Young Adult / High School (16–18 years)

• Author(s): Joseph P. Hester • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Christian Theology - Ethics & Moral Teaching The founders of the United States were well aware of religious differences i...

• Author(s): C. Bernard Ruffin • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Quotations The last words of the dying often provide insight into their feelings about life. Some are peaceful ("It is very ...

• Author(s): Stratos E. Constantinidis • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Theater - History & Criticism Text & Presentation is an annual publication devoted to all aspects of theatre...

• Author(s): Lee Kovacs • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism While ghosts often inhabit films and literature devoted to the horror genre, a group of literature-b...

• Author(s): William Farina • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh The question may be met with chagrin by traditionalists, but the identity of the Bard is not de...

• Author(s): Joan Fitzgerald • Publisher: ILR Press • Publisher Imprint: ILR Press • BISAC: Training"The United States used to be a country where ordinary people could expect to improve their economic condition as they moved through life. For mil...

• Author(s): Martin Kevorkian • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Media Studies"Color Monitors looks at a particular subset of imagined computer use, focusing on scenarios that demand from ...

• Author(s): Melvin Donalson • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism Feature films function as a keeper of America's collective conscience--a repository of fears, g...

• Author(s): Diane McGuinness • Publisher: Bradford Book • Publisher Imprint: Bradford Book • BISAC: Teaching - Subjects - Reading & PhonicsEarly Reading Instruction is a comprehensive analysis of the research evidence from early writing syst...

• Author(s): Thomas C. Renzi • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism Extremely popular and prolific in the 1930s and 1940s, Cornell Woolrich still has diehard fans ...

• Author(s): Robert L. McDonald • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Essays Erskine Caldwell has been compared to literary giants like Faulkner and Hemingway, yet he has also been reviled as p...

• Author(s): Mary Louise Clifford • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Cultural & Ethnic Studies - American - African American & Bl During the American Revolution over 3,000 persons of...

• Author(s): William James Booth • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Ethics & Moral Philosophy"Memory has fueled merciless, violent strife, and it has been at the core of reconciliation...

• Author(s): Herman O. Krabbenhoft • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - Statistics Every sport has its subtleties, and in baseball, one subtlety is the batting line-up. Leadoff batt...

• Author(s): Peter J. Katzenstein | Takashi Shiraishi • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: GlobalizationHave Japan's relative economic decline and China's rapid ascent altered the dynamics o...

• Author(s): Mike Roer • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Sports As a player, manager, team captain, umpire, owner and league president, Hall of Famer Jim O'Rourke (1851-1918) spoke for the ...

• Author(s): J. Chris Holaday • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History Hundreds of major leaguers--including the Hall of Fame's Hank Greenburg, Johnny Mize, Rod Carew, Carl Yast...

• Author(s): Leon Thomas Ross | Kenneth A. Mimms • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Ethnic Studies - African American Studies Congress prohibited slave trading in 1808, Lincoln University wa...

• Author(s): Lewis Coe • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - General On March 7, 1876, the U.S. Patent Office issued to a young inventor named Alexander Graham Bell what is argu...

• Author(s): Charles A. Simmons • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Cultural & Ethnic Studies - American - African American & Bl This work examines both predominately black newspapers...

• Author(s): Michael L. Stephens • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - Reference Film noir is a uniquely American genre that has stylistic links to the German expressionist cinema of the...

• Author(s): Frank P. Jozsa • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History During the second half of the twentieth century, Major League Baseball and its affiliated minor leagues evol...

• Author(s): Kathleen Canning • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: HistoriographyThe eight essays collected in this volume examine the practice of gender history and its impact on our unders...

• Author(s): William R. Haycraft • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Asia - Southeast Asia The Vietnam War coincided with, and in many ways caused, an enormous cultural schism in the United S...

• Author(s): Carla T. Kungl • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Mystery & Detective Fiction This study examines a number of previously overlooked or undervalued women detective fiction wr...

• Author(s): Richard Alan Schwartz • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Modern - 20th Century For over forty years much of the world was held captive by a conflict between two wholly incompati...

• Author(s): Bill Deane • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - Guides & Reviews The Fugitive made its debut on ABC on September 17, 1963. Over the next four seasons, the show en...

• Author(s): Allyn R. Vannoy | Jay Karamales • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military - World War II Eight World War II battles are examined here from the perspective of the U.S. Army inf...

• Author(s): Gino Di Felice • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Chess This comprehensive chronological reference lists the results of men's chess competitions all over the world. From the fam...

• Author(s): Steve Lerner | Robert D. Bullard • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Environmental Science (see also Chemistry - Environmental)The story of how a mixed-income minority community in Louisiana's Chemical Corr...

