The Top 75 Community College Titles: May 2022 Edition

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

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Art Magazine Collection Archive.  EBSCO. Contact publisher for pricing.  URL: https://www.ebsco.com/products/magazine-archives/art-magazine-collection-archive  59-2448

Encyclopedia of artificial intelligence: the past, present, and future of AI, ed. by Philip L. Frana and Michael J. Klein.  ABC-CLIO, 2021.  378p bibl index  ISBN 9781440853265, $97.00;  ISBN 9781440853272 ebook, contact publisher for price;  59-2452

The Routledge companion to Black women’s cultural histories, ed. by Janell Hobson.  Routledge, 2021.  408p index  ISBN 9780367198374, $250.00;  ISBN 9780429243578 ebook, $52.95;  59-2455


Humanities

Arabindan-Kesson, Anna. Black bodies, white gold: art, cotton, and commerce in the Atlantic world.  Duke, 2021.  320p bibl index  ISBN 9781478011927, $104.95;  ISBN 9781478014065 pbk, $27.95;  ISBN 9781478021377 ebook, contact publisher for price;  59-2457

Barnwell, Maurice. Design and culture: a transdisciplinary history.  Purdue, 2021.  352p index  ISBN 9781612496658, $99.99;  ISBN 9781612496245 pbk, $34.99;  59-2458

Baron, Dennis E. What’s your pronoun?: beyond he and she.  Liveright, 2021.  320p bibl index  ISBN 9781631496042, $25.95;  ISBN 9781631498718 pbk, $16.95;  ISBN 9781631496059 ebook, contact publisher for price;  59-2474

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Carpenter, Thomas H. Art and myth in ancient Greece.  Thames & Hudson, 2021.  312p bibl indexes  ISBN 9780500204542 pbk, $24.95;  59-2459

Christiansen, Steen Ledet. The new cinematic weird: atmospheres and worldings.  Lexington Books, 2021.  186p  ISBN 9781793612748, $95.00;  ISBN 9781793612755 ebook, $45.00;  59-2504

Denis, Rafael Cardoso. Modernity in black and white: art and image, race and identity in Brazil, 1890–1945.  Cambridge, 2021.  282p index  ISBN 9781108481908, $49.95;  ISBN 9781108680356 ebook, $40.00;  59-2460

Frazier, Paul. The Cold War on film.  ABC-CLIO, 2021.  166p bibl index  ISBN 9781440872129, $63.00;  ISBN 9781440872136 ebook, contact publisher for price;  59-2505

Golia, Julie. Newspaper confessions: a history of advice columns in a pre-internet age.  Oxford, 2021.  232p bibl index  ISBN 9780197527788, $34.95;  ISBN 9780197527801 ebook, contact publisher for price;  59-2470

Jones, Gavin Roger. Reclaiming John Steinbeck: writing for the future of humanity.  Cambridge, 2021.  257p index  ISBN 9781108844123, $39.99;  ISBN 9781108945943 ebook, $32.00;  59-2487

Makkai, Katalin. Kant’s critique of taste: the feeling of life.  Cambridge, 2021.  209p  ISBN 9781108497794, $99.99;  ISBN 9781108674300 ebook, $80.00;  59-2536

Protasi, Sara. The philosophy of envy.  Cambridge, 2021.  247p bibl index  ISBN 9781316519172, $99.00;  ISBN 9781009020510 ebook, $80.00;  59-2540

Rios, Katie. “This is America”: race, gender, and politics in America’s musical landscape.  Rowman & Littlefield, 2021.  196p bibl index  ISBN 9781793619167, $95.00;  ISBN 9781793619174 ebook, $45.00;  59-2523

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Skagestad, Peter. Exploring the philosophy of R. G. Collingwood: from history and method to art and politics.  Bloomsbury Academic, 2020.  216p bibl index  ISBN 9781350152908, $156.00;  ISBN 9781350189232 pbk, $39.95;  ISBN 9781350152922 ebook, contact publisher for price;  59-2543

