The Top 75 Community College Titles: June 2024

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

Posted on June 27, 2024 in Top 75 Community College Titles

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Fabrizi, Mark A. Historical dictionary of horror literature.  Rowman & Littlefield, 2023.  370p bibl  ISBN 9781538166048, $150.00;  ISBN 9781538166055 ebook, $142.50;  61-2635

Vernacular architecture: v.1: taxonomies and geography, v.2: social life, v.3: the culture of construction, v.4: the emerging urban vernacular, ed. by Howard Davis.  Bloomsbury, 2023.  1536p bibl index  ISBN 9781474283915, $804.00;  61-2636

Voices of American women’s history from reconstruction to the present: contemporary accounts of daily life, ed. by Kristine Ashton Gunnell.  Bloomsbury, 2023.  415p bibl index  ISBN 9781440872464, $130.00;  ISBN 9781440872471 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-2639

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Humanities

An Anthology of Blackness: the state of Black design, ed. by Terresa Moses and Omari Souza.  MIT, 2023.  264p bibl  ISBN 9780262048668, $32.95;  ISBN 9780262377256 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-2642

Bertrand, Michael T. Southern history remixed: on rock ‘n’ roll and the dilemma of race.  University Press of Florida, 2024.  322p bibl index  ISBN 9780813069890, $90.00;  ISBN 9780813070650 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-2715

The Bloomsbury handbook to J. M. Coetzee, ed. by Andrew van der Vlies and Lucy Valerie Graham.  Bloomsbury, 2023.  464p bibl index  ISBN 9781350152045, $190.00;  ISBN 9781350152052 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-2681

Buell, Lawrence. Henry David Thoreau: thinking disobediently.  Oxford, 2023.  152p bibl index  ISBN 9780197684269, $19.95;  ISBN 9780197684276 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-2688

Curran, Thomas F. Funny thing about the Civil War: the humor of an American tragedy.  McFarland, 2023.  230p bibl index  ISBN 9781476692357, $39.95;  ISBN 9781476650296 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-2691

Erskine, Noel Leo. Black theology and Black faith.  Eerdmans, 2023.  209p bibl index  ISBN 9780802875600, $26.99;  ISBN 9780802875600 ebook, $26.99;  61-2740

Gutkind, Lee. The fine art of literary fist-fighting: how a bunch of rabble-rousers, outsiders, and ne’er-do-wells concocted creative nonfiction.  Yale, 2024.  304p  ISBN 9780300251159, $35.00;  61-2677

The Land carries our ancestors: contemporary art by Native Americans, by Jaune Quick-to-See Smith et al.  Princeton, 2023.  192p bibl index  ISBN 9780691245454, $45.00;  ISBN 9780300277180 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-2645

Li, Jie. Cinematic guerrillas: propaganda, projectionists, and audiences in socialist China.  Columbia, 2023.  360p bibl index  ISBN 9780231206266, $140.00;  ISBN 9780231206273 pbk, $35.00;  ISBN 9780231556392 ebook, $34.99;  61-2712

Matthews, Paul. Transparent minds in science fiction: an introduction to alien, AI and post-human consciousness.  Open Book Publishers, 2023.  146p bibl index  ISBN 9781805110477, $40.95;  ISBN 9781805110460 pbk, $23.95;  ISBN 978-805110484 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-2678

Multiplicity: Blackness in contemporary American collage, ed. by Kathryn E. Delmez.  Frist Art Museum, 2023.  264p bibl  ISBN 9780300272963, $50.00;  61-2646

Munro-Faure, Alice. Capturing the British landscape: Alfred Augustus Glendening (1840–1921).  Paul Holberton, 2022.  326p index  ISBN 9781913645236, $80.00;  ISBN 9781914532191 ebook, $80.00;  61-2657

National Museum of Women in the Arts: collection highlights, ed. by National Museum of Women in the Arts.  Hirmer, 2023.  (Dist. by Chicago) 264p index  ISBN 9783777441696, $60.00;  61-2647

Out of bounds: exploring the limits of medieval art, ed. by Pamela A. Patton and Maria Alessia Rossi.  Pennsylvania State, 2023.  264p bibl index  ISBN 9780271094977, $99.95;  61-2648

Ruiz, Jason. Narcomedia: Latinidad, popular culture, and America’s war on drugs.  Texas, 2023.  288p bibl index  ISBN 9781477328194, $29.95;  ISBN 9781477328217 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-2670

Smith, Lindsey Claire. Urban homelands: writing the Native city from Oklahoma.  Nebraska, 2023.  258p bibl index  ISBN 9781496215536, $65.00;  ISBN 9781496237286 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-2703

Worcester, Kent. A cultural history of the Punisher: Marvel comics and the politics of vengeance.  Intellect, 2023.  268p bibl index  ISBN 9781789388459, $99.95;  ISBN 9781789388589 pbk, $29.95;  ISBN 9781789388466 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-2671

