The Top 75 Community College Titles: August 2023 Edition
The best of all the titles appropriate for two-year colleges reviewed in the August issue of Choice.
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The Cambridge companion to Gershwin, ed. by Anna Harwell Celenza. Cambridge, 2019. 312p bibl index ISBN 9781108423533, $84.99; ISBN 9781108437646 pbk, $29.99; ISBN 9781108534666 ebook, $24.00; 57-2814
Cold War Eastern Europe. Taylor & Francis Group. Contact publisher for pricing. URL: coldwareasterneurope.com 57-2822
Disability in the Modern World: History of a Social Movement. Alexander Street. Contact publisher for pricing. URL: alexanderstreet.com/products/disability-modern-world-history-social-movement 57-2824
Geography today: an encyclopedia of concepts, issues, and technology, ed. by Ian Muehlenhaus. ABC-CLIO, 2019. 395p bibl index ISBN 9781440872266, $97.00; ISBN 9781440872273 ebook, contact publisher for price; 57-2821
Hall, Richard A. Pop goes the decade: the seventies. Greenwood, 2020. 266p bibl index ISBN 9781440862199, $92.00; ISBN 9781440862205 ebook, contact publisher for price; 57-2825
The Handbook of TESOL in K-12, ed. by Luciana C. de Oliveira. Wiley-Blackwell, 2019. 448p bibl index ISBN 9781119421740, $215.00; ISBN 9781119421702 ebook, contact publisher for price; 57-2816
Issitt, Micah L. The death penalty. Grey House, 2019. 789p bibl index (Opinions throughout history, 7) ISBN 9781642650662, $195.00; ISBN ebook, free online access; 57-2826
Newton, David E. Gender inequality: a reference handbook. ABC-CLIO, 2019. 362p bibl index ISBN 9781440872860, $60.00; ISBN 9781440872877 ebook, contact publisher for price; 57-2828
The Sage handbook of media and migration, ed. by Kevin Smets et al. SAGE Reference, 2020. 638p bibl index ISBN 9781526447210, $185.00; ISBN 9781526485229 ebook, contact publisher for price; 57-2829
Schreurs, Miranda. Historical dictionary of the Green movement, by Miranda Schreurs and Elim Papadakis. 3rd ed. Rowman & Littlefield, 2020. 446p bibl ISBN 9781538119594, $105.00; ISBN 9781538119600 ebook, $99.50; 57-2830
Shakespeare’s Globe Archive: Theatres, Players & Performance. Adam Matthew. Contact publisher for pricing. URL: amdigital.co.uk/primary-sources/shakespeares-globe-archive 57-2818
VoxGov. VoxGov Inc. Contact publisher for pricing. URL: voxgov.com 57-2831
Wyckoff, Claire. Social media issues. Grey House, 2019. 951p bibl index (Opinions throughout history, 6) ISBN 9781642650648, $195.00; ISBN 9781642650655 ebook, $244.00; 57-2832
Bloom, Harold. The American canon: literary genius from Emerson to Pynchon, ed. by David Mikics. Library of America, 2019. 426p ISBN 9781598536409, $32.00; 57-2867
Eco, Umberto. On the shoulders of giants, tr. by Alastair McEwen. Belknap, Harvard, 2019. 318p bibl index ISBN 9780674240896, $27.95; 57-2834
Eshel, Amir. Poetic thinking today: an essay. Stanford, 2020. 219p bibl index ISBN 9781503608870, $70.00; ISBN 9781503610514 pbk, $22.00; ISBN 9781503610521 ebook, contact publisher for price; 57-2835
Gifford, Paul. The plight of Western religion: the eclipse of the other-worldly. Oxford, 2019. 173p bibl index ISBN 9780190095871, $40.00; 57-2922
Hauskeller, Michael. The meaning of life and death: ten classic thinkers on the ultimate question. Bloomsbury Academic, 2020. 236p bibl ISBN 9781350073630, $90.00; ISBN 9781350073647 pbk, $26.95; ISBN 9781350073661 ebook, contact publisher for price; 57-2908
La Berge, Leigh Claire. Wages against artwork: decommodified labor and the claims of socially engaged art. Duke, 2019. 261p bibl index ISBN 9781478004233, $99.95; ISBN 9781478004820 pbk, $26.95; ISBN 9781478005278 ebook, contact publisher for price; 57-2842
Lobis, Victoria Sancho. Rubens, Rembrandt and drawing in the Golden Age, essays by Antoinette Owen with contributions by Francesca Casadio and Emily Vokt Ziemba. Yale, 2019. 354p bibl index ISBN 9780300247077 pbk, $35.00; 57-2849
