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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American National Biography. Oxford. Contact publisher for pricing. URL: https://www.anb.org/ 58-0613
Bloomsbury Medieval Studies. Bloomsbury. Contact publisher for pricing. URL: https://www.bloomsburymedievalstudies.com/ 58-0614
Bruns, Roger A. Border towns and border crossings: a history of the U.S.-Mexico divide. Greenwood, 2019. 285p ISBN 9781440863523, $97.00; ISBN 9781440863530 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-0615
Byghan, Yowann. Sacred and mythological animals: a worldwide taxonomy. McFarland, 2020. 445p bibl index ISBN 9781476679501 pbk, $49.95; ISBN 9781476638874 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-0611
Issitt, Micah L. Guns in America. Grey House, 2020. 400p bibl index (Opinions throughout history, 10) ISBN 9781642656534, $195.00; ISBN 9781642656541 ebook, $244.00; 58-0616
Women’s Studies Archive: Voice and Vision. Gale, part of Cengage Learning. contact publisher for pricing. URL: https://www.gale.com/c/womens-studies-archive-voice-and-vision 58-0618
Bate, Jonathan. Radical Wordsworth: the poet who changed the world. Yale, 2020. 608p bibl index ISBN 9780300169645, $35.00; 58-0655
The Black prairie archives: an anthology, ed. by Karina Vernon. Wilfrid Laurier, 2020. 580p bibl index ISBN 9781771123747 pbk, $44.99; ISBN 9781771123754 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-0656
Byron in context, ed. by Clara Tuite. Cambridge, 2020. 342p bibl index ISBN 9781107181465, $105.00; ISBN 9781316850435 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-0658
Chasar, Mike. Poetry unbound: poems and new media from the magic lantern to Instagram. Columbia, 2020. 288p bibl index ISBN 9780231188944, $95.00; ISBN 9780231188951 pbk, $30.00; ISBN 9780231548083 ebook, $29.99; 58-0645
Conspiracies, ed. by James Plath. Salem Press/Grey House, 2020. 297p bibl index ISBN 9781642653731, $105.00; ISBN 9781642653748 ebook, $105.00; 58-0619
Edelman, Shimon. Life, death, and other inconvenient truths: a realist’s view of the human condition. MIT, 2020. 329p bibl index ISBN 9780262044356, $26.95; 58-0690
Entertaining history: the Civil War in literature, film, and song, ed. by Chris Mackowski. Southern Illinois, 2020. 254p index ISBN 9780809337576 pbk, $26.50; ISBN 9780809337583 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-0621
Frisken, Amanda. Graphic news: how sensational images transformed nineteenth-century journalism. Illinois, 2020. 292p bibl index ISBN 9780252042980, $125.00; ISBN 9780252084836 pbk, $28.00; ISBN 9780252051838 ebook, $19.95; 58-0643
Gillis, Chester. Roman Catholicism in America. Columbia, 2020. 416p bibl index ISBN 9780231142663, $105.00; ISBN 9780231142670 pbk, $35.00; ISBN 9780231551212 ebook, $34.99; 58-0697
Mesopotamia: civilization begins, ed. by Ariane Thomas and Timothy Potts. Getty Publications, 2020. 220p bibl index ISBN 9781606066492, $65.00; 58-0625
Sikarskie, Amanda Grace. Digital research methods in fashion and textile studies. Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2020. 215p bibl index ISBN 9781350042506, $100.00; ISBN 9781350134478 pbk, $35.95; ISBN 9781350042520 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-0628
Waggoner, Diane. Lewis Carroll’s photography and modern childhood. Princeton, 2020. 280p bibl index ISBN 9780691193182, $65.00; 58-0640
Barnes, John C. Same players, different game: an examination of the commercial college athletics industry. New Mexico, 2020. 229p bibl index ISBN 9780826361295, $34.95; ISBN 9780826361301 ebook, $34.95; 58-0760
Botnets: architectures, countermeasures, and challenges, ed. by Georgios Kambourakis et al. CRC Press, 2019. 426p bibl index ISBN 9780367191542, $129.95; ISBN 9780429329913 ebook, $129.95; 58-0743
Buchanan, Ben. The hacker and the state: cyber attacks and the new normal of geopolitics. Harvard, 2020. 432p bibl index ISBN 9780674987555, $27.95; ISBN 9780674246010 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-0744