Stevenson, Robert Louis. Complete personal essays of Robert Louis Stevenson, ed. by Trenton B. Olsen.  Routledge, 2021.  540p  ISBN 9780367180485, $150.00;  ISBN 9780429059308 ebook, $58.95;  59-2492

Tally, Margaret. The limits of #MeToo in Hollywood: gender and power in the entertainment industry.  McFarland, 2021.  201p bibl index  ISBN 9781476684956 pbk, $39.95;  ISBN 9781476642925 ebook, contact publisher for price;  59-2511


Science & Technology

Aronova, E. A. Scientific history: experiments in history and politics from the Bolshevik Revolution to the end of the Cold War.  Chicago, 2021.  256p bibl index  ISBN 9780226761381, $45.00;  ISBN 9780226761411 ebook, $44.99;  59-2559

Atlas of material worlds: mapping the agency of matter for a new landscape, ed. by Matthew Seibert.  Routledge, 2021.  378p bibl index  ISBN 9780367624163, $160.00;  ISBN 9780367624156 pbk, 39.95;  ISBN 9781003109358 ebook, $39.95;  59-2575

Beaton, Giff. Tiger beetles of the southeastern United States: a field guide, by Giff Beaton, R. Stephen Krotzer, and Brian D. Holt.  Alabama, 2021.  200p bibl index  ISBN 9780817359980, $29.95;  ISBN 9780817393397 ebook, $29.95;  59-2571

Bona, Marc. The reason we play: American sports figures and what inspires them.  Rowman & Littlefield, 2021.  186p bibl index  ISBN 9781538140932, $28.00;  ISBN 9781538140949 ebook, $26.50;  59-2618

Bowman, Geoffrey. A long voyage to the moon: the life of naval aviator and Apollo 17 astronaut Ron Evans.  Nebraska, 2021.  542p bibl index  ISBN 9781496213198, $36.95;  ISBN 9781496228260 ebook, $36.95;  59-2564

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Brown, Wynne L. The forgotten botanist: Sara Plummer Lemmon’s life of science and art.  Nebraska, 2021.  328p bibl  ISBN 9781496222817 pbk, $27.95;  ISBN 9781496229465 ebook, $27.95;  59-2570

Cannon, Randall. Caesars Palace Grand Prix: Las Vegas, organized crime and the pinnacle of motorsport.  McFarland, 2021.  442p bibl index  ISBN 9781476683775 pbk, $49.95;  ISBN 9781476642826 ebook, contact publisher for price;  59-2619

Card, Robert F. A new theory of conscientious objection in medicine: justification and reasonability.  Routledge, 2020.  284p bibl index (Routledge annals of bioethics, 21)  ISBN 9780367430818, $160.00;  ISBN 9781003002239 ebook, $48.95;  59-2590

Chapman, Gregory D. A strong and steady pulse: stories from a cardiologist.  Alabama, 2021.  192p bibl index  ISBN 9780817321000, $29.95;  ISBN 9780817393670 ebook, $29.95;  59-2593

Doucet-Battle, James. Sweetness in the blood: race, risk, and type 2 diabetes.  Minnesota, 2021.  240p bibl index  ISBN 9781517908485, $100.00;  ISBN 9781517908492 pbk, $25.00;  ISBN 9781452962313 ebook, contact publisher for price;  59-2595

The Future of nursing 2020–2030: charting a path to achieve health equity, ed. by Mary K. Wakefield et al.  National Academies Press, 2021.  466p  ISBN 9780309685061, $75.00;  ISBN 9780309685078 ebook, $59.99;  59-2596

Graham, John D. The global rise of the modern plug-in electric vehicle: public policy, innovation and strategy.  E. Elgar, 2021.  496p bibl index  ISBN 9781800880122, $175.00;  ISBN 9781800880139 ebook, contact publisher for price;  59-2557

