The Top 75 Community College Titles: March 2021 Edition

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

Posted on March 30, 2021 in Top 75 Community College Titles

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Voting and political representation in America: issues and trends, ed. by Mark P. Jones.  ABC-CLIO, 2020.  2v bibl  index  ISBN 9781440860843, $204.00;  ISBN 9781440860850 ebook, contact publisher for price;  58-1848

Humanities

Afro-Creole poetry in French from Louisiana’s radical Civil War–era newspapers: a bilingual edition, tr. and introd, by Clint Bruce.  Historic New Orleans Collection, 2020.  384p index  ISBN 9780917860799, $40.00;  58-1903

Barnett, Kyle. Record cultures: the transformation of the U.S. recording industry, 1920–1935.  Michigan, 2020.  332p bibl index  ISBN 9780472131037, $80.00;  ISBN 9780472124312 ebook, contact publisher for price;  58-1910

Bauhaus Dessau architecture, by Florian Strob; ed. by the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation; tr. by Bram Opstelten; photography by Thomas Meyer.  Hirmer, 2020.  144p  ISBN 9783777432021, $36.00;  58-1863

Brown, Rae Linda. The heart of a woman: the life and music of Florence B. Price, ed. by and foreword by Guthrie P Ramsey, Jr.  Illinois, 2020.  336p bibl  index  ISBN 9780252043239, $125.00;  ISBN 9780252085109 pbk, $29.95;  ISBN 9780252052118 ebook, $14.95;  58-1912

Cheng, Karen. Designing type.  Yale, 2020.  248p bibl  index  ISBN 9780300249927 pbk, $35.00;  58-1853

A Companion to American literature, ed. by Susan Belasco.  Wiley-Blackwell, 2020.  3v bibl index  ISBN 9781119146711, $585.00;  ISBN 9781119653349 ebook, $468.99;  58-1887

Dobbins, James C. Behold the Buddha: religious meanings of Japanese Buddhist icons.  Hawai’i, 2020.  288p bibl index  ISBN 9780824879990 pbk, $30.00;  58-1932

Harrison, Timothy M. Coming to: consciousness and natality in early modern England.  Chicago, 2020.  328p index  ISBN 9780226725093, $95.00;  ISBN 9780226725123 pbk, $30.00;  ISBN 9780226725260 ebook, $30.00;  58-1890

Huckvale, David. Terrors of the flesh: the philosophy of body horror in film.  McFarland, 2020.  190p bibl  index  ISBN 9781476682181 pbk, $45.00;  ISBN 9781476640785 ebook, contact publisher for price;  58-1908

Kaussler, Bernd. Rhetoric and governance under Trump: proclamations from the bullshit pulpit, by Bernd Kaussler, Lars J. Kristiansen, and Jeffrey Delbert.  Lexington Books, 2020.  360p bibl index  ISBN 9781498594837, $120.00;  ISBN 9781498594844 ebook, $114.00;  58-1871

Kreuz, Roger J. Irony and sarcasm.  MIT, 2020.  207p bibl index  ISBN 9780262538268 pbk, $15.95;  ISBN 9780262357296 ebook, contact publisher for price;  58-1881

Leibovitz, Liel. Stan Lee: a life in comics.  Yale, 2020.  179p bibl index  ISBN 9780300230345, $26.00;  ISBN 9780300252262 ebook, contact publisher for price;  58-1873

My Victorian novel: critical essays in the personal voice, ed. and introd. by Annette R. Federico.  Missouri, 2020.  300p bibl index  ISBN 9780826222077, $36.00;  ISBN 9780826274434 ebook, contact publisher for price;  58-1894

Reynolds, Gabriel Said. Allah: God of the Qur’an.  Yale, 2020.  344p bibl index  ISBN 9780300246582, $30.00;  ISBN 9780300252293 ebook, contact publisher for price;  58-1938

Szentkirályi, Levente. The ethics of precaution: uncertain environmental health threats and duties of due care.  Routledge, 2020.  212p  ISBN 9780367193744, $160.00;  ISBN 9780429244315 ebook, $48.95;  58-1928

