Young Adult / High School (16–18 years)

• Author(s): Hiroshi Kitamura • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismDuring the six-and-a-half-year occupation of Japan (1945-1952), U.S. film studios--in close c...

• Author(s): Floyd Sullivan • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - Essays & Writings This is a memoir of a diehard--a diehard fan who drove himself and his family half crazy to ge...

• Author(s): Donald P. Wright | Timothy R. Reese | William S. Wallace • Publisher: www.Militarybookshop.Co.UK • Publisher Imprint: www.Militarybookshop.Co.UK • BISAC: Military - Iraq War (2003-2011)"On Point II" is the US Army's first historical ...

• Author(s): Donald P. Wright • Publisher: www.Militarybookshop.Co.UK • Publisher Imprint: www.Militarybookshop.Co.UK • BISAC: Military - Iraq War (2003-2011)"On Point II" is the US Army's first historical study of Operation Iraqi Freedom between...

• Author(s): John Atkins • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Genres & Styles - Rock More than just a biography or discography, this work is a thoroughly detailed guide to every known reco...

• Author(s): Bill Mallon | Ture Widlund • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Olympics & Paralympics During the 1996 Centennial Olympic Games in Atlanta, much of the world watched and celeb...

• Author(s): Tony Scott • Publisher: Utah State University Press • Publisher Imprint: Utah State University Press • BISAC: RhetoricBuilding on recent work in rhetoric and composition that takes an historical materialist approach, Dangerous Writin...

• Author(s): Bill Mallon • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Olympics & Paralympics One of the early concepts of the Olympic Games was to include "intercalated" Games every four years bet...

• Author(s): Bill Mallon | Ture Widlund • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Olympics & Paralympics The 1912 Olympic Games held in Stockholm, Sweden, were the most "modern" Olympic Games y...

• Author(s): Bill Mallon • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Olympics & Paralympics The 1900 Olympic Games have been termed "The Farcical Games." The events were poorly organized and year...

• Author(s): Manuel Pastor | Chris Benner | Martha Matsuoka • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Public Policy - Regional PlanningEconomic justice has long been the core goal of community or...

• Author(s): Ruth Wallis Herndon | John E. Murray • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: United States - Colonial Period (1600-1775)The history of early America cannot be told without consider...

• Author(s): Philip A. Lieberman • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General Lengthy biographies are provided for 28 of the most prominent trendsetting morning men, including Gene Rayburn, "B...

• Author(s): Richard A. Sauers | Martin H. Sable • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General Frank Bartlett was an indifferent student at Harvard when the Civil War began in 1861, but after h...

• Author(s): John Morgenstern • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Children's & Young Adult Literature This ambitious study of the textual characteristics of children's literature examines...

• Author(s): Kathleen L. Brown • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General This volume introduces ways to use film to ease the difficulty of introducing complex literary theories to students....

• Author(s): Kristy S. Coleman • Publisher: Altamira Press • Publisher Imprint: Altamira Press • BISAC: Comparative ReligionRe-riting Woman is an ethnographic study of Dianic Wicca, a modern Pagan religion in which the divine is solely feminine. ...

• Author(s): Charles Darwin • Publisher: Book Jungle • Publisher Imprint: Book Jungle • BISAC: GeneralThe most popular of Darwinas books during his lifetime, in a beautifully illustrated new edition Featuring dozens of color photographs from Dar...

• Author(s): Paul Battersby | Joseph M. Siracusa • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: GlobalizationThis concise text presents a focused, well-rounded, and clear-eyed in...

• Author(s): Bouthaina Shaaban • Publisher: Indiana University Press • Publisher Imprint: Indiana University Press • BISAC: Women's StudiesSyrian feminist activist Bouthaina Shaaban revisits Both Right and Left Handed, her widely admired book bas...

• Author(s): Martin A. Coleman • Publisher: Indiana University Press • Publisher Imprint: Indiana University Press • BISAC: Ethics & Moral PhilosophyAlthough he was born in Spain, George Santayana (1863-1952) became a uniquely American philos...

• Author(s): Tighe E. Zimmers • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Composers & Musicians - General Best known as the writer of the lyric for the popular Disney song "Who's Afraid of the Bi...

• Author(s): Robert P. Broadwater • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military One of the Civil War's most successful generals is heralded by military historians but never achieved the lastin...

• Author(s): Nicholas Tawa • Publisher: Indiana University Press • Publisher Imprint: Indiana University Press • BISAC: Genres & Styles - ClassicalThe years of the Great Depression, World War II, and their aftermath brought a sea change in Am...

• Author(s): William M. Simons • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - Essays & Writings This anthology gathers selected papers from the 2007 and 2008 meetings of the Cooperstown S...

• Author(s): Hermann Hesse • Publisher: Brownstone Books • Publisher Imprint: Brownstone Books • BISAC: GeneralSiddhartha is an allegorical novel by Hermann Hesse which deals with the spiritual journey of an Indian boy called Siddhartha during th...

