The Top 75 Community College Titles: September 2023 Edition
The best of all the titles appropriate for two-year colleges reviewed in the September issue of Choice.
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Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Philosophers. Bloomsbury. Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Philosophers is available for purchase (perpetual access, $4,150 to $15,561) or by subscription ($830 to $3,112), with pricing based on size and type of institution, with discounts available from consortia. Annual Content Update fees (for purchase only) are $600 to $900 per year, based on size and type of institution. Purchase option is not available to K-12 libraries.URL: bloomsburyphilosophers.com 56-0002
Doebbler, Curtis Francis. Dictionary of public international law. Rowman & Littlefield, 2018. 619p bibl index ISBN 9781538111246, $165.00; ISBN 9781538111253 ebook, $156.50; 56-0027
Fomerand, Jacques. Historical dictionary of the United Nations. Rowman & Littlefield, 2018. 783p bibl ISBN 9781538109700, $170.00; ISBN 9781538109717 ebook, $161.50; 56-0003
Native Americans (1451–2017), ed. by Michael Shally-Jensen. Salem Press/Grey House, 2017. 240p bibl index ISBN 9781682175873, $175.00; ISBN 9781682175880 ebook, $175.00; 56-0006
Pomante, Michael J., II. Historical dictionary of the Barack Obama administration, by Michael J. Pomante II and Scot Schraufnagel. 2nd ed. Rowman & Littlefield, 2018. 449p bibl ISBN 9781538111512, $105.00; ISBN 9781538111529 ebook, $99.50; 56-0008
Shmelter, Richard J. The Los Angeles Dodgers encyclopedia. McFarland, 2018. 328p bibl index ISBN 9780786473403 pbk, $49.95; ISBN 9781476628264 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-0023
Snodgrass, Mary Ellen. World epidemics: a cultural chronology of disease from prehistory to the era of Zika. McFarland, 2017. 415p bibl index ISBN 9781476671246, $95.00; ISBN 9781476631066 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-0024
World History in Video. Alexander Street. Contact the publisher for tiered pricing information and pricing models. World History in Video is available through subscription or a one-time purchase of perpetual rights through Alexander Street. Public performance rights are included with a purchase of the subscription. URL: search.alexanderstreet.com/whiv 56-0011
World Politics Review. URL: worldpoliticsreview.com 56-0012
Balén, Julia. A queerly joyful noise: choral musicking for social justice. Rutgers, 2017. 211p bibl index ISBN 9780813588391, $95.00; ISBN 9780813588384 pbk, $24.95; ISBN 9780813588414 ebook, $24.95; 56-0115
Barthes, Roland. Album: unpublished correspondence and texts, tr. by Jody Gladding. Columbia, 2018. 357p index ISBN 9780231179867, $35.00; ISBN 9780231545884 ebook, $34.99; 56-0092
Brizuela, Natalia. The matter of photography in the Americas, by Natalia Brizuela and Jodi Roberts with Lisa Blackmore et al. Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts/Stanford, 2018. 231p bibl ISBN 9781503605428, $40.00; 56-0057
Fronc, Jennifer. Monitoring the movies: the fight over film censorship in early twentieth-century urban America. Texas, 2017. 202p bibl index ISBN 9781477313930, $90.00; ISBN 9781477313930 pbk, $29.95; ISBN 9781477313947 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-0103
Goodman, Martin. A history of Judaism. Princeton, 2018. 623p bibl index ISBN 9780691181271, $39.95; ISBN 9781400890019 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-0162
Guffey, Elizabeth E. Designing disability: symbols, space, and society. Bloomsbury Academic, 2017. 223p bibl index ISBN 9781350004283, $88.00; ISBN 9781350004276 pbk, $26.95; ISBN 9781350004252 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-0042
Hannay, Alistair. Søren Kierkegaard. Reaktion Books, 2018. 202p bibl ISBN 9781780239231 pbk, $19.00; 56-0136
Howe, Justine. Suburban Islam. Oxford, 2018. 301p bibl index ISBN 9780190258870, $74.00; ISBN 9780190258894 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-0165
