Young Adult / High School (16–18 years)

• Author(s): Rosemarie Skaine • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Basketball - General Tall, powerful athletes surge toward the goal in the last seconds of a fiercely fought game, providing e...

• Author(s): Samuel B. Bacharach | Peter A. Bamberger | William J. Sonnenstuhl • Publisher: ILR Press • Publisher Imprint: ILR Press • BISAC: Labor & Industrial RelationsThe ongoing decline in union membership is generally attributed to an in...

• Author(s): Mavis Haut • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Despite the great diversity of settings in Tanith Lee's novels--from the pre-historic origins of Ch...

• Author(s): George H. Douglas • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - General This history of skyscrapers examines how these tall buildings affected the cityscape and the people ...

• Author(s): Edward A. Cope | Walter C. Muenscher • Publisher: Comstock Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Comstock Publishing • BISAC: Plants - TreesThis major expansion and revision of W. C. Muenscher's popular reference work brings a wealth of bo...

• Author(s): Susan D. Burgerman • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: History & Theory - GeneralIn the 1980s, security forces and paramilitary organizations killed, abducted, or tortured ...

• Author(s): Kevin Corcoran • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Mind & BodyHow are soul and body related to one another? Are human beings immaterial souls, or complex physical organisms...

• Author(s): Joan B. Landes • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Europe - FrancePopular images of women were everywhere in revolutionary France. Although women's political participation was ...

• Author(s): Thomas J. Misa | Philip Brey | Andrew Feenberg • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: ReferenceIf asked, most people would agree that there are deep connections between technology and the modern world, and eve...

• Author(s): Jennie M. Smith • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialIn an ethnography that challenges standard approaches to understanding the poor and dise...

• Author(s): Christian Gollier • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Finance - GeneralThis book updates and advances the theory of expected utility as applied to risk analysis and financial decision making. Von Neumann an...

• Author(s): Dan Zachofsky • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - Essays & Writings Baseball players and fans alike feel that spring is a magical time of year. For the players, sp...

• Author(s): Donald C. Simmons • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Latin America - Central America During the American Civil War and the years immediately following, thousands of Confederate ...

• Author(s): Peter Ludlow • Publisher: Bradford Book • Publisher Imprint: Bradford Book • BISAC: History & Theory - GeneralA wide-ranging collection of writings on emerging political structures in cyberspace.In Crypto Anarchy, Cyberstates, an...

• Author(s): Dale Robinson | David Fernandes • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - Guides & Reviews On the February 2, 1960, episode of The Danny Thomas Show, entertainer Dann...

• Author(s): Ken Geiser | Barry Commoner • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Environmental Science (see also Chemistry - Environmental)The products we purchase and use are assembled from a wide range of naturally occurr...

• Author(s): Michael Thad Allen | Gabrielle Hecht • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: HistoryThis collection explores how technologies become forms of power, how people embed their authority in technological systems, an...

• Author(s): Kerry Segrave • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General In 1907, the editor of The New York Times wrote, "Employers, naturally, look to the young. A man or woman of advanced ye...

• Author(s): Glenn Alexander Magee • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: History & Surveys - ModernGlenn Alexander Magee's pathbreaking book argues that Hegel was decisively influenced by...

• Author(s): Richard M. Swiderski • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Infectious Diseases Bacillus anthracis--anthrax--had largely faded from public consciousness until it resurfaced as a ter...

• Author(s): Leon Smith • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - Reference Did you ever wonder where Beaver Cleaver's house was? How about the mountain where King Kong had his hideaway? Or ...

• Author(s): David Temperley • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Genres & Styles - ElectronicIn this book, David Temperley addresses a fundamental question about music cognition: how do we extract basic kinds of mus...

• Author(s): Len D. Martin • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism Allied Artists Pictures Corporation was formed in November 1946 by Monogram Pictures Corporation ...

• Author(s): Stuart J. Kaufman • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: History & Theory - GeneralEthnic conflict has been the driving force of wars all over the world, yet it remains an eni...

• Author(s): Alfarabi | Charles E. Butterworth • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: History & Surveys - MedievalAlfarabi was among the first to explore the tensions between the philosoph...

• Author(s): Jonathan Jacobs • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Ethics & Moral PhilosophyAre there key respects in which character and character defects are voluntary? Can agents with ...

• Author(s): Wendy Gunther-Canada • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: LiteraryBlending biography, gender theory, and political analysis, Gunther-Canada charts Mary Wolls...

• Author(s): Ann Rigney • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: English, Irish, Scottish, WelshImperfect Histories puts "imperfection" at the heart of a theory of historical representation. Ann...

• Author(s): Moira Davison Reynolds • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Mystery & Detective Fiction While the roots of the detective novel go back to the 19th century, the genre reached i...

• Author(s): Ward Thomas • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: History & Theory - GeneralMany assume that in international politics, and especially in war, "anything goes." Sherman famous...

