The Top 75 Community College Titles: June 2021 Edition

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

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Bloomsbury Architecture Library.   Bloomsbury. Contact publisher for pricing.  URL: https://www.bloomsburyarchitecturelibrary.com/home  58-2749

Davis, John S. Historical dictionary of jazz.  Rowman & Littlefield, 2020.  558p bibl  ISBN 9781538128145, $150.00;  ISBN 9781538128152 ebook, $142.50;  58-2751

MLA handbook.  Modern Language Association of America, 2021.  284p index  ISBN 9781603295611, $45.00;  ISBN 9781603295628 pbk, $32.00;  58-2748

Powers, John. Historical dictionary of Tibet, by John Powers and David Templeman.  2nd ed.  Rowman & Littlefield, 2020.  2v. bibl  ISBN 9781538130216, $220.00;  ISBN 9781538130223 ebook, $209.00;  58-2758

Villegas, Christina G. Modern slavery: a reference handbook.  ABC-CLIO, 2020.  306p bibl index  ISBN 9781440859762, $62.00;  ISBN 9781440859779 ebook, contact publisher for price;  58-2760

Wikipedia  a web of connection, ed. by Joseph Reagle and Jackie Koerner.  MIT, 2020.  376p index  ISBN 9780262538176 pbk, $27.95;  ISBN 9780262360593 ebook, contact publisher for price;  58-2756

Humanities

Arditi, David. iTake-over: the recording industry in the streaming era.  Lexington Books, 2020.  214p bibl index  ISBN 9781793623003, $90.00;  ISBN 9781793623010 ebook, $85.50;  58-2820

Brandow-Faller, Megan. The female secession: art and the decorative at the Viennese Women’s Academy.  Pennsylvania State, 2020.  304p bibl index  ISBN 9780271085043, $99.95;  ISBN 9780271086507 ebook, contact publisher for price;  58-2764

Dimock, Wai-chee. Weak planet: literature and assisted survival.  Chicago, 2020.  224p index  ISBN 9780226477107, $95.00;  ISBN 9780226477107 pbk, $22.50;  ISBN 9780226477244 ebook, contact publisher for price;  58-2788

Eller, Jonathan R. Bradbury beyond Apollo.  Illinois, 2020.  378p bibl index  ISBN 9780252043413, $34.95;  ISBN 9780252052293 ebook, $14.95;  58-2801

Frampton, Kenneth. Modern architecture: a critical history.  Thames & Hudson, 2020.  736p index  ISBN 9780500204443 pbk, $29.95;  58-2782

Hadot, Pierre. The selected writings of Pierre Hadot: philosophy as a practice, tr. by Matthew Sharpe and Federico Testa.  Bloomsbury Academic, 2020.  320p bibl index  ISBN 9781474272971, $95.00;  ISBN 9781474272995 pbk, $30.95;  ISBN 9781474273008 ebook, contact publisher for price;  58-2843

Heffer, Chris. All bullshit and lies?: insincerity, irresponsibility, and the judgment of untruthfulness.  Oxford, 2020.  352p bibl index  ISBN 9780190923280, $99.00;  ISBN 9780190923297 pbk, $29.95;  ISBN 9780190923310 ebook, contact publisher for price;  58-2789

Lester, Joel. Brahms’s violin sonatas: style, structure, performance.  Oxford, 2020.  392p bibl index  ISBN 9780190087036, $125.00;  ISBN 9780190087074 pbk, $35.00;  ISBN 9780190087067 ebook, contact publisher for price;  58-2827

Literary Afrofuturism in the twenty-first century, ed. by Isiah Lavender III and Lisa Yaszek.  Ohio State, 2020.  264p index  ISBN 9780814255964 pbk, $34.95;  ISBN 9780814278154 ebook, contact publisher for price;  58-2804

Marullo, Thomas Gaiton. Fyodor Dostoevsky: the gathering storm (1846–1847): a life in letters, memoirs, and criticism.  Northern Illinois, 2020.  251p bibl index  ISBN 9781501751851, $42.95;  ISBN 9781501751875 ebook, $20.99;  58-2815