Kubik, Gerhard. Jazz transatlantic. University Press of Mississippi, 2017. 2v bibl index ISBN 9781628462302, v.1; ISBN 9781496806086, v.2; $75.00 ea.; ISBN 9781626746633 ebook, v.1; ISBN 9781496806109 ebook, v.2; contact publisher for price; 56-0122
Laird, Paul R. Leonard Bernstein. Reaktion Books, 2018. 213p bibl discography videography ISBN 9781780239101 pbk, $19.00; 56-0123
Leeder, Murray. Horror film: a critical introduction. Bloomsbury Academic, 2018. 276p bibl index ISBN 9781501314421, $100.00; ISBN 9781501314438 pbk, $29.95; ISBN 9781501314445 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-0107
Making things and drawing boundaries: experiments in the digital humanities, ed. by Jentery Sayers. Minnesota, 2017. 347p bibl ISBN 9781517902841, $140.00; ISBN 9781517902858 pbk, $35.00; ISBN 9781452955957 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-0037
Marks, Peter. Literature of the 1990s: endings and beginnings. Edinburgh University Press, 2018. 220p bibl index (The Edinburgh history of twentieth-century literature in Britain, 10) ISBN 9781474411592, $110.00; 56-0081
Monsters, animals, and other worlds: a collection of short medieval Japanese tales, ed. by H. Keller Kim-brough and Haruo Shirane. Columbia, 2018. 443p bibl ISBN 9780231184465, $120.00; ISBN 9780231184472 pbk, $35.00; ISBN 9780231545501 ebook, $34.99; 56-0072
Parish, Pat. Pattern cutting: the architecture of fashion. Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2018. 235p bibl index ISBN 9781474272384 pbk, $44.95; ISBN 9781474272391 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-0044
Ponzio, Peter J. Themes in Dickens: seven recurring concerns in the writings. McFarland, 2018. 188p bibl index ISBN 9781476672571 pbk, $39.95; ISBN 9781476631356 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-0084
Rael, Ronald. Printing architecture: innovative recipes for 3D printing, by Ronald Rael and Virginia San Fratello. Princeton, 2018. 173p ISBN 9781616896966, $29.95; 56-0045
Rhodes, Gary Don. The birth of the American horror film. Edinburgh University Press, 2018. 420p index ISBN 9781474430852, $140.00; ISBN 9781474430869 pbk, $28.76; ISBN 9781474430883 ebook, $28.76; 56-0112
Targoff, Ramie. Renaissance woman: the life of Vittoria Colonna. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2018. 342p bibl index ISBN 9780374140946, $30.00; ISBN 9780374713843 ebook, 14.99; 56-0094
Thiher, Allen. Understanding Franz Kafka. South Carolina, 2018. 285p bibl index ISBN 9781611178289, $59.99; ISBN 9781611178296 ebook, $24.99; 56-0091
Tussey, Ethan. The procrastination economy: the big business of downtime. New York University, 2018. 239p bibl index ISBN 9781479844234, $27.00; ISBN 9781479858934 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-0061
Visions of tragedy in modern American drama, ed. by David Palmer. Bloomsbury Academic, 2018. 250p bibl index ISBN 9781474276924, $88.00; ISBN 9781474276931 pbk, $26.95; 56-0087
Whitman & Dickinson: a colloquy, ed. by Éric Athenot and Cristanne Miller. Iowa, 2017. 277p index ISBN 9781609385316 pbk, $65.00; ISBN 9781609385323 ebook, $65; 56-0088
William James, moral philosophy, and the ethical life, ed. by Jacob L. Goodson. Lexington Books, 2018. 408p bibl index ISBN 9781498505147, $120.00; ISBN 9780739190142 ebook, $114.00; 56-0152
Women’s periodicals and print culture in Britain, 1918–1939: the interwar period, ed. by Catherine Clay et al. Edinburgh University Press, 2018. 518p bibl index ISBN 9781474412537, $230.00; ISBN 9781474412551 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-0068
Young, Serinity. Women who fly: goddesses, witches, mystics, and other airborne females. Oxford, 2018. 358p bibl index ISBN 9780195307887, $29.95; ISBN 9780190659691 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-0038
Caragiu, Mihai. Sequential experiments with primes. Springer, 2018. 279p bibl ISBN 9783319567617, $69.99; ISBN 9783319567624 ebook, $69.99; 56-0251
