Young Adult / High School (16–18 years)

• Author(s): Bill Mallon | Anthony Th Bijkerk • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Olympics & Paralympics Until this volume was compiled, the results of the 1920 Olympics held in Antwerp, ...

• Author(s): Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell • Publisher: Cosimo Classics • Publisher Imprint: Cosimo Classics • BISAC: WomenAs interest in 19th-century English literature by women has been reinvigorated by a resurgence in popularity of the works of J...

• Author(s): Gregory Lamberson • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - Direction & Production This is a step-by-step guide to creating and selling a horror movie, from rough outline to...

• Author(s): Jack E. Schairer • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877) In July 1864, while hemmed in by Grant at Richmond, General Robert E. Lee concei...

• Author(s): Hart Matthews • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Historical - General Most people recognize Wilbur and Orville Wright as the first in flight, in 1903, on the blustery sand dunes...

• Author(s): Frankie y. Bailey • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Mystery & Detective Fiction The book describes the movement by African American authors from slave narratives and antebe...

• Author(s): Kerry Segrave • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism The relationship of Hollywood and television, initially turbulent, has ultimately been profitable...

• Author(s): Lisa Gottlieb • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Popular Culture - General This book presents a classification system for graffiti art styles that reflects the expertise of graf...

• Author(s): Muhammad A. Dandamaev • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: Ancient - GeneralPresents an analysis of the economics of slavery and a picture of Neo-Babylonian ...

• Author(s): William Hawes • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General Incest, explicit violence, homosexual rape--all presented in graphic clarity for general movie audiences. The fig...

• Author(s): Kate MacDonald | Elizabeth Foxwell • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General The works of Scottish politician, statesman and thriller writer John Buchan examined the nature of ...

• Author(s): Zachary Michael Jack • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General Long before journalist George Plimpton donned shoulder pads for Paper Lion, sportswriters were stepping onto the ...

• Author(s): Marian S. Mazgaj • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military - World War II Born in the Polish village of Gaj in 1923, Marian Mazgaj was a teenager when Germany invaded his coun...

• Author(s): Robert L. Gale • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General This reference book acquaints and reacquaints readers with the brilliant short stories of Ring Lardner, who was the fir...

• Author(s): Kevin McGowan | Kimberley Corwin • Publisher: Comstock Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Comstock Publishing • BISAC: Life Sciences - Zoology - OrnithologyBoth an indispensable scientific work and a beautiful collection of art, The Sec...

• Author(s): Martha Lampland | Susan Leigh Star • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Information ManagementStandardization is one of the defining aspects of modern life, its presence so perv...

• Author(s): William M. Grimes • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Finance - GeneralSince the Asian Financial Crisis of 1997-98, East Asian economies have sought to make themselves less vul...

• Author(s): Harilaos Stecopoulos • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: American - Regional"The unending tragedy of Reconstruction," wrote W. E. B. Du Bois, "is the utter inability of the Ame...

• Author(s): Elaine A. Moore | Samantha Wilkinson • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Pharmacology Naltrexone is an opiate antagonist drug developed in the 1970s and approved by the FDA in 19...

• Author(s): Sonya N. Jason • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military - World War II This book tells the story of Slovak underground member Maria Gulovich's unlikely heroism, focusing on t...

• Author(s): Les Edgerton • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - General For decades baseball scouts have beat the bushes for talent, wandering throughout the United States in search ...

• Author(s): Lynne Y. Edwards | Elizabeth L. Rambo | James B. South • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - History & Criticism Buffy the Vampire Slayer earned critical acclaim f...

• Author(s): Brett L. Abrams • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General Politics is nothing new to Washington, D.C., even in the arena marked with base paths and outfield grass. The stadium ...

• Author(s): Fred Ladd | Harvey Deneroff • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General The first generation of American television programmers had few choices of Saturday morning childre...

• Author(s): Nathaniel Hawthorne • Publisher: Tark Classic Fiction • Publisher Imprint: Tark Classic Fiction • BISAC: ClassicsThe great classic created and priced especially for students. Each page has a special margin for students to take notes ...

• Author(s): Ryan Chamberlain • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - 19th Century This book argues that dueling should be looked at as a fundamental part of the history of journa...

• Author(s): John Chandler Griffin • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - Civil War The fascination with the Confederacy and its heroes seems to grow ever stronger. Arranged chro...

• Author(s): Jacob Nathaniel Raymer • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military - General Soon after North Carolina seceded from the Union in May 1861, Jacob Nathaniel Raymer enlisted in the...

• Author(s): Per Pinstrup-Andersen | Fuzhi Cheng • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Developing & Emerging CountriesThe food problems now facing the world--scarcity and starvation, cont...

