The Top 75 Community College Titles: July 2022 Edition

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

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BCC Research. BCC Research. Contact publisher for pricing. URL: https://www.bccresearch.com/ 59-3071

Collinge, William J. Historical dictionary of Catholicism. Rowman & Littlefield, 2021. 658p bibl index ISBN 9781538130179, $275.00; ISBN 9781538130186 ebook, $261.00; 59-3062

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GEOSCAN. Canada Communication Group. Contact publisher for pricing. URL: https://geoscan.nrcan.gc.ca/starweb/geoscan/servlet.starweb?path=geoscan/geoscan_e.web# 59-3069

Hendricks, Nancy. Daily life of women in postwar America. Greenwood, 2021. 291p bibl index ISBN 9781440871283, $63.00; ISBN 9781440871290 ebook, contact publisher for price; 59-3073

Linguistics Abstracts Online. EBSCO. Contact publisher for pricing. URL: http://www.linguisticsabstracts.com/ 59-3064

The Oxford world history of empire: v1: The imperial experience; v2: The history of empires, ed. by Peter Fibiger Bang, C. A. Bayly, and Walter Scheidel. Oxford, 2021. 2v bibl index ISBN 9780197533970, $325.00; 59-3075


Humanities

Arnold, Billy Boy. The blues dream of Billy Boy Arnold, by Billy Boy Arnold with Kim Field. Chicago, 2021. 288p discography index ISBN 9780226809205, $30.00; ISBN 9780226809342 ebook, $29.99; 59-3131

Barringer, Janice. The pointe book: shoes, training, technique, by Janice Barringer and Sarah Schlesinger. 4th ed. Princeton Book Company, 2021. 480p bibl index ISBN 9780871273987 pbk, $45.00; 59-3138

The Cambridge companion to Margaret Atwood, ed. by Coral Ann Howells. 2nd ed. Cambridge, 2021. 216p bibl index ISBN 9781108486354, $99.99; ISBN 9781108707633 pbk, $29.99; ISBN 9781108786522 ebook, $24.00; 59-3109

The Cambridge companion to the New Testament, ed. by Patrick Gray. Cambridge, 2021. 431p index ISBN 9781108423588, $105.00; ISBN 9781108437707 pbk, $34.99; ISBN 9781108534710 ebook, $28.00; 59-3155

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Christensen, Charlotte. 1900—the year of Art Nouveau. Museum Tusculanum Press/University of Copenhagen, 2021. 368p ISBN 9788763545914 pbk, $60.00; 59-3080

Cox, Jeffrey N. William Wordsworth, second-generation Romantic: contesting poetry after Waterloo. Cambridge, 2021. 272p bibl index (Cambridge studies in Romanticism, 131) ISBN 9781108837613, $99.00; ISBN 9781108950015 ebook, $80.00; 59-3111

Cutting, James E. Movies on our minds: the evolution of cinematic engagement. Oxford, 2021. 400p bibl index ISBN 9780197567777, $45.00; ISBN 9780197567791 ebook, contact publisher for price; 59-3125

Duarte, Fábio. Urban play: make-believe, technology, and space, by Fábio Duarte and Ricardo Álvarez. MIT, 2021. 224p bibl index ISBN 9780262045346 pbk, $30.00; ISBN 9780262366311 ebook, contact publisher for price; 59-3088

The films of Albert Brooks, ed. by Christian B. Long. Edinburgh University Press, 2021. 280p index ISBN 9781474434256, $105.00; ISBN 9781474434263 ebook, $105.00; 59-3126

Hall, Joan Lord. Sexual desire and romantic love in Shakespeare: ‘rich in will’. Edinburgh University Press, 2021. 280p bibl index ISBN 9781474488563, $105.00; ISBN 9781474488594 ebook, $105.00; 59-3112

McHenry, Elizabeth. To make Negro literature: writing, literary practice, and African American author-ship. Duke, 2021. 312p bibl index ISBN 9781478013594, $104.95; ISBN 9781478014515 pbk, $27.95; ISBN 9781478021810 ebook, contact publisher for price; 59-3113

On the basis of art: 150 years of women at Yale, essays by Helen A. Cooper, Linda Konheim Kramer, and Marta Kuzma. Yale University Art Gallery, 2021. 308p bibl ISBN 9780300254242, $50.00; 59-3082

Rindge, Matthew S. Bible and film: the basics. Routledge, 2021. 236p bibl filmography index ISBN 9780815392224, $115.00; ISBN 9780815392231 pbk, $24.95; ISBN 9781351199759 ebook, $24.95; 59-3128

Scheidt, Hannah K. Practicing atheism: culture, media, and ritual in the contemporary atheist network. Oxford, 2021. 228p bib index ISBN 9780197536940, $99.00; ISBN 9780197536964 ebook, contact publisher for price; 59-3165

