The Top 75 Community College Titles: September 2022 Edition

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

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Encyclopedia of queer studies in education, ed. by Kamden K. Strunk and Stephanie Anne Shelton. Brill, 2022. 814p bibl index (Critical understanding in education, 4) ISBN 9789004506718, $265.00; ISBN 9789004506725 ebook, $265.00; 60-0009

Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection. EBSCO. URL: https://www.ebsco.com/products/research-databases/psychology-behavioral-sciences-collection 60-0010

Research Methods Primary Sources. Adam Matthew. Contact publisher for pricing. URL: https://www.amdigital.co.uk/products/research-methods-primary-sources 60-0001


Humanities

Adjusting the lens: indigenous activism, colonial legacies, and photographic heritage, ed. by Sigrid Lien and Hilde Wallem Nielssen. UBC Press, 2021. 320p bibl index ISBN 9780774866613 pbk, $45.00; ISBN 9780774866620 ebook, $45.00; 60-0029

Barnhill, Georgia Brady. Gems of art on paper: illustrated American fiction and poetry, 1785–1885. Massachusetts, 2021. 288p bibl index ISBN 9781625346209, $90.00; ISBN 9781625346216 pbk, $32.95; ISBN 9781613768969 ebook, contact publisher for price; 60-0014

Berlinerblau, Jacques. The Philip Roth we don’t know: sex, race, and autobiography. Virginia, 2021. 240p bibl index ISBN 9780813946610, $29.95; ISBN 9780813946627 ebook, $29.95; 60-0055

Cattaneo, Anne. The art of dramaturgy. Yale, 2021. 316p bibl index ISBN 9780300233698, $45.00; ISBN 9780300262384 ebook, contact publisher for price; 60-0080

Davis, Heather M. Plastic matter. Duke, 2022. 176p bibl index ISBN 9781478015130, $89.95; ISBN 9781478017752 pbk, $23.95; ISBN 9781478022374 ebook, contact publisher for price; 60-0031

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Dubinets, Elena Aleksandrovna. Russian composers abroad: how they left, stayed, returned. Indiana, 2021. 388p bibl index ISBN 9780253057778, $90.00; ISBN 9780253057785 pbk, $36.00; ISBN 9780253057808 ebook, $35.99; 60-0073

Essin, Christin. Working backstage: a cultural history and ethnography of technical theater labor. Michigan, 2021. 273p bibl index ISBN 9780472074969, $80.00; ISBN 9780472054961 pbk, $34.95; ISBN 9780472129263 ebook, contact publisher for price; 60-0081

Molino, Sergio del. Skin, tr. by Thomas Bunstead. Polity, 2022. 220p ISBN 9781509547852, $25.00; ISBN 9781509547876 ebook, $25.00; 60-0063

Rowland, Robert C. The rhetoric of Donald Trump: nationalist Populism and American democracy. University Press of Kansas, 2021. 272p bibl index ISBN 9780700631964, $34.95; ISBN 9780700631971 ebook, contact publisher for price; 60-0034

Starr, Larry. Listening to Bob Dylan. Illinois, 2021. 136p bibl index ISBN 9780252043956, $110.00; ISBN 9780252086021 pbk, $19.95; ISBN 9780252052880 ebook, $14.95; 60-0077

Steele, Catherine Knight. Digital Black feminism. New York University, 2021. 208p bibl index ISBN 9781479808373, $89.00; ISBN 9781479808380 pbk, $27.00; ISBN 9781479808366 ebook, contact publisher for price; 60-0037


Science & Technology

Alnajjar, Fady. Robots in education: an introduction to high-tech social agents, intelligent tutors, and curricular tools. Routledge, 2021. 238p bibl index ISBN 9780367696511, $160.00; ISBN 9780367655396 pbk, $48.95; ISBN 9781003142706 ebook, $48.95; 60-0146

