The Top 75 Community College Titles: May 2020 Edition

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

Posted on May 28, 2020 in Top 75 Community College Titles

Reference

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

Humanities

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

Science & Technology

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

Social & Behavioral Sciences

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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