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The best of all the titles appropriate for two-year colleges reviewed in the March issue of Choice.
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Bierbrier, M. L. Historical dictionary of ancient Egypt. Rowman & Littlefield, 2022. 518p bibl ISBN 9781538157497, $220.00; ISBN 9781538157503 ebook, $209.00; 61-1813
Corruption and scandal in American sports: causes and consequences, ed. by Jimmy Sanderson. Bloomsbury Academic, 2023. 440p bibl index ISBN 9781440878374, $100.00; ISBN 9798216171102 ebook, $90.00; 61-1810
Gale Digital Scholar Lab. Gale, part of Cengage Learning. Contact publisher for pricing. URL:https://www.gale.com/primary-sources/digital-scholar-lab 61-1806
Handbook of business and climate change, ed. by Anant K. Sundaram and Robert G. Hansen. E. Elgar, 2023. 562p bibl index ISBN 9781839102998, $325.00; ISBN 9781839103001 ebook, $65.00; 61-1814
Religion and world civilizations: how faith shaped societies from antiquity to the present, ed. by Andrew P. Holt. 3v. ABC-CLIO, 2023. 1056p bibl index ISBN 9781440874239, $352.00; ISBN 97814408742469 ebook, contact publisher for price; 61-1807
Humanities
American art: selections from the Yale University Art Gallery. Yale University Art Gallery/Yale, 2023. 272p bibl ISBN 9780300269710, $50.00; 61-1819
Banet-Weiser, Sarah. Believability: sexual violence, media, and the politics of doubt, by Sarah Banet-Weiser and Kathryn Claire Higgins. Polity, 2023. 256p bibl index ISBN 9781509553815, $64.95; ISBN 9781509553822 pbk, $22.95; ISBN 9781509553839 ebook, $18.00; 61-1843
The Cambridge companion to the American short story, ed. by Michael J. Collins and Gavin Jones. Cambridge, 2023. 350p bibl index ISBN 9781009292818, $90.00; ISBN 9781009292849 pbk, $29.99; ISBN 9781009292825 ebook, contact publisher for price; 61-1866
Chua, Emily H. C. The currency of truth: newsmaking and the late-socialist imaginaries of China’s digital era. Michigan, 2023. 186p bibl index ISBN 9780472075959, $70.00; ISBN 9780472055951 pbk, $24.95; ISBN 9780472903276 ebook, contact publisher for price; 61-1844
Connoisseurship, ed. by Christina M. Anderson and Peter Stewart. Oxford, 2023. 256p bibl index ISBN 9780190923587, $110.00; ISBN 9780190923587 ebook, contact publisher for price; 61-1889
Dimaggio, Anthony R. Fake news in America: contested meanings in the post-truth era. Cambridge, 2023. 280p bibl index ISBN 9781316512456, $125.00; ISBN 9781009079112 ebook, $125.00; 61-1846
Eriksson, Yvonne. Foundations of visual communication: how visuals appear in daily life, by Yvonne Eriksson and Anette Göthlund. Routledge, 2023. 142p bibl index ISBN 9780367771553, $170.00; ISBN 9780367769635 pbk, $48.95; ISBN 9781003170037 ebook, $48.95; 61-1849
Finaldi, Gabriele. Saint Francis of Assisi, by Gabriele Finaldi and Joost Joustra. National Gallery, London, 2023. 182p bibl index ISBN 9781857096934, $35.00; 61-1822
Hinson, David. Designed for Habitat: collaborations with Habitat for Humanity, by David Hinson and Justin Miller. Routledge, 2023. 238p bibl index ISBN 9781032182278, $170.00; ISBN 9781032182285 pbk, $42.95; ISBN 9781003253501 ebook, $42.95; 61-1835
Karim-Cooper, Farah. The great white bard: Shakespeare, race and the future. Viking, 2023. 336p bibl index ISBN 9780593489376, $32.00; ISBN 9780593489383 ebook, contact publisher for pricing; 61-1873
