The Top 75 Community College Titles: January 2025 Edition

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

Posted on January 30, 2025 in Top 75 Community College Titles

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Hindi Cinema.  Adam Matthew. contact publisher for pricing.  URL: https://www.hindicinema.amdigital.co.uk/  62-1114

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Humanities

Amplifying voices in UX: balancing design and user needs in technical communication, ed. by Amber L. Lancaster and Carie S. Tucker King.  SUNY Press, 2024.  477p bibl index  ISBN 9781438496740, $99.00;  ISBN 9781438496733 pbk, $37.95;  ISBN 9781438496757 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-1124

Calarco, Matthew. How not to be human: the inhumanist philosophy of Robinson Jeffers.  Anthem Press, 2024.  122p bibl index  ISBN 9781839990397, $110.00;  ISBN 9781839990410 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-1145

Dawson, Brent. The equality of flesh: materialism and human commonality in early modern culture.  Cornell, 2024.  252p bibl index  ISBN 9781501775659, $54.95;  ISBN 9781501775666 ebook, $35.99;  62-1148

The Edinburgh companion to Charles Dickens and the arts, ed. by Juliet John and Claire Wood.  Edinburgh University Press, 2024.  572p bibl index  ISBN 9781474441643, $185.25;  ISBN  ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-1151

Eliot, George. Middlemarch: a Norton critical edition, ed. by Ronjuanee Chatterjee.  W. W. Norton, 2024.  928p bibl index  ISBN 9780393877199 pbk, $25.00;  62-1152

Elmer, Jonathan. In Poe’s wake: travels in the graphic and the atmospheric.  Chicago, 2024.  224p bibl index  ISBN 9780226833477, $115.00;  ISBN 9780226833491 pbk, $22.50;  ISBN 9780226833484 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-1153

F. Scott Fitzgerald: a composite biography, ed. by Niklas Salmose and David Rennie.  Minnesota, 2024.  448p bibl index  ISBN 9781517915858, $29.95;  ISBN 9781452970004 ebook, $29.95;  62-1154

Graveyard gothic, ed. by Eric Parisot, David McAllister, and Xavier Aldana Reyes.  Manchester University Press, 2024.  304p bibl index  ISBN 9781526166319, $125.00;  ISBN 9781526166302 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-1135

Joas, Hans. Under the spell of freedom: theory of religion after Hegel and Nietzsche, tr. by Alex Skinner.  Oxford, 2024.  504p bibl index  ISBN 9780197642153, $74.00;  ISBN 9780197642184 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-1189

Kemp, Gary. What is this thing called philosophy of language?  Routledge, 2024.  316p bibl index  ISBN 9781032426556, $170.00;  ISBN 9781032426549 pbk, $46.95;  ISBN 9781003363668 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-1173

Milewski, Jarosław. Queer kinship in Sarah Schulman’s AIDS novels.  Routledge, 2024.  188p bibl index  ISBN 9781032588872, $180.00;  ISBN 9781003451976 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-1157

Mothers of invention: the feminist roots of contemporary art, by Eleanor Heartney et al.  Lund Humphries, 2024.  192p bibl index  ISBN 9781848225404, $34.14;  62-1119

Mukhopadhyay, Priyasha. Required reading: the life of everyday texts in the British empire.  Princeton, 2024.  232p bibl index  ISBN 9780691257693, $95.00;  ISBN 9780691257709 pbk, $39.95;  ISBN 9780691261546 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-1159

O’Brien, Susie. What the world might look like: decolonial stories of resilience and refusal.  McGill-Queen’s, 2024.  342p bibl index  ISBN 9780228021339, $110.00;  ISBN 9780228021346 pbk, $39.95;  ISBN 9780228021513 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-1139

Oxford encyclopedia of Buddhism, ed. by Richard Payne and Georgios Halkias.  Oxford, 2024.  1400p 3v. bibl index  ISBN 9780190256890(set), $895.00;  62-1192

The Oxford handbook of William James, ed. by Alexander Mugar Klein.  Oxford, 2024.  624p bibl index  ISBN 9780199395699, $178.00;  ISBN 9780199395712 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-1178

Pluskowski, Aleksander. The Teutonic Knights: rise and fall of a religious corporation.  Reaktion Books, 2024.  216p bibl index  ISBN 9781789148688, $25.00;  ISBN 9781789149043 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-1195

Reynolds, Melissa B. Reading practice: the pursuit of natural knowledge from manuscript to print.  Chicago, 2024.  318p bibl index  ISBN 9780226823621, $115.00;  ISBN 9780226834894 pbk, $35.00;  ISBN 9780226823638 ebook, $34.99;  62-1160