• Author(s): Robert E. Kelly • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History Ty Cobb, Nap Lajoie, and Honus Wagner were among the greatest hitters who ever played major league baseball...

• Author(s): David S. T. Blackmore • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Water Sports - Boating The specialized language of seafarers is a complex mixture of the strange and the familiar, incor...

• 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): Catherine Brady • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Scientists - GeneralThe story of molecular biologist Elizabeth Blackburn and her groundbreaking research on telomeres and what it reveals about the resour...

• Author(s): Richard H. Cummings • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Radio - History & Criticism During the Cold War, Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty broadcast uncensored news and com...

• Author(s): Christine Barkley | Donald E. Palumbo | III Sullivan C. W. • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Books & Reading This critical study analyzes Stephen R. Donaldson's role as a m...

• Author(s): Kyra A. Kietrys | Montserrat Linares • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General This collection of new essays examines the representation of the female self in recent novels wri...

• Author(s): Robert Boschman • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Poetry Exploring the connections between nature and culture, this volume discusses the works of three female American poets: A...

• Author(s): Lawrence A. Pervin • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: History The New York Giants returned to prominence with a Super Bowl victory in 2008, but the franchise has a long and prou...

• Author(s): Peter O. Koch • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: North American Spanish conquistadors attempted to conquer the New World nearly a century before the English colonists establishe...

• Author(s): Lee McIntyre • Publisher: Bradford Book • Publisher Imprint: Bradford Book • BISAC: Philosophy & Social AspectsWhy the prejudice against adopting a scientific attitude in the social sciences is creating a new 'Dark Ages' and prev...

• Author(s): W. David Lewis • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: United States - State & Local - Middle AtlanticA significant chapter in the history of American social reform is traced i...

• Author(s): Dominick LaCapra • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: HistoriographyDominick LaCapra's History and Its Limits articulates the relations among intellectual history, cultural hist...

• Author(s): David Covin • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - State & Local - West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT This important study posits a new way of understanding how ordina...

• Author(s): Kent Byron Armstrong • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - Guides & Reviews The slasher film genre got its start in the early 1960s with filmmakers such as Alfred Hitchc...

• Author(s): David Williamson • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - Civil War This is an accounting of the experiences of the soldiers of Hardcastle's 3rd Battalion Mississippi ...

• Author(s): Lisa Morton • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism Tsui Hark, one of China's most famous film artists, is little known outside of Asia even though he ...

• Author(s): K. Martial Frindéthié • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism Setting the stage for a critical encounter between Francophone African cinema and Contine...

• Author(s): Clyde T. McCants • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General In his "middle period," Verdi was responsible for the creation of three of opera's great works, Rigoletto, Trovatore,...

• Author(s): Murray Frame • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Theater - History & Criticism The opulent St. Petersburg Imperial Theaters were subsidized and administered by the Russian co...

• Author(s): Lawrence Mishel | Jared Bernstein | Heidi Shierholz • Publisher: ILR Press • Publisher Imprint: ILR Press • BISAC: Political EconomyThe State of Working America, prepared biennially since 1988 by the Economic Policy Institute, includ...

• Author(s): John Gilbert McCurdy • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: United States - Colonial Period (1600-1775)In 1755 Benjamin Franklin observed "a man without a wife is but half a man" ...

• Author(s): Ray Argyle • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Music At the turn of the twentieth century, Scott Joplin struggled on the margins of society to play a pivotal role in the creation...

• Author(s): Francine Silverman • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - General This book seeks to bridge the gap between show hosts and prospective guests, providing a reference gui...

• Author(s): Thomas A. Jones • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General A healthy lifestyle is a popular way to deal with aging, but the serious fun and games don't have to end once middle a...

• Author(s): Serguei Alex Oushakine • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Russia - GeneralThe sudden dissolution of the Soviet Union altered the routines, norms, celebrations, and shared unde...

• Author(s): Serguei Alex Oushakine • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Russia - GeneralThe sudden dissolution of the Soviet Union altered the routines, norms, celebrations, and shared unde...

• Author(s): Janet Kemper Beck • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - 19th Century One of the triggering events of the Civil War helped divide a nation but also launched a cannon...

• Author(s): David K. Vaughan • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General This is a study of the war poetry of nine American men who served in World War II. The efforts of those who had estab...

• Author(s): Hugh Warren West | John Scura • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military Hugh Warren West was drafted into the U.S. Army in 1942, during the height of the Second World War. Aft...

• Author(s): David Norton • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: Native AmericanThroughout the colonial period, Oneida speakers promoted themselves as representatives not o...

• Author(s): Åsne Seierstad • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Military - Wars & Conflicts (Other)

• Author(s): Scott C. Martin • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: United States - 19th CenturyDrink, in the minds of antebellum temperance reformers, represented the thre...

• Author(s): William J. Ryczek • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History This history of America's pastime describes the evolution of baseball from early bat and ball games to it...