The Top 75 Community College Titles: March 2019 Edition

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

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Brodsky, Judith K. Junctures in women’s leadership: the arts, by Judith K. Brodsky and Ferris Olin; [ed.] by Mary K. Trigg. Rutgers, 2018. 284p bibl index (Junctures: case studies in women’s leadership, 3) ISBN 9780813588278, $99.95; ISBN 9780813576251 pbk, $24.95; ISBN 9780813576268 ebook, $24.95; 56-2613

Chicago Manual of Style Online (CMOS). Chicago. Contact publisher for pricing. URL: chicagomanualofstyle.org/home.html; 56-2596

The International encyclopedia of anthropology, ed. by Hilary Callan. Wiley-Blackwell, 2018. 12v bibl index ISBN 9780470657225, $1,995.00; 56-2617

Newton, David E. Robots: a reference handbook. ABC-CLIO, 2018. 340p index ISBN 9781440858611, $60.00; ISBN 9781440858628 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-2611

Humanities

Adventures in Shondaland: identity politics and the power of representation, ed. by Rachel Alicia Griffin and Michaela D. E. Meyer. Rutgers, 2018. 268p index ISBN 9780813596327, $99.95; ISBN 9780813596310 pbk, $32.95; ISBN 9780813596334 ebook, $32.95; 56-2656

Biesen, Sheri Chinen. Film censorship: regulating America’s screen. Wallflower, 2018. 163p bibl index (Short cuts: introductions to film studies, 67) ISBN 9780231183130, $22.00; ISBN 9780231851138 ebook, $21.99; 56-2689

Dunagan, Colleen T. Consuming dance: choreography and advertising. Oxford, 2018. 252p bibl index ISBN 9780190491369, $99.00; ISBN 9780190491376 pbk, $29.95; ISBN 9780190491390 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-2704

Ekhtiar, Maryam. How to read Islamic calligraphy. Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2018. (Dist. by Yale) 155p bibl (How to read, 8) ISBN 9781588396303 pbk, $25.00; 56-2639

Gordon, John Stuart. American glass: the collections at Yale. Yale University Art Gallery/Yale, 2018. 311p index ISBN 9780300226690, $65.00; 56-2641

Hoerl, Kristen. The bad sixties: Hollywood memories of the counterculture, antiwar, and Black Power movements. University Press of Mississippi, 2018. 229p bibl index ISBN 9781496817235, $70.00; 56-2692

Li, Stephanie. Pan–African American literature: signifyin(g) immigrants in the twenty-first century. Rutgers, 2018. 186p bibl index ISBN 9780813592787, $38.95; ISBN 9780813592770 pbk, $32.95; ISBN 9780813592794 ebook, $30.00; 56-2675

Martin Luther in context, ed. by David M. Whitford. Cambridge, 2018. 425p bibl index ISBN 9781107150881, $120.00; ISBN 9781108660600 ebook, $96.00; 56-2738

Napier, Susan Jolliffe. Miyazakiworld: a life in art. Yale, 2018. 305p bibl index ISBN 9780300226850, $30.00; 56-2693

Nguyen, Martin. Modern Muslim theology: engaging God and the world with faith and imagination. Rowman & Littlefield, 2018. 207p bibl indexes ISBN 9781538114995, $90.00; ISBN 9781538115008 pbk, $32.00; ISBN 9781538115015 ebook, $30.00; 56-2741

Prefab houses and the future of building: product to process, by Mathew Aitchison et al. Lund Humphries, 2018. 167p index ISBN 9781848222182, $89.99; 56-2654

The Routledge companion to media and fairy-tale cultures, ed. by Pauline Greenhill et al. Routledge, 2018. 664p bibl index ISBN 9781138946156, $210.00; ISBN 9781315670997 ebook, $54.95; 56-2665

Scruton, Roger. Music as an art. Bloomsbury Continuum, 2018. 263p bibl index ISBN 9781472955715, $32.00; ISBN 9781472955722 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-2700

Westerhoff, Jan. The Golden Age of Indian Buddhist philosophy. Oxford, 2018. 326p bibl index ISBN 9780198732662, $40.00; ISBN 9780191047046 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-2728

