The Top 75 Community College Titles: October 2018 Edition

The best of all the titles appropriate for two-year colleges reviewed in the October 2018 issue of Choice.


Reference

The Bill of Rights, ed. by Thomas T. Lewis. 2nd ed. Salem Press, 2017. 2v bibl index ISBN 9781682175934, $175.00; ISBN 9781682175941 ebook, $175.00; 56-0471

The Cambridge handbook of consumer privacy, ed. by Evan Selinger, Jules Polonetsky, and Omer Tene. Cambridge, 2018. 601p bibl ISBN 9781107181106, $150.00; ISBN 9781316859278 ebook, $120.00; 56-0487

CRC standard mathematical tables and formulas, ed. by Dan Zwillinger. 33rd ed. CRC Press, 2018. 858p bibl index ISBN 9781498777803, $99.95; ISBN 9781315154978 ebook, $99.95; 56-0489

Critical survey of science fiction and fantasy literature, ed. by Paul Di Filippo. 3rd ed. Salem Press/Grey House, 2017. 3v bibl indexes ISBN 9781682172780, $295.00; ISBN 9781682172797 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-0479

The Encyclopedia of diplomacy, ed. by Gordon Martel. Wiley-Blackwell, 2018. 4v bibl index ISBN 9781118887912, $695.00; ISBN 9781118885154 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-0493

Encyclopedia of rape and sexual violence, ed. by Merril D. Smith. ABC-CLIO, 2018. 2v bibl index ISBN 9781440844898, $182.00; ISBN 9781440844904 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-0494

Holidays around the world: a comprehensive reference guide covering more than 3,400 observances from all 50 states and more than 100 nations. Omnigraphics, 2018. 1,514p bibl indexes ISBN 9780780816190, $177.00; 56-0496

The Oxford handbook of U.S. national security, ed. by Derek S. Reveron, Nikolas K. Gvosdev, and John A. Cloud. Oxford, 2018. 677p index ISBN 9780190680015, $150.00; ISBN 9780190680039 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-0498

The World’s greatest religious leaders: how religious figures helped shape world history, ed. by Scott E. Hendrix and Uchenna Okeja. ABC-CLIO, 2018. 2v bibl index ISBN 9781440841378, $198.00; ISBN 9781440841385 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-0483

Zirpolo, Lilian H. Historical dictionary of Baroque art and architecture. Rowman & Littlefield, 2018. 653p bibl ISBN 9781538111284, $145.00; ISBN 9781538111291 ebook, $137.50; 56-0484

Humanities

Coats, Karen. The Bloomsbury introduction to children’s and young adult literature. Bloomsbury Academic, 2018. 441p bibl index ISBN 9781472575548, $102.00; ISBN 9781472575531 pbk, $33.95; ISBN 9781472575555 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-0525

Condis, Amber. Gaming masculinity: trolls, fake geeks, and the gendered battle for online culture. Iowa, 2018. 138p bibl index ISBN 9781609385651 pbk, $65.00; ISBN 9781609385668 ebook, $65.00; 56-0520

Ehrman, Bart D. The triumph of Christianity: how a forbidden religion swept the world. Simon & Schuster, 2018. 335p index ISBN 9781501136702, $28.00; ISBN 9781501136726 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-0587

Hoskins, Stephen. 3D printing for artists, designers and makers. Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2018. 166p index ISBN 9781474248679 pbk, $44.95; ISBN 9781474248723 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-0504

The Immigrant experience, ed. by Maryse Jayasuriya. Salem Press, 2018. 268p bibl index ISBN 9781682176924, $105.00; 56-0537

Ireland, Jeannie. History of interior design. Fairchild Books, 2018. 603p index ISBN 9781501319884 pbk, $130.00; ISBN 9781501321955 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-0506

Ives, Colta Feller. Public parks, private gardens: Paris to Provence, [ed.] by Cynthia Clark and Emily Walter. Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2018. (Dist. by Yale) 203p bibl index ISBN 9781588395849, $50.00; 56-0507

Koch, Tom. Ethics in everyday places: mapping moral stress, distress, and injury. MIT, 2017. 259p bibl index ISBN 9780262037211, $35.00; ISBN 9780262343893 ebook, $24.00; 56-0574

Lewis, Janaka Bowman. Freedom narratives of African American women: a study of 19th century writings. McFarland, 2017. 176p bibl index ISBN 9781476667782 pbk, $55.00; ISBN 9781476630366 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-0538