Keywords in design thinking: a lexical primer for technical communicators and designers, ed. by Jason C. K. Tham. University Press of Colorado, 2023. 174p bibl ISBN 9781646423941 pbk, $22.95; ISBN 9781642151732 ebook, contact publishers for price; 61-1850
King, Claire Sisco. Mapping the stars: celebrity, metonymy, and the networked politics of identity. Ohio State, 2023. 264p bibl index ISBN 9780814215500, $99.95; ISBN 9780814258804 pbk, $32.95; ISBN 9780814282991 ebook, contact publisher for price; 61-1851
Okabe, Tsugumi. Manga, murder and mystery: the boy detectives of Japan’s lost generation. Bloomsbury, 2023. 212p bibl index ISBN 9781350325098, $115.00; ISBN 9781350325111 ebook, contact publisher for pricing; 61-1862
Park, Julie. My dark room: spaces of the inner self in eighteenth-century England. Chicago, 2023. 352p bibl index ISBN 9780226824758, $105.00; ISBN 9780226824765 pbk, $35.00; ISBN 9780226824772 ebook, contact publisher for price; 61-1876
Pearman, Hugh. About architecture: an essential guide in 55 buildings. Yale, 2023. 256p bibl index ISBN 9780300263442, $40.00; 61-1836
Rose-Stockwell, Tobias. Outrage machine: how tech is amplifying discontent, disrupts democracy, and what we can do about it. Hachette Books/Legacy Lit, 2023. 418p bibl ISBN 9780306923326, $29.00; ISBN 9780306923319 ebook, $15.99; 61-1855
Svenson, Sally E. Adirondack photographers, 1850–1950. Syracuse, 2023. 208p bibl index ISBN 9780815611530, $29.95; ISBN 9780815655855 ebook, $29.95; 61-1842
Sykes, A. Krista. Vincent Scully: architecture, urbanism, and a life in search of community. Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2023. 288p bibl index ISBN 9781350298378, $115.00; ISBN 9781350298385 ebook, contact publisher for pricing; 61-1840
Women in German expressionism: gender, sexuality, activism, ed. by Anke Finger and Julie Shoults. Michigan, 2023. 372p bibl index ISBN 9780472133390, $85.00; ISBN 9780472039388 pbk, $39.95; ISBN 9780472903672 ebook, open access; 61-1881
Science & Technology
Adee, Sally. We are electric: inside the 200-year hunt for our body’s bioelectric code, and what the future holds. Hachette Books, 2023. 352p bibl index ISBN 9780306826627, $30.00; ISBN 9780306826641 ebook, contact publisher for pricing; 61-1915
Astros and asterisks: Houston’s sign-stealing scandal explained, ed. by Jonathan Silverman. Texas, 2023. 280p bibl index ISBN 9781477327425, $90.00; ISBN 9781477327432 pbk, $26.95; ISBN 9781477327456 ebook, $26.95; 61-1953
Bothwell, John H. Seaweeds of the world: a guide to every order. Princeton, 2023. 240p bibl index (Guide to Every Family, 4) ISBN 9780691228549, $29.95; ISBN 9780691246215 ebook, contact publisher for price; 61-1921
Climate governance and federalism: a forum of federations comparative policy analysis, ed. by Alan Fenna, Sébastien Jodoin, and Joana Setzer. Cambridge, 2023. 300p bibl index ISBN 9781009249652, $155.00; ISBN 9781009249645 ebook, contact publisher for price; 61-1933
Cottrell, Robert C. The year without a World Series: major league baseball and the road to the 1994 players’ strike. McFarland, 2023. 265p bibl index ISBN 9781476692470, $39.95; ISBN 9781476650234 ebook, contact publisher for price; 61-1955
Davé, Romeel. Simulating the cosmos: why the universe looks the way it does. Reaktion Books, 2023. 208p bibl index ISBN 9781789147148, $22.50; ISBN 9781789147445 ebook, contact publisher for price; 61-1914
