The Top 75 Community College Titles: May 2025

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

Posted on May 22, 2025 in Top 75 Community College Titles

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The 1900s in America, 3v, ed. by Caroline Small.  Salem Press, 2024.  1,000p bibl index  ISBN 9781637007761, $395.00;  ISBN 9781637007778 ebook, $395.00;  62-2129

Encyclopedia of Jewish history and culture, v6: So-Z, ed. by Dan Diner et al.  Brill, 2024.  750p bibl index  ISBN 9789004309470, $750.00;  62-2130

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Humanities

Anidjar, Gil. On the sovereignty of mothers: the political as maternal.  Columbia, 2024.  192p bibl index  ISBN 9780231216432, $105.00;  ISBN 9780231216449 pbk, $26.00;  ISBN 9780231561280 ebook, $25.99;  62-2152

Baldridge, Cates. Plowswords: literature and the agricultural trap from Shakespeare to Coetzee.  Virginia, 2024.  219p bibl index  ISBN 9780813951621, $115.00;  ISBN 9780813951638 pbk, $32.50;  ISBN 9780813951645 ebook, $32.50;  62-2139

Booker, M. Keith. American noir film: from the Maltese falcon to Gone girl.  Rowman & Littlefield, 2024.  224p bibl index  ISBN 9781538194096, $45.00;  ISBN 9781538194102 ebook, $42.50;  62-2148

Christianity in Western and Northern Europe, ed. by Kenneth R. Ross, Annemarie C. Mayer, and Todd M. Johnson.  Edinburgh University Press, 2024.  552p bibl index  ISBN 9781399528160, $195.00;  ISBN 9781399528184 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-2164

Darby, Derrick. Boxed in: making identities safe for democracy, by Derrick Darby and Eduardo J. Martinez.  Oxford, 2024.  272p bibl index  ISBN 9780197620205, $27.95;  ISBN 9780197620236 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-2156

Empty pedestals: countering Confederate narratives through public design, ed. by Kofi Boone and M. Elen Deming.  Louisiana State, 2024.  232p bibl index  ISBN 9780807181560, $49.95;  62-2132

Expertise: philosophical perspectives, ed. by Mirko Farina, Andrea Lavazza, and Duncan Pritchard.  Oxford, 2024.  304p bibl index  ISBN 9780198877301, $105.00;  62-2157

Heilman, Samuel C. Following similar paths: what American Jews and Muslims can learn from one another, by Samuel Heilman and Mucahit Bilici.  California, 2024.  312p bibl index  ISBN 9780520340558, $29.95;  ISBN 9780520974562 ebook, $29.95;  62-2167

Hill, Graham Joseph. World Christianity: an introduction.  Cascade Books, 2024.  530p bibl index  ISBN 9798385201310, $67.00;  ISBN 9798385201303 pbk, $52.00;  ISBN 9798385201327 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-2168

Knight, Taylor. Merleau-Ponty and the essence of nature: a return to elemental symbolism.  Edinburgh University Press, 2024.  248p bibl index  ISBN 9781399529891, $110.00;  ISBN 9781399529914 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-2158

Liberating people, planet, and religion: intersections of ecology, economics, and Christianity, ed. by Joerg Rieger and Terra Schwerin Rowe.  Rowman & Littlefield, 2024.  272p bibl index  ISBN 9781538194027, $120.00;  ISBN 9781538194034 pbk, $40.00;  ISBN 9781538194041 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-2172

Posegay, Nick. The illustrated Cairo Genizah: a visual tour of Cairo Genizah manuscripts at Cambridge University Library, by Nick Posegay and Melonie Schmierer-Lee.  Gorgias Press, 2024.  340p bibl index  ISBN 9781463247720, $60.00;  62-2178

Promey, Sally M. Religion in plain view: public aesthetics of American display.  Chicago, 2024.  560p bibl index  ISBN 9780226832333, $40.00;  ISBN 9780226832340 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-2179

