The Top 75 Community College Titles: March 2025
The best of all the titles appropriate for two-year colleges reviewed in the March issue of Choice.
Posted on March 27, 2025
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Defining documents in American history: voters’ rights, ed. by Michael Shally-Jensen. Salem Press, 2024. 300p bibl index ISBN 9798891790582, $175.00; ISBN 9798891790599 ebook, contact publisher for price; 62-1593
Humanities
Das, Riya. Women at odds: indifference, antagonism, and progress in late Victorian literature. Ohio State, 2024. 210p bibl index ISBN 9780814215722, $69.95; ISBN 9780814283684 ebook, contact publisher for price; 62-1620
Feltner, Linda M. Drawing nature: the creative process of an artist, illustrator, and naturalist. Princeton, 2024. 272p bibl ISBN 9780691255385, $35.00; ISBN 9780691255453 ebook, $35.00; 62-1596
Kluwick, Ursula. Haunting ecologies: Victorian conceptions of water. Virginia, 2024. 272p bibl index ISBN 9780813950976, $115.00; ISBN 9780813950983 pbk, $35.00; ISBN 9780813950990 ebook, $35.00; 62-1621
Księżopolska, Irena. Ian McEwan: subversive readings, informed misreadings. Routledge, 2024. 284p bibl index ISBN 9781032649450, $200.00; ISBN 9781032649474 ebook, $54.99; 62-1622
Lascity, Myles Ethan. The Abercrombie age: millennial aspiration and the promise of consumer culture. North Carolina, 2024. 216p bibl index ISBN 9781469680903, $99.00; ISBN 9781469680910 pbk, $27.95; ISBN 9781469680927 ebook, contact publisher for price; 62-1604
MacDuffie, Allen. Climate of denial: Darwin, climate change, and the literature of the long nineteenth century. Stanford, 2024. 296p bibl index ISBN 9781503638938, $130.00; ISBN 9781503639546 pbk, $32.00; ISBN 9781503639553 ebook, contact publisher for price; 62-1624
Magaldi, Cristina. Music and cosmopolitanism: Rio de Janeiro at the turn of the 20th century. Oxford, 2024. 424p bibl index ISBN 9780199744770, $90.00; ISBN 9780197646090 ebook, contact publisher for price; 62-1635
Millichap, Joseph R. These vivid American documents: Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, and FSA photobooks. Tennessee, 2024. 216p bibl index ISBN 9781621908753, $90.00; ISBN 9781621909408 pbk, $24.95; ISBN 9781621908777 ebook, contact publisher for price; 62-1601
The Oxford handbook of Ralph Waldo Emerson, ed. by Christopher Hanlon. Oxford, 2024. 656p bibl index ISBN 9780192894373, $170.00; ISBN 9780192647092 ebook, contact publisher for price; 62-1627
Robinson, Luke. One shot Hitchcock, by Luke Robinson and Melanie Robson. Oxford, 2024. 312p bibl index ISBN 9780197682876, $110.00; ISBN 9780197682883 pbk, $39.99; ISBN 9780197682913 ebook, contact publisher for price; 62-1630
Soares, Michael Arthur. Superhero rhetoric from exceptionalism to globalization: up, up and . . . abroad. Lexington Books, 2024. 218p bibl index ISBN 9781666950304, $105.00; ISBN 9781666950311 ebook, contact publisher for price; 62-1605
Wildman, Wesley J. Modeling religion: simulating the transformation of worldviews, lifeways, and civilizations, by Wesley J. Wildman and F. LeRon Shults. Bloomsbury, 2024. 256p bibl index ISBN 9781350367302, $115.00; ISBN 9781350367319 ebook, contact publisher for price; 62-1657
Science & Technology