• Author(s): Leon Smith • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Telecommunications It is often said that the greater Los Angeles area is the largest movie set in the world, and if a person lives ...

• Author(s): Bernd Herzogenrath • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General This collection of 20 essays pays homage to a filmmaker who had a reputation for delivering the most movie f...

• Author(s): Jean de La Fontaine | Randolph Paul Runyon • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General Though they were first written over 300 years ago, this is the first complete English trans...

• Author(s): Jean-Denis G. G. Lepage • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military - World War II During the Nazi regime's swift rise to power, no single target of nazification took higher pri...

• Author(s): Edward J. Rielly • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General This collection of essays examines how college professors teach the genre of detective fiction and provides insight i...

• Author(s): Jonathan L. Friedmann • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Religious - Christian This collection of historically significant essays focuses on the purpose and function of sacred m...

• Author(s): Matthew Hilton • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Economic HistoryThe history of consumerism is about much more than just shopping. Ever since the eighteenth century, citizen-...

• Author(s): Ko-Lin Chin • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: CriminologyThe Golden Triangle region that joins Burma, Thailand, and Laos is one of the global centers of opiate and methamphet...

• Author(s): Janet Beizer • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Women's Studies - GeneralIf questions of subjectivity and identification are at stake in all biographical writing, they are par...

• Author(s): Leon Rosenstein • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Reference - GeneralThe notion of retrieving a bit of the past-by owning a material piece of it-has always appealed to humans...

• Author(s): Martha K. Huggins | Marie-Louise Glebbeek • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: ResearchIn a compelling exploration of an oft-hidden aspect of qualitative f...

• Author(s): Robert G. Rodriguez • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Boxing This first nationwide study of boxing regulations in the United States offers an historical overview of the subject...

• Author(s): Michael Keren | Holger H. Herwig • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Peace This collection of essays investigates such diverse vehicles for war commemoration as poems, battlefiel...

• Author(s): Robert D. Denham • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General This companion covers Charles Wright's first two trilogies, Country Music (1982) and The World of the Ten Thousand Th...

• Author(s): Ying Zhu | Christopher Allen Berry • Publisher: Indiana University Press • Publisher Imprint: Indiana University Press • BISAC: Television - GeneralIf radio and film were the emblematic media of the Maoist era, television has rapidly...

• Author(s): Randy Palmer • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Entertainment & Performing Arts Paul Blaisdell was the man behind the monsters in such movies as The She Creature, Invasion o...

• Author(s): Patrick McAleer • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General Stephen King is no stranger to the realm of literary criticism, but his most fantastic, far-reaching work has a...

• Author(s): Kerry Segrave • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Labor & Industrial Relations The transition from stage to screen was not only a shift in popular entertainment, but a challe...

• Author(s): Evelynn M. Hammonds | Rebecca M. Herzig • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialA collection of wide-ranging primary source material that tracks the shifting relationships be...

• Author(s): James D. Szalontai • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History The Second World War was in the bottom of the ninth inning in Germany and Japan, but back at home the ba...

• Author(s): Andrew T. Price-Smith • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: HistoryAn analysis of infectious disease as a threat to national security that examines the destabilizing effects of the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic, ...

• Author(s): Voltaire • Publisher: Tark Classic Fiction • Publisher Imprint: Tark Classic Fiction • BISAC: Classics

• Author(s): John R. Stilgoe • Publisher: University of Virginia Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Virginia Press • BISAC: Railroads - GeneralUnlike many United States industries, railroads are intrinsically linked to American soil and par...

• Author(s): Gary Allen Smith • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General "Epic" films, those concerned with monumental events and larger-than-life characters, cover the period from the Creat...

• Author(s): Fyodor Dostoyevsky • Publisher: Wilder Publications • Publisher Imprint: Wilder Publications • BISAC: Short Stories (single author)The Grand Inquisitor is a passage taken from Fyodor Dostoevsky's novel, The Brothers Karamazov. The st...

• Author(s): Ernest Gellner | John Breuilly • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Political Ideologies - Nationalism & PatriotismPeriodically, an important book emerges that makes us, thr...

• Author(s): Timothy S. Good • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - Civil War This is a narrative of Abraham Lincoln's bid for the White House from 1858 through 1860. Lincoln see...

• Author(s): Michael J. Seneca • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Motor Sports For four years in the early 1900s, the Fairmount Park Motor Races were run on an eight-mile course in Philadelp...

• Author(s): Albert J. Menendez • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Political Process - Campaigns & Elections This work concentrates on the longstanding and significant factors of regiona...

• Author(s): R. Matthew Poteat • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General This is the first in-depth, comprehensive biography of Henry Toole Clark, North Carolina's second Civil War governor...

• Author(s): Lyle Spatz • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History Trading, buying and selling players have always been key in building better baseball teams, and few things stir ...