The Top 75 Community College Titles: June 2025

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

Posted on June 26, 2025 in Top 75 Community College Titles

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Reference

Exact Editions Ideas Collection.  Exact Editions. contact publisher for price.  URL: https://institutions.exacteditions.com/ideas-collection  62-2337

LitBase.  EBSCO. contact publisher for price.  URL: https://www.ebsco.com/products/research-databases/litbase  62-2338

Phiri, Bizeck Jube. Historical dictionary of Zambia, by Bizeck Jube Phiri and Thokozile Shaba.  Rowman & Littlefield, 2023.  626p bibl index  ISBN 9781538146019, $250.00;  ISBN 9781538146026 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-2343

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Humanities

Atack, Carol. Plato: a civic life.  Reaktion Books, 2024.  240p bibl index  ISBN 9781789149463, $22.50;  ISBN 9781789149845 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-2399

Billings, Timothy. Twenty-nine goodbyes: an introduction to Chinese poetry.  Fordham, 2024.  224p bibl index  ISBN 9781531508357, $24.95;  ISBN 9781531508364 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-2367

Bowen, Robert L. The human shutter photographs, stereoscopic depth, and moving images.  Intellect, 2024.  195p bibl index  ISBN 9781835950395 pbk, $39.95;  ISBN 9781835950418 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-2352

Buckman, Alyson R. Intersectional humanism and Star Trek: Discovery: warping into a connected future.  Lexington Books, 2024.  364p bibl index  ISBN 9781666905298, $115.00;  ISBN 9781666905304 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-2355

The Cambridge companion to Jack Kerouac, ed. by Steven Belletto.  Cambridge, 2024.  322p bibl index  ISBN 9781009423601, $90.00;  ISBN 9781009423564 pbk, $24.99;  ISBN 9781009423588 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-2372

Clark, Matthew. From paragraphs to plots: architecture of the novel.  Louisiana State, 2024.  228p bibl index  ISBN 9780807182512, $50.00;  ISBN 9780807183328 pbk, $32.00;  ISBN 9780807183304 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-2373

Clayton, Zorian. Calling the shots: a queer history of photography, by Zorian Clayton, Lydia Caston, and Hana Kaluznick.  Thames & Hudson, 2024.  240p bibl  index  ISBN 9780500480960, $60.00;  62-2353

Contemporary opera in flux, ed. by Yayoi U.Everett.  Michigan, 2024.  400p bibl index  ISBN 9780472076260, $85.00;  ISBN 9780472056262 pbk, $29.95;  ISBN 9780472903580 ebook, open access;  62-2394

Cornejo, Kency. Visual disobedience: art and decoloniality in Central America.  Duke, 2024.  304p bibl index  ISBN 9781478026334, $107.95;  ISBN 9781478026334 pbk, $28.95;  ISBN 9781478059608 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-2347

Crisis TV: Hispanic television narratives after 2008, ed. by María del Carmen Caña Jiménez and Vinodh Venkatesh.  SUNY Press, 2024.  244p bibl  index  ISBN 9781438499857, $99.00;  ISBN 9781438499871 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-2356

Curry, Mary Jane. Jane Austen on nature: the novels as pastoral literature.  McFarland, 2024.  192p bibl index  ISBN 9781476696249 pbk, $49.95;  ISBN 9781476654324 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-2374

Dunkle, Iris Jamahl. Riding like the wind: the life of Sanora Babb.  California, 2024.  416p bibl index  ISBN 9780520395442, $27.95;  ISBN 9780520395473 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-2375

Himes, Geoffrey. In-law country: how Emmylou Harris, Rosanne Cash, and their circle fashioned a new kind of country music, 1968–1985.  Country Music Foundation Press, 2024.  386p bibl index  ISBN 9780915608461, $45.95;  ISBN 9780915608478 pbk, $26.95;  62-2395

Jacob, Priyanka Anne. The Victorian novel on file: secrets, hoards, and information storage.  Oxford, 2025.  208p bibl index  ISBN 9780198917939, $100.00;  ISBN 9780198917960 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-2377

Jacobs, Justin. Plunder?: how museums got their treasures.  Reaktion Books, 2024.  240p bibl index  ISBN 9781789149487, $17.70;  ISBN 9781789149869 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-2345

MacDonnell, Francis. Policing show business: J. Edgar Hoover, the Hollywood blacklist, and Cold War movies.  University Press of Kansas, 2024.  328p bibl  index  ISBN 9780700637935, $39.99;  ISBN 9780700637942 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-2390

