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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CINAHL Complete. EBSCO Informational Services. Contact publisher for pricing. URL: https://www.ebsco.com/products/research-databases/cinahl-complete 58-2448
Dietz, Dan. The complete book of 2010s Broadway musicals. Rowman & Littlefield, 2020. 532p bibl index ISBN 9781538126325, $140.00; ISBN 9781538126332 ebook, $133.00; 58-2446
Encyclopedia of women & Islamic cultures 2010–2020, v.1, general ed. Suad Joseph. Brill, 2020. 753p index ISBN 9789004421141, $389.00; 58-2450
Food and Drink in History. Adam Matthew. Contact publisher for pricing. URL: https://www.amdigital.co.uk/primary-sources/food-and-drink 58-2451
Gilbert, Mark. Historical dictionary of modern Italy, by Mark Gilbert and Sara Lamberti Moneta. 3rd ed. Rowman & Littlefield, 2020. 538p bibl ISBN 9781538102534, $145.00; ISBN 9781538102541 ebook, $137.50; 58-2452
Kassel, David. Slice through America: a geological atlas. Princeton Architectural, 2020. 128p ISBN 9781616898311, $60.00; 58-2449
Oxford handbook of qualitative research, ed. by Patricia Leavy. 2nd ed. Oxford, 2020. 1,280p bibl index ISBN 9780190847388, $230.00; ISBN 9780190847418 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-2453
Religious violence today: faith and conflict in the modern world, ed. by Michael Jerryson. ABC-CLIO, 2020. 2v bibl index ISBN 9781440859908, $204.00; ISBN 9781440859915 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-2447
Routledge international handbook of green criminology, ed. by Avi Brisman and Nigel South. 2nd ed. Routledge, 2020. 726p bibl index ISBN 9781138633803, $250.00; ISBN 9781315207094 ebook, $52.95; 58-2454
Brown, Kellie D. The sound of hope: music as solace, resistance and salvation during the Holocaust and World War II. McFarland, 2020. 318p bibl index ISBN 9781476670560 pbk, $45.00; ISBN 9781476639949 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-2503
A Companion to Frederico Fellini, ed. by Frank Burke, Marguerite Waller, and Marita Gubareva. Wiley-Blackwell, 2020. 575p bibl index (Wiley Blackwell companions to film directors, 17 ) ISBN 9781119431534, $95.00; ISBN 9781119431541 ebook, $43.99; 58-2495
Cooper, James Fenimore. The chainbearer: or, the Littlepage manuscripts, ed. by Lance Schachterle and James P. Elliott. SUNY Press, 2020. 554p ISBN 9781438480657, $95.00; ISBN 9781438480664 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-2482
Costanzo, William V. When the world laughs: film comedy East and West. Oxford, 2020. 380p ISBN 9780190924997, $99.00; ISBN 9780190925000 pbk, $35.00; ISBN 9780190925031 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-2496
Cotton, Charlotte. The photograph as contemporary art. Thames & Hudson, 2020. 264p index ISBN 9780500204481 pbk, $24.95; 58-2466
Dance theory: source readings from two millennia of Western dance: a critical anthology, [ed.] by Tilden Russell. Oxford, 2020. 322p bibl index ISBN 9780190059750, $125.00; ISBN 9780190059767 pbk, $39.95; ISBN 9780190059774 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-2510
Deresiewicz, William. The death of the artist: how creators are struggling to survive in the age of billionaires and big tech. H. Holt, 2020. 355p index ISBN 9781250125514, $27.99; ISBN 9781250125521 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-2456
Elam, Kimberly. Introduction to three-dimensional design: principles, processes, projects. Princeton Architectural, 2020. 176p ISBN 9781616899219 pbk, $29.95; 58-2461
Lee, A. Robert. The Beats: authorships, legacies. Edinburgh University Press, 2019. 248p index ISBN 9781474403962, $105.00; ISBN 9781474403979 pbk, $29.95; ISBN 9781474404006 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-2484
Maxey, Ruth. Understanding Bharati Mukherjee. South Carolina, 2019. 160p bibl index ISBN 9781643360003, $39.99; ISBN 9781643360010 ebook, $39.99; 58-2486
Mikics, David. Stanley Kubrick: American filmmaker. Yale, 2020. 233p index ISBN 9780300224405, $26.00; ISBN 9780300255614 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-2499
