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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Early Modern England: Society, Culture and Everyday Life, 1500–1700. Adam Matthew. Contact publisher for pricing. URL: https://www.amdigital.co.uk/primary-sources/early-modern-england 59-0008
Gale Case Studies. Gale, part of Cengage Learning. Contact publisher for pricing. URL: https://www.gale.com/case-studies 59-0009
Global Literature on Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19). World Health Organization (WHO). Contact publisher for pricing. URL: https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019/global-research-on-novel-coronavirus-2019-ncov/ 59-0006
Goss, K. David. Colonial America: facts and fictions, by K. David Goss and A. A. Grishin. ABC-CLIO, 2021. 228p bibl index ISBN 9781440864261, $63.00; ISBN 9781440864278 ebook, contact publisher for price; 59-0010
Mace, Darryl. Rosa Parks: a life in American history. ABC-CLIO, 2021. 189p bibl index ISBN 9781440868429, $63.00; ISBN 9781440868436 ebook, contact publisher for price; 59-0012
Nevins, Jess. Horror fiction in the 20th century: exploring literature’s most chilling genre. Praeger, 2020. 277p bibl index ISBN 9781440862052, $50.00; ISBN 9781440862069 ebook, contact publisher for price; 59-0002
Notable American women writers, ed. by Laura Nicosia and James F. Nicosia. Salem Press/Grey House, 2020. 2v bibl index ISBN 9781642654233, $225.00; ISBN 9781642654240 ebook, $225.00; 59-0003
ProQuest African American Heritage. ProQuest. Contact publisher for pricing. URL: https://about.proquest.com/en/products-services/aah/ 59-0015
Sheehan, Michael J. Word parts dictionary: standard and reverse listings of prefixes, suffixes, roots and combining forms. McFarland, 2021. 291p ISBN 9780786494347 pbk, $55.00; ISBN 9781476642109 ebook, contact publisher for price; 59-0004
Abate, Michelle Ann. No kids allowed: children’s literature for adults. Johns Hopkins, 2020. 248p bibl index ISBN 9781421438856, $94.95; ISBN 9781421438863 pbk, $34.95; ISBN 9781421438870 ebook, $34.95; 59-0045
Faber, Liz. The computer’s voice: from Star trek to Siri. Minnesota, 2020. 217p index ISBN 9781517909758, $108.00; ISBN 9781517909765 pbk, $27.00; ISBN 9781452964133 pbk, contact publisher for price; 59-0035
Harold, James. Dangerous art. Oxford, 2020. 208p bibl index ISBN 9780197519769, $65.00; ISBN 9780197519783 ebook, contact publisher for price; 59-0084
Hess, Earl J. Gene Kelly: the making of a creative legend, by Earl J. Hess and Pratibha A. Dabholkar. University Press of Kansas, 2020. 576p bibl index ISBN 9780700630172, $39.95; ISBN 9780700630189 ebook, contact publisher for price; 59-0063
Ibrahim, Celene. Women and gender in the Qur’an. Oxford, 2020. 232p bibl index ISBN 9780190063818, $29.95; ISBN 9780190063832 ebook, contact publisher for price; 59-0103
Nurmi, Tom. Magnificent decay: Melville and ecology. Virginia, 2020. 276p index ISBN 9780813945019, $65.00; ISBN 9780813945026 pbk, $32.50; ISBN 9780813945033 ebook, $32.50; 59-0050
Risse, Mathias. On justice: philosphy, history, foundations. Cambridge, 2020. 436p bibl index ISBN 9781108481977, $39.99; ISBN 9781108620468 ebook, 85.00; 59-0093
The Routledge companion to literature and disability, ed. by Alice Hall. Routledge, 2020. 412p bibl index ISBN 9781138043602, $250.00; ISBN 9781315173047 ebook, $52.95; 59-0038
Russell, Luke. Being evil: a philosophical perspective. Oxford, 2020. 160p ISBN 9780198862079, $18.95; ISBN 9780192606631 ebook, contact publisher for price; 59-0095
Whitmore, Aleysia. World music and the Black Atlantic: producing and consuming African-Cuban musics on world music stages. Oxford, 2020. 264p bibl index ISBN 9780190083946, $99.00; ISBN 9780190083960 pbk, $27.95; ISBN 9780190083960 ebook, contact publisher for price; 59-0076
Bandler, John. Cybercrime investigations: the comprehensive resource for everyone, by John Bandler and Antonia Merzon. CRC Press, 2020. 336p bibl index ISBN 9780367196233, $69.95; ISBN 9781003033523 ebook, $69.95; 59-0146