Alamar, Benjamin. Sports analytics: a guide for coaches, managers, and other decision makers. Columbia, 2024. 184p bibl index ISBN 9780231205207, $26.95; ISBN 9780231555890 ebook, contact publisher for price; 62-1692
Annin, Peter. Purified: how recycled sewage is transforming our water. Island Press, 2024. 248p bibl index ISBN 9781642832815 pbk, $28.00; ISBN 9781642832822 ebook, contact publisher for price; 62-1678
Bannor, Brett. American sheep: a cultural history. Georgia, 2024. 264p bibl index ISBN 9780820367163, $29.95; ISBN 9780820367187 ebook, $29.95; 62-1660
Bell, Sarah A. Vox ex machina: a cultural history of talking machines. MIT, 2024. 256p bibl index ISBN 9780262546355 pbk, $40.00; ISBN 9780262375887 ebook, contact publisher for price; 62-1687
Boiarsky, Carolyn R. Lead babies and poisoned housing: environmental injustice, systemic racism, and governmental failure. Purdue, 2024. 372p bibl index ISBN 9781612499475, $32.99; ISBN 9781612499482 ebook, $32.99; 62-1681
Daum, Andreas W. Alexander von Humboldt: a concise biography, tr. by Robert Savage. Princeton, 2024. 224p bibl index ISBN 9780691247366, $24.95; ISBN 9780691247373 ebook, contact publisher for price; 62-1662
Herzing, Denise L. Is anyone listening?: what animals are saying to each other and to us. Chicago, 2024. 232p bibl index ISBN 9780226357492, $28.00; ISBN 9780226357522 ebook, contact publisher for price; 62-1669
Maeckle, Monika. The monarch butterfly migration: its rise and fall. Oklahoma, 2024. 240p bibl index ISBN 9780806194561, $29.95; ISBN 9780806195117 ebook, contact publisher for price; 62-1674
Nursing ethics: normative foundations, advanced concepts, and emerging issues, ed. by Jennifer H. Lingler and Michael J. Deem. Oxford, 2024. 400p bibl index ISBN 9780190063559, $45.00; ISBN 9780190063580 ebook, contact publisher for price; 62-1684
Öhman, Carl. The afterlife of data: what happens to your information when you die and why you should care. Chicago, 2024. 200p bibl index ISBN 9780226828220, $22.50; ISBN 9780226828237 ebook, contact publisher for price; 62-1689
Pálsson, Gísli. The last of its kind: the search for the great auk and the discovery of extinction. Princeton, 2024. 328p bibl index ISBN 9780691230986, $27.95; ISBN 9780691230993 ebook, contact publisher for price; 62-1676
Powell, Robert. UFOs: a scientist explains what we know (and don’t know). Rowman & Littlefield, 2024. 222p bibl index ISBN 9781538173589, $32.00; ISBN 9781538173596 ebook, contact publisher for price; 62-1659
Ukockis, Gail. Opioid crisis: a policy case study. Oxford, 2024. 272p bibl index ISBN 9780197585207, $45.00; ISBN 9780197585238 ebook, contact publisher for price; 62-1686
Wallace, William. The great civil engineering overhaul. American Society of Civil Engineers, 2024. 416p bibl index ISBN 9780784416228 pbk, $132.00; ISBN 9780784485446 ebook, contact publisher for price; 62-1680
Wu, Di. Data mining with Python: theory, application, and case studies. CRC Press, 2024. 414p bibl index ISBN 9781032612645, $150.00; ISBN 9781032598901 pbk, $59.95; ISBN 9781003462781 ebook, contact publisher for price; 62-1690
Social & Behavioral Sciences
Abraham, Mark. Personalized: customer strategy in the age of AI, by Mark Abraham and David C. Edelman. Harvard Business Review Press, 2024. 288p index ISBN 9781647826277, $32.00; ISBN 9781647826284 ebook, contact publisher for price; 62-1713