Yang, Caroline H. The peculiar afterlife of slavery: the Chinese worker and the minstrel form.  Stanford, 2020.  280p bibl  index  ISBN 9781503610378, $90.00;  ISBN 9781503612051 pbk, $28.00;  ISBN 9781503612068 ebook, contact publisher for price;  58-1899

Science & Technology

Augmented intelligence: the business power of human-machine collaboration, by Judith Hurwitz et al.  CRC Press, 2020.  170p bibl index  ISBN 9780367184896, $79.95;  ISBN 9780367687878 pbk, $34.95;  ISBN 9780429196645 ebook, $79.95;  58-1961

Callaway, Elizabeth. Eden’s endemics: narratives of biodiversity on Earth and beyond.  Virginia, 2020.  226p index  ISBN 9780813944579, $49.50;  ISBN 9780813944579 pbk, $27.50;  ISBN 9780813944586 ebook, $27.50;  58-1942

Elbroch, Mark. The cougar conundrum: sharing the world with a successful predator.  Island Press, 2020.  250p index  ISBN 9781610919982 pbk, $30.00;  ISBN 9781610919999 ebook, $29.99;  58-1943

The First World War and health: rethinking resilience, ed. by Leo Van Bergen and Eric Vermetten.  Brill, 2020.  520p bibl index (History of warfare, 130)  ISBN 9789004424173, $179.00;  ISBN 9789004428744 ebook, $179.00;  58-1957

Kissane, Rebecca Joyce. Whose game?: gender and power in fantasy sports, by Rebecca Joyce Kissane and Sarah Winslow.  Temple, 2020.  230p bibl index  ISBN 9781439918869, $94.50;  ISBN 9781439918876 pbk, $34.95;  ISBN 9781439918883 ebook, $34.95;  58-1973

Lindsay, Jon R. Information technology and military power.  Cornell, 2020.  304p index  ISBN 9781501749568, $42.95;  ISBN 9781501749575 ebook, $20.99;  58-1963

Manovich, Lev. Cultural analytics.  MIT, 2020.  336p bibl idndex  ISBN 9780262037105, $35.00;  ISBN 9780262360647 ebook, contact publisher for price;  58-1964

Vileisis, Ann. Abalone: the remarkable history and uncertain future of California’s iconic shellfish.  Oregon State, 2020.  296p bibl index  ISBN 9780870719882 pbk, $22.95;  ISBN 9780870719899 ebook, $11.99;  58-1947

Social & Behavioral Sciences

Advancing U.S. Latino entrepreneurship: a new national economic imperative, ed. by Marlene Orozco et al.  Purdue, 2020.  378p bibl index  ISBN 9781557539373 pbk, $34.99;  ISBN 9781557539397 ebook, $34.99;  58-1997

The Aging-disability nexus, ed. by Katie Aubrecht, Christine Kelly, and Carla Rice.  UBC Press, 2020.  296p bibl index  ISBN 9780774863674, $89.95;  ISBN :9780774863704 ebook, $32.95;  58-2117

Aztecs, ed. by Doris Kurella, Martin Berger, and Inés de Castro.  Hirmer, 2020.  357p bibl  ISBN 9783777433783, $39.95;  58-1987

Castro, Fidel. Fidel in the Cuban Socialist Revolution: understanding the Cuban Revolution (1959–1961), contributions by José Bell Lara, Tania Caram Leon, and Delia Luisa López; tr. by Charles McKelvey.  Brill, 2020.  329p index (Critical global studies, 12)  ISBN 9789004415713, $198.00;  ISBN 9789004415737 ebook, $198.00;  58-2050

Cheng, Alicia Yin. This is what democracy looked like: a visual history of the printed ballot.  Princeton Architectural, 2020.  176p bibl index  ISBN 9781616898878, $29.95;  ISBN 9781616899318 ebook, contact publisher for price;  58-2101

Childers, Trenita Brookshire. In someone else’s country: anti-Haitian racism and citizenship in the Dominican Republic.  Rowman & Littlefield, 2020.  194p bibl index  ISBN 9781538131008, $85.00;  ISBN 9781538131015 pbk, $32.00;  ISBN 9781538131022 ebook, $31.00;  58-2051

