Young Adult / High School (16–18 years)

• Author(s): Rebecca J. Tannenbaum • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: HistoryThis book, the first to describe women medical practitioners other than midwives in the colonial period, emphas...

• Author(s): Edmund Gosse • Publisher: SMK Books • Publisher Imprint: SMK Books • BISAC: Personal MemoirsFather and Son is a memoir by poet Edmund Gosse, which he subtitled "a study of two temperaments." The book describes Edmund's early years in...

• Author(s): Patrick J. Charles • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bea...

• Author(s): Paul Lerner • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: HistoryPaul Lerner traces the intertwined histories of trauma and male hysteria in German society and psychiatry and shows how t...

• Author(s): Geoffrey S. Riggs • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Genres & Styles - Opera It is unusual for styles in opera to carry over from one era into another--and even more unusual...

• Author(s): Frank McConnell | Donald E. Palumbo • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Science Fiction & Fantasy A member of the Pulitzer Prize jury, the late Frank McConnell helped science...

• Author(s): August John Hoffman | Norma Espinosa Parker | Eduardo Sanchez • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Public Policy - Social Services & Welfare Community service work is an ideal...

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

• Author(s): Mary Kirby-Diaz • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General Buffy the Vampire Slayer transcended its cult-comic roots to achieve television success, spawning the spinoff series A...

• Author(s): Samuel Y. Edgerton • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: History - European - RenaissanceIn The Mirror, the Window, and the Telescope, Samuel Y. Edgerton brings fresh insight to ...

• Author(s): Mark Berninger | Jochen Ecke | Gideon Haberkorn • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Comics & Graphic Novels These essays from various critical disciplines examine how comic b...

• Author(s): George S. Larke-Walsh • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism The "post-classic" era of American gangster films began in 1967 with the release of Bonni...

• Author(s): Heinz Tschachler • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Coins, Currency & Medals What can we learn about America by examining its paper bills? This illuminating text answers tha...

• Author(s): David C. Wright | Allan W. Austin • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - History & Criticism Essays in this work examine treatments of history in science fiction an...

• Author(s): Dani Cavallaro • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Science Fiction & Fantasy At the time of his death, Italo Calvino was internationally regarded as one of Italy's greatest t...

• Author(s): Dan Lee • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military Lovell Harrison Rousseau was a distinguished Union general in the Civil War, but he was more than a soldier. A defense attorn...

• Author(s): Marilyn Cohen • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History Even though teenaged girl Jackie Mitchell once struck out Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig, women are still striking ...

• Author(s): Don Cusic • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General Gene Autry was the first of the wildly popular "singing cowboys" of the thirties and forties and the man who carried the fla...

• Author(s): Naoko Takemaru • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: World - General Feminist critics have long considered language a primary vehicle for the transmission of sexist values in a soc...

• Author(s): R. Michael Wilson • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - 19th Century This reference work contains details of all the crimes resulting in executions in the fifteen w...

• Author(s): Karma Waltonen | Denise Du Vernay • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Teaching Methods & Materials - General The object of much debate, attention, and scholarship since it fi...

• Author(s): Don Berliner • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Aviation - History This is the history of air racing from its beginnings in 1909 at Reims, France, to the end of the 2008 racing ...

• Author(s): David C. Tucker • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - General Originally broadcast on American television between 1952 and 1969, the 30 situation comedies in this work...

• Author(s): Michael L. Nunnally • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military - General On June 3, 1513, ships commanded by Juan Ponce de Leon were attacked by a group of Calusa Indians in on...

• Author(s): Sally A. Dumaux • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Entertainment & Performing Arts - General King Baggot began in films in 1909, was a major star from 1910 to 1916, and gain...

• Author(s): Michael J. Forsyth • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877) The Union Army's Red River Campaign began on March 12, 1864, with a two-pronge...

• Author(s): Norman Stone • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - World War IAfter the unprecedented destruction of the Great War, the world longed for a lasting peace. The victors, however, value...

• Author(s): James Lovelock • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Environmental Conservation & Protection - General

• Author(s): Antonio Savorelli • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - General This book explores the mechanisms that have driven the evolution of televisual comedy from the classic ...

• Author(s): Richard P. McCall • Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press • Publisher Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press • BISAC: PhysiologyRichard P. McCall's fascinating book explains how basic concepts of physics apply to the fundamental...

• Author(s): Bruce Shaw | Donald E. Palumbo | III Sullivan C. W. • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Science Fiction & Fantasy Though animal stories and fables stretch back into the antiq...

