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.


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

Horror fiction in the 20th century: exploring literature’s most chilling genre cover. Painting of demon/monster.
Horror fiction in the 20th century: exploring literature’s most chilling genre

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


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

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Dangerous art

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

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Women and gender in the Qur’an

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


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

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A day at CERN: guided tour through the heart of particle physics

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

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Air-conditioning in modern American architecture, 1890–1970

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


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

Transnational organized crime and gangs book cover. Graffiti on building/wall.
Transnational organized crime and gangs: intervention, prevention, and suppression of cyber-security

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

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Black market business: selling sex in Northern Vietnam, 1920–1945

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

The things of life cover. Children playing with metal structures.
The things of life: materiality in late Soviet Russia

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

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Crunch time: how married couples confront unemployment

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