Crossroads of cuisine: the Eurasian heartland, the silk roads and food, by Paul D. Buell et al.  Brill, 2020.  340p bibl index (Crossroads–history of interactions across the silk routes, 2)  ISBN 9789004432055, $159.00;  ISBN 9789004432109 ebook, $159.00;  58-2039

Delgado, Melvin. State-sanctioned violence: advancing a social work and social justice agenda.  Oxford, 2020.  250p bibl index  ISBN 9780190058463, $55.00;  ISBN 9780190058470 ebook, contact publisher for price;  58-2121

Deutsch, Francine. Creating equality at home: how 25 couples around the world share housework and childcare, ed. by Francine M. Deutsch and Ruth A. Gaunt.  Cambridge, 2020.  442p index  ISBN 9781108497886, $69.99;  ISBN 9781108708845 pbk, $24.99;  ISBN 9781108597319 ebook, $20.00;  58-2122

Diehl, Manfred. The psychology of later life: a contextual perspective, by Manfred Diehl and Hans-Werner Wahl.  American Psychological Association, 2020.  275p bibl  ISBN 9781433831652 pbk, $59.99;  ISBN 9781433831690 ebook, contact publisher for price;  58-2110

Engelstein, Laura. The resistible rise of antisemitism: exemplary cases from Russia, Ukraine, and Poland.  Brandeis, 2020.  260p index  ISBN 9781684580088, $85.00;  ISBN 9781684580095 pbk, $35.00;  ISBN 9781684580101 ebook, contact publisher for price;  58-2046

Farmer, Sarah Bennett. Rural inventions: the French countryside after 1945.  Oxford, 2020.  200p bibl index  ISBN 9780190079079, $45.00;  ISBN 9780190079086 ebook, contact publisher for price;  58-2079

Folwell, Emma J. The war on poverty in Mississippi: from massive resistance to new conservatism.  University Press of Mississippi, 2020.  292p bibl  index  ISBN 9781496827395, $99.00;  ISBN 9781496827449 pbk, $30.00;  ISBN 9781496827432 ebook, contact publisher for price;  58-2061

Formichi, Chiara. Islam and Asia: a history.  Cambridge, 2020.  322p bibl index (New approaches to Asian history, 21)  ISBN 9781107106123, $89.99;  ISBN 9781107513976 pbk, $29.99;  ISBN 9781108889629 ebook, $24.00;  58-2040

From sit-ins to #revolutions: media and the changing nature of protests, ed. by Olivia Guntarik and Victoria Grieves-Williams.  Bloomsbury Academic, 2020.  320p  ISBN 9781501336959, $195.00;  ISBN 9781501336966 ebook, contact publisher for price;  58-2125

Furtado, Peter. Revolutions: how they changed history and what they mean today.  Thames & Hudson, 2020.  320p  ISBN 9780500022412, $39.90;  58-2020

Future of work and employment, ed. by Adrian Wilkinson and Michael Barry.  E. Elgar, 2020.  264p bibl index  ISBN 9781786438249, $145.00;  ISBN 9781786438256 ebook, contact publisher for price;  58-1999

Gray, Kishonna. Intersectional tech: Black users in digital gaming.  Louisiana State, 2020.  224p bibl index  ISBN 9780807171226, $55.0;  ISBN 9780807174555 pbk, $30.00;  58-1975

Hall, Simon. Ten days in Harlem: Fidel Castro and the making of the 1960s.  Faber & Faber, 2020.  276p bibl index  ISBN 9780571353064, $24.95;  ISBN 9780571353095 ebook, contact publisher for price;  58-2022

Hurtado, Aída. Intersectional Chicana feminisms: sitios y lenguas.  Arizona, 2020.  232p index  ISBN 9780816537617 pbk, $24.95;  ISBN 9780816539765 ebook, $24.95;  58-1977

