Young Adult / High School (16–18 years)

• Author(s): Louis C. Linn | Laura Jane Linn Wright | B. J. Omanson • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - World War I Of all the American divisions in World War I, the 4t...

• Author(s): Kelly J. Pfaff | Peder N. Piering • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - General Integrating sport psychology with the personal testimonies of baseball players, this help...

• Author(s): Rudolph H. Weingartner • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: Schools - Levels - HigherWritten informally, Fitting Form to Function that the way in which the...

• Author(s): Olga S. Opfell • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Women's Studies This book presents the lives and accomplishments of 39 women rulers--not "in-name-only," but wielders of real p...

• Author(s): Joel S. Franks • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History This book chronicles the Hawaiian Travelers, a barnstorming baseball team of multiethnic, multiracial Hawaii...

• Author(s): James R. Tootle • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - General Every spring, thousands of ball players across the country step back to the nineteenth century to play vint...

• Author(s): Kevin J. Wetmore • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General Since 1968, the name of motion picture director George Romero has been synonymous with the living dead. His la...

• Author(s): Steven Jay Rubin • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General This critical text offers a behind-the-scenes look at fifteen of the most important American war films of the ...

• Author(s): Axel Nissen • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism Ma Joad in The Grapes of Wrath, Mammy in Gone with the Wind, Auntie Em in The Wizard of Oz --all ...

• Author(s): Donald Leslie Johnson • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism Speculation abounds about the relationship between Frank Lloyd Wright and Ayn Rand. Was h...

• Author(s): Wayne Mahood • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military Although he never achieved the renown of Ulysses S. Grant or Robert E. Lee, General Alexander Hays was one of the great ...

• Author(s): Harriet C. Frazier • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Cultural & Ethnic Studies - American - African American & Bl Slavery and its lasting effects have long been an issu...

• Author(s): Arthur C. Brooks • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Political Ideologies - Conservatism & LiberalismAmerica faces a new culture war. It is not a war about guns, abortions, or gays -- rather it is a...

• Author(s): Gregory D. Koblentz • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Security (National & International)"Biological weapons are widely feared, yet rarely used. Biological weapons were t...

• Author(s): Carolina Armenteros • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Europe - France"A fierce absolutist, a furious theocrat... the champion of the hardest, narrowest, and most inflexible d...

• Author(s): Nancy Rappaport • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Personal MemoirsIn 1963, Nancy Rappaport's mother committed suicide after a bitter divorce and custody battle. Nancy was four years old. As one of ele...

• Author(s): Christopher Dorsey • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Regional Studies This work addresses how southern West Virginia's complex and often chaotic history still impacts key aspec...

• Author(s): Laura Wagner • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Entertainment & Performing Arts - General This first-ever biography of American actress Anne Francis will enlighten her casua...

• Author(s): James M. Ransom • Publisher: Fall Creek Books • Publisher Imprint: Fall Creek Books • BISAC: United States - State & Local - Middle AtlanticThis is the story of early iron mining and manufacturing, and what remains to be seen tod...

• Author(s): Daniel Leonhard Purdy • Publisher: Cornell University Press and Cornell Universi • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press and Cornell Universi • BISAC: History - RomanticismThe eighteenth century struggled to define architecture...

• Author(s): Mark Mortensen • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military In its list of the "Top 10 Badass Marines," Leatherneck magazine declared that Major George W. Hamilton "never asked a...

• Author(s): Audrey L. Becker | Kristin Noone | Donald E. Palumbo • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Folklore & Mythology Examining how we interpret Welshness today, this volume brings t...

• Author(s): Bill Staples • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History While the story of the Negro Leagues has been well documented, few baseball fans know about the Japanese Ameri...

• Author(s): M. Carmen Gómez-Galisteo • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism More than seventy years after its publication in 1936, Margaret Mitchell's Gone with t...

• Author(s): Anna O. Graeber | Linda Valli | Kristie Jones Newton • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: Teaching Methods & Materials - MathematicsThis book provides ...

• Author(s): Sheila Jasanoff • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Philosophy & Social AspectsInvestigations into the interplay of biological and legal conceptions of life, from government policies on cloning to DNA p...

• Author(s): William B. Parrill • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - Direction & Production Ridley Scott, the director of such seminal films as Blade Runner, Alien and Thelma & ...

• Author(s): Don Cusic • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General This series of biographical profiles shines a spotlight on that special place "Where the West meets the Guitar." From Gene A...

• Author(s): Petrus Liu • Publisher: Cornell East Asia Series • Publisher Imprint: Cornell East Asia Series • BISAC: Asian - ChineseKnown in the West primarily through poorly subtitled films, Chinese martial arts fiction is one of the most iconic...

