The Top 75 Community College Titles: October 2021 Edition

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

Posted on October 28, 2021 in Top 75 Community College Titles

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Reference

Access World News Research Collection.   NewsBank. Contact publisher for pricing.  URL: https://www.newsbank.com/libraries/colleges-
universities/solutions/access-world-news-research-collection-2021-edition  59-0308

Advance: A SAGE Preprints Community.   SAGE Publishing. Contact publisher for pricing.  URL: https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/advance-a-sage-preprints-community  59-0317

Graphic novels core collection, ed. by Kendal Spires.  3rd ed.  H. W. Wilson, 2020.  1,000p bibl index  ISBN 9781642656473, $295.00;  59-0309

Human Kinetics Library.   Bloomsbury. Contact publisher for pricing.  URL: https://www.humankineticslibrary.com/home  59-0316

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Humanities

The Alchemical Harry Potter: essays on transfiguration in J. K. Rowling’s novels, ed. by Anne J. Mamary.  McFarland, 2021.  311p bibl  index  ISBN 9781476681344 pbk, $39.95;  ISBN 9781476640839 ebook, contact publisher for price;  59-0353

The Cambridge companion to English dictionaries, ed. by Sarah Ogilvie.  Cambridge, 2020.  345p bibl  index  ISBN 9781108428903, $99.99;  ISBN 9781108451680 pbk, $29.99;  ISBN 9781108653527 ebook, $24.00;  59-0341

The Cambridge companion to the Canterbury tales, ed. by Frank Grady.  Cambridge, 2020.  320p bibl index  ISBN 9781107181007, $79.99;  ISBN 9781316632437 pbk, $24.99;  ISBN 9781316853276 ebook, $20.00;  59-0360

Feminism, ed. by Robert C. Evans.  Salem Press, 2020.  338p bibl index  ISBN 9781642656633, $105.00;  ISBN 9781642656640 ebook, contact publisher for price;  59-0324

Freedman, Carl Howard. American presidents and Oliver Stone: Kennedy, Nixon, and Bush between history and cinema.  Intellect, 2020.  220p bibl index  ISBN 9781789382624 pbk, $25.00;  ISBN 9781789382648 ebook, $20.00;  59-0385

Gammel, Irene. I can only paint: the story of battlefield artist Mary Riter Hamilton.  McGill-Queen’s, 2020.  400p index  ISBN 9780228003915, $49.95;  59-0334

Harrow, Sharon. Adapting the eighteenth century: a handbook of pedagogies and practices, by Sharon R. Harrow and Kirsten T. Saxton.  Rochester, 2020.  316p index  ISBN 9781580469838, $99.00;  ISBN 9781787446618 ebook, $24.99;  59-0365

Lordi, Emily J. The meaning of soul: Black music and resilience since the 1960s.  Duke, 2020.  232p bibl index  ISBN 9781478008699, $99.00;  ISBN 9781478009597 pbk, $25.95;  ISBN 9781478012245 ebook, contact publisher for price;  59-0390

Riekeles, Stefan. Anime architecture: imagined worlds and endless megacities.  Thames & Hudson, 2020.  256p bibl index  ISBN 9780500294529, $40.50;  59-0387

Rutter, Carol Chillington. Antony and Cleopatra.  Manchester University Press, 2020.  324p bibl index  ISBN 9781526132499, $120.00;  ISBN 9781526132512 ebook, contact publisher for price;  59-0374

Smith, Jeffrey K. Scoundrels, cads, and other great artists.  Rowman & Littlefield, 2020.  192p bibl index  ISBN 9781538126776, $34.00;  ISBN 9781538126783 ebook, $32.00;  59-0336

Squire, Kelsey. Willa Cather: the critical conversation.  Camden House, 2020.  184p bibl index  ISBN 9781571139979, $85.00;  ISBN 9781787446861 ebook, $19.99;  59-0375

Walley, Jonathan. Cinema expanded: avant-garde film in the age of intermedia.  Oxford, 2020.  576p index  ISBN 9780190938642, $39.95;  ISBN 9780190938673 ebook, contact publisher for price;  59-0388