Rodman Jones, Mike. Literature and medievalism in early modern England: strange histories.  D. S. Brewer, 2024.  256p bibl index  ISBN 9781843846598, $95.00;  ISBN 9781805434597 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-2143

Sheldon, Zachary. Christian influence: the subcultural narratives of Evangelical celebrities on Instagram.  Routledge, 2025.  180p bibl index (Routledge research in religion, media and culture, 15)  ISBN 9781032691244, $180.00;  ISBN 9781032691268 ebook, $54.99;  62-2180

Social Catholicism for the twenty-first century?: volume 2: new hope for ecclesial and societal renewal, ed. by  William F. Murphy Jr.  Pickwick, 2024.  414p bibl index  ISBN 9781666788624, $52.00;  ISBN 9781666788648 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-2181

Whitfield, Esther Katheryn. A new no-man’s-land: writing and art at Guantánamo, Cuba.  Pittsburgh, 2024.  216p bibl index  ISBN 9780822948155, $50.00;  62-2146

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Science & Technology

Baker, Kevin. The New York game: baseball and the rise of a new city.  Knopf, 2024.  528p bibl index  ISBN 9780375421839, $35.00;  ISBN 9780593537893 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-2196

Grillo, Jerry. Big cat: the life of Baseball Hall of Famer Johnny Mize.  Nebraska, 2024.  304p bibl index  ISBN 9781496235442, $34.95;  ISBN 9781496239723 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-2197

Matless, David. England’s green: nature and culture since the 1960s.  Reaktion Books, 2024.  376p bibl index  ISBN 9781789149210, $30.00;  ISBN 9781789149715 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-2188

Shapin, Steven. Eating and being: a history of ideas about our food and ourselves.  Chicago, 2024.  560p  ISBN 9780226832210, $35.00;  ISBN 9780226832227 ebook, $34.99;  62-2183

The Statues and legacies of combat athletes in the Americas, ed. by C. Nathan Hatton and David M.K. Sheinin.  Lexington Books, 2024.  204p bibl index  ISBN 9781666950335, $105.00;  ISBN 9781666950342 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-2198

Yang, Dali L. Wuhan: how the COVID-19 outbreak in Wuhan, China spiraled out of control.  Oxford, 2024.  416p bibl index  ISBN 9780197756263, $35.00;  ISBN 9780197756287 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-2191

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Social & Behavioral Sciences

Adey, Peter. Evacuation: the politics and aesthetics of movement in emergency.  Duke, 2024.  328p bibl index  ISBN 9781478026396, $107.95;  ISBN 9781478030584 pbk, $28.95;  ISBN 9781478059578 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-2323

Aiello, Thomas. Bound labor in the turpentine belt: Kinderlou Camp and misdemeanor convict leasing in Georgia.  University Press of Florida, 2024.  296p bibl index  ISBN 9780813079189, $110.00;  ISBN 9780813080826 pbk, $35.00;  ISBN 9780813073507 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-2260

Alpaugh, Micah. The people’s revolution of 1789.  Cornell, 2024.  539p bibl index  ISBN 9781501776618, $60.95;  ISBN 9781501776625 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-2287

Ambrogio Gali, Oriol. Indigenous sacraments: Christian rituals and local responses at the fringes of Spanish America, 1529–1800.  Nebraska, 2024.  378p bibl index  ISBN 9781496235770, $70.00;  ISBN 9781496241504 ebook, $70.00;  62-2251

Banks, Antoine J. The anger rule: racial inequality and constraints on Black politicians, by Antoine J. Banks and Ismail K. White.  Cambridge, 2024.  190p bibl index  ISBN 9781009275200, $79.99;  ISBN 9781009275217 pbk, $25.99;  ISBN 9781009275231 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-2308

