The Top 75 Community College Titles: January 2022

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

Posted on January 27, 2022 in Top 75 Community College Titles

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The Civil Rights Movement: past and present, ed. by Michael J. O’Neal. 2nd ed. Salem Press/Grey House, 2020. 2v bibl index ISBN 9781642654059, $195.00; ISBN 9781642654066 ebook, contact publisher for price; 59-1234

Coronavirus Research Database. ProQuest. Contact publisher for pricing. URL: https://proquest.libguides.com/covid19 59-1233

Google Books. Google. Contact publisher for pricing.URL: https://books.google.com/ 59-1227

Mays, Terry M. Historical dictionary of multinational peacekeeping. Rowman & Littlefield, 2021. 568p bibl ISBN 9781538139004, $185.00; ISBN 9781538139011 ebook, $175.50; 59-1236

SAGE Campus. SAGE Publishing. Contact publisher for pricing. URL: https://campus.sagepub.com/ 59-1229

Sullivan, Lawrence R. Historical dictionary of Chinese culture, by Lawrence R. Sullivan and Nancy Y. Liu-Sullivan. Rowman & Littlefield, 2021. 530p bibl index ISBN 9781538146033, $145.00; ISBN 9781538146040 ebook, $137.50; 59-1237

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Humanities

American theatre ensembles: v.1: Post-1970: Theatre X, Mabou Mines, Goat Island, Lookingglass Theatre, Elevator Repair Service, and SITI Company; v.2: Post-1995: The Builders Association, Pig Iron Theatre, Rude Mechs, Radiohole, The Civilians, and 600 Highwaymen, ed. by Michael Vanden Heuvel. Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, 2021. 296p bibl index ISBN 9781350051546, $90.00, v1; ISBN 9781350051553 ebook, contact publisher for price, v1; ISBN 9781350051638, $90.00, v2; ISBN 9781350051645 ebook, contact publisher for price, v2; 59-1317

Bravo, Monica. Greater American camera: making modernism in Mexico. Yale, 2021. 256p index ISBN 9780300253634, $65.00; 59-1261

Fuchs, Barbara. Knowing fictions: picaresque reading in the early modern Hispanic world. Pennsylvania, 2021. 208p bibl index ISBN 9780812252613, $55.00; ISBN 9780812299502 ebook, contact publisher for price; 59-1297

Granet, Keith. The business of design: balancing creativity and profitability. Princeton Architectural, 2021. 224p index ISBN 9781616899981, $40.00; 59-1257

Grundberg, Andy. How photography became contemporary art: inside an artistic revolution from pop to the digital age. Yale, 2021. 296p index ISBN 9780300234107, $40.00; ISBN 9780300259896 ebook, contact publisher for price; 59-1263

Harrison, David. A century of color in design. Thames & Hudson, 2021. 320p ISBN 9781760761288, $34.95; 59-1245
Hayot, Eric. Humanist reason: a history. an argument. a plan. Columbia, 2021. 232p bibl index ISBN 9780231197847, $95.00; ISBN 9780231197854 pbk, $25.00; ISBN 9780231552370 ebook, $24.99; 59-1240

A History of American literature and culture of the First World War, ed. by Tim Dayton and Mark W. Van Wienen. Cambridge, 2021. 449p bibl index ISBN 9781108475327, $120.00; ISBN 9781108673822 ebook, $96.00; 59-1283

Macaulay-Lewis, Elizabeth. Antiquity in Gotham: the ancient architecture of New York City. Empire State Editions, 2021. 288p bibl index ISBN 9780823293841, $39.95; ISBN 9780823293858 ebook, $38.99; 59-1258

Mexal, Stephen J. The conservative aesthetic: Theodore Roosevelt, popular Darwinism, and the American literary West. Lexington Books, 2021. 364p bibl index ISBN 9781793632616, $120.00; ISBN 9781793632623 ebook, $45.00; 59-1285

Nadel, Ira Bruce. Philip Roth: a counterlife. Oxford, 2021. 576p bibl index ISBN 9780199846108, $29.95; ISBN 9780190656768 ebook, contact publisher for price; 59-1286

Perone, James E. Listen to soul!: exploring a musical genre. ABC-CLIO, 2021. 228p bibl index ISBN 9781440875250, $63.00; ISBN 9781440875267 ebook, contact publisher for price; 59-1314

Price, Kenneth M. Whitman in Washington: becoming the national poet in the federal city. Oxford, 2020. 224p bibl index ISBN 9780198840930, $29.95; ISBN 9780192577665 ebook, contact publisher for price; 59-1289

Pulham, Patricia. The sculptural body in Victorian literature: encrypted sexualities. Edinburgh University Press, 2020. 234p bibl index ISBN 9780748693429, $100.00; ISBN 9780748693443 ebook, $100.00; 59-1290