Clements, Philip W. Science in an extreme environment: the 1963 American Mount Everest expedition. Pittsburgh, 2018. 269p bibl index ISBN 9780822945116, $39.95; 56-0179
Cowie, Helen. Llama. Reaktion Books, 2017. 200p bibl index ISBN 9781780237381 pbk, $19.95; ISBN 9781780237862 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-0210
Fara, Patricia. A lab of one’s own: science and suffrage in the First World War. Oxford, 2018. 334p bibl index ISBN 9780198794981, $24.95; ISBN 9780192514165 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-0181
Genta, G. Next stop Mars: the why, how, and when of human missions. Springer, 2017. 415p bibl index ISBN 9783319443102 pbk, $34.99; ISBN 9783319443119 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-0186
Greer, Sandra C. Elements of ethics for physical scientists. MIT, 2017. 239p bibl index ISBN 9780262036887, $50.00; 56-0173
Guicciardini, Niccolò. Isaac Newton: and natural philosophy. Reaktion Books, 2018. 268p bibl index ISBN 9781780239064, $22.50; 56-0182
Jacoby, Susan. Why baseball matters. Yale, 2018. 200p bibl index ISBN 9780300224276, $26.00; ISBN 9780300235401 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-0272
Lisi, Clemente A. A history of the U.S. men’s national soccer team. Rowman & Littlefield, 2017. 171p bibl index ISBN 9781442277571, $35.00; ISBN 9781442277588 ebook, $33.00; 56-0273
Mann, Charles C. The wizard and the prophet: two remarkable scientists and their dueling visions to shape tomorrow’s world. Knopf, 2018. 616p bibl index ISBN 9780307961693, $28.95; ISBN 9780307961709 ebook, $14.99; 56-0184
Montfort, Nick. The future. MIT, 2017. bibl index ISBN 9780262534819 pbk, $15.95; ISBN 9780262344746 ebook, $11.95; 56-0175
Olson, Donald W. Further adventures of the celestial sleuth: using astronomy to solve more mysteries in art, history, and literature. Springer, Praxis, 2018. 334p bibl index ISBN 9783319703190 pbk, $39.99; ISBN 9783319703206 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-0187
Poibeau, Thierry. Machine translation. MIT, 2017. 285p bibl index ISBN 9780262534215 pbk, $15.95; ISBN 9780262342438 ebook, $11.95; 56-0247
Regas, Dean. 100 things to see in the night sky: from planets and satellites to meteors and constellations, your guide to stargazing. Simon & Schuster, 2018. 222p index ISBN 9781507205051 pbk, $15.99; ISBN 9781507205068 ebook, $11.99; 56-0188
Robinson, Barbara Paul. Heroes of horticulture: Americans who transformed the landscape. David R. Godine, 2018. 269p bibl index ISBN 9781567926149, $40.00; 56-0203
Sivaram, Varun. Taming the sun: innovations to harness solar energy and power the planet. MIT, 2018. 371p index ISBN 9780262037686, $29.95; ISBN 9780262345590 ebook, $20.95; 56-0232
Unschuld, Paul U. Traditional Chinese medicine: heritage and adaptation, tr. by Bridie J. Andrews. Columbia, 2018. 169p index ISBN 9780231175012, $60.00; ISBN 9780231175012 pbk, $20.00; ISBN 9780231546263 ebook, $19.99; 56-0239
Alexander, Benjamin F. The New Deal’s forest army: how the Civilian Conservation Corps worked. Johns Hopkins, 2018. 179p bibl index ISBN 9781421424552, $55.00; ISBN 9781421424569 pbk, $19.95; ISBN 9781421424576 ebook, $19.95; 56-0353
Avieli, Nir. Food and power: a culinary ethnography of Israel. California, 2018. 274p bibl index (California studies in food and culture, 67) ISBN 9780520290099, $85.00; ISBN 9780520290105 pbk, $29.95; ISBN 9780520964419 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-0275
Bakke, Kit. Protest on trial: The Seattle 7 conspiracy. Washington State, 2018. 241p bibl index ISBN 9780874223569 pbk, $22.95; 56-0428
Campbell, Bradley Keith. The rise of victimhood culture: microaggressions, safe spaces, and the new culture wars, by Bradley Keith Campbell and Jason Manning. Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. 278p bibl index ISBN 9783319703282 pbk, $30.00; ISBN 9783319703299 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-0456
