Young Adult / High School (16–18 years)

• Author(s): Patricia Cunningham | Dorothy Hall • Publisher: Pearson • Publisher Imprint: Pearson • BISAC: Teaching Methods & Materials - Language ArtsPatricia M. Cunningham The day I entered first grade, I decided I wanted to teach first gr...

• Author(s): Michele M. Betsill | Elisabeth Corell | Felix Dodds • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Ngos (Non-Governmental Organizations)Provides an analytical framework for assessing the impact of NGOs on intergovernm...

• Author(s): Vincent Terrace • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - Guides & Reviews In 1954 NBC President Pat Weaver introduced "spectaculars"--lavish entertainment shows desig...

• Author(s): Sondra L. Hausner • Publisher: Indiana University Press • Publisher Imprint: Indiana University Press • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialIn this moving ethnographic portrait of Hindu renouncers--sadhus or ascetics--in north...

• Author(s): Des Alwi | Barbara S. Harvey • Publisher: Southeast Asia Program Publications • Publisher Imprint: Southeast Asia Program Publications • BISAC: Customs & TraditionsDes Alwi tells of his childhood on the eastern Indonesian island ...

• Author(s): Thomas J. Schoenbaum • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General This book explores the modern relationship between religion and science, highlighting the public backlash over te...

• Author(s): Mitchell Nathanson • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History On October 7, 1977, the Philadelphia Phillies lost a playoff game to the Dodgers, a game that began so h...

• Author(s): James McMurtry Longo • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Historical - General This is a biography of Isabel Orleans-Braganca, daughter of the last emperor of Brazil. At a time wh...

• Author(s): Jerry Jenkins | Karen Roy | Charles T. Driscoll • Publisher: Comstock Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Comstock Publishing • BISAC: Environmental Science (see also Chemistry - Environmental)Acid rain has changed the face of the Adiron...

• Author(s): Jennifer Hedda • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: Christianity - OrthodoxJennifer Hedda analyzes the ideas and activities of the parish clergy serving in S...

• Author(s): Jean-Denis G. G. Lepage • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - General This book gives the reader a straightforward and continuous survey of the history of th...

• Author(s): Anthony Shay • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Dance - Folk This collection of essays examines popular forms of dance in the Balkan nations, including detailed studies on the h...

• Author(s): William Witney • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General Early in 1937, a young film editor went on-location to St. George, Utah, for the filming of Republic's The Paint...

• Author(s): Peter O. Koch • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Latin America - South America A study of the first encounters between Spanish explorers and the indigenous tribes of the America...

• Author(s): Rudy Marzano • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History This work, which picks up where the author's previous book, The Brooklyn Dodgers in the 1940s (McFarland, 2005...

• Author(s): Robert Matz • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Shakespeare Of Shakespeare's sonnets we know the crystalline meter, exquisite diction, and exhilarating surprise of the "turn" in ...

• Author(s): Tara Zahra • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Children's StudiesThroughout the nineteenth and into the early decades of the twentieth century, it was common for rural and work...

• Author(s): Gayle L. Morrison • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - Vietnam War Starting in 1960, Hmong guerrilla soldiers, under the command of General Vang Pao, functi...

• Author(s): Thomas Shelby Watson | Perry A. Brantley • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military In 1864, George D. Prentice, editor of the pro-Union Louisville Daily Journal, created the p...

• Author(s): Peter Gutierrez | Augustine Osman • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: SuicideSuicide and suicide attempts among adolescents are significant public health pr...

• Author(s): Amy A. Kass • Publisher: Indiana University Press • Publisher Imprint: Indiana University Press • BISAC: Philanthropy & CharityThis anthology explores the enterprise of philanthropy--assumptions, aspirations, and achievements. It...

• Author(s): Kristin Schwain • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Subjects & Themes - ReligiousReligious imagery was ubiquitous in late-nineteenth-century American life: department store...

• Author(s): Graham a. Cosmas | Us Army Center of Military History • Publisher: Military Bookshop • Publisher Imprint: Military Bookshop • BISAC: Military - Vietnam WarWith FULL COLOR maps and illustrations. CMH 91-7-1. United States Army in Viet...

• Author(s): Graham a. Cosmas | Us Army Center of Military History • Publisher: Military Bookshop • Publisher Imprint: Military Bookshop • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - Vietnam WarWith FULL COLOR maps and illustrations. CMH 91-7-1. United States ...

• Author(s): Lee Easton | Randy Schroeder • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General This collection of essays examines the potential connections between speculative fiction and actua...

• Author(s): Curtis Perry • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General This book features five plays from the English Renaissance that explore political questions and developments by telling s...

• Author(s): Benjamin Szumskyj • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General This comprehensive study of author Thomas Harris' popular works focuses particularly on Harris's internationally kno...

• Author(s): Bonnie Costello • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: PoetryPoets have long been drawn to the images and techniques of still life. Artists and poets alike present intimate worlds...

