The Top 75 Community College Titles: September 2024 Edition

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

Posted on September 26, 2024 in Top 75 Community College Titles

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MLA handbook plus.   Modern Language Association of America. contact publisher for pricing. URL:https://mlahandbookplus.org/  62-0001

The Routledge international handbook of clinical hypnosis, ed. by Julie H. Linden et al.  Routledge, 2024.  934p bibl index  ISBN 9781032311401, $270.00;  ISBN 9781003449126 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-0002

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Humanities

Agustin, Julio. The professional actor’s handbook: from casting call to curtain call, by Julio Agustin with Kathleen Potts.  2nd ed.  Rowman & Littlefield, 2024.  228p bibl index  ISBN 9781538188866, $80.00;  ISBN 9781538188873 pbk, $32.00;  ISBN 9781538188880 ebook, $30.00;  62-0065

Hayes, Kelly E. Spirits of the space age: the imagined world of Brazil’s valley of the dawn.  Oxford, 2024.  320p bibl index  ISBN 9780197516393, $150.00;  ISBN 9780197516409 pbk, $34.99;  ISBN 9780197516423 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-0075

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Science & Technology

Balbi, Gabriele. The digital revolution: a short history of an ideology.  Oxford, 2024.  176p bibl index  ISBN 9780198875970, $35.00;  ISBN 9780191987632 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-0083

Bioethics and human rights: contemporary issues at home and abroad, ed. by Wanda Teays and Alison Dundes Renteln.  3rd ed.  Rowman & Littlefield, 2023.  438p bibl index  ISBN 9781538188590, $130.00;  ISBN 9781538188606 pbk, $48.00;  ISBN 9781538188613 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-0094

Bockino, David. Game on: how sports media grew up, sold out, and got personal with billions of fans.  Nebraska, 2024.  376p bibl index  ISBN 9781496233172, $36.95;  ISBN 9781496239358 ebook, $36.95;  62-0108

Case, Julialicia. Story mode: the creative writer’s guide to narrative video game design, by Julialicia Case, Eric Freeze, and Salvatore Pane.  Bloomsbury Academic, 2024.  256p bibl index  ISBN 9781350301368, $80.00;  ISBN 9781350301375 pbk, $25.95;  ISBN 9781350301399 ebook, $23.35;  62-0109

Climate change and public health, ed. by Barry S. Levy, Jonathan A. Patz, and Heather L. McStowe.  2nd ed.  Oxford, 2024.  480p bibl index  ISBN 9780197683293, $74.95;  ISBN 9780197683316 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-0095

Fisher, John. The life and work of James Bradley: the new foundations of 18th century astronomy.  Oxford, 2024.  560p bibl index  ISBN 9780198884200, $110.00;  62-0084

Harasewych, M. G. Shells of the world: a natural history (guide to every family).  Princeton, 2024.  240p bibl index  ISBN 9780691248271, $29.95;  ISBN 9780691248257 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-0091

Hormonal theory: a rebellious glossary, ed. by Andrea Ford et al.  Bloomsbury Academic, 2024.  248p bibl index  ISBN 9781350322998, $90.00;  ISBN 9781350322981 pbk, $29.95;  ISBN 9781350323025 ebook, $26.95;  62-0086

Jordan, John M. The rise of the algorithms: how YouTube and TikTok conquered the world.  Pennsylvania State, 2024.  232p bibl index  ISBN 9780271096926, $99.95;  ISBN 9780271096933 pbk, $24.95;  ISBN 9780271098449 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-0101

Kneusel, Ronald T. How AI works: from sorcery to science.  No Starch Press, 2023.  192p bibl index  ISBN 9781718503724 pbk, $29.99;  ISBN 9781718503731 ebook, $23.99;  62-0102

Krell, David. The Fenway effect: a cultural history of the Boston Red Sox.  Nebraska, 2024.  280p bibl index  ISBN 9781496232335, $34.95;  ISBN 9781496239655 ebook, $34.95;  62-0110

Miller, Elizabeth M. Thicker than water: a social and evolutionary study of iron deficiency in women.  Oxford, 2023.  208p bibl index  ISBN 9780197665718, $34.95;  ISBN 9780197665732 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-0087

Money, Nicholas P. Molds, mushrooms, and medicines: our lifelong relationship with fungi.  Princeton, 2024.  240p bibl index  ISBN 9780691236308, $29.95;  ISBN 9780691236315 ebook, $29.95;  62-0088

Richie, Cristina. Environmental ethics and medical reproduction.  Oxford, 2024.  312p bibl index  ISBN 9780197745182, $90.00;  ISBN 9780197745205 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-0099