McConnell-Ginet, Sally. Words matter: meaning and power.  Cambridge, 2020.  320p bibl  index  ISBN 9781108445900, $79.99;  ISBN 9781108445900 pbk, $23.99;  ISBN 9781108594547 ebook, $19.00;  58-2790

Minority women and Western media: challenging representations and articulating new voices, ed. by Maha Bashri and Sameera Ahmed.  Rowman & Littlefield, 2020.  150p bibl index  ISBN 9781498599856, $85.00;  ISBN 9781498599863 ebook, $80.50;  58-2787

Montgomery, Will. Short form American poetry: the modernist tradition.  Edinburgh University Press, 2020.  240p bibl index  ISBN 9780748695324, $100.00;  ISBN 9781474476409 ebook, $100.00;  58-2807

New York: a literary history, ed. by Ross Wilson.  Cambridge, 2020.  323p bibl index  ISBN 9781108470810, $34.99;  ISBN 9781108669320 ebook, $28.00;  58-2808

On essays: Montaigne to the present, ed. by Thomas Karshan and Kathryn Murphy.  Oxford, 2020.  400p bibl index  ISBN 9780198707868, $100.00;  ISBN 9780191779008 ebook, contact publisher for price;  58-2809

The Oxford handbook of Catholic theology, ed. by Lewis Ayres, Medi Ann Volpe, and Thomas L. Humphries.  Oxford, 2019.  1,008p bibl index  ISBN 9780199566273, $145.00;  ISBN 9780191612152 ebook, contact publisher for price;  58-2861

The Oxford handbook of Christmas, ed. by Timothy Larsen.  Oxford, 2020.  656p index  ISBN 9780198831464, $145.00;  ISBN 9780191869167 ebook, contact publisher for price;  58-2862

Parker, Elizabeth Cassidy. Adolescents on music: why music matters to young people in our lives.  Oxford, 2020.  276p bibl index  ISBN 9780190671358, $99.00;  ISBN 9780190671365 pbk, $27.95;  ISBN 9780190671389 ebook, contact publisher for price;  58-2828

Radford, Antony. The elements of modern architecture, by Antony Radford, Amit Srivastava, and Selen Morkoç.  Rev. and expanded ed.  Thames & Hudson, 2020.  360p index  ISBN 9780500023624, $50.00;  58-2783

Russell, Gillian. The ephemeral eighteenth century: print, sociability and the cultures of collecting.  Cambridge, 2020.  303p bibl index (Cambridge studies in Romanticism, 129)  ISBN 9781108487580, $99.99;  ISBN 9781108800211 ebook, $80.00;  58-2768

“We didn’t start the fire”: Billy Joel and popular music studies, ed. by Joshua S. Duchan and Ryan Raul Bañagale.  Lexington Books, 2020.  260p index discography  ISBN 9781793601810, $105.00;  ISBN 9781793601827 ebook, $99.50;  58-2819

Science & Technology

Ambastha, Ashok. Physics of the invisible Sun: instrumentation, observations, and inferences.  CRC Press, 2020.  322p bibl index  ISBN 9781138197442, $150.00;  ISBN 9781003005674 ebook, $58.95;  58-2872

Andrei, Mary Anne. Nature’s mirror: how taxidermists shaped America’s natural history museums and saved endangered species.  Chicago, 2020.  264p bibl index  ISBN 9780226730318, $35.00;  ISBN 9780226730455 ebook, contact publisher for price;  58-2880

Arthur, Wallace. The biological universe: life in the Milky Way and beyond.  Cambridge, 2020.  346p  ISBN 9781108836944, $24.95;  ISBN 9781108873154 ebook, $20.00;  58-2873

Curious about nature: a passion for fieldwork, ed. by Tim Burt and D. B. A. Thompson.  Cambridge, 2020.  391p bibl index  ISBN 9781108428040, $89.99;  ISBN 9781108448642 pbk, $39.99;  ISBN 9781108670968 ebook, $32.00;  58-2885