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Slatkin, Leonard. Classical crossroads: the path forward for music in the 21st century. Amadeus, 2021. 256p index ISBN 9781538152225, $26.95; ISBN 9781538152232 ebook, $25.50; 59-3135

Violence in the films of Stephen King, ed. by Tony Magistrale and Michael J. Blouin. Rowman & Littlefield, 2021. 232p ISBN 9781793635792, $95.00; ISBN 9781793635808 ebook, $45.00; 59-3119

Werlin, Julianne. Writing at the origin of capitalism: literary circulation and social change in early modern England. Oxford, 2022. 208p bibl index ISBN 9780198869467, $80.00; ISBN 9780192640741 ebook, contact publisher for price; 59-3103

Wright, Emily. Dancing to transform: how concert dance becomes religious in American Christianity. Intellect, 2021. 240p bibl index ISBN 9781789382839, $106.50; ISBN 9781789383287 ebook, contact publisher for price; 59-3140

Zárate, Soledad. Captioning and subtitling for d/Deaf and hard of hearing audiences. UCL Press, 2021. 205p bibl filmography index ISBN 9781787357129, $69.00; ISBN 9781787357112 pbk, $40.00; ISBN 9781787357136 ebook, contact publisher for price; 59-3094


Science & Technology

Bunk, Brian D. From football to soccer: the early history of the beautiful game in the United States. Illinois, 2021. 296p bibl index ISBN 9780252043888, $125.00; ISBN 9780252085871 pbk, $24.95; ISBN 9780252052781 ebook, $14.95; 59-3240

Caldecott, Julian Oliver. Surviving climate chaos: by strengthening communities and ecosystems. Cambridge, 2021. 392p bibl index ISBN 9781108840125, $115.00; ISBN 9781108793780 pbk, $49.99; ISBN 9781108890014 ebook, $40.00; 59-3198

Dichter, Heather. Bidding for the 1968 Olympic Games: international sport’s Cold War battle with NATO. Massachusetts, 2021. 288p bibl index ISBN 9781625345943, $90.00; ISBN 9781625345950 pbk, $29.95; ISBN 9781613768716 ebook, contact publisher for price; 59-3241

Environmental management handbook: v.4: Managing water resources and hydrological systems, ed. by Brian D. Fath and Sven E. Jørgensen. 2nd ed. Routledge, 2021. 737p bibl index ISBN 9781138342668, $180.00; ISBN 9781003045045 ebook, $58.85; 59-3201

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Ernst, Neil. Technical debt in practice: how to find it and fix it, ed. by Neil Ernst, Rick Kazman, and Julien Delange. MIT, 2021. 304p bibl index ISBN 9780262542111, $35.00; ISBN 9780262366304 ebook, contact publisher for price; 59-3209

Evans, Arthur V. Beetles of western North America. Princeton, 2021. 624p bibl index ISBN 9780691164281 pbk, $45.00; ISBN 9780691221373 ebook, contact publisher for price; 59-3192

Finkel, Madelon Lubin. Breast cancer facts, myths, and controversies: understanding current screenings and treatments. Praeger, 2021. 240p bibl index ISBN 9781440875137, $50.00; ISBN 9781440875144 ebook, contact publisher for price; 59-3212

Green, Brian Patrick. Space ethics. Rowman & Littlefield, 2021. 304p bibl index ISBN 9781786600264, $110.00; ISBN 9781786600271 pbk, $39.95; ISBN 9781786600288 ebook, $38.00; 59-3181

Haigh, Thomas. A new history of modern computing, by Thomas Haigh and Paul E. Ceruzzi. MIT, 2021. 528p bibl index ISBN 9780262542906 pbk, $40.00; ISBN 9780262366489 ebook, contact publisher for price; 59-3171

Haines, Andy. Planetary health: safeguarding human health and the environment in the Anthropocene, by Andy Haines and Howard Frumkin. Cambridge, 2021. 454p bibl index ISBN 9781108492348, $64.99; ISBN 9781108729260 pbk, $24.99; ISBN 9781108673938 ebook, $21.67; 59-3203

Hunter, Gina Louise. Edible insects: a global history. Reaktion Books, 2021. 176p bibl index ISBN 9781789144468, $19.95; ISBN 9781789144475 ebook, contact publisher for price; 59-3173

Mayer, Audrey L. Bird versus bulldozer: a quarter-century conservation battle in a biodiversity hotspot. Yale, 2021. 312p bibl index ISBN 9780300247909, $30.00; ISBN 9780300258608 ebook, contact publisher for price; 59-3183

McGuinness, Tara Dawson. Power to the public: the promise of public interest technology, Tara Dawson McGuiness and Hana Schank. Princeton, 2021. 208p bibl index ISBN 9780691207759, $19.95; ISBN 9780691216638 ebook, contact publisher for price; 59-3175