Banner, Stuart. The most powerful court in the world: a history of the Supreme Court of the United States.  Oxford, 2024.  672p bibl index  ISBN 9780197780350, $39.99;  ISBN 9780197780374 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-2309

Brown, Jonathan C. The weak and the powerful: Omar Torrijos, Panama, and the Non-Aligned Movement in the world.  Pittsburgh, 2024.  320p bibl index  ISBN 9780822948070, $55.00;  ISBN 9780822991267 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-2252

Bukkvoll, Tor. Spetsnaz: a history of the Soviet and Russian special forces.  University Press of Kansas, 2024.  306p bibl index  ISBN 9780700637911, $34.99;  ISBN 9780700637928 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-2299

Carl, John D. A country called prison: mass incarceration and the making of a new nation, by John D. Carl and Mary D. Looman.  2nd ed.  Oxford, 2024.  280p bibl index  ISBN 9780197768310, $39.99;  ISBN 9780197768341 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-2325

Carpenter, Kyle B. Globalizing the Lower Rio Grande: European entrepreneurs in the borderlands, 1749–1881.  Texas, 2024.  272p bibl index  ISBN 9781574419450, $29.95;  ISBN 9781574419559 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-2261

Cleary, Patricia. Mound City: the place of the Indigenous past and present in St. Louis.  Missouri, 2024.  462p bibl index  ISBN 9780826223043, $44.95;  ISBN 9780826274991 ebook, $44.95;  62-2263

Cleaveland, Carol. Private violence: Latin American women and the struggle for asylum, by Carol Cleaveland and Michele Waslin.  New York University, 2024.  288p bibl index (Latina/o sociology, 20)  ISBN 9781479824328, $89.00;  ISBN 9781479824335 pbk, $30.00;  ISBN 9781479824342 ebook, $30.00;  62-2326

Cornett, Natalie. The politics of love: gender and nation in nineteenth-century Poland.  Cornell, 2024.  234p bibl index  ISBN 9781501776649, $50.95;  ISBN 9781501776656 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-2246

Das Gupta, Monisha. All of us or none: migrant organizing in an era of deportation and dispossession.  Duke, 2024.  280p bibl index  ISBN 9781478026655, $104.95;  ISBN 9781478030874 pbk, $28.95;  ISBN 9781478059899 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-2313

De la Bédoyère, Guy. Populus: living and dying in ancient Rome.  Chicago, 2024.  496p bibl index  ISBN 9780226832944, $30.00;  ISBN 9780226840161 pbk, $20.00;  ISBN 9780226832951 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-2241

Derber, Jesse. Abraham Lincoln, statesman historian.  Illinois, 2024.  280p bibl index  ISBN 9780252046001, $110.00;  ISBN 9780252088100 pbk, $24.95;  ISBN 9780252047183 ebook, $14.95;  62-2265

Dixon, Patrick. Nuggets of gold: further processed chicken and the making of the American diet.  Georgia, 2024.  192p bibl index  ISBN 9780820366357, $119.95;  ISBN 9780820367132 pbk, $24.95;  62-2215

Duggan, Mike. All mapped out: how maps shape us.  Reaktion Books, 2024.  232p bibl index  ISBN 9781789148367, $22.50;  ISBN 9781789148763 ebook, $22.50;  62-2227

Empires and Indigenous peoples: comparing ancient Roman and North American experiences, ed. by Michael Maas and Fay A. Yarbrough.  Oklahoma, 2024.  422p bibl index  ISBN 9780806194523, $55.00;  ISBN 9780806195094 ebook, $45.00;  62-2268

Fitzpatrick, Sheila. Lost souls: Soviet displaced persons and the birth of the Cold War.  Princeton, 2024.  352p bibl index  ISBN 9780691230023, $35.00;  ISBN 9780691230030 ebook, $35.00;  62-2247

