The Top 75 Community College Titles: November 2024 Edition

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

Posted on November 26, 2024 in Top 75 Community College Titles

Reference

Hanks, Reuel R. Historical dictionary of Uzbekistan.   Rowman & Littlefield, 2024.  288p bibl index  ISBN 9781538102282, $175.00;  ISBN 9781538102299 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-0573

Houngnikpo, Mathurin C. Historical dictionary of Benin.  Rowman & Littlefield, 2024.  562p bibl index  ISBN 9781538186558, $250.00;  ISBN 9781538186565 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-0574

Humanities

Bead talk: Indigenous knowledge and aesthetics from the Flatlands, ed. by Carmen Robertson, Judy Anderson, and Katherine Boyer.  University of Manitoba, 2024.  200p bibl index (Paskwāwi masinahikewina/Prairie writing, 1)  ISBN 9781772840650, $27.95;  ISBN 9781772840674, $22.50;  62-0580

Biesen, Sheri Chinen. Through a noir lens: adapting film noir visual style.  Columbia, 2024.  264p bibl index  ISBN 9780231215633, $90.00;  ISBN 9780231215640 pbk, $30.00;  ISBN 9780231560894 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-0644

The Cambridge history of the American essay, ed. by Christy Wampole and Jason Childs.  Cambridge, 2024.  850p bibl index  ISBN 9781316512708, $160.00;  ISBN 9781009080613 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-0602

Charney, Noah. The 12-hour film expert: everything you need to know about movies, by Noah Charney and James Charney.  Rowman & Littlefield, 2024.  248p bibl index  ISBN 9781538173428, $34.00;  ISBN 9781538173435 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-0646

Cueva, Edmund P. Horror in classical literature: on a profound and elementary principle.  University of Wales Press, 2024.  280p bibl  ISBN 9781837720934, $75.00;  ISBN 9781837720958 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-0618

Fairfield, Paul. Introducing Dewey.  Bloomsbury, 2024.  240p bibl index  ISBN 9781350297838, $75.00;  ISBN 9781350297845 pbk, $24.95;  ISBN 9781350297807 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-0659

Gaylin, David. The final days of Edgar Allan Poe: nevermore in Baltimore.  Lehigh, 2024.  328p bibl index  ISBN 9781683933939, $125.00;  ISBN 9781683933946 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-0625

Hamilton, Andrew James. The royal Inca tunic: a biography of an Andean masterpiece.  Princeton, 2024.  344p bibl index  ISBN 9780691256955, $55.00;  ISBN 9780691256962 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-0584

Hemingway, Collins. Jane Austen and the creation of modern fiction: six novels in “a style entirely new”.  McFarland, 2024.  258p bibl index  ISBN 9781476694276, $49.95;  ISBN 9781476653709 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-0627

Hinchman, Mark. History of interior architecture: furniture, design, and global culture.  Fairchild Books, 2024.  536p bibl index  ISBN 9781501385605 pbk, $135.00;  ISBN 9781501385599 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-0590

Holland, Charles. How to enjoy architecture: a guide for everyone.  Yale, 2024.  192p bibl index  ISBN 9780300263930, $25.00;  ISBN 9780300277395 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-0591

Lack, Jessica. Protest Art.  Thames & Hudson, 2024.  176p bibl index  ISBN 9780500296684, $18.95;  62-0585

Nasiłowska, Anna. A history of Polish literature, tr. by Anna Zaranko.  Academic Studies Press, 2024.  702p bibl  ISBN 9798887192772, $169.00;  ISBN 9798887192796 ebook, $169.00;  62-0642

Peters, John G. Silence, space and absence in Conrad’s works: Western and non-Western worlds.  Palgrave Macmillan, 2023.  127p bibl index  ISBN 9783031449093, $44.99;  ISBN 9783031449109 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-0636

Post-punk and philosophy, ed. by Joshua Heter and Richard Greene.  ALA Neal-Schuman, 2024.  304p bibl index  ISBN 9781637700570, $24.95;  62-0650

Roberts, Jessica. Effective journalism: how the information ecosystem works and what journalists should do about it.  Intellect, 2024.  202p bibl index  ISBN 9781789389036, $129.95;  ISBN 9781789389050 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-0596

Sullivan, John L. Podcasting in a platform age: from an amateur to a professional medium.  Bloomsbury, 2024.  296p bibl index  ISBN 9781501380709, $120.00;  ISBN 9781501380693 pbk, $29.95;  ISBN 9781501380679 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-0598