Moore, Michael J. We are all whalers: the plight of whales and our responsibility. Chicago, 2021. 224p bibl index ISBN 9780226803043, $25.00; ISBN 9780226803180 ebook, $24.99; 59-3193

Ollerton, Jeff. Pollinators & pollination: nature and society. Pelagic Press, 2021. 286p bibl index ISBN 9781784272289 pbk, $32.00; ISBN 9781784272296 ebook, contact publisher for price; 59-3184

Owen-Smith, R. Norman. Only in Africa: the ecology of human evolution. Cambridge, 2021. 350p bibl index ISBN 9781108832595, $89.99; ISBN 9781108959667 pbk, $44.99; ISBN 9781108963329 ebook, $36.00; 59-3185

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Parker, Edward. Ash. Reaktion Books, 2021. 216p bibl index ISBN 9781789143560, $27.00; ISBN 9781789143577 ebook, contact publisher for price; 59-3190

The Patient factor: v.2: Applications of patient ergonomics, ed. by Rupa S. Valdez and Richard J. Holden. CRC Press, 2021. 240p bibl index ISBN 9780367245641, $180.00; ISBN 9781000358728 ebook, $58.95; 59-3218

Principles of health: prescription drug abuse, ed. by Patricia Stanfill Edens. Grey House, 2021. 356p bibl index ISBN 9781642659252, $217.78; ISBN 9781642659269 ebook, open access; 59-3219

Rabadán, Raúl. Understanding coronavirus. Cambridge, 2021. 175p bibl index ISBN 9781316514863, $49.99; ISBN 9781009088572 pbk, $14.95; ISBN 9781316514863 ebook, contact publisher for price; 59-3220

Richards, Christina. Trans and non-binary gender healthcare for psychiatrists, psychologists, and other health professionals, by Christina Richards and James Barrett. Cambridge, 2021. 132p bibl index ISBN 9781108703024 pbk, $32.99; ISBN 9781108573054 ebook, $26.00; 59-3221

Scharmen, Fred. Space forces: a critical history of life in outer space. Verso, 2021. 272p bibl index ISBN 9781786637352, $26.95; ISBN 9781786637338 ebook, contact publisher for price; 59-3182

Zhou, Xun. ‘I know who caused COVID-19’: pandemics and xenophobia, by Zhou Xun and Sander L. Gil-man. Reaktion Books, 2021. 256p bibl ISBN 9781789145076, $22.50; ISBN 9781789145083 ebook, contact publisher for price; 59-3224


Social & Behavioral Sciences

Adamson, Göran. Masochistic nationalism: multicultural self-hatred and the infatuation with the exotic. Routledge, 2021. 154p bibl index ISBN 9780367442316, $160.00; ISBN 9780367442330 pbk, $44.95; ISBN 9781003008446 ebook, $44.95; 59-3350

Benedict, Cathy. Music and social justice: a guide for elementary educators. Oxford, 2021. 164p bibl in-dex ISBN 9780190062125, $99.00; ISBN 9780190062132 pbk, $27.95; ISBN 9780190062156 ebook, contact publisher for price; 59-3268

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Brown, Christia Spears. Unraveling bias: how prejudice has shaped children for generations and why it’s time to break the cycle. BenBella Books, 2021. 275p bibl index ISBN 9781953295552 pbk, $17.95; ISBN 9781953295897 ebook, $9.99; 59-3337

Brunstedt, Jonathan. The Soviet myth of Word War II: patriotic memory and the Russian question in the USSR. Cambridge, 2021. 306p bibl index ISBN 9781108498753, $39.99; ISBN 9781108598798 ebook, $32.00; 59-3294

Decriminalizing mental illness, ed. by Katherine Warburton and Stephen M. Stahl. Cambridge, 2021. 406p bibl index ISBN 9781108826952 pbk, $54.99; ISBN 9781108920698 ebook, contact publisher for price; 59-3340

Delgado, Melvin. Urban gun violence: self-help organizations as healing sites, catalysts for change, and collaborative partners. Oxford, 2021. 404p bibl index ISBN 9780197515518, $60.00; ISBN 9780197515532 ebook, contact publisher for price; 59-3353

Grimes, Sara M. Digital playgrounds: the hidden politics of children’s online play spaces, virtual worlds, and connected games. Toronto, 2021. 372p bibl index ISBN 9781442647442, $95.00; ISBN 9781442615564 pbk, $44.95; ISBN 9781442668201 ebook, $44.95; 59-3245

Hellyer, Robert I. Green with milk and sugar: when Japan filled America’s tea cups. Columbia, 2021. 304p bibl index ISBN 9780231199100, $32.00; ISBN 9780231552943 ebook, $31.99; 59-3281