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Science & Technology

Bryson, Ethan. Opioid epidemic: origins, current state and potential solutions.  Cambridge, 2023.  262p bibl index  ISBN 9781009256575 pbk, $24.99;  ISBN 9781009256544 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-2754

Delaye, Fabrice. The medical revolution of messenger RNA, tr. by Simon Pare.  Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, 2023.  138p bibl index  ISBN 9781621824947, $29.50;  ISBN 9781621824954 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-2744

Frith, Jordan. Barcode.  Bloomsbury Academic, 2023.  152p bibl index  ISBN 9781501399916 pbk, $14.95;  ISBN 9781501399923 ebook, $13.45;  61-2745

Hotez, Peter J. The deadly rise of anti-science: how health freedom propaganda endangers the world.  Johns Hopkins, 2023.  240p bibl index  ISBN 9781421447223, $24.95;  ISBN 9781421447230 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-2758

Manno, Michelle J. Denied: women, sports, and the contradictions of identity.  New York University, 2023.  240p bibl index  ISBN 9781479882229, $89.00;  ISBN 9781479885381 pbk, $28.00;  ISBN 9781479891849 pbk, contact publisher for price;  61-2771

Pangrazio, Luci. Critical data literacies: rethinking data and everyday life, by Luci Pangrazio and Neil Selwyn.  MIT, 2023.  216p bibl index  ISBN 9780262546829 pbk, $35.00;  ISBN 9780262376617 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-2765

Stammers, Trevor. The ethics of global organ acquisition: moral arguments about transplantation.  Bloomsbury Academic, 2023.  272p bibl index  ISBN 9781350227170, $90.00;  ISBN 9781350227187 pbk, $29.95;  ISBN 9781350227200 ebook, $26;95;  61-2761

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Social &   Behavioral Sciences

Abend, Gabriel. Words and distinctions for the common good: practical reason in the logic of social science.  Princeton, 2023.  464p bibl index  ISBN 9780691247069, $120.00;  ISBN 9780691247052 pbk, $39.95;  ISBN 9780691247076 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-2924

An Accessible past: making historic sites accessible to all, ed. by Heather Pressman.  Rowman & Littlefield, 2023.  292p bibl index  ISBN 9781538168257, $120.00;  ISBN 9781538168264 pbk, $49.00;  ISBN 9781538168271 ebook, $46.50;  61-2807

African immigrants and the American experience: race, anti-Black violence, and the quest for the American dream, ed. by Wanjala S. Nasong’o, Imali J. Abala, and Kefa M. Otiso.  Lexington Books, 2023.  250p index  ISBN 9781666925043, $100.00;  ISBN 9781666925050 ebook, $45.00;  61-2773

Arter, Patricia S. You’re hired!: practical strategies for guiding individuals with autism spectrum disorder to competitive employment, by Patricia S. Arter, Tammy B. H. Brown, and Jennifer Barna.  Rowman & Littlefield, 2024.  148p bibl index  ISBN 9781538177402, $95.00;  ISBN 9781538177419 pbk, $32.00;  ISBN 9781538177426 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-2787

Athey, Stephanie. Torture in the national security imagination.  Minnesota, 2024.  338p bibl index  ISBN 9781517913274, $112.00;  ISBN 9781517913281 pbk, $28.00;  ISBN 9781452970387 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-2901

Barfield, Thomas. Shadow empires: an alternative imperial history.  Princeton, 2023.  384p bibl index  ISBN 9780691181639, $35.00;  ISBN 9780691253282 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-2819

Beckett, Ian F. W. The British army: a new short history.  Oxford, 2023.  240p bibl index  ISBN 9780198871040, $25.00;  ISBN 9780192644374 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-2865

Bender, Daniel E. The food adventurers: how around-the-world travel changed the way we eat.  Reaktion Books, 2023.  352p bibl index  ISBN 9781789147575, $18.50;  ISBN 9781789148077 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-2820

Blomstrom, Duena. Tech-led culture: unlock the full potential of your business and people.  Kogan Page, 2023.  224p bibl index  ISBN 9781398610712, $89.00;  ISBN 9781398610699 pbk, $23.99;  ISBN 9781398610705 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-2789

Bloom, Tendayi. Noncitizen power: agency and the politics of migration.  Bloomsbury Academic, 2023.  272p bibl index  ISBN 9780755600182, $90.00;  ISBN 9780755600199 pbk, $29.95;  ISBN 9780755600212 ebook, $26.95;  61-2886

Brand, Tylor. Famine worlds: life at the edge of suffering in Lebanon’s Great War.  Stanford, 2023.  276p bibl index  ISBN 9781503633247, $85.00;  ISBN 9781503636163 pbk, $28.00;  ISBN 9781503636170 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-2845

