Young Adult / High School (16–18 years)

• Author(s): Manfred Spitzer • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: NeuroscienceA highly readable, non-mathematical introduction to neural networks--computer models that help us to understand how we perceive, think, feel, ...

• Author(s): Sarah Curtis • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: HistoryFocusing on Catholic primary schooling in France from 1830 through World War I, Sarah Curtis shows h...

• Author(s): Vaclav Smil • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: EnergyEnergy is the only universal currency. One of its many forms must be transformed into another in order for stars to shine, planets to rotate, living thi...

• Author(s): Jairo Nunes • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Grammar & PunctuationThis highly original monograph treats movement operations within the Minimalist Program. Jairo Nunes argues that traces are not gramm...

• Author(s): Carliss Y. Baldwin | Kim B. Clark • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Management - GeneralWe live in a dynamic economic and commerical world, surrounded by objects of remarkable complexity and power. In man...

• Author(s): Nancy Yousef • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: English, Irish, Scottish, WelshThe literature of the romantic period has consistently been seen as the source of modern concept...

• Author(s): Peter P. Schweitzer • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialThis collection reaffirms the importance of kinship, and of studying kinship, within the framework of social anthr...

• Author(s): Leonard C. Feldman • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Poverty & HomelessnessOne of the most troubling aspects of the politics of homelessness, Leonard C. Feldman contends,...

• Author(s): Gennaro Chierchia | Sally McConnell-Ginet • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Linguistics - SemanticsThis self-contained introduction to natural language semanticsaddresses the major theoretical questions i...

• Author(s): Marvin R. Bensman • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Radio - History & Criticism The Radio Act of August 13, 1912, provided for the licensing of radio operators and transmit...

• Author(s): Audrey Jaffe • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: English, Irish, Scottish, WelshIn Scenes of Sympathy, Audrey Jaffe argues that representations of sympathy in Victorian fiction...

• Author(s): Noam Chomsky | Noam Chomsky • Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter Mouton • BISAC: Linguistics - SyntaxSpanning more than two decades of thinking about generative approaches to Universal Grammar, the two inter...

• Author(s): Joshua Cole • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Europe - FranceFrench government officials have long been known among Europeans for the special attention they give to the state...

• Author(s): Alan Warren • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - General The late 1950s and early 1960s were the golden years of horror television. Anthology series such as Way Out a...

• Author(s): David Rothenberg | Wandee J. Pryor • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: GeneralThrough essays, poetry, stories, and images, writers and artists offer their perceptions of how we fit into the world and where ...

• Author(s): Lisa Woolley • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: American - GeneralSherwood Anderson's plain spoken language typifies the spirit of the Chicago Renaissance,...

• Author(s): James Fentress • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Europe - ItalyFor centuries, Sicilian "men of honor" have fought the controls of government. Between 1820 and 1860, rebellion...

• Author(s): Milton J. Esman • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: American Government - GeneralWhat is the proper role of government in American life? This is the principal controversy in co...

• Author(s): Jackie Krasas • Publisher: ILR Press • Publisher Imprint: ILR Press • BISAC: Careers - Job HuntingNow firmly established as fixtures of the American workplace, temporary employees constitute a much-discussed but still poorly understo...

• Author(s): Mike Shannon • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History Each work, chosen with exquisite care by an expert, is analyzed and summarized. Its greatness as baseball lite...

• Author(s): Howard Rheingold • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Social AspectsIn a highly engaging style, Rheingold tells the story of what he calls the patriarchs, pioneers, and infonauts of the computer, focusing in...

• Author(s): David L. Fleitz • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Sports An irony of enshrinement at the baseball Hall of Fame is that it's no guarantee of lasting name recognition. The sport'...

• Author(s): Kevin J. Zimmer • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Birdwatching GuidesFrom the Great Plains to the Arctic tundra, the American West, including Alaska, is home to a stunning va...

• Author(s): Marshall D. Wright • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History Before the onset of professional baseball, there existed a myriad of teams and players going back to the...

• Author(s): Michael E. Hobart | Zachary S. Schiffman • Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press • Publisher Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press • BISAC: HistoryA grand intellectual history from clay tablets to Bill Gates.Selected by Choice ...

• Author(s): William P. Alston • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Linguistics - SociolinguisticsWhat is it for a sentence to have a certain meaning? This is the question that the distingui...

• Author(s): Tom Juravich | Kate Bronfenbrenner • Publisher: ILR Press • Publisher Imprint: ILR Press • BISAC: Labor & Industrial Relations - GeneralOver the past two decades, Americans have seen their workplaces downsized and streamlined, th...

• Author(s): Adrian Barlow • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - World War ICritical introductions to a range of literary topics and genres. The Great War of 1914-1...

• Author(s): Trinh Do • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: World - General "When I was 12, I didn't think I would get past ninth grade. When I was 14, I didn't think I would live to my twentie...

