The Top 75 Community College Titles: September 2025 Edition

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

Posted on September 25, 2025 in Top 75 Community College Titles

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Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Ebook Subscription.    ProQuest. contact publisher for pricing. URL: https://about.proquest.com/en/products-services/diversity-equity-and-inclusion-ebook-subscription/  63-0001

Reed, Charles V. Queen Victoria: a reference guide to her life and works.   Rowman & Littlefield, 2025.  154p bibl index  ISBN 9781538133569, $95.00;   ISBN 9781538133576 ebook, contact publisher for price;   63-0002

Humanities

Abolafia, Jacob. The prison before the panopticon: incarceration in ancient and modern political philosophy.   Harvard, 2024.  256p bibl index  ISBN 9780674290631, $39.95;   ISBN 9780674296541 ebook, contact publisher for price;   63-0049

Barber, Charles. Eccentric Renaissance: El Greco, Michaēl Damaskēnos, Giōrgios Klontzas.   Oxford, 2024.  336p bibl index  ISBN 9780190209001, $90.00;   ISBN 9780197787724 ebook, contact publisher for price;   63-0006

The Cambridge companion to biblical narrative, ed. by Keith Bodner.   Cambridge, 2025.  344p bibl index  ISBN 9781108841290, $95.00;   ISBN 9781108810289 pbk, $30.99; ISBN 9781108899116 ebook, contact publisher for price;   63-0061

Comic gothic: an Edinburgh companion, ed. by Avril Horner and Sue Zlosnik.   Edinburgh University Press, 2024.  296p bibl index  ISBN 9781399505758, $125.00;   ISBN 9781399505765 ebook, contact publisher for price;   63-0019

Critical insights: Twelve years a slave, ed. by Robert C. Evans.   Grey House, 2024.  300p bibl index  ISBN 9781637007341, $110.00;   63-0020

Di Risio, Patricia. Gender and genre in 1990s Hollywood: challenging definitions of sex, women, and femininity.   Bloomsbury, 2024.  272p bibl index  ISBN 9781350292833, $115.00;   ISBN 9781350292857 ebook, contact publisher for price;   63-0039

Fraser-Rahim, Muhammad. Gullah Geechee Muslims in America: exploring Islamic identity in the African diaspora.   Lexington Books, 2025.  162p bibl index  ISBN 9781666940855, $105.00;   ISBN 9781666940862 ebook, contact publisher for price;   63-0063

Gorfinkel, Elena. The prop, by Elena Gorfinkel and John David Rhodes.   Fordham, 2025.  176p bibl index  ISBN 9781531509606, $70.00;   ISBN 9781531509613 pbk, $19.95; ISBN 9781531509620 ebook, contact publisher for price;   63-0040

Huda, Qamar-ul. Reenvisioning peacebuilding and conflict resolution in Islam.   Rowman & Littlefield, 2024.  326p bibl index  ISBN 9781538192238, $105.00;   ISBN 9781538192245 pbk, $42.00;   ISBN 9781538192252 ebook, contact publisher for price;   63-0064

Luhrssen, David. Encyclopedia of punk rock and new wave, 1975–1985, by David Luhrssen and Michael Larson.   Bloomsbury, 2025.  408p bibl index  ISBN 9781440881480, $100.00;   ISBN 9781440881497 ebook, contact publisher for price;   63-0045

Nuyorican and Diasporican visual art: a critical anthology, ed. by Arlene Dávila and Yasmin Ramirez.   Duke, 2025.  464p bibl index  ISBN 9781478026952, $139.95;   ISBN 9781478026952 pbk, $34.95;   ISBN 9781478060208 ebook, contact publisher for price;   63-0005

Powers, Rebecca Terese. Balzac on the barricades: the literary origins of an economic revolution.   Virginia, 2024.  246p bibl index  ISBN 9780813951393, $115.00;   ISBN 9780813951416 pbk, $32.50;   ISBN 9780813951409 ebook, contact publisher for price;   63-0036