Wilcox, Claire. 20th-century fashion in detail, by Claire Wilcox and Valerie D. Mendes with Oriolle Cullen, Jenny Lister, and Sonnet Stanfill; photographs by Richard Davis and Pip Barnard; drawings by Leonie Davis and Deborah Mallinson. Rev. and expanded ed. Thames & Hudson, 2018. 224p bibl index ISBN 9780500294109 pbk, $40.00; 56-2648

Working women in American literature, 1865–1950, ed. and introd. by Miriam S. Gogol. Lexington Books, 2018. 158p index ISBN 9781498546782, $90.00; ISBN 9781498546799 ebook, $85.50; 56-2684

Science & Technology

Aiello, Marco. The web was done by amateurs: a reflection on one of the largest collective systems ever engineered. Springer, 2018. 178p bibl index ISBN 9783319900070 pbk, $29.99; ISBN 9783319900087 ebook, $19.99; 56-2824

Carolan, Michael S. Food sharing revolution: how start-ups, pop-ups, and co-ops are changing the way we eat. Island Press, 2018. 183p index ISBN 9781610918862, $28.00; ISBN 9781610918879 ebook, $27.99; 56-2777

Cheng, Eugenia. The art of logic in an illogical world. Basic Books, 2018. 304p index ISBN 9781541672482, $27.00; ISBN 9781541672505 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-2833

Clampitt, Cynthia. Pigs, pork, and heartland hogs: from wild boar to baconfest. Rowman & Littlefield, 2018. 250p bibl index ISBN 9781538110744, $36.00; ISBN 9781538110751 ebook, $34.00; 56-2787

Cruikshank, Dale P. Discovering Pluto: exploration at the edge of the solar system, by Dale P. Cruikshank and William Sheehan. Arizona, 2018. 475p index ISBN 9780816534319, $45.00; ISBN 9780816538317 ebook, $45.00;56-2766

Day, Mark Stuart. Bits to bitcoin: how our digital stuff works. MIT, 2018. 353p indexes ISBN 9780262037938, $29.95; ISBN 9780262346498 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-2825

Desmond, Kevin. Electric airplanes and drones: a history. McFarland, 2018. 306p bibl index ISBN 9781476669618 pbk, $49.95; ISBN 9781476633411 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-2803

DeVore, Brian. Wildly successful farming: sustainability and the new agricultural land ethic. Wisconsin, 2018. 205p index ISBN 9780299318802, $26.95; 56-2779

Di Ventra, Massimiliano. The scientific method: reflections from a practitioner. Oxford, 2018. 114p bibl index ISBN 9780198825623, $19.95; ISBN 9780191864605 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-2753

Fielding, Russell. The wake of the whale: hunter societies in the Caribbean and North Atlantic. Harvard, 2018. 342p bibl index ISBN 9780674986374, $27.95; ISBN 9780674989696 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-2788

Fine, Michael. Health care revolt: how to organize, build a health care system, and resuscitate democracy—all at the same time. PM Press, 2018. 174p bibl index ISBN 9781629635811 pbk, $15.95; 56-2810

Francis, Jill. Gardens and gardening in early modern England and Wales. Yale, 2018. 400p bibl index ISBN 9780300232080, $50.00; 56-2781

Gilles, Roger. Women on the move: the forgotten era of women’s bicycle racing. Nebraska, 2018. 316p index ISBN 9781496204172, $29.95; ISBN 9781496210418 ebook, $29.95; 56-2844

Hotez, Peter J. Vaccines did not cause Rachel’s autism: my journey as a vaccine scientist, pediatrician, and autism dad. Johns Hopkins, 2018. 221p bibl index ISBN 9781421426600, $22.95; ISBN 9781421426617 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-2814

In-vitro fertilization: the pioneers’ history, ed. by Gabor Kovacs, Peter Brinsden, and Alan Decherney. Cambridge, 2018. 256p bibl index ISBN 9781108427852, $82.99; ISBN 9781108579018 ebook, $66.00; 56-2815

Johnson, Eric. Anxiety and the equation: understanding Boltzmann’s entropy. MIT, 2018. 179p index ISBN 9780262038614, $22.95; 56-2840

Kumar, Akshi. Web technology: theory and practice. CRC Press, 2019. 219p index ISBN 9781138550438, $129.95; ISBN 9781351029902 ebook, $54.95; 56-2826