• Author(s): Edwin M. Bradley • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General As Hollywood entered the sound era, it was rightly determined that the same public fascinated by the novelty o...

• Author(s): Janet Moore Lindman | Michele Lise Tarter • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Social HistoryImages of bodies and bodily practices abound in early America: from spirit possessio...

• Author(s): Ward Thomas • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: History & Theory - GeneralMany assume that in international politics, and especially in war, "anything goes." Sherman famous...

• Author(s): Trina Robbins • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General The art and commentary of Nell Brinkley (1886-1944) ran in American newspapers from 1907 through the 1930s. At the heigh...

• Author(s): Robert E. Bartholomew • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Social Psychology "For a two week period in 1956, residents in the vicinity of Taipei, Taiwan, lived in fear that they w...

• Author(s): Dean Ritz • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: GeneralIn these 70 essays, speeches, sermons and screeds, POCLADers probe: corporations as "legal persons"; ...

• Author(s): Catherine A. Neill | Edward B. Clark | Carleen Clark • Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press • Publisher Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press • BISAC: Diseases & Conditions - HeartThe Heart of a Child helps parents underst...

• Author(s): Marcello Spinella • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Psychiatry - PsychopharmacologyA compilation of current scientific knowledge about psychoactive herbal drugs.Virtually all cultures consume drugs from p...

• Author(s): Ann Kitchen | Geoff Wake • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Teaching Methods & Materials - MathematicsGraded Exercises in Mechanics is a wide-ranging collection of exe...

• Author(s): William Indick • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General The latent symbolism in film imagery can be psychoanalyzed just like the imagery in dreams. This work applies to...

• Author(s): Nick Zangwill • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: AestheticsIn chapters ranging from "The Beautiful, the Dainty, and the Dumpy" to "Skin-deep or In the Eye of the Beholder?" Ni...

• Author(s): Andy Dabilis | Nick Tsiotos • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - General The first World Series was a best-of-nine series between the Boston Americans and the Pittsburg...

• Author(s): Olga S. Opfell • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Royalty Only seven European monarchies remain intact today; all are constitutional monarchies. Four empires and 16 kingdoms hav...

• Author(s): Brent Kelley • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History The 1940s were years of change in the world of baseball. Minor league free agents were introduced to the game ...

• Author(s): Maurice Samuels • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: European - FrenchStruggling to make sense of the Revolution of 1789, the French in the nineteenth century increasingly turne...

• Author(s): Allan Todd • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Teaching - Subjects - Arts & HumanitiesAn engaging range of period texts and theme books for AS and A Level history. The ...

• Author(s): Andrew Matthews • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Teaching - Subjects - Arts & HumanitiesAn engaging range of period texts and theme books for AS and A Level history....

• Author(s): Frederick V. Romano • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - Guides & Reviews The love affair between boxing and Hollywood began with the dawn of film. As early as the days...

• Author(s): Christiane Zivie-Coche | David Lorton • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Ancient - Egypt"Sphinxes are legion in Egypt--what is so special about this one?... We shall take a st...

• Author(s): Allen S. Weiss • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Acoustics & SoundThis book, which originally appeared as a special issue of TDR/The Drama Review, explores the myriad aesthetic, cultural, and experime...

• Author(s): Mark Hallerberg • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Public FinanceUnder European Monetary Union, member states lose the ability to steer their economies by manipulating monetar...

• Author(s): Dale W. Jorgenson | Kun-Young Yun • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Economics - TheoryA presentation of the cost-of-capital approach for analyzing the economic impact of tax policy.This book presents a co...

• Author(s): Rosanne M. Cordell | Elisabeth M. Lucal | Robin K. Morgan • Publisher: Indiana University Press • Publisher Imprint: Indiana University Press • BISAC: ReferenceThis is the third and latest book in the "Quick Hits" tradition of provid...

• Author(s): David E. Nye • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: HistoriographyAn exploration of the dialogue that emerged after 1776 between different visions of what it meant to use new technologies to transform the land...

• Author(s): Emily Thompson • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: History - GeneralA vibrant history of acoustical technology and aural culture in early-twentieth-century America.In this history of aural culture in early-...

• Author(s): Xenophon | Wayne Ambler • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: ClassicsXenophon's masterpiece, The Education of Cyrus, is a work that was admired by Machiavelli for its lessons on...

• Author(s): Xenophon | Amy L. Bonnette | Christopher J. Bruell • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: PhilosophersAn essential text for understanding Socrates, Xenophon's Memorabilia is the c...

• Author(s): Xenophon | Wayne Ambler • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: ClassicsXenophon's masterpiece, The Education of Cyrus, is a work that was admired by Machiavelli for its lessons on...

• Author(s): Donald J. Norton • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military - World War II This is the true story of Oliver Bullard Rasmussen, a U.S. Navy aircrewman who avoided capture after ...

• Author(s): Sidney Jacobson • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History In 1941, his first full season, Pete Reiser became the youngest batting champion in history, winning the NL...