Romine, Scott. The zombie memes of Dixie.   Georgia, 2024.  218p bibl index  ISBN 9780820367767, $119.95;   ISBN 9780820367774 pbk, $25.95;   ISBN 9780820367798 ebook, contact publisher for price;   63-0004

Rusinko, Elaine. Andy Warhol’s mother: the woman behind the artist.   Pittsburgh, 2024.  520p bibl index  ISBN 9780822948407, $40.00;   63-0008

Selznick, Barbara. TV’s American dream: U.S. television after the Great Recession.   Bloomsbury, 2025.  216p bibl index  ISBN 9781501389696, $120.00;   ISBN 9781501389689 pbk, $29.95;   ISBN 9781501389665 ebook, contact publisher for price;   63-0015

Seros, Alexandra. Ida Lupino, forgotten auteur: from film noir to the director’s chair.   Texas, 2024.  240p bibl  index  ISBN 9781477330654, $45.00;   ISBN 9781477330678 ebook, $45.00;   63-0041

Shakespeare, William. Macbeth: a Norton critical edition, ed. by Robert S. Miola.  3rd ed.   W. W. Norton, 2024.  432p bibl index  ISBN 9781324044376 pbk, $21.25;   ISBN 9781324101840 ebook, contact publisher for price;   63-0030

The shape of power: stories of race and American sculpture, by Karen Lemmey et al.   Princeton, 2024.  292p bibl index  ISBN 9780691261492, $65.00;   ISBN 9780691261515 ebook, contact publisher for price;   63-0010

Slow media: sensibility, process, and technology, ed. by Mary P. Erickson.   Lexington Books, 2025.  304p bibl index  ISBN 9781666959116, $120.00;   ISBN  9781666959123 ebook, contact publisher for price;   63-0016

Toxic nostalgia on screen: undead memory in the twenty-first century, ed. by Simon Bacon.   Lexington Books, 2024.  334p bibl index  ISBN 9781666935608, $130.00;   ISBN 9781666935615 ebook, contact publisher for price;   63-0042

Wiesner-Hanks, Merry E. Women and the reformations: a global history.   Yale, 2024.  368p bibl index  ISBN 9780300268232, $35.00;   ISBN 9780300280760 ebook, $35.00;   63-0070

Wong, Yen Nee. Equality dancesport: gender and sexual identities matter.   Routledge, 2024.  202p bibl index  ISBN 9781032508283, $190.00;   ISBN 9781003399872 ebook, contact publisher for price;   63-0048

Science & Technology

Awadhiya, Ankur. Wildfires: principles, management strategies, and best practices.   CRC Press, 2025.  256p bibl index  ISBN 9781032831725, $150.00;   ISBN 9781040361764 ebook, contact publisher for price;   63-0078

Block, David. Baseball before we knew it: a search for the roots of the game.   Nebraska, 2025.  408p bibl index  ISBN 9781496242693, $29.95;   ISBN 9781496242716 ebook, contact publisher for price;   63-0092

Ford, Andrea. Near birth: contested values and the work of doulas.   California, 2025.  272p bibl index  ISBN 9780520412903, $95.00;   ISBN 9780520412910 pbk, $29.95;   ISBN 9780520412927 pbk, contact publisher for price;   63-0083

Gask, Linda. Out of her mind: how we are failing women’s mental health and what must change.   Cambridge, 2024.  312p bibl index  ISBN 9781009382465, $29.95;   ISBN 9781009382489 ebook, contact publisher for price;   63-0084

Isaac, Geoff. Rethinking plastics in product design: a guide to sustainable transitions for the environmental emergency.   Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2025.  336p bibl  index  ISBN 9781350449138, $100.00;   ISBN 9781350449121 pbk, $34.95;   ISBN 9781350449145 ebook, contact publisher for price;   63-0080

Kalaugher, Liz. The elephant in the room: how to stop making ourselves and other animals sick.   Chicago, 2025.  288p bibl index  ISBN 9780226840901, $30.00;   ISBN  9780226840918 ebook, contact publisher for price;   63-0074