Bjornerud, Marcia. Geopedia: a brief compendium of geologic curiosities, illustrated by Haley Hagerman. Princeton, 2022. 200p bibl ISBN 9780691212579, $16.95; ISBN 9780691232720 ebook, contact publisher for price; 60-0127

Brondo, Keri Vacanti. Voluntourism and multispecies collaboration: life, death, and conservation in the Mesoamerican barrier reef. Arizona, 2021. 224p bibl index ISBN 9780816542604, $60.00; ISBN 9780816544349 ebook, $27.95; 60-0118

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Casey-Maslen, Stuart. Nuclear weapons: law, policy, and practice. Cambridge, 2022. 262p bibl index ISBN 9781316510858, $145.00; ISBN 9781009018661 pbk, $52.99; ISBN 9781009039864 ebook, contact publisher for price; 60-0155

Denlinger, David L. Insect diapause. Cambridge, 2022. 464p bibl index ISBN 9781108497527, $64.99; ISBN 9781316997734 ebook, $52.00; 60-0119

Gamification for tourism, ed. by Feifei Xu and Dimitrios Buhalis. Channel View, 2021. 312p bibl index (Aspects of tourism, 92) ISBN 9781845418212, $159.95; ISBN 9781845418229 pbk, $59.95; ISBN 9781845418243 ebook, $50.00; 60-0158

Goldstein, David B. The end of genetics: designing humanity’s DNA. Yale, 2022. 177p bibl index ISBN 9780300219395, $27.50; ISBN 9780300262544 ebook, contact publisher for price; 60-0120

Hughes, David McDermott. Who owns the wind?: climate crisis and the hope of renewable energy. Verso, 2022. 256p bibl index ISBN 9781839761133 pbk, $26.95; ISBN 9781839761157 ebook, $9.99; 60-0129

Jacob, Jeanne. Food cultures of Japan: recipes, customs, and issues. Greenwood, 2022. 241p bibl index ISBN 9781440866838, $63.00; ISBN 9781440866845 ebook, contact publisher for price; 60-0107

Johnson, Markes E. Baja California’s coastal landscapes revealed: excursions in geologic time and climate change. Arizona, 2021. 264p bibl index ISBN 9780816542529 pbk, $22.95; ISBN 9780816544196 ebook, $22.95; 60-0130

Kehoe, Tegan. Exploring American healthcare through 50 historic treasures. Rowman & Littlefield, 2022. 304p bibl index ISBN 9781538135464, $38.00; ISBN 9781538135471 ebook, $36.00; 60-0142

Munns, David P. D. Far beyond the moon: a history of life support systems in the space age, by David P. D. Munns and Kärin Nickelsen. Pittsburgh, 2021. 216p bibl index ISBN 9780822946540, $35.00; ISBN 9780822988007 ebook, contact publisher for price; 60-0116

Newton, Isaac. The mathematical principles of natural philosophy, ed. and tr. by C. R. Leedham-Green. Cambridge, 2021. 790p bibl index ISBN 9781107020658, $260.00; 60-0152

Polster, Burkard. Putting two and two together: selections from the mathologer file, by Burkard Polster and Marty Ross. American Mathematical Society, 2021. 274p bibl ISBN 9781470460112 pbk, $39.00; ISBN 9781470468255 ebook, $39.00; 60-0153

Reardon, Erik. Managing the river commons: fishing and New England’s rural economy. Massachusetts, 2021. 192p bibl index ISBN 9781625345851, $90.00; ISBN 9781625345844 pbk, $27.95; ISBN 9781613768402 ebook, contact publisher for price; 60-0132

Spaces of Enlightenment science, ed. by Gordon McOuat and Larry Stewart. Brill, 2022. 219p bibl index (Knowledge infrastructure and knowledge economy, v8) ISBN 9789004501218, $140.00; ISBN 9789004501225 ebook, $144.00; 60-0113