Rupturing rhetoric: the politics of race and popular culture since Ferguson, ed. by Byron B. Craig, Patricia G. Davis, and Stephen E. Rahko.  University Press of Mississippi, 2024.  286p bibl index  ISBN 9781496852335, $99.00;  ISBN 9781496852328 pbk, $30.00;  ISBN 9781496852281 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-1127

Sall, Amy. African gaze: photography, cinema and power.  Thames & Hudson, 2024.  287p bibl index  ISBN 9780500025390, $65.00;  62-1123

Scheijen, Sjeng. The Avant-Gardists: artists in revolt in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union 1917–1935.  Thames & Hudson, 2024.  504p bibl index  ISBN 9780500024553, $36.71;  62-1120

Smith, Jeffrey Chipps. Albrecht Dürer’s afterlife.  Lund Humphries, 2024.  160p bibl index  ISBN 9781848224933, $59.83;  62-1116

Smith, Mike. In with the in crowd: popular jazz in 1960s Black America.  University Press of Mississippi, 2024.  228p bibl index  ISBN 9781496851147, $99.00;  ISBN 9781496851154 pbk, $30.00;  ISBN 9781496851161 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-1167

Spina, Frank Anthony. Multiplying divisions: the fractious nature of Israel, God’s elect people.  Cascade Books, 2024.  222p bibl index  ISBN 9781666706147, $32.00;  ISBN 9781666706130 pbk, $29.99;  ISBN 9781666706154 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-1198

Szczepaniak-Gillece, Jocelyn. Movies under the influence.  Minnesota, 2024.  248p bibl index  ISBN 9781517916251, $112.00;  ISBN 9781517916268 pbk, $28.00;  ISBN 9781452971391 ebook, $28.00;  62-1163

Taylor, Jack. African migration and the novel: exploring race, civil war, and environmental destruction.  Rochester, 2024.  218p bibl index (Rochester studies in African history and the diaspora, 99)  ISBN 9781648250910, $110.00;  ISBN 9781805432838 ebook, $29.95;  62-1141

Verma, Neil. Narrative podcasting in an age of obsession.  Michigan, 2024.  276p bibl index  ISBN 9780472075218, $90.00;  ISBN 9780472055210 pbk, $34.95;  ISBN 9780472129881 ebook, $34.95;  62-1129

Zargar, Cyrus Ali. Religion of love: Sufism and self-transformation in the poetic imagination of ‘At.t.ār.  SUNY Press, 2024.  234p bibl index  ISBN 9781438498676, $99.00;  ISBN 9781438498683 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-1199

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Science & Technology

Andrews, Talbot M. Climate games: experiments on how people prevent disaster, by Talbot M. Andrews, Andrew W. Delton and Reuben Kline.  Michigan, 2024.  216p bibl index  ISBN 9780472076635, $80.00;  ISBN 9780472056637 pbk, $35.00;  ISBN 9780472904297 ebook, open access;  62-1206

Debating contemporary approaches to the history of science, ed. by Lukas M. Verburgt.  Bloomsbury Academic, 2024.  376p bibl index  ISBN 9781350326224, $100.00;  ISBN 9781350326217 pbk, $34.95;  ISBN 9781350326248 ebook, $31.45;  62-1202

Hall-Clifford, Rachel. Underbelly: childhood diarrhea and the hidden realities of global health.  MIT, 2024.  282p bibl index  ISBN 9780262547765, $45.00;  ISBN 9780262378291 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-1208

Katz, Rebecca. The outbreak atlas, by Rebecca Katz and Mackenzie S. Moore.  Vanderbilt, 2024.  330p bibl index  ISBN 9780826506627, $99.95;  ISBN 9780826506610 pbk, $24.95;  ISBN 9780826506641 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-1209

Lieberman, Bruce S. Macroevolutionaries: reflections on natural history, paleontology, and Stephen Jay Gould, by Bruce S. Lieberman and Niles Eldredge.  Columbia, 2024.  224p bibl index  ISBN 9780231208109, $27.95;  ISBN 9780231557276 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-1204

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Social & Behavioral Sciences

Alaimo, Cristina. Data rules: reinventing the market economy, by Cristina Alaimo and Jannis Kallinikos.  MIT, 2024.  238p bibl index  ISBN 9780262547932 pbk, $45.00;  ISBN 9780262378437 ebook, $44.99;  62-1231

Alternative politics in contemporary Japan: new directions in social movements, ed. by David H. Slater and Patricia G. Steinhoff.  Hawai’i, 2024.  360p bibl index  ISBN 9780824897437, $70.00;  ISBN 9780824897727 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-1275

Andrea, Alfred J. Expanding horizons: the globalization of medieval Europe, 450–1500.  Hackett, 2024.  152p  ISBN 9781647921835 pbk, $18.00;  62-1262

