The Top 75 Community College Titles: July 2023 Edition

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

Posted on July 24, 2023 in Top 75 Community College Titles

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Elgar encyclopedia of post-Keynesian economics, ed. by Louis-Philippe Rochon and Sergio Rossi.  E. Elgar, 2023.  474p bibl  ISBN 9781788973922, $305.00;  ISBN 9781788973939 ebook, $65.00;  60-3093

Moore, Randy. The Scopes trial: an encyclopedic history, by Randy Moore and Susan E. Brooks.  McFarland, 2023.  219p bibl index  ISBN 9781476685441 pbk, $49.95;  ISBN 9781476648194 ebook, contact publisher for price;  60-3091

The Oxford encyclopedia of Latin American politics 3v, ed. by Harry E. Vanden and Gary Prevost.  Oxford, 2021.  bibl index  ISBN 9780190933609, $595.00;  60-3095

Pedri, Nancy. A concise dictionary of comics, illustrated by Chuck Howitt.  University Press of Mississippi, 2022.  232p bibl index  ISBN 9781496838049, $99.00;  ISBN 9781496838056 pbk, $25.00;  ISBN 9781496838070 ebook, contact publisher for price;  60-3086

Sabbahy, Lisa. Daily life of women in ancient Egypt.  Greenwood, 2022.  149p bibl index  ISBN 9781440870132, $66.99;  ISBN 9781440870149 ebook, contact publisher for price;  60-3096

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Humanities

Burton, Sarah. The book you need to read to write the book you want to write: a handbook for fiction writers, by Sarah Burton and Jem Poster.  Cambridge, 2022.  298p bibl index  ISBN 9781316513446, $49.99;  ISBN 9781009073738 pbk, $16.95;  ISBN 9781009075558 ebook, contact publisher for price;  60-3120

Contemporary American science fiction film, ed. by Terence McSweeney and Stuart Joy.  Routledge, 2022.  224p bibl index  ISBN 9781032039640, $160.00;  ISBN 9781032039657 pbk, contact publisher for price;  ISBN 9781003189961 ebook, $48.95;  60-3143

Finlay, Victoria. Fabric: the hidden history of the material world.  Pegasus Books, 2022.  528p bibl index  ISBN 9781639361632, $31.51;  ISBN 9781639363902 pbk, $19.95;  60-3099

Gill, Michael. Philosophy of beauty: Shaftesbury on nature, virtue, and art.  Princeton, 2022.  248p bibl index  ISBN 9780691226613, $39.95;  ISBN 9780691226699 ebook, contact publisher for price;  60-3159

Golding, Alan C. Writing into the future: new American poetries from “The Dial” to the digital.  Alabama, 2022.  354p bibl index  ISBN 9780817360498, $44.95;  ISBN 9780817394110 ebook, contact publisher for price;  60-3124

Gonzalez, Pedro Blas. Philosophical perspective on cinema.  Lexington Books, 2022.  190p bibl index  ISBN 9781666906226, $95.00;  ISBN 9781666906233 ebook, $45.00;  60-3145

Neal, Mark Anthony. Black ephemera: the crisis and challenge of the musical archive.  New York University, 2022.  232p bibl index  ISBN 9781479806881, $89.00;  ISBN 9781479806904 pbk, $27.00;  ISBN 9781479806911 ebook, contact publisher for price;  60-3141

Reed, Sabrina. Lives lived, lives imagined: landscapes of resilience in the works of Miriam Toews.  University of Manitoba, 2022.  264p bibl index  ISBN 9781772840100, $70.00;  ISBN 9781772840094 pbk, $27.95;  ISBN 9781772840124 ebook, $25.00;  60-3131

Rybczynski, Witold. The story of architecture.  Yale, 2022.  360p index  ISBN 9780300246063, $40.00;  ISBN 9780300270990 ebook, contact publisher for price;  60-3109

The Superhero multiverse: readapting comic book icons in twenty-first-century film and popular media, ed. by Lorna Piatti-Farnell.  Lexington Books, 2021.  320p bibl index  ISBN 9781793624598, $120.00;  ISBN 9781793624604 ebook, $45.00;  60-3119

