The Top 75 Community College Titles: July 2025

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

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

Reference

Marty, Paul. The invisible history of museum computing: the behind-the-scenes magic of museum technology professionals, by Paul Marty and Katherine Jones.  Rowman & Littlefield, 2024.  220p bibl index  ISBN 9781538183830, $135.00;  ISBN 9781538183847 pbk, $55.00;  ISBN 9781538183854 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-2578

Reisman, Howard M. Marine fishes and fisheries of New York, by Howard M. Reisman and Emerson C. Hasbrouck Jr.  Comstock Publishing Associates, 2024.  296p bibl  index  ISBN 9781501774102 pbk, $29.95;  62-2579

Web of Science Research Assistant.  Clarivate Analytics. contact publisher for pricing. URL:https://clarivate.com/academia-government/scientific-and-academic-research/research-discovery-and-referencing/web-of-science/web-of-science-research-assistant/  62-2580

Humanities

Atrocity and early modern drama, ed. by Sarah E. Johnson and Georgina Lucas.  Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare, 2025.  304p bibl index  ISBN 9781350272392, $110.00;  ISBN 9781350272422 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-2607

Berkowitz, Michael. Hollywood’s unofficial film corps: American Jewish moviemakers and the war effort.  Wisconsin, 2025.  288p bibl index  ISBN 9780299349509, $79.95;  ISBN 9780299349530 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-2629

Cachia, Amanda. The agency of access: contemporary disability art and institutional critique.  Temple, 2024.  308p bibl index  ISBN 9781439926222, $94.50;  ISBN 9781439926239 pbk, $19.95;  ISBN 9781439926246 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-2582

Cherry, Myisha. The case for rage: why anger is essential to anti-racist struggle.  Oxford, 2021.  224p bibl index  ISBN 9780197557341, $22.99;  ISBN 9780197557372 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-2640

Chong, Nicholas. The Catholic Beethoven.  Oxford, 2025.  336p bibl index  ISBN 9780197752920, $99.00;  ISBN 9780197752944 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-2631

Davis, Richard H. Religions of early India: a cultural history.  Princeton, 2024.  616p bibl index  ISBN 9780691199269, $39.95;  ISBN 9780691265780 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-2660

Digital art: 1960s – now, ed. by Pita Arreola, Corinna Gardner, and Melanie Lenz.  Thames & Hudson, 2024.  208p  ISBN 9780500480977, $45.00;  62-2583

Duncan-O’Neill, Erin. Art against censorship: Honoré Daumier, comedy, and resistance in nineteenth-century France.  Manchester University Press, 2024.  248p bibl index  ISBN 9781526168399, $130.00;  ISBN 9781526176011 pbk, $41.00;  ISBN 9781526168382 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-2584

Ellwood, Fay Elanor. Hawthorne’s prophets: the Bible and the creation of American literature.  Mercer University, 2024.  236p bibl index  ISBN 9780881469509 pbk, $26.00;  ISBN 9780881469516 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-2610

Erard, Michael. Bye bye I love you: the story of our first and last words.  MIT, 2025.  344p bibl index  ISBN 9780262049429, $32.95;  ISBN 9780262381277 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-2590

Fowler, Caroline. Slavery and the invention of Dutch art.  Duke, 2025.  176p bibl index  ISBN 9781478028093, $125.00;  ISBN 9781478031321 pbk, $30.00;  ISBN 9781478060314 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-2586

Fraser, Chris. Zhuangzi: ways of wandering the way.  Oxford, 2024.  224p bibl index  ISBN 9780198889861, $90.00;  ISBN 9780191995606 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-2642

Gonella, Carolina Castellano. Warrior women and trans warriors: performing masculinities in twentieth-century Latin American literature.  Purdue, 2024.  304p bibl index  ISBN 9781612499802, $99.99;  ISBN 9781612499819 pbk, $44.99;  ISBN 9781612499833 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-2627

Hanley, Tim. Never a sidekick:  exploring the dynamic history of Batgirl.  Rowman & Littlefield, 2024.  216p bibl index  ISBN 9781538192429, $36.00;  ISBN 9781538192436 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-2592

Henig, Roni. On revival: Hebrew literature between life and death.  Pennsylvania, 2024.  248p bibl index  ISBN 9781512826609, $54.95;  ISBN 9781512826593 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-2597

Holmstrom, Nancy. From a Marxist feminist point of view: essays on freedom, rationality and human nature.  Brill, 2024.  326p bibl index  ISBN 9789004703261, $136.00;  ISBN 9789004703292 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-2644