Burden-Stelly, Charisse. Black scare / red scare: theorizing capitalist racism in the United States.  Chicago, 2023.  344p bibl index  ISBN 9780226830131, $99.00;  ISBN 9780226830155 pbk, $26.00;  ISBN 9780226830148 ebook, $25.99;  61-2850

Bussmann, Richard. The archaeology of Pharaonic Egypt: society and culture, 2700–1700 BC.  Cambridge, 2024.  448p bibl index  ISBN 9781107030381, $130.00;  61-2782

Checketts, Levi. Poor technology: artificial intelligence and the experience of poverty.  Fortress, 2024.  281p bibl index  ISBN 9781506482316, $46.00;  ISBN 9781506482323 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-2801

Covey, Herbert C. Understanding American Covid-19 pandemic beliefs, behaviors, politics, and society.  Lexington Books, 2023.  274p bibl index  ISBN 9781666954296, $105.00;  ISBN 9781666954302 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-2776

Danewid, Ida. Resisting racial capitalism: an antipolitical theory of refusal.  Cambridge, 2023.  278p bibl index  ISBN 9781009123358, $105.00;  ISBN 9781009125024 pbk, $34.99;  61-2896

Ethnographic insights on Latin America and the Caribbean, ed. by Melanie A. Medeiros and Jennifer R. Guzmán.  Toronto, 2023.  542p bibl index  ISBN 9781487547981, $125.00;  ISBN 9781487551506 pbk, $64.95;  ISBN 9781487555597 ebook, $31.17;  61-2784

Galen, Luke. A social cognition perspective of the psychology of religion: “why God thinks like you”.  Bloomsbury Academic, 2023.  272p bibl index  ISBN 9781350293908, $115.00;  ISBN 9781350293922 ebook, $103.50;  61-2918

Grob, Leonard. Warnings: the Holocaust, Ukraine, and endangered American democracy, by Leonard Grob and John K. Roth.  Cascade Books, 2023.  252p bibl index  ISBN 9781666743975, $39.00;  ISBN 9781666743968 pbk, $27.95;  61-2906

Hasen, Richard L. Real right to vote: how a constitutional amendment can safeguard American democracy.  Princeton, 2024.  240p bibl index  ISBN 9780691257716, $27.95;  ISBN 9780691257723 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-2907

Henson, Bryce. Emergent quilombos: Black life and hip-hop in Brazil.  Texas, 2023.  280p bibl index  ISBN 9781477328095, $95.00;  ISBN 9781477328101 pbk, $29.95;  ISBN 9781477328125 ebook, $29.95;  61-2843

Hilderbrand, Lucas. The bars are ours.  Duke, 2023.  464p bibl index  ISBN 9781478020301, $119.95;  ISBN 9781478020301 pbk, $32.95;  ISBN 9781478027287 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-2852

Hogan, Richard. Resisting redemption at the Georgia polls: white supremacy versus democracy in the elections of 1868–1880.  McFarland, 2023.  204p bibl index  ISBN 9781476692081, $75.00;  ISBN 9781476649719 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-2908

How sanctions work: Iran and the impact of economic warfare, by Narges Bajoghli et al.  Stanford, 2024.  212p bibl index  ISBN 9781503637313, $95.00;  ISBN 9781503637801 pbk, $24.00;  ISBN 9781503637818 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-2890

Kello, John E. The burned out physician: managing the stress and reducing the errors, by John E. Kello and Joseph A. Allen.  Cambridge, 2022.  250p bibl index  ISBN 9781316511466, $89.99;  ISBN 9781009055918 pbk, $29.99;  ISBN 9781009062091 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-2920

Ketchum, Paul R. Disproportionate minority contact and racism in the US: how we failed children of color, by Paul R. Ketchum and B. Mitchell Peck.  Bristol University Press, 2023.  242p bibl index  ISBN 9781529202458 pbk, $95.00;  ISBN 9781529202410 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-2926

Ladner, Keri L. End time politics: from the Moral Majority to QAnon.  Fortress, 2024.  239p bibl index  ISBN 9781506493909, $39.95;  ISBN 9781506493916 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-2909

Mestyán, Ádám. Modern Arab kingship: remaking the Ottoman political order in the interwar Middle East.  Princeton, 2023.  352p bibl index  ISBN 9780691190976, $39.95;  ISBN 9780691249353 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-2846

Myers, Amrita Chakrabarti. The vice president’s Black wife: the untold life of Julia Chinn.  North Carolina, 2023.  296p bibl index  ISBN 9781469675237, $30.00;  ISBN 9781469675244 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-2854