McIntyre, Lee C. Post-truth. MIT, 2018. 216p bibl index ISBN 9780262535045 pbk, $15.95; ISBN 9780262345965 ebook, $11.95; 56-0578

The Moral psychology of anger, ed. by Myisha Cherry and Owen Flanagan. Rowman & Littlefield, 2018. 180p bibl index ISBN 9781786600752, $120.00; ISBN 9781786600776 ebook, $114.00; 56-0579

Perspectives on American dance: v.1: The twentieth century; v.2: The new millennium, ed. by Jennifer Atkins, Sally R. Sommer, and Tricia Henry Young. University Press of Florida, 2018. 2v index ISBN 9780813054933, $110.00; ISBN 9780813054995, $95.00; 56-0564

Rosenbaum, Stuart E. Race, justice and American intellectual traditions. Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. 120p bibl index ISBN 9783319761978, $54.99; ISBN 9783319761985 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-0580

Singer, Peter. Marx: a very short introduction. Oxford, 2018. 130p bibl index ISBN 9780198821076 pbk, $11.95; ISBN 9780191860652 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-0581

Webb, Michael. Architects’ houses. Princeton Architectural, 2018. 303p index ISBN 9781616897024, $50.00; 56-0518

Science & Technology

Arvidson, Adam Regn. Wild and rare: tracking endangered species in the upper Midwest. Minnesota Historical Society, 2018. 304p bibl ISBN 9781681340876, $22.95; ISBN 9781681340999 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-0617

Bryan, Jeff C. Introduction to nuclear science. CRC Press, 2018. 422p bibl index ISBN 9781138068155, $99.95; ISBN 9781315158235 ebook, $99.95; 56-0642

Butterworth, Jon. Atom land: a guided tour through the strange (and impossibly small) world of particle physics. The Experiment, 2018. 284p bibl ISBN 9781615193738, $19.95; ISBN 9781615193745 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-0684

Engel, Jonathan. Unaffordable: American healthcare from Johnson to Trump. Wisconsin, 2018. 285p index ISBN 9780299314101, $34.95; ISBN 9780299314132 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-0664

Foege, William H. The fears of the rich, the needs of the poor: my years at the CDC. Johns Hopkins, 2018. 264p index ISBN 9781421425290, $24.95; ISBN 9781421425306 ebook, $24.95; 56-0666

Gould, Roy. Universe in creation: a new understanding of the big bang and the emergence of life. Harvard, 2018. 273p index ISBN 9780674976078, $24.95; ISBN 9780674985063 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-0612

Gross, Dietmar. Engineering mechanics 2: mechanics of materials, by Dietmar Gross et al. 2nd ed. Springer, 2018. 311p index ISBN 9783662562710 pbk, $69.99; ISBN 9783662562727 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-0657

How to feed the world, ed. by Jessica Eise and Kenneth A. Foster. Island Press, 2018. 249 pages ISBN 9781610918831, $60.00; ISBN 9781610918848 pbk, $30.00; ISBN 9781610918855 ebook, $29.99; 56-0630

Kuczewski, Mark G.An ethics casebook for hospitals: practical approaches to everyday ethics consultations, by Mark G. Kuczewski, Rosa Lynn B. Pinkus, and Katherine Wasson. 2nd ed. Georgetown University, 2018. 213p bibl index ISBN 9781626165496, $149.95; ISBN 9781626165502 pbk, $49.95; ISBN 9781626165519 ebook, $49.95; 56-0667

Leatherbarrow, Bill. Moon. Reaktion Books, 2018. 182p bibl index ISBN 9781780239149, $40.00; 56-0613

Mityushev, Vladimir. Introduction to mathematical modeling and computer simulations, by Vladimir Mi-tyushev, Wojciech Nawalaniec, and Natalia Rylko. Chapman & Hall, 2018. 222p bibl index ISBN 9781138197657, $79.95; ISBN 9781315277240 ebook, $79.95; 56-0679

Nardi, James B. Discoveries in the garden. Chicago, 2018. 280p bibl index ISBN 9780226531526, $75.00; ISBN 9780226531663 pbk, $25.00; ISBN 9780226531830 ebook, $18.00; 56-0632

Nomura, Yasunori. Quantum physics, mini black holes, and the multiverse: debunking common misconceptions in theoretical physics, by Yasunori Nomura, Bill Poirier, and John Terning; ed. by Farzad Nekoogar. Springer, 2018. 212p bibl index ISBN 9783319417080, $29.99; ISBN 9783319417097 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-0686