Ms. Marvel’s America: no normal, ed. by Jessica Baldanzi and Hussein Rashid. University Press of Mississippi, 2020. 262p bibl index ISBN 9781496827029, $99.00; ISBN 9781496827012 pbk, $30.00; ISBN 9781496827036 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-2468
Mus, Francis. The demons of Leonard Cohen. University of Ottawa Press, 2020. 208p bibl ISBN 9780776631202, $39.99; ISBN 9780776631219 ebook, $29.99; 58-2457
Riccardi, Ricky. Heart full of rhythm: the big band years of Louis Armstrong. Oxford, 2020. 432p index ISBN 9780190914110, $34.95; ISBN 9780190914134 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-2505
San Juan, Eric. The films of Martin Scorsese: gangsters, greed, and guilt. Rowman & Littlefield, 2020. 250p bibl index ISBN 9781538127650, $35.00; ISBN 9781538127667 ebook, $33.00; 58-2501
Scott, John T. Rousseau’s reader: strategies of persuasion and education. Chicago, 2020. 336p bibl index ISBN 9780226689142, $35.00; ISBN 9780226689289 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-2531
Vander Wel, Stephanie. Hillbilly maidens, Okies, and cowgirls: women’s country music, 1930–1960. Illinois, 2020. 272p bibl index ISBN 9780252043086, $110.00; ISBN 9780252084959 pbk, $25.95; ISBN 9780252051944 ebook, $14,95; 58-2508
Bartneck, Christoph. Human-robot interaction: an introduction, by Christoph Bartneck et al. Cambridge, 2020. 252p bibl index ISBN 9781108735407 pbk, $59.99; ISBN 9781108587303 ebook, $48.00; 58-2572
Green and smart technologies for smart cities, ed. by Pradeep Tomar and Gurjit Kaur. CRC Press, 2020. 379p bibl index ISBN 9781138318090, $169.95; ISBN 9780429454837 ebook, $58.95; 58-2573
Gregory, Tim. Meteorite: how stones from outer space made our world. Basic Books, 2020. 328p bibl index ISBN 9781541647619, $30.00; ISBN 9781541647602 ebook, $17.99; 58-2556
Heard, Stephen B. Charles Darwin’s barnacle and David Bowie’s spider: how scientific names celebrate adventurers, heroes, and even a few scoundrels. Yale, 2020. 256p bibl index ISBN 9780300238280, $28.00; ISBN 9780300252699 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-2555
Illustrating mathematics, ed. by Diana Davis. American Mathematical Society, 2021. 171p index ISBN 9781470461225 pbk, $35.00; ISBN 9781470461225 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-2589
Johnson, Sarah Stewart. The sirens of Mars: searching for life on another world. Crown, 2020. 271p index ISBN 9781101904817, $28.99; ISBN 9781101904824 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-2571
Kelt, Douglas A. A manual of the mammalia: an homage to Lawlor’s Handbook to the orders and families of living mammals, by Douglas A. Kelt and James L. Patton. Chicago, 2020. 340p bibl index ISBN 9780226533001, $60.00; ISBN 9780226533148 ebook, $60.00; 58-2565
Les, Donald H. Aquatic monocotyledons of North America: ecology, life history, and systematics. CRC Press, 2020. 568p index ISBN 9781138054936, $260.00; ISBN 9781315166339 ebook, $260.00; 58-2563
Meiter, Gary H. Bird is the word: an historical perspective on the names of North American birds. McDonald & Woodward, 2020. 448p bibl index ISBN 9781935778424 pbk, $39.95; 58-2566
Phyllostomid bats: a unique mammalian radiation, ed. by Theodore H. Fleming, Liliana M. Dávalos, and Marco A. R. Mello. Chicago, 2020. 512p bibl index ISBN 9780226696126, $65.00; ISBN 9780226696263 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-2568
Planetary health: protecting nature to protect ourselves, ed. by Samuel Myers and Howard Frumkin. Island Press, 2020. 536p bibl index ISBN 9781610919661 pbk, $39.00; ISBN 9781610919678 ebook, $38.99; 58-2578
Pursell, Brennan C. Outsmarting AI: power, profit, and leadership in the age of machines, by Brennan Pursell and Joshua Walker. Rowman & Littlefield, 2020. 207p bibl index ISBN 9781538136249, $30.00; ISBN 9781538136256 ebook, $28.50; 58-2586
Robertson, S. E. B C, before computers: on information technology from writing to the age of digital data. Open Book Publishers, 2020. 156p bibl indexes ISBN 9781800640306 pbk, $22.95; ISBN 9781800641044 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-2587
