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.
Posted on in Top 75 Community College Titles
Posted on October 27, 2020 in Top 75 Community College Titles
Foy, Steven L. Racism in America: a reference handbook. Greenwood, 2020. 346p index ISBN 9781440856402, $62.00; ISBN 9781440856419 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-0306
Global Environmental Justice Documentaries. Face to Face Media. Contact publisher for pricing. URL: http://globalenvironmentaljustice.com 58-0305
The SAGE handbook of autism and education, ed. by Rita Jordan, Jacqueline M. Roberts, and Kara Hume. SAGE Publishing, 2019. 646p bibl index ISBN 9781473959538, $185.00; ISBN 9781526470409 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-0309
Teed, Paul E. Daily life of African American slaves in the antebellum South, by Paul E. Teed and Melissa Ladd Teed. Greenwood, 2020. 220p bibl index ISBN 9781440863240, $65.00; ISBN 9781440863257 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-0311
The Beatles in context, ed. by Kenneth Womack. Cambridge, 2020. 356p bibl index ISBN 9781108419116, $99.99; ISBN 9781108321501 ebook, $80.00; 58-0374
Bonzel, Katharina. National pastimes: cinema, sports, and nation. Nebraska, 2020. 234p bibl index ISBN 9781496215529, $50.00; ISBN 9781496218261 ebook, $50.00; 58-0369
Busbea, Larry. The responsive environment: design, aesthetics, and the human in the 1970s. Minnesota, 2020. 285p index ISBN 9781517907099, $120.00; ISBN 9781517907105 pbk, $30.00; ISBN 9781452960715 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-0386
Cheek, Pamela. Heroines and local girls: the transnational emergence of women’s writing in the long eight-teenth century. Pennsylvania, 2019. 270p bibl index ISBN 9780812251487, $79.95; ISBN 9780812296365 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-0335
Farber, Stephen. Cinema ‘62: the greatest year at the movies, by Stephen Farber and Michael McClellan. Rutgers, 2020. 252p bibl index ISBN 9781978808829, $34.95; ISBN 9781978808836 ebook, $34.95; 58-0371
Fowkes, Maja. Central and Eastern European art since 1950, by Maja Fowkes and Reuben Fowkes. Thames & Hudson, 2020. 231p bibl index ISBN 9780500204375 pbk, $24.95; 58-0318
Gordon, Adam. Prophets, publicists, and parasites: antebellum print culture and the rise of the critic. Massachusetts, 2020. 338p index ISBN 9781625344526, $90.00; ISBN 9781625344533 pbk, $26.95; ISBN 9781613766972 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-0354
Heitzman, Kendall. Enduring postwar: Yasuoka Shotaro and literary memory in Japan. Vanderbilt, 2019. 225p bibl index ISBN 9780826522559, $49.95; ISBN 9780826522566 pbk, $24.95; ISBN 9780826522573 ebook, $9.99; 58-0344
Jackson, Sarah J. #Hashtagactivism: networks of race and gender justice, by Sarah J. Jackson, Moya Bailey, and Brooke Foucault Welles. MIT, 2020. 296p index ISBN 9780262043373 pbk, $19.95; ISBN 9780262356503 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-0331
Lack, Jessica. Global art. Thames & Hudson, 2020. 176p index ISBN 9780500295243 pbk, $16.95; 58-0319
Ludwig, Sämi. Resurrecting the first great American play: imperial politics and Colonial ambitions in frontier Detroit. Wisconsin, 2020. 270p bibl index ISBN 9780299325404, $79.95; ISBN 9780299325435 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-0358
Malcolm X, ed. by Robert C. Evans. Salem Press/Grey House, 2020. 292p bibl index ISBN 9781642653793, $105.00; ISBN 9781642653809 ebook, $105.00; 58-0313
Matilla, José Manuel. Goya: drawings, by José Manuel Matilla and Manuela B. Mena Marqués. Thames & Hudson, 2019. 367p ISBN 9780500971000, $35.00; 58-0325
Oscar Wilde, ed. by Frederick S. Roden. Salem Press, 2019. 300p bibl index ISBN 9781642653090, $105.00; 58-0361
Rodden, John. Becoming George Orwell: life and letters, legend and legacy. Princeton, 2020. 360p index ISBN 9780691182742, $29.95; ISBN 9780691190129 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-0362
Rollyson, Carl E. The life of William Faulkner: the past is never dead, 1897–1934. Virginia, 2020. 476p bibl index ISBN 9780813943824, $34.95; ISBN 9780813943831 ebook, $34.95; 58-0363