Ibata-Arens, Kathryn C. Pandemic medicine: why the global innovation system is broken, and how we can fix it.  L. Rienner, 2021.  217p bibl index  ISBN 9781626379695, $95.00;  ISBN 9781626379718 pbk, $27.50;  ISBN 9781955055178 ebook, $27.50;  59-2598

Introduction to psychiatry: preclinical foundations and clinical essentials, ed. by Audrey M. Walker, Steven C. Schlozman, and Jonathan E. Alpert.  Cambridge, 2021.  512p bibl index  ISBN 9780521279840 pbk, $49.99;  ISBN 9781009038782 ebook, $40.00;  59-2599

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Kidd, Bruce. A runner’s journey.  Toronto, 2021.  424p bibl index  ISBN 9781487541040 pbk, $29.95;  ISBN 9781487541064 ebook, $29.95;  59-2621

Miller, Marli Bryant. Oregon rocks!: a guide to 60 amazing geologic sites.  Mountain Press Publishing Company, 2021.  160p bibl index  ISBN 9780878427031 pbk, $20.00;  59-2581

Minelli, Alessandro. Understanding development.  Cambridge, 2021.  192p bibl index  ISBN 9781108836777, $49.99;  ISBN 9781108799232 pbk, $14.95;  ISBN 9781108865500 ebook, $12.00;  59-2568

Mostern, Ruth. The Yellow River: a natural and unnatural history.  Yale, 2021.  376p bibl index  ISBN 9780300238334, $35.00;  ISBN 9780300263114 ebook, contact publisher for price;  59-2582

Principles of health: nursing, ed. by Patricia Stanfill Edens.  Salem Press/Grey House, 2021.  370p bibl index  ISBN 9781642657685, $165.00;  ISBN 9781642657692 ebook, $165.00;  59-2601

Van Hove, Michel A. Everyday physics: colors, light and optical illusions.  World Scientific, 2021.  296p bibl index  ISBN 9789811238338, $68.00;  ISBN 9789811239311 pbk, $28.00;  ISBN 9789811238352 ebook, $22.00;  59-2617

Webb, Geoffrey P. Error and fraud: the dark side of biomedical research.  CRC Press, 2021.  211p bibl index  ISBN 9780367469931, $99.95;  ISBN 9781003032670 ebook, $39.95;  59-2558


Social & Behavioral Sciences

The 1619 Project: a new origin story, ed. by Nikole Hannah-Jones et al.  One World, 2021.  624p bibl index  ISBN 9780593230572, $38.00;  ISBN 9780593230589 ebook, contact publisher for price;  59-2690

Adler, Paul. No globalization without representation: U.S. activists and world inequality.  Pennsylvania, 2021.  344p bibl index  ISBN 9780812253177, $45.00;  ISBN 9780812299663 ebook, contact publisher for price;  59-2623

African American studies, ed. by Jeanette R. Davidson.  2nd ed.  Edinburgh University Press, 2021.  328p index  ISBN 9781474487740, $105.00;  ISBN 9781474487733 pbk, $29.95;  ISBN 9781474487757 ebook, $29.95;  59-2624

Averett, Kate Henley. The homeschool choice: parents and the privatization of education.  New York University, 2021.  288p bibl index  ISBN 9781479882786, $89.00;  ISBN 9781479891610 pbk, $36.00;  ISBN 9781479801664 ebook, contact publisher for price;  59-2649

The Cambridge companion to environmental humanities, ed. by Jeffrey Jerome Cohen and Stephanie Foote.  Cambridge, 2021.  376p bibl index  ISBN 9781316510681, $99.99;  ISBN 9781009017763 pbk, $28.99;  ISBN 9781009037662 ebook, $22.59;  59-2659

Conrad, Paul. The Apache diaspora: four centuries of displacement and survival.  Pennsylvania, 2021.  400p bibl index  ISBN 9780812253016, $34.95;  ISBN 9780812299540 ebook, $34.95;  59-2692

Cross, William E. Black identity viewed from a barber’s chair: nigrescence and eudaimonia.  Temple, 2021.  200p bibl index  ISBN 9781439921050, $74.50;  ISBN 9781439921067 ebook, $27.95;  ISBN 9781439921074 ebook, $27.95;  59-2721