Trutor, Clayton. Loserville: how professional sports remade Atlanta and how Atlanta remade professional sports. Nebraska, 2022. 504p bibl index ISBN 9781496225047, $34.95; ISBN 9781496230089 ebook, $34.95; 60-0162

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Tye, Mari R. Impacts of future weather and climate extremes on United States infrastructure: assessing and prioritizing adaptation actions, by Mari R. Tye and Jason P. Giovannettone. American Society of Civil Engineers, 2021. 163p index ISBN 9780784415863 pbk, $80.00; ISBN 9780784483725 ebook, contact publisher for price; 60-0137

Virus bioinformatics, ed. by Dmitrij Frishman and Manja Marz. Chapman & Hall/CRC Press, 2022. 296p bibl index ISBN 9781108424042, $70.00; ISBN 9781003097679 ebook, $74.95; 60-0145

Wedge, Doug. Pinnacle on the mound: Cy Young award winners talk baseball. Rowman & Littlefield, 2022. 218p bibl index ISBN 9781538154816, $32.00; ISBN 9781538154823 ebook, $30.00; 60-0163

Zegart, Amy B. Spies, lies, and algorithms: the history and future of American intelligence. Princeton, 2022. 424p bibl index ISBN 9780691147130, $29.95; ISBN 9780691223087 ebook, contact publisher for price; 60-0151


Social & Behavioral Sciences

Aicinena, Steven. The Native American contest powwow: cultural tethering theory, by Steven Aicinena and Sebahattin Ziyanak. Lexington Books, 2021. 230p bibl index ISBN 9781666900910, $100.00; ISBN 9781666900927 ebook, $45.00; 60-0173

Alexander, Brian. A social theory of Congress: legislative norms in the twenty-first century. Lexington Books, 2021. 200p bibl index ISBN 9781793601278, $95.00; ISBN 9781793601285 ebook, $45.00; 60-0302

Barajas, Frank P. Mexican Americans with moxie: a transgenerational history of El Movimiento Chicano in Ventura County, California, 1945–1975. Nebraska, 2021. 288p bibl index ISBN 9781496207630, $60.00; ISBN 9781496227348 ebook, $60.00; 60-0245

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Becker, Elizabeth. You don’t belong here: how three women rewrote the story of war. Hachette Books, 2021. 320p bibl index ISBN 9781541768208, $28.00; ISBN 9781541768239 pbk, $17.99; ISBN 9781541768215 ebook, $16.99; 60-0220

Bullock, Charles S., III. Redistricting: the most political activity in America. Rowman & Littlefield, 2021. 272p bibl index ISBN 9781538149652, $90.00; ISBN 9781538149645 pbk, $35.00; ISBN 9781538149638 ebook, $33.00; 60-0304

Callow, John. The last witches of England: a tragedy of sorcery and superstition. Bloomsbury Academic, 2021. 352p bibl index ISBN 9781788314398, $35.00; ISBN 9781350196148 ebook, contact publisher for price; 60-0258

Changing meat cultures: food practices, global capitalism, and the consumption of animals, ed. by Arve Hansen and Karen Lykke Syse. Rowman & Littlefield, 2021. 224p bibl index ISBN 9781538142653, $115.00; ISBN 9781538142660 ebook, $45.00; 60-0185

Cooperation and conflict between state and local government, ed. by Russell L. Hanson and Eric S. Zeemering. Rowman & Littlefield, 2021. 312p bibl index ISBN 9781538139318, $95.00; ISBN 9781538139325 pbk, $37.00; ISBN 9781538139332 ebook, $35.00; 60-0306

Douglas, Heather. Women, intimate partner violence, and the law. Oxford, 2021. 312p bibl index ISBN 9780190071783, $65.00; ISBN 9780190071806 ebook, contact publisher for price; 60-0335

Farzaneh, Mateo Mohammad. Iranian women and gender in the Iran-Iraq War. Syracuse, 2021. 500p bibl index ISBN 9780815637028, $90.00; ISBN 9780815637103 pbk, $24.95; ISBN 9780815655169 ebook, $49.95; 60-0243

