The Top 75 Community College Titles: February 2026 Edition

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

Posted on February 19, 2026 in Top 75 Community College Titles

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Falola, Toyin. Daily life in postcolonial Africa. Bloomsbury Academic, 2025. 232p bibl index ISBN 9798765130070, $75.00; ISBN 9798765130094 ebook, contact publisher for price; 63-1044

Moore, Samuel A. Publishing beyond the market: open access, care, and the commons. Michigan, 2025234p index ISBN 9780472057634 pbk, $24.95; ISBN 9780472905225 ebook, open access; 63-1043

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Humanities

Abdulmajid, Adib. Sectarian roots of jihad: religious conflicts in the Middle East. Lexington Books, 2025. 250p bibl index ISBN 9781666971033, $110.00; ISBN 9781666971040 ebook, contact publisher for price; 63-1101

Bajan, Adam. Faith, media, and persuasion: how Evangelicals win in a religious free market. Bloomsbury Academic, 2025. 170p bibl index ISBN 9781666955842, $110.00; ISBN 9781666955859 ebook, contact publisher for price; 63-1103

Behr, John. In accordance with the scriptures: the shape of Christian theology. Cascade Books, 2025. 164p bibl index ISBN 9798385230815 pbk, $28.00; ISBN 9798385230839 ebook, $28.00; 63-1105

The Business of incarceration: theological and ethical reflections on the prison-industrial complex, ed. by Justin Bronson Barringer, Sarah F. Farmer and James W. McCarty. Cascade Books, 2025. 266p bibl index ISBN 9781666756692, $49.00; ISBN 9781666756685 pbk, $34.00; ISBN 9781666756708 ebook, $34.00; 63-1106

Chez, Keridiana. Potter stinks: gender and species in J. K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series. University
Press of Mississippi, 2025. 220p bibl index ISBN 9781496857316, $99.00; ISBN 9781496857323 pbk, $25.00; ISBN 9781496857330 ebook, contact publisher for price; 63-1066

Con Díaz, Gerardo. Everyone breaks these laws: how copyrights made the online world. Yale, 2025. 280p bibl index ISBN 9780300251265, $35.00; ISBN 9780300283099 ebook, $35.00; 63-1058

Cooper, Keith. Amazing worlds of science fiction and science fact. Reaktion Books, 2025. 224p bibl index ISBN 9781789149944, $22.50; ISBN 9781789149982 ebook, contact publisher for price; 63-1062

Gunter, Barrie. The psychology of binge watching TV. Routledge, 2025. 204p bibl index ISBN 9781032803616, $144.00; ISBN 9781032803616 pbk, $39.99; ISBN 9781003496670 ebook, $39.99; 63-1060

Hurd, Elizabeth Shakman. Heaven has a wall: religion, borders, and the global United States. Chicago, 2025. 230p bibl index ISBN 9780226841182, $115.00; ISBN 9780226841205 pbk, $30.00; ISBN 9780226841199 ebook, $29.99; 63-1107

Kelly, James E. The Catholic Reformation: a very short introduction. Oxford, 2025. 160p bibl index ISBN 9780192862310 pbk, $12.99; 63-1109

Lockerd, Martin. Suicide in modern Catholic literature. Cascade Books, 2025. 196p bibl index ISBN 9781666786026, $42.00; ISBN 9781666786019 pbk, $27.00; ISBN 9781666786033 ebook, $27.00; 63-1070

Long, Seth. The last mixtape: physical media and nostalgic cycles. Chicago, 2025. 202p bibl index ISBN 9780226840468, $115.00; ISBN 9780226840482 pbk, $27.50; ISBN 9780226840475 ebook, $26.99; 63-1081

Mahon, Dorothy. Closer to Vermeer: new research on the painter and his art, by Dorothy Mahon, Abbie Vandivere, and Ige Verslype. Thames & Hudson, 2025. 320p bibl index ISBN 9780500030660, $75.00; 63-1049

Manent, Pierre. Challenging modern atheism and indifference: Pascal’s defense of the Christian proposition, tr. by Paul Seaton. Notre Dame, 2025. 294p bibl index ISBN 9780268209445, $42.00; ISBN 9780268209421 ebook, $33.99; 63-1093

Markowitz, Yvonne J. Beyond adornment: jewelry and identity in art, by Yvonne J. Markowitz and Susanne Gänsicke. J. Paul Getty Museum, 2025. 171p index ISBN 9781606069622, $40.00; ISBN 9781606069646 ebook, contact publisher for price; 63-1046

Marks, Andreas. Japan’s manga revolution: from painted scrolls to comic books, 1680–1920. Tuttle Publishing, 2025. 223p bibl index ISBN 9784805319017, $29.99; ISBN 9781462925490 ebook, contact publisher for price; 63-1064