​Scharoch, ​Pawel. A first guide to computational modelling in physics, by Pawel Scharoch, Maciej P. Polak, and Radoslaw Szymon.  Cambridge, 2024.  130p index  ISBN 9781009413121, $79.99;  ISBN 9781009413107 pbk, $29.99;  ISBN 9781009413091 ebook, $29.99;  62-0105

Seeley, Thomas D. Piping hot bees and boisterous buzz-runners: 20 mysteries of honey bee behavior solved.  Princeton, 2024.  312p bibl index  ISBN 9780691237695, $29.95;  ISBN 9780691237701 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-0092

Seethaler, Sherry. Beyond the sage on the stage: communicating science and contemporary issues effectively.  Toronto, 2024.  346p bibl index  ISBN 9781487547486, $85.00;  ISBN 9781487547493 pbk, $32.95;  ISBN 9781487547523 ebook, $26.95;  62-0082

White, John K. The truth about energy: our fossil-fuel addiction and the transition to renewables.  Cambridge, 2024.  722p bibl index  ISBN 9781009433198 pbk, $49.99;  ISBN 9781009433167 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-0093

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Social & Behavioral Sciences

Adams, Peter. The insurrectionist: Major General Edwin A. Walker and the birth of the deep state conspiracy.  Louisiana State, 2023.  280p bibl index  ISBN 9780807179925, $39.95;  ISBN 9780807180501 ebook, $19.95;  62-0192

Alexander, Benjamin F. Ararat in America: Armenian American culture and politics in the twentieth century.  I. B. Tauris, 2023.  264p bibl index  ISBN 9780755648818, $115.00;  ISBN 9780755648825 ebook, $103.50;  62-0193

Arnett, Jeffrey Jensen. Emerging adulthood: the winding road from the late teens through the twenties.  Oxford, 2024.  448p bibl index  ISBN 9780197695937 pbk, $45.00;  ISBN 9780197695951 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-0261

Bernstein, Richard B. Alexander Hamilton: the energetic founder.  Oxford, 2023.  136p bibl index  ISBN 9780190081980, $18.95;  ISBN 9780190082000 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-0196

Blackhawk, Ned. Rediscovery of America: Native peoples and the unmaking of U.S. history.  Yale, 2023.  596p bibl index  ISBN 9780300244052, $35.00;  ISBN 9780300271249 ebook, $35.00;  62-0197

The Bloomsbury handbook of the Spanish Civil War, ed. by Antonio Cazorla-Sánchez, Alison de Menezes, and Adrian Shubert.  Bloomsbury, 2023.  518p bibl index  ISBN 9781350230408, $175.00;  ISBN 9781350230415 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-0216

Bonsaver, Guido. America in Italian culture: the rise of a new model of modernity, 1861–1943.  Oxford, 2024.  554p bibl index  ISBN 9780198849469, $155.00;  ISBN 9780191883583 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-0217

Brzuszkiewicz, Sara. Radicalization and de-radicalization between national and global jihadism: from the first Egyptian national jihadists to al-Qaeda.  Lexington Books, 2023.  192p bibl index  ISBN 9781666940107, $100.00;  ISBN 9781666940114 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-0230

Burgess, Susan. LGBT inclusion in American life: pop culture, political imagination, and civil rights.  New York University, 2023.  231p bibl index  ISBN 9781479819720, $89.00;  ISBN 9781479819751 pbk, $28.00;  ISBN 9781479819768 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-0249

Burke, Peter. Ignorance: a global history.  Yale, 2023.  256p bibl index  ISBN 9780300265958, $100.00;  ISBN 9780300276503 pbk, $20.00;  ISBN 9780300271263 ebook, $30.00;  62-0161

Chayka, Kyle. Filterworld: how algorithms flattened culture.  Doubleday, 2024.  304p bibl index  ISBN 9780385548281, $28.00;  ISBN 9780385548298 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-0113

Chin, Matthew. Fractal repair: queer histories of modern Jamaica.  Duke, 2024.  240p bibl index  ISBN 9781478025986, $102.95;  ISBN 9781478030225 pbk, $26.95;  ISBN 9781478059233 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-0186

Coenen Snyder, Saskia. A brilliant commodity: diamonds and Jews in a modern setting.  Oxford, 2023.  304p bibl index  ISBN 9780197610473, $37.99;  ISBN 9780197610497 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-0162

Colvin, Kelly Ricciardi. Charm offensive: commodifying femininity in postwar France.  Toronto, 2023.  242p bibl index  ISBN 9781487508364, $95.00;  ISBN 9781487525828 pbk, $39.95;  ISBN 9781487538095 ebook, $39.95;  62-0218

Cook Marshall, Crystal. Big rural: rural industrial places, democracy, and what next.  Lexington Books, 2023.  280p bibl index  ISBN 9781666930740, $110.00;  ISBN 9781666930757 ebook, $45.00;  62-0142

