The Top 75 Community College Titles: September 2020 Edition

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

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Critical survey of poetry: contemporary poets, ed. by D. Alan Dean. Salem Press, 2019. 2v bibl ISBN 9781642652796, $295.00; ISBN 9781642652802 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-0002

Finley, Laura L. Domestic violence and abuse: a reference handbook. ABC-CLIO, 2020. 347p bibl index ISBN 9781440858833, $62.00; ISBN 9781440858840 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-0005

Li, Stephanie. Zora Neale Hurston: a life in American history. ABC-CLIO, 2020. 220p bibl index ISBN 9781440866548, $63.00; ISBN 9781440866555 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-0007

Sex & Sexuality Module I: Research Collections from the Kinsey Institute Library and Special Collections. Adam Matthew. Contact publisher for pricing. URL: https://www.amdigital.co.uk/primary-sources/sex-and-sexuality 58-0010

Social Science Premium Collection. ProQuest. Contact publisher for pricing. URL: https://www.proquest.com/products-services/ProQuest-Social-Sciences-Premium-Collection.html 58-0011

Tomko, Gene. Encyclopedia of Louisiana musicians: jazz, blues, Cajun, Creole, zydeco, swamp pop, gospel. Louisiana State, 2020. 302p ISBN 9780807169322, $49.95; 58-0003

Humanities

Cormac McCarthy in context, ed by Steven Frye. Cambridge, 2020. 395p bibl index ISBN 9781108488839, $125.00; ISBN 9781108808699 ebook, $100.00; 58-0045

Jones, Nicholas. The music of Peter Maxwell Davies, by Nicholas Jones and Richard McGregor. Boydell & Brewer, 2020. 382p bibl index ISBN 9781783274833, $99.00; ISBN 9781787446823 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-0068

Martin, Mike W. Mindfulness in good lives. Lexington Books, 2020. 205p bibl index ISBN 9781498596367, $95.00; ISBN 9781498596374 ebook, $90.00; 58-0073

Ribó, Ignasi. Prose fiction: an introduction to the semiotics of narrative. Open Book Publishers, 2019. 142p bibl ISBN 9781783748105, $39.95; ISBN 9781783748112 ebook, open access; 58-0035

Satire, ed. by Robert C. Evans. Salem Press/Grey House, 2020. 359p bibl index ISBN 9781642653830, $105.00; ISBN 9781642653847 pbk, $105.00; 58-0036

Sweeney, Marvin A. Jewish mysticism: from ancient times through today. Eerdmans, 2020. 432p bibl in-dexes ISBN 9780802864031, $60.00; 58-0091

Towards gender equality in the music industry: education, practice and strategies for change, ed. by Sarah Raine and Catherine Strong. Bloomsbury Academic, 2019. 220p bibl index ISBN 9781501345500, $120.00; ISBN 9781501345517 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-0069

Wilkman, John. Screening reality: how documentary filmmakers reimagined America. Bloomsbury, 2020. 503p bibl index ISBN 9781635571035, $35.00; ISBN 9781635571059 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-0062

Science & Technology

Abuse and violence information for teens: health tips about the causes and consequences of abusive and violent behavior, [ed.] by Angela L. Williams. 3rd ed. Omnigraphics, 2020. 363p index ISBN 9780780817432, $69.00; ISBN 9780780817449 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-0122

Barnes, Luke A. The cosmic revolutionary’s handbook: (or: how to beat the big bang), by Luke A. Barnes and Geraint F. Lewis. Cambridge, 2020. 278p bibl index ISBN 9781108486705, $22.95; ISBN 9781108762090 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-0100

Cardiovascular disorders sourcebook, ed. by Angela L. Williams. 7th ed. Omnigraphics, 2019. 663p in-dex ISBN 9780780817074, $95.00; ISBN 9780780817081 ebook, $85.00; 58-0124

The Craft of science writing: selections from The Open Notebook, ed. by Siri Carpenter. The Open Note-book, 2020. 287p ISBN 9781734028027, $95.00; ISBN 9781734028003 pbk, $24.99; ISBN 9781734028010 ebook, $9.99; 58-0092

Cuthill, Fiona. Homelessness, social exclusion and health: global perspectives, local solutions. Dunedin Academic, 2019. 168p bibl index ISBN 9781780460710 pbk, $24.00; ISBN 9781780466040 ebook, con-tact publisher for price; 58-0125

DeNardis, Laura. The internet in everything: freedom and security in a world with no off switch. Yale, 2020. 271p index ISBN 9780300233070, $32.00; 58-0119