Dickenson, Victoria. Berries.  Reaktion Books, 2020.  208p  ISBN 9781789141931, $27.00;  ISBN 9781789142426 ebook, contact publisher for price;  58-2879

Epstein, Marcia Jenneth. Sound and noise: a listener’s guide to everyday life.  McGill-Queen’s, 2020.  448p bibl index  ISBN 9780228003885, $37.95;  ISBN 9780228004509 ebook, contact publisher for price;  58-2891

Everard, Mark. The complex lives of British freshwater fishes.  CRC Press, 2020.  369p bibl index  ISBN 9780367440329, $38.95;  ISBN 9781000057485 ebook, $38..95;  58-2881

Gupta, Suman. What is artificial intelligence?: a conversation between an AI engineer and a humanities researcher, by Suman Gupta and Peter H. Tu.  World Scientific Publishing Europe Ltd, 2020.  304p bibl index  ISBN 9781786348630, $98.00;  ISBN 9781786348647 ebook, $78.00;  58-2866

Kanaan, Michael. T-minus AI: humanity’s countdown to artificial intelligence and the new pursuit of global power.  BenBella Books, 2020.  284p index  ISBN 9781948836944, $27.99;  ISBN 9781950665136 ebook, $14.99;  58-2896

Kopp, P. E. Making up numbers: a history of invention in mathematics.  Open Book Publishers, 2020.  280p bibl index  ISBN 9781800640962, $41.75;  ISBN 9781800640955 pbk, $27.95;  ISBN 9781800640979 ebook, contact publisher for price;  58-2901

Nguyen, C. Thi. Games: agency as art.  Oxford, 2020.  224p bibl index  ISBN 9780190052089, $35.00;  ISBN 9780190052102 ebook, contact publisher for price;  58-2913

Razzaghi, Mehdi. Statistical models in toxicology.  CRC Press, 2020.  286p bibl index  ISBN 9781498772570, $130.00;  ISBN 9780429155185 ebook, $58.95;  58-2893

Von Hippel, Frank A. The chemical age: how chemists fought famine and disease, killed millions, and changed our relationship with the Earth.  Chicago, 2020.  368p bibl index  ISBN 9780226697246, $29.00;  ISBN 9780226697383 ebook, $29.00;  58-2871

Social & Behavioral Sciences

Bhagwat, Ashutosh A. Our democratic First Amendment.  Cambridge, 2020.  167p index  ISBN 9781108723671, $99.99;  ISBN 9781108676373 ebook, $29.99;  58-3031

Brescia, Ray. The future of change: how technology shapes social revolutions.  Cornell, 2020.  240p bibl index  ISBN 9781501748110, $28.95;  ISBN 9781501748127 ebook, $13.99;  58-3051

Burns, Adam D. The United States, 1865–1920: reuniting a nation.  Routledge, 2020.  177p bibl  index  ISBN 9781138482418, $160.00;  ISBN 9781138482425 pbk, $44.95;  ISBN 9781351057875 ebook, $44.95;  58-2993

Christie, Niall. Muslims and crusaders: Christianity’s wars in the Middle East, 1095–1382, from the Islamic sources.  Routledge, 2020.  242p bibl  index  ISBN 9781138543102, $160.00;  ISBN 9781138543119 pbk, $32.95;  ISBN 9781351007368 ebook, $32.95;  58-2956

De Grazia, Victoria. The perfect fascist: a story of love, power, and morality in Mussolini’s Italy.  Belknap, Harvard, 2020.  528p index  ISBN 9780674986398, $35.00;  ISBN 9780674245471 ebook, contact publisher for price;  58-3009

Ethics at the heart of higher education, ed. by C. R. Crespo and Rita Kirk.  Pickwick Publications, 2020.  185p bibl  ISBN 9781532690488 pbk, $25.00;  58-2944