Baird, Adam. From South Central to Southside: gang transnationalism, masculinity, and disorganized violence in Belize City. Temple, 2024. 220p bibl index ISBN 9781439923337, $94.50; ISBN 9781439923344 pbk, $29.95; ISBN 9781439923351 ebook, contact publisher for price; 62-1763
Beal, Jennifer S. Literacy instruction for students who are deaf and hard of hearing, by Jennifer S. Beal, Hannah M. Dostal, and Susan R. Easterbrooks. Oxford, 2024. 304p bibl index ISBN 9780198879114, $50.00; ISBN 9780191989216 ebook, contact publisher for price; 62-1735
Beckman, Christopher. A twist in the tail: how the humble anchovy flavoured Western cuisine. Hurst & Company, 2024. 394p bibl index ISBN 9781911723417, $29.99; ISBN 9781805262121 ebook, $29.99; 62-1746
Books through bars: stories from the prison books movement, ed. by Moira Marquis and Dave “Mac” Marquis. Georgia, 2024. 280p bibl ISBN 9780820365879 pbk, $37.95; 62-1694
Bruno, Maria C. Growing the Taraco Peninsula: Indigenous agricultural landscapes. University Press of Colorado, 2024. 250p bibl index ISBN 9781646426126, $95.00; ISBN 9781646426133 ebook, $25.95; 62-1705
Bunch, Marlee S. The magnitude of us: an educator’s guide to creating culturally responsive classrooms. Teachers College Press, 2024. 192p bibl index ISBN 9780807769898, $117.00; ISBN 9780807769881 pbk, $38.95; ISBN 9780807782484 ebook, contact publisher for price; 62-1736
Castoldi, Massimo. Teaching freedom: stories of anti-Fascist teachers in Italy, tr. by Gail McDowell. Fairleigh Dickinson, 2024. 190p bibl index ISBN 9781683934202, $105.00; ISBN 9781683934219 ebook, contact publisher for price; 62-1737
Charles, Sara J. The medieval scriptorium: making books in the Middle Ages. Reaktion Books, 2024. 352p bibl index ISBN 9781789149166, $22.80; ISBN 9781789149777 ebook, contact publisher for price; 62-1788
Chen, Yixin. When food became scarce: how Chinese peasants survived the Great Leap Forward famine. Cornell, 2024. 354p bibl index ISBN 9781501776380, $56.95; ISBN 9781501776397 ebook, contact publisher for price; 62-1755
Collins, Michael S. The anti–Civil Rights Movement: affirmative action as wedge and weapon. University Press of Kansas, 2024. 368p bibl index ISBN 9780700637140, $39.99; ISBN 9780700637133 ebook, contact publisher for price; 62-1816
Crick, Nathan. The way to hell: Machiavelli for catastrophic times. Alabama, 2024. 264p bibl index ISBN 9780817322106, $110.00; ISBN 9780817361587 pbk, $27.95; ISBN 9780817395285 ebook, contact publisher for price; 62-1812
Eisenberg, Daniel. Investing in children’s mental health, by Daniel Eisenberg and Ramesh Raghavan. Oxford, 2023. 176p bibl index ISBN 9780190942014, $65.00; ISBN 9780190942038 ebook, contact publisher for price; 62-1830
Féo, Agnès de. The niqab in France: between piety and subversion, tr. by Lindsay Turner. Fordham, 2024. 208p bibl index ISBN 9781531504632, $110.00; ISBN 9781531504649 pbk, $29.95; ISBN 9781531504656 ebook, contact publisher for price; 62-1835
Finley, J. Sass: Black women’s humor and humanity. North Carolina, 2024. 234p bibl index ISBN 9781469680019, $99.00; ISBN 9781469680026 pbk, $27.95; ISBN 9781469680040 ebook, contact publisher for price; 62-1695
Folch, Christine. The book of yerba mate: a stimulating history. Princeton, 2024. 272p bibl index ISBN 9780691246390, $29.95; ISBN 9780691246437 ebook, contact publisher for price; 62-1708