Drivers of landscape change in the Northwest Boreal region, ed. by Amanda L. Sesser et al. University of Alaska, 2019. 326p bibl index ISBN 9781602233973 pbk, $29.95; ISBN 9781602233980 ebook, $24.95; 58-0102

Fischer-Cripps, Anthony C. Waves, particles, and fields: introducing quantum field theory. CRC Press, 2019. 338p index ISBN 9780367198787, $225.00; ISBN 9780367198763 pbk, $89.95; ISBN 9780429243844 ebook, $80.96; 58-0141

Genetic counseling: clinical practice and ethical considerations, ed. by Laura Hercher, Barbara Biesecker, and Jehannine C. Austin. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, 2020. 303p bibl index ISBN 9781621823964 pbk, $79.00; ISBN 9781621823483 ebook, $75.00; 58-0126

Handbook of clinical skills, ed. by Peter Kopelman and Jane Dacre. 2nd ed. CRC Press, 2020. 408p in-dex ISBN 9780815366966, $149.95; ISBN 9780815366911 pbk, $34.95; ISBN 9781351258401 ebook, $34.95; 58-0127

Hayes, Miles O. A coast of scenic wonders: coastal geology and ecology of the outer coast of Oregon and Washington and the Strait of Juan de Fuca, by Miles O. Hayes and Jacqueline Michel. Pandion Books, 2020. 229p bibl index ISBN 9780981661858 pbk, $29.95; 58-0117

Hirst, Linda S. Fundamentals of soft matter science. CRC Press, 2020. 283p bibl index ISBN 9781138724785, $250.00; ISBN 9781138724440 pbk, $99.95; ISBN 9781315192383 ebook, $99.95; 58-0144

Körner, T. W. Where do numbers come from? Cambridge, 2020. 260p bibl index ISBN 9781108488068, $79.99; ISBN 9781108738385 pbk, $32.99; ISBN 9781108781817 ebook, $26.00; 58-0139

Manabe, Syukuro. Beyond global warming: how numerical models revealed the secrets of climate change, by Syukuro Manabe and Anthony J. Broccoli. Princeton, 2020. 193p bibl index ISBN 9780691058863, $35.00; ISBN 9780691185163 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-0095

Matloff, Norman S. Probability and statistics for data science: math + R + data. CRC Press, 2020. 412p index ISBN 9780367260934, $175.00; ISBN 9781138393295 pbk, $69.95; ISBN 9780429401862 ebook, $69.95; 58-0140

Merrill, Deborah M. Mastering menopause: women’s voices on taking charge of the change. Praeger, 2020. 194p bibl index ISBN 9781440874710, $39.00; ISBN 9781440874727 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-0129

Rogers, Alex. The deep: the hidden wonders of our oceans and how we can protect them. Wildfire, 2019. (Dist. by Hachette Book Group) 358p ISBN 9781472253934 pbk, $17.99; 58-0118

Royle, Stephen J. The digital cell: cell biology as a data science. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, 2020. 137p bibl index ISBN 9781621822783, $135.00; ISBN 9781621822806 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-0106

Smithsonian handbook of interesting insects, by Gavin R. Broad et al. Smithsonian Books, 2020. unpaged ISBN 9781588346865, $19.95; 58-0112

Ward, Peter. The clean body: a modern history. McGill-Queen’s, 2019. 313p index ISBN 9780773559387, $37.95; ISBN 9780228000631 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-0136

Social & Behavioral Sciences

Beer, Michael. Fit to compete: why honest conversations about your company’s capabilities are the key to a winning strategy. Harvard Business Review Press, 2020. 285p index ISBN 9781633692305, $32.00; ISBN 9781633692312 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-0168

Bordewich, Fergus M. Congress at war: how Republican reformers fought the Civil War, defied Lincoln, ended slavery, and remade America. Knopf, 2020. 450p bibl index ISBN 9780451494443, $32.50; ISBN 9780451494450 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-0221

Brown-Dean, Khalilah L. Identity politics in the United States. Polity, 2019. 305p bibl index ISBN 9780745654119, $69.95; ISBN 9780745654126 pbk, $26.95; 58-0272

Clergé, Orly. The new noir: race, identity, and diaspora in black suburbia. California, 2019. 292p bibl index ISBN 9780520296763, $85.00; ISBN 978052029678 pbk, $29.95; ISBN 9780520969131 ebook, $29.95; 58-0286