Dietz, Thomas. Decisions for sustainability: facts and values. Cambridge, 2023. 500p bibl index ISBN 9781009169417, $90.00; ISBN 9781009169424 pbk, $39.99; ISBN 9781009204019 ebook, contact publisher for price; 61-1934
Ecology and management of black-tailed and mule deer of North America, ed. by James R. Heffelfinger and Paul R. Krausman; illustrated by Randall Babb. CRC Press, 2023. 536p bibl index ISBN 9781032407609, $140.00; ISBN 9781000851595 ebook, $140.00; 61-1925
Environmental pollution impact on plants: survival strategies under challenging conditions, ed. Tariq Aftab and Khalid Rehman Hakeem. Apple Academic Press, 2023. 294p bibl index ISBN 9781774911242, $169.95; ISBN 9781000612851 ebook, $135.96; 61-1922
LeBlanc, Gerald A. Everyday chemicals: understanding the risks. Columbia, 2023. 320p bibl index ISBN 9780231205962, $120.00; ISBN 9780231205979 pbk, $30.00; ISBN 9780231556255 ebook, contact publisher for price; 61-1931
Meiches, Benjamin. Nonhuman humanitarians: animal interventions in global politics. Minnesota, 2023. 234p bibl index ISBN 9781517913847, $100.00; ISBN 9781517913854 pbk, $25.00; ISBN 9781517913847 ebook, $25.00; 61-1926
Meiners, Scott J. Tree by tree: saving North America’s eastern forests. Comstock, 2023. 246p bibl index ISBN 9781501771262 pbk, $24.95; ISBN 9781501771286 ebook, contact publisher for price; 61-1937
Mumford, Christopher. Sports entrepreneurship: beyond the big leagues. Columbia Business School, 2023. 216p bibl index ISBN 9780231196109, $24.95; ISBN 9780231551649 ebook, contact publisher for price; 61-1956
Munoz, Lisa M. P. Women in science now: stories and strategies for achieving equity. Columbia, 2023. 352p bibl index ISBN 9780231206143, $24.95; ISBN 9780231556347 ebook, contact publisher for price; 61-1909
Shin, Don Donghee. Algorithms, humans, and interactions: how do algorithms interact with people? designing meaningful AI experiences. Routledge, 2023. ISBN 9781032333588, $140.00; ISBN 9781032332970 pbk, $54.95; ISBN 9781003319313 ebook, $54.95; 61-1950
Staaf, Danna. Lives of octopuses and their relatives: a natural history of cephalopods. Princeton, 2023. 288p bibl index ISBN 9780691244303, $35.00; ISBN 9780691252339 ebook, contact publisher for price; 61-1928
Social & Behavioral Sciences
Aldrich, Richard J. Crown, cloak, and dagger: the British monarchy and secret intelligence from Victoria to Elizabeth II, by Richard J. Aldrich and Rory Cormac. Georgetown University, 2023. 472p bibl index ISBN 9781647123710, $32.95; ISBN 9781647123727 ebook, $32.95; 61-2051
The Anthem companion to Immanuel Wallerstein, ed. by Patrick Hayden and Chamsy el-Ojeili. Anthem Press, 2023. 222p index ISBN 9781839984723, $165.00; ISBN 9781839984747 ebook, $64.95; 61-2098
Brier, Bob. Tutankhamun and the tomb that changed the world. Oxford, 2023. 336p bibl index ISBN 9780197635056, $27.95; ISBN 9780197635087 ebook, contact publisher for price; 61-2020
Cooke, Steve. What are animal rights for?. Bristol University Press, 2023. 160p bibl index ISBN 9781529228410 pbk, $14.99; ISBN 9781529228427 ebook, contact publisher for price; 61-2079
Davenport, John J. The democracy amendments: constitutional reforms to save the United States. Anthem Press, 2023. 292p bibl index ISBN 9781839986611, $110.00; ISBN 9781839986628 pbk, $19.99; ISBN 9781839986635 ebook, contact publisher for price; 61-2086