The Oxford handbook of food ethics, ed. by Anne Barnhill, Mark Budolfson, and Tyler Doggett. Oxford, 2018. 802p bibl index ISBN 9780199372263, $150.00; 56-0601

Pyle, Robert Michael. Butterflies of the Pacific Northwest, by Robert Michael Pyle and Caitlin C. LaBar. Timber, 2018. 461p bibl index ISBN 9781604696936 pbk, $27.95; ISBN 9781604698619 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-0641

Reichert Powell, Douglas. Endless caverns: an underground journey into the show caves of Appalachia. North Carolina, 2018. 218p indexes ISBN 9781469638638, $28.00; ISBN 9781469638645 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-0652

Robot ethics 2.0: from autonomous cars to artificial intelligence, ed. by Patrick Lin, Ryan Jenkins, and Keith Abney. Oxford, 2017. 421p bibl index ISBN 9780190652951, $39.95; ISBN 9780190652982 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-0602

Ronald, Pamela C. Tomorrow’s table: organic farming, genetics, and the future of food, by Pamela C. Ronald and Raoul W. Adamchak. 2nd ed. Oxford, 2018. 344p bibl indexes ISBN 9780199342082 pbk, $16.95; ISBN 9780199342099 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-0633

Schlegel, Rolf H. J. History of plant breeding. CRC Press, 2018. 312p bibl index ISBN 9781138106765, $129.95; ISBN 9781315101408 ebook, $54.95; 56-0634

Schultz, Timothy Paul. The problem with pilots: how physicians, engineers, and airpower enthusiasts redefined flight. Johns Hopkins, 2018. 243p index ISBN 9781421424798, $44.95; ISBN 9781421424804 ebook, $44.95; 56-0658

Sehgal, Naresh Kumar. Cloud computing: concepts and practices, by Naresh Kumar Sehgal and Pramod Chandra P. Bhatt. Springer, 2018. 269p bibl index ISBN 9783319778389, $139.99; ISBN 9783319778396 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-0673

Serreze, Mark C. Brave new Arctic: the untold story of the melting North. Princeton, 2018. 255p bibl index ISBN 9780691173993, $24.95; ISBN 9781400890255 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-0653

Sheehan, William. Jupiter, by William Sheehan and Thomas Hockey. Reaktion Books, 2018. 191p bibl index ISBN 9781780239088, $40.00; 56-0614

Siyahhan, Sinem. Families at play: connecting and learning through video games, by Sinem Siyahhan and Elisabeth Gee. MIT, 2018. 200p bibl index ISBN 9780262037464, $30.00; ISBN 9780262344586 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-0674

Vincent, Warwick F. Lakes: a very short introduction. Oxford, 2018. 146p bibl index (Very short introductions, 547) ISBN 9780198766735 pbk, $11.95; 56-0624

Walker, Lawrence R. A natural history of the Mojave Desert, by Lawrence R. Walker and Frederick H. Landau. Arizona, 2018. 326p bibl index ISBN 9780816532629 pbk, $29.95; ISBN 9780816538416 ebook, $29.95; 56-0625

Zee, A. On gravity: a brief tour of a weighty subject. Princeton, 2018. 181p bibl index ISBN 9780691174389, $19.95; ISBN 9781400890309 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-0687

Social & Behavioral Sciences

Agyepong, Tera Eva. The criminalization of black children: race, gender, and delinquency in Chicago’s juvenile justice system, 1899–1945. North Carolina, 2018. 180p bibl index ISBN 9781469638652, $90.00; ISBN 9781469636443pbk, $24.95; ISBN 9781469638669 ebook, $18.99; 56-0876

Berenson, Kathy R. Managing your research data and documentation. American Psychological Association, 2018. 107p bibl index ISBN 9781433827099 pbk, $29.95; ISBN 9781433827433 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-0860

Beyond ethnicity: new politics of race in Hawai’i, ed. by Camilla Fojas, Rudy P. Guevarra Jr., and Nitasha Tamar Sharma. Hawai’i, 2018. 226p index ISBN 9780824869885, $68.00; ISBN 9780824873530 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-0732

Brumwell, Stephen. Turncoat: Benedict Arnold and the crisis of American liberty. Yale, 2018. 372p index ISBN 9780300210996, $30.00; ISBN 9780300235180 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-0749

