The Top 75 Community College Titles: July 2024 Edition

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

Posted on July 25, 2024 in Top 75 Community College Titles

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Humanities

The Annotated Book of Mormon, ed. by Grant Hardy.  Oxford, 2023.  912p bibl index  ISBN 9780190082208, $39.95;  ISBN 9780190082215 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-3028

Berg, Thomas C. Religious liberty in a polarized age.  Eerdmans, 2023.  368p bibl index  ISBN 9780802881694, $29.99;  61-3030

Bock, Mary Angela. Gender and journalism: an intersectional approach.  Rowman & Littlefield, 2023.  310p bibl index  ISBN 9781538159453, $85.00;  ISBN 9781538159460 pbk, $36.00;  ISBN 9781538159477 ebook, $32.00;  61-2957

Eisen, Robert. Jews, Judaism, and success: how religion paved the way to modern Jewish achievement.  Toronto, 2023.  488p bibl index  ISBN 9781487548230, $49.95;  ISBN 9781487548254 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-3032

Greenhalgh, Adam. Mark Rothko: paintings on paper.  Yale, 2023.  200p  ISBN 9780300266474, $45.00;  61-2946

Gushee, David P. Defending democracy from its Christian enemies.  Eerdmans, 2023.  235p bibl index  ISBN 9780802882936, $21.99;  ISBN 9781467466219 ebook, $12.99;  61-3034

Quaker women, 1800–1920: studies of a changing landscape, ed. by Robynne Rogers Healey and Carole Dale Spencer.  Pennsylvania State, 2023.  310p bibl index  ISBN 9780271095509, $124.95;  ISBN 9780271096230 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-3037

Rissanen, Timo. Zero waste fashion design, by Timo Rissanen and Holly McQuillan.  2nd ed.  Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2023.  244p bibl index  ISBN 9781350116962, $47.95;  ISBN 9781350116979 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-2945

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Science & Technology

Bamforth, Charles W. Beer: tap into the art and science of brewing.  Oxford, 2024.  328p bibl index  ISBN 9780199996742, $29.95;  61-3039

Black women’s reproductive health and sexuality: a holistic public health approach, ed. by Regina Moss Davis.  APHA, 2023.  444p bibl index  ISBN 9780875533407 pbk, $75.00;  ISBN 9780875533414 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-3059

Fincoeur, Bertrand. Racing time: interdisciplinary perspectives on the Tour de France, by Bertrand Fincoeur, Kirsten Frandsen, and Christopher Thompson.  EPFL Press, 2023.  280p  ISBN 9782889155712, $50.00;  ISBN 9781735207711 pbk, $39.00;  61-3070

Giordano, Simona. Children and gender: ethical issues in clinical management of transgender and gender diverse youth, from early years to late adolescence.  Oxford, 2023.  320p bibl index  ISBN 9780192895400, $95.00;  ISBN 9780192648709 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-3060

Gusfield, Dan. Proven impossible: elementary proofs of profound impossibility from Arrow, Bell, Chaitin, Gödel, Turing and more.  Cambridge, 2024.  270p bibl  ISBN 9781009349505, $79.99;  ISBN 9781009349499 pbk, $34.99;  ISBN 9781009349475 ebook, $34.99;  61-3068

Health equity: African Americans and public health, ed. Daniel E. Dawes, Kisha B. Holden, and David R. Williams.  APHA, 2023.  372p bibl index  ISBN 9780875533285 pbk, $45.95;  ISBN 9780875533292 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-3062

Herold, Eve. Robots and the people who love them: holding on to our humanity in an age of social robots.  St. Martin’s, 2023.  256p bibl  ISBN 9781250122209, $27.00;  ISBN 9781250122216 ebook, $13.99;  61-3067

MacCord, Kate. How does germline regenerate?.  Chicago, 2024.  168p bibl index  ISBN 9780226830490, $99.00;  ISBN 9780226830513 pbk, $26.00;  ISBN 9780226830506 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-3048

Messac, Luke. Your money or your life: debt collection in American medicine.  Oxford, 2024.  200p bibl index  ISBN 9780197676639, $27.95;  ISBN 9780197676660 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-3064

NASA and the American South, ed. by Brian C. Odom and Stephen P. Waring.  University Press of Florida, 2023.  348p bibl index  ISBN 9781683404019, $90.00;  61-3045

Oldershaw, Cally. Stones: a material and cultural history.  Reaktion Books, 2023.  296p bibl index  ISBN 9781789147711, $24.49;  ISBN 9781789148183 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-3055

Paris, Joel. Myths of trauma: why adversity does not necessarily make us sick.  Oxford, 2023.  208p bibl index  ISBN 9780197615768 pbk, $61.00;  ISBN 9780197615782 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-3065