Despommier, Dickson D. The new city: how to build our sustainable urban future. Columbia, 2023. 216p index ISBN 9780231205504, $39.95; ISBN 9780231556033 ebook, contact publisher for pricing; 61-2061
Donoghue, Norman E., II. Prisoners of Congress: Philadelphia’s Quakers in exile, 1777–1778. Pennsylvania State, 2023. 288p bibl index ISBN 9780271095073, $44.95; 61-2039
Dupuy, Jean-Pierre. The war that must not occur, tr. by Malcolm DeBevoise. Stanford, 2023. 192p bibl index ISBN 9781503635159, $25.00; ISBN 9781503636651 ebook, contact publisher for pricing; 61-2080
Forging freedom in W. E. B. Du Bois’s twilight years: no deed but memory, ed. by Phillip Luke Sinitiere. University Press of Mississippi, 2023. 274p bibl index ISBN 9781496846167, $99.00; ISBN 9781496846174 pbk, $30.00; ISBN 9781496846181 ebook, contact publisher for price; 61-2042
Goldberg, Rob. Radical play: revolutionizing children’s toys in 1960s and 1970s America. Duke, 2023. 312p bibl index ISBN 9781478020134 pbk, $107.95; ISBN 9781478020134 pbk, $28.95; ISBN 9781478027102 ebook, contact publisher for price; 61-2043
Goodyear, C. W. President Garfield: from radical to unifier. Simon & Schuster, 2023. 624p bibl index ISBN 9781982146917, $35.00; ISBN 9781982146931 ebook, contact publisher for price; 61-2044
Gray, Charlotte. Passionate mothers, powerful sons: the lives of Jennie Jerome Churchill and Sara Delano Roosevelt. Simon & Schuster, 2023. 432p bibl index ISBN 9781668031971, $29.99; ISBN 9781668031995 ebook, contact publisher for price; 61-2009
Joseph, Peniel E. The third reconstruction: America’s struggle for racial justice in the twenty-first century. Basic Books, 2022. 288p bibl index ISBN 9781541600744, $27.00; ISBN 9781541600768 ebook, $17.99; 61-2087
King, Dean. Guardians of the valley: John Muir and the friendship that saved Yosemite. Scribner, 2023. 480p bibl index ISBN 9781982144463, $30.00; ISBN 9781982144487 ebook, $14.99; 61-2046
McGlynn, Jade. Memory makers: the politics of the past in Putin’s Russia. Bloomsbury, 2023. 248p bibl index ISBN 9781350280762, $27.00; ISBN 9781350280779 ebook, contact publisher for price; 61-2027
Mearsheimer, John J. How states think: the rationality of foreign policy, by John J. Mearsheimer and Sebastian Rosato. Yale, 2023. 304p bibl index ISBN 9780300269307, $30.00; ISBN 9780300274967 ebook, contact publisher for price; 61-2073
Morgana, Valentina. Task-based English language learning in the digital age: perspectives from secondary education. Bloomsbury, 2023. 206p bibl index ISBN 9781350288010, $130.00; ISBN 9781350288027 ebook, contact publisher for price; 61-2001
Orser, Charles E., Jr. Archaeological thinking: how to make sense of the past. Rowman & Littlefield, 2023. 196p bibl index ISBN 9781538177228, $90.00; ISBN 9781538177235 pbk, $35.00; ISBN 9781538177242 ebook, $30.00; 61-1968
Parker Pearson, Mike. Stonehenge: A brief history. Bloomsbury, 2024. 208p bibl index ISBN 9781350192232, $90.00; ISBN 9781350192225 pbk, $26.95; ISBN 9781350192249 ebook, contact publisher for price; 61-1969
Parton, Chea. Country teachers in city schools: the challenge of negotiating identity and place. Lexington Books, 2023. 218p bibl index ISBN 9781666909012, $100.00; ISBN 9781666909029 ebook, $45.00; 61-2002