Mills, Richard. The Beatles and Black music: post-colonial theory, musicology and remix culture. Bloomsbury Academic, 2025. 263p bibl discography index ISBN 9781501366949, $120.00; ISBN 9781501366956 ebook, contact publisher for price; 63-1082

Nehrig, Nicole. With her own hands: women weaving their stories. W. W. Norton, 2025. 288p index ISBN 9781324074854, $32.99; ISBN 9781324074861 ebook, contact publisher for price; 63-1051

O’Neill, Kevin Lewis. Unforgivable: an abusive priest and the church that sent him abroad. California, 2025. 280p bibl index ISBN 9780520409118, $29.95; ISBN 9780520409125 ebook, $29.95; 63-1111

Olmsted, Jennifer. Delacroix’s Moroccans: art and masculinity. Pennsylvania State, 2025. 199p
bibl index ISBN 9780271098968, $84.95; 63-1052

Paris, William M. Race, time, and utopia: critical theory and the process of emancipation. Oxford, 2025. 272p bibl index ISBN 9780197698860, $125.00; ISBN 9780197698877 pbk, $35.00; ISBN 9780197698884 ebook, contact publisher for price; 63-1096

Riccardi, Ricky. Stomp off, let’s go: the early years of Louis Armstrong. Oxford, 2025. 466p index ISBN 9780197614488, $34.99; 63-1083

Richards, Phillip M. The ideological origins of African American literature. Tennessee, 2025. 375p bibl index ISBN 9781621904588, $65.00; 63-1072

Shakespeare, William. Titus Andronicus: the new Oxford Shakespeare, by William Shakespeare and George Peele; ed. by Gary Taylor et al. Oxford, 2025. 160p bibl index ISBN 9780198875055 pbk, $9.99; 63-1088

Tatlow, Ruth. Bach’s church cantatas. Oxford, 2025. 216p bibl index ISBN 9780197622506, $90.00; ISBN 9780197622513 pbk, $19.99; 63-1084

Thinking through fashion: a guide to key theorists, ed. by Agnès Rocamora and Anneke Smelik. 2nd ed. Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2025. 336p index ISBN 9781350376526, $90.00; ISBN 9781350376519 pbk, $26.95; ISBN 9781350376540 ebook, contact publisher for price; 63-1048

Trachtenberg, Marvin. Brunelleschi and the moment of the Renaissance. Reaktion Books, 2025. 275p index ISBN 9781836390053, $54.92; 63-1055

Walker, Rebecca L. Of mice and primates: virtue ethics and animal research. Oxford, 2025. 208p bibl index ISBN 9780190089955, $99.00; ISBN 9780190089986 ebook, contact publisher for price; 63-1100

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Science & Technology

Alexander, Adam. The accidental seed heroes: growing a delicious food future for all of us. Chelsea Green, 2025. 304p bibl index ISBN 9781915294432, $29.95; ISBN 9781915294449 ebook, contact publisher for price; 63-1117

Gardiner, Lisa S. Reefs of time: what fossils reveal about coral survival. Princeton, 2025. 288p bibl index ISBN 9780691247335, $29.95; ISBN 9780691247311 ebook, contact publisher for price; 63-1121

Holt, Nathalia. The beast in the clouds: the Roosevelt brothers’ deadly quest to find the mythical giant panda. Atria/One Signal, 2025. 288p index ISBN 9781668027745, $29.99; ISBN 9781668027752 pbk, $20.00; ISBN 9781668027769 ebook, $14.99; 63-1119

Mapes, Lynda V. The trees are speaking: dispatches from the salmon forests. Washington, 2025. 272p bibl index ISBN 9780295753676, $29.95; 63-1118

McCumber, Andrew Hammond. Bad nature: how rat control shapes human and nonhuman worlds. Chicago, 2025. 224p bibl index ISBN 9780226838960, $115.00; ISBN 9780226838984 pbk, $27.50; ISBN
9780226838977 ebook, contact publisher for price; 63-1113

Pence, Gregory E. What went wrong: America’s Covid response and lessons for the future. Rowman & Littlefield, 2025. 200p bibl index ISBN 9781538199701, $34.00; ISBN 9781538199725 ebook, contact publisher for price; 63-1127

Scranton, Roy. Impasse: climate change and the limits of progress. Stanford, 2025. 392p bibl
index ISBN 9781503640030, $30.00; ISBN 9781503643161 ebook, $30.00; 63-1124

Shrier, David L. Welcome to the Metaverse: unlocking the potential of virtual worlds. Harvard Business Review Press, 2025. 208p index ISBN 9781647827632, $32.00; ISBN 9781647827649 ebook, $32.00; 63-1128