Jay, Mark. A people’s history of Detroit, by Mark Jay and Philip Conklin.  Duke, 2020.  320p bibl index  ISBN 9781478007883, $99.95;  ISBN 9781478008347 pbk, $26.95;  ISBN 9781478009351 ebook, contact publisher for price;  58-2127

Jeffreys-Jones, Rhodri. The Nazi spy ring in America: Hitler’s agents, the FBI, and the case that stirred the nation.  Georgetown University, 2020.  256p bibl index  ISBN 9781647120047, $29.95;  ISBN 9781647120054 ebook, contact publisher for price;  58-2024

Johansen, Bruce E. Environmental racism in the United States and Canada: seeking justice and sustainability.  ABC-CLIO, 2020.  370p bibl index  ISBN 9781440864025, $60.00;  ISBN 9781440864032 ebook, contact publisher for price;  58-2063

Kucharski, Adam. The rules of contagion: why things spread—and why they stop.  Basic Books, 2020.  352p bibl index  ISBN 9781541674318, $30.00;  ISBN 9781541674332 ebook, $17.99;  58-1979

Lessig, Lawrence. They don’t represent us: reclaiming our democracy.  Dey Street, 2019.  352p bibl index  ISBN 9780062945716, $26.99;  ISBN 9780062945723 pbk, $13.99;  ISBN 9780062945730 ebook, $13.99;  58-2105

Manjapra, Kris. Colonialism in global perspective.  Cambridge, 2020.  273p bibl index  ISBN 9781108425261, $89.99;  ISBN 9781108441360 pbk, $24.99;  ISBN 9781108589260 ebook, $20.00;  58-2027

​McNamara, Robert Hartmann. The criminalization of immigration: truth, lies, tragedy, and consequences.  Praeger, 2020.  219p bibl index  ISBN 9781440873706, $50.00;  ISBN 9781440873713 ebook, contact publisher for price;  58-2106

Midgley, James. Inequality, social protection and social justice.  E. Elgar, 2020.  200p bibl index  ISBN 9781789905571, $110.00;  ISBN 9781789905588 ebook, $40.00;  58-2131

Millington, Chris. A history of fascism in France: from the First World War to the National Front.  Bloomsbury Academic, 2020.  248p bibl index  ISBN 9781350006539, $39.99;  ISBN 9781350006553 ebook, contact publisher for price;  58-2083

Moffitt, Benjamin. Populism.  Polity, 2020.  170p bibl index  ISBN 9781509534326, $59.95;  ISBN 9781509534333 pbk, $19.95;  ISBN 9781509534340 ebook, $9.99;  58-2088

The Oxford handbook of stress and mental health, ed. by Kate L. Harkness and Elizabeth P. Hayden.  Oxford, 2020.  768p index  ISBN 9780190681777, $175.00;  ISBN 9780190681791 ebook, contact publisher for price;  58-2114

Patico, Jennifer. The trouble with snack time: children’s food and the politics of parenting.  New York University, 2020.  240p bibl index  ISBN 9781479835331, $89.00;  ISBN 9781479845989 pbk, $30.00;  ISBN 9781479817214 ebook, contact publisher for price;  58-2132

Prohibition’s greatest myths: the distilled truth about America’s anti-alcohol crusade, ed. by Michael Lewis and Richard F. Hamm.  Louisiana State, 2020.  176p bibl index  ISBN 9780807170380, $40.00;  ISBN 9780807173022 ebook, contact publisher for price;  58-2067

Raafat, Samir W. The Egyptian bourse.  American University in Cairo, 2020.  112p  ISBN 9789775864161, $45.00;  58-2002

Rutledge, Stacey A. Steps to schoolwide success: systemic practices for connecting social-emotional and academic learning, by Stacey A. Rutledge et al.  Harvard Education Press, 2020.  232p bibl index  ISBN 9781682534601, $65.00;  ISBN 9781682534595 pbk, $32.00;  58-2011

Sandoval-Strausz, A. K. Barrio America: how Latino immigrants saved the American city.  Basic Books, 2019.  416p index  ISBN 9781541697249, $40.00;  ISBN 9781541644434 ebook, $18.99;  58-1983