Marso, Lori Jo. Feminism and the cinema of experience.  Duke, 2024.  256p bibl index  ISBN 9781478026969, $102.95;  ISBN 9781478031222 pbk, $26.95;  ISBN 9781478060215 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-2392

Martorana, Simona. Seeking the mothers in Ovid’s Heroides.  Cornell, 2024.  294p bibl index  ISBN 9781501777066, $58.95;  ISBN 9781501777073 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-2368

Matera, Frank J. Preaching from the cross: Paul’s theology of proclamation.  Baker Academic, 2025.  144p bibl  index  ISBN 9781540968197 pbk, $22.99;  ISBN 9781493449439 ebook, contract publisher for price;  62-2412

Márquez, Iván. Rorty, public reason, and modernity’s crisis of critique.  Lexington Books, 2024.  168p bibl index  ISBN 9781666968750, $105.00;  ISBN 9781666968767 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-2404

The Oxford handbook of the Bible and the Reformation, ed. by Jennifer Powell McNutt and Herman J. Selderhuis.  Oxford, 2024.  784p index  ISBN 9780198753186, $190.00;  ISBN 9780191814914 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-2413

Peppard, Michael. How Catholics encounter the Bible.  Oxford, 2024.  328p bibl index  ISBN 9780190948696, $35.00;  ISBN 9780190948726 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-2414

Pierce, Yolanda Nicole. The wounds are the witness: Black faith weaving memory into justice and healing.  Broadleaf Books, 2025.  196p bibl  index  ISBN 9781506485331 pbk, $25.99;  ISBN 9781506485348 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-2415

Pierse, Síofra. Voltaire: a reference guide to his life and works.  Rowman & Littlefield, 2024.  258p bibl index  ISBN 9781538141762, $135.00;  ISBN 9781538141779 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-2405

Pullum, Geoffrey K. The truth about English grammar.  Polity, 2024.  176p bibl index  ISBN 9781509560547, $25.00;  ISBN 9781509560554 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-2382

Roberts, Robert. Virtue ethics in Christian perspective.  Cascade Books, 2024.  182p bibl index  ISBN 9781498208000, $40.00;  ISBN 9781498207980 pbk, $25.00;  ISBN 9781498207997 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-2407

Ryan, Bartholomew. Fernando Pessoa.  Reaktion Books, 2024.  224p bibl index  ISBN 9781789149340 pbk, $22.00;  ISBN 9781789149739 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-2387

Salon culture in Japan: making art, 1750–1900, ed. by Akiko Yano.  Washington/The British Museum, 2024.  256p bibl  index  ISBN 9780295753492, $45.00;  62-2350

Sturtevant, Victoria. It’s all in the delivery: pregnancy in American film and television comedy.  Texas, 2024.  248p index  ISBN 9781477330449, $34.95;  ISBN 9781477330463 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-2389

Thompson, Gordon. Sixties British pop, outside in: volume 2, Itchycoo Park, 1964–1970.  Oxford, 2024.  424p bibl index  ISBN 9780190672386, $99.00;  ISBN 9780190672393 pbk, $35.00;  ISBN 9780190672416 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-2396

Thompson, Gordon. Sixties British pop, outside in: volume 1: downtown, 1956–1965.  Oxford, 2024.  494p bibl index  ISBN 9780190672348, $99.00;  ISBN 9780190672355 pbk, $35.00;  ISBN 9780190672348 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-2397

Turan, Kenneth. Louis B. Mayer and Irving Thalberg: the whole equation.  Yale, 2025.  392p bibl  index  ISBN 9780300254495, $30.00;  ISBN 9780300281606 ebook, $30.00;  62-2393

Walden, Lauren. Surrealism from Paris to Shanghai.  Hong Kong University Press, 2024.  152p bibl index  ISBN 9789888842919, $32.48;  62-2346

Winters, Sarah Fiona. Evil in the Christian fantasy of C. S. Lewis and J. K. Rowling: from the White Witch to the dark mark.  Lexington Books, 2024.  268p bibl index  ISBN 9781666959772, $115.00;  ISBN 9781666959789 ebook, $50.00;  62-2385

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Science & Technology

Bocci, Paolo. Viable ecologies: conservation and coexistence on the Galápagos Islands.  Washington, 2024.  222p bibl  index  ISBN 9780295753447, $110.00;  ISBN 9780295753447 pbk, $35.00;  ISBN 9780295753454 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-2425

Donnelly, Kevin Padraic. The descent of artificial intelligence: a deep history of an idea 400 years in the making.  Pittsburgh, 2024.  384p bibl index  ISBN 9780822947967, $45.00;  62-2418