McQuiston, Liz. Protest!: a history of social and political protest graphics. Princeton, 2019. 285p bibl index ISBN 9780691198330, $39.95; ISBN 9780691197319 ebook, contact publisher for price; 57-2844
Newton, Michael. Show people: a history of the film star. Reaktion Books, 2019. 444p bibl index ISBN 9781789141566, $35.00; ISBN 9781789141849 ebook, contact publisher for price; 57-2896
Perez, Gilberto. The eloquent screen: a rhetoric of film. Minnesota, 2019. 405p index ISBN 9780816641321, $120.00; ISBN 9780816641338 pbk, $29.95; 57-2897
Price, Leah. What we talk about when we talk about books: the history and future of reading. Basic Books, 2019. 214p index ISBN 9780465042685, $28.00; ISBN 9781541673908 ebook, $17.99; 57-2860
Spiker, Julia A. Empowering women: global voices of rhetorical influence. Lexington Books, 2019. 183p bibl index ISBN 9781498574884, $90.00; ISBN 9781498574891 ebook, $85.50; 57-2857
The Superhero symbol: media, culture, and politics, ed. by Liam Burke, Ian Gordon, and Angela Ndalianis. Rutgers, 2020. 327p bibl index ISBN 9780813597171, $120.00; ISBN 9780813597164 pbk, $32.95; ISBN 9780813597188 ebook, $32.95; 57-2858
Thomas, Lorenzo. The collected poems of Lorenzo Thomas, ed. by Aldon Lynn Nielsen and Laura Vrana. Wesleyan, 2019. 513p indexes ISBN 9780819578983, $85.00; ISBN 9780819578990 pbk, $26.95; ISBN 9780819579003 ebook, $22.99; 57-2877
Townsend, Joyce. How Turner painted. Thames & Hudson, 2019. 168p bibl index ISBN 9780500294833 pbk, $24.95; 57-2851
Wicks, Robert L. Introduction to existentialism: from Kierkegaard to The seventh seal. Bloomsbury Academic, 2019. 225p bibl index ISBN 9781441188939, $95.00; ISBN 9781441192349 pbk, $30.95; ISBN 9781474272537 ebook, contact publisher for price; 57-2916
Zukowsky, John. A chronology of architecture: a cultural timeline from stone circles to skyscrapers. Thames & Hudson, 2019. 271p index ISBN 9780500343562, $29.95; 57-2853
Diversifying STEM: multidisciplinary perspectives on race and gender, ed. by Ebony O. McGee and William H. Robinson. Rutgers, 2019. 269p bibl index ISBN 9781978805682 pbk, $28.95; ISBN 9781978805675 ebook, contact publisher for price; 57-2932
Haddad, Carol Joyce. Ungendering technology: women retooling the masculine sphere. Routledge, 2019. 191p bibl index ISBN 9780367221287, $140.00; ISBN 9780429273384 ebook, $49.95; 57-2934
Humphrey, Brian E. The bench grafter’s handbook: principles & practice. CRC Press, 2019. 638p bibl indexes ISBN 9780367224844, $179.95; ISBN 9781138046221 pbk, $89.95; ISBN 9781315171463 ebook, $89.95; 57-2950
McClellan, Frank M. Healthcare and human dignity: law matters. Rutgers, 2020. 189p bibl index ISBN 9781978802964, $120.00; ISBN 9781978802957 pbk, $28.95; ISBN 9781978802971 ebook, $28.95; 57-2967
Nicoll, Benjamin. Minor platforms in videogame history. Amsterdam University Press, 2019. 211p bibl index (Games and play, 2) ISBN 9789462988286, $120.00; ISBN 9789048540303 ebook, contact publisher for price; 57-2972
Odenwald, Sten. Space exploration: a history in 100 objects. The Experiment, 2019. 205p bibl ISBN 9781615196142, $25.00; ISBN 9781615196159 ebook, contact publisher for price; 57-2941
Parkinson, Claire. Animals, anthropomorphism and mediated encounters. Routledge, 2020. 138p bibl index ISBN 9780367195731, $140.00; ISBN 9780429203244 ebook, $49.95; 57-2956
Racism: science & tools for the public health professional, ed. by Chandra L. Ford et al. APHA, 2019. 583p bibl index ISBN 9780875533032 pbk, $75.00; ISBN 9780875533049 ebook, contact publisher for price; 57-2968
Richeson, David S. Tales of impossibility: the 2000-year quest to solve the mathematical problems of antiquity. Princeton, 2019. 436p bibl index ISBN 9780691192963, $29.95; ISBN 9780691194233 ebook, contact publisher for price; 57-2977
The SAGE handbook of sports economics, ed. by Paul Downward et al. SAGE Publishing, 2019. 586p bibl index ISBN 9781473979765, $185.00; ISBN 9781526444516 ebook, contact publisher for price; 57-2983
