Young Adult / High School (16–18 years)

• Author(s): Thomas J. Schoenbaum • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Environmental Conservation & Protection - General This updated edition of the 1979 original covers the landmark strug...

• Author(s): Hunt Janin | André Kahlmeyer • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Islamic The sharia is a set of traditional laws that define a Muslim's obligations to God and his fellow human be...

• Author(s): Thad Mumau • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History This is the story of one of the all-time great teams of major league baseball, the 1957 Milwaukee Braves. The Br...

• Author(s): Corinne Gaudin • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: American Government - StateWho ruled the countryside in late Imperial Russia? On the rare occasions that ...

• Author(s): Teri L. Caraway • Publisher: ILR Press • Publisher Imprint: ILR Press • BISAC: Women's Studies - GeneralDespite the massive influx of women into the labor force as a result of globalization, the gender inqualities at work have remain...

• Author(s): Jorge S. Figueredo • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History True professional baseball has not been played in Cuba since banned by the communist regime after the 19...

• Author(s): Thomas A. DeLong • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General Mayling Soong came to America at the age of 10. Her father, Charlie Soong, a practicing Christian who had spent time ...

• Author(s): Andrew C. Garrod | Robert Kilkenny | Christina Gomez • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Ethnic Studies - Hispanic American StudiesAmid the flurry of debates about immigration,...

• Author(s): Adam Harvey • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Reference This comprehensive guide covers all of the music used in Woody Allen's films from Take the Money and Run (1969) to Match...

• Author(s): David Bakish • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General From his humble beginnings as a Coney Island piano player, Jimmy Durante was one of America's best-loved entertainers for...

• Author(s): Peter Prescott Tonguette • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - Direction & Production With a career spanning almost five decades, Orson Welles became--and in many ways s...

• Author(s): Peter D. Grunwald • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Mathematical & Statistical SoftwareA comprehensive introduction and reference guide to the minimum description length (MDL) Principle that is access...

• Author(s): Amy Petersen Jensen • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Theater - History & Criticism As the media have increasingly become the lens through which we see the world, media sty...

• Author(s): Don M. Fox • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military - World War II Stirring accounts of the almost legendary campaigns of the United States Fourth Armored Division, universal...

• Author(s): Roger L. Kemp • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Sociology - Urban This handbook provides a comprehensive overview of the rebuilding of America's urban areas. Beginning with an ...

• Author(s): Jorge J. E. Gracia • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Ethnic Studies - Hispanic American Studies"What is race? What is ethnicity? Should we think of them as identities? Can th...

• Author(s): Leonard A. Cole • Publisher: Indiana University Press (Ips) • Publisher Imprint: Indiana University Press (Ips) • BISAC: TerrorismNo country has experienced more acts of terrorism over a prolonged period than Israel. The frequency of...

• Author(s): Kelly R. Brown • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Entertainment & Performing Arts Florence Lawrence's film career began just as the cinema was being born. She recognized the...

• Author(s): Michelle Vogel • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Entertainment & Performing Arts - General Olive Thomas was one of Hollywood's first true movie stars. Born in Charleroi, Pe...

• Author(s): William M. Rohe | Harry L. Watson • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Sociology - UrbanProviding decent, safe, and affordable housing to low- and moderate-income families has b...

• Author(s): Janet Brennan Croft | Donald E. Palumbo | III Sullivan C. W. • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Science Fiction & Fantasy Tolkien and Shakespeare: one a prolific popular dra...

• Author(s): Peter Lucas • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military - World War II World War II found Albania fighting a war within a war. In addition to the threat faced from the Germans, ...

• Author(s): Deborah Shaw • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismThis engaging book explores Latin America cinema since 2000, an extraordina...

• Author(s): Thierry Dubost • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General The Irish Times called Thomas Kilroy "one of the most significant playwrights of modern Ireland", while The Sunday Time...

• Author(s): Gary Dean Peterson • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Europe - Scandinavia For a hundred years, Sweden was the international military power of Northern Europe, in control of the...

• Author(s): Frances Lee Bernstein • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: Gender StudiesThe Dictatorship of Sex explores the attempts to define and control sexual behavior ...

• Author(s): David W. Marshall • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Europe - Medieval Beginning in 1976 with the first issue of the journal Studies in Medievalism, all things medieval and the ...

• Author(s): Darren Wershler-Henry • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: HistoryThe Iron Whim is an intelligent, irreverent, and humorous history of writing culture and technology. It covers ...

• Author(s): Eugene Victor Wolfenstein • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: American - African AmericanIn A Gift of the Spirit, Eugene Victor Wolfenstein offers a reading of W. E. B. Du Bois...

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

• Author(s): Eugene Victor Wolfenstein • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: American - African AmericanIn A Gift of the Spirit, Eugene Victor Wolfenstein offers a reading of W. E. B. Du Bois...

• Author(s): Gene Blottner • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - Guides & Reviews From 1947 through 1963, the merged studios of Universal and International produced mostly highly ent...