Edwards, George C. Why the Electoral College is bad for America.  Cambridge, 2023.  280p bibl index  ISBN 9781009426268, $90.00;  ISBN 9781009426299 pbk, $29.99;  ISBN 9781009426282 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-0252

Ewing, Christopher. The color of desire: the queer politics of race in the Federal Republic of Germany after 1970.  Cornell, 2024.  330p bibl index  ISBN 9781501773365, $46.95;  ISBN 9781501773372 ebook, $30.99;  62-0180

Fazal, Tanisha M. Military medicine and the hidden costs of war.  Oxford, 2024.  2256p bibl index  ISBN 9780190057473, $29.95;  ISBN 9780190057558 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-0235

Glennon, Michael J. Free speech and turbulent freedom: the dangerous allure of censorship in the digital era.  Oxford, 2024.  296p index  ISBN 9780197636763, $29.95;  ISBN 9780197636787 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-0254

The Good robot: why technology needs feminism, ed. by Eleanor Drage and Kerry McInerney.  Bloomsbury Academic, 2024.  224p bibl index  ISBN 9781350399969, $90.00;  ISBN 9781350399952 pbk, $29.95;  ISBN 9781350399976 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-0271

Goodman, Martin. Herod the Great: Jewish King in a Roman World.  Yale, 2024.  248p bibl index  ISBN 9780300228410, $26.00;  ISBN 9780300277289 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-0174

Grinberg, Ronnie. Write like a man: jewish masculinity and the new york intellectuals.  Princeton, 2024.  384p bibl index  ISBN 9780691193090, $35.00;  ISBN 9780691255620 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-0202

Halliwell, Hannah. Art, medicine, and femininity: visualising the morphine addict in Paris, 1870–1914.  McGill-Queen’s, 2024.  240p bibl index (Intoxicating histories, 8)  ISBN 9780228019909, $85.00;  ISBN 9780228019916 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-0220

Heidt, Jon. Visions of cannabis control, by Jon Heidt and Johannes Wheeldon.  Oxford, 2024.  384p bibl index  ISBN 9780198875215, $145.00;  ISBN 9780191987298 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-0225

Helm, Dieter. Legacy: how to build the sustainable economy.  Cambridge, 2023.  266p bibl index  ISBN 9781009449229, $89.99;  ISBN 9781009449182 , $22.99;  ISBN 9781009449205 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-0144

Herpen, Marcel H. van. Putin’s wars: the rise of Russia’s new imperialism.  Rowman & Littlefield, 2024.  352p bibl index  ISBN 9781538183861, $95.00;  ISBN 9781538183878 pbk, $38.00;  ISBN 9781538183885 ebook, $35.00;  62-0181

Internet, humor, and nation in Latin America, ed. by Héctor Fernández L’Hoeste and Juan Poblete.  University Press of Florida, 2023.   ISBN 9781683404033, $90.00;  ISBN 9781683404293 pbk, $35.00;  ISBN 9781683404187 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-0187

Joiner, Thomas. The varieties of suicidal experience: a new theory of suicidal violence.  New York University, 2024.  224p bibl index  ISBN 9781479823468, $89.00;  ISBN 9781479823475 pbk, $30.00;  ISBN 9781479823482 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-0264

Josephson, Paul R. Hero projects: the Russian Empire and big technology from Lenin to Putin.  Oxford, 2024.  344p bibl index  ISBN 9780197698396, $49.95;  ISBN 9780197698419 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-0182

Kennedy, Gregory M. W. Lost in the crowd: Acadian soldiers of Canada’s First World War.  McGill-Queen’s, 2024.  308p bibl index (The Louis J. Robichaud series, 3)  ISBN 9780228020127, $110.00;  ISBN 9780228020134 pbk, $39.95;  62-0203

Lankester, Tim. Inside Thatcher’s monetarism experiment: the promise, the failure, the legacy.  Policy Press, 2024.  240p bibl index  ISBN 9781447371359, $29.99;  ISBN 9781447371373 ebook, $14.99;  62-0146

LBJ’s America: the life and legacies of Lyndon Baines Johnson, ed. by Mark Atwood Lawrence and Mark K. Updegrove.  Cambridge, 2024.  373p index  ISBN 9781009172530, $29.95;  ISBN 9781009187398 ebook, $29.95;  62-0204

Malik, Kenan. Not so Black and white: a history of race from white supremacy to identity politics.  Oxford, 2023.   ISBN 9781787387768, $29.95;  ISBN 9781805260011 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-0166

Martin, Mike. How to fight a war.  Hurst & Company, 2023.  249p index  ISBN 9781787389304, $18.77;  ISBN 978178738999 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-0239

