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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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
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
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
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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