The Top 75 Community College Titles: May 2023 Edition

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

Posted on May 25, 2023 in Top 75 Community College Titles

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Digital literacy: skills & strategies, ed. by Laura Nicosia and James F. Nicosia.  Grey House, 2022.  400p bibl index  ISBN 9781637003923, $165.00;  ISBN 9781637003930 ebook, contact publisher for price;  60-2487

Hannan, Brian. The magnificent 60s: the 100 most popular films of a revolutionary decade.  McFarland, 2022.  283p bibl index  ISBN 9781476687230 pbk, $39.95;  ISBN 9781476645063 ebook, contact publisher for price;  60-2484

Panton, Kenneth J. Historical dictionary of the United States.  Rowman & Littlefield, 2022.  782p bibl  ISBN 9781538124192, $350.00;  ISBN 9781538124208 ebook, $332.50;  60-2489

Xu, Wenying. Historical dictionary of Asian American literature and theater.  Rowman & Littlefield, 2022.  511p bibl index  ISBN 9781538157312, $225.00;  ISBN 9781538157329 ebook, $213.50;  60-2485

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Humanities

Aristotle. How to tell a story: an ancient guide to the art of storytelling for writers and readers, tr. and introd. by Philip Freeman.  Princeton, 2022.  264p bibl  ISBN 9780691205274 pbk, $16.95;  ISBN 9780691211107 ebook, contact publisher for price;  60-2526

The Cambridge companion to Plato, ed. by David Ebrey and Richard Kraut.  2nd ed.  Cambridge, 2022.  620p bibl index  ISBN 9781108471190, $105.00;  ISBN 9781108457262 pbk, $32.99;  ISBN 9781108595384 ebook, $26.00;  60-2554

Clague, Mark. O say can you hear?: a cultural biography of “The Star-spangled banner”.  W. W. Norton, 2022.  $28.95p bibl index  ISBN 9780393651386, $28.95;  ISBN 9780393651393 ebook, contact publisher for price;  60-2549

Contagious imagination: the work and art of Lynda Barry, ed. by Jane Tolmie.  University Press of Mississippi, 2022.  212p bibl  ISBN 9781496839794, $99.00;  ISBN 9781496839800 pbk, $30.00;  ISBN 9781496839824 ebook, contact publisher for price;  60-2511

Dedek, Peter B. The women who professionalized interior design.  Routledge, 2022.  174p bibl index  ISBN 9780367485313, $160.00;  ISBN 9780367485290 pbk, $44.95;  ISBN 9781003041504 ebook, $44.95;  60-2492

Grice, Annalise. D. H. Lawrence and the literary marketplace: the early writings.  Edinburgh University Press, 2022.  256p bibl index  ISBN 9781474458009, $110.00;  ISBN 9781474458030 ebook, $110.00;  60-2530

Kontje, Todd Curtis. Georg Forster: German cosmopolitan.  Pennsylvania State, 2022.  208p bibl index  ISBN 9780271093260, $99.95;  60-2541

Luttrell, Regina. Wonder Woman: warrior, disrupter, feminist icon.  Rowman & Littlefield, 2022.  232p bibl index  ISBN 9781538153888, $36.00;  ISBN 9781538153895 ebook, $34.00;  60-2513

Martin, Victoria. Complete guide to open scholarship.  Libraries Unlimited, 2022.  199p bibl index  ISBN 9781440872808 pbk, $75.00;  ISBN 9781440872815 ebook, contact publisher for price;  60-2490

Penney, Joel. Pop culture, politics and the news: entertainment journalism in the polarized media landscape.  Oxford, 2022.  264p bibl index  ISBN 9780197557587, $99.00;  ISBN 9780197557594 pbk, $29.95;  ISBN 9780197557624 ebook, contact publisher for price;  60-2514

Peterson-Iyer, Karen. Reenvisioning sexual ethics: a feminist Christian account.  Georgetown University, 2022.  208p bibl index  ISBN 9781647122270, $149.95;  ISBN 9781647122287 pbk, $49.94;  ISBN 9781647122294 ebook, $49.95;  60-2566