Goddard, Connie. Learning for work: how industrial education fostered democratic opportunity.  Illinois, 2024.  283p bibl index  ISBN 9780252046049, $125.00;  ISBN 9780252088148 pbk, $30.00;  ISBN 9780252047220 ebook, $19.95;  62-2225

Goldman, Jan. Ethical espionage: ethics and the intelligence cycle.  L. Rienner, 2024.  275p bibl index  ISBN 9781685859916, $115.00;  ISBN 9781685859923 pbk, $38.50;  ISBN 9781685859923 ebook, $38.50;  62-2294

Hall, Amy Cox. The taste of nostalgia: women, race, and culinary longing in Peru.  Texas, 2024.  224p bibl index  ISBN 9781477330289, $34.95;  ISBN 9781477330302 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-2210

Highmore, Ben. Playgrounds: the experimental years.  Reaktion Books, 2024.  304p bibl index  ISBN 9781789149470, $29.53;  ISBN 9781789149852 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-2228

Hillyer, Reiko. A wall is just a wall: the permeability of the prison in the twentieth-century United States.  Duke, 2024.  360p bibl index  ISBN 9781478025870, $109.95;  ISBN 9781478030133 pbk, $29.95;  ISBN 9781478025887 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-2202

Horowitz, Ruth. Passionate work: choreographing a dance career.  Stanford, 2024.  324p bibl index  ISBN 9781503638860, $130.00;  ISBN 9781503639607 pbk, $32.00;  ISBN 9781503639614 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-2329

Jack, Zachary Michael. The strange genius of Ignatius Donnelly: the populist who debunked Shakespeare and found Atlantis.  Northern Illinois, 2024.  248p bibl index  ISBN 9781501776939, $33.95;  ISBN 9781501776946 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-2271

Jaffary, Nora E. Abortion in Mexico: a history.  Nebraska, 2024.  180p bibl index  ISBN 9781496239624, $99.00;  ISBN 9781496240217 pbk, $25.00;  ISBN 9781496240620 ebook, $25.00;  62-2254

Japan’s rise as a regional and global power, 2013–2023: a momentous decade, ed. by Gilbert Rozman and Brad Glosserman.  Routledge, 2024.  206p bibl index  ISBN 9781032730486, $180.00;  ISBN 9781003426400 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-2301

Japanese America on the eve of the Pacific War: an untold history of the 1930s, ed. by Eiichiro Azuma and Kaoru Ueda.  Hoover Institution, 2024.  328p bibl index (Hoover Institution Press publication, 74)  ISBN 9780817926052 pbk, $29.95;  ISBN 9780817926083 ebook, $9.99;  62-2229

Kehnel, Annette. The green ages: medieval innovations in sustainability, tr. by Gesche Ipsen.  Brandeis, 2024.  352p bibl index  ISBN 9781684582433, $35.00;  ISBN 9781684582426 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-2230

Lambe, Jennifer L. The subject of revolution: between political and popular culture in Cuba.  North Carolina, 2024.  360p bibl index  ISBN 9781469681146, $99.00;  ISBN 9781469681153 pbk, $32.95;  ISBN 9781469681160 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-2255

Martínez, Rafael A. Illegalized: undocumented youth movements in the United States.  Arizona, 2024.  240p bibl index  ISBN 9780816548644, $100.00;  ISBN 9780816548637 pbk, $30.00;  ISBN 9780816548651 ebook, $30.00;  62-2204

May, Robert E. Debunking the Yule log myth: the disturbing history of a plantation legend.  Rowman & Littlefield, 2024.  204p bibl index  ISBN 9798881801786, $27.00;  ISBN 9798881801793 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-2275

Meyers, Jeffrey. Parallel lives: from Freud and Mann to Arbus and Plath.  Louisiana State, 2024.  288p bibl index  ISBN 9780807182260 pbk, $29.95;  ISBN 9780807182703 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-2232