Cohen, Herman J. US policy toward Africa: eight decades of realpolitik. L. Rienner, 2020. 280p bibl in-dex ISBN 9781626378698, $95.00; ISBN 9781626378704 pbk, $35.00; ISBN 9781626378971 ebook, $35.00; 58-0263

Cott, Nancy F. Fighting words: the bold American journalists who brought the world home between the wars. Basic Books, 2020. 403p index ISBN 9781541699335, $32.00; ISBN 9781541699311 ebook, $18.99; 58-0227

Cotterell, Arthur. The first great powers: Babylon and Assyria. Oxford, 2019. 301p index ISBN 9781787382114, $34.95; ISBN 9781787383432 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-0206

Delston, Jill. Medical sexism: contraception access, reproductive medicine, and health care. Lexington Books, 2019. 335p bibl index ISBN 9781498558211, $115.00; ISBN 9781498558228 ebook, $109.00; 58-0287

Farrell, Justin. Billionaire wilderness: the ultra-wealthy and the remaking of the American West. Prince-ton, 2020. 376p bibl index ISBN 9780691176673, $27.95; ISBN 9780691185811 ebook, contact publish-er for price; 58-0288

Fight of the century: writers reflect on 100 years of landmark ACLU cases, ed. by Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman. Avid Reader Press, 2020. 305p ISBN 9781501190407, $27.00; 58-0273

Frank, Robert H. Under the influence: putting peer pressure to work. Princeton, 2020. 299p index ISBN 9780691193083, $24.95; ISBN 9780691193083 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-0177

Frazer-Rahim, Muhammad. America’s other Muslims: Imam W. D. Mohammed, Islamic reform, and the making of American Islam. Rowman & Littlefield, 2020. 136p bibl index ISBN 9781498590198, $90.00; ISBN 9781498590204 ebook, $85.50; 58-0231

Gringo injustice: insider perspectives on police, gangs, and law, ed. by Alfredo Mirandé. Routledge, 2020. 239p bibl index ISBN 9780367276058, $175.00; ISBN 9780367276065 pbk, $42.95; ISBN 9780429296857 ebook, $42.95; 58-0289

Hart, Roderick P. Trump and us: what he says and why people listen. Cambridge, 2020. 264p index ISBN 9781108490818, $84.99; ISBN 9781108796415 pbk, $24.99; ISBN 9781108854979 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-0274

Hatton, Erin. Coerced: work under threat of punishment. California, 2020. 281p bibl index ISBN 9780520305397, $85.00; ISBN 9780520305410 pbk, $29.95; ISBN 9780520973404 ebook, $29.95; 58-0290

Holden, Charles J. Republican Populist: Spiro Agnew and the origins of Donald Trump’s America, by Charles J. Holden, Zach Messitte, and Jerald Podair. Virginia, 2019. 259p bibl index ISBN 9780813943268, $29.50; ISBN 9780813943275 ebook, $29.50; 58-0275

Holm, Len. Construction superintendents: essential skills for the next generation, by Len Holm and John Schaufelberger. Routledge, 2020. 264p bibl index ISBN 9780367002459, $162.00; ISBN 9780367002466 pbk, $74.95; ISBN 9780429400575 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-0172

Kaufman, Gayle. Fixing parental leave: the six month solution. New York University, 2020. 239p bibl index ISBN 9781479810369, $27.00; ISBN 9781479885039 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-0291

Kraig, Bruce. Food cultures of the United States: recipes, customs, and issues. Greenwood, 2020. 229p bibl index ISBN 9781440866586, $63.00; ISBN 9781440866593 pbk, contact publisher for price; 58-0234

Küçük, Harun. Science without leisure: practical naturalism in Istanbul, 1660–1732. Pittsburgh, 2020. 320p bibl index ISBN 9780822945802, $50.00; ISBN 9780822987109 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-0219

Lebrecht, Norman. Genius & anxiety: how Jews changed the world, 1847–1947. Scribner, 2019. 438p bibl index ISBN 9781982134228, $30.00; ISBN 9781786076687 ebook, $14.99; 58-0197

Lee, Erika. America for Americans: a history of xenophobia in the United States. Basic Books, 2019. 416p index ISBN 9781541672604, $32.00; ISBN 9781541699694 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-0235

The Many faces of slavery: new perspectives on slave ownership and experiences in the Americas, ed. by Lawrence Aje and Catherine Armstrong. Bloomsbury Academic, 2020. 241p index ISBN 9781350071421, $114.00; ISBN 9781350071438 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-0198