Crawford, Kate. Atlas of AI: power, politics, and the planetary costs of artificial intelligence. Yale, 2021. 336p bibl index ISBN 9780300209570, $28.00; ISBN 9780300252392 ebook, contact publisher for price; 59-0109
Cybersecurity for information professionals: concepts and applications, ed. by Hsia-Ching Chang and Suliman Hawamdeh. Auerbach Publications, 2020. 334p ISBN 9780367486815, $89.95; ISBN 9781000065824 ebook, $89.95; 59-0147
Depambour, Gautier. A day at CERN: guided tour through the heart of particle physics. World Scientific, 2020. 164p ISBN 9789811221101, $58.00; ISBN 9789811220647 pbk, $28.00; ISBN 9789811220661 ebook, $22.00; 59-0154
Handbook of natural resources: v1: Terrestrial ecosystems and biodiversity, ed. by Yeqiao Wang. 2nd ed. CRC Press, 2020. 435p bibl index ISBN 9781138333918, $180.00; ISBN 9780429445651 ebook, $58.95; 59-0129
The Handbook of natural resources: v.3: Wetlands and habitats, ed. by Yeqiao Wang. 2nd ed. CRC Press, 2020. 272p bibl index ISBN 9781138334199, $180.00; ISBN 9780429445507 ebook, $58.95; 59-0128
Isaacson, Walter. The code breaker: Jennifer Doudna, gene editing, and the future of the human race. Simon & Schuster, 2021. 560p index ISBN 9781982115852, $35.00; ISBN 9781982115876 ebook, $16.99; 59-0114
Klass, Perri. A good time to be born: how science and public health gave children a future. W. W. Norton, 2020. 384p bibl index ISBN 9780393609998, $28.95; ISBN 9780393610000 ebook, contact publisher for price; 59-0139
Newton, David E. World oceans: a reference handbook. ABC-CLIO, 2021. 337p bibl index ISBN 9781440875434, $63.00; ISBN 9781440875441 ebook, contact publisher for price; 59-0130
Newton, David E. The climate change debate: a reference handbook. ABC-CLIO, 2020. 344p bibl index ISBN 9781440875410, $63.00; ISBN 9781440875427 ebook, contact publisher for price; 59-0131
Principles of marine science, ed. by Richard M. Renneboog. Salem Press, 2020. 674p bibl index (Principles of science, 21) ISBN 9781642657661, $165.00; ISBN 9781642657678 ebook, contact publisher for price; 59-0132
Prost, G. L. North America’s natural wonders: v.1: Canadian Rockies, California, the southwest, Great Basin, Tetons-Yellowstone country; v.2: Appalachians, Colorado Rockies, Austin-Big Bend Country, Sierra Madre. CRC Press, 2020. 2v bibl index ISBN 9780367859466, $450.00; ISBN 9780367821258 pbk, $159.95; 59-0133
Siry, Joseph. Air-conditioning in modern American architecture, 1890–1970. Pennsylvania State, 2021. 304p bibl index ISBN 9780271086941, $139.95; ISBN 9780271089003 ebook, contact publisher for price; 59-0134
Smith, Michael. Biochemistry: an organic chemistry approach. CRC Press, 2020. 472p bibl index ISBN 9780815367130, $260.00; ISBN 9780815366454 pbk, $130.00; ISBN 9781351258081 ebook, $130.00; 59-0127
Standing up for a sustainable world: voices of change, ed. by Claude Henry, Johan Rockström, and Nicholas Stern. E. Elgar, 2020. 496p bibl index ISBN 9781800371774, $195.00; ISBN 9781800371798 pbk, $60.00; ISBN 9781800371781 ebook, $48.00; 59-0118
Swan, Shanna H. Count down: how our modern world is threatening sperm counts, altering male and female reproductive development, and imperiling the future of the human race, by Shanna H. Swan with Stacey Colino. Simon & Schuster, 2021. 292p index ISBN 9781982113667, $28.00; ISBN 9781982113681 ebook, $14.99; 59-0124
Yellowstone wolves: science and discovery in the world’s first national park, ed. by Douglas W. Smith, Daniel R. Stahler, and Daniel R. MacNulty . Chicago, 2020. 344p bibl index ISBN 9780226728346, $35.00; ISBN 9780226728483 ebook, $35.00; 59-0126
Andrews, Erin E. Disability as diversity: developing cultural competence. Oxford, 2020. 240p bibl index ISBN 9780190652319 pbk, $45.00; ISBN 9780190672591 ebook, contact publisher for price; 59-0285
Barber, Richard. Magnificence and princely splendour in the Middle Ages. Boydell Press, 2020. 360p bibl index ISBN 9781783274710, $39.95; 59-0257