• Author(s): Don Howard Dean • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - General The southern agricultural landscape is enriched by the occasional old cane mill, once the center of fa...

• Author(s): Saúl Sibirsky | Martin C. Taylor • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Translating & Interpreting Language into Language, conceived as both a theoretical and a practical source...

• Author(s): Raymond D. Gastil | Barnett Singer • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - State & Local - Pacific Northwest (OR, WA) The Pacific Northwest--for the purposes of t...

• Author(s): Michael Newton • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - 20th Century The Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Ku Klux Klan share a long and complicated history. Beg...

• Author(s): William Strunk • Publisher: Frederick Singer & Sons • Publisher Imprint: Frederick Singer & Sons • BISAC: Writing - Academic & Scholarly"No book in shorter space, with fewer words, will help any writer more than this pers...

• Author(s): Jaquavis Coleman • Publisher: Kensington Publishing Corporation • Publisher Imprint: Kensington Publishing Corporation • BISAC: African American & Black - Urban & Street LitIn the second installment in the Dopeman's Trilogy, ...

• Author(s): Don Tyler • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - Guides & Reviews Beginning with The Jazz Singer in 1927 and ending with Sweeney Todd in 2007, this comprehensive critical...

• Author(s): David Deming • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: History Science is a living, organic activity, the meaning and understanding of which have evolved incrementally over human histo...

• Author(s): Ted Leavengood • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History Heading into their ninth season, the expansion Washington Senators had never won more than 76 games in a sea...

• Author(s): Idean Salehyan • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Security (National & International)Rebellion, insurgency, civil war-conflict within a society is customarily treated as a...

• Author(s): Graham Bader • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Individual Artists - GeneralThe most comprehensive collection on Lichtenstein, from the earliest reviews to recent reassessments, including several hard-to-f...

• Author(s): Leigh H. Edwards • Publisher: Indiana University Press • Publisher Imprint: Indiana University Press • BISAC: Genres & Styles - Country & Bluegrass - GeneralThroughout his career, Johnny Cash has been depicted--and has depict...

• Author(s): Walter L. Hawkins • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: MilitaryOffers detailed, career-oriented summaries of men and women who often overcame societal obstacles to become ranking ...

• Author(s): John J. J. Johnson • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General In the 1950s Hollywood unleashed a wave of monsters; everything from demon aliens and dinosaurs to blobs and...

• Author(s): Burge Carmon Smith • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History Having finished the previous season a mere game behind pennant-winning St. Louis, the Detroit Tigers ent...

• Author(s): Rogelio Agrasánchez • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General In 1912, Guillermo Calles (1893-1958) became the first Mexican actor to appear in films made in California....

• Author(s): Tommy Bengtsson | Cameron Campbell | James Z. Lee • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: DemographyA pioneering work in comparative history and social science that compares population behavior in response to a...

• Author(s): Irving Singer • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Movements - HumanismAn examination of ideas and ideals of medieval courtly love and the transition into later Romantic love, analyzing the work of Dante, Sh...

• Author(s): Adrian Taylor Kane • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General From the Popol Vuh to postmodernism, imagery of the natural world has played an important role in Latin American li...

• Author(s): Nickolas Haydock | E. L. Risden • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism This collection of essays analyzes film representations of the Crusades, other ...

• Author(s): Dominique Vinck • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Engineering (General)A guide to the everyday working world of engineers, written by researchers trained in both engineering and sociology.Everyday Enginee...

• Author(s): Antonia Levi | Mark McHarry | Dru Pagliassotti • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Comics & Graphic Novels "Boys' love," a male-male homoerotic genre written primarily by wom...

• Author(s): Adrian Room • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Reference The specialized jargon of some sports can be quite esoteric. Non-Americans, for example, are likely puzzled by baseball ...

• Author(s): Larry J. Hoefling • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Entertainment & Performing Arts - General Nils T. Granlund (1882-1957) created the first movie preview, filmed the first...

• Author(s): James McKay • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General Dana Andrews, arguably the finest minimalist actor of his generation, as one critic commented, could convey more wi...

• Author(s): Martin S. Nowak • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Presidents & Heads of State Eight U.S. presidencies have ended in death. This work covers the deaths and attendant mournin...

• Author(s): Mohammed a. Bamyeh • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: Political Ideologies - AnarchismThis original and impressively researched book explores the concept...

• Author(s): Wes D. Gehring • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General The twelve classic comedy films examined within these pages are distinguished by an equal number of defining com...

• Author(s): Lyn C. MacGregor • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Sociology - Rural"So, how do Americans in a small town make community today? This book argues that there is more than one a...