The Top 75 Community College Titles: February 2025 Edition

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

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

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Reference

Kiddle, Amelia M. Historical dictionary of Mexico, by Amelia M. Kiddle and Ryan M. Alexander.  3rd ed.  Rowman & Littlefield, 2024.  518p bibl  ISBN 9781538111499, $210.00;  ISBN 9781538111505 ebook, $199.50;  62-1355

Oxford encyclopedia of queer studies and communication, ed. by Isaac West.  Oxford, 2024.  2112p 2v. bibl index  ISBN 9780190099671, $395.00;  62-1356

Throughlines.  ACMRS Press. Free. URL: Throughlines.org  62-1351

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Humanities

Baranauskas, Andrew J. The American city in crime films: criminology and the cinematic city.  Routledge, 2024.  160p bibl index  ISBN 9781032590783, $144.00;  ISBN 9781003452843 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-1393

Galitz, Kathryn Calley. How to read portraits.  Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2024.  120p bibl index  ISBN 9781588397645 pbk, $29.95;  62-1362

Helstosky, Carol. Italian forgers: the art market and the weight of the past in modern Italy.  Cornell, 2024.  258p bibl index  ISBN 9781501774577, $54.95;  ISBN 9781501774584 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-1363

Hetherington, Stephen. Being philosophical: an introduction to philosophy and its methods.  Policy Press, 2024.  276p bibl index  ISBN 9781509554577, $69.95;  ISBN 9781509554584 pbk, $24.95;  62-1410

Horsthemke, Kai. The meaning of death: a philosophical investigation.  Lexington Books, 2024.  176p bibl index  ISBN 9781666925401, $105.00;  ISBN 9781666925418 ebook, $45.00;  62-1411

Iwai, Gaku. D. H. Lawrence and ambivalence in the age of modernity: rereading Midlands novels and wartime writings in social and political contexts.  Routledge, 2024.  234p  ISBN 9781032675664, $180.00;  ISBN 9781032675671 ebook, $54.99;  62-1381

Langsdale, Samantha. Searching for feminist superheroes: gender, sexuality, and race in Marvel comics.  Texas, 2024.  240p bibl index  ISBN 9781477329788, $45.00;  ISBN 9781477329801 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-1369

Mancoff, Debra N. Looking at fashion: a guide to terms, styles, and techniques.  Getty Publications, 2024.  160p bibl index  ISBN 9781606068991 pbk, $19.95;  ISBN 9781606069004 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-1360

McCarthy-Brown, Nyama. Skin colored pointes: interviews with women of color in ballet.  McFarland, 2024.  267p bibl index  ISBN 9781476687056, $39.95;  ISBN 9781476651811 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-1404

Richards, Jeffrey. John Ford’s America.  Manchester University Press, 2024.  350p bibl index  ISBN 9781526173812, $160.00;  ISBN 781526173805 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-1396

Rumeau, Delphine. Comrade Whitman: from Russian to internationalist icon.  Academic Studies Press, 2024.  376p bibl index  ISBN 9798887194608, $150.00;  ISBN 9798887194615 pbk, $40.00;  ISBN 9798887194639 ebook, $40.00;  62-1387

Sawyer, Daniel. How to read Middle English poetry.  Oxford, 2024.  240p bibl index  ISBN 9780198895237, $90.00;  ISBN 9780198895244 pbk, $25.00;  ISBN 9780191997761 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-1375

Speaking words of wisdom: The Beatles and religion, ed. by Michael McGowan.  Pennsylvania, 2024.  260p bibl index  ISBN 9780271097299, $124.95;  ISBN 9780271097435 pbk, $27.95;  ISBN 9780271098593 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-1434

Theology and Tolkien: constructive theology, ed. by Douglas Estes.  Fortress Academic, 2024.  354p bibl index  ISBN 9781978712638, $130.00;  ISBN 9781978712645 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-1435

Virginia Woolf and capitalism, ed. by Clara Jones.  Edinburgh University Press, 2024.  336p bibl index  ISBN 9781399514088, $120.00;  ISBN 9781399514101 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-1389

Warner, Rick. The rebirth of suspense: slowness and atmosphere in cinema.  Columbia, 2024.  312p bibl index  ISBN 9780231212700, $140.00;  ISBN 9780231212717 pbk, $35.00;  ISBN 9780231559522 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-1397

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Science & Technology

Bernhardt, Chris. Beautiful math: the surprisingly simple ideas behind the digital revolution in how we live, work, and communicate.  MIT, 2024.  240p index  ISBN 9780262549776, $27.95;  ISBN 9780262380744 ebook, $27.99;  62-1463