Mulder, Mark T. The glass church: Robert H. Schuller, the Crystal Cathedral, and the strain of mega-church ministry, by Mark T. Mulder and Gerardo Martí. Rutgers, 2020. 276p bibl index ISBN 9780813589053, $39.95; ISBN 9780813589077 ebook, $39.95; 58-0296

Nación Genízara: ethnogenesis, place, and identity in New Mexico, ed. by Moises Gonzales and Enrique R. Lamadrid. New Mexico, 2019. 365p bibl index ISBN 9780826361073, $65.00; ISBN 9780826361080 ebook, $65.00; 58-0153

Norton, Mary Beth. 1774: the long year of Revolution. Knopf, 2020. 502p bibl index ISBN 9780385353366, $32.50; ISBN 9780385353373 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-0237

Placing Latin America: contemporary themes in geography, ed. by Edward L. Jackiewicz and Fernando J. Bosco. 4th ed. Rowman & Littlefield, 2020. 263p bibl index ISBN 9781538126295, $110.00; ISBN 9781538126301 pbk, $49.00; ISBN 9781538126318 ebook, $46.50; 58-0215

Reid, Jack. Roadside Americans: the rise and fall of hitchhiking in a changing nation. North Carolina, 2020. 251p bibl index ISBN 9781469655000, $29.95; ISBN 9781469655024 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-0155

Rendón, María G. Stagnant dreamers: how the inner city shapes the integration of second-generation Latinos. Russell Sage Foundation, 2019. 334p bibl index ISBN 9780871547088 pbk, $39.95; ISBN 9781610448901 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-0298

Rice, Stian. Famine in the remaking: food system change and mass starvation in Hawaii, Madagascar, and Cambodia. West Virginia, 2020. 249p bibl index ISBN 9781949199338, $99.99; ISBN 9781949199345 pbk, $29.99; ISBN 9781949199352 ebook, $29.99; 58-0201

Sager, Alex. Against borders: why the world needs free movement of people. Rowman & Littlefield, 2020. 137p bibl index ISBN 9781786606273, $90.00; ISBN 9781786606280 pbk, $29.95; ISBN 9781786606297 ebook, $28.50; 58-0271

Santos, Michael Wayne. United States foreign policy 1945–1968: the bomb, spies, stories, and lies. Lexington Books, 2020. 343p bibl index ISBN 9781793602176, $115.00; ISBN 9781793602183 ebook, $109.00; 58-0239

Schul, James E. Paradoxes of the public school: historical and contemporary foundations of American public education. Information Age, 2019. 213p bibl index ISBN 9781641136518, $85.99; ISBN 9781641136501 pbk, $45.99; ISBN 9781641136525 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-0189

Singer, John N. Race, sports, and education: improving opportunities and outcomes for black male college athletes. Harvard Education Press, 2019. 202p index ISBN 9781682534106, $62.00; ISBN 9781682534090 pbk, $32.00; 58-0190

Smith, Malcolm. Hats: a very UNnatural history. Michigan State, 2020. 171p bibl index ISBN 9781611863475, $44.95; ISBN 9781609176228 ebook, $35.95; 58-0163

Sze, Julie. Environmental justice in a moment of danger. California, 2020. 144p bibl ISBN 9780520300736, $85.00; ISBN 9780520300743 pbk, $18.95; ISBN 9780520971981 ebook, $18.95; 58-0156

Toft, Mark. Authenticity: building a brand in an insincere age, by Mark Toft, Jay Sunny, and Rich Taylor. Praeger, 2020. 198p index ISBN 9781440873201, $39.00; ISBN 9781440873218 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-0176

Weeks, John. The debt delusion: living within our means and other fallacies. Polity, 2020. 209p index ISBN 9781509532933, $95.00; ISBN 9781509532940 pbk, $19.95; ISBN 9781509532964 ebook, $9.99; 58-0179

Wieviorka, Olivier. The resistance in Western Europe, 1940–1945, tr. by Jane Marie Todd. Columbia, 2019. 488p bibl index ISBN 9780231189965, $38.00; ISBN 9780231548649 ebook, $37.99; 58-0256

Winter, Tim. Geocultural power: China’s quest to revive the Silk Roads for the twenty-first century. Chicago, 2019. 288p bibl index ISBN 9780226658216, $85.00; ISBN 9780226658353 pbk, $27.50; ISBN 9780226658490 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-0211

Zipp, Samuel. The idealist: Wendell Willkie’s wartime quest to build one world. Belknap, Harvard, 2020. 393p index ISBN 9780674737518, $35.00; ISBN 9780674245884 ebook, contact publisher for price; 58-0242