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.

Posted on September 28, 2023 in Top 75 Community College Titles

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Reference

American presidents: v.1 The American presidency, George Washington–Woodrow Wilson, v.2 The American presidency, Warren G. Harding–Joseph Biden, ed. by Michael J. O’Neal.  5th ed.  Salem Press, 2022.  2v bibl index  ISBN 9781637003633, $195.00;  61-0005

Larocco, Christina G. The women’s rights movement since 1945: a reference guide.  ABC-CLIO, 2022.  360p bibl index  ISBN 9781440869075, $72.00;  ISBN 9781440869082 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-0006

​Liberman, Anatoly. Take my word for it: a dictionary of English idioms.  Minnesota, 2023.  328p bibl index  ISBN 9781517914127 pbk, $22.95;  ISBN 9781452968629 ebook, $22.95;  61-0001

Luhrssen, David. The Great Depression on film.  ABC-CLIO, 2022.  195p bibl index  ISBN 9781440877131, $70.00;  ISBN 9781440877148 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-0002

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Humanities

Albanese, Catherine L. The delight makers: Anglo-American metaphysical religion and the pursuit of happiness.  Chicago, 2023.  384p bibl index  ISBN 9780226823331, $99.00;  ISBN 9780226823546 pbk, $30.00;  ISBN 9780226823348 ebook, $29.99;  61-0076

Coniam, Matthew. The annotated Abbott and Costello: a complete viewer’s guide to the comedy team and their 38 films, by Matthew Coniam and Nick Santa Maria.  McFarland, 2022.  490p bibl index  ISBN 9781476682440 pbk, $49.95;  ISBN 9781476647760 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-0050

Containing childhood: space and identity in children’s literature, ed. by Danielle Russell.  University Press of Mississippi, 2022.  240p bibl index  ISBN 9781496841179, $99.00;  ISBN 9781496841186 pbk, $30.00;  ISBN 9781496841193 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-0029

Crotty, Kevin. Ignorance, irony, and knowledge in Plato.  Lexington Books, 2022.  260p bibl index  ISBN 9781666927115, $105.00;  ISBN 9781666927122 ebook, $45.00;  61-0069

Eisler, David F. Writing wars: authorship and American war fiction, WWI to present.  Iowa, 2022.  266p bibl index  ISBN 9781609388652 pbk, $92.50;  ISBN 9781609388669 ebook, $92.50;  61-0036

Engholm, Ida. Design for the new world: from human design to planet design.  Intellect, 2023.  200p  ISBN 9781789387155, $122.95;  ISBN 9781789387186 pbk, $34.95;  61-0017

Esports and the media: challenges and expectations in a multi-screen society, ed. by Angel Torres-Toukoumidis.  Routledge, 2022.  134p bibl index  ISBN 9781032222653, $64.95;  ISBN 9781003273691 ebook, open access;  61-0021

French, Christine Madrid. The architecture of suspense: architecture, landscape, urbanism, and design.  Virginia, 2022.  274p bibl index  ISBN 9780813947662, $69.50;  ISBN 9780813947679 pbk, $29.50;  ISBN 9780813947686 ebook, $29.50;  61-0052

Lopes, Dominic McIver. Aesthetic life and why it matters, by Dominic McIver Lopes, Bence Nanay, and Nick Riggle.  Oxford, 2022.  128p bibl index  ISBN 9780197625798, $74.00;  ISBN 9780197625811 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-0074

McIver, Gillian. Art and the historical film: between realism and the sublime.  Bloomsbury Academic, 2022.  280p bibl index  ISBN 9781501384769, $120.00;  ISBN 9781501384752 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-0054

Rock music icons: musical and cultural impacts, ed. by Robert McParland.  Lexington Books, 2022.  236p bibl index  ISBN 9781666915310, $100.00;  ISBN 9781666915327 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-0062

Vose, Robin J. E. Index of prohibited books: four centuries of struggle over word and image for the greater glory of God.  Reaktion Books, 2022.  296p bibl index  ISBN 9781789146578, $35.00;  ISBN 9781789146585 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-0009

Waksman, Steve. Live music in America: a history from Jenny Lind to Beyoncé.  Oxford, 2022.  692p bibl index  ISBN 9780197570531, $175.00;  ISBN 9780197570548 pbk, $35.00;  ISBN 9780197570555 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-0066

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Science & Technology

Begg, Norman. The remarkable story of vaccines: milkmaid to genome.  CRC Press, 2023.  110p index  ISBN 9781032301983, $79.95;  ISBN 9781032301976 pbk, $32.95;  ISBN 9781003303879 ebook, $32.95;  61-0101

Binder, Jeffrey M. Language and the rise of the algorithm.  Chicago, 2022.  320p bibl index  ISBN 9780226822532, $45.00;  ISBN 9780226822549 ebook, $44.99;  61-0132