Bessis, David. Mathematica: a secret world of intuition and curiosity, tr. by Kevin Frey.  Yale, 2024.  344p bibl index  ISBN 9780300270884, $30.00;  ISBN 9780300277142 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-1464

Dawkins, Richard. The genetic book of the dead: a Darwinian reverie.  Yale, 2024.  360p bibl index  ISBN 9780300278095, $35.00;  ISBN 9780300281668 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-1441

Dunne, Pete. Shorebirds of North America: a natural history and photographic celebration.  Princeton, 2024.  304p bibl index  ISBN 9780691220956, $35.00;  ISBN 9780691224701 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-1445

Fish, Adam. Oceaning: governing marine life with drones.  Duke, 2024.  248p bibl index  ISBN 9781478025801, $102.95;  ISBN 9781478025801 pbk, $26.95;  ISBN 9781478059011 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-1446

Gems, Gerald R. Mental health, gender, and the rise of sport.  Lexington Books, 2024.  222p bibl index  ISBN 9781666955064, $110.00;  ISBN 9781666955071 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-1470

Gertz, Nolen. Nihilism and technology.  Rowman & Littlefield, 2024.  288p bibl index  ISBN 9781538193266, $120.00;  ISBN 9781538193273 pbk, $40.00;  ISBN 9781538193280 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-1459

Griggs, Gary B. California catastrophes: the natural disaster history of the Golden State.  California, 2024.  280p bibl index  ISBN 9780520402089, $95.00;  ISBN 9780520402102 pbk, $26.95;  ISBN 9780520402119 ebook, $26.95;  62-1447

Holt, Jennifer. Cloud policy: a history of regulating pipelines, platforms, and data.  MIT, 2024.  326p bibl index  ISBN 9780262548069 pbk, $65.00;  ISBN 9780262378680 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-1460

Kaminski, Amy Paige. The people’s spaceship: NASA, the Shuttle era, and public engagement after Apollo.  Pittsburgh, 2024.  336p bibl index  ISBN 9780822947660, $60.00;  ISBN 9780822989721 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-1440

Keating, Steve. Conifers of the New England–Acadian forest: a cultural history.  Amherst, 2024.  288p bibl index  ISBN 9781625347886, $99.00;  ISBN 9781625347879 pbk, $24.95;  ISBN 9781685750626 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-1444

Moser, Patrick. Waikīkī dreams: how California appropriated Hawaiian beach culture.  Illinois, 2024.  316p bibl index  ISBN 9780252045912, $125.00;  ISBN 9780252088018 pbk, $27.95;  ISBN 9780252056789 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-1471

Orr, Madeleine. Warming up: how climate change is changing sports.  Bloomsbury, 2024.  320p bibl index  ISBN 9781399404525, $28.00;  ISBN 9781399414241 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-1472

Remediation of plastic and microplastic waste, ed. by Surajit Mondal et al.  CRC Press, 2024.  300p bibl index  ISBN 9781032555591, $160.00;  ISBN 9781003449133 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-1451

Rewilding the urban frontier: river conservation in the anthropocene, ed. by Greg Gordon.  Nebraska, 2024.  344p bibl index  ISBN 9781496230614, $65.00;  ISBN 9781496239938 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-1449

Schultz, Jaime. Regulating bodies: elite sport policies and their unintended consequences.  Oxford, 2024.  28p bibl index  ISBN 9780197616499, $29.99;  ISBN 9780197616512 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-1473

Spellman, Frank R. The science of green energy.  CRC Press, 2024.  312p bibl index  ISBN 9781032573656, $120.00;  ISBN 9781003439059 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-1452

Willis, Chris. The NFL’s 60-minute men: all-time greats of the two-way player era, 1920–1945.  McFarland, 2024.  312p bibl index  ISBN 9781476691329, $39.95;  ISBN 9781476650647 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-1476

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Social & Behavioral Sciences

American conspiracism: an interdisciplinary exploration, ed. by Luke Ritter.  Routledge, 2025.  330p bibl index  ISBN 9781032604633, $180.00;  ISBN 9781032604626 pbk, $61.99;  ISBN 9781003459255 ebook, $61.99;  62-1477

Barca,  Natale. Violence in the forum: factional struggles in ancient Rome (133–78 BC).  Casemate Publishers, 2024.  288p  ISBN 9781636244471, $34.95;  62-1516