Slotten, Ross A. Plague years: a doctor’s journey through the AIDS crisis. Chicago, 2020. 224p ISBN 9780226718767, $20.00; ISBN 9780226718934 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-2582
Springer, Paul J. Cyber warfare: a documentary and reference guide. Greenwood, 2020. 357p bibl index ISBN 9781440872785, $111.00; ISBN 9781440872792 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-2588
Black, Jeremy. Tank warfare. Indiana, 2020. 272p bibl index ISBN 9780253049995, $25.00; ISBN 9780253050007 ebook, $19.99; 58-2642
Brown, Timothy Scott. Sixties Europe. Cambridge, 2020. 241p bibl index ISBN 9781107122383, $79.99; ISBN 9781107552906 pbk, $25.99; ISBN 9781316388327 ebook, $21.00; 58-2643
Brownlee, Billie Jeanne. New media and revolution: resistance and dissent in pre-uprising Syria. McGill-Queen’s, 2020. 296p bibl index (McGill-Queen’s studies in protest, power, and resistance, v1) ISBN 9780228000884, $120.00; ISBN 9780228000891 pbk, $34.95; 58-2670
Calandro, Joseph. Creating strategic value: applying value investing principles to corporate management. Columbia, 2020. 240p index ISBN 9780231194143, $30.00; ISBN 9780231550673 ebook, $29.99; 58-2613
Cultural complexes and the soul of America: myth, psyche, and politics, ed. by Thomas Singer. Routledge, 2020. 330p bibl index ISBN 9780367272340, $160.00; ISBN 9780367272357 pbk, $42.95; ISBN 9780429295690 ebook, $42.95; 58-2724
Daum, Courtenay W. The politics of right sex: transgressive bodies, governmentality, and the limits of trans rights. SUNY Press, 2020. 252p bibl index ISBN 9781438478876, $95.00; ISBN 9781438478869 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-2737
Dever, William G. Has archaeology buried the Bible? Eerdmans, 2020. 168p bibl index ISBN 9780802877635, $25.99; ISBN 9781467459495 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-2604
Dodge, Arnold. Sanitized apartheid: the post-racial hoax in South Africa and the United States. Brill | Sense, 2020. 139p bibl index (Education, culture, and society, 2) ISBN 9789004391222, $119.00; ISBN 9789004444423 pbk, $119.00; ISBN 9789004444430 ebook, $35.00; 58-2652
Dorais, Louis-Jacques. Words of the Inuit: a semantic stroll through a northern culture. University of Manitoba, 2020. 344p bibl index (Contemporary studies on the North, 7) ISBN 9780887558627 pbk, $31.95; 58-2605
Finance or food?: the role of cultures, values, and ethics in land use negotiations, ed. by Hilde Bjørkhaug, Philip McMichael, and Bruce Muirhead. Toronto, 2020. 320p bibl index ISBN 9781487503123, $60.00; ISBN 9781487522476 pbk, $34.95; ISBN 9781487517236 ebook, $27.95; 58-2595
Gallagher, Gary W. The enduring Civil War: reflections on the great American crisis. Louisiana State, 2020. 288p index ISBN 9780807173480, $34.95; ISBN 9780807174067 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-2678
Kozodoy, Peter. Honest to greatness: how today’s most successful leaders use brutal honesty to achieve massive success. BenBella Books, 2020. 295p index ISBN 9781948836500, $26.95; ISBN 9781948836500 ebook, $12.99; 58-2618
Latinos and the 2016 election: Latino resistance and the election of Donald Trump, ed. by Gabriel R. Sanchez, Luis Ricardo Fraga, and Ricardo Ramírez. Michigan State, 2020. 344p bibl index ISBN 9781611863611 pbk, $39.95; ISBN 9781628953985 ebook, $39.95; 58-2719
Le Goff, Jacques. Heroes and marvels of the Middle Ages, tr. by Teresa Lavender Fagan. Reaktion Books, 2020. 232p bibl index ISBN 9781789142129, $23.00; ISBN 9781789142501 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-2697
MacBeath, John E. C. Reforming or re-inventing schools?: key issues in school and system reform, by John MacBeath, Maurice Galton, and John Bangs. Routledge, 2020. 208p bibl index ISBN 9780367262693, $160.00; ISBN 9780367262716 pbk, $44.95; ISBN 9780429292309 ebook, $44.95; 58-2636
Marchiel, Rebecca K. After redlining: the urban reinvestment movement in the era of financial deregulation. Chicago, 2020. 296p index ISBN 9780226723648, $50.00; ISBN 9780226723785 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-2680
McFarland, Victor. Oil powers: a history of the U.S.-Saudi alliance. Columbia, 2020. 357p bibl index ISBN 9780231197267, $140.00; ISBN 9780231197274 pbk, $35.00; ISBN 9780231552073 ebook, $34.99; 58-2672
