The Top 75 Community College Titles: October 2023 Edition
The best of all the titles appropriate for two-year colleges reviewed in the October issue of Choice.
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Berg, Gary A. A career in the arts: the complex learning and career needs of creative professionals. Rowman & Littlefield, 2022. 170p bibl ISBN 9781475862362, $70.00; ISBN 9781475862379 pbk, $30.00; ISBN 9781475862386 ebook, $28.30; 60-1281
Careers in the music industry. Salem Press, 2021. 450p ISBN 9781637000298, $125.00; ISBN 9781637000304 ebook, $125.00; 60-1282
Grant, Barry Keith. 100 American horror films. Bloomsbury, 2022. 224p bib index ISBN 9781839021459, $90.00; ISBN 9781839021466 pbk, $26.95; ISBN 9781839021442 ebook, $24.95; 60-1286
Henry, Clarence Bernard. Global jazz: a research and information guide. Routledge, 2022. 394p bibl index ISBN 9780367724832, $170.00; ISBN 9781003154969 ebook, $48.95; 60-1288
Hosier, Allison. Using context in information literacy instruction: beyond basic skills. ALA Neal-Schuman, 2022. 142p index ISBN 9780838937983, $64.99; 60-1296
Notable writers of the American West & the Native American experience, ed. by Laura Nicosia and James F. Nicosia. Salem Press, 2021. 662p bibl index ISBN 9781637000045, $175.00; ISBN 9781637000052 ebook, $175.00; 60-1291
Redman, Michael. The best jobs in the music industry: straight talk from successful music pros. Rowman & Littlefield, 2022. 366p index ISBN 9781538137703, $105.00; ISBN 9781538151273 pbk, $35.00; ISBN 9781538137710 ebook, contact publisher for price; 60-1292
The Routledge handbook on the American dream: volume 1, ed. by Robert C. Hauhart and Mitja Sardoč. Routledge, 2022. 316p bibl index ISBN 9780367895990, $245.00; ISBN 9781003020028 ebook, contact publisher for price; 60-1301
Better living through TV: contemporary TV and moral identity formation, ed. by Steven A. Benko. Lexington Books, 2022. 352p bibl index ISBN 9781793636188, $120.00; ISBN 9781793636195 ebook, $45.00; 60-1314
Fitzgerald, Oscar P. American furniture designers: 1900–2020. Rowman & Littlefield, 2022. 294p bibl index ISBN 9781538135624, $110.00; ISBN 9781538135631 ebook, $104.00; 60-1310
Frydman, Joshua. The Japanese myths: a guide to gods, heroes and spirits. Thames & Hudson, 2022. 224p bibl index ISBN 9780500252314, $24.95; ISBN 9780500777350 ebook, contact publisher for price; 60-1358
Interpreting and experiencing Disney: mediating the mouse, ed. by Priscilla Hobbs. Intellect, 2022. 250p bibl index ISBN 9781789384741, $113.50; ISBN 9781789384765 ebook, contact publisher for price; 60-1302
LGBTQ digital cultures: a global perspective, ed. by Paromita Pain. Routledge, 2022. 294p bibl index ISBN 9781032051833, $160.00; ISBN 9781032050003 pbk, $44.95; ISBN 9781000548846 ebook, $44.95; 60-1318
Linden, Patrick Ingemar. The case against death. MIT, 2022. 270p bibl index ISBN 9780262543163 pbk, $45.00; ISBN 9780262367455 ebook, contact publisher for price; 60-1345
Littlejohn, Ronnie. Chinese philosophy and philosophers: an introduction. Bloomsbury Academic, 2022. 376p bibl index ISBN 9781350177413, $90.00; ISBN 9781350177406 pbk, $26.95; ISBN 9781350177437 ebook, $24.25; 60-1346
Marsden, George M. Fundamentalism and American culture. Oxford, 2022. 462p bibl index ISBN 9780197599488, $99.00; ISBN 9780197599495 pbk, $24.95; ISBN 9780197599525 ebook, contact publisher for price; 60-1362
