The Top 75 Community College Titles: June 2018 Edition

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

Posted on June 26, 2018 in Top 75 Community College Titles

Reference

Encyclopedia of Jewish history and culture, v.1, ed. by Dan Diner; consulting editors Cornelia Aust, Philipp Lenhard, and Daniel Mahla. Brill, 2017. 697p bibl ISBN 9789004309425, $356.00; 55-3452

The Encyclopedia of Life Sciences. Wiley. $3,391.00 to $6,780.00 annually; purchase price $14,570 to $29,137 with updates costing approximately $1,500.00 to $3,000.00.URL: els.net 55-3447

Evangelical America: an encyclopedia of contemporary American religious culture, ed. by Timothy J. Demy and Paul R. Shockley. ABC-CLIO, 2017. 515p bibl index ISBN 9781610697736, $94.00; ISBN 9781610697743 ebook, contact pubisher for price; 55-3442

Garrett, Benjamin C. Historical dictionary of nuclear, biological, and chemical warfare. Rowman & Littlefield, 2017. 375p bibl ISBN 9781538106839, $95.00; ISBN 9781538106846 ebook, $90.00; 55-3448

Johansen, Bruce E. Climate change: an encyclopedia of science, society, and solutions: v.1: Land and oceans; v.2: Weather and global warming; v.3: Human impact and primary documents. ABC-CLIO, 2017. bibl index ISBN 9781440840852, $309.00; ISBN 9781440840869 ebook, contact pubisher for price; 55-3449

SAGE Research Methods. SAGE Publishing. Annual subscription or purchase price based on institution type and size; contact publisher for price options.URL: methods.sagepub.com 55-3440

Women’s Studies Archives: Women’s Issues and Identities. Gale, part of Cengage Learning. Based on FTE, collection starts at $6,250.00 with annual hosting fee starting at $250.00; contact publisher for complete information.URL: gale.com/primary-sources/womens-studies 55-3445

Young, Gregory. Undergraduate research in music: a guide for students, by Gregory Young and Jenny Olin Shanahan. Routledge, 2018. 184p bibl index ISBN 9780415787826, $150.00; ISBN 9780415787833 pbk, $49.95; ISBN 9781315225708 ebook, $49.95; 55-3446

Humanities

The 25 sitcoms that changed television: turning points in American culture, ed. by Laura Westengard and Aaron Barlow. Praeger, 2018. 366p bibl index ISBN 9781440838866, $73.00; ISBN 9781440838873 ebook, contact publisher for price; 55-3476

Carty, Jarrett A. God and government: Martin Luther’s political thought. McGill-Queen’s, 2017. 191p bibl index (McGill-Queen’s studies in the history of ideas, 73) ISBN 9780773551503, $120.00; ISBN 9780773551510 pbk, $34.95; ISBN 9780773551978 ebook, contact publisher for price; 55-3552

Duff, Paul B. Jesus followers in the Roman Empire. Eerdmans, 2017. 263p bibl indexes ISBN 9780802868787 pbk, $30.00; 55-3557

Federico, Annette. Thus I lived with words: Robert Louis Stevenson and the writer’s craft. Iowa, 2017. 136p bibl index ISBN 9781609385187, $19.00; ISBN 9781609385194 ebook, $19.00; 55-3501

Gere, Cathy. Pain, pleasure, and the greater good: from the panopticon to the Skinner box and beyond. Chicago, 2017. 292p bibl index ISBN 9780226501857, $30.00; ISBN 9780226501994 ebook, $18.00; 55-3539

Gillespie, Michael Allen. Nietzsche’s final teaching. Chicago, 2017. 248p index ISBN 9780226476889, $35.00; ISBN 9780226476919 ebook, $35.00; 55-3541

Grudin, Anthony E. Warhol’s working class: pop art and egalitarianism. Chicago, 2017. 202p index ISBN 9780226347776, $40.00; ISBN 9780226347806 ebook, $40.00; 55-3469

Horlyck, Charlotte. Korean art: from the 19th century to the present. Reaktion Books, 2017. 264p bibl index ISBN 9781780237367, $60.00; 55-3460

Mark Twain and philosophy, ed. by Alan Goldman. Rowman & Littlefield, 2017. 247p index ISBN 9781442261716 pbk, $19.95; ISBN 9781442261723 ebook, $18.99; 55-3510

McClelland, Clive. Tempesta: stormy music in the eighteenth century. Lexington Books, 2017. 241p bibl index ISBN 9781498519922, $100.00; ISBN 9781498568029 ebook, $95.00; 55-3534