Browning, Judkin. An environmental history of the Civil War, by Judkin Browning and Timothy Silver. North Carolina, 2020. 272p bibl index ISBN 9781469655383, $30.00; ISBN 9781469655390 ebook, $22.99; 59-0237
Brzenchek, Robert Matthew. Transnational organized crime and gangs: intervention, prevention, and suppression of cyber-security. Rowman & Littlefield, 2020. 193p bibl index ISBN 9781538128183, $90.00; ISBN 9781538142783 pbk, $65.00; ISBN 9781538128190 ebook, $61.50; 59-0288
Bunyan, Laura. Modern day Mary Poppins: the unintended consequences of nanny work. Lexington Books, 2020. 190p bibl index ISBN 9781793619761, $95.00; ISBN 9781793619778 ebook, $45.00; 59-0289
Christian, Mark. The 20th century Civil Rights Movement: an Africana studies perspective. Kendall Hunt, 2021. 358p ISBN 9781524997472, $70.00; 59-0238
Cortada, James W. Building blocks of society: history, information ecosystems, and infrastructures. Rowman & Littlefield, 2020. 332p ISBN 9781538148549, $95.00; ISBN 9781538148556 ebook, $45.00; 59-0160
Cutright, Robyn. The story of food in the human past: how what we ate made us who we are. Alabama, 2021. 288p bibl index ISBN 9780817320829, $79.95; ISBN 9780817359850 pbk, $34.95; ISBN 9780817393380 ebook, $34.95; 59-0172
Disability, health, law, and bioethics, ed. by I. Glenn Cohen et al. Cambridge, 2020. 380p ISBN 9781108485975, $130.00; ISBN 9781108725408 pbk, $49.99; ISBN 9781108666213 ebook, $40.00; 59-0162
Dynamics of democracy in Taiwan: the Ma Ying-jeou years, ed. by Kharis Templeman, Yun-han Chu, and Larry Diamond. L. Rienner, 2020. 420p index ISBN 9781626379114, $89.95; ISBN 9781626379114 pbk, $32.50; ISBN 9781626379411 ebook, $32.50; 59-0263
Education for democracy: renewing the Wisconsin Idea, ed. by Chad Alan Goldberg. Wisconsin, 2020. 296p bibl index ISBN 9780299328900, $44.95; ISBN 9780299328931 ebook, contact publisher for price; 59-0193
Emmerson, Allison L. C. Life and death in the Roman suburb. Oxford, 2020. 304p bibl index ISBN 9780198852759, $90.00; ISBN 9780192594105 ebook, contact publisher for price; 59-0214
The Environmental politics and policy of western public lands, ed. by Erika Allen Wolters and Brent S. Steel. Oregon State, 2020. 315p index ISBN 9780870710223 pbk, $34.95; 59-0274
Firpo, Christina Elizabeth. Black market business: selling sex in Northern Vietnam, 1920–1945. Cornell, 2020. 276p bibl index ISBN 9781501752650, $42.95; ISBN 9781501752667 ebook, $20.99; 59-0218
Ford, Elyssa. Rodeo as refuge, rodeo as rebellion: gender, race, and identity in the American rodeo. University Press of Kansas, 2020. 288p bibl index ISBN 9780700630301, $70.00; ISBN 9780700630318 pbk, $21.95; ISBN 9780700630325 ebook, contact publisher for price; 59-0163
Friedman, Rachel Z. Probable justice: risk, insurance, and the welfare state. Chicago, 2020. 254p index ISBN 9780226730769, $105.00; ISBN 9780226730936 pbk, $35.00; ISBN 9780226731094 ebook, contact publisher for price; 59-0181
Gerster, Robin. Hiroshima and here: reflections on Australian atomic culture. Rowman & Littlefield, 2020. 244p bibl index ISBN 9781498587594, $105.00; ISBN 9781498587600 ebook, $45.00; 59-0219
Golubev, Alexey. The things of life: materiality in late Soviet Russia. Cornell, 2020. 220p bibl index ISBN 9781501752889, $39.95; ISBN 9781501752896 ebook, $19.99; 59-0223
Hamilton and the law: reading today’s most contentious legal issues through the hit musical, ed. by Lisa A. Tucker. Cornell, 2020. 315p index ISBN 9781501752216, $39.95; ISBN 9781501753381 pbk, $19.95; ISBN 9781501752223 ebook, $9.99; 59-0276
Huber, Daniela. The international dimension of the Israel-Palestinian conflict: a post-Eurocentric approach. SUNY Press, 2021. 222p bibl index ISBN 9781438481593, $95.00; ISBN 9781438481609 ebook, contact publisher for price; 59-0233
Jelinek, Donald A. White lawyer, black power: a memoir of civil rights activism in the Deep South. South Carolina, 2020. 296p bibl index ISBN 9781643361178, $89.99; ISBN 9781643361185 pbk, $29.99; ISBN 9781643361192 ebook, $29.99; 59-0243