Rubin, James H. Monet. Thames & Hudson, 2020. 223p bibl index ISBN 9780500204474 pbk, $19.95; 58-0326
Turvey, Malcolm. Play time: Jacques Tati and comedic modernism. Columbia, 2020. 282p bibl index ISBN 9780231193023, $90.00; ISBN 9780231193030 pbk, $30.00; ISBN 9780231550116 ebook, $29.99; 58-0373
Widdicombe, Toby. J. R. R. Tolkien: a guide for the perplexed. Bloomsbury Academic, 2020. 194p bibl index ISBN 9781350092136, $68.00; ISBN 9781350092143 pbk, $22.95; ISBN 9781350092167 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-0364
Woodford, Susan. Greek and Roman art. Thames & Hudson, 2020. 175p bibl index ISBN 9780500295250 pbk, $16.95; 58-0322
Berman, Jonathan M. Anti-vaxxers: how to challenge a misinformed movement. MIT, 2020. 286p index ISBN 9780262539326 pbk, $19.95; 58-0429
Brochard-Wyart, Françoise. Essentials of soft matter science, by Francoise Brochard-Wyart, Pierre Nassoy, and Pierre-Henri Puech. CRC Press, 2020. 260p bibl index ISBN 9781138742765, $225.00; ISBN 9781498773928 pbk, $89.95; ISBN 9780429154355 ebook, $89.95; 58-0460
Carwardine, Mark. Handbook of whales, dolphins, and porpoises of the world. Princeton, 2019. 528p bibl index ISBN 9780691202105 pbk, $35.00; ISBN 9781472908155 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-0414
Dawson, A. G. Introducing sea level change. Dunedin Academic, 2019. 91p bibl ISBN 9781780460871 pbk, $24.50; ISBN 9781780466002 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-0417
Gutfreund, Hanoch. Einstein on Einstein: autobiographical and scientific reflection, by Hanoch Gutfreund and Jürgen Renn. Princeton, 2020. 211p bibl index ISBN 9780691183602, $35.00; ISBN 9780691200118 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-0461
Hainze, John. Nature underfoot: living with beetles, crabgrass, fruit flies, and other tiny life around us, illustrated by Angela Mele. Yale, 2020. 254p bibl index ISBN 9780300242782, $28.00; ISBN 9780300252682 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-0409
Louridas, Panos. Algorithms. MIT, 2020. 303p bibl index ISBN 9780262539029 pbk, $15.95; 58-0455
The Manhattan Project and the dropping of the atomic bomb: the essential reference guide, ed. by Aaron Barlow. ABC-CLIO, 2020. 357p bibl index ISBN 9781440859434, $97.00; ISBN 9781440859434 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-0463
Medicinal chemistry of neglected and tropical diseases: advances in the design and synthesis of antimicrobial agents, ed. by Venkatesan Jayaprakash, Daniele Castagnolo, and Yusuf Özkay. CRC Press, 2019. 374p bibl index ISBN 9781138541245, $199.95; ISBN 9781351011631 ebook, $57.95; 58-0436
Natures of data: a discussion between biologists, artists, and science scholars, by Philipp Fischer et al. Di-aphanes, 2020. 156p ISBN 9783035802245 pbk, $30.00; ISBN 9783035802283 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-0411
Newton, David E. Birth control: a reference handbook. ABC-CLIO, 2019. 374p bibl index ISBN 9781440872846, $62.00; ISBN 9781440872853 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-0440
Park, Graham. Breakthroughs in geology: ideas that transformed earth science. Dunedin Academic, 2020. 262p bibl index ISBN 9781780460765, $35.00; ISBN 9781780466149 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-0420
Patel, Kant. Healthcare politics and policy in America, by Kant Patel and Mark Rushefsky. 5th ed. Routledge, 2020. 520p bibl index ISBN 9780815376330, $165.00; ISBN 9780367027742 pbk, $54.95; ISBN 9780429397875 ebook, $54.95; 58-0441
Ross, John D. Introductory analysis: an inquiry approach, by John D. Ross and Kendall C. Richards. Chapman & Hall/CRC Press, 2020. 238p bibl index ISBN 9780815371441, $99.95; ISBN 9781351246743 ebook, $99.95; 58-0458
Shelton, Tamara Venit. Herbs and roots: a history of Chinese doctors in the American medical marketplace. Yale, 2019. 344p index ISBN 9780300243611, $37.50; ISBN 9780300249408 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-0445
Strengers, Yolande. The smart wife: why Siri, Alexa, and other smart home devices need a feminist reboot, by Yolande Strengwrs and Jenny Kennedy. MIT, 2020. 300p index ISBN 9780262044370, $29.95; 58-0428