Warman, Caroline. The atheist’s bible: Diderot’s Éléments de physiologie.  Open Book Publishers, 2020.  428p bibl  index  ISBN 9781783748976, $53.47;  ISBN 9781783748969 pbk, $38.17;  ISBN 9781783748983 ebook, open access;  59-0406

The Wiley Blackwell companion to Christian martyrdom, ed. by Paul Middleton.  Wiley, 2020.  536p bibl index  ISBN 9781119099826, $195.00;  ISBN 9781119100027 ebook, $43.99;  59-0417

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Science & Technology

Baldwin, Peter. Fighting the first wave: why the coronavirus was tackled so differently across the globe.  Cambridge, 2021.  385p bibl index  ISBN 9781316518335, $24.95;  ISBN 9781009006484 ebook, $20.00;  59-0449

Blockchain technology and applications, ed. by Pethuru Raj, Kavita Saini, and Chellammal Surianarayanan.  CRC Press, 2021.  272p bibl index  ISBN 9780367533403, $99.95;  ISBN 9781003081487 ebook, $99.95;  59-0457

Gangale, Thomas. Space exploration in the United States: a documentary history.  ABC-CLIO, 2020.  323p bibl index  ISBN 9781440871641, $97.00;  ISBN 9781440871658 ebook, contact publisher for price;  59-0421

Garfinkle, Richard. X marks the spot: the lost inheritance of mathematics, by Richard Garfinkle and David Garfinkle.  CRC Press, 2021.  482p bibl index  ISBN 9780367187064, $200.00;  ISBN 9780367187040 pbk, $54.95;  ISBN 9780429588624 ebook, $54.95;  59-0460

Goswami, Namrata. Scramble for the skies: the great power competition to control the resources of outer space, by Namrata Goswami and Peter A. Garretson.  Lexington Books, 2020.  464p bibl index  ISBN 9781498583114, $135.00;  ISBN 9781498583121 ebook, $50.00;  59-0422

Handbook of natural resources: v.4: Fresh water and watersheds, ed. by Yeqiao Wang.  2nd ed.  CRC Press, 2020.  376p bibl  index  ISBN 9781138337565, $180.00;  ISBN 9780429441042 ebook, $58.95;  59-0437

Integrative, alternative & complementary medicine, ed. by Paul Moglia.  2nd ed.  Salem Press/Grey House, 2020.  4v bibl  index  ISBN 9781642657012, $495.00;  ISBN 9781642657029 ebook, $495.00;  59-0452

Mortensen, Torill Elvira. The paradox of transgression in games, by Torill Elvira Mortensen and Kristine Jørgensen.  Routledge, 2020.  222p bibl index  ISBN 9780367418397, $160.00;  ISBN 9780367816476 ebook, $48.95;  59-0470

Particulate plastics in terrestrial and aquatic environments, ed. by Nanthi S. Bolan et al.  CRC Press, 2020.  466p index  ISBN 9781138543928, $200.00;  ISBN 9780367511401 pbk, $54.95;  ISBN 9781003053071 ebook, $54.95;  59-0440

Sankaran, Neeraja. A tale of two viruses: parallels in the research trajectories of tumor and bacterial viruses.  Pittsburgh, 2021.  312p bibl index  ISBN 9780822946304, $55.00;  ISBN 9780822987710 ebook, contact publisher for price;  59-0427

Shaheen-Hussain, Samir. Fighting for a hand to hold: confronting medical colonialism against Indigenous children in Canada.  McGill-Queen’s, 2020.  360p bibl index (McGill-Queen’s indigenous and northern studies, 97)  ISBN 9780228003601, $29.95;  ISBN 9780228005131 ebook, contact publisher for price;  59-0455

Vertesi, Janet. Shaping science: organizations, decisions, and culture on NASA’s teams.  Chicago, 2020.  352p bibl index  ISBN 9780226691084, $45.00;  ISBN 9780226691114 ebook, contact publisher for price;  59-0423

Woerdeman, Hugo J. Linear algebra: what you need to know.  Chapman & Hall/CRC Press, 2021.  282p index  ISBN 9780367697389, $222.00;  ISBN 9780367684730 pbk, $89.85;  ISBN 9781003137702 ebook, $89.95;  59-0462

