The Top 75 Community College Titles: July 2021 Edition

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

Posted on July 29, 2021 in Top 75 Community College Titles

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Applied Science and Technology Source Ultimate. EBSCO. Contact publisher for pricing. URL: https://www.ebsco.com/products/research-databases/applied-science-technology-source-ultimate 58-3068

Critical insights: Abraham Lincoln, ed. by Robert C. Evans. Salem Press, 2020. 300p bibl index ISBN 9781642656596, $105.00; ISBN 9781642656602 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-3071

Frederick Douglass, ed. by Jericho Williams. Salem Press/Grey House, 2020. 300p bibl index ISBN 9781642656657, $105.00; ISBN 9781642656664 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-3072

Kirkwood, Hal. Strauss’s handbook of business information: a guide for librarians, students, and researchers. Libraries Unlimited, 2020. 398p bibl indexes ISBN 9781440851308, $97.00; ISBN 9781440851315 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-3063

Lee, Jonathan Rhodes. Film music in the sound era: a research and information guide, v.1: Histories, theories, and genres; v.2: People, cultures, and contexts. Routledge, 2020. bibl indexes ISBN 9780367821197, $250.00; ISBN 9781003013587 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-3066

The Oxford handbook of gender, war, and the Western world since 1600, ed. by Karen Hagemann, Stefan Dudink, and Sonya O. Rose. Oxford, 2020. 848p bibl index ISBN 9780199948710, $150.00; ISBN 9780199948727 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-3073

Routledge handbook of Pan-Africanism, ed. by Reiland Rabaka. Routledge, 2020. 568p bibl index ISBN 9780367030667, $200.00; ISBN 9780429020193 ebook, $52.95; 58-3075

Humanities

African philosophical and literary possibilities: re-reading the canon, ed. by Aretha Phiri. Rowman & Lit-tlefield, 2020. 180p index ISBN 9781498571241, $109.00; ISBN 9781498571258 ebook, $99.50; 58-3102

Boswell, Marshall. Understanding David Foster Wallace. South Carolina, 2020. 184p bibl index ISBN 9781643360683, $59.99; ISBN 9781643360690 pbk, $19.99; ISBN 9781643360706 ebook, $19.99; 58-3106

Bradbury, Dominic. Mid-century modern design: a complete sourcebook. Thames & Hudson, 2020. 544p bibl index ISBN 9780500023471 pbk, $50.00; 58-3080

Brough, Melissa. Youth power in precarious times: reimagining civic participation. Duke, 2020. 216p bibl index ISBN 9781478007708, $94.95; ISBN 9781478008071 pbk, $24.95; ISBN 9781478009085 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-3094

Cicero, Marcus Tullius. Brutus and Orator, ed., tr., and introd. by Robert A. Kaster. Oxford, 2020. 326p bibl index ISBN 9780190857844, $99.00; ISBN 9780190857851 pbk, $24.95; ISBN 9780190857875 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-3104

Creach, Jerome F. D. Discovering Psalms: content, interpretation, reception. Eerdmans, 2020. 240p index ISBN 9780802878069 pbk, $22.00; 58-3165

Dávila, Arlene M. Latinx art: artists, markets, politics. Duke, 2020. 234p bibl index ISBN 9781478008569, $99.95; ISBN 9781478009450 pbk, $25.95; ISBN 9781478009450 ebook, contact pub-lisher for price; 58-3081

Fathallah, Judith. Emo: how fans defined a subculture. Iowa, 2020. 210p bibl index ISBN 9781609387242 pbk, $39.95; ISBN 9781609387198 ebook, $39.95; 58-3130

Forsgren, La Donna L. Sistuhs in the struggle: an oral history of Black Arts Movement theater and performance. Northwestern University, 2020. 371p bibl index ISBN 9780810142572, $99.95; ISBN 9780810142565 pbk, $34.95; ISBN 9780810142589 ebook, $34.95; 58-3142

Gussow, Adam. Whose blues?: facing up to race and the future of the music. North Carolina, 2020. 320p bibl index ISBN 9781469660356, $95.00; ISBN 9781469660363 pbk, $28.00; ISBN 9781469660370 ebook, $21.99; 58-3131

Jardine, Alice. At the risk of thinking: an intellectual biography of Julia Kristeva, ed. by Mari Ruti. Bloomsbury Academic, 2020. 401p index ISBN 9781501341342, $90.00; ISBN 9781501341335 pbk, $26.95; ISBN 9781501341359 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-3152

Karmal, Pepe. Abstract art: a global history. Thames & Hudson, 2020. 344p bibl index ISBN 9780500239582, $85.00; 58-3083