Matheson, Regina M. The pink wave: women running for office after Trump, by Regina M. Matheson and William W. Parsons.  New York University, 2024.  200p bibl index  ISBN 9781479826469, $89.00;  ISBN 9781479826476 pbk, $27.00;  ISBN 9781479826483 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-0256

Mhlanga, David. Responsible industry 4.0: a framework for human-centered artificial intelligence.  Routledge, 2023.  298p bibl index  ISBN 9781032493534, $170.00;  ISBN 9781003393382 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-0135

Montero, David. The stolen wealth of slavery: a case for reparations.  Hackett, 2024.  368p bibl index  ISBN 9780306827174, $30.00;  ISBN 9780306827198 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-0136

Morier-Genoud, Eric. Towards Jihad?: Muslims and politics in postcolonial Mozambique.  Oxford, 2023.  240p bibl index  ISBN 9780197769348, $55.00;  62-0171

Nguyên, Linh Thu’y. Displacing Kinship: the intimacies of intergenerational trauma in Vietnamese American cultural production.  Temple, 2024.  220p bibl index  ISBN 9781439924693, $110.50;  ISBN 9781439924709 pbk, $32.95;  ISBN 9781439924716 ebook, $32.95;  62-0116

Nguyen, Xuan-Thao N. Silicon Valley Bank: the rise and fall of a community bank for tech.  Cambridge, 2024.  292p bibl index  ISBN 9781009416177, $120.00;  ISBN 9781009416160 pbk, $39.99;  ISBN 9781009416139 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-0147

Nicolaides, Becky M. The new suburbia: how diversity remade suburban life in Los Angeles after 1945.  Oxford, 2024.  576p bibl index  ISBN 9780197578308, $35.00;  ISBN 9780197578322 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-0207

The Other #metoos, ed. by Iqra Shagufta Cheema.  Oxford, 2023.  348p bibl index  ISBN 9780197619872, $99.00;  ISBN 9780197619889 pbk, $29.95;  ISBN 9780197619902 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-0274

Romano, Dennis. Venice: the remarkable history of the lagoon city.  Oxford, 2024.  800p bibl index  ISBN 9780190859985, $41.95;  ISBN 9780197696026 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-0221

Rubinstein, Saul A. Democracy and reform in public schools: the case for collaborative partnerships, by Saul Rubinstein, Charles Heckscher, and John McCarthy.  Harvard Education Press, 2023.  240p index  ISBN 9781682538500 pbk, $37.00;  ISBN 9781682538531 ebook, $29.60;  62-0158

Spencer, Margaret Beale. Radical Brown: keeping the promise to America’s children, by Margaret Beale Spencer and Nancy E. Dowd.  Harvard, 2024.  296p bibl index  ISBN 9781682538715 pbk, $38.00;  62-0159

Sukarieh, Mayssoun. A global idea: oyouth, city networks, and the struggle for the Arab world.  Cornell, 2023.  186p bibl index  ISBN 9781501771095, $130.00;  ISBN 9781501771101 pbk, $26.95;  ISBN 9781501771118 ebook, $17.99;  62-0275

Tokarska-Bakir, Joanna. Cursed: a social portrait of the Kielce pogrom, tr. by Ewa Wampuszyc.  Cornell, 2023.  592p bibl index  ISBN 9781501771484, $44.95;  ISBN 9781501771507 ebook, $29.99;  62-0185

Toner, Jerry. Risk in the Roman world.  Cambridge, 2024.  160p bibl index  ISBN 9781108481748, $90.00;  ISBN 9781108723213 pbk, $29.99;  ISBN 9781316997345 ebook, $29.99;  62-0175

Trueheart, Charles. Diplomats at war: friendship and betrayal on the brink of the Vietnam conflict.  Virginia, 2024.  368p bibl index  ISBN 9780813951287, $34.95;  ISBN 9780813951294 ebook, $34.95;  62-0169

Waiser, Bill. Cheated: the Laurier Liberals and the theft of First Nations reserve land, by Bill Waiser and Jennie Hansen.  ECW Press, 2023.  338p bibl index  ISBN 9781770417489 pbk, $29.95;  ISBN 9781778522246 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-0211

Watson, Robert P. When Washington burned: the British invasion of the Capital and a nation’s rise from the ashes.  Georgetown University, 2023.  312p bibl index  ISBN 9781647123505, $29.95;  ISBN 9781647123512 ebook, $29.95;  62-0212

White, Nancy Marie. Apalachicola valley archaeology: the late woodland period through recent history.  Alabama, 2024.  370p bibl index  ISBN 9780817321819, $120.00;  ISBN 9780817361310 pbk, $39.95;  ISBN 9780817394837 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-0129

Yamane, David. Gun curious: a liberal professor’s surprising journey inside America’s gun culture.  McFarland, 2024.  213p bibl index  ISBN 9781476695877 pbk, $19.99;  ISBN 9781476653556 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-0277

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