Svendsen, Lars. A philosophy of lying, tr. by Matt Bagguley.  Reaktion Books, 2022.  136p bibl index  ISBN 9781789145632 pbk, $20.00;  ISBN 9781789145649 ebook, contact publisher for price;  60-3169

Van Gogh in America, ed. by Jill Shaw.  Detroit Institute of Arts, 2022.  264p bibl index  ISBN 9780300247091, $50.00;  60-3108

Weir, Robert E. The Marx Brothers and America: where film, comedy and history collide.  McFarland, 2022.  294p bibl index  ISBN 9781476688954, $39.95;  ISBN 9781476648729 ebook, contact publisher for price;  60-3150

Wilson, Matthew. The hidden language of symbols.  Thames & Hudson, 2022.  272p bibl index  ISBN 9780500025291, $35.00;  ISBN 9780500777695 ebook, contact publisher for price;  60-3102

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Science & Technology

Abel, Emily K. Elder care in crisis: how the social safety net fails families.  New York University, 2022.  232p bibl index  ISBN 9781479815388, $89.00;  ISBN 9781479815395 pbk, $28.00;  ISBN 9781479815418 ebook, contact publisher for price;  60-3210

Aron, Adam. The climate crisis: science, impacts, policy, psychology, justice, social movements.  Cambridge, 2022.  358p bibl index  ISBN 9781108833806, $64.99;  ISBN 9781108987158 pbk, $34.99;  ISBN 9781108993944 ebook, $34.99;  60-3200

Aroni, Gabriele. The semiotics of architecture in video games.  Bloomsbury, 2022.  192p bibl index  ISBN 9781350152311, $130.00;  ISBN 9781350152328 ebook, contact publisher for price;  60-3225

Ashton, Peter S. Trees and forests of tropical Asia: exploring Tapovan, by Peter Ashton and David Lee.  Chicago, 2022.  448p bibl index  ISBN 9780226535555, $140.00;  ISBN 9780226535692 pbk, $45.00;  ISBN 9780226535722 ebook, contact publisher for price;  60-3190

Evans, Arthur V. Lives of beetles: a natural history of Coleoptera.  Princeton, 2023.  288p index (The lives of the natural world, 3)  ISBN 9780691236513, $35.00;  ISBN 9780691237794 ebook, contact publisher for price;  60-3193

Gies, Erica. Water always wins: thriving in an age of drought and deluge.  Chicago, 2022.  344p bibl  ISBN 9780226719603, $26.00;  ISBN 9780226719740 ebook, $25.99;  60-3204

Gigliotti, Carol. Creative lives of animals.  New York University, 2022.  304p bibl index  ISBN 9781479815449, $30.00;  ISBN 9781479815463 ebook, contact publisher for price;  60-3195

Kültz, Dietmar. A primer of ecological aquaculture.  Oxford, 2022.  304p bibl index  ISBN 9780198850229, $90.00;  ISBN 9780198850236 pbk, $45.00;  ISBN 9780192590831 ebook, contact publisher for price;  60-3187

Live coding: a user’s manual, by Alan F. Blackwell et al.  MIT, 2022.  352p bibl index  ISBN 9780262544818 pbk, $35.00;  ISBN 9780262372626 ebook, contact publisher for price;  60-3218

Mukherjee, Siddhartha. The song of the cell: an exploration of medicine and the new human.  Scribner, 2022.  473p bibl  index  ISBN 9781982117351, $32.50;  ISBN 9781982117375 ebook, contact publisher for price;  60-3188

Nardi, James B. The hidden company that trees keep: life from treetops to root tips.  Princeton, 2023.  320p bibl index  ISBN 9780691237978, $29.95;  ISBN 9780691238159 ebook, contact publisher for price;  60-3192

The Nature of data: infrastructures, environments, politics, ed. by Jenny Goldstein and Eric Nost.  Nebraska, 2022.  344p bibl index  ISBN 9781496217158, $99.00;  ISBN 9781496232502 pbk, $30.00;  ISBN 9781496232779 ebook, $30.00;  60-3179