Dudley-Shotwell, Hannah. Revolutionizing women’s healthcare: the feminist self-help movement in America. Rutgers, 2020. 201p bibl index ISBN 9780813593036, $120.00; ISBN 9780813593029 pbk, $29.95; ISBN 9780813593043 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-0740
Holl, Karen Davis. Primer of ecological restoration. Island Press, 2020. 224p bibl index ISBN 9781610919722 pbk, $35.00; ISBN 9781610919739 ebook, $34.99; 58-0714
Kenrick, Paul. A history of plants in fifty fossils. Smithsonian Books, 2020. 160p index ISBN 9781588346711, $24.95; 58-0729
Kohavi, Ron. Trustworthy online controlled experiments: a practical guide to A/B testing, by Ron Kohavi, Diane Tang, and Ya Xu. Cambridge, 2020. 271p bibl index ISBN 9781108724265 pbk, $34.99; ISBN 9781108601375 ebook, $28.00; 58-0746
Lee, Myeongkyu. Optics for materials scientists. Apple Academic Press, 2020. 392p bibl index ISBN 9781771887571, $169.95; ISBN 9780429425356 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-0759
Nelakurthi, Arun Reddy. Social media analytics for user behavior modeling: a task heterogeneity perspective, by Arun Reddy Nelakurthi and Jingrui He. CRC Press, 2020. 98p ISBN 9780367211585, $129.95; ISBN 9780429270352 ebook, $57.95; 58-0747
Photonics and fiber optics: foundations and applications, ed. by Tarun Kumar Gangopadhyay, Pathik Kumbhakar, and Mrinal Kanti Mandal. CRC Press, 2020. 304p bibl ISBN 9780367134570, $189.95; ISBN 9780429026584 ebook, $189.95; 58-0735
Principles of zoology, ed. by Richard M. Renneboog. Salem Press, 2019. 300p bibl index ISBN 9781642653175, $165; ISBN 9781642653182 ebook, $165; 58-0722
Prothero, Donald R. Weird earth: debunking strange ideas about our planet. Red Lightning Books, 2020. 274p bibl index ISBN 9781684350612, $20.00; ISBN 9781684350995 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-0701
Research methods and applications in chemical and biological engineering, ed. by Ali Pourhashemi, Sankar Chandra Deka, and A.K. Hagh. Apple Academic Press, 2019. 297p bibl index ISBN 9781771887687, $159.95; ISBN 9780429424137 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-0727
Su, Francis Edward. Mathematics for human flourishing, by Francis Su with reflections by Christopher Jackson. Yale, 2020. 274p index ISBN 9780300237139, $26.00; ISBN 9780300248814 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-0758
Alley, William M. The war on the EPA: America’s endangered environmental protections, by William M. Alley and Rosemarie Alley. Rowman & Littlefield, 2020. 289p bibl index ISBN 9781538131503, $33.00; ISBN 9781538131510 ebook, $31.00; 58-0890
Anderson, Chad. The storied landscape of Iroquoia: history, conquest, and memory in the Native northeast. Nebraska, 2020. 284p bibl index ISBN 9781496218650, $65.00; ISBN 9781496221247 ebook, $65.00; 58-0851
Atlantic transformations: empire, politics, and slavery during the nineteenth century, ed. by David W. Tomich. SUNY Press, 2020. 240p index ISBN 9781438477855, $95.00; ISBN 9781438477862 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-0835
Bajoghli, Narges. Iran reframed: anxieties of power in the Islamic Republic. Stanford, 2019. 176p bibl index ISBN 9781503608849, $70.00; ISBN 9781503610293 pbk, $22.00; ISBN 9781503610309 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-0842
Barnett, Jonathan. Designing the megaregion: meeting urban challenges at a new scale. Island Press, 2020. 184p bibl index ISBN 9781642830439 pbk, $30.00; ISBN 9781642830446 ebook, $29.99; 58-0902
Bernstein, Andrea. American oligarchs: the Kushners, the Trumps, and the marriage of money and power. W. W. Norton, 2020. 484p index ISBN 9781324001874, $30.00; ISBN 9781324001881 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-0891
Blanchette, Alex. Porkopolis: American animality, standardized life, and the factory farm. Duke, 2020. 321p bibl index ISBN 9781478007890, $104.85; ISBN 9781478008408 pbk, $27.95; ISBN 9781478012047 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-0778