McGarry, Rachel. Envisioning evil: “the Nazi drawings” by Mauricio Lasansky, by Rachel McGarry with Barry D. Cytron. Minneapolis Institute of Art, 2021. 160p bibl index ISBN 9781517910518 pbk, $39.95; 60-1308
Roberts, Paul. Reading Franz Liszt: revealing the poetry behind the piano music. Rowman & Littlefield/Amadeus, 2022. 196p bibl index ISBN 9781538143346, $36.00; ISBN 9781538143353 ebook, $34.00; 60-1332
The Samaritans: a biblical people, ed. by Steven Fine. Brill, 2022. 268p ISBN 9789004466906, $68.00; ISBN 9789004466913 ebook, $70.00; 60-1366
Silk: fibre, fabric and fashion, ed. by Lesley Ellis Miller and Ana Cabrera Lafuente, with Claire Allen-Johnstone. Thames & Hudson, 2021. 504p bibl index ISBN 9780500480656, $95.00; 60-1305
Smith, Peter. Rock concert performance from ABBA to ZZ Top, by Peter Smith with Laura Smith. Lexington Books, 2022. 228p bibl index ISBN 9781793618566, $95.00; ISBN 9781793618573 ebook, $45.00; 60-1334
Timmons, Mark. Moral theory: an introduction. Rowman & Littlefield, 2022. 355p bibl index ISBN 9781538152317, $110.00; ISBN 9781538152324 pbk, $48.00; ISBN 9781538152331 ebook, $46.50; 60-1354
Aylett, Ruth. Living with robots: what every anxious human needs to know, by Ruth Aylett and Patricia A. Vargas. MIT, 2021. 312p bibl index ISBN 9780262045810, $27.95; ISBN 9780262546041 pbk, $21.95; ISBN 9780262365475 ebook, contact publisher for price; 60-1404
Church, David. Mortal kombat: games of death. Michigan, 2022. 170p bibl index ISBN 9780472075225, $75.00; ISBN 9780472055227 pbk, $29.95; ISBN 9780472902620 ebook, open access; 60-1424
Fisher, Peter. What is dark matter? Princeton, 2022. 192p bibl index ISBN 9780691148342, $35.00; ISBN 9780691185910 ebook, contact publisher for price; 60-1418
Frøland, Stig Sophus. Duel without end: mankind’s battle with microbes, by Stig Sophus Frøland tr. by John Irons. Reaktion Books, 2022. 632p bibl index ISBN 9781789145052, $35.00; ISBN 9781789145069 ebook, contact publisher for price; 60-1394
Gee, Henry. A (very) short history of life on Earth: 4.6 billion years in 12 pithy chapters. St. Martin’s, 2021. 288p bibl index ISBN 9781250276650, $24.99; ISBN 9781250276667 ebook, $12.99; 60-1385
A geography of infection: spatial processes and patterns in epidemics and pandemics, by Matthew Smallman-Raynor et al. 2nd ed. Oxford, 2022. 192p bibl index ISBN 9780192848390, $75.00; ISBN 9780192664525 ebook, contact publisher for price; 60-1395
Grasso, Marco. From big oil to big green: holding the oil industry to account for the climate crisis. MIT, 2022. 368p bibl index ISBN 9780262543743 pbk, $40.00; ISBN 9780262369787 ebook, contact publisher for price; 60-1419
Gray, Norman. A student’s guide to special relativity. Cambridge, 2022. 170p bibl index ISBN 9781108834094, $59.99; ISBN 9781108995634 pbk, $23.99; ISBN 9781009003117 ebook, contact publisher for price; 60-1420
Hershberger, Robert. Diary of an Alzheimer’s caregiver. Purdue, 2022. 181p ISBN 9781612497341 pbk, $19.99; ISBN 9781612497358 ebook, contact publisher for price; 60-1397
Houle, Paul D. The Crash of Delta flight 723: the worst air disaster in New England history. McFarland, 2021. 273p bibl index ISBN 9781476686424 pbk, $35.00; ISBN 9781476644356 ebook, contact publisher for price; 60-1379