Witton, Mark P. King tyrant: a natural history of Tyrannosaurus rex. Princeton, 2025. 320p bibl index ISBN 9780691245584, $39.95; ISBN 9780691245591 ebook, $27.95; 63-1120

Women in the history of quantum physics: beyond Knabenphysik, ed. by Patrick Charbonneau
et al. Cambridge, 2025. 470p bibl index ISBN 9781009535830, $49.99; ISBN 9781009535847 ebook, $49.99; 63-1130

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Social & Behavioral Sciences

Ajari, Norman. Afro-decolonial manifesto, tr. by Teresa Lavender Fagan. Seagull Books, 2025. 104p bibl index ISBN 9781803094649, $21.00; 63-1222

Alexander, Nicole. Ethical AI in marketing: aligning growth, responsibility and customer trust. Kogan Page, 2025. 288p bibl index ISBN 9781398622319, $134.00; ISBN 9781398622296 pbk, $38.99; ISBN 9781398622302 ebook, $38.99; 63-1149

Beloff, Jonathan R. The strategy to end the genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda: understanding the war in Kigali. Lexington Books, 2025. 292p bibl index ISBN 9781666953879, $120.00; ISBN 9781666953886 ebook, contact publisher for price; 63-1175

Best, Kelsea. Migration and displacement in a changing climate, by Kelsea Best, Kayly Ober, and Robert A. McLeman. Cambridge, 2025. 324p bibl index ISBN 9781009449595, $100.00; ISBN 9781009449601 pbk, $49.99; ISBN 9781009449625 ebook, contact publisher for price; 63-1210

Bristol, Douglas Walter. Building bridges: Black GIs, military labor, and the fight for equality in World War II. University Press of Kansas, 2025. 224p bibl index ISBN 9780700639007, $49.99; ISBN 9780700639014 ebook, $49.99; 63-1196

Christian, Michelle. The global journey of racism. Stanford, 2025. 348p bibl index ISBN 9781503638259, $130.00; ISBN 9781503642898 pbk, $32.00; ISBN 9781503642904 ebook, $32.00; 63-1244

Cooley, Alexander. Dictating the agenda: the authoritarian resurgence in world politics, by Alexander Cooley and Alexander Dukalskis. Oxford, 2025. 312p bibl index ISBN 9780197776360, $29.99; 63-1218

Costanza, William. Treason, terrorism, and betrayal: why individuals cross the line. L. Rienner, 2025. 279p bibl index ISBN 9798896160175, $115.00; ISBN 9798896160182 ebook, $115.00; 63-1212

Coughlan, Tom. Remotely innovative: innovation in a hybrid/remote and AI driven world, by Tom Coughlan and David Fogarty. Routledge, 2025. 242p bibl index ISBN 9781032903941, $180.00; ISBN 9781032896687 pbk, $46.99; ISBN 9781003557760 ebook, contact publisher for price; 63-1150

Delgado, James P. The great museum of the sea: a human history of shipwrecks. Oxford, 2025.
328p bibl index ISBN 9780197780756, $29.99; 63-1142

DiPucchio, Nicholas G. Before Manifest Destiny: the contested expansion of the early United States. Virginia, 2025. 264p bibl index ISBN 9780813952925, $120.00; ISBN 9780813952932 pbk, $35.00; ISBN
9780813952949 ebook, $35.00; 63-1197

Duff, Brian. Restaurant. Bloomsbury Academic, 2025. 184p bibl index ISBN 9798765121825
pbk, $14.95; ISBN 9798765121849 ebook, contact publisher for price; 63-1135

Ellsworth, Scott. Midnight on the Potomac: the last year of the Civil War, the Lincoln assassination,
and the rebirth of America. Dutton, 2025. 320p index ISBN 9780593475614, $32.00; 63-1198

Gold, David M. Democracy and the courts: the rise of judicial elections in the antebellum South. South Carolina, 2025. 312p bibl index ISBN 9781643365657, $49.99; ISBN 9781643365664 ebook, contact publisher for price; 63-1229

Goldenberg, Barry M. Strength through diversity: Harlem Prep and the rise of multiculturalism. Rutgers, 2025. 277p bibl index ISBN 9781978823402, $120.00; ISBN 9781978823396 pbk, $39.95; ISBN 9781978823402 ebook, $39.95; 63-1157

Goossaert, Vincent. The beef taboo in China: agriculture, ethics, sacrifice, tr. by Barbara R. Ambros. Hawai’i, 2025. 320p index ISBN 9780824898472, $68.00; ISBN 9798880700226 ebook, $28.00; 63-1180