Sports and the racial divide: v.2: A legacy of African American athletic activism, ed by Michael E. Lomax and Billy Hawkins.  University Press of Mississippi, 2024.  180p bibl index  ISBN 9781496848536, $99.00;  ISBN 9781496848543 pbk, $30.00;  ISBN 9781496848581 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-3071

Van Noort, Simon. Wasps of the world, by Simon van Noort and Gavin Broad.  Princeton, 2024.  240p bibl index  ISBN 9780691238548, $29.95;  ISBN 9780691257051 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-3050

Yellowstone’s birds: diversity and abundance in the world’s first national park, ed. by Douglas W. Smith, Lauren E. Walker, and Katharine E. Duffy.  Princeton, 2023.  304p bibl index  ISBN 9780691217833, $35.00;  ISBN 9780691218731 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-3051

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Social & Behavioral Sciences

Abrams, Lynn. Feminist lives: women, feelings, and the self in post-war Britain.  Oxford, 2024.  272p bibl index  ISBN 9780192896995, $45.00;  ISBN 9780191919640 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-3174

Achenbaum, W. Andrew. Safeguarding social security for future generations: leaving a legacy in an aging society.  Routledge, 2023.  192p bibl index  ISBN 9781032386355 pbk, $160.00;  ISBN 9781003345985 pbk, $42.95;  61-3204

Afrocentricity in Afrofuturism: toward Afrocentric futurism, ed. by Aaron X. Smith.  University Press of Mississippi, 2023.  242p bibl index  ISBN 9781496847836, $110.00;  ISBN 9781496847843 pbk, $30.00;  ISBN 9781496847881 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-3072

Barrera, James B. “We want better education!”: the 1960s Chicano student movement, school walkouts, and the quest for educational reform in South Texas.  Texas A&M, 2023.  296p bibl index  ISBN 9781648430886, $49.95;  ISBN 9781648430893 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-3119

Barusch, Amanda Smith. Aging angry: making peace with rage.  Oxford, 2024.  224p bibl index  ISBN 9780197584644, $90.00;  ISBN 9780197584675 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-3223

Becker, Gary S. The economic approach: unpublished writings of Gary S. Becker, ed. by Julio J. Elias, Casey B. Mulligan, and Kevin M. Murphy.  Chicago, 2023.  184p bibl index  ISBN 9780226827209, $45.00;  ISBN 9780226827216 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-3102

Behrent, Michael C. Becoming Foucault: the Poitiers years.  Pennsylvania, 2023.  312p index  ISBN 9781512825145, $45.00;  ISBN 9781512825138 ebook, $45.00;  61-3177

Black, Jennifer M. Branding trust: advertising and trademarks in nineteenth-century America.  Pennsylvania, 2024.  320p bibl index  ISBN 9781512825008, $49.95;  ISBN 9781512824995 ebook, $49.95;  61-3159

Bruno, Robert. What work is.  Illinois, 2023.  232p bibl index  ISBN 9780252045493, $110.00;  ISBN 9780252087608 pbk, $24.95;  ISBN 9780252055119 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-3089

The Cambridge handbook for the anthropology of gender and sexuality, ed. by Cecilia MacCallum, Silvia Posocco and Martin Fotta.  Cambridge, 2024.  655p bibl index  ISBN 9781108427449, $155.00;  ISBN 9781108585972 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-3082

Chacón, Jennifer. Legal phantoms: executive action and the haunting failures of immigration law, by Jennifer M. Chacón, Susan Bibler Coutin, and Stephen Lee.  Stanford, 2024.  324p bibl index  ISBN 9781503611719, $130.00;  ISBN 9781503637573 pbk, $32.00;  ISBN 9781503637580 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-3206

Cheng, Tiejun. The Chinese rebel beyond the Great Wall: the cultural revolution and ethnic pogrom in Inner Mongolia, by Tiejun Cheng, Uradyn E. Bulag, and Mark Selden.  Chicago, 2023.  422p bibl index  ISBN 9780226826844, $99.00;  ISBN 9780226826868 pbk, $27.50;  ISBN 9780226826851 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-3142

Clark, Malissa. Never not working: why the always-on culture is bad for business, and how to fix it.  Harvard Business Review Press, 2024.  224p index  ISBN 9781647825096, $32.00;  ISBN 9781647825102 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-3090

Colwell, Chip. So much stuff: how humans discovered tools, invented meaning, and made more of everything.  Chicago, 2023.  304p bibl index  ISBN 9780226801421, $29.00;  ISBN 9780226801568 ebook, $28.99;  61-3084