Llewellyn, Matthew P. British sporting relations with apartheid South Africa, by Matthew P. Llewellyn and Toby C. Rider.   Oxford, 2024.  336p bibl index  ISBN 9780198917168, $130.00;   ISBN 9780198917182 ebook, contact publisher for price;   63-0093

Meisel, Joe E. The marlin’s fiery eye: and other tales from the extraordinary world of marine fishes.   Comstock Publishing Associates, 2025. 384p bibl index  ISBN 9781501779442 pbk, $24.95;   ISBN 9781501779466 ebook, contact publisher for price;   63-0076

Narayanan, Arvind. AI snake oil: what artificial intelligence can do, what it can’t, and how to tell the difference, by Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor.   Princeton, 2024.  360p bibl index  ISBN 9780691249131, $24.95;   ISBN 9780691249643 ebook, contact publisher for price;   63-0088

Pasquier, Roger F. Birds at rest: the behavior and ecology of avian sleep.   Princeton, 2025.  360p bibl index  ISBN 9780691259963, $35.00;   ISBN 9780691260075 ebook, contact publisher for price;   63-0077

Ramey, Andrew S. Saving the Chesapeake: the history of a movement.   Virginia, 2025.  243p bibl index  ISBN 9780813952659, $115.00;   ISBN 9780813952666 pbk, $26.95;   ISBN 9780813952673 ebook, contact publisher for price;   63-0079

Ramge, Thomas. Dimming the sun: the urgent case for geoengineering.   The Experiment, 2025.  199p bibl index  ISBN 9798893030549, $24.95;   63-0081 Winterer, Caroline. How the new world became old: the deep time revolution in America.   Princeton, 2024.  392p bibl index  ISBN 9780691199672, $35.00;   ISBN 9780691265452 ebook, contact publisher for price;   63-0072

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Social & Behavioral Sciences

Albrecht, Eduardo. Political automation: an introduction to AI in government and its impact on citizens.   Oxford, 2025.  304p bibl index  ISBN 9780197696941, $99.00;   ISBN 9780197696958 pbk, $27.95;   ISBN 9780197696989 ebook, contact publisher for price;   63-0179

Alden, Edward. When the world closed its doors: the COVID-19 tragedy and the future

of borders, by Edward Alden and Laurie Trautman.   Oxford, 2025.  344p bibl index  ISBN 9780197697818, $29.99;   ISBN 9780197697825 ebook, contact publisher for price;   63-0189

Alexander, Caroline. Skies of thunder: the deadly World War II mission over the roof of the world.   Viking, 2025.  496p bibl index  ISBN 9781984879233, $32.00;   ISBN 9781984879240 ebook, $13.99;   63-0130

Beasley, Kathryn L. The proof is in the dough: rural southern women, extension, and making money.   Georgia, 2025.  212p bibl index  ISBN 9780820367927, $119.95;   ISBN 9780820367910 pbk, $29.95;   ISBN 9780820367941 ebook, contact publisher for price;   63-0160

Beinart, Peter. Being Jewish after the destruction of Gaza: a reckoning.   Knopf, 2025.  192p index  ISBN 9780593803899, $26.00;   ISBN 9780593803905 ebook, $14.99;   63-0132

Billson, Janet Mancini. Refugee pathways to peace: escaping the chaos of war.   Lexington Books, 2025.  412p bibl index  ISBN 9781666925555, $100.00;   ISBN 9781666925562 ebook, contact publisher for price;   63-0200

Camarillo, Albert. Compton in my soul: a life in pursuit of racial equality.   Stanford, 2024.  312p bibl index  ISBN 9781503638198, $28.00;   ISBN 9781503639317 ebook, contact publisher for price;   63-0096

Cha, J. Mijin. A just transition for all: workers and communities for a carbon-free future.   MIT, 2024.  216p bibl index  ISBN 9780262550796 pbk, $35.00;   ISBN 9780262381192 ebook, contact publisher for price;   63-0113

