Leigh, Egbert Giles. Nature strange and beautiful: how living beings evolved and made the Earth a home, by Egbert Giles Leigh, Jr., and Christian Ziegler. Yale, 2019. 258p bibl index ISBN 9780300244625, $28.00; ISBN 9780300249163 ebook, contact publisher for price; 57-1651

Little, Amanda. Fate of food: what we’ll eat in a bigger, hotter, smarter world. Harmony Books, 2019. 340p Index ISBN 9780804189033, $27.00; ISBN 9780804189057 ebook, contact publisher for price; 57-1648

Little, John B. Modeling and data analysis: an introduction with environmental applications. American Mathematical Society, 2019. 323p bibl index ISBN 9781470448691, $79.00; ISBN 9781470452001 ebook, contact publisher for price; 57-1677

The Oxford handbook of cyberpsychology, ed. by Alison Attrill-Smith et. al. Oxford, 2019. 752p bibl in-dex ISBN 9780198812746, $150.00; ISBN 9780191851100 ebook, contact publisher for price; 57-1674

Petrone, Chiara Maria. Volcanoes and earthquakes: a guide to our unquiet earth, by Chiara Maria Petrone, Roberto Scandone, and Alex Whittaker. Smithsonian Books, 2019. 144p bibl index ISBN 9781588346551 pbk, $19.95; 57-1660

Rushton, Simon. Security and public health: pandemics and politics in the contemporary world. Polity, 2019. 229p bibl index ISBN 9781509515882, $64.95; ISBN 9781509515899 pbk, $22.95; ISBN 9781509515929 ebook, open access; 57-1671

Smith, Dena T. Medicine over mind: mental health practice in the biomedical era. Rutgers, 2019. 215p bibl index ISBN 9780813598673, $120.00; ISBN 9780813598666 pbk, $28.95; ISBN 9780813598680 ebook, $28.95; 57-1672

Soderholm-Difatte, Bryan. Tumultuous times in America’s game: from Jackie Robinson’s breakthrough to the war over free agency. Rowman & Littlefield, 2019. 493p bibl index ISBN 9781538127353, $40.00; ISBN 9781538127360 ebook, $38.00; 57-1683

Špelic, Ivana. Standard methods for thermal comfort assessment of clothing, by Ivana Špelić, Alka Mihelić Bogdanić, and Anica Hursa S̆ajatović. CRC Press, 2019. 228p bibl index ISBN 9781138391475, $289.95; ISBN 9781138390980 pbk, $149.95; ISBN 9780429422997 ebook, $149.95; 57-1666

Touchdown: an American obsession, ed. by Gerald R. Gems and Gertrud Pfister. Berkshire Publishing Group, 2019. 364p bibl index ISBN 9781614720355, $125.00; ISBN 9781614728245 pbk, $49.95; 57-1685

Social & Behavioral Sciences

Avineri, Shlomo. Karl Marx: philosophy and revolution. Yale, 2019. 217p index ISBN 9780300211702, $26.00; ISBN 9780300248777 ebook, contact publisher for price; 57-1768

Blustein, David Larry. The importance of work in an age of uncertainty: the eroding work experience in America. Oxford, 2019. 266p index ISBN 9780190213701, $34.95; ISBN 9780190062682 ebook, contact publisher for price; 57-1783

Boyatzis, Richard E. Helping people change: coaching with compassion for lifelong learning and growth, by Richard E. Boyatzis, Melvin Smith, and Ellen Van Oosten. Harvard Business Review Press, 2019. 233p index ISBN 9781633696563, $30.00; ISBN 9781633696570 ebook, $30.00; 57-1784

Cities around the world: struggles and solutions to urban life, ed. by Jing Luo. ABC-CLIO, 2019. 2v bibl index ISBN 9781440853852, $189.00; ISBN 9781440853869 ebook, contact publisher for price; 57-1686

Conlin, Michael F. The constitutional origins of the American Civil War. Cambridge, 2019. 291p bibl in-dex ISBN 9781108495271, $49.99; ISBN 9781108568654 ebook, $40.00; 57-1779

Cowen, Tyler. Big business: a love letter to an American anti-hero. St. Martin’s, 2019. 259p bibl index ISBN 9781250110541, $28.99; ISBN 9781250110558 ebook, $14.99; 57-1702