Grabowski, Michael. Ethics of virtual reality: technology and experience.  Lexington Books, 2024.  208p bibl index  ISBN 9781793651976, $105.00;  ISBN 9781793651983 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-2436

Gullette, Margaret Morganroth. American eldercide: how it happened, how to prevent it.  Chicago, 2024.  328p bibl index  ISBN 9780226827766, $30.00;  ISBN 9780226827773 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-2433

Henry, Jr, Lyell D. Trekking across America: an up-close look at a once-popular pastime.  Iowa, 2024.  259p bibl index  ISBN 9781609389796 pbk, $29.95;  ISBN 9781609389802 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-2444

Makary, Marty. Blind spots: when medicine gets it wrong, and what it means for our health.  Bloomsbury, 2024.  288p bibl index  ISBN 9781639735310, $28.99;  ISBN 9781639735327 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-2434

Petersen, Alan. Pandemic societies: a critical public health perspective.  Bristol University Press, 2024.  172p bibl index  ISBN 9781529220360, $149.95;  ISBN 9781529220377 pbk, $34.95;  ISBN 9781529220384 ebook, $34.95;  62-2435

Rojas, Raúl. Language of mathematics: the stories behind the symbols.  Princeton, 2024.  280p bibl index  ISBN 9780691201887, $27.92;  ISBN 9780691263687 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-2442

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Social & Behavioral Sciences

Anjaria, Jonathan Shapiro. Mumbai on two wheels: cycling, urban space, and sustainable mobility.  Washington, 2024.  258p bibl index  ISBN 9780295752709, $110.00;  ISBN 9780295752693 pbk, $35.00;  ISBN 9780295752716 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-2452

Bach, Maria. Relocating development economics: the first generation of modern Indian economists.  Cambridge, 2024.  200p bibl index  ISBN 9781009438193, $130.00;  ISBN 9781009438223 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-2464

Black Britain and Nelson Mandela: “pulling the branch of a tree”, ed. by Elizabeth Williams.  Bloomsbury, 2024.  280p bibl index  ISBN 9781350340770, $115.00;  ISBN 9781350340794 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-2485

Chilcote, Olivia M. Unrecognized in California: federal acknowledgment and the San Luis Rey Band of Mission Indians.  Washington, 2024.  218p bibl index  ISBN 9780295752839, $105.00;  ISBN 9780295752846 pbk, $30.00;  ISBN 9780295752853 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-2447

Culver, Annika A. Democratizing luxury: name brands, advertising, and consumption in modern Japan.  Hawai’i, 2024.  416p bibl index  ISBN 9780824895167, $68.00;  ISBN 9780824899141 pbk, $30.00;  ISBN 9780824896706 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-2491

Del Boca, Angelo. As cruel as anyone else: Italians, colonies and empire, tr. and introd. by Richard Braude.  Seagull Books, 2024.  452p bibl  index  ISBN 9781803093482, $110.00;  ISBN 9781803093727 pbk, $28.00;  62-2526

DeLaski, Kathleen. Who needs college anymore?: imagining a future where degrees won’t matter.  Harvard Education Press, 2025.  272p bibl index  ISBN 9781682539521 pbk, $34.00;  62-2473

Empowering youth to confront the climate crisis in English language arts, ed. by Allen Webb, Richard Beach, and Jeff Share.  Teachers College Press, 2024.  176p bibl index  ISBN 9780807769874, $117.00;  ISBN 9780807769867 pbk, $38.95;  ISBN 9780807782477 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-2474

Finchelstein, Federico. The wannabe fascists: a guide to understanding the greatest threat to democracy.  California, 2024.  264p bibl index  ISBN 9780520392496, $24.95;  ISBN 9780520392502 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-2546

Gaston, Erica L. Illusions of control: dilemmas in managing U.S. proxy forces in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria.  Columbia, 2024.  424p bibl index  ISBN 9780231210126, $140.00;  ISBN 9780231210133 pbk, $35.00;  ISBN 9780231558280 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-2539

Jaffe, Rivke. The rule of Dons: criminal leaders and political authority in urban Jamaica.  Duke, 2025.  216p bibl index  ISBN 9781478026907, $102.95;  ISBN 9781478031154 pbk, $26.95;  ISBN 9781478060178 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-2501

Johnson, Laurie M. The gap in God’s country: a longer view on our culture wars.  Cascade Books, 2024.  338p bibl index  ISBN 9781666796810, $53.00;  ISBN 9781666737400 pbk, $38.00;  ISBN 9781666796827 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-2547

