The Top 75 Community College Titles: August 2025 Edition

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

Posted on August 27, 2025 in Top 75 Community College Titles

---

Reference

Christian, Mark. Frederick Douglass: a life in American history.   ABC-CLIO, 2025.  296p bibl index  ISBN 9798216170464, $68.00;   ISBN 9798216170471 ebook, contact publisher for price;   62-2846

Global Census Archive.    East View Information Services. Contact publisher for pricing.URL: https://www.eastview.com/resources/e-collections/gca/  62-2847

Kress, W. John. Smithsonian trees of North America.   Yale, 2024.  800p bibl index  ISBN 9780300185218, $75.00;   ISBN 9780300277470 ebook, contact publisher for price;   62-2845

The Salem witch trials, ed. by Michael Shally-Jensen.   Salem Press, 2024.  333p bibl index  ISBN 9781637007686, $175.00;   62-2848

---

Humanities

Bentley, Joshua M. Devaluing public apologies in the age of social media: how polarization and cancel culture complicate the mea culpa.   Lexington Books, 2025.  210p bibl index  ISBN 9781666941906, $105.00;   ISBN 9781666941913 ebook, contact publisher for price;   62-2856

Blair, Amy L. Tasting and testing books: Good housekeeping, popular modernism, and middlebrow reading.   Massachusetts, 2024.  280p bibl index  ISBN 9781625348210, $99.00;   ISBN 9781625348203 pbk, $34.95;   ISBN 9781685750916 ebook, contact publisher for price;   62-2871

Clark, Meredith D. We tried to tell y’all: Black Twitter and the rise of digital counternarratives.   Oxford, 2025.  200p bibl index  ISBN 9780190068134, $99.00;   ISBN 9780190068141 pbk, $24.99;   ISBN 9780190068165 ebook, contact publisher for price;   62-2857

Douglas, Robin. Paganism persisting: a history of European paganisms since antiquity, by Robin Douglas and Francis Young.   University of Exeter Press, 2024.  228p bibl index  ISBN 9781804131237, $120.00;   ISBN 9781804131251 ebook, contact publisher for price;   62-2920

Ėstraikh, Gennady. Yiddish literature under surveillance: the case of Soviet Ukraine.   Lexington Books, 2024.  180p bibl index  ISBN 9781666938005, $105.00;   ISBN 9781666938012 ebook, contact publisher for price;   62-2889

Fuchs, Renata T. Women writers’ philosophy of love in German Romanticism: dialogical life in letters.   Brill, 2024.  225p bibl index (Amsterdamer Beiträge zur neueren Germanistik, 97)  ISBN 9789004692008, $120.00;   ISBN 9789004702264 ebook, contact publisher for price;   62-2907

Gayford, Martin. How painting happens: (and why it matters).   Thames & Hudson, 2024.  384p bibl index  ISBN 9780500027424, $35.00;   62-2850

López-Ruiz, Carolina. Greek mythology: from creation to first humans.   Oxford, 2025.  256p bibl index  ISBN 9780190944797, $99.00;   ISBN 9780190944803 pbk, $19.95;   ISBN 9780190944827 ebook, contact publisher for price;   62-2869

Merolla, Andy J. The social biome: how everyday communication connects and shapes us, by Andy J. Merolla and Jeffrey A. Hall.   Yale, 2025.  256p bibl index  ISBN 9780300272147, $28.00;   ISBN 9780300281507 ebook, contact publisher for price;   62-2860

Novick, Tzvi. Judaism: a guide for Christians.   Eerdmans, 2025.  304p bibl index  ISBN 9780802884329 pbk, $39.99;   ISBN 9781467468534 ebook, contact publisher for price;   62-2927

Peters, John G. Joseph Conrad and the narration of silence.   Edinburgh University Press, 2024.  232p bibl index  ISBN 9781399535854, $120.00;   ISBN 9781399535878 ebook, contact publisher for price;   62-2879

Primo, Leslie. Foreign invention of British Art: from Renaissance to Enlightenment.   Thames & Hudson, 2024.  352p bibl index  ISBN 9780500024010, $39.95;   62-2852