Rambuss, Richard. Kubrick’s men. Fordham, 2021. 288p index ISBN 9780823293872, $105.00; ISBN 9780823293889 pbk, $29.95; ISBN 9780823293896 ebook, $28.99; 59-1308

Robin, William. Industry: Bang on a Can and new music in the marketplace. Oxford, 2021. 320p bibl index ISBN 9780190068653, $34.95; ISBN 9780190068677 ebook, contact publisher for price; 59-1315

The Routledge handbook of phenomenology and phenomenological philosophy, ed. by Daniele De Santis, Burt Hopkins, and Claudio Majolino. Routledge, 2021. 840p index ISBN 9780367539993, $250.00; ISBN 9781003084013 ebook, $52.95; 59-1331

The Routledge handbook of political epistemology, ed. by Michael Hannon and Jeroen de Ridder. Routledge, 2021. 522p bibl index ISBN 9780367345907, $250.00; ISBN 9780429326769 ebook, $52.95; 59-1332

Searcy, Anne. Ballet in the Cold War: a Soviet-American exchange. Oxford, 2020. 198p index ISBN 9780190945107, $39.95; ISBN 9780190945121 ebook, contact publisher for price; 59-1319

Smith, Ian Haydn. A chronology of film: a cultural timeline from the magic lantern to Netflix. Thames & Hudson, 2021. 272p index ISBN 9780500023693, $29.95; 59-1310

Sturgill, Amanda. Detecting deception: tools to fight fake news. Rowman & Littlefield, 2021. 160p bibl index ISBN 9781538141021, $49.95; ISBN 9781538141038 pbk, $19.95; ISBN 9781538141045 ebook, $17.50; 59-1268

Vandenberg, Kathleen M. Joan Didion: substance and style. SUNY Press, 2021. 184p bibl index ISBN 9781438481395, $95.00; ISBN 9781438481388 ebook, $20.95; 59-1293

Walters, Kelly. Black, brown & Latinx design educators: conversations on design and race. Princeton Architectural, 2021. 176p ISBN 9781616899974 pbk, $24.95; 59-1251

West, Nancy Martha. Masterpiece: America’s 50-year-old love affair with British television drama. Rowman & Littlefield, 2020. 264p index ISBN 9781538134474, $32.00; ISBN 9781538134481 ebook, $30.50; 59-1270

Wilson, Kristina. Mid-century modernism and the American body: race, gender, and the politics of power in design. Princeton, 2021. 264p bibl index ISBN 9780691208190, $39.95; ISBN 9780691213491 ebook, contact publisher for price; 59-1252

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Science & Technology

Accounting for health: calculation, paperwork, and medicine, 1500–2000, ed. by Axel C. Hüntelmann and Oliver Falk. Manchester University Press, Palgrave Macmillan, 2021. 416p index ISBN 9781526135162, $120.00; ISBN 9781526135186 ebook, contact publisher for price; 59-1343

DeFries, Ruth S. What would nature do?: a guide for our uncertain times. Columbia, 2021. 264p bibl index ISBN 9780231199421, $26.95; ISBN 9780231553100 ebook, $25.99; 59-1360

Elvis, Martin. Asteroids: how love, fear, and greed will determine our future in space. Yale, 2021. 312p index ISBN 9780300231922, $30.00; ISBN 9780300258387 ebook, contact publisher for price; 59-1349

Gilliland, Robert J. Speed: the life of a test pilot and birth of an American icon, by Bob Gilliland and Keith Dunnavant. Nebraska, 2021. 288p bibl index ISBN 9781640122680, $34.95; ISBN 9781640124677 ebook, $34.95; 59-1351

Hagen, Joel Bartholemew. Life out of balance: homeostasis and adaptation in a Darwinian world. Alabama, 2021. 336p bibl index ISBN 9780817320898, $59.95; ISBN 9780817393472 ebook, $59.95; 59-1355

Handbook of molecular gastronomy: scientific foundations, educational practices, and culinary applications, ed. by Christophe Lavelle et al. CRC Press, 2021. 894p index ISBN 9781466594784, $250.00; ISBN 9780429168703 ebook, $250.00; 59-1342

Health promotion in the 21st century: new approaches for achieving health for all, ed. by Mary-Louise Fleming and Louise Baldwin. Routledge, 2020. 312p index ISBN 9780367718312, $160.00; ISBN 9781760875145 pbk, $42.95; ISBN 9781003115915 ebook, $42.95; 59-1371

Leeder, Mike. Measure for measure: geology and the Industrial Revolution. Dunedin Academic, 2020. 350p bibl index ISBN 9781780460819, $35.00; ISBN 9781780466521 ebook, contact publisher for price; 59-1363