Fumerton, Richard A. A consequentialist defense of libertarianism. Lexington Books, 2021. 232p bibl index ISBN 9781793632043, $100.00; ISBN 9781793632050 ebook, $45.00; 60-0299

Gehrz, Christopher. Charles Lindbergh: a religious biography of America’s most infamous pilot. Eerdmans, 2021. 296p ISBN 9780802876218, $28.00; ISBN 9781467462617 ebook, contact publisher for price; 60-0222

Gutgold, Nichola D. Electing Madam Vice President: when women run women win. Lexington Books, 2021. 160p ISBN 9781793622198, $95.00; ISBN 9781793622204 ebook, $45.00; 60-0308

Haltinner, Kristin. No perfect birth: trauma and obstetric care in the rural United States. Rowman & Littlefield, 2021. 192p bibl index ISBN 9781793643933, $95.00; ISBN 9781793643940 ebook, $45.00; 60-0339

A Handbook on counseling African American women: psychological symptoms, treatments, and case studies, ed. by Kimber Shelton, Michelle King Lyn, and Mahlet Endale. Praeger, 2022. 325p bibl index ISBN 9781440875953, $75.00; ISBN 9781440875960 ebook, contact publisher for price; 60-0324

Hueglin, Thomas O. Federalism in Canada: contested concepts and uneasy balances. Toronto, 2021. 384p bibl index ISBN 9781442636460, $114.00; ISBN 9781442636453 pbk, $54.95; ISBN 9781442636484 ebook, $43.95; 60-0269

Jenkins, Tammie. The Haitian Revolution, the Harlem Renaissance, and Caribbean négritude: overlapping discourses of freedom and identity. Lexington Books, 2021. 160p bibl index ISBN 9781793633781, $95.00; ISBN 9781793633798 ebook, $45.00; 60-0238

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Klieger, P. Christiaan. Tibet: a history between dream and nation state. Reaktion Books, 2021. 360p bibl index ISBN 9781789144024, $40.00; ISBN 9781789144031 ebook, $40.00; 60-0233

Li, Tania. Plantation life: corporate occupation in Indonesia’s oil palm zone, by Tania Murray Li and Pujo Semedi. Duke, 2021. 256p bibl index ISBN 9781478013990, $99.95; ISBN 9781478014959 pbk, $25.95; ISBN 9781478022237 ebook, contact publisher for price; 60-0178

Lindert, Peter H. Making social spending work. Cambridge, 2021. 434p bibl index ISBN 9781108478168, $29.99; ISBN 9781108806268 ebook, $24.00; 60-0199

Lomnitz-Adler, Claudio. Nuestra América: my family in the vertigo of translation. Other Press, 2021. 464p ISBN 9781635420708, $27.99; ISBN 9781635420715 ebook, $15.99; 60-0239

López, J. M. Good enough mothers: practicing nurture and motherhood in Chiapas, Mexico. Berghahn Books, 2022. 200p bibl index (Fertility, reproduction and sexuality, 49) ISBN 9781800732520, $120.00; ISBN 9781800732537 ebook, contact publisher for price; 60-0179

Maldonado, A. W. Boom and bust in Puerto Rico: how politics destroyed an economic miracle. Notre Dame, 2021. 266p bibl index ISBN 9780268200978, $35.00; ISBN 9780268200992 ebook, $27.99; 60-0200

Malko, Victoria A. The Ukrainian intelligentsia and genocide: the struggle for history, language, and culture in the 1920s and 1930s. Lexington Books, 2021. 398p bibl index ISBN 9781498596787, $125.00; ISBN 9781498596794 ebook, $50.00; 60-0234

Martin, Liam. Halfway house: prisoner reentry and the shadow of carceral care. New York University, 2021. 256p bibl index ISBN 9781479800681, $89.00; ISBN 9781479800698 pbk, $28.00; ISBN 9781479800704 ebook, contact publisher for price; 60-0341