Quiet defiance: the rhetoric of silent protest, ed. by David W. Seitz.   Lexington Books, 2025.  402p bibl index  ISBN 9781666938999, $135.00;   ISBN 9781666939002 ebook, contact publisher for price;   62-2862

Stone, Alison. Women on philosophy of art: Britain 1770–1900.   Oxford, 2024.  304p bibl index  ISBN 9780198917977, $105.00;   ISBN 9780198918004 ebook, contact publisher for price;   62-2915

Tippen, Carrie Helms. Unpalatable: stories of pain and pleasure in southern cookbooks.   University Press of Mississippi, 2025.  264p bibl index  ISBN 9781496854797, $110.00;   ISBN 9781496854803 pbk, $30.00;   ISBN 9781496854810 ebook, contact publisher for price;   62-2882

Tipton, Steven M. In and out of church: the moral arc of spiritual change in America.   Rowman & Littlefield, 2024.  320p bibl index  ISBN 9781538197042, $85.00;   ISBN 9781538197059 pbk, $29.00;   ISBN 9781538197066 ebook, contact publisher for price;   62-2930

Zaborowska, Magdalena J. James Baldwin: the life album.   Yale, 2025.  320p bibl index  ISBN 9780300262209, $28.00;   ISBN 9780300281637 ebook, contact publisher for price;   62-2885

---

Science & Technology

Ali, Jamin. Chemical ecology: insect-plant interactions, by Jamin Ali and Ri Zhao Chen.   CRC Press, 2024.  196p bibl index  ISBN 9781032767338, $125.00;   ISBN 9781032767062 pbk, $39.99;   ISBN 9781003479857 ebook, contact publisher for price;   62-2937

Anderson, Nicole D. Living with mild cognitive impairment: a guide to maximizing brain health and reducing risk of dementia, by Nicole D. Anderson, Kelly J. Murphy, and Angela K. Troyer.  2nd ed.   Oxford, 2024.  472p bibl index  ISBN 9780197749340, $35.00;   ISBN 9780197749364 ebook, contact publisher for price;   62-2947

Aschwanden, Markus. Power laws in astrophysics: self-organized criticality systems.   Cambridge, 2024.  288p bibl index  ISBN 9781009562935, $160.00;   ISBN 9781009562942 ebook, contact publisher for price;   62-2958

Chan, Anita Say. Predatory data: eugenics in big tech and our fight for an independent future.   California, 2025.  262p bibl  index  ISBN 9780520402843 pbk, $27.95;   ISBN 9780520402850 ebook, $12.99;   62-2952

Chaon, Phil. Habitats of North America: a field guide for birders, naturalists and ecologists.   Princeton, 2025.  376p bibl index  ISBN 9780691245065 pbk, $35.00;   ISBN 9780691245164 ebook, contact publisher for price;   62-2943

Chris, Cynthia. Cuckoo.   Reaktion Books, 2024.  168p bibl index  ISBN 9781789149319 pbk, $20.89;   ISBN 9781789149685 ebook, contact publisher for price;   62-2939

Grundy, Pamela. Shattering the glass: the remarkable history of women’s basketball.   North Carolina, 2025.  272p bibl index  ISBN 9781469674773, $99.00;   ISBN 9781469674780 pbk, $25.00;   ISBN 9781469674797 ebook, contact publisher for price;   62-2959

Herring, Margaret J. Born of fire and rain: journey into a Pacific coastal forest.   Yale, 2024.  280p bibl index  ISBN 9780300275421, $30.00;   ISBN 9780300280418 ebook, contact publisher for price;   62-2944

McManus, Jane. The fast track: inside the surging business of women’s sports.   Temple, 2025.  210p bibl index  ISBN 9781439925089, $30.00;   ISBN 9781439925102 ebook, contact publisher for price;   62-2960

Pericak, Kaitlin. Body factory: exploiting university athletes’ healthcare for profit in the training room.   Temple, 2025.  166p bibl index  ISBN 9781439924938, $89.50;   ISBN 9781439924945 pbk, $21.95;   ISBN 9781439924952 ebook, contact publisher for price;   62-2950