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Social & Behavioral Sciences

Abzug, Robert H. Psyche and soul in America: the spiritual odyssey of Rollo May.  Oxford, 2021.  432p index  ISBN 9780199754373, $34.95;  ISBN 9780190864040 ebook, contact publisher for price;  59-0585

Adler, Eric. The battle of the classics: how a nineteenth-century debate can save the humanities today.  Oxford, 2020.  272p bibl index  ISBN 9780197518786, $35.00;  ISBN 9780197518816 ebook, contact publisher for price;  59-0498

Aspirations of young adults in urban Asia: values, family, and identity, ed. by Mariske Westendorp, Désirée Remmert, and Kenneth Fini.  Berghahn Books, 2020.  222p bibl index (Asian anthropologies, 11)  ISBN 9781789208955, $120.00;  ISBN 9781789208962 ebook, contact publisher for price;  59-0481

Becker, Marc. The CIA in Ecuador.  Duke, 2021.  336p bibl index  ISBN 9781478010357, $104.95;  ISBN 9781478011385 pbk, $27.95;  ISBN 9781478012993 ebook, open access;  59-0532

Belisle, Donica. Purchasing power: women and the rise of Canadian consumer culture.  Toronto, 2020.  304p bibl index (Studies in gender and history, 50)  ISBN 9781442631137, $85.00;  ISBN 9781442629110 pbk, $29.95;  ISBN 9781442625860 ebook, $29.95;  59-0543

Ben-Ghiat, Ruth. Strongmen: Mussolini to the present.  W. W. Norton, 2020.  384p bibl index  ISBN 9781324001546, $28.95;  ISBN 9781324001553 ebook, contact publisher for price;  59-0591

Bourland, Dana. Gray to green communities: a call to action on the housing and climate crises.  Island Press, 2021.  200p index  ISBN 9781642831283 pbk, $30.00;  ISBN 9781642831290 ebook, $29.99;  59-0496

Brooks, Siobhan. Everyday violence against Black and Latinx LGBT communities.  Lexington Books, 2021.  110p bibl index  ISBN 9781498575751, $85.00;  ISBN 9781498575768 ebook, $45.00;  59-0592

Carty, Victoria. Immigration crisis in Europe and the U.S.–Mexico border in the new era of heightened nativism.  Lexington Books, 2021.  206p bibl index  ISBN 9781498583893, $95.00;  ISBN 9781498583909 ebook, $45.00;  59-0593

Childhood, agency, and fantasy: walking in other worlds, ed. by Ingrid E. Castro with Ana Lilia Campos-Manzo et al.  Lexington Books, 2021.  290p bibl index  ISBN 9781498594295, $110.00;  ISBN 9781498594301 ebook, $45.00;  59-0473

Dierenfield, Bruce J. Disability rights and religious liberty in education: the story behind Zobrest v. Catalina Foothills School District, by Bruce J. Dierenfield and David A. Gerber.  Illinois, 2020.  240p index  ISBN 9780252043208, $110.00;  ISBN 9780252085079 pbk, $27.95;  ISBN 9780252052088 ebook, $14.95;  59-0500

Drogula, Fred K. Cato the Younger: life and death at the end of the Roman republic.  Oxford, 2020.  376p bibl index  ISBN 9780190869021, $36.95;  ISBN 9780190869045 ebook, contact publisher for price;  59-0519

Gable, Rachel. The hidden curriculum: first generation students at legacy universities.  Princeton, 2021.  264p bibl index  ISBN 9780691190761, $27.95;  ISBN 9780691201085 ebook, contact publisher for price;  59-0503

Gale, Dennis E. The misunderstood history of gentrification: people, planning, preservation, and urban renewal, 1915–2020.  Temple, 2021.  238p bibl index  ISBN 9781439920428, $104.50;  ISBN 9781439920435 pbk, $32.95;  ISBN 9781439920442 ebook, $32.95;  59-0545