Hughes, Bethany. Redface: race, performance, and indigeneity.  New York University, 2024.  280p bibl index  ISBN 9781479829378, $89.00;  ISBN 9781479829392 pbk, $30.00;  ISBN 9781479829408 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-2637

Krivulskaya, Suzanna. Disgraced: how sex scandals transformed American Protestantism.  Oxford, 2025.  248p bibl index  ISBN 9780197599686, $34.95;  ISBN 9780197599709 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-2664

Miller, John MacNeill. The ecological plot: how stories gave rise to a science.  Pittsburgh, 2024.  208p bibl index  ISBN 9780813951775, $110.00;  ISBN 9780813951782 pbk, $32.50;  ISBN 9780813951799 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-2617

Oliver Goldsmith in context, ed. by Michael Griffin and David O’Shaughnessy.  Cambridge, 2024.  343p bibl  index  ISBN 9781316518915, $120.00;  ISBN 9781009008587 ebook, $120.00;  62-2618

Plasketes, George. Chicagoland at 45 rpm: the mid-1960s Midwest music mecca.  McFarland, 2024.  262p bibl index  ISBN 9781476669823, $39.95;  ISBN 9781476653723 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-2636

Plummer, Sharbreon S. Of salt and spirit: Black quilters in the American South, ed. by Sharbreon Plummer.  ALA Neal-Schuman, 2024.  168p bibl index  ISBN 9781887422277, $40.00;  62-2587

Roberson, Susan L. Geographies of travel: impressions of America in the long nineteenth century.  Texas A&M, 2024.  400p bibl index  ISBN 9781648432583, $55.00;  62-2620

The Routledge handbook of classics, colonialism, and postcolonial theory, ed. by Katherine Blouin and Ben Akrigg.  Routledge, 2024.  700p bibl index  ISBN 9780367555481, $280.00;  ISBN 9781003096016 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-2651

Ruti, Mari. The creative self: beyond individualism, by Mari Ruti and Gail M. Newman.  Columbia, 2025.  312p bibl index  ISBN 9780231218931, $120.00;  ISBN 9780231218948 pbk, $30.00;  ISBN 9780231562508 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-2653

Sandberg, Julianne. Early modern literature and the bodies of a reformed Eucharist: flesh like mine.  Bloomsbury, 2025.  184p bibl index  ISBN 9781350452893, $115.00;  ISBN 9781350452916 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-2671

Stiles, Erin E. The devil sat on my bed: encounters with the spirit world in Mormon Utah.  Oxford, 2024.  224p bibl index  ISBN 9780197639634, $125.00;  ISBN 9780197763759 pbk, $29.95;  ISBN 9780197639641 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-2673

Suppé, Charlotte Taylor. Virginia Woolf and motherhood.  Edinburgh University Press, 2024.  304p bibl index  ISBN 9781399520911, $125.00;  ISBN 9781399520935 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-2623

Tepper, Jennifer Ashley. Women writing musicals: the legacy that the history books left out.  Applause, 2024.  408p bibl index  ISBN 9781493080311, $35.00;  ISBN 9781493080328 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-2638

Transnationalism in Irish literature and culture, ed. by Cóilín Parsons.  Cambridge, 2024.  368p bibl  index  ISBN 9781316511213, $110.00;  ISBN 9781009059350 ebook, $110.00;  62-2602

Science & Technology

Cypher, Brian L. The San Joaquin kit fox: biology, ecology, and conservation of an endangered species.  Comstock Publishing Associates, 2024.  248p bibl index  ISBN 9781501775055, $53.95;  ISBN 9781501775079 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-2683

Landry, Marc. Mountain battery: the Alps, water, and power in the fossil fuel age.  Stanford, 2025.  314p bibl  index  ISBN 9781503639775, $130.00;  ISBN 9781503641570 pbk, $32.00;  ISBN 9781503641587 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-2675

Powell, James Lawrence. Faith in fallacy: a century of state-sanctioned science denial.  Oxford, 2024.  216p bibl index  ISBN 9780197784686, $34.95;  ISBN 9780197784693 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-2676

Primates in history, myth, art, and science, ed. by Cecilia Veracini and Bernard Wood.  CRC Press, 2024.  344p bibl  index  ISBN 9781032710877, $170.00;  ISBN 9781315270371 ebook, $49.99;  62-2677

Race and resistance in Boston a contested sports history, ed. by Robert Cvornyek and Douglas Stark.  Nebraska, 2025.  404p bibl index  ISBN 9781496232687, $39.95;  ISBN 9781496242235 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-2699