Oil in the sea IV: inputs, fates, and effects.  National Academies Press, 2023.  516p bibl  ISBN 9780309274296 ebook, $75.00;  ISBN 9780309274326 ebook, contact publisher for price;  60-3206

Pethel, Mary Ellen. Title IX, Pat Summitt, and Tennessee’s trailblazers: 50 years, 50 stories.  Tennessee, 2022.  376p bibl index  ISBN 9781621907787 pbk, $24.95;  ISBN 9781621907794 ebook, contact publisher for price;  60-3227

Principles of microbiology, ed. by Michael A. Buratovich.  Salem Press, 2022.  697p bibl index  ISBN 9781637000953, $165.00;  ISBN 9781637000960 ebook, $165.00;  60-3189

Rubenstein, Mary-Jane. Astrotopia: the dangerous religion of the corporate space race.  Chicago, 2022.  224p bibl index  ISBN 9780226821122, $24.00;  ISBN 9780226823171 ebook, $23.99;  60-3184

Schell, Bernadette H. Digital detox: why taking a break from technology can improve your well-being.  Greenwood, 2022.  255p bibl index  ISBN 9781440878114, $63.00;  ISBN 9781440878121 ebook, contact publisher for price;  60-3180

Schuster, Joshua. What is extinction?: a natural and cultural history of last animals.  Fordham, 2023.  304p bibl index  ISBN 9781531501648, $105.00;  ISBN 9781531501655 pbk, $30.00;  ISBN 9781531501662 ebook, contact publisher for price;  60-3198

The Sky is for everyone: women astronomers in their own words, ed. by Virginia Trimble and David A. Weintraub.  Princeton, 2022.  504p bibl index  ISBN 9780691207100, $29.95;  ISBN 9780691237367 ebook, $29.95;  60-3185

Swade, Doron. The history of computing: a very short introduction.  Oxford, 2022.  160p bibl index (Very short introductions, 714)  ISBN 9780198831754 pbk, $160.00;  ISBN 9780191869617 ebook, contact publisher for price;  60-3220

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Social & Behavioral Sciences

Atiqput: Inuit oral history and project naming, ed. by Carol Payne et al.  McGill-Queen’s, 2022.  264p bibl index (McGill-Queen’s indigenous and northern studies, 103)  ISBN 9780228011057, $45.95;  ISBN 9780228013358 ebook, contact publisher for price;  60-3293

Badger, Anthony J. Why white liberals fail: race and Southern politics from FDR to Trump.  Harvard, 2022.  242p index  ISBN 9780674242340, $27.95;  ISBN 9780674276116 ebook, contact publisher for price;  60-3341

Berggren, Henrik. The Swedish theory of love: individualism and social trust in modern Sweden, by Henrik Berggren and Lars Trägårdh; tr. Stephen Donovan.  Washington, 2022.  394p bibl index  ISBN 9780295750545, $99.00;  ISBN 9780295750552 pbk, $30.00;  ISBN 9780295750569 ebook, contact publisher for price;  60-3229

Bergström, Marie. The new laws of love: online dating and the privatization of intimacy.  Polity, 2022.  200p bibl index  ISBN 9781509543519, $64.95;  ISBN 9781509543526 pbk, $19.95;  ISBN 9781509543533 ebook, $16.00;  60-3372

Black voices on Britain, ed. Hakim Adi.  Macmillan Collector’s Library, 2022.  208p bibl index  ISBN 9781529072617, $14.99;  ISBN 9781529072624 ebook, contact publisher for price;  60-3301

Black, Robert. Machiavelli: from radical to reactionary.  Reaktion Books, 2022.  256p bibl index  ISBN 9781789146158, $25.00;  ISBN 9781789146141 ebook, contact publisher for price;  60-3304