Marx, Paris. Road to nowhere: what Silicon Valley gets wrong about the future of transportation. Verso, 2022. 272p bibl index ISBN 9781839765889, $26.95; ISBN 9781839765919 ebook, $9.99; 60-1372
Matthew, Dayna Bowen. Just health: treating structural racism to heal America. New York University, 2022. 336p bibl index ISBN 9781479802661, $27.95; ISBN 9781479802692 ebook, $27.95; 60-1399
Neville, Sarah. Early modern herbals and the book trade: English stationers and the commodification of botany. Cambridge, 2022. 290p bibl index ISBN 9781316515990, $99.00; ISBN 9781009033237 ebook, $80.00; 60-1376
Peebles, P. J. E. The whole truth: a cosmologist’s reflections on the search for objective reality. Princeton, 2022. 264p bibl index ISBN 9780691231358, $27.95; ISBN 9780691231365 ebook, contact publisher for price; 60-1421
The Routledge social science handbook of AI, ed. by Anthony Elliott. Routledge, 2021. 386p bibl index ISBN 9780367188252, $200.00; ISBN 9780429198533 ebook, contact publisher for price; 60-1409
Saravanan, R. The climate demon: past, present, and future of climate prediction. Cambridge, 2022. 350p bibl index ISBN 9781316510766, $79.99; ISBN 9781009018043 pbk, $39.99; ISBN 9781009040051 ebook, contact publisher for price; 60-1422
Storm, Gerald L. Northern white-cedar: the tree of life, by Gerald L. Storm and Laura S. Kenefic. Michigan State, 2022. 200p bibl index ISBN 9781611864281 pbk, $34.95; ISBN 9781628954654 ebook, $34.95; 60-1382
Waste management policies and practices in BRICS nations, ed. by Pardeep Singh et al. CRC Press, 2021. 348p bibl index ISBN 9780367440992, $200.00; ISBN 9781000412581 ebook, $200.00; 60-1389
Africa beyond liberal democracy: in search of context-relevant models of democracy for the twenty-first century, ed. by Reginald M. J. Oduor. Lexington Books, 2022. 298p bibl index ISBN 9781666913811, $110.00; ISBN 9781666913828 ebook, $45.00; 60-1517
Amezcua, Mike. Making Mexican Chicago: from postwar settlement to the age of gentrification. Chicago, 2022. 320p bibl index ISBN 9780226815824, $45.00; ISBN 9780226815831 ebook, $44.99; 60-1498
Boffone, Trevor. Latinx teens: U.S. popular culture on the page, stage, and screen, by Trevor Boffone and Cristina Herrera. Arizona, 2022. 160p bibl index ISBN 9780816542758 pbk, $22.95; ISBN 9780816545278 ebook, $22.95; 60-1426
Bolles, Augusta Lynn. Women and tourist work in Jamaica: seven miles of sandy beach. Lexington Books, 2022. 170p bibl index ISBN 9781793615565, $95.00; ISBN 9781793615572 ebook, contact publisher for price; 60-1435
Burger, Michael. Reading history. Toronto, 2022. 144p bibl index ISBN 9781487523879 pbk, $21.95; ISBN 9781487532383 ebook, $17.95; 60-1476
Crawford, Bridget J. Menstruation matters: challenging the law’s silence on periods, by Bridget J. Crawford and Emily Gold Waldman. New York University, 2022. 288p bibl index ISBN 9781479809677, $39.00; ISBN 9781479809691 ebook, contact publisher for price; 60-1551
Fischman, Wendy. The real world of college: what higher education is and what it can be, by Wendy Fischman and Howard Gardner. MIT, 2022. 408p bibl index ISBN 9780262046534, $34.95; ISBN 978026236852 ebook, contact publisher for price; 60-1466
Gabrielli, Fabio. Body image and eating disorders: an anthropological and psychological overview, by Fabio Gabrielli and Floriana Irtelli. Cambridge, 2022. 200p index ISBN 9781316514306, $84.99; ISBN 9781009078030 pbk, $29.99; ISBN 9781009085434 ebook, $24.00; 60-1565