Morel, Lucas E. Lincoln and the American founding. Southern Illinois, 2020. 176p bibl index ISBN 9780809337859, $24.95; ISBN 9780809337866 ebook, $24.95; 58-2681
Muñoz Martínez, Hepzibah. Uneven landscapes of violence: geographies of law and accumulation in Mexico. Brill, 2021. 186p bibl index (Studies in critical social sciences, 172) ISBN 9789004435483, $192.00; ISBN 9789004435490 ebook, $192.00; 58-2601
A National strategy to reduce food waste at the consumer level, ed. by Barbara O.Schneeman and Maria Oria. National Academies Press, 2020. 322p bibl ISBN 9780309680738 pbk, $70.00; ISBN 9780309680745 ebook, $54.99; 58-2619
Nelson, Michael. Clinton’s elections: 1992, 1996, and the birth of a new era of governance. University Press of Kansas, 2020. 342p bibl index ISBN 9780700629176, $34.95; ISBN 9780700629183 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-2720
The Oxford handbook of the physiology of interpersonal communication, ed. by Lindsey S. Aloia, Amanda Denes, and John P. Crowley. Oxford, 2020. 376p ISBN 9780190679446, $150.00; ISBN 9780190679477 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-2729
Pelli Bencivenni, Giuseppe. Against the death penalty: writings from the first abolitionists—Giuseppe Pelli and Cesare Beccaria, tr. and historical commentary by Peter Garnsey. Princeton, 2020. 215p bibl index ISBN 9780691209883, $35.00; ISBN 9780691211374 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-2648
Perry, William James. The button: the new nuclear arms race and presidential power from Truman to Trump, by William J. Perry and Tom Z. Collina. BenBella Books, 2020. 335p index ISBN 9781948836999, $27.95; ISBN 9781950665181 ebook, $14.99; 58-2709
Ricci, David M. A political science manifesto for the age of populism: challenging growth, markets, inequality, and resentment. Cambridge, 2020. 245p bibl index ISBN 9781108479424, $99.99; ISBN 9781108743051 pbk, $29.99; ISBN 9781108804172 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-2721
Rubertone, Patricia E. Native Providence: memory, community, and survivance in the Northeast. Nebraska, 2020. 468p bibl index ISBN 9781496217554, $80.00; ISBN 9781496223999 ebook, $80.00; 58-2610
Stahl, Kenneth A. Local citizenship in a global age. Cambridge, 2020. 260p index ISBN 9781107156463, $89.99; ISBN 9781316609927 pbk, $29.99; ISBN 9781316661352 ebook, $24.00; 58-2722
The United States in global perspective: a primary source reader, ed. by Julie K. deGraffenried and Stephen M. Sloan. Baylor, 2020. 660p ISBN 9781481312653 pbk, $39.95; 58-2687
Washington, George. The papers of George Washington: 22 September 1796–3 March 1797, ed. by Adrina Garbooshian-Huggins. Virginia, 2020. 912p bibl index (Presidential series, 21) ISBN 9780813943961, $115.00; 58-2689
Weisberg, Robert W. Rethinking creativity: inside-the-box thinking as the basis for innovation. Cambridge, 2020. 501p bibl index ISBN 9781108479400, $130.00; ISBN 9781108742900 pbk, $39.99; ISBN 9781108800020 ebook, $32.00; 58-2732
White, Michael D. Cops, cameras, and crisis: the potential and the perils of police body-worn cameras, by Michael D. White and Aili Malm. New York University, 2020. 200p bibl index ISBN 9781479820177, $89.00; ISBN 9781479850150 pbk, $25.00; ISBN 9781479865864 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-2623
Wilkinson, A. B. Blurring the lines of race and freedom: mulattoes and mixed bloods in English Colonial America. North Carolina, 2020. 336p bibl index ISBN 9781469658988, $95.00; ISBN 9781469658995 pbk, $34.95; ISBN 9781469659008 ebook, $26.99; 58-2690
Zavella, Patricia. The movement for reproductive justice: empowering women of color through social activism. New York University, 2020. 320p bibl index ISBN 9781479829200, $89.00; ISBN 9781479812707 pbk, $32.00; ISBN 9781479878505 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-2612
Zukin, Sharon. The innovation complex: cities, tech, and the new economy. Oxford, 2020. 304p index ISBN 9780190083830, $29.95; ISBN 9780190083847 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-2747
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