The Top 75 Community College Titles: April 2025

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

Posted on April 24, 2025 in Top 75 Community College Titles

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Miron, Rose. Indigenous archival activism: Mohican interventions in public history and memory.  Minnesota, 2024.  304p bibl index  ISBN 9781517912703, $120.00;  ISBN 9781517912710 pbk, $30.00;  ISBN 9781452970806 ebook, $30.00;  62-1844

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Humanities

AI morality, ed. by  David Edmonds.  Oxford, 2024.  256p bibl index  ISBN 9780198876434, $18.99;  ISBN 9780198876441 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-1917

Baker, Josiah. A visible unity: Cecil Robeck and the work of ecumenism.  Lexington Books, 2024.  278p bibl index  ISBN 9781978717190, $120.00;  ISBN 9781978717206 ebook, $50.00;  62-1931

Chakrabarti, Vishaan. The architecture of urbanity: designing for nature, culture, and joy.  Princeton, 2024.  280p bibl index  ISBN 9780691261522, $37.00;  ISBN 9780691261522 ebook, $37.00;  62-1859

Colavito, Jason. Jimmy: the secret life of James Dean.  Applause, 2024.  320p bibl index  ISBN 9781493085651, $29.95;  ISBN 9781493085668 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-1906

The Cultural legacy of Disney: a century of magic, ed. by Robyn Muir et al.  Lexington Books, 2024.  244p bibl index  ISBN 9781666949162, $110.00;  ISBN 9781666949179 ebook, $45.00;  62-1870

Egnal, Marc. A mirror for history: how novels and art reflect the evolution of middle-class America.  Tennessee, 2024.  317p bibl index  ISBN 9781621908678, $90.00;  ISBN 9781621909040 pbk, $29.95;  ISBN 9781621908685 ebook, $20.97;  62-1884

Ford, Susan Allen. What Jane Austen’s characters read (and why).  Bloomsbury Academic, 2024.  280p bibl index  ISBN 9781350416727, $70.20;  ISBN 9781350416710 pbk, $24.95;  ISBN 9781350416741 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-1885

Fyfe, Paul. Digital Victorians: from nineteenth-century media to digital humanities.  Stanford, 2024.  294p bibl index  ISBN 9781503639911, $120.00;  ISBN 9781503640948 pbk, $30.00;  ISBN 9781503640955 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-1887

Glasgow, Joshua. The significance impulse: on the unimportance of our cosmic unimportance.  Oxford, 2024.  136p bibl index  ISBN 9780197754757, $29.99;  ISBN 9780197754771 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-1921

Guillermet, Aline. Gerhard Richter and the technological condition of painting.  Edinburgh University Press, 2024.  256p bibl index  ISBN 9781399525213, $120.00;  ISBN 9781399525244 ebook, $120.00;  62-1853

Howes, Hetta. Poet, mystic, widow, wife: the extraordinary lives of medieval women.  California, 2024.  256p bibl index  ISBN 9780520396586, $29.95;  ISBN 9780520396593 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-1891

Knyt, Erinn E. Johann Sebastian Bach’s Goldberg Variations reimagined.  Oxford, 2024.  360p bibl index  ISBN 9780197690628, $120.00;  ISBN 9780197690635 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-1911

Lachter, Hartley. Kabbalah and catastrophe: historical memory in premodern Jewish mysticism.  Stanford, 2024.  362p bibl index  ISBN 9781503640214, $70.00;  ISBN 9781503640900 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-1941

McKillop, Beth. Precious beyond measure: a history of Korean ceramics, by Beth McKillop and Jane Portal.  Reaktion Books, 2024.  352p bibl index  ISBN 9781789148671, $50.00;  ISBN 9781789148985 ebook, $50.00;  62-1855

Neumann, Dietrich. Mies van der Rohe: an architect in his time.  Yale, 2024.  448p bibl index  ISBN 9780300246230, $75.00;  62-1860

Oates, Sarah. Seeing red: Russian propaganda and American news, by Sarah Oates and Gordon Neil Ramsay.  Oxford, 2024.  216p bibl index  ISBN 9780197696422, $99.00;  ISBN 9780197696439 pbk, $27.95;  ISBN 9780197696453 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-1868

The Oxford handbook of modern French philosophy, ed. by Mark Sinclair and Daniel Whistler.  Oxford, 2024.  768p index  ISBN 9780198841869, $170.00;  ISBN 9780198914587 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-1925

Plakias, Alexandra. Awkwardness: a theory.  Oxford, 2024.  200p bibl index  ISBN 9780197683606, $29.95;  ISBN 9780197683637 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-1869

