The Top 75 Community College Titles: May 2019 Edition

The best of all the titles appropriate for two-year colleges reviewed in the May 2019 issue of Choice.

Posted on May 30, 2019 in Top 75 Community College Titles

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Archibald, J. David. Charles Darwin: a reference guide to his life and works. Rowman & Littlefield, 2018. 187p bibl index ISBN 9781538111635, $50.00; ISBN 9781538111642 ebook, $47.50; 56-3433

The Cambridge encyclopedia of brass instruments, ed. by Trevor Herbert, Arnold Myers, and John Wallace. Cambridge, 2019. 612p bibl index ISBN 9781107180000, $125.00; ISBN 9781316852941 ebook, $100.00; 56-3425

Careers in sports medicine & training. Salem Press, 2018. 344p bibl index ISBN 9781682179239, $125.00; ISBN 9781682179239 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-3434

Ferguson’s Career Guidance Center. Infobase. The entry price for this online product is $699.00. URL: infobase.com/product/schools/fergusons-career-guidance-center-2 56-3420

Hill, Anthony D. Historical dictionary of African American theater. Rowman & Littlefield, 2018. 699p bibl ISBN 9781538117286, $165.00; ISBN 9781538117293 ebook, $156.50; 56-3427

Hischak, Thomas S. The Woody Allen encyclopedia. Rowman & Littlefield, 2018. 383p bibl index ISBN 9781538110669, $125.00; ISBN 9781538110676 ebook, $118.50; 56-3428

Hoover, William D. Historical dictionary of postwar Japan. Rowman & Littlefield, 2019. 595p bibl ISBN 9781538111550, $140.00; ISBN 9781538111567 ebook, $133.00; 56-3441

The Legacy of 9/11, ed. by Michael Shally-Jensen. Salem Press/Grey House, 2018. 320p bibl index ISBN 9781682179215, $175.00; ISBN 9781682179215 ebook, $175.00; 56-3443

Mijic, Goran. Solar energy and technology: v.2: Encyclopedia. De Gruyter, 2018. 953p ISBN 9783110475777, $172.99; 56-3436

The Oxford handbook of global studies, ed. by Mark Juergensmeyer, Saskia Sassen, and Manfred Steger. Oxford, 2019. 834p bibl index ISBN 9780190630577, $150.00; ISBN 9780190630591 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-3444

Robertson, James I. Robert E. Lee: a reference guide to his life and works. Rowman & Littlefield, 2019. 175p bibl ISBN 9781538113486, $50.00; ISBN 9781538113493 , $47.50; 56-3446

Student Resources in Context. Gale, part of Cengage Learning. Contact publisher for pricing. URL: gale.com/c/student-resources-in-context 56-3447

Wagner, John A. Documents of the Reformation. ABC-CLIO, 2019. 262p bibl index ISBN 9781440860829, $94.00; ISBN 9781440860836 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-3424

The Wiley Blackwell companion to social movements, ed. by David A. Snow et al. 2nd ed. Wiley-Blackwell, 2019. 745p bibl index ISBN 9781119168553, $175.00; ISBN 9781119168607 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-3450

Humanities

Anderson, Kathleen. Jane Austen’s women: an introduction. SUNY Press, 2018. 293p bibl index ISBN 9781438472256, $85.00; ISBN 9781438472263 pbk, $24.95; ISBN 9781438472270 ebook, contact pub-lisher for price; 56-3485

Being spiritual but not religious: past, present, future(s), ed. by William B. Parsons. Routledge, 2018. 280p index ISBN 9781138092471, $140.00; ISBN 9781315107431 ebook, $54.95; 56-3553

Bilbro, Jeffrey. Virtues of renewal: Wendell Berry’s sustainable forms. University Press of Kentucky, 2018. 227p bibl index ISBN 9780813176406, $65.00; ISBN 9780813176413 ebook, $65.00; 56-3488

Bomberger, E. Douglas. Making music American: 1917 and the transformation of culture. Oxford, 2018. 268p bibl index ISBN 9780190872311, $29.95; ISBN 9780190872335 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-3523

Bunt, Gary R. Hashtag Islam: how cyber-Islamic environments are transforming religious authority. North Carolina, 2018. 214p Index ISBN 9781469643151, $90.00; ISBN 9781469643168 pbk, $24.95; ISBN 9781469643175 ebook, $19.99; 56-3555