Putz, Paul Emory. The spirit of the game: American Christianity and big-time sports.   Oxford, 2024.  280p bibl index  ISBN 9780190091064, $29.99;   ISBN 9780190091088 ebook, contact publisher for price;   62-2961

Stark, Mike. Starlings: the curious odyssey of a most hated bird.   Nebraska, 2025.  272p bibl  ISBN 9781496242020, $24.95;   ISBN 9781496242778 ebook, contact publisher for price;   62-2942

Walsh, David. Social murder?: austerity and life expectancy in the UK, by David Walsh and Gerry McCartney.   Policy Press, 2024.  238p bibl index  ISBN 9781447373070, $120.00;   ISBN 9781447373087 pbk, $29.99;   ISBN 9781447373094 ebook, contact publisher for price;   62-2951

---

---

Social & Behavioral Sciences

Ahmadi, Shaherzad. Bordering on war: a social and political history of Khuzestan.   Texas, 2024.  280p bibl index  ISBN 9781477329931, $55.00;   ISBN 9781477329955 ebook, $55.00;   62-3033

Bae, Christopher J. The paleoanthropology of eastern Asia.   Hawai’i, 2024.  296p bibl  index  ISBN 9780824897659, $80.00;   62-2971

Baums, Ansgar. Tech cold war: the geopolitics of technology, by Ansgar Baums and Nicholas Butts.   L. Rienner, 2025.  339p bibl index  ISBN 9781962551564, $120.00;   ISBN 9781962551571 ebook, contact publisher for price;   62-3060

Boittin, Margaret L. The regulation of prostitution in China: law in the everyday lives of sex workers, police officers, and public health officials.   Cambridge, 2024.  430p bibl  index  ISBN 9781107179226, $135.00;   ISBN 9781316836392 ebook, $135.00;   62-3085

Bradley, James M. Martin Van Buren:  America’s first politician.   Oxford, 2024.  632p bibl index  ISBN 9780190920524, $35.00;   ISBN 9780190920548 ebook, contact publisher for price;   62-3036

Braje, Todd J. Understanding imperiled earth: how archaeology and human history inform a sustainable future.   Smithsonian Books, 2024.  200p bibl index  ISBN 9781588347596, $29.95;   ISBN 9781588347602 ebook, contact publisher for price;   62-2972

Buss, Fran Leeper. Redemptive memory: women activists and the search for justice, ed. by Miriam Davidson.   Lexington Books, 2025.  202p bibl index  ISBN 9781666915228, $105.00;   ISBN 9781666915235 ebook, contact publisher for price;   62-2962

Carlson, Mark. The young Fed: the banking crises of the 1920s and the making of a lender of last resort.   Chicago, 2025.  240p bibl index  ISBN 9780226837826, $40.00;   ISBN 9780226837833 ebook, contact publisher for price;   62-2985

Cebulko, Kara Beth. The borders of privilege: 1.5-generation Brazilian migrants navigating power without papers.   Stanford, 2025.  250p bibl index  ISBN 9781503637177, $110.00;   ISBN 9781503641532 pbk, $28.00;   ISBN 9781503641549 ebook, contact publisher for price;   62-3086

Climate obstruction across Europe, ed. by Robert J. Brulle, J. Timmons Roberts, and Miranda C. Spencer.   Oxford, 2024.  400p bibl index  ISBN 9780197762042, $132.00;   ISBN 9780197762059 pbk, $34.99;   ISBN 9780197762073 ebook, open access;   62-3056

Ecotourism impacts on Indigenous peoples, ed. by Wayne A. Babchuk and Robert K. Hitchcock.   Lexington Books, 2025.  282p bibl index  ISBN 9781793643841, $115.00;   ISBN 9781793643858 ebook, contact publisher for price;   62-2974

Fadaee, Simin. Global Marxism: decolonisation and revolutionary politics.   Manchester University Press, 2024.  288p bibl index  ISBN 9781526177971, $130.00;   ISBN 9781526177988 pbk, $29.72;   ISBN 9781526177995 ebook, contact publisher for price;   62-3005