Corporate political responsibility, ed. by Thomas P. Lyon.  Cambridge, 2023.  392p bibl index  ISBN 9781009420839, $120.00;  ISBN 9781009420846 pbk, $39.99;  ISBN 9781009420792 ebook, $39.99;  61-3091

Coulter, Kendra. Defending animals: inside the front lines of animal protection.  MIT, 2023.  272p bibl index  ISBN 9780262048286 pbk, $24.95;  ISBN 9780262375627 ebook, $24.95;  61-3224

Foster, Anne L. The long war on drugs.  Duke, 2023.  224p bibl index  ISBN 9781478020646, $26.95;  ISBN 9781478020646 pbk, $26.95;  ISBN 9781478027553 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-3162

Gleason, Christopher M. American poly: a history.  Oxford, 2024.  232p bibl index  ISBN 9780197659144, $35.00;  ISBN 9780197659168 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-3163

Goldsworthy, Adrian Keith. Rome and Persia: the seven hundred year rivalry.  Basic Books, 2023.  592p bibl index  ISBN 9781541619968, $35.00;  ISBN 9781541619944 ebook, $19.99;  61-3139

Guy, John. Hunting the falcon: Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn, and the marriage that shook Europe, by John Guy and Julia Fox.  Harper, 2023.  624p bibl index  ISBN 9780063073449, $35.00;  ISBN 9780063073456 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-3175

Hernandez, Nick. Collaborative learning: how to upskill from within and turn L&D into your competitive advantage.  Kogan Page, 2023.  240p bibl index  ISBN 9781398610552, $131.00;  ISBN 9781398610521 pbk, $41.99;  ISBN 9781398610545 ebook, $41.99;  61-3094

Hickey, Georgina. Breaking the gender code: women and urban public space in the twentieth century United States.  Texas, 2023.  272p bibl index  ISBN 9781477328224, $45.00;  ISBN 9781477328248 ebook, $45.00;  61-3164

Kaldellis, Anthony. The new Roman Empire: a history of Byzantium.  Oxford, 2024.  1160p bibl index  ISBN 9780197549322, $45.00;  61-3140

Kochetkova, Elena. The green power of socialism: wood, forest, and the making of Soviet industrially embedded ecology.  MIT, 2024.  258p bibl index  ISBN 9780262547451 pbk, $40.00;  61-3110

Kong, Vivian. Multiracial Britishness: global networks in Hong Kong, 1910–45.  Cambridge, 2024.  292p bibl index  ISBN 9781009202947, $110.00;  ISBN 9781009202978 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-3145

Langley, Philippa. The princes in the tower: solving history’s greatest cold case.  Pegasus Books, 2023.  496p bibl index  ISBN 9781639366279, $29.99;  61-3176

Lei, Ya-Wen. The gilded cage: technology, development, and state capitalism in China.  Princeton, 2023.  416p bibl index  ISBN 9780691212838, $120.00;  ISBN 9780691212821 pbk, $35.00;  ISBN 9780691249254 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-3111

Lynch, Christopher. Machiavelli on war.  Cornell, 2023.  384p bibl index  ISBN 9781501773020, $49.95;  ISBN 9781501773037 ebook, $32.99;  61-3197

Marshall, Elizabeth. The drinking curriculum: a cultural history of childhood and alcohol.  Fordham, 2024.  176p index  ISBN 9781531505240, $90.00;  ISBN 9781531505233 pbk, $25.00;  ISBN 9781531505257 ebook, $24.99;  61-3166

Matsumura, Wendy. Waiting for the cool moon: anti-imperialist struggles in the heart of Japan’s empire.  Duke, 2024.  288p bibl index  ISBN 9781478020950, $104.95;  ISBN 9781478020950 pbk, $27.95;  ISBN 9781478027829 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-3146

Moyer, Jeffrey. A potent moment: building social equity into cannabis legalization.  Lexington Books, 2023.  354p bibl index  ISBN 9781666918076, $120.00;  ISBN 9781666918083 ebook, $45.00;  61-3214

Murphy, James Bernard. The third sword: on the political role of prophets.  Cambridge, 2023.  208p bibl index  ISBN 9781009372282, $90.00;  ISBN 9781009372268 pbk, $29.99;  ISBN 9781009372237 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-3200

A new imperial history of Northern Eurasia, 600–1700: from Russian to global history, by Ilya Gerasimov et al.  Bloomsbury Academic, 2023.  306p bibl index  ISBN 9781350196797, $115.00;  ISBN 9781350196827 ebook, $103.50;  61-3148

Nolan, Cathal J. Mercy: humanity in war.  Oxford, 2023.  328p bibl index  ISBN 9780190077280, $31.99;  ISBN 9780197646687 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-3133

