Young Adult / High School (16–18 years)

• Author(s): Carol A. Chetkovich | Frances Kunreuther • Publisher: ILR Press • Publisher Imprint: ILR Press • BISAC: Political Advocacy"Grassroots social-change organizations are a critical resource for progressive movement-building in the United...

• Author(s): Scott A. Gruender • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Horse Racing Being a jockey is more than a career, it's a way of life. The glitz and glamour of the show may belie all the t...

• Author(s): J. Michael Richardson | J. Douglas Rabb • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - History & Criticism This study examines the major works of contemporary American tele...

• Author(s): Walt Baer • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Management - General Today, 95 percent of all labor contracts in the United States provide for arbitration. Indispensable to sound c...

• Author(s): Bob Herzberg • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General On June 29, 1908, U.S. Attorney General Charles Bonaparte ordered the creation of a special force within the Depar...

• Author(s): John Stewart • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military - General This is the story of two Confederate spies, Tom Harbin and Charlie Russell. Harbin, among the most wanted of a...

• Author(s): Josh Chetwynd | Brian Belton • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History Few people associate baseball with Great Britain, but for a brief period in the 1930s, America...

• Author(s): Vincent L. Foulk • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military - General In May of 2003, Fallujah, Iraq, was a little known industrial town 45 minutes from Baghdad. There, heavily...

• Author(s): Elizabeth Baird Hardy • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh In 1950, Clive Staples Lewis published the first in a series of children's stories that ...

• Author(s): Perry Allen Wood • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Motor Sports - General NASCAR held its first Strictly Stock race in Charlotte on June 19, 1949, and, in the following decades...

• 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): Robert D. Bullard • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Development - Sustainable DevelopmentThe smart growth movement aims to combat urban and suburban sprawl by promoting livable communities based on pedest...

• Author(s): Dennis A. Connole • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - State & Local - General The North American Indian group known as the Nipmucks was situated in south-cent...

• Author(s): Jean Maddern Pitrone • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Social History For more than a century, Woolworth's five and dime stores represented Americana, mirroring the country's g...

• Author(s): Richard W. Blumenthal • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Expeditions & Discoveries Picking up the narrative from his earlier volume, The Early Exploration of Inland Washingt...

• Author(s): Carl Silvio | Tony M. Vinci | Donald E. Palumbo • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - Guides & Reviews Released in May 1977, the original Star Wars movie inaugurated the...

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

• Author(s): Stuart Galbraith • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism This is a detailed analysis of 103 Japanese science fiction, horror and fantasy feature films ...

• Author(s): George W. Green • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Automotive - History Beyond the traditional purposes of moving people, goods, raw materials, and mail from place to place lies...

• Author(s): Heather Urbanski • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Science Fiction & Fantasy Speculative fiction--both science fiction and fantasy--reflects, among other things, the fears ...

• Author(s): Christopher Pullen • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: LGBTQ+ Studies - Gay Studies This book charts an evolution in gay identity within American reality television and documenta...

• Author(s): Richard A. Warren • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: Latin America - MexicoThis is the first book to demonstrate the crucial role that the urban masses p...

• Author(s): Roger L. Kemp • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: American Government - State This work describes the operations of a typical municipal government and examines the many productiv...

• Author(s): Jacob Burckhardt • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: HistoriographyRegarded as the father of 'Cultural History', Burckhardt's Judgements on History and Historians is an ambitious work written at a time when...

• Author(s): John M. Robson • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: GeneralThe Collected Works of John Stuart Mill took thirty years to complete and is acknowledged as the definitive edition of J.S. Mill and as one of the f...

• Author(s): Amy Lehman • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Theater - History & Criticism Spiritualists in the nineteenth century spoke of the "Borderland," a shadowy threshold where the ...

• Author(s): Gabriel B. Costa | Michael R. Huber | John T. Saccoman • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - Statistics The past 30 years have seen an explosion in the number and variet...

• Author(s): Mara Kozelsky • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: Christianity - History - GeneralIn nineteenth-century Russia, religious culture permeated politics at the ...

• Author(s): Marc Cushman | Linda J. LaRosa • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - General One of the most popular and award-winning television series of the sixties, I Spy was the ...

• Author(s): Stephen Knight • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Folklore & MythologyThe only figure in the Dictionary of National Biography who is said never to have existed, Robin Hood...

• Author(s): Juris Dilevko | Candice F. C. Magowan • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Library & Information Science - General Beginning in the early 1980s, readers' advisory services wer...

• Author(s): Kevin Carroll • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General For 39 seasons at four schools, Dr. Edward N. Anderson spent autumn afternoons roaming the sidelines of college and univ...