Norris, Robert J. The politics of innocence: how wrongful convictions shape public opinion, by Robert J. Norris, William D. Hicks, and Kevin J. Mullinix.  SUNY Press, 2023.  256p bibl index  ISBN 9781479815951, $89.00;  ISBN 9781479815968 pbk, $30.00;  ISBN 9781479815982 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-2912

Pearson, Judith. Crusade to heal America: the remarkable life of Mary Lasker.  Mayo Clinic Press, 2023.  336p bibl  ISBN 9798887701561, $27.99;  ISBN 9798887701578 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-2856

Reading with purpose: selecting and using children’s literature for inquiry and engagement, by Erika Thulin Dawes et al.  Teachers College Press, 2023.  176p bibl index  ISBN 9780807768518, $111.00;  ISBN 9780807768501 pbk, $36.95;  ISBN 9780807781807 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-2815

Reed, Stephen K. Encouraging innovation: cognition, education, and implementation.  Cambridge, 2023.  224p bibl index  ISBN 9781009390392, $90.00;  ISBN 9781009390422 , $29.99;  ISBN 9781009390385 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-2794

Rethinking American disasters, ed. by Cynthia A. Kierner, Matthew Mulcahy, and  Liz Skilton.  Louisiana State, 2023.  256p bibl index  ISBN 9780807179932 pbk, $34.95;  ISBN 9780807179833 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-2858

Rosen, Jeffrey. Pursuit of happiness: how classical writers on virtue inspired the lives of the founders and defined America.  Simon & Schuster, 2024.  368p bibl index  ISBN 9781668002476, $28.99;  ISBN 9781668002490 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-2914

Sanders Johnson, Grace. White gloves, Black nation: women, citizenship, and political wayfaring in Haiti.  North Carolina, 2023.  328p bibl index  ISBN 9781469673677, $99.00;  ISBN 9781469673684 pbk, $29.95;  ISBN 9781469673691 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-2844

Seddon, Toby. Rethinking drug laws: theory, history, politics.  Oxford, 2023.  224p bibl index  ISBN 9780192846525, $115.00;  ISBN 9780191938856 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-2884

Smith, Bobby J, II. Food power politics: the food story of the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement.  North Carolina, 2023.  216p bibl index  ISBN 9781469675060, $99.00;  ISBN 9781469675077 pbk, $24.95;  ISBN 9781469675084 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-2860

Social media and mental health, ed. by Allan House and Cathy Brennan.  Cambridge, 2023.  186p bibl index  ISBN 9781009010863 pbk, $39.99;  ISBN 9781009021944 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-2922 

Sperber, Daniel. Vegetarianism, ecology, and business ethics: three essays of Judaic insights into contemporary concerns.  Urim Publications, 2023.  239p bibl index  ISBN 9789655243673, $24.95;  61-2796

Trybus, Karl J. ¡Vino!: the history and identity of Spanish wine.  Nebraska, 2023.  270p bibl index  ISBN 9781496203625, $60.00;  ISBN 9781496237149 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-2871

Tsang, Steve. The political thought of Xi Jinping, by Steve Tsang and Olivia Cheung.  Oxford, 2024.  296p bibl index  ISBN 9780197689363, $29.95;  ISBN 9780197689394 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-2877

Valette, Rebecca M. Clitso Dedman, Navajo carver: his art and his world.  Nebraska, 2023.  288p bibl index  ISBN 9781496235817, $39.95;  ISBN 9781496235817 ebook, $39.95;  61-2862

Virji, Purna. High-impact content marketing: strategies to make your content intentional, engaging and effective.  Kogan Page, 2023.  352p bibl index  ISBN 9781398608450, $104.99;  ISBN 9781398608436 pbk, $22.80;  ISBN 9781398608443 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-2797

Wasserman, Jim. The social media diet: helping young people to be smart consumers online, by Jim Wasserman and Jiab Wasserman.  Rowman & Littlefield, 2023.  206p bibl index  ISBN 9781475869576, $96.00;  ISBN 9781475869583 pbk, $32.00;  ISBN 9781475869590 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-2818

Wick, Livia. Sumud: birth, oral history, and persisting in Palestine.  Syracuse, 2023.  200p bibl index  ISBN 9780815637790, $75.00;  ISBN 9780815637882 pbk, $24.95;  ISBN 9780815655725 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-2847

Wixom, Barbara H. Data is everybody’s business: the fundamentals of data monetization, by Barbara H. Wixom, Cynthia M. Beath, and Leslie Owens.  MIT, 2023.  200p bibl index  ISBN 9780262048217, $34.95;  ISBN 9780262375351 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-2799

Wu, Shellen Xiao. Birth of the geopolitical age: global frontiers and the making of modern China.  Stanford, 2023.  328p bibl index  ISBN 9781503636415, $130.00;  ISBN 9781503636842 pbk, $32.00;  ISBN 9781503636859 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-2836

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