Galdorisi, George. Algorithms of Armageddon: the impact of artificial intelligence on future wars, by George Galdorisi and Sam J. Tangredi. Naval Institute, 2024. 256p bibl index ISBN 9781612515410, $29.95; ISBN 9781612515663 ebook, contact publisher for price; 62-1803
Ginzberg, Lori D. Tangled journeys: one family’s story and the making of American history. North Carolina, 2024. 288p bibl index ISBN 9781469679952, $99.00; ISBN 9781469679969 pbk, $29.95; ISBN 9781469679976 ebook, contact publisher for price; 62-1770
Grasso, Anthony. Dual justice: America’s divergent approaches to street and corporate crime. Chicago, 2024. 336p bibl index ISBN 9780226829043, $115.00; ISBN 9780226835594 pbk, $32.50; ISBN 9780226835587 ebook, $31.99; 62-1819
Greenhalgh, Susan. Soda science: making the world safe for Coca-Cola. Chicago, 2024. 352p bibl index ISBN 9780226829142, $115.00; ISBN 9780226834733 pbk, $25.00; ISBN 9780226829159 ebook, contact publisher for price; 62-1715
Greer, Katie. Dismantling conspiracy theories: metaliteracy and other strategies for an information-disordered world, by Katie Greer and Stephanie Beene. Rowman & Littlefield, 2024. 246p bibl index ISBN 9781538176986, $110.00; ISBN 9781538176993 pbk, $40.00; ISBN 9781538177006 ebook, contact publisher for price; 62-1696
Harley, Joseph. At home with the poor: consumer behaviour and material culture in England, c.1650–1850. Manchester University Press, 2024. 256p bibl index ISBN 9781526160843, $130.00; ISBN 9781526160850 ebook, contact publisher for price; 62-1784
Huegel, Casey A. Cleaning up the bomb factory: grassroots activism and nuclear waste in the Midwest. Washington, 2024. 328p bibl index ISBN 9780295752549, $110.00; ISBN 9780295752556 pbk, $30.00; ISBN 9780295752563 ebook, contact publisher for price; 62-1771
Huron, David. The science of sadness: a new understanding of emotion. MIT, 2024. 408p bibl index ISBN 9780262547772 pbk, $50.00; ISBN 9780262378307 ebook, contact publisher for price; 62-1831
Iannuzzi, Al. Greener products: the making and marketing of sustainable brands. CRC Press, 2024. 302p bibl index ISBN 9781032579870, $150.00; ISBN 9781032579856 pbk, $59.99; ISBN 9781003441939 ebook, $59.99; 62-1716
Jiménez, Mónica A. Making never-never land: race and law in the creation of Puerto Rico. North Carolina, 2024. 174p bibl index ISBN 9781469678443, $99.00; ISBN 9781469678450 pbk, $24.95; ISBN 9781469678467 ebook, $19.99; 62-1765
Kadlecová, Lucie. Cyber sovereignty: the future of governance in cyberspace. Stanford, 2024. 238p bibl index ISBN 9781503638549, $70.00; ISBN 9781503639386 ebook, contact publisher for price; 62-1792
Khoja-Moolji, Shenila. The impossibility of Muslim boyhood. Minnesota, 2024. 120p bibl index ISBN 9781517917197 pbk, $10.00; ISBN 9781452971025 ebook, contact publisher for price; 62-1698
Kirsch, Adam. On settler colonialism: ideology, violence, and justice. W. W. Norton, 2024. 160p bibl ISBN 9781324105343, $24.99; ISBN 9781324105350 ebook, contact publisher for price; 62-1793
Lu, Lerong. Global fintech revolution: practice, policy, and regulation. Oxford, 2024. 304p index ISBN 9780198850144, $115.00; 62-1730
Maidukov, Sergey. Life on the run: one family’s search for peace in war-torn Ukraine. Rowman & Littlefield, 2024. 280p bibl index ISBN 9781538185735, $26.95; ISBN 9781538185759 ebook, $25.50; 62-1762