Ravizza, Bridget Burke. The sacrament of same-sex marriage: an inclusive vision for the Catholic church.  Sheed & Ward, 2024.  236p bibl index  ISBN 9781538182260, $68.00;  ISBN 9781538182277 pbk, $24.00;  ISBN 9781538182284 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-1944

Retelling Jane Austen: essays on recent adaptations and derivative works, ed. by Tammy Powley and April Van Camp.  McFarland, 2024.  226p bibl index  ISBN 9781476691930 pbk, $49.95;  ISBN 9781476653273 ebook, $49.95;  62-1896

The Routledge companion to public humanities scholarship, ed. by Daniel Fisher-Livne and Michelle May-Curry.  Routledge, 2024.  456p bibl index  ISBN 9781032163390, $280.00;  ISBN 9781003248125 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-1848

Salvo, Sophie. Articulating difference: sex and language in the German nineteenth century.  Chicago, 2024.  272p bibl index  ISBN 9780226827704, $115.00;  ISBN 9780226827728 pbk, $30.00;  ISBN 9780226827711 ebook, $29.99;  62-1902

Schacht, Richard. Nietzsche pursued: toward a philosophy for the future.  Chicago, 2024.  376p bibl index  ISBN 9780226834665, $49.00;  ISBN 9780226834672 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-1926

Searls, Damion. The philosophy of translation.  Yale, 2024.  248p bibl index  ISBN 9780300247374, $28.00;  ISBN 9780300280654 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-1872

The shape of spirituality: the public significance of a new religious formation, ed. by Dick Houtman and Galen Watts.  Columbia, 2024.  376p bibl index  ISBN 9780231216845, $140.00;  ISBN 9780231216852 pbk, $35.00;  ISBN 9780231561372 ebook, $34.99;  62-1946

Shoemaker, Stephen J. Quest of the historical Muhammad and other studies on formative Islam.  Cascade Books, 2024.  174p bibl index  ISBN 9798385220397, $39.00;  ISBN 9798385220380 pbk, $24.00;  ISBN 9798385220403 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-1948

Siegel, Harmon. Painting with Monet.  Princeton, 2024.  312p bibl index  ISBN 9780691257433, $65.00;  ISBN 9780691257440 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-1857

Sloman, Susan. British portrait miniatures from the Thomson collection.  Paul Holberton, 2024.  320p bibl index  ISBN 9781915401120, $80.00;  62-1858

Sutherland, Camilla. The space of Latin American women modernists.  University of Wales Press, 2024.  264p bibl index  ISBN 9781837721085, $95.00;  ISBN 9781837721092 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-1898

Varas Díaz, Nelson. Seeing metal music in Latin America and the Caribbean, by Nelson Varas-Díaz and Daniel Nevárez Araújo.  Lexington Books, 2024.  262p bibl index  ISBN 9781666919783, $115.00;  ISBN 9781666919790 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-1913

Vickers, Brian. Thomas Kyd: a dramatist restored.  Princeton, 2024.  400p bibl index  ISBN 9780691211602, $39.95;  ISBN 9780691267067 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-1899

Women and music in the age of Austen, ed. by Linda Zionkowski.  Bucknell, 2023.  272p bibl index  ISBN 9781684485161, $159.00;  ISBN 9781684485154 pbk, $52.95;  ISBN 9781684485178 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-1900

Wright, Brian F. The bastard instrument: a cultural history of the electric bass.  Michigan, 2024.  392p bibl index  ISBN 9780472076819, $70.00;  ISBN 9780472056811 pbk, $24.95;  ISBN 9780472221707 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-1914

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Science & Technology

Bassett, Sharity L. Haudenosaunee women lacrosse players: making meaning through rematriation.  Michigan State, 2024.  200p  ISBN 9781611865073, $79.95;  ISBN 9781611864991 pbk, $35.00;  ISBN 9781628955286 ebook, $35.00;  62-1978

Benito, Juan Olive. Birds of the mesozoic.  Princeton, 2024.  272p bibl index  ISBN 9780691266565, $27.95;  62-1954

Eco-restoration of the polluted environment: a biological perspective, ed. by Sandip V. Rathod.  CRC Press, 2025.  328p bibl  ISBN 9781032729978, $140.00;  ISBN 9781003423393 ebook, $66.99;  62-1957

Halverson, Jeffrey B. An introduction to severe storms and hazardous weather, by Jeffrey B. Halverson; Thomas D. Rabenhorst, illustrator.  Routledge, 2024.  492p bibl index  ISBN 9781032384238, $170.00;  ISBN 9781032384245 pbk, $74.99;  ISBN 9781003344988 ebook, $74.99;  62-1961