King, Douglas J. William Shakespeare: facts and fictions. ABC-CLIO, 2020. 213p bibl index ISBN 9781440866746, $63.00; ISBN 9781440866753 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-3110

Lamphier, Peg A. The Civil War on film, by Peg A. Lamphier and Rosanne Welch. ABC-CLIO, 2020. 182p bibl index ISBN 9781440866623, $63.00; ISBN 9781440866630 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-3124

Morse, Daniel Ryan. Radio empire: the BBC’s Eastern Service and the emergence of the global anglophone novel. Columbia, 2020. 288p bibl index ISBN 9780231198363, $140.00; ISBN 9780231198370 pbk, $35.00; ISBN 9780231552592 ebook, $34.99; 58-3096

The New Hemingway studies, ed. by Suzanne del Gizzo and Kirk Curnutt. Cambridge, 2020. 311 pages ISBN 9781108494847, $120.00; ISBN 9781108849470 ebook, $96.00; 58-3116

Nobile, Drew. Form as harmony in rock music. Oxford, 2020. 268p bibl indexes ISBN 9780190948351, $99.00; ISBN 9780190948368 pbk, $34.95; ISBN 9780190948382 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-3136

Rennie, David A. American writers and World War I. Oxford, 2020. 256p bibl index ISBN 9780198858812, $80.00; ISBN 9780192602466 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-3117

Sanders, Phil. Prints and their makers. Princeton Architectural, 2020. 320p index ISBN 9781616898182, $75.00; 58-3086

Schulenberg, David. Bach. Oxford, 2020. 432p ISBN 9780190936303, $35.00; ISBN 9780190936310 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-3138

Siwe, Thomas. Artful noise: percussion literature in the twentieth century. Illinois, 2020. 248p bibl index ISBN 9780252043130, $110.00; ISBN 9780252085000 pbk, $28.00; ISBN 9780252052019 ebook, $19.95; 58-3139

Tunbridge, Laura. Beethoven: a life in nine pieces. Yale, 2020. 288p indexes ISBN 9780300254587, $35.00; ISBN 9780300257977 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-3140

The V & A book of colour in design, ed. by Tim Travis. Thames & Hudson/Victoria and Albert Museum, 2020. 304p bibl index ISBN 9780500480274, $39.95; 58-3087

Washburne, Christopher. Latin jazz: the other jazz. Oxford, 2020. 196p bibl index ISBN 9780195371628, $99.00; ISBN 9780197510841 pbk, $24.95; ISBN 9780197510858 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-3141

Science & Technology

Advances in waste-to-energy technologies, ed. by Rajeev Pratap Singh, Vishal Prasad, and Barkha Vaish. CRC Press, 2019. 288p index ISBN 9781138390423, $129.95; ISBN 9780429423376 ebook, $130.00; 58-3196

Framework for equitable allocation of COVID-19 vaccine, ed. by Helene Gayle et al. National Academies Press, 2020. 272p ISBN 9780309682244, $65.00; ISBN 9780309682275 ebook, $54.99; 58-3201

Gerbing, David W. R visualizations: derive meaning from data. CRC Press, 2020. 249p bibl index ISBN 9781138599635 pbk, $89.95; ISBN 9780429470837 ebook, $89.95; 58-3205

Hunt, Kevin D. Chimpanzee: lessons from our sister species. Cambridge, 2020. 575p index ISBN 9781107118591, $110.00; ISBN 9781107544413 pbk, $44.99; ISBN 9781108889674 ebook, $36.00; 58-3194

The Impacts of racism and bias on Black people pursuing careers in science, engineering, and medicine: proceedings of a workshop, ed. by Cato T. Laurencin. National Academies Press, 2020. 106p ISBN 9780309679541, $50.00; ISBN 9780309679572 ebook, $40.99; 58-3202

Kupers, Roland. A climate policy revolution: what the science of complexity reveals about saving our planet. Harvard, 2020. 174p bibl index ISBN 9780674972124, $29.95; ISBN 9780674246812 ebook, con-tact publisher for price; 58-3180

A Laboratory of her own: women and science in Spanish culture, ed. by Victoria L. Ketz, Dawn Smith-Sherwood, and Debra Faszer-McMahon. Vanderbilt, 2021. 414p bibl index ISBN 9780826501295, $99.95; ISBN 9780826501288 pbk, $39.95; ISBN 9780826501301 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-3185

O’Meara, Stephen James. Mars. Reaktion Books, 2020. 232p bibl index ISBN 9781789142204, $40.00; ISBN 9781789142594 ebook, $40.00; 58-3187