Power and subversion in Game of Thrones: critical essays on the HBO series, ed. by A. Keith Kelly.  McFarland, 2022.  282p bibl index  ISBN 9781476682648, $39.95;  ISBN 9781476644660 ebook, contact publisher for price;  60-2515

Shaked, Nizan. Museums and wealth: the politics of contemporary art collections.  Bloomsbury Academic, 2021.  288p bibl index  ISBN 9781350045750, $90.00;  ISBN 9781350045767 pbk, $29.95;  ISBN 9781350045774 ebook, $26.95;  60-2498

Spies-Gans, Paris A. A revolution on canvas: the rise of women artists in Britain and France, 1760–1830.  Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, 2022.  (Dist. by Yale) 384p bibl index  ISBN 9781913107291, $55.00;  60-2499

Turner, Patricia A. Trash talk: anti-Obama lore and race in the twenty-first century.  California, 2022.  264p bibl index  ISBN 9780520389236, $85.00;  ISBN 9780520389243 pbk, $29.95;  ISBN 9780520389250 ebook, contact publisher for price;  60-2517

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Science & Technology

Awadhiya, Ankur. Principles of wildlife conservation.  CRC Press, 2021.  386p bibl index  ISBN 9781032023328, $200.00;  ISBN 9780367479930 pbk, $80.95;  ISBN 9781000404111 ebook, $80.95;  60-2587

Brandt, Susan Hanket. Women healers: gender, authority, and medicine in early Philadelphia.  Pennsylvania, 2022.  312p bibl index  ISBN 9780812253863, $39.95;  ISBN 9780812298475 ebook, contact publisher for price;  60-2604

Dorman, Peter. Alligators in the Arctic and how to avoid them: science, economics and the challenge of catastrophic climate change.  Cambridge, 2022.  300p bibl index  ISBN 9781316516270, $39.99;  ISBN 9781009014731 pbk, contact publisher for price;  ISBN 9781009034425 ebook, contact publisher for price;  60-2596

Global warming of 1.5°C: an IPCC special report on impacts of global warming, by Valérie Masson-Delmotte et al.  Cambridge, 2022.  638p bibl index  ISBN 9781009157957 pbk, $99.00;  ISBN 9781009157940 ebook, $99.99;  60-2623

Harris, Angelique. Womanist AIDS activism in the United States: “it’s who we are”, by Angelique Harris and Omar Mushtaq.  Lexington Books, 2022.  152p bibl index  ISBN 9781793636515, $95.00;  ISBN 9781793636522 ebook, $45.00;  60-2608

Longert, Scott. Victory on two fronts: the Cleveland Indians and baseball through the World War II era.  Ohio University, 2022.  296p bibl index  ISBN 9780821424711, $45.00;  ISBN 9780821424728, $24.95;  ISBN 9780821447703 ebook, contact publisher for price;  60-2629

Myers, Susan. The bird name book: a history of English bird names.  Princeton, 2022.  416p bibl index  ISBN 9780691235691, $39.95;  ISBN 9780691236858 ebook, contact publisher for price;  60-2590

The National imperative to improve nursing home quality: honoring our commitment to residents, families, and staff, National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Health and Medicine Division.  National Academies Press, 2022.  604p bibl  ISBN 9780309686280 pbk, $70.00;  ISBN 9780309686297 ebook, contact publisher for price;  60-2611

Ostlie, Dale A. Astronomy: the human quest for understanding.  Oxford, 2022.  912p bibl index  ISBN 9780198825821, $105.00;  ISBN 9780198825838 pbk, $50.00;  60-2580

The Oxford handbook of comparative health law, ed. by David Orentlicher and Tamara K Hervey.  Oxford, 2022.  1,136p bibl index  ISBN 9780190846756, $200.00;  ISBN 9780190846770 ebook, contact publisher for price;  60-2612

Paul, Gregory S. The Princeton field guide to pterosaurs.  Princeton, 2022.  184p bibl index  ISBN 9780691180175, $29.95;  ISBN 9780691232218 ebook, contact publisher for price;  60-2597

Sagal, Anna K. Botanical entanglements: women, natural science, and the arts in eighteenth-century England.  Virginia, 2022.  294p bibl index  ISBN 9780813946955, $115.00;  ISBN 9780813946962 pbk, $45.00;  ISBN 9780813946979 ebook, contact publisher for price;  60-2585