Gaskew, Tony. Stop trying to fix policing: lessons learned from the front lines of Black liberation.  Lexington Books, 2021.  111p bibl  index  ISBN 9781498589505, $90.00;  ISBN 9781498589512 ebook, $45.00;  59-0474

Harker, Christopher. Spacing debt: obligations, violence, and endurance in Ramallah, Palestine.  Duke, 2021.  208p bibl index  ISBN 9781478009900, $99.95;  ISBN 9781478010968 pbk, $24.95;  ISBN 9781478012474 ebook, contact publisher for price;  59-0538

Hopkins, John P. Indian education for all: decolonizing indigenous education in public schools.  Teachers College Press, 2020.  216p bibl index  ISBN 9780807764596, $105.00;  ISBN 9780807764589 pbk, $34.95;  ISBN 9780807779194 ebook, $27.96;  59-0505

Huang, Xian. Social protection under authoritarianism: health politics and policy in China.  Oxford, 2020.  280p bibl index  ISBN 9780190073640, $74.00;  ISBN 9780190073664 ebook, contact publisher for price;  59-0596

Hudson, Lynn M. West of Jim Crow: the fight against California’s color line.  Illinois, 2020.  344p bibl index  ISBN 9780252043345, $125.00;  ISBN 9780252085253 pbk, $24.95;  ISBN 9780252052224 ebook, $14.59;  59-0547

Karaca, Banu. National frame: art and state violence in Turkey and Germany.  Fordham, 2021.  288p bibl index  ISBN 9780823290208, $125.00;  ISBN 9780823290215 pbk, $35.00;  ISBN 9780823290222 ebook, $34.99;  59-0484

Krippner, Stanley. Understanding suicide’s allure: steps to save lives by healing psychological scars, by Stanley Krippner et al.  ABC-CLIO, 2021.  343p bibl index  ISBN 9781440862540, $50.00;  ISBN 9781440862557 ebook, contact publisher for price;  59-0598

Leith, Murray Stewart. Scotland: the new state of an old nation, by Murray Stewart Leith and Duncan Sim with Duncan McTavish and David Torrance.  Manchester University Press, 2021.  368p bibl index  ISBN 9781784992552, $29.95;  ISBN 9781526127808 ebook, contact publisher for price;  59-0559

Literacy and deaf education: toward a global understanding, ed. by Qiuying Wang and Jean F. Andrews.  Gallaudet, 2020.  446p bibl index  ISBN 9781944838676, $95.00;  ISBN 9781944838690 ebook, contact publisher for price;  59-0506

McCloskey, Deirdre N. Leave me alone and I’ll make you rich: how the bourgeois deal enriched the world, by Deirdre Nansen McCloskey and Art Carden.  Chicago, 2020.  232p index  ISBN 9780226739663, $25.00;  ISBN 9780226739830 ebook, $24.99;  59-0497

Michalopoulos, Constantine. Ending global poverty: four women’s noble conspiracy.  Oxford, 2020.  304p index  ISBN 9780198850175, $40.00;  ISBN 9780191884627 ebook, contact publisher for price;  59-0579

Murray, Robert. Atlantic passages: race, mobility, and Liberian colonization.  University Press of Florida, 2021.  298p bibl index  ISBN 9780813066752, $85.00;  ISBN 9780813057736 ebook, contact publisher for price;  59-0512

Musto, Marcello. The last years of Karl Marx: an intellectual biography, tr. by Patrick Camiller.  Stanford, 2020.  208p bibl index  ISBN 9781503610583, $70.00;  ISBN 9781503612525 pbk, $22.00;  ISBN 9781503612532 ebook, contact publisher for price;  59-0513

The New possible: visions of our world beyond crisis, ed. by Philip Clayton et al.  Cascade Books, 2021.  298p  ISBN 9781725285828, $35.00;  ISBN 9781725285835 pbk, $27.00;  59-0477

Orkaby, Asher. Yemen: what everyone needs to know.  Oxford, 2021.  195p index  ISBN 9780190932268, $74.00;  ISBN 9780190932275 ebook, $18.95;  ISBN 9780190932299 ebook, contact publisher for price;  59-0541