Chavez, Thomas E. Revolutionary diplomacy: Spanish connections and the birth of the United States.   Virginia, 2025.  184p bibl index  ISBN 9780813952895, $100.00;   ISBN 9780813952901 pbk, $29.50;   ISBN 9780813952918 ebook, contact publisher for price;   63-0133

Cottrell, Robert C. Revolution, counterrevolution and assassination through World War II: a global history.   McFarland, 2025.  220p bibl index  ISBN 9781476696652 pbk, $49.95;   ISBN 9781476654294 ebook, contact publisher for price;   63-0134

Decolonising Andean identities: andinxs, activism and social change, ed. by Rebecca Irons and Phoebe Martin.   UCL Press, 2024.  182p bibl index  ISBN 9781787354944, $60.00;  ISBN 9781787354951 pbk, $30.00;   ISBN 9781787354968 ebook, open access;   630105

Denker, Angela. Disciples of white Jesus: the radicalization of American boyhood.   Broadleaf Books, 2025.  215p bibl index  ISBN 9798889830757, $27.99;   ISBN 9798889830764 ebook, contact publisher for price;   63-0097

Dixon, Bradley J. Republic of Indians: empires of Indigenous law in the early American South.   Pennsylvania, 2025.  320p bibl index  ISBN 9781512826425, $45.00;   ISBN 9781512826432 ebook, contact publisher for price;   63-0163

Elhinnawy, Hind. Secular Muslim feminism: an alternative voice in the war of ideas.   I. B. Tauris, 2025.  288p bibl index  ISBN 9780755649303, $90.00;   ISBN 9780755649341 pbk, $29.95;   ISBN 9780755649310 ebook, contact publisher for price;   63-0098

Ellis, Richard J. Lincoln’s last card: the Emancipation Proclamation as a case of command.   University Press of Kansas, 2025.  168p bibl index  ISBN 9780700638123, $69.99;   ISBN 9780700638130 pbk, $27.99;   ISBN 9780700638147 ebook, contact publisher for price;   63-0164

Indigenous critical reflections on traditional ecological knowledge, ed. by Lara A. Jacobs.   Oregon State, 2025.  440p bibl index  ISBN 9781962645324, $39.95;   63-0109

Kaplan, H. Roy. Asian Americans at the margins : a history of stereotyping, discrimination and achievement.   McFarland, 2025.  244p bibl index  ISBN 9781476692890, $39.95;   ISBN 9781476654782 ebook, contact publisher for price;   63-0100

Kelleher, Marie A. The hungry city: a year in the life of medieval Barcelona.   Cornell, 2025.  270p bibl index  ISBN 9781501779381, $48.95;   ISBN 9781501779404 ebook, contact publisher for price;   63-0178

Koru, Selim. New Turkey and the far right: how reactionary nationalism remade a country.   I. B. Tauris, 2025.  264p bibl index  ISBN 9780755656431, $75.00;   ISBN 9780755656448 pbk, $24.99;   ISBN 9780755656462 ebook, contact publisher for price;   63-0158

Kupchik, Aaron. Suspended education: school punishment and the legacy of racial injustice.   New York University, 2025.  296p bibl index  ISBN 9781479821143, $32.00;   ISBN 9781479821112 ebook, contact publisher for price;   63-0126

LaCroix, Alison L. The interbellum Constitution: union, commerce, and slavery in the age of federalisms.   Yale, 2024.  576p bibl index  ISBN 9780300223217, $45.00;   ISBN 9780300277487 ebook, contact publisher for price;   63-0167

Lu, Lex Jing. Appearance politics: legitimacy building in late imperial and modern China.   Cornell, 2024.  324p bibl index  ISBN 9781501777851, $58.95;   ISBN 9781501777868 ebook, contact publisher for price;   63-0145

Macedo, Stephen. In COVID’s wake: how our politics failed us, by Stephen Macedo and Frances Lee.   Princeton, 2025.  392p bibl index  ISBN 9780691267135, $29.95;   ISBN 9780691267159 ebook, contact publisher for price;   63-0194