Dekker, Sidney. Foundations of safety science: a century of understanding accidents and disasters. CRC Press, 2019. 445p bibl index ISBN 9781138481770, $149.95; ISBN 9781138481787 pbk, $54.95; ISBN 9781351059794 ebook, $54.95; 57-1787

Dijk, Willemijn van. The successor: Tiberius and the triumph of the Roman Empire, tr. by Kathleen Brandt-Carey. Baylor, 2019. 201p bibl index ISBN 9781481310468, $29.95; ISBN 9781481310505 ebook, contact publisher for price; 57-1720

Dutro, Elizabeth. The vulnerable heart of literacy: centering trauma as powerful pedagogy. Teachers Col-lege Press, 2019. 131p bibl index ISBN 9780807763124, $90.00; ISBN 9780807763124 pbk, $29.95; ISBN 9780807778081 ebook, $29.95; 57-1706

Fitzsimons, John T. Facing the challenges: how principals can survive and thrive in today’s schools. Rowman & Littlefield, 2019. 115p ISBN 9781475846607, $50.00; ISBN 9781475846614 pbk, $25.00; ISBN 9781475846621 ebook, $23.50; 57-1707

A Global history of runaways: workers, mobility, and capitalism 1600–1850, ed. by Marcus Rediker, Titas Chakraborty, and Matthias van Rossum. California, 2019. 261p bibl index ISBN 9780520304352, $95.00; ISBN 9780520304369 pbk, $34.95; ISBN 9780520973060 ebook, $34.95; 57-1687

Handbook of urban geography, ed. by Tim Schwanen and Ronald van Kempen. E. Elgar, 2019. 490p bibl index ISBN 9781785364594, $240.00; ISBN 9781785364600 ebook, contact publisher for price; 57-1714

Howe, Cymene. Ecologics: wind and power in the Anthropocene. Duke, 2019. 250p bibl index ISBN 9781478003199, $99.95; ISBN 9781478003854 pbk, $25.95; ISBN 9781478004400 ebook, contact pub-lisher for price; 57-1695

Lovell, Julia. Maoism: a global history. Knopf, 2019. 610p bibl index ISBN 9780525656043, $37.50; ISBN 9780525656050 ebook, contact publisher for price; 57-1726

Maxwell, Angie. The long southern strategy: how chasing white voters in the South changed American politics, by Angie Maxwell and Todd Shields. Oxford, 2019. 534p index ISBN 9780190265960, $34.95; ISBN 9780190939403 ebook, contact publisher for price; 57-1741

Miller, John P. The holistic curriculum. Toronto, 2019. 247p bibl index ISBN 9781487504137, $105.00; ISBN 9781487523176 pbk, $42.95; ISBN 9781487519506 ebook, $42.95; 57-1710

Protecting historic coastal cities: case studies in resilience, ed. by Matthew Pelz. Texas A&M, 2019. 132p index (Gulf Coast Books, 34) ISBN 9781623497705, $30.00; ISBN 9781623497712 ebook, contact pub-lisher for price; 57-1691

Richards, Barry. The psychology of politics. Routledge, 2019. 103p bibl ISBN 9781138551671, $140.00; ISBN 9781138551701 pbk, $15.95; ISBN 9781315147697 ebook, contact publisher for price; 57-1790

Rogers-Whitehead, Carrie. Digital citizenship: teaching strategies and practice from the field. Rowman & Littlefield, 2019. 165p bibl ISBN 9781475848250, $86.00; ISBN 9781475848267 pbk, $43.00; ISBN 9781475848274 ebook, $40.50; 57-1712

Routledge handbook of contemporary feminism, ed. by Tasha Oren and Andrea L. Press. Routledge, 2019. 353p bibl index ISBN 9781138845114, $220.00; ISBN 9781315728346 ebook, $54.95; 57-1692

Willis, Jim. Daily life in the 1960s counterculture. Greenwood, 2019. 226p bibl index ISBN 9781440859007, $63.00; ISBN 9781440859014 ebook, contact publisher for price; 57-1747

Zaloom, Caitlin. Indebted: how families make college work at any cost. Princeton, 2019. 267p bibl index ISBN 9780691164311, $29.95; ISBN 9780691195421 ebook, contact publisher for price; 57-1713