The Cambridge handbook of stigma and mental health, ed. by David L. Vogel and Nathaniel G. Wade.  Cambridge, 2022.  550p bibl index  ISBN 9781108843904, $189.00;  ISBN 9781108925488 pbk, $59.99;  ISBN 9781108922845 ebook, $59.99;  60-3358

Cool anthropology: how to engage the public with academic research, ed. by Kristina Baines and Victoria Costa.  Toronto, 2022.  270p bibl index  ISBN 9781487524418 pbk, $32.95;  ISBN 9781487534370 ebook, $26.95;  60-3236

Courtney, John C. Revival and change: the 1957 and 1958 Diefenbaker elections.  UBC Press, 2022.  256p bibl index  ISBN 9780774866644, $24.95;  ISBN 9780774866699 ebook, contact publisher for price;  60-3309

Curran, Rob. Journey without end: migration from the Global South through the Americas, by Rob Curran and Andrew Nelson.  Vanderbilt, 2022.  246p bibl index  ISBN 9780826504869, $99.95;  ISBN 9780826504852 pbk, $24.95;  ISBN 9780826504876 ebook, $14.99;  60-3237

Dallos, Matt. In the Adirondacks: dispatches from the largest park in the lower 48.  Empire State Editions, 2023.  240p bibl  ISBN 9781531502638, $29.95;  ISBN 9781531502645 ebook, contact publisher for price;  60-3296

Delmont, Matthew F. Half American: the epic story of African Americans fighting World War II at home and abroad.  Viking, 2022.  400p bibl index  ISBN 9781984880390, $30.00;  ISBN 9781984880406 ebook, contact publisher for price;  60-3273

Fahs, Breanne. Unshaved: resistance and revolution in women’s body hair politics.  Washington, 2022.  308p bibl index  ISBN 9780295750279, $99.00;  ISBN 9780295750286 pbk, $30.00;  ISBN 9780295750293 ebook, contact publisher for price;  60-3231

Fischer, Bernd J. A concise history of Albania, by Bernd J. Fischer and Oliver Jens Schmitt.  Cambridge, 2022.  440p bibl index  ISBN 9781107017733, $89.99;  ISBN 9781107662186 pbk, $29.99;  ISBN 9781009254892 ebook, contact publisher for price;  60-3287

Friedman, Eli. The urbanization of people: the politics of development, labor markets, and schooling in the Chinese city.  Columbia, 2022.  352p bibl index  ISBN 9780231205085, $140.00;  ISBN 9780231205092 pbk, $35.00;  ISBN 9780231555838 ebook, contact publisher for price;  60-3376

Gosselin, Abigail. Mental patient: psychiatric ethics from a patient’s perspective.  MIT, 2022.  308p bibl index  ISBN 9780262544313, $45.00;  ISBN 9780262371223 ebook, contact publisher for price;  60-3359

Hale, Kathleen. Slenderman: online obsession, mental illness, and the violent crime of two Midwestern girls.  Grove Press, 2022.  368p bibl index  ISBN 9780802159809, $27.00;  ISBN 9780802161826 pbk, $18.00;  ISBN 9780802159816 ebook, contact publisher for price;  60-3232

Harris, Paul L. Child psychology in twelve questions.  Oxford, 2022.  272p bibl index  ISBN 9780192866509, $25.00;  ISBN 9780192691637 ebook, contact publisher for price;  60-3361

Hubbard, Shanita. Ride or die: a feminist manifesto for the well-being of Black women.  Grand Central Publishing, 2022.  192p bibl  ISBN 9780306874673, $27.00;  ISBN 9780306874666 ebook, $13.99;  60-3233

Joireman, Sandra F. Peace, preference, and property: return migration after violent conflict.  Michigan, 2022.  192p bibl index  ISBN 9780472133260, $75.00;  ISBN 9780472039104 pbk, $39.95;  ISBN 9780472220731 ebook, contact publisher for price;  60-3322

Keller, Bill. What’s prison for?: punishment and rehabilitation in the age of mass incarceration.  Columbia Global Reports, 2022.  160p bibl index  ISBN 9781735913742 pbk, $16.00;  ISBN 9781735913759 ebook, contact publisher for price;  60-3377