Fortin, Jeffrey A. Captain Paul Cuffe, yeoman: a biography.   Massachusetts, 2024.  240p bibl index  ISBN 9781625348135, $99.00;   ISBN 9781625348128 pbk, $30.95;   ISBN 9781685750831 ebook, contact publisher for price;   62-3038

Gibson, Susannah. The bluestockings: a history of the first women’s movement.   W. W. Norton, 2024.  352p index  ISBN 9780393881387, $29.99;   ISBN 9781324106999 pbk, $19.99;   62-3047

Goldin, Ian. The shortest history of migration: when, why, and how humans move-from the prehistoric peopling of the planet to today and tomorrow’s migrants.   The Experiment, 2025.  304p bibl index  ISBN 9798893030600, $16.95;   ISBN 9798893030617 ebook, contact publisher for price;   62-3006

Graaf, Beatrice de. The radical redemption model: terrorist beliefs and narratives.   Oxford, 2025.  360p bibl index  ISBN 9780197792469, $132.00;   ISBN 9780197792483 ebook, contact publisher for price;   62-3057

Haldeman, William. Meeting the moment: inspiring presidential leadership that transformed America.   SUNY Press, 2024.  320p bibl index  ISBN 9798855800173, $99.00;   ISBN 9798855800180 pbk, $34.95;   ISBN 9798855800203 ebook, contact publisher for price;   62-3039

Junker, Débora B. A. A pedagogy for planetary convivência: a Freirean perspective to think pedagogy otherwise.   Pickwick, 2025.  184p bibl index  ISBN 9781498286725, $42.00;   ISBN 9781625642226 pbk, $27.00;   ISBN 9781725248830 ebook, contact publisher for price;   62-2994

Kasevich, Heidi. Silent talk: setting the stage for introverts to thrive in the classroom and beyond.   Rowman & Littlefield, 2025.  158p bibl index  ISBN 9781475854916, $85.00;   ISBN 9781475854923 pbk, $34.00;   ISBN 9781475854930 ebook, contact publisher for price;   62-2995

Keefer, Katrina. Cannibalism myths, empire, and identity in colonial Sierra Leone.   Lexington Books, 2024.  192p bibl index  ISBN 9781666965780, $105.00;   ISBN 9781666965797 ebook, contact publisher for price;   62-3012

Leipold, Bruno. Citizen Marx: Republicanism and the formation of Karl Marx’s social and political thought.   Princeton, 2024.  440p bibl index  ISBN 9780691205236, $39.95;   ISBN 9780691261867 ebook, contact publisher for price;   62-3065

Levy, Buddy. Realm of ice and sky: triumph, tragedy, and history’s greatest Arctic rescue.   St. Martin’s, 2025.  384p bibl index  ISBN 9781250289186, $32.00;   ISBN 9781250289193 ebook, contact publisher for price;   62-3007

Lewis, Herbert S. Correcting the record: essays on the history of American anthropology.   Berghahn Books, 2025.  198p bibl  index (Methodology and history in anthropology, 51)  ISBN 9781805397656, $120.00;   ISBN 9781805397663 ebook, $29.95;   62-2977

Lomawaima, K. Tsianina. “To remain an Indian”: lessons in democracy from a century of Native American education, by K. Tsianina Lomawaima and Teresa L. McCarty.   Teachers College Press, 2024.  288p bibl index  ISBN 9780807786130, $135.00;   ISBN 9780807786123 pbk, $44.95;   ISBN 9780807782606 ebook, contact publisher for price;   62-2999

Long, Joshua. Prison homicide: killing and dying in prison today.   L. Rienner, 2025.  311p bibl index  ISBN 9781962551526, $120.00;   ISBN 9781962551533 ebook, contact publisher for price;   62-3090

McCarthy, E. Doyle. Culture and our emotions: how modern life changes us.   Anthem Press, 2025.  80p bibl index  ISBN 9781839980732, $110.00;   ISBN 9781839980732 pbk, $29.95;   ISBN 9781839980749 ebook, contact publisher for price;   62-3092

Moreira, Isabel. Balthild of Francia: Anglo-Saxon slave, Merovingian queen, and abolitionist saint.   Oxford, 2024.  240p bibl index  ISBN 9780197518663, $120.00;   ISBN 9780197792612 pbk, $26.95;   ISBN 9780197518687 ebook, contact publisher for price;   62-3052