Pang, Amelia. Made in China: a prisoner, an SOS letter, and the hidden cost of America’s cheap goods.  Algonquin Books, 2021.  288p bibl  ISBN 9781616209179, $27.95;  ISBN 9781643751139 ebook, contact publisher for price;  59-0524

Pelikan, Egon. Hitler and Mussolini in churches: the church painter’s subversion of Fascism: the ideological marking of space along the Slovene-Italian border.  Peter Lang, 2020.  310p bibl index (Cultural memories, 14)  ISBN 9781789971491 pbk, $72.95;  ISBN 9781789971637 ebook, contact publisher for price;  59-0530

​Phillips, Shane. The affordable city: strategies for putting housing within reach (and keeping it there).  Island Press, 2020.  280p bibl  ISBN 9781642831337 pbk, $32.00;  ISBN 9781642831344 ebook, $31.99;  59-0494

Price, Max D. Evolution of a taboo: pigs and people in the ancient Near East.  Oxford, 2020.  336p index  ISBN 9780197543276, $34.95;  ISBN 9780197543290 ebook, contact publisher for price;  59-0520

Pugh, Kevin J. Transformative science education: change how your students experience the world.  Teachers College Press, 2020.  164p bibl index  ISBN 9780807764503, $96.00;  ISBN 9780807764503 pbk, $31.95;  ISBN 9780807779156 ebook, $31.95;  59-0507

Roberts-Miller, Patricia. Speaking of race: how to have antiracist conversations that bring us together.  The Experiment, 2021.  131p bibl  ISBN 9781615197323 pbk, $7.95;  ISBN 9781615197330 ebook, contact publisher for price;  59-0602

Robinson, Brandon Andrew. Coming out to the streets: LGBTQ youth experiencing homelessness.  California, 2020.  250p bibl index  ISBN 9780520299269, $85.00;  ISBN 9780520299276 pbk, $29.95;  ISBN 9780520971073 ebook, $29.95;  59-0479

Robles-Melendez, Wilma. Issues and challenges of immigration in early childhood in the USA, by Wilma Robles-Melendez and Wayne Driscoll.  Bloomsbury Academic, 2020.  288p index  ISBN 9781350099999, $108.00;  ISBN 9781350100015 ebook, contact publisher for price;  59-0480

Roe, Alan. Into Russian nature: tourism, environmental protection, and national parks in the twentieth century.  Oxford, 2020.  360p index  ISBN 9780190914554, $39.95;  ISBN 9780190914578 ebook, contact publisher for price;  59-0495

Rutherford, Scott. Canada’s other Red scare: Indigenous protest and colonial encounters during the global sixties.  McGill-Queen’s, 2020.  208p bibl index (Rethinking Canada in the world, 6)  ISBN 9780228004059, $110.00;  ISBN 9780228004066 pbk, $29.95;  ISBN 9780228005124 ebook, contact publisher for price;  59-0551

Sager, Eric W. Inequality in Canada: the history and politics of an idea.  Rowman & Littlefield, 2021.  488p index (McGill-Queen’s studies in the history of ideas, 81)  ISBN 9780228005797, $140.00;  ISBN 9780228005803 pbk, $37.95;  ISBN 9780228005964 ebook, contact publisher for price;  59-0552

Simpson, James. Why democracy failed: the agrarian origins of the Spanish Civil War, by James Simpson and Juan Carmona.  Cambridge, 2020.  299p bibl index  ISBN 9781108487481, $89.99;  ISBN 9781108720380 pbk, $29.99;  ISBN 9781108806022 ebook, $24.00;  59-0564

Smith, Steven B. Reclaiming patriotism in an age of extremes.  Yale, 2021.  256p index  ISBN 9780300254044, $28.00;  ISBN 9780300258707 ebook, contact publisher for price;  59-0582

Violence in American society: an encyclopedia of trends, problems, and perspectives: v.1: Animal cruelty to murder; v.2: Police violence to youth violence, ed. by Chris Richardson.  ABC-CLIO, 2020.  bibl index  ISBN 9781440854675, $204.00;  ISBN 9781440854682 ebook, contact publisher for price;  59-0611

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