Border policing: a history of enforcement and evasion in North America, [ed.] by Holly M. Karibo and George T. Díaz. Texas, 2020. 288p index ISBN 9781477320679, $45.00; ISBN 9781477320693 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-0768
Britton, Hannah Evelyn. Ending gender-based violence: justice and community in South Africa. Illinois, 2020. 216p bibl index ISBN 9780252043093, $110.00; ISBN 9780252084966 pbk, $24.95; ISBN 9780252051975 ebook, $14.95; 58-0818
Bruce, Bertram C. Education’s ecosystems: learning through life. Rowman & Littlefield, 2020. 194p bibl index ISBN 9781475851199, $60.00; ISBN 9781475851205 pbk, $30.00; ISBN 9781475851212 ebook, $28.50; 58-0801
Copeland, Libby. The lost family: how DNA testing is upending who we are. Abrams, 2020. 208p bibl index ISBN 9781419743009, $27.00; ISBN 9781683358930 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-0811
Cummings, B. J. The river that made Seattle: a human and natural history of the Duwamish. Washington, 2020. 222p bibl ISBN 9780295747439, $29.95; ISBN 9780295747446 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-0856
Defining documents in American history: drug policy, ed. Michael Shally-Jensen. Salem Press, 2020. 2v bibl index ISBN 9781642654011, $295.00; ISBN 9781642654028 ebook, $295.00; 58-0905
Dott, Brian Russell. The chile pepper in China: a cultural biography. Columbia, 2020. 298p bibl index ISBN 9780231195324, $32.00; ISBN 9780231551304 ebook, $31.99; 58-0826
Enriquez, Juan. Right/wrong: how technology transforms our ethics. MIT, 2020. 224p bibl index ISBN 9780262044424, $24.95; 58-0897
Ferleger, Louis A. Planting the seeds of research: how America’s ultimate investment transformed agriculture. Anthem Press, 2020. 124p bibl index ISBN 9781785272622, $120.00; ISBN 9781785272653 pbk, $40.00; ISBN 9781785272646 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-0791
Figueres, Christiana. The future we choose: surviving the climate crisis, by Christiana Figueres and Tom Rivett-Carnac. Knopf, 2020. 240p bibl index ISBN 9780525658351, $23.00; ISBN 780525658368 , contact publisher for price; 58-0907
Fine, Doug. American hemp farmer: adventures and misadventures in the cannabis trade. Chelsea Green, 2020. 323p bibl index ISBN 9781603589192 pbk, $19.95; ISBN 9781603589208 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-0792
Food fights: how history matters to contemporary food debates, ed. by Charles C. Ludington and Matthew Morse Booker. North Carolina, 2019. 304p index ISBN 1469652889, $90.00; ISBN 9781469652894 pbk, $32.95; ISBN 9781469652900 ebook, $25.99; 58-0769
From the galleons to the highlands: slave trade routes in the Spanish Americas, ed. by Alex Borucki, David Eltis, and David Wheat. New Mexico, 2020. 360p bibl index ISBN 9780826361158, $95.00; ISBN 9780826361165 pbk, $34.95; ISBN 9780826361172 ebook, $95.00; 58-0837
Futureproof: security aesthetics and the management of life, ed. by D. Asher Ghertner, Hudson McFann, and Daniel M. Goldstein. Duke, 2020. 298p bibl index ISBN 9781478006091, $104.95; ISBN 9781478006909 pbk, $27.95; ISBN 9781478007517 ebook, $27.95; 58-0781
Glasman, Joël. Humanitarianism and the quantification of human needs: minimal humanity. Routledge, 2020. 274p index ISBN 9780367222154, $155.00; ISBN 9781003006954 ebook, $54.95; 58-0885
Gruber, Aya. The feminist war on crime: the unexpected role of women’s liberation in mass incarceration. California, 2020. 284p index ISBN 9780520304512, $29.95; ISBN 9780520973145 ebook, $29.95; 58-0770
Haas, Hein de. The age of migration: international population movements in the modern world, by Hein de Haas, Stephen Castles, and Mark J. Miller. 6th ed. Guilford, 2020. 443p bibl index ISBN 9781462542895 pbk, $45.00; 58-0812
Hajnal, Zoltan. Dangerously divided: how race and class shape winning and losing in American politics. Cambridge, 2020. 357p bibl index ISBN 9781108487009, $84.99; ISBN 9781108719728 pbk, $27.95; ISBN 9781108807906 ebook, $22.00; 58-0892