Mochrie, Robbie. How to think like an economist: great economists who shaped the world and what they can teach us. Bloomsbury Continuum, 2024. 288p index ISBN 9781399408646, $24.00; ISBN 9781399408660 ebook, $16.80; 62-1731
Nofil, Brianna. The migrant’s jail: an American history of mass incarceration. Princeton, 2024. 336p bibl index ISBN 9780691237015, $32.00; ISBN 9780691237039 ebook, contact publisher for price; 62-1773
Ouzan, Françoise. True to my God and country: how Jewish Americans fought in World War II. Indiana, 2024. 272p bibl index ISBN 9780253068262, $80.00; ISBN 9780253068279 pbk, $35.00; ISBN 9780253068293 ebook, contact publisher for price; 62-1774
Powell, Barry B. Classical myth: an introduction. Michigan, 2024. 280p bibl index ISBN 9780472039722 pbk, $39.50; ISBN 9780472221943 ebook, $39.50; 62-1711
Presner, Todd. Ethics of the algorithm: digital humanities and Holocaust memory, by Todd Presner with Anna Bonazzi et al. Princeton, 2024. 456p bibl index ISBN 9780691258966, $39.95; ISBN 9780691258980 ebook, $39.95; 62-1789
Price, Hunter. Sacred capital: Methodism and settler colonialism in the Empire of Liberty. Virginia, 2024. 280p bibl index ISBN 9780813951324, $115.00; ISBN 9780813951331 pbk, $35.00; ISBN 9780813951348 ebook, contact publisher for price; 62-1776
Rohde, David. Where tyranny begins: the justice department, the FBI, and the war against democracy. W. W. Norton, 2024. 304p bibl index ISBN 9780393881967, $29.99; 62-1822
Ryan, Phil. On the other hand: Canadian multiculturalism and its progressive critics. Toronto, 2024. 320p bibl index ISBN 9781487552725, $95.00; ISBN 9781487552732 pbk, $44.95; ISBN 9781487552770 ebook, contact publisher for price; 62-1777
Scott-Smith, Tom. Fragments of home: refugee housing and the politics of shelter. Stanford, 2024. 250p bibl index ISBN 9781503639782, $110.00; ISBN 9781503640283 pbk, $28.00; ISBN 9781503640290 ebook, contact publisher for price; 62-1703
Social roots: Lowcountry foodways, reconnecting the landscape, ed. Sarah V. Ross. Georgia, 2024. 286p bibl index ISBN 9780820362489, $35.99; 62-1778
Stanton, Cathy. Food margins: lessons from an unlikely grocer. Massachusetts, 2024. 240p bibl index ISBN 9781625348067, $99.00; ISBN 9781625348050 pbk, $26.95; ISBN 9781685750763 ebook, contact publisher for price; 62-1712
Waldman, Emily Gold. Hot flash: how the law ignores menopause and what we can do about it, by Emily Gold Waldman, Bridget J. Crawford, and Naomi R. Cahn. Stanford, 2024. 216p bibl index ISBN 9781503636606, $25.00; ISBN 9781503641563 ebook, contact publisher for price; 62-1824
Wuori, Dan. Daycare myth: what we get wrong about early care and education (and what we should do about it). Teachers College Press, 2024. 144p bibl index ISBN 9780807786499, $90.00; ISBN 9780807786482 pbk, $29.95; ISBN 9780807782781 ebook, $29.95; 62-1745
Young, Michael P. DREAMers and the choreography of protest. Oxford, 2024. 320p bibl index ISBN 9780197608180, $99.00; ISBN 9780197608197 pbk, $29.95; ISBN 9780197608210 ebook, contact publisher for price; 62-1827
Zagal, José Pablo. Seeing red: Nintendo’s Virtual Boy, by José P. Zagal and Benj Edwards. MIT, 2024. 184p bibl index ISBN 9780262045063, $30.00; ISBN 9780262361842 ebook, contact publisher for price; 62-1721