Philosophy of science for biologists, ed. by Kostas Kampourakis and Tobias Uller. Cambridge, 2020. 330p index ISBN 9781108491839, $89.99; ISBN 9781108740708 ebook, $34.99; ISBN 9781108648981 ebook, $28.00; 58-3190

Radin, Michael A. Introduction to recognition and deciphering of patterns. CRC Press, 2021. 194p bibl index ISBN 9780367407278, $140.00; ISBN 9780367508609 pbk, $54.95; ISBN 9780367808747 ebook, $54.95; 58-3213

Smith, Michael. A Q&A approach to organic chemistry. CRC Press, 2020. 538p index ISBN 9780367224271, $160.00; ISBN 9780429274848 ebook, $58.95; 58-3197

Summers, Boyd L. Effective methods for software engineering. CRC Press, 2020. 182p bibl index ISBN 9780367458386, $99.95; ISBN 9781003025665 ebook, $99.95; 58-3207

Tveten, Michael. Biology stories: 50 stories for teaching and learning biology. Rowman & Littlefield, 2020. 179p ISBN 9781475856927, $60.00; ISBN 9781475856934 pbk, $30.00; ISBN 9781475856941 ebook, $28.50; 58-3191

Social & Behavioral Sciences

AOC: the fearless rise and powerful resonance of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, ed. by Lynda Lopez. St. Martin’s, 2020. 240p ISBN 9781250257413, $26.99; ISBN 9781250257406 ebook, $13.99; 58-3304

Blume, Lesley M. M. Fallout: the Hiroshima cover-up and the reporter who revealed it to the world. Simon & Schuster, 2020. 288p index ISBN 9781982128517, $27.00; ISBN 9781982128531 pbk, $17.00; ISBN 9781982128555 ebook, $12.99; 58-3266

D’Antonio, Michael. The hunting of Hillary: the forty-year campaign to destroy Hillary Clinton. Thomas Dunne, 2020. 352p index ISBN 9781250154606, $29.99; ISBN 9781250154613 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-3308

D’Aubeterre Buznego, María Eugenia. Class, gender and migration: return flows between Mexico and the United States in times of crisis, by María Eugenia D’Aubeterre Buznego, Alison Elizabeth Lee, and María Leticia Rivermar Pérez. Routledge, 2020. 194p bibl index ISBN 9781138318946, $160.00; ISBN 9780429454196 ebook, $48.95; 58-3230

D’Emilio, John. Queer legacies: stories from Chicago’s LGBTQ archives. Chicago, 2020. 208p bibl index ISBN 9780226664972, $95.00; ISBN 9780226727530 pbk, $18.00; ISBN 9780226727677 ebook, $18.00; 58-3309

Dickson, Paul. The rise of the G.I. Army, 1940–1941: the forgotten story of how America forged a powerful army before Pearl Harbor. Atlantic Monthly, 2021. 432p bibl index ISBN 9780802147677, $30.00; ISBN 9780802158697 pbk, $18.00; ISBN 9780802147684 ebook, $30.00; 58-3311

Ducci, Francesco. Natural monopolies in digital platform markets. Cambridge, 2020. 191p bibl index ISBN 9781108491143, $110.00; ISBN 9781108867528 ebook, $80.00; 58-3241

Evans, Richard J. The Hitler conspiracies: the protocols – the stab in the back – the Reichstag fire – Rudolf Hess – the escape from the bunker. Oxford, 2020. 288p bibl index ISBN 9780190083052, $27.95; ISBN 9780190083069 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-3325

Foster, B. Brian. I don’t like the blues: race, place, and the backbeat of Black life. North Carolina, 2020. 206p bibl index ISBN 9781469660417, $95.00; ISBN 9781469660424 pbk, $24.95; ISBN 9781469660431 ebook, $19.99; 58-3312

Gosden, Chris. Magic: a history: from alchemy to witchcraft, from the Ice Age to the present. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020. 482p bibl index ISBN 9780374200121, $30.00; 58-3271

Hale, Christopher W. Divined intervention: religious institutions and collective action. Michigan, 2020. 238p bibl index ISBN 9780472131815, $70.00; ISBN 9780472126545 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-3329

Harvey, Karen. The imposteress rabbit breeder: Mary Toft and eighteenth-century England. Oxford, 2020. 224p index ISBN 9780198734888, $21.95; ISBN 9780191054082 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-3321

Hayton, Bill. The invention of China. Yale, 2020. 320p bibl index ISBN 9780300234824, $30.00; ISBN 9780300257816 pbk, $15.00; ISBN 9780300256062 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-3286