Speller, Susannah. A materials science guide to superconductors and how to make them super.  Oxford, 2022.  240p bibl index  ISBN 9780192858344, $65.00;  ISBN 9780192858351 pbk, $30.00;  ISBN 9780191949159 ebook, contact publisher for price;  60-2624

Test-driving the future: autonomous vehicles and the ethics of technological change, ed. by Diane Michelfelder.  Rowman & Littlefield, 2022.  186p bibl index  ISBN 9781786613233, $105.00;  ISBN 9781786613240 ebook, $45.00;  60-2574

Timbers, Tiffany-Anne. Data science: a first introduction, ed. by Tiffany Timbers, Trevor Campbell, and Melissa Lee.  Chapman & Hall/CRC Press, 2022.  456p bibl index  ISBN 9780367532178, $149.95;  ISBN 9780367524685 pbk, $59.95;  ISBN 9781003080978 ebook, $59.95;  60-2616

Tsado, Lucy K. Exploring careers in cybersecurity and digital forensics, by Lucy K. Tsado and Robert Osgood.  Rowman & Littlefield, 2022.  154p bibl index  ISBN 9781538140611, $35.00;  ISBN 9781538140628 ebook, $33.00;  60-2617

Weber, Samuel. Preexisting conditions: recounting the plague.  Zone Books, 2022.  224p bibl index  ISBN 9781942130765, $29.95;  ISBN 9781942130772 ebook, contact publisher for price;  60-2613

Williams, Mark. The cosmic oasis: the remarkable story of earth’s biosphere, by Mark Williams and Jan Zalasiewicz with illustrations by Anne-Sophie Milon.  Oxford, 2022.  288p bibl index  ISBN 9780198845874, $27.95;  ISBN 9780192584731 ebook, contact publisher for price;  60-2586

“You are not expected to understand this”: how 26 lines of code changed the world, ed. by Torie Bosch.  Princeton, 2022.  216p bibl index  ISBN 9780691208480 pbk, $19.95;  ISBN 9780691230818 ebook, contact publisher for price;  60-2614

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Social & Behavioral Sciences

Ambroz, David. A place called home: a memoir.  Legacy Lit, 2022.  384p bibl index  ISBN 9780306903540, $30.00;  ISBN 9780306875212 ebook, $15.99;  60-2630

Baker, Alan R. H. The personality of Paris: landscape and society in the long-nineteenth century.  Bloomsbury Academic, 2022.  248p bibl index  ISBN 9781350252646, $115.00;  ISBN 9781350252660 ebook, contact publisher for price;  60-2708

Boczar, Amanda Jean Chapman. An American brothel: sex and diplomacy during the Vietnam War.  Cornell, 2022.  288p bibl index  ISBN 9781501761355, $39.95;  ISBN 9781501761379 ebook, $25.99;  60-2684

Brady, Steven. Chained to history: slavery and US foreign relations to 1865.  Cornell, 2022.  240p bibl index  ISBN 9781501761058, $39.95;  ISBN 9781501761591 ebook, $25.99;  60-2693

Bruce, Bertram C. Beyond the classroom walls: imagining the future of education, from community schools to communiversities.  Rowman & Littlefield, 2022.  224p bibl index  ISBN 9781475867114, $90.00;  ISBN 9781475867121 pbk, $36.00;  ISBN 9781475867138 ebook, $34.00;  60-2667

Clary, Christopher. The difficult politics of peace: rivalry in modern South Asia.  Oxford, 2022.  326p bibl index  ISBN 9780197638408, $99.00;  ISBN 9780197638415 pbk, $29.95;  ISBN 9780197638446 ebook, contact publisher for price;  60-2727

Coggeshall, John M. Something in these hills: the culture of family land in southern Appalachia.  North Carolina, 2022.  238p bibl index  ISBN 9781469670249, $99.00;  ISBN 9781469670256 pbk, $27.95;  ISBN 9781469670263 ebook, $22.99;  60-2637