Big box USA: the environmental impact of America’s biggest retail stores, ed. by Bart Elmore, Rachel S. Gross, and Sherri Sheu.  University of Wyoming Press, 2024.  234p bibl index  ISBN 9781646425921, $99.00;  ISBN 9781646425938 pbk, $27.50;  ISBN 9781646425945 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-1491

Black, Jeremy. Paris: a short history.  Thames & Hudson, 2024.  256p bibl index  ISBN 9780500027080, $24.95;  ISBN 9780500778500 ebook, $24.95;  62-1553

Burton, Antoinette M. Gender history: a very short introduction.  Oxford, 2024.  144p bibl index  ISBN 9780197587010 pbk, $12.99;  ISBN 9780197587041 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-1507

Conflict and hostility in hotels, bars and restaurants, ed. by Conrad Lashley.  Routledge, 2024.  228p bibl index  ISBN 9781032427324, $160.00;  ISBN 9781003364030 ebook, $54.99;  62-1492

Corrigan, Don H. In search of manhood: American men’s movements past and present.  McFarland, 2024.  245p bibl index  ISBN 9781476695600 pbk, $39.95;  ISBN 9781476653600 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-1586

Curtin, Mary Ellen. She changed the nation: Barbara Jordan’s life and legacy in Black politics.  Pennsylvania, 2024.  480p bibl index  ISBN 9781512825800, $39.95;  ISBN 9781512825817 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-1540

Deeb, Lara. Love across difference: mixed marriage in Lebanon.  Stanford, 2024.  316p bibl index  ISBN 9781503640054, $130.00;  ISBN 9781503640757 pbk, $32.00;  ISBN 9781503640764 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-1534

Eaves, Shannon. Sexual violence and American slavery: the making of a rape culture in the antebellum South.  North Carolina, 2024.  242p bibl index  ISBN 9781469678801, $99.00;  ISBN 9781469678818 pbk, $27.95;  ISBN 9781469678825 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-1541

Eschmann, Rob. When the hood comes off: racism and resistance in the digital age.  California, 2023.  312p bibl index  ISBN 9780520379725, $85.00;  ISBN 9780520379749 pbk, $27.95;  ISBN 9780520976894 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-1479

Farrington, Shanti. The psychology of trauma, by Shanti Farrington and Alison Woodward.  Routledge, 2024.  104p bibl index  ISBN 9781032637235, $170.00;  ISBN 9781032637228 pbk, $16.95;  ISBN 9781032637242 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-1577

Frankel, Oz. Coca-Cola, Black Panthers, and Phantom jets: Israel in the American orbit, 1967–1973.  Stanford, 2024.  392p bibl index  ISBN 9781503636262, $140.00;  ISBN 9781503639522 pbk, $35.00;  ISBN 9781503639539 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-1535

Goldstein, Mark A. How technology, social media, and current events profoundly affect adolescents, by Mark A. Goldstein and Myrna Chandler Goldstein.  Oxford, 2024.  328p bibl index  ISBN 9780197640739 pbk, $64.99;  ISBN 9780197640746 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-1578

Goodman, Sherri. Threat multiplier: climate, military leadership, and the fight for global security.  Island Press, 2024.  264p bibl index  ISBN 9781642833263, $35.00;  ISBN 9781642833270 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-1566

Guenther, Genevieve. The language of climate politics: fossil-fuel propaganda and how to fight it.  Oxford, 2024.  280p bibl index  ISBN 9780197642238, $29.99;  ISBN 9780197642252 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-1556

Hakes, Jay. The presidents and the planet: climate change science and politics from Eisenhower to Bush.  Louisiana State, 2024.  376p bibl index  ISBN 9780807181904, $39.95;  ISBN 9780807183137 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-1570

Jacobs, John S. The United States governed by six hundred thousand despots: a true story of slavery; a rediscovered narrative, with a full biography.  Chicago, 2024.  327p bibl index  ISBN 9780226832807, $115.00;  ISBN 9780226684307 pbk, $20.00;  ISBN 9780226832814 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-1543

Kelley, Sean M. American slavers: merchants, mariners, and the transatlantic commerce in captives, 1644–1865.  Yale, 2024.  496p index  ISBN 9780300263596, $35.00;  ISBN 9780300271553 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-1544

Kolchin, Peter. Emancipation: the abolition and aftermath of American slavery and Russian serfdom.  Yale, 2024.  568p bibl index  ISBN 9780300273663, $50.00;  ISBN 9780300280463 ebook, $50.00;  62-1508