Martin, Lori Latrice. White sports/ Black sports: racial disparities in athletic programs.  Bloomsbury, 2024.  272p bibl index  ISBN 9781440880377, $90.00;  ISBN 9798765110874 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-1983

Osborn, Sophie A. H. Feather trails: a journey of discovery among endangered birds.  Chelsea Green, 2024.  384p bibl index  ISBN 9781645022428, $32.50;  62-1959

Stanton, Mary. Recreation without humiliation: Black leisure in the twentieth-century South.  Georgia, 2024.  282p bibl index  ISBN 9780820367668, $119.95;  ISBN 9780820367675 pbk, $28.95;  ISBN 9780820367682 ebook, $28.95;  62-1985

Stenros, Jaakko. The rule book: the building blocks of games, by Jaakko Stenros and Markus Montola.  MIT, 2024.  252p bibl index  ISBN 9780262547444, $40.00;  ISBN 9780262377539 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-1986

Villanueva, Jr, Nicholas. Rainbow cattle co.: liberation, inclusion, and the history of gay rodeo.  Nebraska, 2024.  282p bibl index  ISBN 9781496230195, $50.00;  ISBN 9781496241818 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-1987

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Social & Behavioral Sciences

Agenda for social justice 3: solutions for 2024, ed. by Kristen M. Budd et al.  Policy Press, 2024.  184p  ISBN 9781447371397, $22.50;  ISBN 9781447371403 ebook, $22.50;  62-2119

Austin, Michael W. American Christian nationalism: neither American nor Christian.  Eerdmans, 2024.  130p bibl index  ISBN 9780802884350 pbk, $17.99;  ISBN 9781467468596 ebook, $9.99;  62-2104

Baghoolizadeh, Beeta. The color black: enslavement and erasure in Iran.  Duke, 2024.  248p bibl index  ISBN 9781478026013, $102.95;  ISBN 9781478026013 pbk, $26.95;  ISBN 9781478059257 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-2054

Barrett, Marsha E. Nelson Rockefeller’s dilemma: the fight to save moderate Republicanism.  Cornell, 2024.  400p bibl index  ISBN 9781501776236, $36.95;  ISBN 9781501776250 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-2105

Bradlow, Benjamin H. Urban power: democracy and inequality in São Paulo and Johannesburg.  Princeton, 2024.  256p bibl index  ISBN 9780691237114, $99.95;  ISBN 9780691237121 pbk, $29.95;  ISBN 9780691237107 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-2120

Conservative effect, 2010–2024: 14 wasted years, ed. by Anthony Seldon and Tom Egerton.  Cambridge, 2024.  566p bibl index  ISBN 9781009473088, $21.95;  ISBN 9781009473125 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-2077

Daub, Adrian. The cancel culture panic: how an American obsession went global.  Stanford, 2024.  224p bibl index  ISBN 9781503640849 pbk, $18.00;  ISBN 9781503641211 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-1991

Doganova, Liliana. Discounting the future:  the ascendancy of a political technology.  Zone Books, 2024.  336p bibl index (Near futures)  ISBN 9781942130918, $28.00;  ISBN 9781942130925 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-2010

Dyer, Glenn. The era was lost: the rise and fall of New York City’s rank-and-file rebels.  North Carolina, 2024.  232p bibl index  ISBN 9781469682051, $99.00;  ISBN 9781469682068 pbk, $29.95;  ISBN 9781469682075 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-2006

Gribetz, Jonathan Marc. Reading Herzl in Beirut: the PLO effort to know the enemy.  Princeton, 2024.  408p bibl index  ISBN 9780691260525, $99.95;  ISBN 9780691176802 pbk, $29.95;  ISBN 9780691255637 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-2055

Henricksen, Wes. In fraud we trust: how leaders in politics, business, and media profit from lies – and how to stop them.  University Press of Kansas, 2024.  312p bibl index  ISBN 9780700637461, $39.99;  ISBN 9780700637478 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-2108

January 6 and the politics of history, ed. by Jim Downs.  Georgia, 2024.  144p bibl index  ISBN 9780820364049, $114.95;  ISBN 9780820364049 pbk, $22.95;  ISBN 9780820364070 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-2060

Jusionyte, Ieva. Exit wounds: how America’s guns fuel violence across the border.  California, 2024.  348p bibl index (California series in public anthropology, 57)  ISBN 9780520395954, $27.95;  ISBN 9780520395961 ebook, $27.95;  62-2001

