The Top 75 Community College Titles: January 2023 Edition

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

Posted on January 31, 2023 in Top 75 Community College Titles

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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

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Humanities

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

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Science & Technology

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

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Social & Behavioral Sciences

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

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