Lang, Kenneth R. A brief history of astronomy and astrophysics. World Scientific, 2018. 325p bibl indexes ISBN 9789813235199 pbk, $55.63; ISBN 9789813233843 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-2769

Macy, Beth. Dopesick: dealers, doctors, and the drug company that addicted America. Little, Brown, 2018. 376p index ISBN 9780316551243, $28.00; ISBN 9780316551281 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-2816

Marshall, Stephen A. Beetles: the natural history and diversity of Coleoptera. Firefly Books, 2018. 784p bibl index ISBN 9780228100690, $95.00; ISBN 9780774860260 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-2792

Nabhan, Gary Paul. Food from the radical center: healing our land and communities. Island Press, 2018. 184p bibl index ISBN 9781610919197, $28.00; ISBN 9781610919203 ebook, $27.99; 56-2782

Neff, Todd. The laser that’s changing the world: the amazing stories behind Lidar, from 3D mapping to self-driving cars. Prometheus Books, 2018. 314p index ISBN 9781633884663, $19.00; ISBN 9781633884670 ebook, $11.99; 56-2804

Nolte, D. D. Galileo unbound: a path across life, the universe and everything. Oxford, 2018. 335p bibl index ISBN 9780198805847, $32.95; ISBN 9780192528506 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-2841

The Palgrave handbook of climate history, ed. by Sam White, Christian Pfister, and Franz Mauelshagen. Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. 656p bibl index ISBN 9781137430199, $210.00; ISBN 9781137430205 ebook, $159.00; 56-2798

Prothero, Donald R. When humans nearly vanished: the catastrophic explosion of the Toba volcano. Smithsonian Books, 2018. 198p index ISBN 9781588346353, $27.95; ISBN 9781588346360 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-2800

Rankin, Joy Lisi. A people’s history of computing in the United States. Harvard, 2018. 325p bibl index ISBN 9780674970977, $29.95; 56-2828

Rees, Martin. On the future: prospects for humanity. Princeton, 2018. 256p index ISBN 9780691180441, $18.95; 56-2759

Rossi, John P. Baseball and American culture: a history. Rowman & Littlefield, 2018. 267p bibl index ISBN 9781538102886, $65.00; ISBN 9781538103289 pbk, $28.00; ISBN 9781538102893 ebook, $26.50; 56-2846

Schultz, Jaime. Women’s sports: what everyone needs to know. Oxford, 2018. 243p bibl index ISBN 9780190657710, $74.00; ISBN 9780190657703 pbk, $16.95; ISBN 9780190657727 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-2847

Stern, Alan. Chasing new horizons: inside the epic first mission to Pluto, by Alan Stern and David Grinspoon. Picador, 2018. 295p index ISBN 9781250098962, $28.00; ISBN 9781250098986 ebook, $14.99; 56-2822

Stewart, Wayne. Remembering the greatest coaches and games of the NFL glory years: an inside look at the golden age of football. Rowman & Littlefield, 2018. 264p bibl index ISBN 9781538101582, $38.00; ISBN 9781538101599 ebook, $36.00; 56-2848

Tamte, Roger R. Walter Camp and the creation of American football. Illinois, 2018. 388p bibl index ISBN 9780252041617, $24.95; ISBN 9780252050275 ebook, $22.46; 56-2849

Thurston, Robert W. Coffee: from bean to barista. Rowman & Littlefield, 2018. 185p index ISBN 9781538108086, $29.95; ISBN 9781538108093 ebook, $28.50; 56-2784

Wickman, Thomas M. Snowshoe country: an environmental and cultural history of winter in the early American Northeast. Cambridge, 2018. 310p index ISBN 9781108426794, $49.99; ISBN 9781108630870 ebook, $40.00; 56-2764

Wiggins, David Kenneth. More than a game: a history of the African American experience in sport. Rowman & Littlefield, 2018. 301p index ISBN 9781442248960, $36.00; ISBN 9781538114988 ebook, $34.00; 56-2850

Williamson, John Harvey. Born on the links: a concise history of golf. Rowman & Littlefield, 2018. 273p bibl index ISBN 9781538114520, $36.00; ISBN 9781538114537 ebook, $34.00; 56-2851