Smil, Vaclav. Growth: from microorganisms to megacities. MIT, 2019. 634p bibl index ISBN 9780262042833, $39.95; ISBN 9780262354516 ebook, contact publisher for price; 57-2936
Atkins, Liz. Research methods for social justice and equity in education, by Liz Atkins and Vicky Duckworth. Bloomsbury Academic, 2019. 336p bibl index ISBN 9781350015456, $100.00; ISBN 9781350015463 pbk, $32.95; ISBN 9781350015470 ebook, contact publisher for price; 57-3026
Buchanan, Rex. Petroglyphs of the Kansas Smoky Hills, by Rex C. Buchanan, Burke W. Griggs, and Joshua L. Svaty. University Press of Kansas, 2019. 209p bibl index ISBN 9780700628421, $29.95; 57-2999
Butler, Allison. Educating media literacy: the need for critical media literacy in teacher education. Brill | Sense, 2019. 120p bibl index (Critical media literacies series, 3) ISBN 9789004396159, $119.00; ISBN 9789004416758 pbk, $36.00; ISBN 9789004416765 ebook, $119.00.; 57-3027
Cabaniss, Deborah L. Different patients, different therapies: optimizing treatment using differential psychotherapeutics, by Deborah L. Cabaniss and Yael Holoshitz. W. W. Norton, 2019. 457p bibl index ISBN 9780393713428, $59.95; 57-3127
The Cambridge companion to comparative constitutional law, ed. by Roger Masterman and Robert Schütze. Cambridge, 2019. 621p bibl index ISBN 9781107167810, $120.00; ISBN 9781316618172 pbk, $39.99; ISBN 9781316731512 ebook, $32.00; 57-3101
Clare, Stephanie D. Earthly encounters: sensation, feminist theory, and the Anthropocene. SUNY Press, 2019. 184p bibl index ISBN 9781438475875, $95.00; ISBN 9781438475899 ebook, contact publisher for price; 57-3128
Cortada, James W. Fake news nation: the long history of lies and misinterpretations in America, by James W. Cortada and William Aspray. Rowman & Littlefield, 2019. 305p bibl index ISBN 9781538131107, $36.00; ISBN 9781538131114 ebook, $34.00; 57-3116
Curtis, Edward E. Muslim American politics and the future of US democracy. New York University, 2019. 195p index ISBN 9781479875009, $89.00; ISBN 9781479811441 pbk, $26.00; 57-3082
Davis, Alexander K. Bathroom battlegrounds: how public restrooms shape the gender order. California, 2020. 303p bibl index ISBN 9780520300149, $85.00; ISBN 9780520300156 pbk, $29.95; ISBN 9780520971660 ebook, $29.95; 57-2988
Dufourmantelle, Anne. In praise of risk, tr. by Steven Miller. Fordham, 2019. 197p ISBN 9780823285457, $110.00; ISBN 9780823285440 pbk, $32.00; 57-3129
Flyverbom, Mikkel. The digital prism: transparency and managed visibilities in a datafied world. Cambridge, 2020. 175p bibl index ISBN 9781107130814, $84.99; ISBN 9781107576964 pbk, $28.99; ISBN 9781316997024 ebook, $23.00; 57-3149
The Global bourgeoisie: the rise of the middle classes in the age of empire, ed. by Christof Dejung, David Motahedel, and Jurgen Osterhammel. Princeton, 2019. 375p indexes ISBN 9780691177342, $99.95; ISBN 9780691177342 pbk, $29.95; ISBN 9780691189918 ebook, contact publisher for price; 57-3040
Goldberg, Harold J. Daily life in Nazi-occupied Europe. Greenwood, 2019. 282p bibl index ISBN 9781440859113, $63.00; ISBN 9781440859120 ebook, contact publisher for price; 57-3041
Graney, Katherine E. Russia, the former Soviet republics, and Europe since 1989: transformation and tragedy. Oxford, 2019. 439p bibl index ISBN 9780190055080, $99.00; ISBN 9780190055097 pbk, $37.95; ISBN 9780190055103 ebook, contact publisher for price; 57-3065
Growing up America: youth and politics since 1945, ed. by Susan Eckelmann Berghel, Sara Fieldston, and Paul M. Renfro. Georgia, 2019. 275p index ISBN 9780820356631, $99.95; ISBN 9780820356648 pbk, $32.95; ISBN 9780820356624 ebook, contact publisher for price; 57-2991
Guadalupe-Diaz, Xavier L. Transgressed: intimate partner violence in transgender lives. New York University, 2019. 213p bibl index ISBN 9781479832941, $89.00; ISBN 9781479827855 pbk, $28.00; 57-3150