• Author(s): Gayle Skaggs • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Library & Information Science - General For the elementary or middle school librarian (or the classroom teacher) looking to e...

• Author(s): Farzana Hassan • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Comparative Religion This work traces the origins of apocalyptic prophecy in Christianity and Islam through in-depth examinatio...

• Author(s): Holly Menino | Elaine P. English | Graybill & English Literary Agency LLC • Publisher: University of Virginia Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Virginia Press • BISAC: Animals - MammalsA rare fox in the South American cord...

• Author(s): Craig R. McDonald • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military - World War II Submarines were responsible for about 55 percent of the tonnage of the Japanese fleets sunk during W...

• Author(s): John Louis Digaetani • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Theater - General One way or another, all playwrights use their work to explore the issues that interest them. The charac...

• Author(s): Andrew Hock Soon Ng • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Asian - General The essays in this collection acknowledge the rich Gothic tradition in Asian narratives that deal with the...

• Author(s): Rodney D. Anderson • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: Latin America - MexicoOrdinary working people, convinced their life could be better than it was, dema...

• Author(s): Philip Rieff | Kenneth S. Piver | Alan Woolfolk • Publisher: University of Virginia Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Virginia Press • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralPhilip Rieff earned recognition as one of the most profound socia...

• Author(s): Tom Weaver • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism Over more than six decades and 200 films, supreme movie villain John Carradine defined the job of th...

• Author(s): David M. Edelstein • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Security (National & International)Few would contest that the U.S. occupation of Iraq is a clear example of just how ...

• Author(s): David Brion Davis • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: United States - GeneralFirst published by Cornell in 1971, The Fear of Conspiracy brings together eighty-five speeches, do...

• Author(s): David M. Edelstein • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Security (National & International)Few would contest that the U.S. occupation of Iraq is a clear example of just how ...

• Author(s): Sophocles | Seneca | Frederick Ahl • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Ancient & ClassicalSophocles' Oedipus Tyrannus is the most famous of ancient tragedies and a literary...

• Author(s): Jeffrey Marks • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Science Fiction & Fantasy American author, editor, and critic William Parker White, better known to most as Anthony Boucher,...

• Author(s): John A. Nesser • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military Drafted in October 1968, John A. Nesser left behind his wife and young son to fight in the controversial Vietnam War. ...

• Author(s): Patrick Hurley • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Reference The dictionary lists each character from Pynchon's fiction up through his most recent novel, including the most likel...

• Author(s): Paul M. Edwards • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military - Korean War From rubber landing boats to picket boats to minesweepers, smaller support vessels did much of the work ...

• Author(s): Dennis A. Connole • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military - World War II Within hours of the strike against Pearl Harbor, the U.S. military sprang into action to implement a...

• Author(s): Les Harding • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Railroads - History The building of a narrow-gauge trans-island railway in nineteenth century Newfoundland was a reckless and even...

• Author(s): Marek Oziewicz | Donald E. Palumbo | III Sullivan C. W. • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Science Fiction & Fantasy This work presents the genre of mythopoeic fantasy from ...

• Author(s): Michael B. Barrett • Publisher: Indiana University Press • Publisher Imprint: Indiana University Press • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - World War IIn October 1917, an invasion force of some 25,000 German soldiers, accompanied by a flo...

• Author(s): Michael L. Stephens • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - Guides & Reviews The conventions of gangster movies have become well known: the gum-chewing moll, the kiss of d...

• Author(s): Janet L. Meyer • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism Jeremiah Johnson, The Way We Were, Absence of Malice, Out of Africa, Tootsie, The Firm, Searchin...

• Author(s): Michael Wescott Loder • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Corporate & Business History - General This work examines the roles that American businesses and photojournalists pl...

• Author(s): R. M. Sheldon • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Bibliographies & Indexes Intelligence activities have always been an integral part of statecraft. Ancient governments, like ...

• Author(s): Alison K. Smith • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: Russia - GeneralAlison K. Smith examines changing attitudes, behaviors, and beliefs about the production...

• Author(s): Charles F. Faber • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History In this third edition of Baseball Ratings, author Charles Faber combines the second edition ("great fodder...

• Author(s): Alexander Hamilton | James Madison | John Jay • Publisher: A & D Publishing • Publisher Imprint: A & D Publishing • BISAC: History & Theory - GeneralThe Federalist Papers serve as a primary source for interpretation of th...

• Author(s): Kenneth D. Alford • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - Civil War A Bible, an officer's mess kit, a cane arm chair and a blood-stained note... at first glance, thes...

• Author(s): Mi Gyung Kim • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Chemistry - Physical & TheoreticalIn the eighteenth century, chemistry was transformed from an art to a public science. Chemical affinity played an impor...

• Author(s): John R. McKivigan • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: United States - 19th CenturyThe reformer James Redpath (1833-1891) was a focal figure in many of the key developments in n...