Frelinghuysen, Alice Cooney. American art pottery: the Robert A. Ellison Jr. Collection, by Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen, Martin Eidelberg, and Adrienne Spinozzi. Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2018. (Dist. by Yale) 388p index ISBN 9781588395962, $65.00; 56-3456

Hummel, H. K. Short-form creative writing: a writer’s guide and anthology, by H. K. Hummel and Stepha-nie Lenox. Bloomsbury Academic, 2019. 338p indexes ISBN 9781350019881, $102.00; ISBN 9781350019881 pbk, $33.95; ISBN 9781350019904 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-3477

Johnston, Sarah Iles. The story of myth. Harvard, 2018. 374p bibl indexes ISBN 9780674185074, $45.00; ISBN 9780674989573 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-3452

Kusserow, Karl. Nature’s nation: American art and environment, by Karl Kusserow and Alan C. Braddock. Princeton University Art Museum, 2018. 447p bibl index ISBN 9780300237009, $65.00; 56-3459

Margulis, Elizabeth Hellmuth. Psychology of music: a very short introduction. Oxford, 2018. 138p bibl index (Very short introductions, 579) ISBN 9780190640156 pbk, $11.95; 56-3528

Mitchell, Lee Clark. Late Westerns: the persistence of a genre. Nebraska, 2018. 318p bibl index ISBN 9781496201966, $55.00; ISBN 9781496210692 ebook, $55.00; 56-3515

Pare, Richard. Le Corbusier: the built work, text by Jean-Louis Cohen. Monacelli Press, 2018. 480p bibl ISBN 9781580934718, $125.00; 56-3467

Parisi, Nicholas. Rod Serling: his life, work, and imagination. University Press of Mississippi, 2018. 541p bibl index ISBN 9781496817501, $38.00; ISBN 9781496819444 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-3517

Schubart, Rikke. Mastering fear: women, emotions, and contemporary horror. Bloomsbury Academic, 2018. 358p filmography bibl index ISBN 9781501336713, $130.00; ISBN 9781501336720 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-3518

Smukler, Maya Montañez. Liberating Hollywood: women directors and the feminist reform of 1970s American cinema. Rutgers, 2019. 351p index ISBN 9780813587486, $99.95; ISBN 9780813587479 pbk, $29.95; ISBN 9780813587493 ebook, $26.95; 56-3519

Steinberg, Leo. Michelangelo’s sculpture: selected essays, ed. by Sheila Schwartz. Chicago, 2018. 226p bibl index ISBN 9780226482576, $65.00; ISBN 9780226482606 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-3466

Television finales: from Howdy Doody to Girls, ed. by Douglas L. Howard and David Bianculli. Syracuse, 2018. 520p bibl index ISBN 9780815636045, $70.00; ISBN 9780815611059 pbk, $39.95; ISBN 9780815654476 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-3472

Torrence, Gaylord. Art of Native America: the Charles and Valerie Diker collection, by Gaylord Torrence with Ned Blackhawk and Sylvia Yount. Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2018. (Dist. by Yale) 231p bibl index ISBN 9781588396624, $50.00; 56-3462

The Warfare between science and religion: the idea that wouldn’t die, ed. by Jeff Hardin, Ronald L. Num-bers, and Ronald A. Binzley. Johns Hopkins, 2018. 355p index ISBN 9781421426181 pbk, $39.95; ISBN 9781421426198 ebook, $39.95; 56-3565

Science & Technology

Ali, Nasheed. Understanding hepatitis: an introduction for patients and caregivers. Rowman & Little-field, 2018. 175p bibl index ISBN 9781538117248, $34.00; ISBN 9781538117255 ebook, $32.00; 56-3624

Bober, William. MATLAB® essentials: a first course for engineers and scientists. Routledge, 2018. 259p index ISBN 9781138563285, $159.95; ISBN 9781138032378 pbk, $139.95; ISBN 9781315162003 ebook, $69.98; 56-3621

Buffington, Jack. Peak plastic: the rise or fall of our synthetic world. Praeger, 2018. 152p bibl index ISBN 9781440864162, $37.00; ISBN 9781440864179 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-3618

Colby, Jason M. Orca: how we came to know and love the ocean’s greatest predator. Oxford, 2018. 394p bibl index ISBN 9780190673093, $29.00; ISBN 9780190673109 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-3604

Collins, Tony. How football began: a global history of how the world’s football codes were born. Routledge, 2019. 207p bibl index ISBN 9781138038745, $149.00; ISBN 9781138038752 pbk, $39.95; ISBN 9781315177212 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-3660