Gallagher, Charles R. Nazis of Copley Square: the forgotten story of the Christian front. Harvard, 2021. 336p bibl index ISBN 9780674983717, $29.95; ISBN 9780674269675 ebook, contact publisher for price; 60-1502
Graves, Joseph L., Jr. Racism, not race: answers to frequently asked questions, by Joseph L. Graves Jr. and Alan H. Goodman. Columbia, 2022. 290p bibl index ISBN 9780231553735, $27.95; ISBN 9780231200677 pbk, $18.95; ISBN 9780231553735 ebook, $19.99; 60-1429
Gripentrog, John. Prelude to Pearl Harbor: ideology and culture in US-Japan relations, 1919–1941. Rowman & Littlefield, 2021. bibl index ISBN 9781538149430, $105.00; ISBN 9781538166505 pbk, $36.00; ISBN 9781538149447 ebook, $34.00; 60-1477
Gross, C. J. What’s your ZIP code story?: understanding and overcoming class bias in the workplace. Rowman & Littlefield, 2022. 224p bibl index ISBN 9781538160589, $32.00; ISBN 9781538160596 ebook, $30.00; 60-1442
Horwitz, Ilana M. God, grades, and graduation: religion’s surprising impact on academic success. Oxford, 2022. 264p bibl index ISBN 9780197534144, $29.95; ISBN 9780197534168 ebook, contact publisher for price; 60-1467
International relations of Asia, ed. by David Shambaugh. Rowman & Littlefield, 2022. 514p bibl index ISBN 9781538162842, $130.00; ISBN 9781538162859 pbk, $49.00; ISBN 9781538162866 ebook, contact publisher for price; 60-1531
The Jamaica reader: history, culture, politics, ed. by Diana Paton and Matthew J. Smith. Duke, 2021. 536p bibl index ISBN 9781478010494, $124.95; ISBN 9781478011514 pbk, $29.95; ISBN 9781478013099 ebook, contact publisher for price; 60-1492
Jigoulov, Vadim S. The Phoenicians: lost civilizations. Reaktion Books, 2022. 248p bibl index ISBN 9781789144789, $16.26; ISBN 9781789144796 ebook, contact publisher for price; 60-1485
Landa, Robin. Strategic creativity: a business field guide to advertising, branding, and design. Routledge, 2022. 194p bibl index ISBN 9781032137803, $160.00; ISBN 9781032137797 pbk, $39.95; ISBN 9781003230786 ebook, $39.95; 60-1446
Mehlenbacher, Ashley Rose. On expertise: cultivating character, goodwill, and practical wisdom. Pennsylvania State, 2022. 198p bibl index ISBN 9780271092768, $124.95; ISBN 9780271092775 pbk, $29.95; ISBN 9780271093123 ebook, contact publisher for price; 60-1567
The Neurobiology of trust, ed. by Frank Krueger. Cambridge, 2022. 550p bibl index ISBN 9781108488563, $140.00; ISBN 9781108807425 ebook, $112.00; 60-1568
Page, Stephen J. Ageing and the visitor economy: global challenges and opportunities, by Stephen J. Page and Joanne Connell. Routledge, 2022. 270p bibl index ISBN 9780367478544, $160.00; ISBN 9781000437317 ebook, $48.95; 60-1450
Park, Eugene Y. Korea: a history. Stanford, 2022. 432p bibl index ISBN 9781503629462, $105.00; ISBN 9781503629844 pbk, $35.00; ISBN 9781503629851 ebook, contact publisher for price; 60-1489
Public education: maintaining a cornerstone of American democracy, ed. by David C. Berliner and Carl Hermanns. Teachers College Press, 2022. 352p bibl index ISBN 9780807766101, $120.00; ISBN 9780807766095 pbk, $39.95; ISBN 9780807779941 ebook, $21.95; 60-1470
Putin’s Russia, ed. by Darrell Slider with Stephen K. Wegren. 8th ed. Rowman & Littlefield, 2023. 448p bibl index ISBN 9781538148679, $104.00; ISBN 9781538148686 pbk, $49.00; ISBN 9781538148693 ebook, $47.00; 60-1514