Asakitikpi, Alex Egodotaye. Modern Nigeria, by Alex Egodotaye Asakitikpi and Aretha Oluwakemi Asakitikpi.  Bloomsbury Academic, 2024.  400p bibl index  ISBN 9781440865565, $100.00;  ISBN 9781440865572 ebook, $90.00;  62-1269

Blum, Susan Debra. Schoolishness: alienated education and the quest for authentic, joyful learning.  Cornell, 2024.  426p bibl index  ISBN 9781501774188, $130.00;  ISBN 9781501774744 pbk, $29.95;  ISBN 9781501774195 ebook, $19.99;  62-1251

Bruhns, Karen Olsen. Ancient South America.  Cambridge, 2024.  484p bibl index  ISBN 9780521863858, $120.00;  ISBN 9780521682497 pbk, $43.99;  ISBN 9781009488044 ebook, $43.99;  62-1220

Clegg, III, Claude Andrew. The Black president: hope and fury in the age of Obama.  Johns Hopkins, 2021.  672p bibl index  ISBN 9781421441887, $34.95;  ISBN 9781421441894 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-1288

Colby, Robert K.D. An unholy traffic: slave trading in the Civil War South.  Oxford, 2024.  360p bibl index  ISBN 9780197578261, $35.00;  ISBN 9780197578292 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-1289

Cook, Steven A. The end of ambition: America’s past, present, and future in the Middle East.  Oxford, 2024.  208p bibl index  ISBN 9780197578575, $29.99;  ISBN 9780197578605 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-1318

Cross, Mai’a K Davis. International cooperation against all odds: the ultrasocial world.  Oxford, 2024.  320p bibl index  ISBN 9780198894995 pbk, $35.00;  ISBN 9780191976278 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-1319

Crowley, Roger. Spice: the 16th-century contest that shaped the modern world.  Yale, 2024.  320p bibl index  ISBN 9780300267471, $25.00;  62-1263

Fairy tales of Appalachia, ed. by Stacy Sivinsk; photography by Jamie Sivinski.  Tennessee, 2023.  223p index  ISBN 9781621907626 pbk, $29.95;  ISBN 9781621907633 ebook, $29.95;  62-1223

Farris, Emily M. The power of the badge: sheriffs and inequality in the United States, by Emily M. Farris and Mirya R. Holman.  Chicago, 2024.  304p bibl index  ISBN 9780226834498, $115.00;  ISBN 9780226834511 pbk, $25.00;  ISBN 9780226834504 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-1334

Frie, Roger. Edge of catastrophe: Erich Fromm, fascism, and the Holocaust.  Oxford, 2024.  216p bibl  ISBN 9780197748770, $35.00;  ISBN 9780197748800 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-1264

Great kingdoms of Africa, ed. by John Parker.  California, 2023.  320p bibl index  ISBN 9780520395671, $34.95;  ISBN 9780520395688 ebook, $34.95;  62-1270

Hempstead, Katherine. Uncovered: the story of insurance in America.  Oxford, 2024.  392p bibl index  ISBN 9780190094157, $90.00;  ISBN 9780190094171 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-1226

Honig, Dan. Mission driven bureaucrats: empowering people to help government do better.  Oxford, 2024.  264p bibl index  ISBN 9780197641194, $99.00;  ISBN 9780197641200 pbk, $29.95;  ISBN 9780197641224 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-1337

Horning, Alice S. The case for critical literacy: a history of reading in writing studies.  Utah State, 2024.  264p bibl index  ISBN 9781646426256, $95.00;  ISBN 9781646426263 pbk, $31.95;  ISBN 9781646426270 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-1257

Hylton, Antonia. Madness: race and insanity in a Jim Crow asylum.  Legacy Lit, 2024.  368p bibl index  ISBN 9781538723692, $30.00;  ISBN 9781538723715 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-1292

Karatnycky, Adrian. Battleground Ukraine: from independence to the war with Russia.  Yale, 2024.  320p bibl index  ISBN 9780300277425, $35.00;  ISBN 9780300277425 ebook, $35.00;  62-1281

Khalil, Osamah F. World of enemies: America’s Wars at home and aboard from Kennedy to Biden.  Harvard, 2024.  408p bibl index  ISBN 9780674244221, $35.00;  ISBN 9780674296886 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-1293

Kizel, Arie. Enabling students’ voices and identities.  Lexington Books, 2024.  144p bibl index  ISBN 9781666957648, $100.00;  ISBN 9781666957655 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-1258