Martin, Thomas R. Phocion: good citizen in a divided democracy.   Yale, 2024.  224p bibl index  ISBN 9780300256635, $28.00;   ISBN 9780300280555 ebook, $28.00;   63-0143

Messamore, Barbara J. Times of transformation: the 1921 Canadian general election.   UBC Press, 2025.  366p bibl index  ISBN 9780774870597, $27.95;   ISBN 9780774870603 ebook, contact publisher for price;   63-0182

Mobile pastoralist households: archaeological and ethnoarchaeological perspectives, ed. by Jean-Luc Houle.   Berghahn Books, 2025.  350p bibl index  ISBN 9781805396697, $135.00;   ISBN 9781805396727 ebook, contact publisher for price;   63-0110

Moseman, Scott A. Defining the mission: the development of US strategic military intelligence up to the Cold War.   University Press of Kansas, 2025.  408p bibl index  ISBN 9780700638109, $54.99;   ISBN 9780700638116 ebook, contact publisher for price;   63-0195

Okuwobi, Oneya Fennell. Who pays for diversity?: why programs fail at racial equity and what to do about it.   California, 2025.  272p bibl index  ISBN 9780520392212, $95.00;   ISBN 9780520392229 pbk, $29.95;   ISBN 9780520392243 ebook, contact publisher for pricing;   63-0204

Pérez, Gina M. Sanctuary people: faith-based organizing in Latina/o communities.   New York University, 2024.  224p bibl index  ISBN 9781479823901, $89.00;   ISBN 9781479823918 pbk, $30.00;   ISBN 9781479823932 ebook, contact publisher for price;   63-0101

Powell, Benjamin. Out of poverty: sweatshops in the global economy.   Cambridge, 2025.  238p bibl index  ISBN 9781009505352, $110.00;   ISBN 9781009505369 pbk, $35.99;   ISBN 9781009505345 ebook, contact publisher for price;   63-0123

Rabin, Shari. The Jewish South: an American history.   Princeton, 2025.  296p bibl index  ISBN 9780691208763, $29.95;   ISBN 9780691269511 ebook, contact publisher for pricing;   63-0169

Rose, Deondra. The power of Black excellence: HBCUs and the fight for American democracy.   Oxford, 2024.  344p bibl index  ISBN 9780197776599, $29.99;   ISBN 9780197776629 ebook, contact publisher for price;   63-0128

Russell, Alexandria. Black women legacies: public history sites seen and unseen.   Illinois, 2024.  280p bibl  index  ISBN 9780252046292, $110.00;   ISBN 9780252088360 pbk, $24.95;   ISBN 9780252047572 ebook, $14.95;   63-0170

Shifting the lens in history education: centering racial and ethnic knowledge in the classroom, ed. by Maribel Santiago and Tadashi Dozono.   Harvard Education Press, 2025.  184p bibl index  ISBN 9781682539644, $36.00;   ISBN 9781682539668 ebook, contact publisher for price;   63-0129

Siniawer, Eiko Maruko. Tokyo.   Cambridge, 2025.  288p index  ISBN 9781108845762, $75.00;   ISBN 9781108965002 pbk, $22.99; ISBN 9781108997751 ebook, contact publisher for price;   63-0147

Taylor, Kirstine. Sunbelt capitalism and the making of the carceral state.   Chicago, 2025.  248p bibl index  ISBN 9780226838403, $115.00;   ISBN 9780226838427 pbk, $32.50;   ISBN 9780226838410 ebook, contact publisher for price;   63-0197

Truth-seeking in an age of (mis)information overload, ed. by David Castillo et al.   SUNY Press, 2024.  194p bibl index  ISBN 9781438499246, $99.00;   ISBN 9781438499239 pbk, $33.95;   ISBN 9781438499253 ebook, contact publisher for price;   63-0199

Whipps, Judy D. Feminist pragmatism and social rights: from Jane Addams to Frances Perkins.   Lexington Books, 2025.  340p bibl index  ISBN 9781666943221, $130.00;   ISBN 9781666943238 ebook, contact publisher for price;   63-0103

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