• Author(s): Kristie Madsen | Peter Leech • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Psychopathology - General The myths of mental illness are numerous and negatively affect the lives of patients on...

• Author(s): Patrick Smith • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - General What leads a man in his mid to late thirties to take up the sport of baseball after a fifteen year hiatus? Es...

• Author(s): Wes D. Gehring • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism The 1930s are routinely considered sound film's greatest comedy era. Though this golden age enco...

• Author(s): Ann B. Irish • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Asia - Japan Japanese people have lived on the country's other three main islands--Honshu, Kyushu, and Shikoku--for many centurie...

• Author(s): Dani Cavallaro • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Animation (See Also Film - Genres - Animated) This book describes the thematic and structural traits of a recent and popular de...

• Author(s): Irwin Weintraub • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Jewish Studies This annotated bibliography documents Jews' significant contributions to American agriculture as farmers, ranch...

• Author(s): Crystal Alberts | Christopher Leise | Birger Vanwesenbeeck • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General For many years novelist William Gaddis, despite having won two National Boo...

• Author(s): C. Courtney Joyner • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism Actors, writers, directors and producers who helped define the genre offer unique insight ab...

• Author(s): Thomas L. Karnes • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Automotive - General From animal paths to superhighways, transportation has been the backbone of American expansion and growt...

• Author(s): Andrew R. L. Cayton | Susan E. Gray • Publisher: Indiana University Press • Publisher Imprint: Indiana University Press • BISAC: United States - State & Local - Midwest(IA,IL,IN,KS,MI,MN,MOIn a series of often highly personal ess...

• Author(s): S. J. Wolfe | Robert Singerman • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Archaeology This work examines Egyptian mummies as artifacts in pre-1900 America: how they got here, what happe...

• Author(s): Tom Zaniello • Publisher: ILR Press • Publisher Imprint: ILR Press • BISAC: Film - Guides & ReviewsTom Zaniello's fascinating new guide to films about globalization--its origins, its relationship with colonialism, neocolonialism,...

• Author(s): Peter C. Stuart • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - General A few sea captains, a couple of college professors, a battle-hardened general, a senator, a congressma...

• Author(s): Donna R. Jackson • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: International Relations - General When Jimmy Carter ascended to the U.S. presidency in 1977, he stepped into an office still ...

• Author(s): Donald L. Price • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military Colonel Donald Gilbert Cook was the first U.S. Marine captured in Vietnam, the first and only Marine in history to ea...

• Author(s): Eileen Crist | H. Bruce Rinker | Bill McKibben • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Environmental Science (see also Chemistry - Environmental)Essays link Gaian science to such global environmental quandaries...

• Author(s): Bill Mesce • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism The work examines the evolution of the thriller from the heyday of the Hollywood mogul era in the 19...

• Author(s): Don Ross • Publisher: Bradford Book • Publisher Imprint: Bradford Book • BISAC: Economics - TheoryIn this study, Don Ross explores the relationship of economics to other branches of behavioral science, asking, in the course of his an...

• Author(s): Rikke Schubart • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General With actress Pam Grier's breakthrough in Coffy and Foxy Brown, women entered action, science fiction, war, weste...

• Author(s): Donald L. Price • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military Colonel Donald Gilbert Cook was the first U.S. Marine captured in Vietnam, the first and only Marine in history to ea...

• Author(s): Michael Wheeler • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Cognitive Psychology & CognitionIn Reconstructing the Cognitive World, Michael Wheeler argues that we should turn away from the generically Cartesian ...

• Author(s): Charis Thompson • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Fertility & InfertilityAssisted reproductive technology (ART) makes babies and parents at once. Drawing on science and technology studies, feminist th...

• Author(s): Gerry Max • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Literary Figures Richard Halliburton was the quintessential world traveler of the early 20th century. In 1930, his celebrity equaled...

• Author(s): Paul Batesel • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History In 1916, over 500 men played in a major league game. Many of those players' names are inseparable from basebal...

• Author(s): Martha Seif Simpson | Lucretia I. Duwel • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Teaching Methods & Materials - Library Skills With so much competing for the time of today's stude...

• Author(s): Lewis Sperry Chafer • Publisher: Kessinger Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Kessinger Publishing • BISAC: Christian Living - InspirationalHe That Is Spiritual is a Christian book written by Lewis Sperry Chafer. The book focuses on the...

• Author(s): Bob Carlin • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Musical Instruments - General Joel Walker Sweeney was, in essence, the Elvis Presley of the 1840s. A professional banjo player, Swe...

• Author(s): Jeff Johnson • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Theater - History & Criticism Although Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania are culturally distinct, they share a common theatre his...