Richards, Howard. Economic theory and community development: why putting community first is essential to our survival, by Howard Richards and Gavin Andersson. World Dignity University Press, 2022. 458p bibl index ISBN 9781952292088, $26.95; 60-1462
Ross, Alistair. Sigmund Freud: a reference guide to his life and works. Rowman & Littlefield, 2022. 326p bibl index ISBN 9781538113523, $125.00; ISBN 9781538113530 ebook, $118.50; 60-1570
Sarat, Austin. Lethal injection and the false promise of humane execution. Stanford, 2022. 194p bibl index ISBN 9781503633537 pbk, $14.00; ISBN 9781503634510 ebook, contact publisher for price; 60-1559
Silver, M. M. The history of Galilee, 1538–1949: mysticism, modernization, and war. Lexington Books, 2022. 402p bibl index ISBN 9781793649423, $125.00; ISBN 9781793649430 ebook, $50.00; 60-1497
Social entrepreneurship: a practice-based approach to social innovation, by J. Howard Kucher and Stephanie E. Raible. E. Elgar, 2022. 320p bibl index ISBN 9781788974202, $199.95; ISBN 978 788974226 pbk, $55.00; ISBN 9781788974219 ebook, contact publisher for price; 60-1453
Theories of terrorism: contemporary perspectives, ed. by Murat Haner and Melissa M. Sloan. Routledge, 2022. 396p bibl index ISBN 9780367457617, $160.00; ISBN 9781003026303 ebook, contact publisher for price; 60-1432
Twine, France Winddance. Geek girls: inequality and opportunity in Silicon Valley. New York University, 2022. 296p bibl index ISBN 9781479803828, $30.00; ISBN 9781479803835 ebook, contact publisher for price; 60-1581
Warikoo, Natasha Kumar. Race at the top: Asian Americans and whites in pursuit of the American dream in suburban schools. Chicago, 2022. 240p bibl index ISBN 9780226636818, $24.00; ISBN 9780226819334 ebook, $23.99; 60-1475
West, Darrell M. Power politics: Trump and the assault on American democracy. Brookings, 2022. 220p bibl index ISBN 9780815739593, $24.99; ISBN 9780815739609 ebook, contact publisher for price; 60-1563
Wheatcroft, Geoffrey. Churchill’s shadow: the life and afterlife of Winston Churchill. W. W. Norton, 2021. 624p bibl index ISBN 9781324002765, $40.00; ISBN 9781324002772 ebook, contact publisher for price; 60-1508
Williams, John Allen. US national security: policymakers, processes, and politics, by John Allen Williams, Stephen J. Cimbala, and Sam C. Sarkesian. L. Rienner, 2022. 411p bibl index ISBN 9781955055369 pbk, $35.00; ISBN 9781955055710 ebook, contact publisher for price; 60-1538
Wilson, Eli Revelle Yano. Beer and society: how we make beer and beer makes us, by Eli Revelle Yano Wilson and Asa B. Stone. Lexington Books, 2022. 210p bibl index ISBN 9781666904338, $95.00; ISBN 9781666904345 ebook, $45.00; 60-1433
The best of all the titles appropriate for two-year colleges reviewed in the October issue of Choice.
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The best of all the titles appropriate for two-year colleges reviewed in the September issue of Choice.
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The best of all the titles appropriate for two-year colleges reviewed in the August issue of Choice.
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The best of all the titles appropriate for two-year colleges reviewed in the July issue of Choice.
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