Massoud, Mark Fathi. Shari’a, inshallah: finding god in Somali legal politics. Cambridge, 2021. 390p bibl index ISBN 9781108832786, $110.00; ISBN 9781108965705 pbk, $34.99; ISBN 9781108965989 ebook, contact publisher for price; 60-0280

Murphy, Tessa. The Creole Archipelago: race and borders in the colonial Caribbean. Pennsylvania, 2021. 352p bibl index ISBN 9780812253382, $45.00; 60-0240

Punk identities, punk utopias: global punk and media, ed. by Russ Bestley et al. Intellect, 2021. 260p bibl index ISBN 9781789384123 pbk, $39.50; ISBN 9781789384147 ebook, $30.00; 60-0342

Rae, Casey. Music copyright: an essential guide for the digital age. Rowman & Littlefield, 2021. 188p bibl index ISBN 9781538104835, $90.00; ISBN 9781538104842 pbk, $30.00; ISBN 9781538104859 ebook, $34.00; 60-0272

Ryzewski, Krysta. Detroit remains: archaeology and community histories of six legendary places. Alabama, 2021. 353p bibl index ISBN 9780817321048, $79.95; ISBN 9780817360283 pbk, $39.95; ISBN 9780817393731 ebook, $39.95; 60-0181

Schwarzer, Mitchell. Hella town: Oakland’s history of development and disruption. California, 2021. 424p bibl index ISBN 9780520381124, $26.95; ISBN 9780520381131 ebook, $26.95; 60-0255

Scoggins, Suzanne E. Policing China: street-level cops in the shadow of protest. Cornell, 2021. 198p bibl index ISBN 9781501755583, $39.95; ISBN 9781501755590 ebook, contact publisher for price; 60-0273

Smith, Jacob F. H. Minority party misery: political powerlessness and electoral disengagement. Michigan, 2021. 212p bibl index ISBN 9780472074761, $75.00; ISBN 9780472054763 pbk, $29.95; ISBN 9780472128525 ebook, contact publisher for price; 60-0313

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Stewart, Matthew. The 9.9 percent: the new aristocracy that is entrenching inequality and warping our culture. Simon & Schuster, 2021. 352p bibl index ISBN 9781982114183, $28.00; ISBN 9781982114190 pbk, $18.99; ISBN 9781982114206 ebook, $14.99; 60-0207

Taylor, Becky. Refugees in twentieth-century Britain: a history. Cambridge, 2021. 316p bibl index ISBN 9781107187986, $89.99; ISBN 9781316638385 pbk, $29.99; ISBN 9781316946299 ebook, contact publisher for price; 60-0261

Thorburn, Wayne J. The Republican Party of Texas: a political history. Texas, 2021. 496p index ISBN 9781477322512, $35.00; ISBN 9781477322529 ebook, contact publisher for price; 60-0314

Uthoff, Constance. Cyber intelligence: actors, policies, and practices. L. Rienner, 2021. 441p bibl index ISBN 9781626379657, $98.50; ISBN 9781626379664 pbk, $45.00; ISBN 9781955055277 ebook, $45.00; 60-0315

Whitmore, Nancy J. Creative expression and the law. Rowman & Littlefield, 2021. 302p bibl index ISBN 9781538127063, $85.00; ISBN 9781538127070 pbk, $37.00; ISBN 9781538127087 ebook, $35.00; 60-0194

Wilcox, Vanda. The Italian empire and the Great War. Oxford, 2021. 288p bibl index ISBN 9780198822943, $45.00; ISBN 9780192555748 ebook, contact publisher for price; 60-0264

Wuthnow, Robert. Why religion is good for American democracy. Princeton, 2021. 328p bibl index ISBN 9780691222639, $29.95; ISBN 9780691222646 ebook, contact publisher for price; 60-0346