Katz, Steven T. Holocaust studies: critical reflections. Routledge, 2019. 372p bibl index ISBN 9781138579606, $160.00; ISBN 9780367786502 pbk, $48.95; ISBN 9780429507908 ebook, $48.95; 59-0260
Kawamoto, Judy. Forced out: a Nikkei woman’s search for a home in America. University Press of Colorado, 2020. 202p bibl ISBN 9781646420704, $29.95; ISBN 9781646420711 ebook, $24.00; 59-0245
Koplow, Lesley. Emotionally responsive practice: a path for schools that heal, infancy–grade 6. Teachers College Press, 2021. 168p bibl index ISBN 9780807764855, $87.00; ISBN 9780807764848 pbk, $28.95; ISBN 9780807779316 ebook, $28.95; 59-0194
Luby, Brittany. Dammed: the politics of loss and survival in Anishinaabe territory. University of Manitoba, 2020. 256p bibl index (Critical studies in Native history, 21) ISBN 9780887558740 pbk, $27.95; 59-0248
Miller, Scott A. Parents’ beliefs about children. Oxford, 2020. 440p bibl index ISBN 9780190874513, $65.00; ISBN 9780190874520 ebook, contact publisher for price; 59-0283
Others of my kind: transatlantic transgender histories, by Alex Bakker et al. University of Calgary Press, 2020. 298p bibl index ISBN 9781773851525, $89.99; ISBN 9781773851211 pbk, $49.99; ISBN 9781773851242 ebook, contact publisher for price; 59-0207
The Oxford handbook of electoral persuasion, ed. by Elizabeth Suhay, Bernard Grofman, and Alexander H. Trechsel. Oxford, 2020. 1,128p index ISBN 9780190860806, $200.00; ISBN 9780190860837 ebook, contact publisher for price; 59-0264
Philpot, Don K. Reading actively in middle grade science: teachers and students in action. Rowman & Littlefield, 2020. 246p bibl index ISBN 9781475843958, $82.00; ISBN 9781475843965 pbk, $41.00; ISBN 9781475843972 ebook, $39.00; 59-0199
Rafalow, Matthew H. Digital divisions: how schools create inequality in the tech era. Chicago, 2020. 224p index ISBN 9780226726557, $85.00; ISBN 9780226726694 pbk, $22.50; ISBN 9780226726724 ebook, contact publisher for price; 59-0200
Rao, Aliya Hamid. Crunch time: how married couples confront unemployment. California, 2020. 308p bibl index ISBN 9780520298606, $85.00; ISBN 9780520298613 pbk, $29.95; ISBN 9780520970670 ebook, $29.95; 59-0302
The Role of agriculture in climate change mitigation, ed. by Lucjan Pawłowski, Zygmunt Litwińczuk, and Guomo Zhou. CRC Press, 2020. 148p bibl index ISBN 9780367433727, $120.00; ISBN 978100300273 ebook, $58.95; 59-0185
Root, Damon. A glorious liberty: Frederick Douglass and the fight for an anti-slavery constitution. Nebraska, 2020. 200p bibl index ISBN 9781640122352, $26.95; ISBN 9781640123830 ebook, $26.95; 59-0251
Russia in the Middle East and North Africa: continuity and change, ed. by Chiara Lovotti et al. Routledge, 2021. 198p index ISBN 9780367251284, $160.00; ISBN 9780429286230 ebook, $48.95; 59-0269
Schafer, Tyler. Community gardening in an unlikely city: the struggle to grow together in Las Vegas. Lexington Books, 2021. 202p ISBN 9781793623126, $100.00; ISBN 9781793623133 ebook, $45.00; 59-0304
Sizemore-Barber, April. Prismatic performances: queer South Africa and the fragmentation of the Rainbow Nation. Michigan, 2020. 194p bibl index ISBN 9780472132058, $75.00; ISBN 9780472038794 pbk, $34.95; ISBN 9780472126989 ebook, contact publisher for price; 59-0213
Smith, Gary Scott. Duty and destiny: the life and faith of Winston Churchill. Eerdmans, 2021. 267p bibl index ISBN 9780802877000, $28.99; ISBN 9781467461931 ebook, contact publisher for price; 59-0256
Vitalis, Robert. Oilcraft: the myths of scarcity and security that haunt U.S. energy policy. Stanford, 2020. 240p bibl index ISBN 9781503600904, $24.00; ISBN 978150361234 ebook, contact publisher for price; 59-0186
Wilson, Eli Revelle Yano. Front of the house, back of the house: race and inequality in the lives of restaurant workers. New York University, 2020. 240p bibl index ISBN 9781479800612, $89.00; ISBN 9781479800629 pbk, $28.00; ISBN 9781479800667 ebook, contact publisher for price; 59-0307
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