Communist parties revisited: sociocultural approaches to party rule in the Soviet Bloc, 1956–1991, ed. by Rüdiger Bergien and Jens Gieseke. Berghahn Books, 2018. 371p bibl index ISBN 9781785337765, $130.00; ISBN 9781785337772 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-0459
Corbett, Rebecca. Cultivating femininity: women and tea culture in Edo and Meiji Japan. Hawai’i, 2018. 189p bibl index ISBN 9780824872076, $68.00; 56-0329
Educating through popular culture: you’re not cool just because you teach with comics, ed. by Edward A. Janak and Ludovic A. Sourdot. Lexington Books, 2017. 341p bibl index ISBN 9781498549172, $120.00; ISBN 9781498549189 ebook, $114.00; 56-0317
Escott, Paul D. Rethinking the Civil War era: directions for research. University Press of Kentucky, 2018. 188p bibl index ISBN 9780813175355, $50.00; ISBN 9780813175379 ebook, $50.00; 56-0362
Fraser, Steve. Class matters: the strange career of an American delusion. Yale, 2018. 287p index ISBN 9780300221503, $25.00; ISBN 9780300235302 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-0364
Goldsworthy, Adrian Keith. Hadrian’s Wall. Basic Books, 2018. 169p bibl index ISBN 9781541644427, $25.00; ISBN 9781541644458 ebook, $14.99; 56-0381
Healing our divided society: investing in America fifty years after the Kerner Report, ed. by Fred Harris and Alan Curtis. Temple, 2018. 469p index ISBN 9781439916025, $99.50; ISBN 9781439916032 pbk, $24.95; ISBN 9781439916049 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-0365
Hill, Valerie. Hanging out: the psychology of socializing, by Valerie Hill and Tennille Nicole Allen. Green-wood, 2018. 196p bibl index ISBN 9781440843921, $38.00; ISBN 9781440843938 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-0446
Jentz, Paul. Seven myths of Native American history. Hackett, 2018. 196p bibl index ISBN 9781624666797, $54.00; ISBN 9781624666780 pbk, $19.00; 56-0366
LeCain, Timothy J. The matter of history: how things create the past. Cambridge, 2017. 346p index ISBN 9781107134171, $99.00; ISBN 9781107592704 pbk, $29.99; ISBN 9781108294829 ebook, $24.00; 56-0323
Marshall, James P. The Mississippi Civil Rights Movement and the Kennedy administration, 1960–1964: a history in documents. Louisiana State, 2018. 358p bibl index ISBN 9780807168745, $55.00; ISBN 9780807168769 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-0375
Martínez-Fernández, Luis. Key to the New World: a history of early colonial Cuba. University Press of Florida, 2018. 219p bibl index ISBN 9781683400325, $74.95; ISBN 9781683400608 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-0341
Morenon, E. Pierre. Rediscovering lost innocence: archaeology at the State Home and School. Rowman & Littlefield, 2018. 321p bibl index ISBN 9780759110960, $95.00; ISBN 9780759110977 ebook, $90.00; 56-0277
Nemeth, Charlan. In defense of troublemakers: the power of dissent in life and business. Basic Books, 2018. 257p index ISBN 9780465096299, $27.00; ISBN 9780465096305 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-0291
Pinker, Steven. Enlightenment now: the case for reason, science, humanism, and progress. Viking, 2018. 556p bibl index ISBN 9780525427575, $35.00; ISBN 9780698177888 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-0463
Popple, Philip R. Social work practice and social welfare policy in the United States: a history. Oxford, 2018. 378p index ISBN 9780190607326, $65.00; ISBN 9780190607333 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-0464
Restall, Matthew. When Montezuma met Cortés: the true story of the meeting that changed history. Ecco, 2018. 560p bibl index ISBN 9780062427267, $35.00; ISBN 9780062427281 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-0342
Summers, D. J. The business of cannabis: new policies for the new marijuana industry. Praeger, 2018. 171p index ISBN 9781440857867, $37.00; ISBN 9781440857874 ebook, contact publisher for price; 56-0297
West-Durán, Alan. Cuba: a cultural history. Reaktion Books, 2018. 288p bibl index ISBN 9781780238395, $29.00; 56-0344
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