Science & Technology

Lu, Yung-Hsiang. Intermediate C programming, by Yung-Hsiang Lu and George K. Thiruvathukal.  CRC Press, 2024.  400p bibl index  ISBN 9781032191744, $140.00;  ISBN 9781032189819 pbk, $59.95;  ISBN 9781003257981 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-0692

McDonough, Kelly S. Indigenous science and technology: Nahuas and the world around them.  Arizona, 2024.  328p bibl index  ISBN 9780816550395, $100.00;  ISBN 9780816550388 pbk, $35.00;  ISBN 9780816550401 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-0678

Nathanson, Mitchell. Under Jackie’s shadow: voices of Black minor leaguers baseball left behind.  Nebraska, 2024.  224p bibl index  ISBN 9781496237170, $34.95;  ISBN 9781496239150 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-0696

Nelson, Ximena. The lives of spiders: a natural history of the world’s spiders.  Princeton, 2024.  288p bibl index  ISBN 9780691255026, $35.00;  ISBN 9780691255057 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-0685

The Origin and significance of zero: an interdisciplinary perspective, ed. by Peter Gobets and Robert Lawrence Kuhn.  Brill, 2024.  787p bibl index (Value inquiry book series, 395)  ISBN 9789004691551, $111.00;  ISBN 9789004691568 ebook, $111.00;  62-0694

Pierik, Roland. Inducing immunity?: justifying immunization policies in times of vaccine hesitancy, by Roland Pierik and Marcel Verweij.  MIT, 2024.  248p bibl index  ISBN 9780262547796 pbk, $45.00;  ISBN 9780262378369 ebook, $44.99;  62-0690

Plant pathology and disease management: principles and practices, by S. Parthasarathy et al.  Routledge, 2024.  456p bibl  ISBN 9781032711942, $240.00;  ISBN 9781032711973 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-0683

Smith, Kerry Douglas. Predicting disasters: earthquakes, scientists, and uncertainty in modern Japan.  Pennsylvania, 2024.  368p bibl index  ISBN 9781512825374, $64.95;  ISBN 9781512825367 ebook, $64.95;  62-0687

Wulsin, Lawson R. Toxic stress: how stress is making us ill and what we can do about it.  Cambridge, 2024.  300p bibl index  ISBN 9781009306584 pbk, $19.95;  ISBN 9781009306560 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-0691

Social & Behavioral Sciences

van Beek, Walter E. A. Masquerades in African society: gender, power, and identity, by Walter E. A. van Beek and Harrie M. Leyten.  James Currey, 2023.  414p bibl index  ISBN 9781847013439, $135.00;  ISBN 9781805430957 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-0708

Berridge, G. R. Outposts of diplomacy: a history of the embassy.  Reaktion Books, 2024.  256p bibl index  ISBN 9781789148497, $26.27;  ISBN 9781789148961 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-0816

Black, Jeremy. The Atlantic slave trade in world history.  Routledge, 2024.  218p bibl index  ISBN 9781032601731, $170.00;  ISBN 9781032599847 pbk, $46.95;  ISBN 9781003833215 ebook, $42.95;  62-0754

Boersma, John. Aristotle’s quarrel with Socrates: friendship in political thought.  SUNY Press, 2024.  294p bibl index  ISBN 9781438496702, $99.00;  ISBN 9781438496726 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-0826

Brewer, John. Volcanic: Vesuvius in the age of revolutions.  Yale, 2023.  544p bibl index  ISBN 9780300272666, $40.00;  ISBN 9780300274431 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-0803

Bruhn, Kathleen. Politics and the pink tide: a comparative analysis of protest in Latin America.  Notre Dame, 2024.  258p bibl index  ISBN 9780268207687, $65.00;  ISBN 9780268207779 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-0812

Cassidy-Welch, Megan. Crusades and violence.  ARC Humanities Press, 2023.  96p bibl  ISBN 9781641894753 pbk, $17.95;  ISBN 9781802701302 ebook, $17.95;  62-0755

Chávez, Marisela R. Chicana liberation: women and Mexican American politics in Los Angeles, 1945–1981.  Illinois, 2024.  204p bibl index  ISBN 9780252045707, $110.00;  ISBN 9780252087813 pbk, $26.00;  ISBN 9780252056567 ebook, $19.95;  62-0790

Choquette, Éléna. Land and the liberal project: Canada’s violent expansion.  UBC Press, 2024.  232p bibl index  ISBN 9780774869805, $99.00;  62-0791

Cook, Michael. A history of the Muslim world: from its origins to the dawn of modernity.  Princeton, 2024.  960p bibl index  ISBN 9780691236575, $39.95;  ISBN 9780691236582 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-0786