Gustafson, James M. The lion and the sun: environmental history and the formation of modern Iran. I. B. Tauris, 2025. 272p bibl index ISBN 9780755634842, $115.00; ISBN 9780755634859 ebook, Contact publisher for price; 63-1193

Hurl-Eamon, Jennine. Childhood and war in eighteenth-century Britain. Oxford, 2025. 487p bibl index ISBN 9780198917205, $130.00; ISBN 9780198917229 ebook, contact publisher for price; 63-1206

Jones, Martha S. The trouble of color: an American family memoir. Basic Books, 2025. 336p bibl ISBN 9781541601000, $30.00; ISBN 9781541601024 ebook, $18.99; 63-1201

Kinder, John M. World War zoos: humans and other animals in the deadliest conflict of the modern age. Chicago, 2025. 384p bibl index ISBN 9780226827667, $35.00; ISBN 9780226827674 ebook, $34.99; 63-1171

Lakoff, George. The neural mind: how brains think, by George Lakoff and Srini Narayanan. Chicago, 2025. 384p bibl index ISBN 9780226835884, $35.00; ISBN 9780226835891 ebook, $34.99; 63-1240

Landier, Augustin. The price of our values: the economic limits of moral life, by Augustin Landier and David Thesmar. Chicago, 2025. 232p index ISBN 9780226827087, $25.00; ISBN 9780226827094 ebook, $24.99; 63-1153

The liberal heartland: a political history of the postwar American Midwest, ed. by Jon K. Lauck and Catherine McNicol Stock. University Press of Kansas, 2025. 400p bibl index ISBN 9780700638642, $49.99; ISBN 9780700638659 pbk, $32.99; ISBN 9780700638666 ebook, $14.99; 63-1230

Manning, Christopher E. We came to rebuild New Orleans: stories of the Hurricane Katrina volunteers. Louisiana State, 2025. 328p bibl index ISBN 9780807182024 pbk, $29.95; ISBN 9780807184165 ebook, $19.95; 63-1137

Masur, Louis P. A journey north: Jefferson, Madison, and the forging of a friendship. Oxford, 2025. 169p bibl index ISBN 9780197684917, $24.95; 63-1203

McInnis, Jarvis C. Afterlives of the plantation: plotting agrarian futures in the global Black South. Columbia, 2025. 480p bibl index ISBN 9780231215749, $160.00; ISBN 9780231215756 pbk, $40.00; ISBN
9780231560955 ebook, $39.99; 63-1172

McIntosh, Jonathan. Children dancing in Bali: practice, performance, and power. Berghahn Books, 2025. 249p bibl index ISBN 9781805399681, $135.00; ISBN 9781805399704 ebook, $24.95; 63-1144

Muckle, Robert James. Once upon this land: archaeology in British Columbia and the stories it tells. Purich Books, 2025. 222p bibl index ISBN 9780774881081 pbk, $29.95; ISBN 9780774881104 ebook, contact publisher for price; 63-1145

Natural man, citizen, philosopher: the political philosophy of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, ed. by Will R. Jordan. Mercer University, 2025. 214p index ISBN 9780881469622 pbk, $25.00; 63-1224

The New politics of Western Canada: contested histories, uncertain futures, ed. by Charles Smith and Tom McIntosh. UBC Press, 2025. 352p bibl index ISBN 9780774871983, $110.00; 63-1217

Nhan, Johnny. Issues and controversies in policing today. Rowman & Littlefield, 2025. 364p index ISBN 9781538194171, $110.00; ISBN 9781538194188 pbk, $46.00; ISBN 9781538194195 ebook, contact publisher for price; 63-1247

No island is an island: perspectives on immigration to Japan, ed. by Michael Strausz. Hawai’i, 2025. 248p bibl index ISBN 9780824898519, $75.00; ISBN 9798880700387 ebook, contact publisher for price; 63-1182

Orrico, Laura A. Making precarity work: life on the edge of Venice Beach. Chicago, 2025. 208p bibl index ISBN 9780226840246, $115.00; ISBN 9780226840260 pbk, $27.50; ISBN 9780226840253 ebook, $26.99; 63-1248

Osgood, Josiah. Lawless Republic: the rise of Cicero and the decline of Rome. Basic Books, 2025. 384p bibl index ISBN 9781541604254, $32.00; ISBN 9781541604261 ebook, $18.99; 63-1178

Overy, R. J. Rain of ruin: Tokyo, Hiroshima, and the surrender of Japan. W. W. Norton, 2025. 206p index ISBN 9781324105305, $29.99; ISBN 9781324105312 ebook, contact publisher for price; 63-1173

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