English ethnicity and culture in North America, ed. by David T. Gleeson. South Carolina, 2017. 250p index ISBN 9781611177862, $49.99; ISBN 9781611177879 ebook, $49.99; 56-0759

Gender roles in American life: a documentary history of political, social, and economic changes, ed. by Constance L. Shehan. ABC-CLIO, 2018. 2v index ISBN 9781440859588, $198.00; ISBN 9781440859595 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-0881

Goldberg, David. Black firefighters and the FDNY: the struggle for jobs, justice, and equity in New York City. North Carolina, 2017. 409p index ISBN 9781469633626, $39.95; ISBN 9781469633633 ebook, $29.99; 56-0883

Haymond, John A. The American soldier, 1866–1916: the enlisted man and the transformation of the United States Army. McFarland, 2018. 333p bibl index ISBN 9781476667256 pbk, $49.95; ISBN 9781476632087 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-0763

Levy, Peter B. The great uprising: race riots in urban America during the 1960s. Cambridge, 2018. 332p index ISBN 9781108422406, $99.99; ISBN 9781108434034 pbk, $29.99; ISBN 9781108397230 ebook, $24.00; 56-0768

Lloyd, Vincent W. In defense of charisma. Columbia, 2018. 193p index ISBN 9780231183864, $90.00; ISBN 9780231183871 pbk, $30.00; ISBN 9780231545204 ebook, $29.99; 56-0868

Mac Sweeney, Naoíse. Troy. Bloomsbury Academic, 2018. 185p bibl index (Archaeological histories, 7) ISBN 9781472532510, $88.00; ISBN 9781472529374 pbk, $26.95; ISBN 9781472521774 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-0703

McRae, Elizabeth Gillespie. Mothers of massive resistance: white women and the politics of white supremacy. Oxford, 2018. 352p bibl index ISBN 9780190271718, $34.95; ISBN 9780190271725 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-0773

Pirjevec, Jože. Tito and his comrades. Wisconsin, 2018. 535p index ISBN 9780299317706, $44.95; ISBN 9780299317737 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-0740

Prestwich, Michael. A short history of the Hundred Years War. I. B. Tauris, 2018. 226p index ISBN 9781788311373, $94.00; ISBN 9781788311380 pbk, $17.95; ISBN 9781786723260 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-0806

Scott, Jill Mackay. The psychology student writer’s manual and reader’s guide, by Jill M. Scott, Gregory M. Scott, and Stephen M. Garrison. 3rd ed. Rowman & Littlefield, 2018. 160p bibl index ISBN 9781442266988, $80.00; ISBN 9781442266995 pbk, $40.00; ISBN 9781442267008 ebook, $38.00; 56-0872

Skidmore, Chris. Richard III: England’s most controversial king. St. Martin’s, 2018. 432p index ISBN 9781250045485, $29.99; ISBN 9781466844117 ebook, $14.99; 56-0807

Sloane, David Charles. Is the cemetery dead? Chicago, 2018. 276p bibl index ISBN 9780226539447, $27.50; ISBN 9780226539584 ebook, $18.00; 56-0706

Stulberg, Lisa M. LGBTQ social movements. Polity, 2018. 228p bibl index ISBN 9780745656076, $64.95; ISBN 9780745656083 pbk, $22.95; ISBN 9781509527403 ebook, $22.95; 56-0893

Symonds, Craig L. World War II at sea: a global history. Oxford, 2018. 770p bibl index ISBN 9780190243678, $34.95; ISBN 9780190243685 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-0725

Trachtenberg, Barry. The United States and the Nazi Holocaust: race, refuge, and remembrance. Bloomsbury Academic, 2018. 244p bibl index ISBN 9781472567185, $88.00; ISBN 9781472567185 pbk, $29.95; ISBN 9781472567215 ebook, $26.95; 56-0782

Wagner, David. No longer homeless: how the ex-homeless get and stay off the streets, by David Wagner with Gemma Atticks. Rowman & Littlefield, 2018. 183p bibl index ISBN 9781538110072, $36.00; ISBN 9781538110089 ebook, $34.00; 56-0894

Zaretsky, Natasha. Radiation nation: Three Mile Island and the political transformation of the 1970s. Columbia, 2018. 285p bibl index ISBN 9780231179805, $105.00; ISBN 9780231179812 pbk, $35.00; ISBN 9780231542487 ebook, $34.99; 56-0788