Hinton, Elizabeth Kai. America on fire: the untold history of police violence and Black rebellion since the 1960s. Liveright, 2021. 408p index ISBN 9781631498909, $29.95; ISBN 9781631498916 ebook, con-tact publisher for price; 59-3311

James, Rawn. The Truman Court: law and the limits of loyalty. Missouri, 2021. 320p bibl index ISBN 9780826222299, $36.95; ISBN 9780826274564 ebook, $36.95; 59-3312

Lincoln, Toby. An urban history of China. Cambridge, 2021. 273p bibl index ISBN 9781107196421, $89.99; ISBN 9781316647288 pbk, $29.99; ISBN 9781108164733 ebook, $24.00; 59-3291

Loewen, Royden. Mennonite farmers: a global history of place and sustainability. University of Manitoba, 2021. 352p bibl index ISBN 9780887559662 pbk, $31.95; ISBN 9780887552618 ebook, $30.00; 59-3258

McGill, Alicia Beth Ebbitt. Negotiating heritage through education and archaeology: colonialism, national identity, and resistance in Belize. University Press of Florida, 2021. 288p index ISBN 9780813066974, $95.00; ISBN 9780813057873 ebook, contact publisher for price; 59-3298

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Mohr Lone, Jana. Seen and not heard: why children’s voices matter. Rowman & Littlefield, 2021. 224p index ISBN 9781475843231, $85.00; ISBN 9781475843248 pbk, $32.00; ISBN 9781475843255 ebook, $30.00; 59-3248

The Oxford handbook of accurate personality judgment, ed. by Tera D. Letzring and Jana S. Spain. Ox-ford, 2021. 346p bibl index ISBN 9780190912529, $150.00; ISBN 9780190912536 ebook, contact pub-lisher for price; 59-3342

Routledge handbook of contemporary Japan, ed. by Hiroko Takeda and Mark Williams. Routledge, 2021. 532p bibl index ISBN 9781138668614, $250.00; ISBN 9781315544748 ebook, $52.95; 59-3293

The Routledge international handbook of public sociology, ed. by Leslie Hossfeld, E. Brooke Kelly, and Cassius Hossfeld. Routledge, 2021. 366p index ISBN 9780367518837, $260.00; ISBN 9781003055594 ebook, $52.95; 59-3357

Safety and health competence: a guide for cultures of prevention, ed. by Ulrike Bollmann and Georges Boustras. CRC Press, 2021. 254p bibl index ISBN 9781138611733, $89.99; ISBN 9780429465253 ebook, $89.95; 59-3265

Savin-Williams, Ritch C. Bi: bisexual, pansexual, fluid, and nonbinary youth. New York University, 2021. 313p index ISBN 9781479811434, $28.95; ISBN 9781479811465 ebook, contact publisher for price; 59-3358

Schrad, Mark Lawrence. Smashing the liquor machine: a global history of prohibition. Oxford, 2021. 752p bibl index ISBN 9780190841577, $34.95; ISBN 9780190841591 ebook, contact publisher for price; 59-3284

Steiner, Mark E. Lincoln and citizenship. Southern Illinois, 2021. 192p bibl index ISBN 9780809338122, $24.95; ISBN 9780809338139 ebook, $24.95; 59-3319

Sterelny, Kim. The Pleistocene social contract: culture and cooperation in human evolution. Oxford, 2021. 200p bibl index ISBN 9780197531389, $74.00; ISBN 9780197531402 ebook, contact publisher for price; 59-3261

Sweis, Rania Kassab. Paradoxes of care: children and global medical aid in Egypt. Stanford, 2021. 208p bibl index ISBN 9781503628502, $85.00; ISBN 9781503628632 pbk, $26.00; ISBN 9781503628649 ebook, $25.00; 59-3262

Tumulty, Karen. The triumph of Nancy Reagan. Simon & Schuster, 2021. 672p bibl index ISBN 9781501165191, $32.50; ISBN 9781501165214 ebook, contact publisher for price; 59-3320

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Un-settling Middle Eastern refugees: regimes of exclusion and inclusion in the Middle East, Europe, and North America, ed. by Marcia C. Inhorn and Lucia Volk. Berghahn Books, 2021. 303p bibl index (Forced migration, 40) ISBN 9781800730564, $135.00; ISBN 9781800733695 ebook, open access; 59-3252

Verschelden, Cia. Bandwidth recovery for schools: helping Pre-K-12 students regain cognitive resources lost to poverty, trauma, racism, and social marginalization, Cia Verschelden. Stylus Publishing, 2020. 230p bibl index ISBN 9781642670769, $142.00; ISBN 9781642670776 pbk, $29.95; ISBN 9781642670790 ebook, contact publisher for price; 59-3277

Weller, Shane. The idea of Europe: a critical history. Cambridge, 2021. 355p bibl index ISBN 9781108478106, $39.99; ISBN 9781108787253 ebook, $32.00; 59-3331