Feagin, Joe R. The white racial frame: centuries of racial framing and counter-framing.  Routledge, 2020.  302p bibl index  ISBN 9780367373481, $150.00;  ISBN 9780367373481 pbk, $42.95;  ISBN 9780429353246 ebook, $42.95;  58-3055

Grove, Cornelius N. A mirror for Americans: what the East Asian experience tells us about teaching students who excel.  Rowman & Littlefield, 2020.  174p bibl  ISBN 9781475844603, $60.00;  ISBN 9781475844610 pbk, $30.00;  ISBN 9781475844627 ebook, $28.50;  58-2945

Grzebałkowska, Magdalena. Poland 1945: war and peace, tr. by John Markoff and Małgorzata Markoff.  Pittsburgh, 2020.  336p bibl index  ISBN 9780822945994, $35.00;  ISBN 9780822987352 ebook, contact publisher for price;  58-2980

Hayes, Worth Kamili. Schools of our own: Chicago’s Golden Age of Black private education.  Northwestern University, 2019.  161p bibl  index  ISBN 9780810141193, $99.95;  ISBN 9780810141186 pbk, $34.95;  ISBN 9780810141209 ebook, $34.95;  58-2947

Joslyn, Mark R. The gun gap: the influence of gun ownership on political behavior and attitudes.  Oxford, 2020.  224p  ISBN 9780190064839 pbk, $27.95;  ISBN 9780190064860 ebook, contact publisher for price;  58-3032

Kellehear, Allan. Visitors at the end of life: finding meaning and purpose in near-death phenomena.  Columbia, 2020.  202p bibl  index  ISBN 9780231182140, $120.00;  ISBN 9780231182157 pbk, $30.00;  ISBN 9780231544023 ebook, $29.99;  58-3041

Komline, David Russell. The common school awakening: religion and the transatlantic roots of American public education.  Oxford, 2020.  312p bibl index  ISBN 9780190085155, $99.00;  ISBN 9780190085179 ebook, contact publisher for price;  58-2948

Krznaric, Roman. The good ancestor: how to think long-term in a short-term world.  The Experiment, 2020.  288p bibl index  ISBN 9781615197309, $25.95;  ISBN 9781615197316 ebook, contact publisher for price;  58-3042

The Life of North American suburbs: imagined utopias and transitional spaces, ed. by Jan Nijman.  Toronto, 2020.  400p bibl index  ISBN 9781487501099, $67,50;  ISBN 9781487520779 pbk, $29.96;  ISBN 9781487512477 ebook, $29.96;  58-2918

Menzel, Sewall H. The Pearl Harbor secret: why Roosevelt undermined the U.S. Navy.  Praeger, 2020.  386p bibl index  ISBN 9781440875854, $60.00;  ISBN 9781440875861 ebook, contact publisher for price;  58-3035

National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. Are generational categories meaningful distinctions for workforce management?  National Academies Press, 2020.  176p bibl  ISBN 9780309677325 pbk, $60.00;  ISBN 9780309677356 ebook, $48.99;  58-2932

Nationalism today: extreme political movements around the world, ed. by M. Troy Burnett.  ABC-CLIO, 2020.  2v bibl index  ISBN 9781440849992, $204.00;  ISBN 9781440850004 ebook, contact publisher for price;  58-3018

Norland, Patricia. The Saigon sisters: privileged women in the resistance.  Northern Illinois, 2020.  253p bibl index  ISBN 9781501749735, $39.95;  ISBN 9781501749742 ebook, $19.99;  58-2973

Nowakowski, Alexandra C. H. Transformations in queer, trans, and intersex health and aging, by Alexandra C.H. Nowakowski, J.E. Sumerau, and Nik M. Lampe.  Lexington Books, 2020.  100p bibl  index  ISBN 9781793616340, $85.00;  ISBN 9781793616357 ebook, $80.50;  58-3060

Obama’s fractured presidency: policies and politics, ed. by François Vergniolle de Chantal.  Edinburgh University Press, 2020.  447p bibl index  ISBN 9781474454933, $120.00;  ISBN 9781474454940 pbk, $29.95;  58-3036