Morange, Michel. A history of biology, tr. by Teresa Lavender Fagan and Joseph Muise. Princeton, 2021. 448p index ISBN 9780691175409, $29.95; ISBN 9780691188782 ebook, contact publisher for price; 59-1346

Muir-Harmony, Teasel. Operation Moonglow: a political history of Project Apollo. Basic Books, 2020. 384p bibl ISBN 9781541699878, $32.00; ISBN 9781541699861 ebook, $18.99; 59-1352

Seife, Charles. Hawking Hawking: the selling of a scientific celebrity. Basic Books, 2021. 400p bibl index ISBN 9781541618374, $39.00; ISBN 9781541618381 ebook, $17.99; 59-1347

Stories of sports: critical literacy in media production, consumption, and dissemination, ed. by Katherin Garland et al. Lexington Books, 2021. 236p bibl index ISBN 9781793622228, $100.00; ISBN 9781793622235 ebook, $48.00; 59-1381

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Social & Behavioral Sciences

Albertus, Michael. Property without rights: origins and consequences of the property rights gap. Cambridge, 2021. 391p index ISBN 9781108835237, $99.99; ISBN 9781108799836 pbk, $29.99; ISBN 9781108891950 ebook, $24.00; 59-1404

Arnold, Dean E. Retracing Inca steps: adventures in ethnoarchaeology. Utah, 2021. 256p bibl index ISBN 9781647690243 pbk, $34.95; ISBN 9781647690250 ebook, contact publisher for price; 59-1395

Bailey, Alison. The weight of whiteness: a feminist engagement with privilege, race, and ignorance. Lexington Books, 2021. 202p bibl index ISBN 9781793604491, $95.00; ISBN 9781793604507 ebook, $45.00; 59-1385

Bechky, Beth A. Blood, powder, and residue: how crime labs translate evidence into proof. Princeton, 2021. 248p bibl index ISBN 9780691183589, $29.95; ISBN 9780691205854 ebook, contact publisher for price; 59-1514

Brogaard, Berit. Hatred: understanding our most dangerous emotion. Oxford, 2020. 432p bibl index ISBN 9780190084448, $24.95; ISBN 9780190084462 ebook, contact publisher for price; 59-1509

Brown, Emma. To raise a boy: classrooms, locker rooms, bedrooms, and the hidden struggles of American boyhood. Atria Books/One Signal, 2021. 320p bibl index ISBN 9781982128081, $28.00; 59-1387

Centering the margins of anthropology’s history, ed. by Regna Darnell and Frederic W. Gleach. Nebraska, 2021. 288p (Histories of anthropology annual, 14) ISBN 9781496225535 pbk, $40.00; ISBN 9781496226273 ebook, $40.00; 59-1398

Chan, Jenny. Dying for an iPhone: Apple, Foxconn, and the lives of China’s workers, by Jenny Chan, Mark Selden, and Pun Ngai. Haymarket Books, 2020. 300p bibl index ISBN 9781642592252, $50.00; ISBN 9781642591248 pbk, $19.95; ISBN 9781642592047 ebook, $19.99; 59-1406

Collins, Sheila D. Ubuntu: George M. Houser and the struggle for peace and freedom on two continents. Ohio University, 2020. 392p bibl index ISBN 9780821424247, $50.00; ISBN 9780821424506 pbk, $34.95; ISBN 9780821446959 ebook, contact publisher for price; 59-1462

Creator culture: an introduction to global social media entertainment, ed. by Stuart Cunningham and David Craig. New York University, 2021. 328p index ISBN 9781479879304, $99.00; ISBN 9781479817979 pbk, $35.00; ISBN 9781479837601 ebook, contact publisher for price; 59-1517

Dewey, John. America’s public philosopher: Dewey’s essays on social justice, economics, education, and the future of democracy, ed. and introd. by Eric Thomas Weber. Columbia, 2021. 352p bibl index ISBN 9780231198943, $95.00; ISBN 9780231198950 pbk, $28.00; ISBN 9780231552882 ebook, $27.99; 59-1422

Eden, Jeff. God save the USSR: Soviet Muslims and the Second World War. Oxford, 2021. 272p bibl index ISBN 9780190076276, $99.00; ISBN 9780190076290 ebook, contact publisher for price; 59-1448

Fleming, Robin. The material fall of Roman Britain, 300–525 CE. Pennsylvania, 2021. 296p index ISBN 9780812252446, $45.00; ISBN 9780812297362 ebook, contact publisher for price; 59-1440

Green, Toby. The Covid consensus: the new politics of global inequality. Hurst & Company, 2021. 304p ISBN 9781787385221, $21.95; ISBN 9781787386150 ebook, contact publisher for price; 59-1495

