The Top 75 Community College Titles: September 2021 Edition

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

Posted on September 30, 2021 in Top 75 Community College Titles

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Reference

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

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Humanities

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

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Science & Technology

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

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Social & Behavioral Sciences

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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