• Author(s): Michael G. Fitzgerald | Boyd Magers • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism This work features interviews with 51 leading ladies who starred in B-weste...

• Author(s): Valentine C. Randolph | David Roe • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: MilitaryA century and a half after Appomattox, the diaries of soldiers continue to sur...

• Author(s): Catharine S. Brown • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Historical - General Abel Brown was born November 9, 1810, in Springfield, Massachusetts, and moved with his parents to New...

• Author(s): Carolyn Wolf • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Library & Information Science - General This brand new edition of Wolf's acclaimed work provides a self-contained, short cour...

• Author(s): Carol Fisher • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: HistoryServes up the American cookbook as a tasty sampler of history, geography and culture, revealing the influence of political...

• Author(s): Asaf Darr • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Sales & Selling - GeneralSelling Technology offers a look at high-tech markets from within, through the experience of salespeo...

• Author(s): Charles de Paolo • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: History For more than three thousand years of recorded history, human beings have struggled to understand the epidemic--the r...

• Author(s): Jeffrey C. May • Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press • Publisher Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press • BISAC: Diseases - GeneralBacteria and mold may lurk undetected in carpets or in the heating or cooling system of your of...

• Author(s): Steven C. McKay • Publisher: ILR Press • Publisher Imprint: ILR Press • BISAC: GlobalizationSatanic Mills or Silicon Islands? challenges the myth of globalization's homogenizing power, arguing that the uniqueness of place is becoming...

• Author(s): Keith Wailoo | Stephen Pemberton • Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press • Publisher Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press • BISAC: GeneticsWinner of the History of Science category of the Professional and Scholarly Publishing ...

• Author(s): Frank W. Brecher • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - 19th Century The transaction that changed the course of U.S. history and gave America an undisputed outlet to...

• Author(s): David Schimmelpenninck Van Der Oye • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: Russia & the Former Soviet UnionWhat drove Russia to its disastrous war with Japa...

• Author(s): Lewis D. Moore • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Mystery & Detective Fiction The hard-boiled private detective is among the most recognizable characters in popular fiction ...

• Author(s): David Dicaire • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Genres & Styles - Jazz From its very beginnings, the nature of jazz has been to reinvent itself. As the musical genre evolve...

• Author(s): John F. Krumwiede • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877) The Battle of Gettysburg was a scene of roiling chaos. Thousands of casualties ...

• Author(s): Steven K. Vogel • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: History & Theory - GeneralAs the Japanese economy languished in the 1990s Japanese government officials, business execut...

• Author(s): Bruce Dorsey • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Social HistoryBefore the Civil War, the public lives of American men and women intersected most frequently in the arena of reli...

• Author(s): Rosemarie Skaine • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Terrorism Celebrated as liberators and martyrs by those who support their cause, denounced as terrorists by their opponents, ...

• Author(s): Micheal Clodfelter • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military - United States As the United States fought the Civil War in the early 1860s, the country's western frontier was s...

• Author(s): William Indick • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism Mind control, madness and altered states of reality can make for exciting nights at the movies--...

• Author(s): Keneth Kinnamon • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Bibliographies & Indexes African-American writer Richard Wright (1908-1960) was celebrated during the early 1940s for his ...

• Author(s): Ed Koszarek • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History After talks with baseball's owners broke down in the fall of 1889, some of the greatest players of the day jump...

• Author(s): Leonard Seabrooke • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Finance - GeneralA state's financial power is built on the effect its credit, property, and tax policies have on ordinary ...

• Author(s): Andrew S. Barnes • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Development - Economic DevelopmentDuring and after the breakdown of the Soviet Union, a wide range of competitors fought to...

• Author(s): Michael Leroy Oberg • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: IndigenousMany know the name Uncas only from James Fenimore Cooper's The Last of the Mohicans, but the historical Uncas ...

• Author(s): Kristina Hinz-Bode • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: American - General One of the founding members of the Provincetown Players, Susan Glaspell contributed to American literatu...

• Author(s): Mary Ellen Snodgrass • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: American - General Walter Dean Myers, preeminent author of teen fiction biography and verse, refines the image of black c...

• Author(s): María Fernanda Pérez Solla • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Civil Rights It was from Argentina, in the years 1976 to 1983, that the world heard the cries of the families of lo...

• Author(s): Renée W. Craig-Odders | Jacky Collins | Glen S. Close • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Mystery & Detective Fiction The image of the hard-boiled private investigator from g...

• Author(s): Wallis R. Sanborn • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: American - General The works of Cormac McCarthy have been critically studied as literature of the South and of the Border So...