• Author(s): Valerie Rohy • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: American - GeneralImpossible Women fills a critical gap in queer theory by spotlighting representations of lesbian sexuality in...

• Author(s): Gail Satler • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: Individual Architects & Firms - MonographsThis sociological analysis of Wright's architecture examines t...

• Author(s): Josephine Jacobsen • Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press • Publisher Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press • BISAC: American - GeneralCollected poetry from the 1995 National Book Award finalist.

• Author(s): Elizabeth Ezra • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialFrance between the two World Wars was pervaded by representations of its own colonial pow...

• Author(s): Alexis McCrossen • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Holidays - ChristianThe mass protests that greeted attempts to open the 1893 Chicago World's Fair on a Sunday seem almost c...

• Author(s): Serge Sauneron | David Lorton | Jean-Pierre Corteggiani • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Ancient - EgyptThe gods were everywhere in Ancient Egypt. Represented by statues, ba...

• Author(s): Karen Ordahl Kupperman • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Native AmericanIn this vividly written book, prize-winning author Karen Ordahl Kupperman refocuses our understanding ...

• Author(s): Steven J. Hoffman • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Cultural & Ethnic Studies - American - African American & Bl Using post-Civil War Richmond, Virginia, as a case stud...

• Author(s): Neil W. MacDonald • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History In the early 1870s, baseball was chaos, mired in mismanagement and corruption. William Hulbert, the owner...

• Author(s): Tom Lutz • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: American - RegionalIn a major statement on the relation of art and politics in America, Tom Lutz identifies a consistent ethos at t...

• Author(s): Alan Hume | Gareth Owen • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General In a career spanning six decades, director of photography Alan Hume has worked on over 100 films and televisio...

• Author(s): Laura L. Phillips • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: Customs & TraditionsThis innovative study of drinking provides rich insights into changes and cont...

• Author(s): Virginia M. Walsh | Oran R. Young • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Popular CultureThis theoretical and empirical study examines the influence of global institutions on the generation of scientific knowle...

• Author(s): Ellis S. Krauss • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Political Process - GeneralThe aftermath of Japan's 1945 military defeat left its public institutions in a state of deep cri...

• Author(s): Mita Choudhury • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: United States - Colonial PeriodRepresentations of convents and nuns assumed power and urgency within the volatile political c...

• Author(s): Nalin Ranasinghe • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: History & Surveys - Ancient & ClassicalNalin Ranasinghe has a strong affection for the Socrates he finds in four of...

• Author(s): Peter M. Rutkoff • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History This is an anthology of 23 papers that were presented at the Eleventh Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball an...

• Author(s): Ann Marie Plane • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Ethnic Studies - American - Native American StudiesIn 1668 Sarah Ahhaton, a married Native American woman of the Massachuset...

• Author(s): Herbert Marder • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Literary FiguresThis elegantly written and richly detailed biography tells the story of Virginia Woolf's last ten years, from...

• Author(s): Zibin Guo • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Health Care DeliveryNavigating the maze of modern American health care is rarely easy; those who enter it are confronted with a di...

• Author(s): Caroline Zilboorg • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Teaching - Subjects - Arts & HumanitiesCritical introductions to a range of literary topics and genres. The litera...

• Author(s): Quentin Deakin • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Europe - GeneralAn engaging range of period texts and theme books for AS and A Level history. Seventeenth-century Europe ...

• Author(s): Andrew Pickering • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Europe - Great Britain - GeneralAn engaging range of period texts and theme books for AS and A Level history. The Wars ...

• Author(s): Thomas Newhouse • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: American - General The "Beat Generation" that emerged after World War II and reached its zenith in the 1960s represented an er...

• Author(s): Max J. Skidmore • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - General Presidential rankings emerged in 1948 when Life Magazine published an article by the prominent histori...

• Author(s): Joseph Nevins • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Asia - Southeast AsiaOn August 30, 1999, in a United Nations-sponsored ballot, East Timor voted for independence from Indonesi...

• Author(s): Victor A. Utgoff | Larry D. Welch • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Security (National & International)How will continued proliferation of nuclear weapons change the global political order? This colle...

• Author(s): Jean Schroedel • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: ConstitutionalWithout a doubt, the sharpest public debates over the value of fetal life have revolved around the conditions, ...

• Author(s): Rebecca Daniels • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Theater - Direction & Production Though stage directing has traditionally been a male-dominated profession, the number of ...

• Author(s): Boethius | Eleonore Stump • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: United States - Colonial PeriodIn Ciceronis Topica and De topicis differentiis are Boethius's two treatises on Top...

• Author(s): Arlene Keizer • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: International Relations - GeneralWriters as diverse as Carolivia Herron, Charles Johnson, Paule Marshall, Toni Morrison, and D...