Social &  Behavioral Sciences

Ammentorp, Louise. Let nature be your teacher: integrating nature-based learning in the elementary classroom, by Louise Ammentorp and Helen M. Corveleyn.  Rowman & Littlefield, 2024.  174p bibl index  ISBN 9781538161616, $90.00;  ISBN 9781538161623 pbk, $32.00;  ISBN 9781538161630 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-2730

Atabaki, Touraj. Toiling for oil: a social history of petroleum in Iran.  Cambridge, 2025.  414p bibl  index  ISBN 9781108845878, $125.00;  ISBN 9781108993999 pbk, $41.99;  ISBN 9781108998116 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-2775

Barker, Thomas. Policing’s problems in the twenty-first century: misconduct, malfeasance, and murder.  Rowman & Littlefield, 2024.  306p bibl index  ISBN 9781538188194, $75.00;  ISBN 9781538188200 pbk, $30.00;  ISBN 9781538188217 ebook, $28.00;  62-2817

Bazerman, Max H. Negotiation: the game has changed.  Princeton, 2025.  240p bibl index  ISBN 9780691249445, $29.95;  ISBN 9780691250311 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-2718

Betts, Alexander. Social science: a very short introduction.  Oxford, 2025.  160p bibl index  ISBN 9780192871824 pbk, $12.99;  62-2703

Biehler, Dawn. Animating Central Park: a multispecies history.  Washington, 2024.  354p bibl index  ISBN 9780295753195, $34.95;  ISBN 9780295753201 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-2779

Blackmore, Susan J. Consciousness: an introduction, by Susan Blackmore and Emily T. Troscianko.  4th ed.  Routledge, 2024.  790p bibl  index  ISBN 9781032292571, $190.00;  ISBN 9781032292564 pbk, $64.99;  ISBN 9781003300687 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-2827

Blight, David W. Yale and slavery: a history.  Yale, 2024.  448p bibl index  ISBN 9780300273847, $35.00;  ISBN 9780300278248 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-2732

Brecher, Jeremy. The Green New Deal from below: how ordinary people are building a just and climate-safe economy.  Illinois, 2024.  224p bibl index  ISBN 9780252046186, $110.00;  ISBN 9780252088278 pbk, $21.95;  ISBN 9780252047459 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-2725

Byrd, Kathleen M. Natchitoches, Louisiana, 1803–1840: a creole community on the American frontier.  Louisiana State, 2024.  272p bibl index  ISBN 9780807182192, $34.95;  ISBN 9780807182857 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-2780

Calvert, Jane E. Penman of the founding: a biography of John Dickinson.  Oxford, 2024.  608p bibl index  ISBN 9780197541692, $35.00;  ISBN 9780197541715 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-2781

Chalmers, Beverley. Holocaust heroines: Jewish women saving Jewish children, by Beverly Chalmers and Dana Solomon.  Grosvenor House, 2024.  252p bibl index  ISBN 9781803819815, $34.99;  62-2751

Cowen, Josh. The privateers: how billionaires created a culture war and sold school vouchers.  Harvard Education Press, 2024.  224p bibl index  ISBN 9781682539101 pbk, $34.00;  ISBN 9781682539118 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-2735

Crosbie, Thomas. The political army: how the U.S. military learned to manage the media and public opinion.  Columbia, 2025.  280p bibl index  ISBN 9780231219778, $140.00;  ISBN 9780231219785 pbk, $35.00;  ISBN 9780231562898 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-2804

Drevon, Jerome. From jihad to politics: how Syrian jihadis embraced politics.  Oxford, 2024.  288p bibl index  ISBN 9780197765159, $99.00;  ISBN 9780197765166 pbk, $29.95;  ISBN 9780197765180 ebook, open access;  62-2795

Dye, Peter. The birth of British airpower: Hugh Trenchard, World War I, and the Royal Air Force.  Naval Institute, 2024.  302p bibl index  ISBN 9781682471821, $39.95;  ISBN 9781682478639 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-2788

Finkel, Eugene. Intent to destroy: Russia’s two-hundred-year quest to dominate Ukraine.  Basic Books, 2024.  336p bibl index  ISBN 9781541604674, $30.00;  ISBN 9781399809726 ebook, $18.99;  62-2770

Gardner, Royal C. Waters of the United States: POTUS, SCOTUS, WOTUS, and the politics of a national resource.  Island Press, 2024.  312p bibl index  ISBN 9781642833614 pbk, $45.00;  ISBN 9781642833621 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-2819