Buchmann, Stephen L. What a bee knows: exploring the thoughts, memories, and personalities of bees.  Island Press, 2023.  296p bibl index  ISBN 9781642831245, $30.00;  ISBN 9781642831252 ebook, $29.99;  61-0108

Buss, David M. Oxford handbook of human mating.  Oxford, 2023.  864p bibl index  ISBN 9780197536438, $150.00;  ISBN 9780197536445 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-0103

Eisler, Matthew N. Age of auto electric: environment, energy, and the quest for the sustainable car.  MIT, 2022.  378p bibl index  ISBN 9780262544573 pbk, $55.00;  ISBN 9780262372022 ebook, $55.00;  61-0116

Fenton, Melville Brockett. A miscellany of bats, by M. Brock Fenton and Jens Rydell.  Pelagic Press, 2023.  256p bibl index  ISBN 9781784272944 pbk, $42.00;  ISBN 9781784272951 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-0109

Gergis, Joëlle. Humanity’s moment: a climate scientist’s case for hope.  Island Press, 2023.  336p bibl index  ISBN 9781642832846, $30.00;  ISBN 9781642832853 ebook, $29.99;  61-0141

Haqq-Misra, Jacob. Sovereign Mars: transforming our values through space settlement.  University Press of Kansas, 2022.  304p bibl index  ISBN 9780700633906 pbk, $29.95;  ISBN 9780700633913 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-0097

Healthcare analytics: emergency preparedness for COVID-19, ed. by Edward M. Rafalski and Ross M. Mullner.  CRC Press, 2022.  304p bibl index  ISBN 9781032068459, $140.00;  ISBN 9781003204138 ebook, $64.95;  61-0124

Kirby, Philip. Dyslexia: a history, by Philip Kirby and Margaret J. Snowling.  McGill-Queen’s, 2022.  280p bibl index  ISBN 9780228014355, $130.00;  ISBN 9780228014362 pbk, $39.95;  ISBN 9780228015390 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-0125

Lifestyle nursing, ed. by Gia Merlo and Kathy Berra.  CRC Press, 2023.  512p bibl index  ISBN 9781032013688, $220.00;  ISBN 9781032013343 pbk, $59.95;  ISBN 9781003178330 ebook, $59.95;  61-0126

Olson, Wes. Ecological buffalo: on the trail of a keystone species, by Wes Olson and Johane Janelle.  University of Regina, 2022.  304p bibl index  ISBN 9780889778719 pbk, $39.95;  ISBN 9780889778733 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-0110

The Oxford handbook of animal organization studies, ed. by Linda Tallberg and Lindsay Hamilton.  Oxford, 2022.  512p bibl index  ISBN 9780192848185, $155.00;  ISBN 9780192664181 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-0111

Rezzolla, Luciano. The irresistible attraction of gravity: a journey to discover black holes.  Cambridge, 2023.  290p bibl index  ISBN 9781009198752, $24.95;  ISBN 9781009198783 ebook, $24.95;  61-0099

Roossinck, Marilyn J. Viruses: a natural history.  Princeton, 2023.  288p bibl index (The lives of the natural world, 5)  ISBN 9780691237596, $35.00;  ISBN 9780691240800 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-0105

The Rowman and Littlefield handbook of bioethics, ed. by Ezio Di Nucci, Ji-Young Lee, and Isaac A. Wagner.  Rowman & Littlefield, 2022.  424p index  ISBN 9781538162361, $140.00;  ISBN 9781538162378 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-0106

Simons, Josh. Algorithms for the people: democracy in the age of AI.  Princeton, 2023.  320p bibl index  ISBN 9780691244006, $29.95;  ISBN 9780691244914 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-0087

Wale, Matthew. Making entomologists: how periodicals shaped scientific communities in nineteenth-century Britain.  Pittsburgh, 2022.  252p bibl index  ISBN 9780822947516, $55.00;  ISBN 9780822989264 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-0096

Wu, ​Chia-Ling. Making multiple babies: anticipatory regimes of assisted reproduction.  Berghahn Books, 2023.  266p bibl index (Fertility, reproduction and sexuality, 52)  ISBN 9781800738522, $135.00;  ISBN 9781800738850 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-0130

Yu, Han. The curious human knee.  Columbia, 2023.  296p bibl index  ISBN 9780231207027, $29.95;  ISBN 9780231556774 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-0131

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Social & Behavioral Sciences

Alvarez, Luis. Chicanx utopias: pop culture and the politics of the possible.  Texas, 2022.  220p bibl index  ISBN 9781477324479, $90.00;  ISBN 9781477324486 pbk, $29.95;  ISBN 9781477324509 ebook, $29.95;  61-0223