Murillo, Lina-Maria. Fighting for control power, reproductive care, and race in the US-Mexico borderlands.   North Carolina, 2025.  336p bibl index  ISBN 9781469682587, $99.00;   ISBN 9781469682594 pbk, $29.95;   ISBN 9781469682600 ebook, contact publisher for price;   62-2965

Oldfather, Chad. Judges, judging, and judgment: character, wisdom, and humility in a polarized world.   Cambridge, 2025.  222p bibl index  ISBN 9781009354585, $125.00;   ISBN 9781009354615 pbk, $41.99;   ISBN 9781009354592 ebook, contact publisher for price;   62-3076

Pasieka, Agnieszka. Living right: far-right youth activists in contemporary Europe.   Princeton, 2024.  304p bibl index  ISBN 9780691258423, $35.00;   ISBN 9780691258430 ebook, contact publisher for price;   62-2968

Philps, Alan. The Red Hotel: Moscow 1941, the Metropol Hotel, and the untold story of Stalin’s propaganda war.   Pegasus Books, 2024.  464p bibl index  ISBN 9781639364275, $14.44;   ISBN 9781639366941 pbk, $18.95;   ISBN 9781639364282 ebook, contact publisher for price;   62-3027

Reading LGBTQ+ children’s picture books, ed. by Jennifer Miller and Sara Austin.   University Press of Mississippi, 2025.  296p bibl index  ISBN 9781496854902, $110.00;   ISBN 9781496854957 pbk, $30.00;   ISBN 9781496854919 ebook, contact publisher for price;   62-3002

Roberts, Jennifer T. Thucydides: a very short introduction.   Oxford, 2024.  160p bibl index  ISBN 9780192855824 pbk, $12.99;   62-3016

Schiller, Hans. A tale of two fronts: a German soldier’s journey through World War I, tr. by Karin Wagner.   University Press of Kansas, 2024.  244p bibl  index  ISBN 9780700638000, $34.99;   ISBN 9780700638017 ebook, contact publisher for price;   62-3030

Sepulveda, Charles A. Native alienation: spiritual conquest and the violence of California missions.   Washington, 2024.  212p bibl  index  ISBN 9780295753270, $110.00;   ISBN 9780295753270 pbk, $30.00;   ISBN 9780295753287 ebook, contact publisher for price;   62-3043

Shanta, David G. American Indian cowboys in Southern California, 1493—1941: survival, sovereignty, and identity.   Lexington Books, 2024.  272p bibl index  ISBN 9781666957044, $105.00;   ISBN 9781666957051 ebook, contact publisher for price;   62-3044

Shaw, Jenny. The women of Rendezvous: a transatlantic story of family and slavery.   North Carolina, 2024.  280p bibl index  ISBN 9781469682754, $99.00;   ISBN 9781469682761 pbk, $29.95;   ISBN 9781469679082 ebook, contact publisher for price;   62-3011

Sommer, Matthew H. The fox spirit, the stone maiden, and other transgender histories from late imperial China.   Columbia, 2024.  384p bibl index  ISBN 9780231214124, $120.00;   ISBN 9780231214131 pbk, $30.00;   ISBN 9780231560207 ebook, contact publisher for price;   62-3020

Stanley, Jason. Erasing history: how fascists rewrite the past to control the future.   Atria, 2024.  233p bibl index  ISBN 9781668056912, $28.99;   ISBN 9781668056929 pbk, $19.99;   ISBN 9781668056936 ebook, contact publisher for price;   62-3055

Tonge, David S. The enduring hold of Islam in Turkey: the revival of the religious orders and rise of Erdoğan.   Hurst & Company, 2025.  384p bibl index  ISBN 9781911723837, $50.90;   ISBN 9781805263401 ebook, contact publisher for price;   62-3035

The wonder and complexity of the 1904 World’s Fair, ed. by the Missouri Historical Society Press.   Chicago, 2024.  152p bibl index  ISBN 9798985571646 pbk, $30.00;   62-3045

Related Posts