Hadley, D. M. The Viking great army and the making of England, by Dawn M. Hadley and Julian D. Richards. W. W. Norton, 2021. 321p index ISBN 9780500022016, $34.95; ISBN 9780500776353 ebook, contact publisher for price; 59-1476

Jarrett, Simon. Those they called idiots: the idea of the disabled mind from 1700 to the present day. Reaktion Books, 2020. 352p bibl index ISBN 9781789143010, $33.40; ISBN 9781789143027 ebook, contact publisher for price; 59-1477

Khan, B. Zorina. Inventing ideas: patents, prizes, and the knowledge economy. Oxford, 2020. 478p bibl index ISBN 9780190936075, $99.00; ISBN 9780190936082 pbk, $30.00; ISBN 9780190936105 ebook, contact publisher for price; 59-1407

Lane, Sean M. Understanding eyewitness memory: theory and applications, by Sean M. Lane and Kate A. Houston. New York University, 2021. 213p bibl index ISBN 9781479842513, $89.00; ISBN 9781479877119 pbk, $30.00; ISBN 9781479851157 ebook, contact publisher for price; 59-1524

MacDonald, Scott. Education without debt: giving back and paying it forward. Indiana, 2020. 262p index ISBN 9780253051431, $80.00; ISBN 9780253051448 pbk, $25.00; ISBN 9780253051479 ebook, $12.99; 59-1425

Martin, Roger L. When more is not better: overcoming America’s obsession with economic efficiency. Harvard Business Review Press, 2020. 256p index ISBN 9781647820060, $30.00; ISBN 9781647820077 ebook, contact publisher for price; 59-1417

Masco, Joseph. The future of fallout, and other episodes in radioactive world-making. Duke, 2021. 440p bibl index ISBN 9781478010081, $109,95; ISBN 9781478011149 pbk, $29.95; ISBN 9781478012665 ebook, contact publisher for price; 59-1401

Michels, Georg Bernhard. The Habsburg Empire under siege: Ottoman expansion and Hungarian revolt in the age of Grand Vizier Ahmed Köprülü (1661–76). McGill-Queen’s, 2021. 608p bibl index ISBN 9780228005759, $85.00; ISBN 9780228006978 ebook, contact publisher for price; 59-1449

Myers, Cayce. Public relations history: theory, practice and profession. Routledge, 2020. 184p bibl index ISBN 9781138491403, $160.00; ISBN 9781138491410 pbk, $44.95; ISBN 9781351033015 ebook, $44.95; 59-1411

Öztürk, Ahmet Erdi. Religion, identity and power: Turkey and the Balkans in the twenty-first century. Edinburgh University Press, 2021. 264p bibl index ISBN 9781474474689, $100.00; ISBN 9781474474702 ebook, $100.00; 59-1496

Plague, pestilence and pandemic: voices from history, ed. by Peter Furtado. Thames & Hudson, 2021. 304p bibl index ISBN 9780500296134 pbk, $17.95; 59-1434

Prickett, Pamela J. Believing in South Central: everyday Islam in the City of Angels. Chicago, 2021. 192p bibl index ISBN 9780226747149, $95.00; ISBN 9780226747286 pbk, $20.00; ISBN 9780226747316 ebook, contact publisher for price; 59-1526

Reconsidering American civil-military relations: the military, society, politics, and modern war, ed.by Lionel Beehner, Risa Brooks, and Daniel Maurer. Oxford, 2020. 374p bibl index ISBN 9780197535493, $99.00; ISBN 9780197535509 pbk, $39.95; ISBN 9780197535530 ebook, contact publisher for price; 59-1498

Shively, Kim. Islam in modern Turkey. Edinburgh University Press, 2021. 216p bibl index ISBN 9781474440141, $120.00; ISBN 9781474440158 pbk, $29.95; ISBN 9781474440172 ebook, $29.95; 59-1458

Tacoma, Thomas J. The political thought of Calvin Coolidge: Burkean Americanist. Rowman & Littlefield, 2020. 226p bibl index ISBN 9781793624413, $105.00; ISBN 9781793624420 ebook, $45.00; 59-1472

Taussig, Doron. What we mean by the American dream: stories we tell about meritocracy. Cornell, 2021. 200p bibl index ISBN 9781501754685, $26.95; ISBN 9781501754708 ebook, contact publisher for price; 59-1529

Walls, Stephanie M. American Federalism and individual rights. Rowman & Littlefield, 2021. 260p ISBN 9781498589444, $105.00; ISBN 9781498589451 ebook, $45.00; 59-1508

Weiss, Mitchell. We the possibility: harnessing public entrepreneurship to solve our most urgent problems. Harvard Business Review Press, 2021. 288p index ISBN 9781633699199, $30.00; ISBN 9781633699205 ebook, contact publisher for price; 59-1415

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