McKinley, Maggie. Understanding Norman Mailer. South Carolina, 2017. 137p bibl index ISBN 9781611178050, $39.99; ISBN 9781611178067 ebook, $21.99; 55-3511

Michelangelo: divine draftsman and designer, [by] Carmen Bambach with Claire M. Barry et al. Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2017. (Dist. by Yale) 392p bibl index ISBN 9781588396372, $65.00; 55-3470

Sharpe, William. Grasping shadows: the dark side of literature, painting, photography, and film. Oxford, 2017. 420p bibl index ISBN 9780190675271, $74.00; ISBN 9780190682262 ebook, contact publisher for price; 55-3454

Skrbina, David. Panpsychism in the West. MIT, 2017. 372p bibl index ISBN 9780262534062 pbk, $35.00; ISBN 9780262341523 ebook, $24.00; 55-3547

Tzioumakis, Yannis. American independent cinema: an introduction. Edinburgh University Press, 2017. 328p bibl index ISBN 9781474416825, $125.00; ISBN 9781474416849 pbk, $39.95; ISBN 9781474416832 ebook, contact publisher for price; 55-3527

Young, Miles. Ogilvy on advertising in the digital age. Bloomsbury, 2017. 288p index ISBN 9781635571462, $30.00; ISBN 9781635571479 ebook, contact publisher for price; 55-3482

Science & Technology

Abrams, Brett L. Terry Bradshaw: from Super Bowl champion to television personality. Rowman & Littlefield, 2017. 311p bibl index ISBN 9781442277632, $40.00; ISBN 9781442277649 ebook, $38.00; 55-3665

Blackford, Russell. Science fiction and the moral imagination: visions, minds, ethics. Springer, 2017. 204p bibl index ISBN 9783319616834 pbk, $19.99; ISBN 9783319616858 ebook, $14.99; 55-3572

Brennan, Thomas. The million dollar man: Jack Dempsey. Regent Press, 2017. 272p bibl index ISBN 9781587904011, $19.95; 55-3667

Charlesworth, Brian. Evolution: a very short introduction, by Brian Charlesworth and Deborah Charlesworth. rev. ed. Oxford, 2017. 146p bibl index (Very short introductions, 100) ISBN 9780198804369, $11.95; ISBN 9780191842719 ebook, contact publisher for price; 55-3597

The Critical surf studies reader, ed. by Dexter Zavalza Hough-Snee and Alexander Sotelo Eastman. Duke, 2017. 463p bibl index ISBN 9780822369578, $104.95; ISBN 9780822369721 pbk, $29.95; ISBN 9780822372820 ebook, $29.95; 55-3670

Dickinson, Terence. Hubble’s universe: greatest discoveries and latest images. Firefly Books, 2017. 332p bibl index ISBN 9781770859975, $49.95; 55-3586

Ellerbroek, Lucas. Planet hunters: the search for extraterrestrial life, tr. by Andy Brown. Reaktion Books, 2017. 267p bibl index ISBN 9781780238142, $27.00; ISBN 9781780238784 ebook, contact pubisher for price; 55-3587

Erwig, Martin. Once upon an algorithm: how stories explain computing. MIT, 2017. 319p index ISBN 9780262036634, $27.95; ISBN 9780262341684 ebook, $19.95; 55-3647

Furman, Todd M. The ethics of poker. McFarland, 2017. 229p bibl index ISBN 9781476664613, $29.95; ISBN 9781476627854 ebook, contact publisher for price; 55-3671

Gubser, Steven Scott. The little book of black holes, by Steven S. Gubser and Frans Pretorius. Princeton, 2017. 179p index ISBN 9780691163727, $19.95; ISBN 9781400888290 ebook, contact publisher for price; 55-3588

Hoyt, Erich. Encyclopedia of whales, dolphins and porpoises, photography by Brandon Cole; illustrations by Uko Gorter. Firefly Books, 2017. 300p index ISBN 9781770859418, $49.95; 55-3616

Isaacson, Walter. Leonardo da Vinci. Simon & Schuster, 2017. 599p bibl index ISBN 9781501139154, $35.00; ISBN 9781501139178 ebook, contact publisher for price; 55-3581

Karam, P. Andrew. Comets. Reaktion Books, 2017. 200p bibl index ISBN 9781780238302 pbk, $24.95; 55-3589

Marshall, Stephen A. Insects: their natural history and diversity: with a photographic guide to insects of eastern North America. Firefly Books, 2017. 735p bibl indexes ISBN 9781770859623, $95.00; 55-3618

