Young Adult / High School (16–18 years)

• Author(s): Jesse Goldhammer • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Europe - FranceIn The Headless Republic, Jesse Goldhammer explores how the French revolutionaries retrieved a set of ideas ...

• Author(s): John P. Rossi • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History In 1964, thousands of Philadelphia baseball fans were caught up in the Phillies' unexpected run at the Nation...

• Author(s): George B. Clark • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General Hiram Iddings Bearss was a legendary U.S. Marine whose 20-year career showed outstanding service to the United States ...

• Author(s): William A. Cook • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History By the mid-1870s, gambling in baseball threatened the public's confidence in the sport and its very existen...

• Author(s): William M. Simons • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - Essays & Writings This is an anthology of 17 papers, eight presented at the Fifteenth Cooperstown Symposium o...

• Author(s): Susan Baker Sotelo • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Mystery & Detective Fiction In his 1985 novel Partners in Crime, writer Rolando Hinojosa introduced homicide investiga...

• Author(s): John W. Graham • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - World War I During the first World War, a flag with a gold star identified families who had lost soldier...

• Author(s): Ronald Hayduk • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: Political Process - Campaigns & ElectionsThe history of democracy in America is the history of the ext...

• Author(s): Maurice J. O'Sullivan • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Shakespeare For generations scholars have labored scrupulously to try to separate the facts of William Shakespeare's lif...

• Author(s): Donald Weber • Publisher: Indiana University Press • Publisher Imprint: Indiana University Press • BISAC: Jewish Studies"Haunted in the New World is a superb, insightful, and acutely intelligent piece of work. It makes a real contrib...

• Author(s): Bill Ranier | David Finoli • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History The 1970s were both successful and tragic for the Pittsburgh Pirates. They won five NL Eastern D...

• Author(s): Diane P. Koenker • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Russia & the Former Soviet UnionThe long decade from the October Revolution to 1930 was the beginning of a great experi...

• Author(s): Stephen M. Gardiner • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: History & Surveys - Ancient & Classical"There are grounds for saying that contemporary work in virtue ethics is,...

• Author(s): E. J. Fleming • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General Before she was a glamorous actress, before she was a war-time pin-up star, even before she was Carole Landis, she...

• Author(s): Dunja M. Mohr | Donald E. Palumbo | C. W. Sullivan III • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Science Fiction & Fantasy Literary critics and scholars have written extensively on...

• Author(s): William Echard • Publisher: Indiana University Press • Publisher Imprint: Indiana University Press • BISAC: Composers & Musicians - General"This book uniquely and successfully sustains a cohesive analysis of the work, career, and...

• Author(s): Carolyn M. Trombe • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General As World War II depleted the available manpower available to the major and minor leagues, Chicago Cubs owner Phillip...

• Author(s): Mark Douglas McGarvie • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: GeneralThe United States' commitment to separation of church and state has defined the nation, fro...

• Author(s): Caroline C. Ford • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Europe - FranceIn Divided Houses, Caroline Ford examines how the so-called feminization of religion in France from the Fren...

• Author(s): Robert J. Yanal • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - Direction & Production The films of Alfred Hitchcock deal heavily with psychological and philosophical themes, and ...

• Author(s): Joy A. Glenner | Jean M. Stehman | Judith Davagnino • Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press • Publisher Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press • BISAC: CaregivingEighty percent of persons with dementia live at home, and the fami...

• Author(s): Jennifer Ngaire Heuer • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Europe - FranceThe French Revolution transformed the nation's--and eventually the world's--thinking about citizenship,...

• Author(s): Dirk Baker • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - General Explanation, demonstration, correction and repetition are essential to the activity of teaching. Successful coac...

• Author(s): Grant David McCracken • Publisher: Indiana University Press (Ips) • Publisher Imprint: Indiana University Press (Ips) • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialA follow-up to Grant McCracken's groundbreaking Culture and Consumptio...

• Author(s): Ronald Schwartz • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism In 1931 Antonio Moreno completed Santa, Mexico's first true sound film. In it he established on...

• Author(s): James Ross Moore • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General Theatrical producer Andre Charlot brought Parisian revue to Great Britain in 1912 and dominated his field for 25 year...

• Author(s): Bob Luke • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General Hall of Fame umpire Bill McGowan controlled the field of play as much with his personality as with the rulebook; his respecte...

• Author(s): Leslie R. Tucker • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - Civil War Major General Isaac Ridgeway Trimble, one of the oldest and more eccentric officers involved in the...

• Author(s): Andrew L. Jenks • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: EuropeanWhat did it mean to be Russian as the imperial era gave way to Soviet rule? Andrew Jenks turns t...

• Author(s): Jeffrey J. Kripal | Glenn W. Shuck | Catherine L. Albanese • Publisher: Indiana University Press • Publisher Imprint: Indiana University Press • BISAC: Inspiration & Personal Growth"Esalen is on the edge. Located in Big Sur, Cali...