Trouet, Valerie. Tree story: the history of the world written in rings. Johns Hopkins, 2020. 246p bibl index ISBN 9781421437774, $27.00; ISBN 9781421437781 ebook, $27.00; 58-0413
Wagner, Eric Loudon. After the blast: the ecological recovery of Mount St. Helens. Washington, 2020. 248p index ISBN 9780295746937, $29.95; ISBN 9780295746944 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-0421
Zucconi, Laura M. Ancient medicine: from Mesopotamia to Rome. Eerdmans, 2019. 432p bibl indexes ISBN 9780802869838, $110.00; 58-0448
Calhoun, Ada. Why we can’t sleep: women’s new midlife crisis. Grove Press, 2020. 288p bibl ISBN 9780802147851, $26.00; ISBN 9780802147868 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-0591
The Cambridge handbook of smart contracts, blockchain technology and digital platforms, ed. by Larry A. DiMatteo, Michel Cannarsa, and Cristina Poncibò. Cambridge, 2019. 366p index ISBN 9781108492560, $195.00; ISBN 9781108600071 ebook, $136.00; 58-0491
Child abuse sourcebook, ed. by Angela L. Williams. 5th ed. Omnigraphics, 2019. 526p index ISBN 9780780816992, $85.00; ISBN 9780780817005 ebook, $85.00; 58-0592
Disrupting whiteness in social work, ed. by Sonia M. Tascón and Jim Ife. Routledge, 2020. 204p bibl in-dex ISBN 9780367247508, $155.00; ISBN 9780429284182 ebook, $47.95; 58-0470
Dossett, Kate. Radical black theatre in the New Deal. North Carolina, 2020. 338p bibl index ISBN 9781469654416, $90.00; ISBN 9781469654423 pbk, $34.95; ISBN 9781469654430 ebook, $26.99; 58-0554
Emelianchik-Key, Kelly. Non-suicidal self-injury throughout the lifespan: a clinician’s guide to treatment considerations, by Kelly Emelianchik-Key and Amanda La Guardia. Routledge, 2019. 270p bibl index ISBN 9780815371342, $140.00; ISBN 9780815371359 pbk, $39.95; ISBN 9781351203579 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-0586
Fritzsche, Peter. Hitler’s first hundred days: when Germans embraced the Third Reich. Basic Books, 2020. 432p bibl index ISBN 9781541697430, $32.00; ISBN 9781541697447 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-0574
Gallagher, Niamh. Ireland and the Great War: a social and political history. Bloomsbury Academic, 2020. 258p bibl index ISBN 9781788314626, $115.00; ISBN 9781786736208 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-0569
Horne, Gerald. White supremacy confronted: U.S. imperialism and anti-communism vs. the liberation of Southern Africa, from Rhodes to Mandela. International Publishers, 2019. 883p bibl index ISBN 9780717807635 pbk, $28.99; 58-0527
Kaplan, Fred. The bomb: presidents, generals, and the secret history of nuclear war. Simon & Schuster, 2020. 372p index ISBN 9781982107291, $30.00; ISBN 9781982107314 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-0556
Koerber, Jeffrey. Borderland generation: Soviet and Polish Jews under Hitler. Syracuse, 2020. 421p bibl index ISBN 9780815636199, $80.00; ISBN 9780815636373 pbk, $39.95; ISBN 9780815654650 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-0539
Lane, Julia I. Democratizing our data: a manifesto. MIT, 2020. 186p index ISBN 9780262044325, $24.95; 58-0493
The Language of mathematics: how the teacher’s knowledge of mathematics affects instruction, ed. by Patrick M. Jenlink. Rowman & Littlefield, 2020. 208p bibl index ISBN 9781475854794, $70.00; ISBN 9781475854800 pbk, $35.00; ISBN 9781475854817 ebook, $33.00; 58-0508
Leeuw, Sander Ernst van der. Social sustainability, past and future: undoing unintended consequences for the Earth’s survival. Cambridge, 2020. 516p bibl index ISBN 9781108498692, $99.99; ISBN 9781108598606 ebook, $80.00; 58-0519
Lopez Bunyasi, Tehama. Stay woke: a people’s guide to making all black lives matter, by Tehama Lopez Bunyasi and Candis Watts Smith. New York University, 2019. 269p bibl index ISBN 9781479874927, $89.00; ISBN 9781479836482 pbk, $18.95; ISBN 9781479832316 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-0473
Louër, Laurence. Sunnis and Shi’a: a political history, tr. by Ethan Rundell. Princeton, 2020. 227p bibl index ISBN 9780691186610, $29.95; ISBN 9780691199641 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-0546