Mendelson, Wallace B. The science of sleep: what it is, how it works, and why it matters. Chicago, 2017. 176p bibl index ISBN 9780226387161, $35.00; ISBN 9780226387338 ebook, $21.00; 55-3641

Miller, Marli Bryant. Roadside geology of Washington, by Marli Bryant Miller and Darrel S. Cowan; photographs by Marli Bryant Miller. 2nd ed. Mountain Press Publishing Company, 2017. 378p bibl index ISBN 9780878426775 pbk, $26.00; 55-3628

Parker, Greg. Making beautiful deep-sky images: astrophotography with affordable equipment and software. Springer, 2017. 189p index ISBN 9783319463155, $29.99; ISBN 9783319463162 ebook, $19.99; 55-3590

Rutherford, Adam. A brief history of everyone who ever lived: the human story retold through our genes. The Experiment, 2017. 401p bibl index ISBN 9781615194049, $25.95; ISBN 9781615194186 ebook, contact pubisher for price; 55-3601

Sides, Charles H. How to write and present technical information. Greenwood, 2017. 243p bibl index ISBN 9781440855054, $61.00; ISBN 9781440855078 pbk, $37.00; ISBN 9781440855061 ebook, contact publisher for price; 55-3579

Staaf, Danna. Squid empire: the rise and fall of the cephalopods. ForeEdge, 2017. 237p index ISBN 9781611689235, $27.95; ISBN ebook, $22.99; 55-3620

Stewart, Wayne. Remembering the stars of the NFL glory years: an inside look at the golden age of football. Rowman & Littlefield, 2017. 222p bibl index ISBN 9781442274235, $38.00; ISBN 9781442274242 ebook, $36.00; 55-3674

Tarver, Erin C. The I in team: sports fandom and the reproduction of identity. Chicago, 2017. 233p bibl index ISBN 9780226469935, $90.00; ISBN 9780226470139 , $30.00; ISBN 9780226470276 ebook, $30.00; 55-3675

Trypsteen, Marc F. M. Spectroscopy for amateur astronomers: recording, processing, analysis, and interpretation, by Marc F. M. Trypsteen and Richard Walker. Cambridge, 2017. 151p bibl index ISBN 9781107166189, $49.99; ISBN 9781316731109 ebook, $40.00; 55-3592

Tyson, Neil deGrasse. Welcome to the universe: the problem book, by Neil deGrasse Tyson, Michael Abram Strauss, and J. Richard Gott. Princeton, 2017. 235p ISBN 9780691177809, $65.00; ISBN 9780691177816 pbk, $35.00; 55-3593

Watson, James D. DNA: the story of the genetic revolution, by James D. Watson with Andrew Berry and Kevin Davies. 2nd ed. Knopf, 2017. 487p bibl index ISBN 9780385351188, $29.95; ISBN 9780385351201 ebook, contact publisher for price; 55-3602

Social & Behavioral Sciences

Abramovitz, Mimi. Regulating the lives of women: social welfare policy from Colonial times to the present. Routledge, 2018. 316p index ISBN 9780415785495, $150.00; ISBN 9780415785501 pbk, $39.95; ISBN 9781315228150 ebook, $39.95; 55-3733

Animals and science education: ethics, curriculum and pedagogy, ed. by Michael P. Mueller, Deborah J. Tippins, and Arthur J. Stewart. Springer, 2017. 265p bibl index (Environmental discourses in science education, 2) ISBN 9783319563749, $119.00; ISBN 9783319563756 ebook, $89.00; 55-3702

Bruder, Jessica. Nomadland: surviving America in the twenty-first century. W. W. Norton, 2017. 273p ISBN 9780393249316, $26.95; 55-3685

Chernow, Ron. Grant. Penguin Press, 2017. 1,074p bibl index ISBN 9781594204876, $40.00; ISBN 9780525521952 ebook, $19.99; 55-3735

The China questions: critical insights into a rising power, ed. by Jennifer M. Rudolph and Michael Szonyi. Harvard, 2018. 337p bibl index ISBN 9780674979406, $27.95; ISBN 9780674982703 ebook, contact publisher for price; 55-3722

Dalby, Andrew. Gifts of the gods: a history of food in Greece, by Andrew Dalby and Rachel Dalby. Reaktion Books, 2017. 302p bibk index ISBN 9781780238548, $39.00; 55-3766

Davidov, Veronica. Long night at the Vepsian Museum: the forest folk of northern Russia and the struggle for cultural survival. Toronto, 2017. 130p bibl index ISBN 9781442636194, $60.00; ISBN 9781442636187 pbk, $26.95; ISBN 9781442636200 ebook, $21.95; 55-3725