Doyle, Don H. The age of Reconstruction: how Lincoln’s new birth of freedom remade the world.  Princeton, 2024.  392p bibl index  ISBN 9780691256092, $35.00;  ISBN 9780691256115 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-0757

Fennell, Julie. Violated: sexual consent and assault in the twenty-first century, by Julie Fennell and J. Remy Green.  Rowman & Littlefield, 2024.  210p bibl index  ISBN 9781538180877, $35.00;  ISBN 9781538180884 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-0857

Friesen, Gerald. The Honourable John Norquay: Indigenous premier, Canadian statesman.  University of Manitoba, 2024.  619p bibl index  ISBN 9781772840582, $39.95;  ISBN 9781772840599 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-0793

Gerhardt, Michael J. Law of presidential impeachment: a guide for the engaged citizen.  New York University, 2024.  216p bibl index  ISBN 9781479824694, $24.95;  ISBN 9781479824717 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-0840

Ghaziani, Amin. Long live queer nightlife: how the closing of gay bars sparked a revolution.  Princeton, 2024.  288p bibl index  ISBN 9780691253855, $29.95;  ISBN 9780691253862 ebook, $29.95;  62-0858

Ghosh, Amitav. Smoke and ashes: opium’s hidden histories.  Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2024.  416p bibl index  ISBN 9780374602925, $32.00;  ISBN 9780374711993 ebook, $15.99;  62-0758

Goodin, Robert E. Perpetuating advantage: mechanisms of structural injustice.  Oxford, 2024.  272p bibl index  ISBN 9780192888204, $40.00;  ISBN 9780191982194 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-0701

Hartley, Roger C. Fulfilling the pledge: securing industrial democracy for American workers in a digital economy.  MIT, 2024.  306p bibl index  ISBN 9780262547130, $45.00;  ISBN 9780262377355 ebook, $44.99;  62-0723

Hester, Rhys. Sentencing without guidelines.  Temple, 2024.  192p bibl index  ISBN 9781439923542, $89.50;  ISBN 9781439923559 pbk, $24.95;  ISBN 9781439923566 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-0841

Jarquín, Mateo. The Sandinista revolution: a global Latin American history.  North Carolina, 2024.  336p bibl index  ISBN 9781469678481, $99.00;  ISBN 9781469678498 pbk, $29.95;  ISBN 9781469678504 ebook, $22.99;  62-0783

Kamrava, Mehran. How Islam rules in Iran: theology and theocracy in the Islamic Republic.  Cambridge, 2024.  366p bibl index  ISBN 9781009460835, $120.00;  ISBN 9781009460842 pbk, $39.99;  ISBN 9781009460859 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-0788

Kelner, Shaul. Cold War exodus: how American activists mobilized to free Soviet Jews.  New York University, 2024.  556p bibl index  ISBN 9781479879397, $35.00;  ISBN 9781479859108 ebook, $35.00;  62-0759

Lancaster, Andy. Organizational learning communities: empowering social learning and collaboration to improve performance.  Kogan Page, 2024.  448p bibl index  ISBN 9781398615526, $131.00;  ISBN 9781398615496 pbk, $39.89;  ISBN 9781398615519 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-0725

Martin, Lawrence M. Foreigners in their own country: identity and rejection in France.  Berghahn Books, 2023.  268p bibl index  ISBN 9781805390886, $135.00;  ISBN 9781805390800 ebook, open access;  62-0860

McNally, Robert Aquinas. Cast out of Eden: the untold story of John Muir, Indigenous peoples, and the American wilderness.  Nebraska, 2024.  328p bibl index  ISBN 9781496227263, $34.95;  ISBN 9781496239198 ebook, $34.95;  62-0795

Mello, Joseph. Pot for profit: cannabis legalization, racial capitalism, and the expansion of the carceral state.  Stanford, 2024.  208p bibl index  ISBN 9781503612280, $105.00;  ISBN 9781503639218 pbk, $26.00;  ISBN 9781503639225 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-0845

Messeri, Lisa. In the land of the unreal: virtual and other realities in Los Angeles.  Duke, 2024.  312p bibl index  ISBN 9781478025979, $107.95;  ISBN 9781478025979 pbk, $28.95;  ISBN 9781478059226 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-0713

Newitz, Annalee. Stories are weapons: psychological warfare and the American mind.  W. W. Norton, 2024.  272p bibl index  ISBN 9780393881516, $27.99;  ISBN 9780393881523 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-0846

Nietzsche and politicized identities, ed. by Rebecca Bamford and Allison Merrick.  SUNY Press, 2024.  370p bibl index  ISBN 9781438497174, $99.00;  ISBN 9781438497181 pbk, $36.95;  ISBN 9781438497198 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-0830

