The Top 75 Community College Titles: May 2021 Edition

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

Book covers of Religious Violence Today; Words of the Inuit; Dance Theory; and The Manual of the Mammalia

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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

Humanities

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

Science & Technology

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

Social & Behavioral Sciences

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