The Handbook of white-collar crime, ed. by Melissa L. Rorie. Wiley-Blackwell, 2020. 519p bibl index ISBN 9781118774885, $195.00; ISBN 9781118775004 , $156.99; 57-3015
Hill Collins, Patricia. Intersectionality as critical social theory. Duke, 2019. 360p bibl index ISBN 9781478005421, $109.95; ISBN 9781478006466 pbk, $29.95; ISBN 9781478007098 ebook, contact publisher for price; 57-3151
Johnson, Cathleen. Commercial society: a primer on ethics and economics, by Cathleen Johnson, Robert Lusch, and David Schmidtz. Rowman & Littlefield, 2020. 342p index ISBN 9781786613554, $130.00; ISBN 9781786613561 pbk, $44.95; ISBN 9781786613578 ebook, $42.50; 57-3021
Kinzer, Stephen. Poisoner in chief: Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA search for mind control. H. Holt, 2019. 354p bibl index ISBN 9781250140432, $30.00; ISBN 9781250140449 ebook, $14.99; 57-3120
Knott, Stephen F. The lost soul of the American presidency: the decline into demagoguery and the prospects for renewal. University Press of Kansas, 2019. 290p index ISBN 9780700628506, $39.95; ISBN 9780700628513 ebook, contact publisher for price; 57-3121
Lives interrupted: psychiatric narratives of struggle and resilience, ed. by Michael O’Loughlin, Secil Arac-Orhun, and Montana Queler. Lexington Books, 2019. 374p bibl index ISBN 9781498568333, $115.00; ISBN 9781498568340 ebook, $109.00; 57-3136
Martinez, J. Michael. Congressional lions: trailblazing members of Congress and how they shaped American history. Lexington Books, 2019. 347p bibl index ISBN 9781498559447, $95.00; ISBN 9781498559454 ebook, $90.00; 57-3086
Nokkentved, Niels Sparre. To think like a mountain: environmental challenges in the American West. Washington State, 2019. 244p bibl index ISBN 9780874223682 pbk, $28.95; 57-3089
Nydegger, Rudy V. Understanding therapy: how different approaches solve real-world problems. Greenwood, 2019. 232p bibl index ISBN 9781440865084, $63.00; ISBN 9781440865091 ebook, contact publisher for price; 57-3137
Robichaud, Andrew A. Animal city: the domestication of America. Harvard, 2019. 338p index ISBN 9780674919365, $39.95; 57-3090
Rosas, Abigail. South Central is home: face and the power of community investment. Stanford, 2019. 250p index ISBN 9780804799812, $85.00; ISBN 9781503609556 pbk, $25.00; ISBN 9781503609563 ebook, contact publisher for price; 57-3156
Seth, Michael J. A concise history of Korea: from antiquity to the present. Rowman & Littlefield, 2019. ISBN 9781538128978, $130.00; ISBN 9781538128985 pbk, $64.00; ISBN 9781538128992 ebook, $60.50; 57-3060
Sexual obsessions in obsessive-compulsive disorder: a step-by-step, definitive guide to understanding, diagnosis, and treatment, ed. by Monnica T. Williams and Chad T. Wetterneck. Oxford, 2019. 444p bibl index ISBN 9780190624798 pbk, $49.95; ISBN 9780190669539 ebook, contact publisher for price; 57-3141
Thompson, Stephen E. Ancient Egypt: facts and fictions. ABC-CLIO, 2020. 241p bibl index ISBN 9781440854934, $63.00; ISBN 9781440854941 ebook, contact publisher for price; 57-3052
Undocumented migration: borders, immigration enforcement, and belonging, by Roberto G. Gonzales et al. Polity, 2019. 203p bibl index ISBN 9781509531806 pbk, $22.95; ISBN 9781509531806 ebook, $18.99; 57-3161
Villing, Alexandra. Troy: myth and reality, by Alexandra Villing et al. Thames & Hudson, 2019. 312p bibl index ISBN 9780500480557, $60.00; ISBN 9780500480588 pbk, $25.51; 57-3054
Volsche, Shelly. Voluntarily childfree: identity and kinship in the United States. Lexington Books, 2020. 139p bibl index ISBN 9781793602473, $85.00; ISBN 9781793602480 ebook, $80.50; 57-3013
Watson, Elwood. Keepin’ it real: essays on race in contemporary America. Intellect, 2019. 211p bibl index ISBN 9781789380507, $24.00; ISBN 9781789380514 ebook, $19.00; 57-3162
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