Poets, Desirée. Unsettling Brazil: urban Indigenous and Black peoples’ resistances to dependent settler capitalism.  Alabama, 2024.  248p bibl index  ISBN 9780817321840, $110.00;  ISBN 9780817361327 pbk, $29.95;  ISBN 9780817394868 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-0785

Poland under German occupation, 1939–1945: new perspectives, ed. by Jonathan Huener and Andrea Löw.  Berghahn Books, 2024.  216p index  ISBN 9781805392439, $135.00;  ISBN 9781805392446 ebook, $34.95;  62-0779

Pugh, Allison J. The last human job: the work of connecting in a disconnected world.  Princeton, 2024.  384p bibl index  ISBN 9780691240817, $29.95;  ISBN 9780691240824 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-0728

Radburn, Nicholas. Traders in men: merchants and the transformation of the transatlantic slave trade.  Yale, 2024.  360p bibl index  ISBN 9780300257618, $35.00;  ISBN 9780300271768 ebook, $35.00;  62-0800

Regis, Helen A. Bayou harvest: subsistence practice in coastal Louisiana, by Helen A. Regis and Shana Walton.  University Press of Mississippi, 2024.  218p bibl index  ISBN 9781496849069, $99.00;  ISBN 9781496849076 pbk, $25.00;  ISBN 9781496849083 ebook, contact publisher;  62-0715

Rodriguez, Sarah Mellors. Reproductive realities in modern China: birth control and abortion, 1911–2021.  Cambridge, 2023.  264p bibl index  ISBN 9781316515310, $110.00;  ISBN 9781009011570 pbk, $29.99;  ISBN 9781009027335 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-0774

Rogers, James Patton. Precision: a history of American warfare.  Manchester University Press, 2023.  224p bibl index  ISBN 9781526178046, $129.27;  ISBN 9781526125880 pbk, $29.95;  ISBN 9781526125903 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-0822

Rudd, Jeremy B. A practical guide to macroeconomics.  Cambridge, 2024.  322p bibl index  ISBN 9781009465786, $120.00;  ISBN 9781009465793 pbk, $39.99;  ISBN 9781009465762 ebook, $39.99;  62-0737

Schroeder, Jared. The structure of ideas: mapping a new theory of free expression in the AI era.  Stanford, 2024.  320p bibl index  ISBN 9781503633230, $120.00;  ISBN 9781503639898 pbk, $30.00;  ISBN 9781503639904 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-0848

Simon, Samantha J. Before the badge: how academy training shapes police violence.  New York University, 2024.  304p bibl index  ISBN 9781479813278, $28.95;  ISBN 9781479813285 ebook, $28.95;  62-0862

Sixsmith, Martin. Putin and the return of history: how the Kremlin rekindled the Cold War, by Martin Sixsmith and Daniel Sixsmith.  Bloomsbury Continuum, 2024.  368p bibl index  ISBN 9781399409865, $35.00;  ISBN 9781399409902 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-0781

Steinzor, Rena. American apocalypse: the six far Right groups waging war on democracy.  Stanford, 2024.  348p bibl index  ISBN 9781503634596, $32.00;  ISBN 9781503639324 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-0850

Terrio, Susan J. Forced out: migrant mothers in search of refuge and hope.  New York University, 2024.  216p bibl index  ISBN 9781479823529, $89.00;  ISBN 9781479823536 ebook, $28.00;  ISBN 9781479823550 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-0716

Viking heritage and history in Europe, ed. by Sara Ellis Nilsson and Stefan Nyzell.  Routledge, 2024.  262p bibl index  ISBN 9780367628628, $180.00;  ISBN 9781003111115 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-0805

Walker, Jarrett. Human transit: how clearer thinking about public transit can enrich our communities and our lives.  Island Press, 2024.  288p bibl index  ISBN 9781642833058 pbk, $35.00;  ISBN 9781642833065 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-0706

White, Geoff. Rinsed: from cartels to crypto how the tech industry washes money for the world’s deadliest crooks.  Penguin Press, 2024.  288p bibl index  ISBN 9780241624838, $25.63;  ISBN 9780241624845 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-0739

Wirts, Kristine. A peddler’s tale: religious exile and community in early modern Switzerland.  Louisiana State, 2024.  228p bibl index  ISBN 9780807182031 pbk, $30.00;  ISBN 9780807182536 ebook, $19.95;  62-0806

Zivarts, Anna Letitia. When driving is not an option: steering away from car dependency.  Island Press, 2024.  240p bibl index  ISBN 9781642833157 pbk, $32.00;  ISBN 9781642833164 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-0707

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