Slocum, Karla. Black towns, Black futures: the enduring allure of a Black place in the American West.  North Carolina, 2019.  192p bibl index  ISBN 9781469653969, $90.00;  ISBN 9781469653976 pbk, $27.95;  ISBN 9781469653983 ebook, $21.99;  58-1995

Smith, Bonnie G. Women in world history: 1450 to the present.  Bloomsbury Academic, 2020.  329p bibl  index  ISBN 9781474272926, $95.00;  ISBN 9781474272933 pbk, $30.95;  ISBN 9781474272957 ebook, contact publisher for price;  58-2030

Strobel, Christoph. Native Americans of New England.  Praeger, 2020.  211p bibl  index  ISBN 9781440866104, $50.00;  ISBN 9781440866111 ebook, contact publisher for price;  58-2069

Suffrage and its limits: the New York story, ed. by Kathleen M. Dowley, Susan Ingalls Lewis, and Meg Devlin O’Sullivan.  SUNY Press, 2020.  194p bibl index  ISBN 9781438479699, $95.00;  ISBN 9781438479705 ebook, contact publisher for price;  58-2070

Sumerau, J. E. Violent manhood.  Rowman & Littlefield, 2020.  134p bibl index  ISBN 9781538136485, $95.00;  ISBN 9781538136492 pbk, $32.00;  ISBN 9781538136508 ebook, $30.00;  58-2134

Supporting and educating traumatized students: a guide for school-based professionals, ed. by Eric Rossen.  2nd ed.  Oxford, 2020.  411p bibl index  ISBN 9780190052737 pbk, $45.00;  ISBN 9780190052751 ebook, contact publisher for price;  58-2013

Swensson, Jeff. Defining the good school: educational adequacy requires more than minimums, by Jeff Swensson and Michael Shaffer.  Rowman & Littlefield, 2020.  168p index  ISBN 9781475856200, $56.00;  ISBN 9781475856217 pbk, $28.00;  ISBN 9781475856224 ebook, contact publisher for price;  58-2014

Thomas, James M. Diversity regimes: why talk is not enough to fix racial inequality at universities.  Rutgers, 2020.  256p bibl index  ISBN 9781978800427, $120.00;  ISBN 9781978800410 pbk, $29.95;  ISBN 9781978800434 ebook, $29.95;  58-2016

Vale, M. G. A. A short history of the Renaissance in Northern Europe.  Bloomsbury Academic, 2020.  264p bibl index  ISBN 9781780763842, $61.00;  ISBN 9781780763859 pbk, $19.95;  ISBN 9781350145610 ebook, contact publisher for price;  58-2085

Weiss, Elizabeth. Repatriation and erasing the past, by Elizabeth Weiss and James W. Springer.  University Press of Florida, 2020.  278p bibl index  ISBN 9781683401575, $90.00;  ISBN 9781683401858 ebook, contact publisher for price;  58-1996

Whitehead, Andrew L. Taking America back for God: Christian nationalism in the United States, by Andrew L. Whitehead and Samuel L. Perry.  Oxford, 2020.  268p bibl index  ISBN 9780190057886, $29.95;  ISBN 9780190057909 ebook, contact publisher for price;  58-2135

Wolff, Larry. Woodrow Wilson and the reimagining of Eastern Europe.  Stanford, 2020.  304p index  ISBN 9781503611184, $90.00;  ISBN 9781503611191 pbk, $30.00;  ISBN 9781503611207 ebook, contact publisher for price;  58-2031

Wongsurawat, Wasana. The crown and the capitalists: the ethnic Chinese and the founding of the Thai nation.  Washington, 2019.  216p bibl index  ISBN 9780295746241, $95.00;  ISBN 9780295746241 pbk, $30.00;  ISBN 9780295746265 ebook, contact publisher for price;  58-2044

Zanasi, Margherita. Economic thought in modern China: market and consumption, c.1500–1937.  Cambridge, 2020.  239p bibl index  ISBN 9781108499934, $99.00;  ISBN 9781108607438 ebook, $80.00;  58-2045

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