Backhouse, Constance. Reckoning with racism: police, judges, and the RDS case.  UBC Press, 2023.  256p bibl index  ISBN 9780774868228, $75.00;  ISBN 9780774868273 pbk, $27.95;  ISBN 9780774868280 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-0243

Barbieri-Low, Anthony J. The many lives of the first emperor of China.  Washington, 2022.  360p bibl index  ISBN 9780295750224, $65.00;  ISBN 9780295750231 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-0208

Barling, Julian. Brave new workplace.  Oxford, 2023.  288p bibl index  ISBN 9780190648107, $35.00;  ISBN 9780190648121 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-0157

Bogdanich, Walt. When McKinsey comes to town: the hidden influence of the world’s most powerful consulting firm, by Walt Bogdanich and Michael Forsythe.  Doubleday, 2022.  368p bibl index  ISBN 9780385546232, $32.50;  ISBN 9780385546249 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-0173

Brenner, Michael. In Hitler’s Munich: Jews, the revolution, and the rise of Nazism, tr. by Jeremiah Riemer.  Princeton, 2022.  392p bibl index  ISBN 9780691191034, $35.00;  ISBN 9780691205410 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-0236

Burtin, Olivier. A nation of veterans: war, citizenship, and the welfare state in modern America.  Pennsylvania, 2022.  291p bibl index  ISBN 9781512823141, $55.00;  ISBN 9781512823158 ebook, $55.00;  61-0224

The Cambridge handbook of creativity and emotions, ed. by Zorana Ivcevic, Jessica D. Hoffmann, and James C. Kaufman.  Cambridge, 2023.  676p bibl index  ISBN 9781316515952, $200.00;  ISBN 9781009013086 pbk, $69.99;  ISBN 9781009032841 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-0282

Casto, Charles A. Extreme crisis leadership: a handbook to managing the unpredictable.  Routledge, 2023.  104p bibl index  ISBN 9781032266350, $160.00;  ISBN 9781032266336 pbk, $39.95;  ISBN 9781003289180 ebook, $39.95;  61-0158

Corner, Paul. Mussolini in myth and memory: the first totalitarian dictator.  Oxford, 2022.  192p bibl index  ISBN 9780192866646, $27.95;  ISBN 9780192691903 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-0239

Darling-Hammond, Kia. The civil rights road to deeper learning: five essentials for equity, by Kia Darling-Hammond and Linda Darling-Hammond.  Teachers College Press, 2022.  144p bibl index  ISBN 9780807767238, $81.00;  ISBN 9780807767221 pbk, $27.95;  ISBN 9780807781166 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-0190

De Stefano, Cristina. The child is the teacher: a life of Maria Montessori, tr. by Gregory Conti.  Other Press, 2022.  348p bibl  ISBN 9781635420845, $28.99;  ISBN 9781635424133 pbk, $18.99;  ISBN 9781635420852 ebook, $15.99;  61-0191

Falola, Toyin. Decolonizing African knowledge: autoethnography and African epistemologies.  Cambridge, 2022.  524p bibl index  ISBN 9781316511237, $39.99;  ISBN 9781009049634 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-0204

Figes, Orlando. The story of Russia.  Metropolitan Books, 2022.  348p index  ISBN 9781250796899, $29.99;  61-0215

Freund, Richard A. Digging through history again: new discoveries from Atlantis to the Holocaust.  Rowman & Littlefield, 2023.  184p bibl index  ISBN 9781538136225, $38.00;  ISBN 9781538136232 ebook, $36.00;  61-0151

Goldberg, Dror. Easy money: American Puritans and the invention of modern currency.  Chicago, 2023.  360p bibl index  ISBN 9780226825106, $55.00;  ISBN 9780226825113 ebook, $54.99;  61-0178

Heyam, Kit. Before we were trans: a new history of gender.  Seal Press, 2022.  352p bibl index  ISBN 9781541603080, $30.00;  ISBN 9781541603103 ebook, $18.99;  61-0143

Hurst, Jack. America’s hardscrabble general: Ulysses S. Grant, from farm boy to Shiloh.  Southern Illinois, 2022.  244p bibl index  ISBN 9780809338856, $60.00;  ISBN 9780809338795 pbk, $25.50;  ISBN 9780809338801 ebook, $20.99;  61-0226

Iriye, Akira. International history: a cultural approach, by Akira Iriye and Petra Goedde.  Bloomsbury Academic, 2022.  344p bibl index  ISBN 9781780938066, $100.00;  ISBN 9781780937281 pbk, $34.95;  ISBN 9781780936307 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-0200

Jones, Brian. Tuskegee student uprising: a history.  New York University, 2022.  264p bibl index  ISBN 9781479809424, $30.00;  ISBN 9781479809486 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-0192