Moving from the margins: life histories on transforming the study of racism, ed. by Margaret L. Andersen and Maxine Baca Zinn.  Stanford, 2024.  212p bibl index  ISBN 9781503633490, $105.00;  ISBN 9781503637429 pbk, $26.00;  ISBN 9781503637436 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-2330

Paule, Michele. Who runs the world?: girls, leadership, and women in the public eye, by Michele Paule and Hannah Yelin.  Rowman & Littlefield, 2024.  236p bibl index  ISBN 9781538165423, $110.00;  ISBN 9781538165447 pbk, $40.00;  ISBN 9781538165430 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-2332

Payne, Malcolm. Why social work is important.  Policy Press, 2024.  256p bibl index  ISBN 9781447330790, $139.95;  ISBN 9781447330813 pbk, $36.95;  ISBN 9781447330820 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-2205

Pyle, Kenneth B. Hiroshima and the historians: debating America’s most controversial decision.  Cambridge, 2024.  286p bibl index  ISBN 9781009477451, $90.00;  ISBN 9781009477444 pbk, $29.99;  ISBN 9781009477468 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-2233

Rhetorical economies of whiteness: exploring the intersections of power, privilege, and race, ed. by Robert Asen and Casey Ryan Kelly.  Ohio State, 2024.  230p bibl index  ISBN 9780814215784, $129.95;  ISBN 9780814259320 pbk, $37.95;  ISBN 9780814283806 ebook, $37.95;  62-2206

Robins, Nicholas A. The shining path in Huancavelica, Peru: conflict and the legacy of exclusion.  Brill, 2024.  228p bibl index (History of warfare, 142)  ISBN 9789004688223, $132.00;  62-2256

Rosen, Lawrence. The rights of groups: understanding community in the eyes of the law.  New York University, 2024.  157p bibl index  ISBN 9781479830411, $32.00;  ISBN 9781479830442 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-2319

Ross, Sarah M. The moralization of Jewish heritage in Germany: sustaining Jewish life in the twenty-first century.  Lexington Books, 2024.  375p bibl index  ISBN 9781666904390, $115.00;  ISBN 9781666904406 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-2291

Seligman, Scott D. The chief rabbi’s funeral: the untold story of America’s largest antisemetic riot.  Potomac Books, 2024.  248p bibl index  ISBN 9781640126183, $34.95;  ISBN 9781640126367 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-2279

Snyder, Benjamin H. Spy plane: inside Baltimore’s surveillance experiment.  California, 2024.  304p bibl index  ISBN 9780520396029, $95.00;  ISBN 9780520396036 pbk, $27.95;  ISBN 9780520396043 ebook, $27.95;  62-2333

Stern, Todd. Landing the Paris Climate Agreement: how it happened, why it matters, and what comes next.  MIT, 2024.  280p bibl index  ISBN 9780262049146, $32.95;  ISBN 9780262379601 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-2304

Trotter, Joe William. Building the Black city: the transformation of American life.  California, 2024.  304p bibl index  ISBN 9780520344419, $27.95;  ISBN 9780520975514 ebook, $27.95;  62-2280

Turbulence across the sea: transatlantic relations and strategic competition, ed. by Elie Baranets and Andrew R. Novo.  Michigan, 2024.  287p bibl index  ISBN 9780472077106, $75.00;  ISBN 9780472057108 pbk, $29.95;  ISBN 9780472904709 ebook, open access;  62-2305

Weinberg, Darin. On addiction: insights from history, ethnography, and critical theory.  Duke, 2024.  200p bibl index  ISBN 9781478026587, $99.95;  ISBN 9781478030829 pbk, $25.95;  ISBN 9781478059813 ebook, contact publisher for price;  62-2336

Yates, Luke. Platform politics: corporate power, grassroots movements and the sharing economy.  Bristol University Press, 2025.  160p index  ISBN 9781529236149, $90.00;  ISBN 9781529236156 pbk, $26.99;  ISBN 9781529236163 ebook, $26.99;  62-2223

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