Dankwa, Serena Owusua. Knowing women: same-sex intimacy, gender, and identity in postcolonial Ghana.  Cambridge, 2021.  318p bibl index  ISBN 9781108495905, $99.00;  ISBN 9781108852890 ebook, $80.00;  59-2670

Decolonizing “prehistory”: deep time and indigenous knowledges in North America, ed. by Gesa Mackenthun and Christen Mucher.  Arizona, 2021.  288p index  ISBN 9780816542291, $60.00;  ISBN 9780816542871 ebook, open access;  59-2634

Edmund, Lois. Introduction to peace and conflict studies.  Rowman & Littlefield, 2021.  520p bibl index  ISBN 9781538117620, $140.00;  ISBN 9781538117637 pbk, $75.00;  ISBN 9781538117644 ebook, $71.00;  59-2716

Erickson-Schroth, Laura. Gender, by Laura Erickson-Schroth and Benjamin Davis.  Oxford, 2021.  210p bibl index  ISBN 9780190880033, $74.00;  ISBN 9780190880026 pbk, $18.95;  ISBN 9780190880057 ebook, contact publisher for price;  59-2722

Freedman, Paul. Why food matters.  Yale, 2021.  216p bibl index  ISBN 9780300253771, $26.00;  59-2737

The Gray zones of medicine: healers and history in Latin America, ed. by Diego Armus and Pablo F. Gómez.  Pittsburgh, 2021.  296p bibl index  ISBN 9780822946854, $55.00;  ISBN 9780822988434 ebook, contact publisher for price;  59-2683

Gripentrog, John. Prelude to Pearl Harbor: ideology and culture in US-Japan relations, 1919–1941.  Rowman & Littlefield, 2021.  284p bibl index  ISBN 9781538149430, $105.00;  ISBN 9781538149447 ebook, $99.50;  59-2662

Hansen, David T. Reimagining the call to teach: a witness to teachers and teaching.  Teachers College Press, 2021.  192p bibl index  ISBN 9780807765470, $90.00;  ISBN 9780807765463 pbk, $29.95;  ISBN 9780807779620 ebook, $29.95;  59-2652

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Hating girls: an intersectional survey of misogyny, ed. by Debra Meyers and Mary Sue Barnett.  Brill, 2021.  288p bibl index (Studies in critical social sciences, 197)  ISBN 9789004466968, $197.00;  ISBN 9789004467002 ebook, contact publisher for price;  59-2742

Hawkins, J. Russell. The Bible told them so: how Southern Evangelicals fought to preserve white supremacy.  Oxford, 2021.  224p bibl index  ISBN 9780197571064, $29.95;  ISBN 9780197571071 ebook, contact publisher for price;  59-2696

A History of world Egyptology, ed. by Andrew Bednarski, Aidan Dodson, and Salima Ikram.  Cambridge, 2021.  594p bibl index  ISBN 9781107062832, $175.00;  ISBN 9781108916639 ebook, $140.00;  59-2672

Hoy, Benjamin. A line of blood and dirt: creating the Canada–United States border across indigenous lands.  Oxford, 2021.  344p bibl index  ISBN 9780197528693, $35.00;  ISBN 9780197528716 ebook, contact publisher for price;  59-2697

Improving communication in mental health settings: evidence-based recommendations from practitioner-led research, ed. by Michelle O’Reilly and Jessica Nina Lester.  Routledge, 2021.  264p bibl index  ISBN 9780367456061, $160.00;  ISBN 9780367456054 pbk, $39.95;  ISBN 9781003024330 ebook, $39.95;  59-2725

Kim, S. Clara. Extremist mentality: cultural mindsets, mechanisms and strategies.  McFarland, 2021.  400p bibl index  ISBN 9781476679204, $49.95;  ISBN 9781476642536 ebook, contact publisher for price;  59-2744