Kennedy, Paul M. Victory at sea: naval power and the transformation of the global order in World War II.  Yale, 2022.  544p bibl index  ISBN 9780300219173, $37.50;  ISBN 9780300265316 ebook, contact publisher for price;  60-3276

Low, Setha M. Why public space matters.  Oxford, 2022.  336p index  ISBN 9780197543733, $29.95;  ISBN 9780197543757 ebook, contact publisher for price;  60-3378

Maslach, Christina. The burnout challenge: managing people’s relationships with their jobs, by Christina Maslach and Michael P. Leiter.  Harvard, 2022.  272p bibl index  ISBN 9780674251014, $27.95;  ISBN 9780674287297 ebook, contact publisher for price;  60-3249

Miller, Chris. Chip war: the fight for the world’s most critical technology.  Scribner, 2022.  431p bibl index  ISBN 9781982172008, $30.00;  ISBN 9781668012055 pbk, $18.99;  ISBN 9781982172022 ebook, contact publisher for price;  60-3256

Oermann, Nils Ole. Trade wars: past and present, by Nils Ole Oermann and Hans-Jürgen Wolff.  Oxford, 2022.  336p bibl index  ISBN 9780192848901, $35.00;  ISBN 9780191944178 ebook, contact publisher for price;  60-3257

Rutledge, Steven. Death of Christ: the Bible and popular culture vs archaeological and historical evidence.  Pen & Sword, 2022.  272p bibl index  ISBN 9781399088770, $36.95;  ISBN 9781399088787 ebook, contact publisher for price;  60-3282

Shanahan, Jarrod. States of incarceration: rebellion, reform, and America’s punishment system, by Jarrod Shanahan and Zhandarka Kuti.  Reaktion Books, 2022.  240p bibl index  ISBN 9781789146660, $20.00;  ISBN 9781789146653 ebook, contact publisher for price;  60-3382

Shanahan, Jarrod. Captives: how Rikers Island took New York City hostage.  Verso, 2022.  448p bibl index  ISBN 9781788739955, $29.95;  ISBN 9781788739986 ebook, $9.99;  60-3235

Sustainable development report 2022, by Jeffrey Sachs et al.  Cambridge, 2022.  504p bibl index  ISBN 9781009210089, $120.00;  ISBN 9781009210034 pbk, $39.99;  ISBN 9781009210065 ebook, open access;  60-3258

Understanding and teaching Native American history, ed. by Kristofer Ray and Brady DeSanti.  Wisconsin, 2022.  272p bibl index  ISBN 9780299338503, $39.95;  ISBN 9780299338534 ebook, contact publisher for price;  60-3300

Wallace, Jeremy L. Seeking truth and hiding facts: information, ideology, and authoritarianism in China.  Oxford, 2022.  284p bibl index  ISBN 9780197627655, $99.00;  ISBN 9780197627662 pbk, $29.95;  ISBN 9780197627686 ebook, contact publisher for price;  60-3317

Webster, Rebecca M. In defense of sovereignty: protecting the Oneida Nation’s inherent right to self-determination, by Rebecca M. Webster with James R. Bittorf et al.  Wisconsin, 2023.  208p bibl index  ISBN 9780299340605, $27.95;  60-3318

Welch, David A. Security: a philosophical investigation.  Cambridge, 2022.  294p bibl index  ISBN 9781009270106, $84.99;  ISBN 9781009270120 pbk, $29.99;  ISBN 9781009270144 ebook, contact publisher for price;  60-3340

Wisman, Jon D. The origins and dynamics of inequality: sex, politics, and ideology.  Oxford, 2022.  520p bibl index  ISBN 9780197575949, $39.95;  ISBN 9780197575963 ebook, contact publisher for price;  60-3262

Wright, Sharon Hubbs. Everyday magicians: legal records and magic manuscripts from Tudor England, by Sharon Hubbs Wright and Frank Klaassen.  Pennsylvania State, 2022.  164p bibl index  ISBN 9780271093932 pbk, $22.95;  60-3302

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