The Oxford handbook of World War II, ed. by G. Kurt Piehler and Jonathan A. Grant.  Oxford, 2023.  720p bibl index  ISBN 9780199341795, $165.00;  ISBN 9780197676578 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-3134

Port, Andrew I. Never again: Germans and genocide after the Holocaust.  Belknap, Harvard, 2023.  416p bibl index  ISBN 9780674275225, $35.00;  ISBN 9780674293380 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-3149

Red reckoning: the Cold War and the transformation of American life, ed. by Mark Boulton and Tobias T. Gibson.  Louisiana State, 2023.  350p bibl index  ISBN 9780807180082, $34.95;  ISBN 9780807180815 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-3168

Rockwell, Stephen J. The presidency and the American state: leadership and decision making in the Adams, Grant, and Taft administrations.  Virginia, 2023.  352p bibl index  ISBN 9780813950075, $115.00;  ISBN 9780813950082 pbk, $34.50;  ISBN 9780813950099 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-3215

Rose, Robert. Content marketing strategy: how to harness the power of your brand’s voice.  Kogan Page, 2023.  224p bibl index  ISBN 9781398611528, $131.00;  ISBN 9781398611504 pbk, $34.99;  ISBN 9781398611511 ebook, $34.99;  61-3096

Rossiter, Ash. Warfare in the robotics age, by Ash Rossiter and Peter Layton.  L. Rienner, 2024.  257p bibl index  ISBN 9781685859817, $110.00;  ISBN 9781685859930 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-3190

Rule, Elizabeth. Indigenous DC: native peoples and the nation’s capital.  Georgetown University, 2023.  200p bibl index  ISBN 9781647123208, $24.95;  ISBN 9781647123222 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-3170

Schmidt, Shannon McKenna. The first lady of World War II: Eleanor Roosevelt’s daring journey to the frontlines and back.  SourceBooks, 2023.  336p bibl index  ISBN 9781728256610, $26.99;  ISBN 9781728256627 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-3171

Sharone, Ofer. Stigma trap: college-educated, experienced, and long-term unemployed.  Oxford, 2024.  208p bibl index  ISBN 9780190239244, $29.95;  ISBN 9780190239268 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-3097

Sisson, Gretchen E. Relinquished: the politics of adoption and the privilege of American motherhood.  St. Martin’s, 2024.  320p bibl index  ISBN 9781250286772, $29.00;  ISBN 9781250286789 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-3230

Smiley, Calvin John. Purgatory citizenship: reentry, race, and abolition.  California, 2023.  239p bibl index  ISBN 9780520385986, $85.00;  ISBN 9780520385993 pbk, $29.95;  ISBN 9780520386006 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-3231

Stekelenburg, Jacquelien van. A social psychology of protest: individuals in action, by Jacquelien van Stekelenburg and Bert Klandermans.  Cambridge, 2023.  250p bibl index  ISBN 9781107178007, $105.00;  ISBN 9781316630839 pbk, $34.99;  ISBN 9781316836088 ebook, $34.99;  61-3222

Streib, Jessi. The accidental equalizer: how luck determines pay after college.  Chicago, 2023.  256p bibl index  ISBN 9780226829319, $27.50;  ISBN 9780226829685 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-3099

Success on the spectrum: practical strategies for engaging neurodiverse audiences in arts and cultural organizations, by Emily Wiskera et al.  Rowman & Littlefield, 2024.  310p bibl index  ISBN 9781538171011, $139.00;  ISBN 9781538171028 pbk, $59.00;  ISBN 9781538171035 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-3128

Tanzi, Vito. Monitoring the state or the market: from laissez faire to market fundamentalism.  Cambridge, 2023.  200p bibl index  ISBN 9781009434447, $90.00;  ISBN 9781009434478 pbk, $29.99;  ISBN 9781009434485 ebook, $29.99;  61-3114

Warshawsky, Daniel N. Food waste, food insecurity, and the globalization of food banks.  Iowa, 2024.  225p bibl index  ISBN 9781609389338 pbk, $40.00;  ISBN 9781609389345 ebook, $40.00;  61-3115

White, Elizabeth B. The counterfeit countess: the Jewish woman who rescued thousands of Poles during the Holocaust, by Elizabeth B. White and Joanna Sliwa.  Simon & Schuster, 2024.  336p bibl index  ISBN 9781982189129, $28.99;  ISBN 9781982189143 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-3150

Zackariya, Sacha. Leading travel and tourism retail: how businesses can sustainably capture new profits in shopping tourism.  Kogan Page, 2023.  272p illustrations  ISBN 9781398609525, $89.00;  ISBN 9781398609501 pbk, $34.99;  ISBN 9781398609518 ebook, $34.99;  61-3101

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