Reinventing the family in uncertain times: education, policy and social justice, ed. by Marie-Pierre Moreau. Bloomsbury, 2023. 236p bibl index ISBN 9781350287105, $120.00; ISBN 9781350287112 ebook, contact publisher for price; 61-2105
Scholten, Bruce A. Dairy farming in the 21st century: global ethics, environment and politics. Bloomsbury Academic, 2022. 264p bibl index ISBN 9781838604523, 103.50; ISBN 9781838604547 ebook, $45.00; 61-1982
Schuetze, Christy. Spirit wives and church mothers: marriage, survival, and healing in central Mozambique. Wisconsin, 2023. 280p bibl index ISBN 9780299343804, $79.95; ISBN 9780299343835 ebook, contact publisher for price; 61-2016
Shaughnessy, Edward L. A brief history of ancient China. Bloomsbury Academic, 2023. 416p bibl ISBN 9781350170414, $120.00; ISBN 9781350170377 pbk, $39.95; ISBN 9781350170391 ebook, $39.95; 61-2021
Simpson, Andrew. The museums and collections of higher education. Routledge, 2022. 180p bibl index ISBN 9781032030333, $160.00; ISBN 9781032030074 pbk, $44.95; ISBN 9781003186533 ebook, contact publisher for price; 61-2004
Smith, Leonard V. French colonialism: from the ancien régime to the present. Cambridge, 2023. 250p bibl index ISBN 9781108836685, $90.00; ISBN 9781108799157 pbk, $29.95; ISBN 9781108858045 ebook, $29.95; 61-2058
Social aspects of aging in Indigenous communities, ed. by Jordan P. Lewis and Tuula Heinonen. Oxford, 2023. 488p bibl index ISBN 9780197677216, $83.00; ISBN 9780197677230 ebook, contact publisher for price; 61-1963
Solís, Mireya. Japan’s quiet leadership: reshaping the Indo-Pacific. Rowman & Littlefield/Brookings Institution, 2023. 360p bibl index ISBN 9780815740261, $85.00; ISBN 9780815739975 pbk, $29.95; ISBN 9780815739982 ebook, $28.00; 61-2075
The Global Japanese restaurant: mobilities, imaginaries, and politics, edited by James Farrer and David L. Wank. Hawai’i, 2023. 390p bibl index ISBN 9780824894269, $80.00; ISBN 9780824895143 pbk, $28.00; ISBN 9780824895266 ebook, contact publisher for price; 61-2025
Transforming food systems under climate change through innovation, ed. by Bruce M. Campbell et al. Cambridge, 2023. 254p bibl index ISBN 9781009227209 pbk, $64.99; ISBN 9781009227216 ebook, open access; 61-1983
Trefon, Theodore. Bushmeat: culture, economy and conservation in Central Africa. Oxford, 2023. 256p bibl index ISBN 9780197746370 pbk, $29.95; ISBN 9780197754689 ebook, contact publisher for price; 61-2017
Vague, Richard. The paradox of debt: a new path to prosperity without crisis. Wiley, 2023. 240p bibl index ISBN 9781512825329, $29.95; ISBN 9781119984795 ebook, contact publisher for price; 61-1991
Warner, Joel. Curse of the Marquis de Sade: a notorious scoundrel, a mythical manuscript, and the biggest scandal in literary history. Crown, 2023. 304p bibl index ISBN 9780593135686, $28.99; ISBN 9780593135693 ebook, contact publisher for price; 61-2059
Windschitl, Mark. Teaching climate change: fostering understanding, resilience, and a commitment to justice. Harvard Business Review Press, 2023. 296p bibl index ISBN 9781682538340 pbk, $38.00; ISBN 9781682538357 ebook, contact publisher for pricing; 61-2006
Wozniak, Kevin H. The politics of crime prevention: race, public opinion, and the meaning of community safety. New York University, 2023. 328p bibl index ISBN 9781479815722, $89.00; ISBN 9781479815753 pbk, $30.00; ISBN 9781479815777 ebook, contact publisher for price; 61-2107
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