Haley, Brian D. Hopis and the counterculture: traditionalism, appropriation, and the birth of a social field.  Arizona, 2024.  328p bibl  index  ISBN 9780816553662, $100.00;  ISBN 9780816553655 pbk, $35.00;  ISBN 9780816553679 ebook, $35.00;  62-2715

Hamourtziadou, Lily. The ethics of remote warfare.  University of Wales Press, 2024.  224p bibl index  ISBN 9781837721627, $80.00;  ISBN 9781837721634 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-2806

Hanna, Nelly. Empires in friction: Egypt in the sixteenth century.  Syracuse, 2025.  344p bibl index  ISBN 9780815638506, $59.95;  ISBN 9780815657262 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-2777

Ikegami, Jusuke J. J. Resolute Japan: the leaders forging a corporate resurgence, by Jusuke J. J. Ikegami, Harbir Singh, and Michael Useem.  Wharton School Press, 2024.  169p bibl index  ISBN 9781613631812, $22.99;  ISBN 9781613631805 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-2720

Jobst, Kerstin S. A history of Crimea: from antiquity to the present.  Bloomsbury Academic, 2025.  384p bibl  index  ISBN 9781350328006, $100.00;  ISBN 9781350327993 pbk, $34.95;  ISBN 9781350328013 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-2771

Jones, Rhian E. Rebecca’s country: a Welsh story of riot and resistance.  Calon, 2024.  256p index  ISBN 9781915279743, $24.00;  62-2790

Killinger, Charles L. The history of Italy.  Bloomsbury Academic, 2025.  320p index  ISBN 9798216170211, $75.00;  ISBN 9798216170228 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-2792

Kokai, Jennifer A. Disney parks and the construction of American identity: tourism, performance, anxiety, by Jennifer A. Kokai and Tom Robson.  Lexington Books, 2024.  270p bibl index  ISBN 9781666932393, $115.00;  ISBN 9781666932409 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-2704

Lemann, Nicholas. Higher admissions: the rise and fall of standardized testing.  Princeton, 2024.  176p index  ISBN 9780691246765, $22.95;  ISBN 9780691246772 ebook, $22.95;  62-2742

Leutert, Wendy. China’s state-owned enterprises: leadership, reform, and internationalization.  Cambridge, 2024.  230p bibl index  ISBN 9781009486521, $120.00;  ISBN 9781009486545 pbk, $39.99;  ISBN 9781009486569 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-2726

Paglayan, Agustina S. Raised to obey: the rise and spread of mass education.  Princeton, 2024.  384p bibl index  ISBN 9780691261263, $99.95;  ISBN 9780691261270 pbk, $32.00;  ISBN 9780691261775 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-2743

Payne, Eva. Empire of purity: the history of Americans’ global war on prostitution.  Princeton, 2024.  336p bibl index  ISBN 9780691256979, $35.00;  ISBN 9780691257068 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-2756

Prickett, Pamela. The unclaimed: abandonment and hope in the City of Angels, by Pamela Prickett and Stefan Timmermans.  Crown, 2024.  336p bibl index  ISBN 9780593239056, $20.00;  ISBN 9780593239063 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-2842

Richotte, Jr., Keith. The worst trickster story ever told: Native America, the Supreme Court, and the U.S. Constitution.  Stanford, 2025.  296p bibl index  ISBN 9781503641648, $30.00;  ISBN 9781503641655 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-2823

Soriano, Lucia. Embodying normalcy: women’s work in neoliberal times.  Lexington Books, 2024.  104p bibl index  ISBN 9781666919424, $95.00;  ISBN 9781666919431 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-2708

Stanley, Ben Jamieson. Precarious eating: narrating environmental harm in the Global South.  Minnesota, 2024.  272p bibl index  ISBN 9781517915797, $112.00;  ISBN 9781517915803 pbk, $28.00;  ISBN 9781452972121 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-2759

Streib, Jessi. Is it racist? Is it sexist?: why red and blue white people disagree, and how to decide in the gray areas, by Jessi Streib and Betsy Leondar-Wright.  Stanford, 2025.  256p  ISBN 9781503637917, $30.00;  ISBN 9781503641297 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-2843

Vollmann, Sarah Reed. Born into loss: shadows of a deceased sibling and family journeys of grief, by Sarah Reed Vollmann and Joann M. O’Leary.  Rowman & Littlefield, 2024.  300p bibl  index  ISBN 9781538172162, $35.00;  ISBN 9781538172179 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-2834

What do we mean by that?: interrogating familiar expressions in education, ed. by Laura Rychly.  Myers Education Press, 2024.  150p bibl index  ISBN 9781975505844 pbk, $39.95;  ISBN 9781975505868 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-274

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