Hilde, Libra R. Slavery, fatherhood, and paternal duty in African American communities over the long nineteenth century. North Carolina, 2020. 400p bibl index ISBN 9781469660660, $95.00; ISBN 9781469660677 pbk, $32.50; ISBN 9781469660684 ebook, $26.99; 58-3315

Islamophobia in higher education: combating discrimination and creating understanding, ed. by Shafiqa Ahmadi and Darnell Cole. Stylus Publishing, 2020. 180p bibl index ISBN 9781620369746, $125.00; ISBN 9781620369753 pbk, $29.95; ISBN 9781620369777 ebook, $29.95; 58-3259

Keyssar, Alexander. Why do we still have the electoral college? Harvard, 2020. 531p index ISBN 9780674660151, $35.00; ISBN 9780674974104 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-3347

Macnicol, John. Poverty and dependency: America, 1950s to the present. E. Elgar, 2020. 192p bibl index ISBN 9781789907292, $110.00; ISBN 9781789907308 ebook, $40.00; 58-3224

Miklashevskaya, Ludmila. Gender and survival in Soviet Russia: a life in the shadow of Stalin’s terror, tr. and ed. by Elaine MacKinnon. Bloomsbury Academic, 2020. 280p bibl index ISBN 9781350139206, $115.00; ISBN 9781350139213 ebook, $103.50; 58-3293

Parkin, Jack. Money code space: hidden power in bitcoin, blockchain, and decentralisation. Oxford, 2020. 304p bibl index ISBN 9780197515082 pbk, $29.95; ISBN 9780197515112 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-3245

Parry, Tyler D. Jumping the broom: the surprising multicultural origins of a Black wedding ritual. North Carolina, 2020. 320p bibl index ISBN 9781469660851, $95.00; ISBN 9781469660868 pbk, $27.50; ISBN 9781469660875 ebook, $21.99; 58-3235

Quinn, William. Boom and bust: a global history of financial bubbles, by William Quinn and John D. Turner. Cambridge, 2020. 288p bibl index ISBN 9781108421256, $24.95; ISBN 9781108373135 ebook, $20.00; 58-3251

Ramirez, Mark D. Ignored racism: white animus toward Latinos, ed. by Mark D. Ramirez and David A. M. Peterson. Cambridge, 2020. 220p bibl index ISBN 9781108495325, $99.00; ISBN 9781108817943 pbk, $24.99; ISBN 9781108858052 ebook, $20.00; 58-3225

Schiff, Eleanor L. Bureaucracy’s masters and minions: the politics of controlling the U.S. bureaucracy. Lexington Books, 2020. 154p bibl index ISBN 9781498597777, $85.00; ISBN 9781498597784 ebook, $80.50; 58-3348

Skillen, James R. This land is my land: rebellion in the West. Oxford, 2020. 280p bibl index ISBN 9780197500699, $29.95; ISBN 9780197500712 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-3349

Staley, Sam. The Beatles and economics: entrepeneurship, innovation, and the making of a cultural revolution. Routledge, 2020. 100p indexes ISBN 9781138363540, $160.00; ISBN 9781138363540 pbk, $44.95; ISBN 9780429431586 ebook, $44.95; 58-3252

Stout, Christopher T. The case for identity politics: polarization, demographic change, and racial appeals. Virginia, 2020. 248p bibl index ISBN 9780813944982, $42.50; ISBN 9780813944999 ebook, $42.50; 58-3350

Szejnert, Małgorzata. Ellis Island: a people’s history, tr. by Sean Gasper Bye. Scribe Publishing, 2020. 400p index ISBN 9781950354054, $28.00; ISBN 9781925938210 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-3318

Trecker, Max. Red money for the Global South: East-South economic relations in the Cold War. Routledge, 2020. 254p bibl index ISBN 9780367244750, $160.00; ISBN 9780429282683 ebook, $48.95; 58-3278

Waterbury, John. Missions impossible: higher education and policymaking in the Arab world. American University in Cairo, 2020. 344p bibl index ISBN 9789774169632, $70.00; ISBN 9789774169632 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-3264

Wetzler, Peter. Imperial Japan and defeat in the Second World War: the collapse of an empire. Bloomsbury Academic, 2020. 256p bibl index ISBN 9781350120815, $115.00; ISBN 9781350120815 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-3288

Yang, Dominic Meng-Hsuan. The great exodus from China: trauma, memory, and identity in modern Taiwan. Cambridge, 2021. 311p bibl index ISBN 9781108478120, $99.99; ISBN 9781108803687 ebook, $80.00; 58-3289

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