Korver-Glenn, Elizabeth. A good reputation: how residents fight for an American barrio, by Elizabeth Korver-Glenn and Sarah Mayorga.  Chicago, 2024.  208p bibl index  ISBN 9780226825779, $115.00;  ISBN 9780226833859 pbk, $27.50;  ISBN 9780226833842 ebook, $26.99;  62-1347

Kousser, Rachel. Alexander at the end of the world: the forgotten final years of Alexander the Great.  Mariner Books, 2024.  416p bibl index  ISBN 9780062869685, $35.00;  ISBN 9780062869708 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-1272

Lee, Pei May. China’s economic development: decoding and reframing its rise.  Routledge, 2024.  248p bibl index (Routledge research on Asian development, 10)  ISBN 9781032382524, $180.00;  ISBN 9781003344186 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-1235

Loužek, Marek. Economics of international security: great power politics from Afghanistan to Ukraine.  Routledge, 2024.  146p bibl index  ISBN 9781032732749, $144.00;  ISBN 9781003463436 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-1236

Martucci, Sara. There was nothing there: Williamsburg, the gentrification of a Brooklyn neighborhood.  New York University, 2024.  240p bibl index  ISBN 9781479815562, $89.00;  ISBN 9781479815579 pbk, $30.00;  ISBN 9781479815593 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-1349

McKevitt, Andrew C. Gun country: gun capitalism, culture, and control in Cold War America.  North Carolina, 2023.  336p bibl index  ISBN 9781469674964, $99.00;  ISBN 9781469677248 pbk, $24.95;  ISBN 9781469674971 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-1215

Morgan, Brandon. Raid and reconciliation: Pancho Villa, modernization, and violence in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands.  Nebraska, 2024.  294p bibl index  ISBN 9781496237774, $65.00;  ISBN 9781496240026 ebook, $65.00;  62-1294

Nickerson, Michelle M. Spiritual criminals: how the Camden 28 put the Vietnam War on trial.  Chicago, 2024.  256p bibl index  ISBN 9780226828039, $115.00;  ISBN 9780226834382 pbk, $27.50;  ISBN 9780226828046 ebook, $26.99;  62-1295

Ondersma, Chrystin. Dignity not debt: an abolitionist approach to economic justice.  California, 2024.  280p bibl index  ISBN 9780520391475, $27.95;  ISBN 9780520391482 ebook, $27.95;  62-1238

Pakistan: the search for stability, ed. by Maleeha Lodhi.  Hurst & Company, 2024.  472p bibl index  ISBN 9781911723776, $39.99;  ISBN 9781805262374 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-1277

Piketty, Thomas. Nature, culture, and inequality: a comparative and historical perspective, tr. by Willard Wood.  Other Press, 2024.  82p bibl  ISBN 9781635424560, $23.99;  ISBN 9781635424577 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-1241

Rivers, Larry O. James Hudson: forgotten forerunner in the crusade for civil rights.  University Press of Florida, 2024.  288p bibl index  ISBN 9780813079103, $90.00;  ISBN 9780813080642 pbk, $35.00;  ISBN 9780813073378 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-1298

Samuelsen, Helle. Fragile futures: ambiguities of care in Burkina Faso.  Berghahn Books, 2024.  250p bibl index (Epistemologies of healing, 22)  ISBN 9781805391975, $135.00;  ISBN 9781805392132 ebook, $34.95;  62-1224

Sarkissian, Armen. The small states club: how small smart powers can save the world.  Hurst & Company, 2024.  272p bibl index  ISBN 9781787389403, $21.67;  ISBN 9781805265955 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-1315

Sonnevend, Julia. Charm: how magnetic personalities shape global politics.  Princeton, 2024.  208p bibl index  ISBN 9780691230337, $26.95;  ISBN 9780691230344 ebook, $26.95;  62-1309

Stegemann, Luke. Madrid: a new biography.  Yale, 2024.  480p bibl index  ISBN 9780300276336, $35.00;  62-1306

Stitzlein, Sarah M. Teaching honesty in a Populist era: emphasizing truth in the education of citizens.  Oxford, 2024.  176p bibl index  ISBN 9780197775882, $90.00;  62-1261

Stokes, Ashli Quesinberry. Hungry roots: how food communicates Appalachia’s search for resilience, by Ashli Quesinberry Stokes and Wendy Atkins-Sayre.  South Carolina, 2024.  241p bibl index  ISBN 9781643364735, $114.99;  ISBN 9781643364742 pbk, $27.99;  ISBN 9781643364759 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-1299

Wilson, Evelyn L. A place to live in peace: free people of color in West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana.  University Press of Mississippi, 2024.  208p bibl index  ISBN 9781496852168, $99.00;  ISBN 9781496852175 pbk, $25.00;  ISBN 9781496852212 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-1301

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