Khúc, Mimi. Dear Elia: letters from the Asian American abyss.  Duke, 2024.  272p bibl index  ISBN 9781478020936, $104.95;  ISBN 9781478025672 pbk, $27.95;  ISBN 9781478027799 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-2563

Lane, Carrie M. More than pretty boxes: how the rise of professional organizing shows us the way we work isn’t working.  Chicago, 2024.  288p bibl  index  ISBN 9780226832777, $27.50;  ISBN 9780226836591 ebook, $26.99;  62-2460

Lierman,  Ash. The struggle you can’t see: experiences of neurodivergent and invisibly disabled students in higher education.  Open Book Publishers, 2024.  282p bibl  index  ISBN 9781805113751, $44.95;  ISBN 9781805113744 pbk, $27.95;  ISBN 9781805113768 ebook, open access;  62-2476

Mahadeo, Rahsaan. Funk the clock: transgressing time while young, perceptive, and Black.  Cornell, 2024.  294p bibl index  ISBN 9781501774201, $130.00;  ISBN 9781501774218 pbk, $32.95;  ISBN 9781501774225 ebook, $20.99;  62-2570

Mathers, Lain A. B. Mapping the monosexual imaginary: bi+ identity, community, and politics.  Rowman & Littlefield, 2024.  201p bibl index  ISBN 9781666908800, $105.00;  ISBN 9781666908817 ebook, $45.00;  62-2571

Messer-Kruse, Timothy. Slavery’s fugitives and the making of the United States Constitution.  Louisiana State, 2024.  240p bibl index  ISBN 9780807182765, $45.00;  ISBN 9780807183151 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-2515

Nature unfurled: Asian American environmental histories, ed. by Connie Y. Chiang.  Washington, 2024.  290p bibl  index  ISBN 9780295753171, $110.00;  ISBN 9780295753171 pbk, $30.00;  ISBN 9780295753188 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-2517

Palladino, Lenore. Good company: economic policy after shareholder primacy.  Chicago, 2024.  184p bibl index  ISBN 9780226836485, $115.00;  ISBN 9780226836508 pbk, $30.00;  ISBN 9780226836492 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-2461

Pharaoh: art and power in ancient Egypt, ed. by Marie Vandenbeusch.  Pennsylvania, 2024.  256p bibl  index  ISBN 9781512827217 pbk, $69.95;  62-2506

Rhodes, Catherine Rebecca. Undoing modernity: linguistics, higher education, and indigeneity in Yucatan.  Texas, 2025.  304p bibl index  ISBN 9781477330579, $105.00;  ISBN 9781477330593 ebook, $34.95;  62-2456

Roberts, Alasdair. The adaptable country: how Canada can survive the twenty-first century.  McGill-Queen’s, 2024.  186p bibl index  ISBN 9780228022008 pbk, $18.80;  ISBN 9780228022015 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-2532

Rose, Richard. European security: from Ukraine to Washington.  Bloomsbury, 2025.  192p bibl index  ISBN 9781350471306, $90.00;  ISBN 9781350471344 pbk, $29.95;  ISBN 9781350471320 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-2542

Rubenstein, David M. Abraham Lincoln, his life in print: books and ephemera from the David M. Rubenstein Americana collection, by David M. Rubenstein; ed by Mazy Boroujerdi.  The Grolier Club, 2024.  2712p  ISBN 9781605831183, $60.00;  62-2520

Sarkar, Tanika. Religion and women in India: gender, faith, and politics, 1780s–1980s.  SUNY Press, 2024.  380p bibl  index  ISBN 9798855800289, $99.00;  ISBN 9798855800272 pbk, $36.95;  ISBN 9798855800296 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-2492

Shaw, Daron R. Battleground: electoral college strategies, execution, and impact in the modern era, by Daron R. Shaw, Scott L. Althaus, and Costas Panagopoulos.  Oxford, 2024.  320p bibl index  ISBN 9780197774373, $27.95;  ISBN 9780197774403 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-2561

Stanley-Becker, Isaac. Europe without borders: a history.  Princeton, 2025.  416p bibl index  ISBN 9780691261768, $35.00;  ISBN 9780691261744 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-2543

Weinberg, Robert. Jews under tsars and communists: the four questions.  Bloomsbury Academic, 2024.  160p bibl index  ISBN 9781350129160, $61.00;  ISBN 9781350129153 pbk, $17.95;  ISBN 9781350129184 ebook, $16.50;  62-2499

Wineapple, Brenda. Keeping the faith: the Scopes trial, God, and democracy.  Random House, 2024.  544p bibl index  ISBN 9780593229927, $38.00;  ISBN 9780593229934 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-2562

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