Deane, Morgan. Decisive battles in Chinese history. Westholme, 2018. 196p bibl index ISBN 9781594162893, $30.00; 55-3723

Diamond, Andrew J. Chicago on the make: power and inequality in a modern city. California, 2017. 421p index ISBN 9780520286481, $29.95; ISBN 9780520961715 ebook, contact publisher for price; 55-3738

Gallagher, Catherine. Telling it like it wasn’t: the counterfactual imagination in history and fiction. Chicago, 2018. 359p index ISBN 9780226512389, $105.00; ISBN 9780226512419 pbk, $35.00; ISBN 9780226512556 ebook, $35.00; 55-3710

Grimes, Richard S. The Western Delaware Indian nation, 1730–1795: warriors and diplomats. Lehigh, 2017. 325p bibl index ISBN 9781611462241, $110.00; ISBN 9781611462265 pbk, contact publisher for price; ISBN 9781611462258 ebook, contact publisher for price; 55-3741

Hamling, Tara. A day at home in early modern England: material culture and domestic life, 1500–1700, by Tara Hamling and Catherine Richardson. Yale, 2017. 311p bibl index ISBN 9780300195019, $75.00; 55-3758

Hunt, Keel. Coup: the day the Democrats ousted their governor, put Republican Lamar Alexander in office early, and stopped a pardon scandal, by Keel Hunt with Lamar Alexander. Expanded ed. Vanderbilt, 2017. 328p bibl index ISBN 9780826521842, $29.95; ISBN 9780826521866 ebook, $9.99; 55-3822

Kozakavich, Stacy C. The archaeology of utopian and intentional communities. University Press of Florida, 2017. 275p bibl index ISBN 9780813056593, $79.95; ISBN 9780813052137 ebook, contact publisher for price; 55-3746

Laramie, Michael G. King William’s War: the first contest for North America, 1689-1697. Westholme, 2017. 322p bibl index ISBN 9781594162886, $35.00; 55-3748

Lavery, Brian. Churchill: warrior: how a military life guided Winston’s finest hours. Casemate Publishers, 2017. 569p bibl index ISBN 9781910860229, $32.95; ISBN 9781612005676 ebook, contact publisher for price; 55-3761

Lehner, Mark. Giza and the pyramids: the definitive history, by Mark Lehner and Zahi Hawass. Chicago, 2017. 560p bibl index ISBN 9780226425696, $75.00; 55-3720

Minetor, Randi. Blowing up: the psychology of conflict. Greenwood, 2017. 200p bibl index ISBN 9781440844676, $38.00; ISBN 9781440844683 ebook, contact publisher for price; 55-3840

Mounk, Yascha. The people vs. democracy: why our freedom is in danger and how to save it. Harvard, 2018. 393p index ISBN 9780674976825, $29.95; 55-3808

Nguyen, Phuong Tran. Becoming refugee American: the politics of rescue in Little Saigon. Illinois, 2017. 213p bibl index ISBN 9780252041358, $95.00; ISBN 9780252082887 pbk, $28.00; ISBN 9780252099953 ebook, $25.20; 55-3752

Omrani, Bijan. Caesar’s footprints: a cultural excursion to ancient France: journeys through Roman Gaul. Pegasus Books, 2017. 386p bibl index ISBN 9781681775661, $28.95; 55-3768

The Oxford handbook of southwest archaeology, ed. by Barbara J. Mills and Severin Fowles. Oxford, 2017. 916p bibl index ISBN 9780199978427, $175.00; 55-3683

Tempest, Kathryn. Brutus: the noble conspirator. Yale, 2017. 314p bibl index ISBN 9780300180091, $28.50; ISBN 9780300231267 ebook, contact publisher for price; 55-3721

Voinovich, George V. Empowering the public-private partnership: the future of America’s local government. Ohio University, 2017. 98p bibl ISBN 9780821422656, $49.95; ISBN 9780821422663 pbk, $19.95; ISBN 9780821445990 ebook, contact publisher for price; 55-3828

Volberda, Henk. Reinventing business models: how firms cope with disruption, by Henk Volberda, Frans van den Bosch, and Kevin Heij. Oxford, 2018. 296p bibl index ISBN 9780198792048, $40.00; ISBN 9780191834233 ebook, contact publisher for price; 55-3696

Weed, Eric Arden. The religion of white supremacy in the United States. Lexington Books, 2017. 139p bibl index ISBN 9781498538756, $90.00; ISBN 9781498538763 ebook, $85.50; 55-3755

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