• Author(s): Jeremy Gaige • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Bibliographies & Indexes First published in 1987 to overwhelming international acclaim, Jeremy Gaige's Chess Personalia has b...

• Author(s): Ann C. Paietta • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General The portrayal of clergy, saints, missionaries, monks, and other spiritual leaders dates back to the very beginni...

• Author(s): Gail Ciociola • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Women's Studies Although Wasserstein calls herself a humanist, her works reflect a political rhetoric, if cloaked in humor, that...

• Author(s): Daniel Hipp • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh The British poets Wilfred Owen, Ivor Gurney, and Siegfried Sassoon found themselves psy...

• Author(s): Peter J. Katzenstein • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: International Relations - GeneralObserving the dramatic shift in world politics since the end of the Cold War, Peter J....

• Author(s): Joseph E. Holloway | Molefi Kete Asante | George Brandon • Publisher: Indiana University Press • Publisher Imprint: Indiana University Press • BISAC: United States - GeneralAn important work in the field of diaspora studies for the p...

• Author(s): Judith Zinsser • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: HistoryIn the early 1600s, Francis Bacon could encompass all knowledge of both the physical and the metap...

• Author(s): Carol Siegel • Publisher: Indiana University Press • Publisher Imprint: Indiana University Press • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialIn Goth's Dark Empire cultural historian Carol Siegel provides a fascinating look at Goth, ...

• Author(s): Lionel W. McKenzie • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Economics - MacroeconomicsAlthough general equilibrium theory originated in the late nineteenth century, modern elaboration and development of the theo...

• Author(s): Michael R. Pitts • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General From the beginning of the sound era until the end of the 1930s, independent movie-making thrived. Many of the ...

• Author(s): Nelly Oudshoorn | Trevor Pinch • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Social AspectsUsers have become an integral part of technology studies. The essays in this volume look at the creative capacity of users to...

• Author(s): Drew Khlentzos • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Movements - GeneralIn this important book, Drew Khlentzos explains the antirealist argument from a realist perspective. He defends naturalistic realism aga...

• Author(s): Sandra Herbert • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Scientists - General"Pleasure of imagination.... I a geologist have illdefined notion of land covered with ocean, former anim...

• Author(s): David L. Fleitz • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Sports Cap Anson's plaque at the Baseball Hall of Fame sums up his career with admirable simplicity: "The greatest hitter and ...

• Author(s): Brian O'Connor • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: History & Surveys - ModernThe purely philosophical concerns of Theodor W. Adorno's negative dialectic would seem to be far removed from the concretenes...

• Author(s): Michael A. Dreese • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877) "Old Dorm," which served as the first classroom and dormitory of the Gettysburg...

• Author(s): Frances H. Casstevens • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877) Located in the western piedmont of North Carolina, Yadkin County was hardly...

• Author(s): Tom Deveaux • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History The Washington Senators have a special place in baseball history as one of the most unsuccessful teams ever to ...

• Author(s): Grant Burns • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Bibliographies & Indexes Nothing better represented the early spirit of American expansion than the railroad. Dominant in dail...

• Author(s): Rudolph Binion • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: GeneralIn this groundbreaking study, renowned historian Rudolph Binion develops a whole new of understand...

• Author(s): Jeffrey W. Legro • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: International Relations - GeneralStunning shifts in the worldviews of states mark the modern history of international affai...

• Author(s): Doyle Greene • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General Thanks in large part to an exploitation film producer and distributor named K. Gordon Murray, a unique collection ...

• Author(s): Jeffrey S. Gurock • Publisher: Indiana University Press • Publisher Imprint: Indiana University Press • BISAC: GeneralJudaism's Encounter with American Sports examines how sports entered the lives of American Jewish men and women and...

• Author(s): Thomas Weisser • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Bibliographies & Indexes Spaghetti Westerns--mostly produced in Italy or by Italians but made throughout Europe--were bleak...

• Author(s): Gary D. Rhodes | John Parris Springer • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism Through most of the 20th century, the distinction between the fictional n...

• Author(s): Marion Montgomery • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: American - General Marion Montgomery, family man, citizen, professor, literary critic, poet, philosopher, is a prolific defe...

• Author(s): Guillermo M. Yeatts • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Poverty & Homelessness In the Americas, the Rio Grande has become not just a physical border, but an economic and soci...

• Author(s): Carol R. Exner • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Teaching Methods & Materials - General Puppetry is an exciting, flexible, malleable art form that can engage the creative f...

• Author(s): Fred M. Mallison • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - Civil War The ports at Beaufort, Wilmington, New Bern and Ocracoke, part of the Outer Banks (a chain of barri...

• Author(s): Marshall D. Wright • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - Statistics From 1884 to 1953, the International League enjoyed a measure of stability that was the envy of many ...