Davis-Floyd, Robbie. Ritual: what it is, how it works, and why, by Robbie Davis-Floyd and Charles D. Laughlin.  Berghahn Books, 2022.  322p bibl index  ISBN 9781800735286, $145.00;  ISBN 9781800735309 pbk, $34.95;  ISBN 9781800735293 ebook, contact publisher for price;  60-2638

Demarais, Agathe. Backfire: how sanctions reshape the world against U.S. interests.  Columbia, 2022.  304p bibl index  ISBN 9780231199902, $30.00;  ISBN 9780231553339 ebook, $29.99;  60-2729

Dembicki, Geoff. The petroleum papers: inside the far-right conspiracy to cover up climate change.  Greystone, 2022.  285p bibl index  ISBN 9781771648912, $27.95;  ISBN 9781771648929 ebook, contact publisher for price;  60-2744

Gergen, David. Hearts touched with fire: how great leaders are made.  Simon & Schuster, 2022.  320p bibl index  ISBN 9781982170578, $29.00;  ISBN 9781982170592 ebook, $14.99;  60-2632

Grappo, Laura. Conjured bodies: queer racialization in contemporary Latinidad.  Texas, 2022.  312p bibl index  ISBN 9781477325193, $90.00;  ISBN 9781477325209 pbk, $29.95;  ISBN 9781477325216 ebook, contact publisher for price;  60-2633

Hughes, Judith M. The perversion of Holocaust memory: writing and rewriting the past after 1989.  Bloomsbury Academic, 2022.  160p bibl index  ISBN 9781350281875, $114.00;  ISBN 9781350281912 pbk, $39.95;  ISBN 9781350281899 ebook, contact publisher for price;  60-2679

Kaplan, Robert D. Adriatic: a concert of civilizations at the end of the modern age.  Random House, 2022.  368p bibl index  ISBN 9780399591044, $28.99;  ISBN 9780399591068 ebook, contact publisher for price;  60-2686

Lamdan, Sarah. Data cartels: the companies that control and monopolize our information.  Stanford, 2022.  224p index  ISBN 9781503615076, $85.00;  ISBN 9781503633711 pbk, $26.00;  ISBN 9781503633728 ebook, contact publisher for price;  60-2753

Lipton, Jacqueline D. Our data, ourselves: a personal guide to digital privacy.  California, 2022.  232p bibl index  ISBN 9780520379664, $85.00;  ISBN 9780520390508 pbk, $24.95;  ISBN 9780520976849 ebook, contact publisher for price;  60-2648

Menchaca, Martha. The Mexican American experience in Texas: citizenship, segregation, and the struggle for equality.  Chicago, 2022.  432p bibl index  ISBN 9781477324370, $25.20;  ISBN 9781477324387 ebook, contact publisher for price;  60-2696

Moore, Randy. The Scopes “Monkey Trial”: America’s most famous trial and its ongoing legacy.  Praeger, 2022.  276p bibl index  ISBN 9781440878091, $50.00;  ISBN 9781440878107 ebook, contact publisher for price;  60-2755

Murton, James Ernest. Canadians and their natural environment: a history.  Oxford, 2021.  352p bibl index  ISBN 9780199025466 pbk, $45.00;  ISBN 9780190161866 ebook, contact publisher for price;  60-2697

Nesbitt, George B. Being somebody and Black besides: an untold memoir of midcentury Black life, ed. by Prexy Nesbit and Zeb Larson.  Chicago, 2021.  360p  ISBN 9780226783123, $27.50;  ISBN 9780226716831 ebook, $26.99;  60-2698

The passenger experience of air travel: a critical approach, ed. by Jennie Small.  Channel View, 2022.  237p bibl index  ISBN 9781845419028, $149.95;  ISBN 9781845419011 pbk, $49.95;  ISBN 9781845419035 ebook, contact publisher for price;  60-2650

Pettitt, Paul. Homo sapiens rediscovered: the scientific revolution rewriting our origins.  Thames & Hudson, 2022.  352p  ISBN 9780500252635, $34.95;  60-2642

Pillars of social psychology: stories and retrospectives, ed. by Saul Kassin.  Cambridge, 2022.  465p bibl index  ISBN 9781009214292, $120.00;  ISBN 9781009214285 pbk, $39.99;  ISBN 9781009214278 ebook, $39.99;  60-2770