Just, Thomas. Combating antisemitism in Germany and Poland: strategies since 1990.  L. Rienner, 2024.  173p bibl index  ISBN 9781685859992, $98.00;  ISBN 9781962551076 ebook, $98.00;  62-1994

Kehoe, Alice Beck. Truth and power in American archaeology.  Nebraska, 2024.  300p bibl index  ISBN 9781496236654, $99.00;  ISBN 9781496241085 pbk, $35.00;  ISBN 9781496241245 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-2002

Knight, Frederick C. Black elders: the meaning of age in American slavery and freedom.  Pennsylvania, 2024.  248p bibl index  ISBN 9781512825664, $39.95;  ISBN 9781512825671 ebook, $39.95;  62-2062

Meindl, Christopher F. Florida springs: from geography to politics and restoration.  University Press of Florida, 2024.  304p bibl index  ISBN 9780813079158, $38.00;  ISBN 9780813073446 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-2065

Merkel-Hess, Kate. Women and their warlords: domesticating militarism in modern China.  Chicago, 2024.  260p bibl index  ISBN 9780226834306, $45.00;  ISBN 9780226834313 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-2041

More than blue, more than Yankee: complexity and change in New England politics, ed. by Amy Fried and Erin O’Brien.  Massachusetts, 2024.  280p bibl index  ISBN 9781625348319, $99.00;  ISBN 9781625348302 pbk, $30.95;  ISBN 9781685751029 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-2110

Muehlmann, Shaylih. Call the mothers: searching for Mexico’s disappeared in the war on drugs.  California, 2024.  264p bibl index (California series in public anthropology, 58)  ISBN 9780520314573, $95.00;  ISBN 9780520314580 pbk, $29.95;  ISBN 9780520973985 ebook, $29.95;  62-2003

Murray, Williamson. The dark patch: the structure of war and the rise of the West.  Yale, 2024.  488p bibl index  ISBN 9780300270686, $40.00;  ISBN 9780300277579 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-2097

Nájera, Jennifer R. Learning to lead: undocumented students mobilizing education.  Duke, 2024.  192p bibl index  ISBN 9781478030539, $99.95;  ISBN 9781478026303 pbk, $25.95;  ISBN 9781478059530 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-2024

Renton, Kathryn. Feral empire: horse and human in the early modern Iberian world.  Cambridge, 2024.  260p bibl index  ISBN 9781316515075, $110.00;  ISBN 9781009090193 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-2030

Roman-Oliver, Suzanna. The science I know: culturally relevant science lessons from secondary classrooms.  Myers Education Press, 2024.  175p index  ISBN 9781975506087 pbk, $41.95;  ISBN 9781975506100 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-2025

Roth, Mitchel P. Murder by mail: a global history of the letter bomb, by Mitchel P. Roth and Mahmut Cengiz.  Reaktion Books, 2024.  240p bibl index  ISBN 9781789149401, $26.00;  ISBN 9781789149791 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-2031

Sebold, Karen. Evaluating campaign finance oversight: an assessment of the Federal Election Commission.  Lexington Books, 2024.  202p bibl index  ISBN 9781666949797, $105.00;  ISBN 9781666949803 ebook, $45.00;  62-2113

Sheldrake, Philip. Civility: cultivating public virtues.  Oxford, 2024.  176p bibl index  ISBN 9780192862303, $110.00;  ISBN 9780192676436 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-2103

Shpylova-Saeed, Nataliya. Russia’s denial of Ukraine: letters and contested memory.  Rowman & Littlefield, 2024.  302p bibl index  ISBN 9781666941814, $120.00;  ISBN 9781666941821 ebook, $50.00;  62-2049

Taylor, Matthew D. The violent take it by force: the Christian movement that is threatening our democracy.  Broadleaf Books, 2024.  292p bibl index  ISBN 9781506497785, $32.99;  ISBN 9781506497792 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-2115

Whitman Cobb, Wendy N. Space policy for the twenty-first century, by Wendy N. Whitman Cobb and Derrick V. Frazier.  University Press of Florida, 2024.  344p bibl index  ISBN 9781683404064, $60.00;  ISBN 9781683404125 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-2100

Zencirci, Gizem. The Muslim social: neoliberalism, charity, and poverty in Turkey.  Syracuse, 2024.  304p bibl index  ISBN 9780815638261, $95.00;  ISBN 9780815638254 pbk, $34.95;  ISBN 9780815657002 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-2056

Zhang, Ketian. China’s gambit: the calculus of coercion.  Cambridge, 2024.  225p bibl index  ISBN 9781009423786, $110.00;  ISBN 9781009423809 ebook, $110.00;  62-2101

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