Halperin, Charles J. Ivan the Terrible: free to reward & free to punish. Pittsburgh, 2019.360p ISBN 9780822945918, $45.00; ISBN 9780822987222 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-0832
Hardman, John. Marie-Antoinette: the making of a French queen. Yale, 2019. 376p bibl index ISBN 9780300243086, $30.00; ISBN 9780300249033 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-0877
Historical archaeology and indigenous collaboration: discovering histories that have futures, by D. Rae Gould et al. University Press of Florida, 2020. 209p bibl index ISBN 9780813066219, $85.00; ISBN 9780813057330 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-0783
Holmes, James Ronald. A brief guide to maritime strategy. Naval Institute, 2020. 183p index ISBN 9781682473818 pbk, $24.95; ISBN 9781682473825 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-0893
Hunt-Kennedy, Stefanie. Between fitness and death: disability and slavery in the Caribbean. Illinois, 2020. 228p index ISBN 9780252043192, $110.00; ISBN 9780252085062 pbk, $28.00; ISBN 9780252052071 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-0839
Jefferson, Brian Jordan. Digitize and punish: racial criminalization in the digital age. Minnesota, 2020. 281p index ISBN 9781517909239, $100.00; ISBN 9781517909239 pbk, $24.95; ISBN 9781452963440 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-0771
Jennings, Jack. Fatigued by school reform. Rowman & Littlefield, 2020. 148p index ISBN 9781475851281, $60.00; ISBN 9781475851298 pbk, $28.50; ISBN 9781475851304 ebook, $28.50; 58-0807
Kim, Anne. Abandoned: America’s lost youth and the crisis of disconnection. New Press, 2020. 241p bibl index ISBN 9781620975008, $25.99; ISBN 9781620975688 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-0909
Klein, Ezra. Why we’re polarized. Avid Reader Press, 2020. 312p index ISBN 9781476700328, $28.00; ISBN 9781476700397 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-0894
Knowlton, Christopher. Bubble in the sun: the Florida boom of the 1920s and how it brought on the Great Depression. Simon & Schuster, 2020. 411p bibl idex ISBN 9781982128371, $30.00; ISBN 9781982128395 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-0796
Mandell, Daniel R. The lost tradition of economic equality in America, 1600–1870. Johns Hopkins, . 320p index ISBN 9781421437118, $49.95; ISBN 9781421437125 ebook, $49.95; 58-0863
Miller, Ian Matthew. Fir and empire: the transformation of forests in early modern China. Washington, 2020. 280p bibl index ISBN 9780295747330, $40.00; ISBN 9780295747347 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-0829
Mitchell, Jerry. Race against time: a reporter reopens the unsolved murder cases of the civil rights era. Simon & Schuster, 2020. 421p bibl index ISBN 9781451645132, $28.00; ISBN 9781451645156 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-0865
Reinterpreting southern histories: essays in historiography, ed. by Craig Thompson Friend and Lorri Glover. Louisiana State, 2020. 608p index ISBN 9780807172568, $80.00; ISBN 9780807173466 pbk, $40.00; 58-0869
Taylor, Stephen. Sons of the waves: the common seaman in the heroic age of sail. Yale, 2020. 416p bibl index ISBN 9780300245714, $30.00; ISBN 9780300252613 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-0875
Turek, Lauren Frances. To bring the good news to all nations: Evangelical influence on human rights and U.S. foreign relations. Cornell, 2020. 312p bibl index ISBN 9781501748912, $47.95; ISBN 9781501748929 ebook, $23.99; 58-0882
Wanzo, Rebecca Ann. The content of our caricature: African American comic art and political belonging. New York University, 2020. 261p index ISBN 9781479840083, $89.00; ISBN 9781479822195 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-0776
Woody, William Douglas. Understanding police interrogation: confessions and consequences, by William Douglas Woody and Krista D. Forrest; foreword by Edie Greene. New York University, 2020. 317p bibl index ISBN 9781479860371, $99.00; ISBN 9781479816576 pbk, $35.00; 58-0914
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