The Political science of the Middle East: theory and research since the Arab uprisings, ed. by Marc Lynch, Jillian Schwedler, and Sean Yom.  Oxford, 2022.  320p bibl index  ISBN 9780197640043, $99.00;  ISBN 9780197640050 pbk, $29.95;  ISBN 9780197640067 ebook, contact publisher for price;  60-2723

Porsdam, Helle. Science as a cultural human right.  Pittsburgh, 2022.  208p bibl index  ISBN 9781512822939, $55.00;  ISBN 9781512822946 ebook, contact publisher for price;  60-2735

Poulson, Barry Warren. Restoring sustainable macroeconomic policies in the U.S., by Barry W. Poulson and John Merrifield.  Lexington Books, 2022.  202p bibl index  ISBN 9781666916607, $95.00;  ISBN 9781666916614 ebook, $45.00;  60-2663

Presidents and the Constitution, v. 2: from World War I to the Trump era, ed. by Ken Gormley.  New York University, 2022.  368p bibl index  ISBN 9781479820092, $89.00;  ISBN 9781479819973 pbk, $22.00;  ISBN 9781479819980 ebook, contact publisher for price;  60-2757

Rizzo-Martinez, Martin. We are not animals: Indigenous politics of survival, rebellion, and reconstitution in nineteenth-century California.  Nebraska, 2022.  536p bibl index  ISBN 9781496219626, $80.00;  ISBN 9781496230331 ebook, $80.00;  60-2700

Roller, Duane W. A guide to the geography of Pliny the Elder.  Cambridge, 2022.  500p bibl index  ISBN 9781108617307, $140.00;  ISBN 9781108617307 ebook, $104.00;  60-2683

Schalk, Sami. Black disability politics.  Duke, 2022.  224p bibl index  ISBN 9781478023258, $94.95;  ISBN 9781478025009 pbk, $29.95;  ISBN 9781478027003 ebook, contact publisher for price;  60-2758

Schertzer, Robert S. The new nationalism in America and beyond: the deep roots of ethnic nationalism in the digital age, by Robert Schertzer and Eric Taylor Woods.  Oxford, 2022.  232p bibl index  ISBN 9780197547823, $99.00;  ISBN 9780197547830 pbk, $27.95;  ISBN 9780197547854 ebook, contact publisher for price;  60-2725

Sebba, Anne. Ethel Rosenberg: an American tragedy.  St. Martin’s, 2022.  304p bibl index  ISBN 9781250198631, $28.99;  ISBN 9781250198655 ebook, $12.99;  60-2701

Stucke, Maurice E. Breaking away: how to regain control over our data, privacy, and autonomy.  Oxford, 2022.  294p bibl index  ISBN 9780197617601, $99.00;  ISBN 9780197617618 pbk, $29.95;  ISBN 9780197617632 ebook, contact publisher for price;  60-2716

Sturken, Marita. Terrorism in American memory: memorials, museums, and architecture in the post–9/11 era.  New York University, 2022.  321p bibl index  ISBN 9781479811670, $89.00;  ISBN 9781479811687 pbk, $29.00;  ISBN 9781479811717 ebook, contact publisher for price;  60-2784

Weinstein, Mindy. The power of scarcity: leveraging urgency and demand to influence customer decisions.  McGraw-Hill, 2022.  240p bibl index  ISBN 9781264278237, $28.00;  ISBN 9781264278244 ebook, contact publisher for price;  60-2654

Young, Dennis R. Resilience and the management of nonprofit organizations: a new paradigm, by Dennis R. Young and Elizabeth A. M. Searing.  E. Elgar, 2022.  192p bibl index  ISBN 9781800889729, $110.00;  ISBN 9781800889736 ebook, contact publisher for price;  60-2655

Zeitlyn, David. An anthropological toolkit: sixty useful concepts.  Berghahn Books, 2022.  150p bibl index  ISBN 9781800734708, $99.00;  ISBN 9781800735354 pbk, $14.95;  ISBN 9781800734715 ebook, $27.95;  60-2643

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