Davidson, Tish. The vaccine debate. Greenwood, 2019. 236p bibl index ISBN 9781440843532, $40.00; ISBN 9781440843549 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-3627

Edwards, Nina. Darkness: a cultural history. Reaktion Books, 2018. 294p bibl index ISBN 9781780239828, $27.50; 56-3583

Friedberg, Errol C. Learning about your genes: a primer for non-biologists. World Scientific, 2018. 110p index ISBN 9789813272613, $46.20; ISBN 9789813272620 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-3590

Gillespie, Kathryn. The cow with ear tag #1389. Chicago, 2018. 252p index ISBN 9780226582719, $70.00; ISBN 9780226582856 pbk, $22.50; ISBN 9780226582993 ebook, $18.00; 56-3607

Gordon, Suzanne. Wounds of war: how the VA delivers health, healing, and hope to the nation’s veterans. Cornell, 2018. 445p index ISBN 9781501730825, $29.95; ISBN 9781501730848 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-3629

Grundy, Quinn. Infiltrating healthcare: how marketing works underground to influence nurses. Johns Hopkins, 2018. 167p bibl index ISBN 9781421426754, $29.95; ISBN 9781421426761 ebook, $29.95; 56-3631

Hanlon, Roger T. Octopus, squid & cuttlefish: a visual, scientific guide to the oceans’ most advanced invertebrates, by Roger Hanlon, Mike Vecchione, and Louise Allcock. Chicago, 2018. 224p bibl index ISBN 9780226459561, $40.00; ISBN 9780226459738 ebook, $24.00; 56-3608

Hazelgrove, William Elliott. Wright brothers, wrong story: how Wilbur Wright solved the problem of manned flight. Prometheus Books, 2018. 320p bibl index ISBN 9781633884588, $24.00; ISBN 9781633884595 ebook, $11.99; 56-3580

Hoskins, Adrian. Butterflies of the world. Johns Hopkins, 2018. 312p index ISBN 9781421427171, $34.95; 56-3610

Kenner, Alison. Breathtaking: asthma care in a time of climate change. Minnesota, 2018. 216p bibl index ISBN 9781517902865, $100.00; ISBN 9781517902872 pbk, $24.95; ISBN 9781452958033 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-3633

Luke, Jenny M. Delivered by midwives: African American midwifery in the twentieth-century South. University Press of Mississippi, 2018. 193p bibl index ISBN 9781496818911, $90.00; ISBN 9781496821133 pbk, $30.00; ISBN 9781496818935 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-3635

Mayor, Adrienne. Gods and robots: myths, machines, and ancient dreams of technology. Princeton, 2018. 275p bibl index ISBN 9780691183510, $29.95; ISBN 9780691185446 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-3582

Obesity in childhood and adolescence: v.1: Causes, family influences, and social inequalities; v.2: Social influences and prevention efforts, ed. by H. Dele Davies, Hiram E. Fitzgerald, and Kami J. Silk. Praeger, 2019. index ISBN 9781440858536, $138.00; ISBN 9781440858543 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-3637

Plotnick, Rachel. Power button: a history of pleasure, panic, and the politics of pushing. MIT, 2018. 394p bibl index ISBN 9780262038232, $40.00; ISBN 9780262347501 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-3574

The Prime number conspiracy: the biggest ideas in math from Quanta, ed. by Thomas Lin. MIT, 2018. 309p index ISBN 9780262536356, $19.95; ISBN 9780262350532 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-3658

Sabeti, Pardis. Outbreak culture: the Ebola crisis and the next epidemic, by Pardis Sabeti and Lara Salahi. Harvard, 2018. 255p index ISBN 9780674976115, $25.95; ISBN 9780674916272 ebook, contact pub-lisher for price; 56-3639

Sherman, Rhonda L. The worm farmer’s handbook: mid- to large-scale vermicomposting for farms, busi-nesses, municipalities, schools, and institutions. Chelsea Green, 2018. 247p bibl index ISBN 9781603587792 pbk, $29.95; ISBN 9781603587808 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-3594

Stegenga, Jacob. Care and cure: an introduction to philosophy of medicine. Chicago, 2018. 248p bibl index ISBN 9780226590813, $75.00; ISBN 9780226595030 pbk, $25.00; ISBN 9780226595177 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-3641