Lin, Erin. When the bombs stopped: the legacy of war in rural Cambodia.  Princeton, 2024.  256p bibl index  ISBN 9780691255941, $99.95;  ISBN 9780691255958 pbk, $29.95;  ISBN 9780691256122 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-1521

McBride, Richard D., II. The three kingdoms of Korea: lost civilizations.  Reaktion Books, 2024.  256p bibl index  ISBN 9781789148756, $22.18;  ISBN 9781789149050 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-1518

Men and loss: new perspectives on men, masculinity and bereavement, ed. by Kerry Jones and Martin Robb.  Routledge, 2024.  230p bibl index  ISBN 9781032368238, $136.00;  ISBN 9781003333999 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-1582

Moffett-Bateau, Alex J. Redefining the political: Black feminism and the politics of everyday life.  Temple, 2024.  291p bibl index  ISBN 9781439921173, $119.50;  ISBN 9781439921180 pbk, $39.95;  ISBN 9781439921197 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-1558

Moriel-Payne, Juana. Drama under the skin: baroque Catholic ritual in northern New Spain.  Texas Tech, 2024.  296p bibl index  ISBN 9781682832158, $29.95;  ISBN 9781682832165 ebook, $19.95;  62-1532

Muirhead, Russell. Ungoverning: the attack on the administrative state and the politics of chaos, by Russell Muirhead and Nancy L. Rosenblum.  Princeton, 2024.  280p bibl index  ISBN 9780691250526, $29.95;  ISBN 9780691250519 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-1573

Okihiro, Gary Y. Third World studies: theorizing liberation.  Duke, 2024.  328p bibl index  ISBN 9781478026440, $107.95;  ISBN 9781478030676 pbk, $28.95;  ISBN 9781478059653 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-1483

Park, Jaeyoon. Addiction becomes normal: on the late-modern American subject.  Chicago, 2024.  224p bibl index  ISBN 9780226827070, $99.00;  ISBN 9780226832760 pbk, $27.50;  ISBN 9780226832753 ebook, $12.50;  62-1569

Portraits of persistence: inequality and hope in Latin America, ed. by Javier Auyero.  Texas, 2024.  304p bibl index  ISBN 9781477328996, $34.95;  ISBN 9781477329016 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-1533

Rahman, Samia. Muslim women and misogyny: myths and misunderstandings.  Hurst & Company, 2024.  216p bibl index  ISBN 9781911723011, $18.66;  ISBN 9781805261391 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-1484

Raschig, Megan S. Healing movements: Chicanx-Indigenous activism and criminal justice in California.  New York University, 2024.  208p bibl index  ISBN 9781479827060, $89.00;  ISBN 9781479827077 pbk, $30.00;  ISBN 9781479827091 ebook, $30.00;  62-1488

Rayfield, Donald. A seditious and sinister tribe: the Crimean Tatars and their khanate.  Reaktion Books, 2024.  360p bibl index  ISBN 9781789149098, $40.00;  ISBN 9781789149593 ebook, $40.00;  62-1528

Sierra-Arévalo, Michael. Danger imperative: violence, death, and the soul of policing.  Columbia, 2024.  368p bibl index  ISBN 9780231198462, $120.00;  ISBN 9780231198479 pbk, $30.00;  ISBN 9780231552646 ebook, $29.99;  62-1587

Slack, Tim. Rural and small-town America: context, composition, and complexities, by Tim Slack and Shannon M. Monnat.  California, 2024.  232p bibl index  ISBN 9780520401129, $95.00;  ISBN 9780520401136 pbk, $29.95;  ISBN 9780520401150 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-1588

Udis-Kessler, Amanda. Cultural processes of inequality: a sociological perspective.  Anthem Press, 2024.  207p bibl index  ISBN 9781839989513, $110.00;  ISBN 9781839989537 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-1589

Vortherms, Samantha A. Manipulating authoritarian citizenship: security, development, and local membership in China.  Stanford, 2024.  296p bibl index  ISBN 9781503640184, $75.00;  ISBN 9781503640832 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-1559

Watson, Nell. Taming the machine: ethically harness the power of AI.  Kogan Page, 2024.  336p bibl index  ISBN 9781398614345, $64.61;  ISBN 9781398614321 pbk, $15.30;  ISBN 9781398614338 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-1493

Wilson, Eli Revelle Yano. Handcrafted careers: working the artisan economy of craft beer.  California, 2024.  264p bibl index  ISBN 9780520401556, $95.00;  ISBN 9780520401563 pbk, $29.95;  ISBN 9780520401570 ebook, $29.95;  62-1590

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