• Author(s): Michael Newton • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Criminology Organized crime has played a significant social role in cultures all over the world. This is the first book to esta...

• Author(s): Patrick M. Stinson • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Aviation - General Since Wilbur and Orville Wright's first machine-powered flight, adventurers have pondered the prospect o...

• Author(s): David Healy • Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press • Publisher Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press • BISAC: Psychopathology - Bipolar DisorderDrawing heavily on primary sources and supplemented with interviews and insight ga...

• Author(s): Moira Davison Reynolds • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Women's Studies - General Frances Wright was a pioneer in the fight for women's reproductive rights in late-19th centur...

• Author(s): Ronald Genini • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General Despite being a mediocre actress with less than classic beauty, Theda Bara was one of Hollywood's leading perform...

• Author(s): Barna William Donovan • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - Genres - Science Fiction & Fantasy For many years, conspiracy theories have been among the most popular story...

• Author(s): Eldon L. Ham • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - General There is a long-standing relationship between broadcasting and sports, and nowhere is this more evident than i...

• Author(s): Daniel Grausam • Publisher: University of Virginia Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Virginia Press • BISAC: American - GeneralWhat does narrative look like when the possibility of an expansive future has been called into ques...

• Author(s): Dennis Kitchin • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - Vietnam War Faced with a 1-A draft classification after graduation from college in the spring of 1968, t...

• Author(s): Thea Cervone • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: World - General The swearing of oaths is a cultural phenomenon that pervades English history and was remarkably important during ...

• Author(s): Susan P. Phillips • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Library & Information Science - General Just about any librarian needs new ideas for dynamic, topical library displays. ...

• Author(s): David Schweickart • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: PoliticalSince first published in 2002, After Capitalism has offered students and political activist...

• Author(s): R. Scott Mackey • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History In the 1920s baseball fans flocked to minor league ballparks, making stars of players who would never wear ...

• Author(s): Carl Goodwin • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Motor Sports An affordable, lightweight sports car suitable for racing, the MG TC launched the sports car scene in postwar Americ...

• Author(s): George L. Lee • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Cultural & Ethnic Studies - American - African American & Bl Selected from his newspaper feature which appeared in most ...

• Author(s): Beatriz Dujovne • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Dance - Popular The tango is easily the most iconic dance of the last century, its images as familiar as an old friend. But ar...

• Author(s): Martin A. Sweeney • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Presidents & Heads of State Although Illinois enjoys the indisputable title of "The Land of Lincoln," one small town in ...

• Author(s): Peter Taylor • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - General This work follows the journey Peter Taylor undertook during the summer of 2007 (and a bit of 2009), when he se...

• Author(s): Morris B. Kaplan • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Europe - Great Britain - GeneralSodom on the Thames looks closely at three episodes involving sex between men in late-ninet...

• Author(s): Carol Smallwood | Colleen S. Harris | Cynthia Brackett-Vincent • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Poetry In these 59 essays, published female poets share a wealth of practical a...

• Author(s): Andrew B. Leiter • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism The representation of Southerners on film has been a topic of enduring interest and debate amo...

• Author(s): John W. Dardess • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: Asia - ChinaThis engaging, deeply informed book provides the first concise history of one of China's m...

• Author(s): Carl J. Mora • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General Mexican filmmaking is traced from its early beginnings in 1896 to the present in this book. Of particular interest...

• Author(s): Jorge S. Figueredo • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History In March 1999, the Baltimore Orioles played a team of Cuban all-stars, the first time a major league bas...

• Author(s): Ryukishi07 | Yutori Houjyou | Athena Nibley • Publisher: Yen Press • Publisher Imprint: Yen Press • BISAC: Manga - GeneralThe demon of the Sonozaki family has found fertile soil in Shion's soul, and her fury rages out of control as s...

• Author(s): Mark Clark • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General While you may think the old adage about oil and water being unable to mix applies perfectly to the cinema of terror ...

• Author(s): Jonathan Kinghorn • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Ships & Shipbuilding - History In 1881, the dynamic Baltimorean Bernard N. Baker established the Atlantic Transport Line...

• Author(s): Lisa M. Mundey • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military - General Scholars have characterized the early decades of the Cold War as an era of rising militarism in the United S...

• Author(s): Thomas C. Renzi • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism This is a comprehensive comparative analysis of the screwball comedy and film noir genres--two ...

• Author(s): Michael Oher • Publisher: Turtleback Books • Publisher Imprint: Turtleback Books • BISAC: Sports

• Author(s): John R. Vile • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: ConstitutionalA Companion to the United States Constitution and Its Amendments is designed to show studen...