• Author(s): Phillip Thomas Tucker • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - Civil War Few infantry regiments in the Civil War compiled a more distinguished record than the Fifth Mi...

• Author(s): David C. Jacobson • Publisher: Indiana University Press • Publisher Imprint: Indiana University Press • BISAC: Subjects & Themes - ReligiousIn an anthology that is both scholarly and accessible to readers of contemporary poetry, ...

• Author(s): Rudyard Kipling | Kipling Rudyard Kipling | Rudyard Kipling • Publisher: Book Jungle • Publisher Imprint: Book Jungle • BISAC: World - GeneralThe Law, as quoted, lays down a fair conduct of life, and one not easy to follow. I have be...

• Author(s): James G. McDonald | Richard Breitman | Barbara McDonald Stewart • Publisher: Indiana University Press • Publisher Imprint: Indiana University Press • BISAC: HolocaustThe private diary of James G. McDonald (1886-1964) offers a unique ...

• Author(s): Greg Jenkins • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism Paring a novel into a two-hour film is an arduous task for even the best screenwriters and directo...

• Author(s): Robert B. Zeuschner • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Reference In creating some of the most enduring characters in 20th century literature, Burroughs (1875-1950) left a comple...

• Author(s): Ronald L. Heinemann | John G. Kolp | Anthony S. Parent • Publisher: University of Virginia Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Virginia Press • BISAC: United States - State & Local - South (AL,AR,FL,GA,KY,LA,MS,"On the morni...

• Author(s): James A. Pritchett • Publisher: University of Virginia Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Virginia Press • BISAC: Africa - GeneralBreaking away from traditional ethnographic accounts often limited by theoretical frameworks and ...

• Author(s): Lisa N. Trivedi • Publisher: Indiana University Press (Ips) • Publisher Imprint: Indiana University Press (Ips) • BISAC: Asia - South - GeneralIn Clothing Gandhi's Nation, Lisa Trivedi explores the making of one of modern India's mo...

• Author(s): Ben Peek • Publisher: Wildside Press • Publisher Imprint: Wildside Press • BISAC: Science Fiction - General This is the story of Isao Dazai, a Japanese-born man who has recently immigrated to Australia with his family. The future tha...

• Author(s): Brian J. Bosch • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Latin America - General Following the 1961 assassination of dictator Rafael Trujillo, the Dominican Republic descended into a p...

• Author(s): Florian Ebeling | David Lorton | Jan Assmann • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Occultism"Perhaps Hermeticism has fascinated so many people precisely because it has made it po...

• Author(s): Deborah Shaw • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismThis engaging book explores Latin America cinema since 2000, an extraordina...

• Author(s): Jim Streisel • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Journalism High school journalists share the same objectives as professional reporters--finding the story, writing the story, and...

• Author(s): Cecelia M. Lynch • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: History & Theory - GeneralThe interwar peace movements were, according to conventional interpretations, naive and ineff...

• Author(s): Richard C. Stanton • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Journalism This book is an investigation of the 300 year old model of global journalism used by the Western news media. It ...

• Author(s): Anne B. Jones | Rex White • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Motor Sports From authors Anne Jones and former NASCAR champion Rex White, here are oral histories of more than 50 i...

• Author(s): Andrei Lankov • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Asia - Korea The Kim dynasty has ruled North Korea for over 60 years. Most of that period has found the country suffering under ...

• Author(s): Zsuzsa Csergo • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Political Ideologies - DemocracyHow can democratization, coupled with transnational integration, resolve conflicts over cultur...

• Author(s): Sol Gittleman • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History When the 1949-1953 New York Yankees won an astounding five consecutive World Series, they did it without the ...

• Author(s): Elizabeth Peterson • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Library & Information Science - General Created by and for a specific American Indian community and offering special ma...

• Author(s): Peter Seely | Gail W. Pieper • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - History & Criticism In the world of slapstick comedy, few are more beloved than the Three Stooge...

• Author(s): Doyle Greene • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism Following the national and international upheaval and tragedy in 1968, Mexican "trash cinema" bega...

• Author(s): Mark Francis • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: PhilosophersThe ideas of the English philosopher Herbert Spencer (1820-1903) profoundly shaped Victorian thought regarding evol...

• Author(s): Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom | Vladimir Tismaneanu • Publisher: Indiana University Press • Publisher Imprint: Indiana University Press • BISAC: Movements - Pragmatism

• Author(s): Michael Dow Burkhead • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Penology From drilling holes into the skulls of prisoners, to solitary confinement, to deploying a range of psychological...

• Author(s): Roger A. Salerno • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Sociology - General Between 1915 and 1935 the University of Chicago was the center for the production of innovative sociologi...

• Author(s): Leonardo Martinez-Diaz • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Banks & BankingIn Globalizing in Hard Times, Leonardo Martinez-Diaz examines the sudden and substantial increase ...