O’Hara, Mary. The shame game: overturning the toxic poverty narrative.  Policy Press, 2020.  366p index  ISBN 9781447349266 pbk, $24.00;  ISBN 9781447349280 ebook, contact publisher for price;  58-3061

Refugee crises, 1945–2000: political and societal responses in international comparison, ed. by Jan C. Jansen and Simone Lässig.  Cambridge, 2020.  310p index  ISBN 9781108835138, $99.99;  ISBN 9781108880466 ebook, $80.00;  58-2963

Saunt, Claudio. Unworthy republic: the dispossession of Native Americans and the road to Indian territory.  W. W. Norton, 2020.  416p index  ISBN 9780393609844, $26.95;  ISBN 9780393609851 ebook, contact publisher for price;  58-3000

Screech, Timon. Tokyo before Tokyo: power and magic in the Shogun’s city of Edo.  Reaktion Books, 2020.  240p bibl  ISBN 9781789142334, $40.00;  ISBN 9781789142709 ebook, contact publisher for price;  58-2976

Smith, Helmut Walser. Germany: a nation in its time: before, during, and after nationalism, 1500–2000.  Liveright, 2020.  608p index  ISBN 9780871404664, $39.95;  ISBN 9781631491788 ebook, contact publisher for price;  58-3011

Solórzano, Daniel G. Racial microaggressions in education: using critical race theory to respond to everyday racism, by Daniel Solórzano and Lindsay Pérez Huber.  Teachers College Press, 2020.  176p index  ISBN 9780807764398, $90.00;  ISBN 9780807764381 pbk, $29.95;  ISBN 9780807779095 ebook, $29.95;  58-2952

Spruyt, Hendrik. The world imagined: collective beliefs and political order in the Sinocentric, Islamic and Southeast Asian international societies.  Cambridge, 2020.  396p bibl  index  ISBN 9781108491211, $84.99;  ISBN 9781108811743 pbk, $29.99;  ISBN 9781108870597 ebook, $24.00;  58-2978

States of exception in American history, ed. by Gary Gerstle and Joel Isaac.  Chicago, 2020.  344p bibl index  ISBN 9780226712291, $90.00;  ISBN 9780226712321 pbk, $30.00;  ISBN 9780226712468 ebook, contact publisher for price;  58-3003

Storey, Glenn Reed. The archaeology of ancient cities.  Eliot Werner, 2020.  175p  ISBN 9781733376907 pbk, $31.30;  58-2929

Sustaining social inclusion, ed. by Beth R. Crisp and Ann R. Taket.  Routledge, 2020.  356p bibl index  ISBN 9780367027643, $160.00;  ISBN 9780429397936 ebook, $48.95;  58-3062

Tedesco, Marco. The hidden life of ice: dispatches from a disappearing world, by Marco Tedesco with Alberto Flores d’Arcais; tr. by Denise Muir.  The Experiment, 2020.  153p index  ISBN 9781615196999, $19.95;  ISBN 9781615197002 ebook, contact publisher for price;  58-2964

Toll, Ian W. Twilight of the gods: war in the western Pacific, 1944–1945.  W. W. Norton, 2020.  944p bibl index  ISBN 9780393080650, $40.00;  ISBN 9780393651812 ebook, contact publisher for price;  58-3004

Virginia 1619: slavery and freedom in the making of English America, ed. by Paul Musselwhite, Peter C. Mancall, and James Horn.  North Carolina, 2019.  320p index  ISBN 9781469652016, $90.00;  ISBN 9781469651798 pbk, $25.00;  ISBN 9781469651804 ebook, $19.99;  58-3005

Wagemakers, Joas. Muslim Brotherhood in Jordan.  Cambridge, 2020.  288p bibl index (Cambridge Middle East studies, 60)  ISBN 9781108839655, $84.99;  ISBN 9781108813532 pbk, $29.99;  ISBN 9781108880268 ebook, $24.00;  58-2992