Ketokivi, Mikko. Efficient organization: a governance approach, by Mikko Ketokivi and Joseph T. Mahoney.  Oxford, 2023.  312p bibl index  ISBN 9780197610282, $99.00;  ISBN 9780197610299 pbk, $29.95;  ISBN 9780197610312 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-0162

Ladd, Ted. Innovating with impact: the economist edge series, by Ted Ladd and Alessandro Lanteri.  Pegasus Books, 2023.  172p  ISBN 9781639363612, $26.95;  61-0163

Marchi, Regina M. Day of the Dead in the USA: the migration and transformation of a cultural phenomenon.  Rutgers, 2022.  238p bibl index  ISBN 9781978821644, $69.95;  ISBN 9781978821637 pbk, $27.95;  ISBN 9781978821651 ebook, $27.95;  61-0154

Moten, Crystal. Continually working: Black women, community intellectualism, and economic justice in postwar Milwaukee.  Vanderbilt, 2023.  256p bibl index  ISBN 9780826505583, $99.95;  ISBN 9780826505576 pbk, $34.95;  ISBN 9780826505590 ebook, $34.99;  61-0184

The Oxford history of the Reformation, ed. by Peter Marshall.  Oxford, 2022.  432p bibl index  ISBN 9780192895264 pbk, $16.95;  ISBN 9780192648372 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-0240

Pastor, John. White pine: the natural and human history of a foundational American tree.  Island Press, 2023.  276p bibl index  ISBN 9781642831412 pbk, $30.00;  ISBN 9781642831429 ebook, $29.99;  61-0165

Pike, David Lawrence. Cold War space and culture in the 1960s and 1980s: the bunkered decades.  Oxford, 2022.  320p bibl index  ISBN 9780192846167, $90.00;  ISBN 9780191938528 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-0229

Pirelli, Gianni. Firearms and clinical practice: a handbook for medical and mental health professionals, by Gianni Pirelli and Sarah DeMarco.  Oxford, 2023.  288p bibl index  ISBN 9780190923211 pbk, $35.00;  ISBN 9780190923242 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-0290

Ryder, John. Philosophy of education: thinking and learning through history and practice.  Rowman & Littlefield, 2022.  286p bibl index  ISBN 9781538166611, $95.00;  ISBN 9781538166628 pbk, $42.00;  ISBN 9781538166635 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-0196

Sater, William F. A history of Chile, 1808–2018, by William F. Sater and Simon Collier.  3rd ed.  Cambridge, 2022.  560p bibl index (Cambridge Latin American studies, 126)  ISBN 9781009170208, $120.00;  ISBN 9781009170215 pbk, $39.99;  ISBN 9781009170222 ebook, contact publisher for price;  61-0217

Seltzer, Richard A. US public opinion since the 1930s: Galluping through history.  Lexington Books, 2022.  256p bibl  index  ISBN 9781793653505, $110.00;  ISBN 9781793653512 ebook, $45.00;  61-0280

Skoglund, Annika. Climate activism: how communities take renewable energy actions across business and society, by Annika Skoglund and Steffen Böhm.  Cambridge, 2022.  297p bibl index  ISBN 9781108482646, $110.00;  ISBN 9781108630429 ebook, 110.00;  61-0168

Smith, Lisa R. The blaming and shaming of defenseless victims in America’s rape culture.  Lexington Books, 2022.  170p bibl index  ISBN 9781793627094, $95.00;  ISBN 9781793627100 ebook, $45.00;  61-0299

Solomos, John. Race, ethnicity and social theory.  Routledge, 2023.  299p bibl  index  ISBN 9781857286328, $170.00;  ISBN 9781857286335 pbk, $49.95;  ISBN 9780203519141 ebook, $49.95;  61-0300

Stroble, Christine M. Helping teen moms graduate: strategies for families, schools, and community organizations.  Rowman & Littlefield, 2023.  158p bibl  ISBN 9781475828108, $75.00;  ISBN 9781475828115 pbk, $35.00;  ISBN 9781475828122 ebook, $33.00;  61-0198

Tending Iowa’s land: pathways to a sustainable future, ed. by Cornelia F. Mutel.  Iowa, 2022.  302p bibl index  ISBN 9781609388737 pbk, $25.00;  ISBN 9781609388744 ebook, $25.00;  61-0169

Todd, Molly. Undergraduate research in history: a guide for students.  Routledge, 2022.  228p bibl index  ISBN 9780367456887, $155.00;  ISBN 9780367456849 pbk, $42.95;  ISBN 9781003024774 ebook, $42.95;  61-0202

Toward a framework for Vietnamese American studies: history, community, and memory, ed. by Linda Ho Peché, Alex-Thai Dinh Vo, and Tuong Vu.  Temple, 2023.  374p bibl  index  ISBN 9781439922880, $139.50;  ISBN 9781439922897 pbk, $44.95;  ISBN 9781439922903 ebook, $44.95;  61-0211

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