Thiel, Richard P. Keepers of the wolves. Wisconsin, 2018. 243p index ISBN 9780299320744 pbk, $22.95; 56-3614

Warner, Anthony. Truth about fat. Oneworld, 2019. 366p index ISBN 9781786075130, $27.00; 56-3644

Webster, Robert G. Flu hunter: unlocking the secrets of a virus. Otago University Press, 2018. 222p bibl index ISBN 9781988531311 pbk, $35.00; 56-3646

Zanders, Edward D. Presentation skills for scientists: a practical guide, by Edward Zanders and Lindsay MacLeod. Cambridge, 2018. 80p bibl index ISBN 9781108469425 pbk, $26.99; ISBN 9781108635479 ebook, $22.00; 56-3578

Social & Behavioral Sciences

Backaler, Joel. Digital influence: unleash the power of influencer marketing to accelerate your global business. Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. 214p index ISBN 9783319783956, $29.99; ISBN 9783319783963 ebook, $19.99; 56-3679

Bougon, François. Inside the mind of Xi Jinping. Hurst & Company, 2018. 207p bibl ISBN 9781849049849 pbk, $19.95; ISBN 9781787381629 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-3744

The Cambridge handbook of play: developmental and disciplinary perspectives, ed. by Peter K. Smith and Jaipaul L. Roopnarine. Cambridge, 2018. 747p bibl index ISBN 9781107192515, $185.00; ISBN 9781316640906 pbk, $56.99; ISBN 9781108136761 ebook, $52.00; 56-3772

Communities that care: building community engagement and capacity to prevent youth behavior problems, by Abigail A. Fagan et al. Oxford, 2019. 354p bibl index ISBN 9780190299217, $99.00; ISBN 9780190299224 pbk, $27.95; ISBN 9780190299248 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-3789

Guha, Ramachandra. Gandhi: the years that changed the world, 1914–1948. Knopf, 2018. 1,083p index ISBN 9780385532310, $40.00; ISBN 9780385532327 ebook, $17.99; 56-3699

Hansell, Tom. After coal: stories of survival in Appalachia and Wales. West Virginia, 2018. 237p index ISBN 9781946684554 pbk, $27.99; ISBN 9781946684561 ebook, $27.99; 56-3680

Misca, Gabriela. Child and adolescent psychology for social work and allied professions: applied perspectives, by Gabriela Misca and Peter Unwin. Macmillan International Higher Education/Red Globe Press, 2019. 203p bibl index ISBN 9780230368439 pbk, $32.99; ISBN 9781137359223 ebook, $39.99; 56-3776

Mitchem, Stephanie Y. Race, religion, and politics: toward human rights in the United States. Rowman & Littlefield, 2018. 232p bibl index ISBN 9781538107942, $90.00; ISBN 9781538107959 pbk, $32.00; ISBN 9781538107966 ebook, $30.00; 56-3766

Morton-Jack, George. Army of empire: the untold story of the Indian Army in World War I. Basic Books, 2018. 582p index ISBN 9780465094042, $40.00; ISBN 9780465094073 ebook, $24.99; 56-3689

O’Connor, Cailin. The misinformation age: how false beliefs spread, by Caitlin O’Connor and James Owen Weatherall. Yale, 2019. 266p bibl index ISBN 9780300234015, $26.00; ISBN 9780300241006 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-3669

Oh, Youjeong. Pop city: Korean popular culture and the selling of place. Cornell, 2018. 238p bibl index ISBN 9781501730719, $42.95; ISBN 9781501730740 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-3704

Palmer, Monte. The future of the Middle East: faith, force, and finance. Rowman & Littlefield, 2019. 203p bibl index ISBN 9781538117880, $34.00; ISBN 9781538117897 ebook, $32.00; 56-3712

Principles of sociology: personal relationships & behavior, [ed.] by Kimberly Ortiz-Hartman. Salem Press, 2018. 574p bibl index ISBN 9781642651096, $165.00; ISBN 9781642651102 ebook, $165.00; 56-3798

Samuel, Lawrence R. Happiness in America: a cultural history. Rowman & Littlefield, 2018. 185p bibl index ISBN 9781538115794, $32.00; ISBN 9781538115770 ebook, $30.00; 56-3800

Waldfogel, Joel. Digital renaissance: what data and economics tell us about the future of popular culture. Princeton, 2018. 307p bibl index ISBN 9780691162829, $27.95; ISBN 9780691162829 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-3803

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