Social & Behavioral Sciences

Body positive: understanding and improving body image in science and practice, ed. by Elizabeth A. Daniels, Meghan M. Gillen, and Charlotte H. Markey. Cambridge, 2018. 267p bibl index ISBN 9781108419321, $110.00; ISBN 9781108321310 ebook, $88.00; 56-2970

Cheathem, Mark R. Andrew Jackson and the rise of the Democratic Party. Tennessee, 2018. 241p bibl index ISBN 9781621904533 pbk, $24.95; 56-2906

Dowling, John E. Understanding the brain: from cells to behavior to cognition. W. W. Norton, 2018. 298p bibl index ISBN 9780393712575, $26.95; 56-2973

Gerhardt, Michael J. Impeachment: what everyone needs to know. Oxford, 2018. 249p bibl index ISBN 9780190903664, $74.00; ISBN 9780190903664 pbk, $16.95; ISBN 9780190903671 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-2958

Groom, Nick. The vampire: a new history. Yale, 2018. 287p bibl index ISBN 9780300232233, $25.00; ISBN 9780300240818 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-2891

Hamilton, Shane. Supermarket USA: food and power in the Cold War farms race. Yale, 2018. 277p index ISBN 9780300232691, $38.00; ISBN 9780300240849 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-2863

The Iranian diaspora: challenges, negotiations, and transformations, ed. by Mohsen Mostafavi Mobasher. Texas, 2018. 264p bibl index ISBN 9781477316641, $45.00; ISBN 9781477316665 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-2854

Levin, Jack. The allure of premeditated murder: why some people plan to kill, by Jack Levin and Julie B. Wiest. Rowman & Littlefield, 2018. 186p bibl index ISBN 9781538103883, $32.00; ISBN 9781538103890 ebook, $30.00; 56-2992

Livingston, Felix R. On the private and public virtues of an honorable entrepreneur: preventing a separation of the honorable and the useful. Lexington Books, 2018. 121p bibl index ISBN 9781498575577, $85.00; ISBN 9781498575584 ebook, $80.50; 56-2864

Malotki, Ekkehart. Early rock art of the American West: the geometric enigma, by Ekkehart Malotki and Ellen Dissanayake. Washington, 2018. 298p bibl indexes ISBN 9780295743608, $90.00; ISBN 9780295743615 pbk, $34.95; ISBN 9780295743622 ebook, $34.95; 56-2861

McAndrews, Lawrence J. The presidents and the poor: America battles poverty, 1964–2017. University Press of Kansas, 2018. 353p index ISBN 9780700626731, $39.95; ISBN 9780700626748 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-2962

Norwich, John Julius. A history of France. Atlantic Monthly, 2018. 382p index ISBN 9780802128904, $30.00; ISBN 9780802146700 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-2924

The Palgrave handbook of practical animal ethics, ed. by Andrew Linzey and Clair Linzey. Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. 598p bibl index ISBN 9781137366702, $179.99; ISBN 9781137366719 ebook, $139.00; 56-2994

Ross, Marc Howard. Slavery in the North: forgetting history and recovering memory. Pennsylvania, 2018. 304p bibl index ISBN 9780812250381, $39.95; ISBN 9780812295283 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-2915

Rutherford, Paul. The adman’s dilemma: from Barnum to Trump. Toronto, 2018. 456p indexes ISBN 9781487503901, $110.00; ISBN 9781487522988 pbk, $39.95; ISBN 9781487519025 ebook, $39.95; 56-2865

Sachs, Jeffrey. A new foreign policy: beyond American exceptionalism. Columbia, 2018. 253p bibl index ISBN 9780231188487, $17.95; ISBN 9780231547888 ebook, $16.99; 56-2943

Segal, Elizabeth A. Social empathy: the art of understanding others. Columbia, 2018. 239p index ISBN 9780231184809, $35.00; ISBN 9780231545686 ebook, $34.99; 56-2982

Shumsky, Dmitry. Beyond the nation-state: the Zionist political imagination from Pinsker to Ben-Gurion. Yale, 2018. 297p bibl index ISBN 9780300230130, $40.00; ISBN 9780300241099 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-2903

Steed, Christopher. A question of inequality: the politics of equal worth. I. B. Tauris, 2018. 250p index ISBN 9781788311533, $95.00; ISBN 9781786733993 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-2874