Making sense of race in education: practices for change in difficult times, ed. by Jessica A. Heybach and Sheron Fraser-Burgess. Myers Education Press, 2020. 250p bibl index ISBN 9781975501884, $149.95; ISBN 9781975501891 pbk, $42.95; ISBN 9781975501907 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-0510
Marzluff, John M. In search of meadowlarks: birds, farms, and food in harmony with the land. Yale, 2020. 352p bibl index ISBN 9780300237146, $28.00; ISBN 9780300252705 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-0495
Mercier, Hugo. Not born yesterday: the science of who we trust and what we believe. Princeton, 2020. 364p bibl index ISBN 9780691178707, $29.95; ISBN 9780691198842 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-0602
Money, Nicholas P. The selfish ape: human nature and our path to extinction. Reaktion Books, 2019. 148p index ISBN 9781789141559, $20.00; 58-0489
Monrose, Kenny. Black men in Britain: an ethnographic portrait of the post-Windrush generation. Routledge, 2020. 141p bibl index (Routledge advances in ethnography, 23) ISBN 9780815354307, $155.00; ISBN 9781351133432 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-0603
Neuman, Johanna. And yet they persisted: how American women won the right to vote. Wiley-Blackwell, 2020. 268p bibl index ISBN 9781119530831 pbk, $38.95; ISBN 9780700628704 ebook, $25.99; 58-0559
Pickard, Victor. After net neutrality: a new deal for the digital age, by Victor Pickard and David Elliot Ber-man. Yale, 2019. 181p index ISBN 9780300241402, $25.00; ISBN 9780300249101 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-0497
Ray, Sarah Jaquette. A field guide to climate anxiety: how to keep your cool on a warming planet. Califor-nia, 2020. 216p bibl index ISBN 9780520343306 pbk, $16.95; ISBN 9780520974722 ebook, $19.95; 58-0520
Silverman, David. This land is their land: the Wampanoag Indians, Plymouth Colony, and the troubled history of Thanksgiving. Bloomsbury, 2019. 514p index ISBN 9781632869241, $32.00; ISBN 9781632869265 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-0562
Simon, Christopher A. Alternative energy: political, economic, and social feasibility. Rowman & Littlefield, 2020. 273p bibl index ISBN 9781538116364, $78.00; ISBN 9781538116371 pbk, $39.00; ISBN 9781538116388 ebook, $37.00; 58-0498
Slavery, resistance and abolitions: a pluralist perspective, ed. by Ali Moussa Iye, Nelly Schmidt, and Paul E. Lovejoy. Africa World Press, 2020. 454p bibl ISBN 9781569026663 pbk, $39.95; 58-0521
Stereotypes: the incidence and impacts of bias, ed. by Joel T. Nadler and Elora C. Voyles. ABC-CLIO, 2020. 329p bibl index ISBN 9781440868665, $63.00; ISBN 9781440868672 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-0607
Summers, Tim. China’s Hong Kong: the politics of a global city. Agenda Publishing, 2019. 176p bibl index ISBN 9781788210683, $90.00; ISBN 9781788210690 pbk, $30.00; ISBN 9781788212724 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-0536
Van Engen, Abram C. City on a hill: a history of American exceptionalism. Yale, 2020. 379p index ISBN 9780300229752, $30.00; ISBN 9780300252316 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-0564
Warford, Jim. The chemistry of culture: brain-based strategies to create a culture of learning. Rowman & Littlefield, 2019. 196p bibl ISBN 9781475851632, $90.00; ISBN 9781475851649 pbk, $45.00; ISBN 9781475851724 ebook, $43.50; 58-0511
Waterston, Ellen. Walking the high desert: encounters with rural America along the Oregon Desert Trail. Washington, 2020. 246p bibl ISBN 9780295747507 pbk, $24.95; ISBN 9780295747514 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-0565
The best of all the titles appropriate for two-year colleges reviewed in the August issue of Choice.
Posted on in Top 75 Community College Titles
The best of all the titles appropriate for two-year colleges reviewed in the July issue of Choice.
Posted on in Top 75 Community College Titles
The best of all the titles appropriate for two-year colleges reviewed in the June issue of Choice.
Posted on in Top 75 Community College Titles
The best of all the titles appropriate for two-year colleges reviewed in the May issue of Choice.
Posted on in Top 75 Community College Titles