Koyagi, Mikiya. Iran in motion: mobility, space, and the Trans-Iranian Railway.  Stanford, 2021.  296p index  ISBN 9781503613133, $65.00;  ISBN 9781503627673 ebook, contact publisher for price;  59-2686

Krim, Jessica S. Decolonizing the classroom: confronting white supremacy in teacher education, by Jessica S. Krim and Jennifer M. Hernandez.  Lexington Books, 2021.  106p bibl index  ISBN 9781793607669, $85.00;  ISBN 9781793607676 ebook, $45.00;  59-2653

Laurent-Simpson, Andrea. Just like family: how companion animals joined the household.  New York University, 2021.  336p index  ISBN 9781479828852, $89.00;  ISBN 9781479852628 pbk, $30.00;  ISBN 9781479851300 ebook, contact publisher for price;  59-2746

Ledger-Lomas, Michael. Queen Victoria: this thorny crown.  Oxford, 2021.  368p bibl index  ISBN 9780198753551, $40.00;  ISBN 9780191068003 ebook, contact publisher for price;  59-2707

Malkasian, Carter. The American war in Afghanistan: a history.  Oxford, 2021.  576p bibl index  ISBN 9780197550779, $34.95;  ISBN 9780197550793 ebook, contact publisher for price;  59-2664

Munson, Richard. Tech to table: 25 innovators reimagining food.  Island Press, 2021.  224p bibl index  ISBN 9781642831900, $32.00;  ISBN 9781642831917 ebook, $31.99;  59-2644

Object lives and global histories in northern North America: material culture in motion, c. 1780–1980, ed. by Beverly Lemire, Laura Peers, and Anne Whitelaw.  McGill-Queen’s, 2021.  560p bibl index  ISBN 9780228003984, $140.00;  ISBN 9780228003991 pbk, $44.95;  59-2636

Pullmann, Madeleine. Food supply chain management: building a sustainable future, by Madeleine Pullman and Zhaohui Wu.  2nd ed.  Routledge, 2021.  366p bibl index  ISBN 9780367351199, $350.00;  ISBN 9780367351205 pbk, $105.00;  ISBN 9781000372915 ebook, $105.00;  59-2645

​Sadiq, ​Ibrahim. Origins of the Kurdish genocide: nation building and genocide as a civilizing and de-civilizing process.  Lexington Books, 2021.  246p bibl index  ISBN 9781793636829, $100.00;  ISBN 9781793636836 ebook, $45.00;  59-2689

Sancton, Julian. Madhouse at the end of the Earth: the Belgica’s journey into the dark Antarctic night.  Crown, 2021.  368p bibl index  ISBN 9781984824332, $30.00;  ISBN 9781984824356 ebook, contact publisher for price;  59-2668

Smith, David A. Cowboy presidents: the frontier myth and U.S. politics since 1900.  Oklahoma, 2021.  277p bibl index  ISBN 9780806168487, $36.95;  ISBN 9780806169903 ebook, contact publisher for price;  59-2703

Snelders, Stephen. Drug smuggler nation: narcotics and the Netherlands, 1920–1995.  Manchester University Press, 2021.  305p  ISBN 9781526151391, $118.85;  ISBN 9781526151384 ebook, contact publisher for price;  59-2714

Steeves, Paulette F. C. The indigenous Paleolithic of the Western Hemisphere.  Nebraska, 2021.  326p bibl index  ISBN 9781496202178, $65.00;  ISBN 9781496225368 ebook, $65.00;  59-2638

Walcott, Rinaldo. The long emancipation: moving toward Black freedom.  Duke, 2021.  144p bibl index  ISBN 9781478011910, $89.95;  ISBN 9781478014058 pbk, $23.95;  ISBN 9781478021360 ebook, contact publisher for price;  59-2631

Wilson, Jan Doolittle. Becoming disabled: forging a disability view of the world.  Lexington Books, 2021.  326p bibl index  ISBN 9781793643698, $120.00;  ISBN 9781793643704 ebook, $45.00;  59-2632