Young Adult / High School (16–18 years)

• Author(s): Gargi Bhattacharyya • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: Ethnic Studies - African American StudiesA reappraisal of the history of capitalism that places te...

• Author(s): Linda Maria Koldau • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism The narrative surrounding the Titanic's voyage, collision, and sinking in April 1912 seems t...

• Author(s): David S. New • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Christianity - History - General Today the United States is plagued with cultural and political polarization--the Reds and the Bl...

• Author(s): Roland H. Worth • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Religious In 100 A.D., Christianity was practiced only by a small, oppressed minority. Three hundred years later, Christianity...

• Author(s): Susan Sniader Lanser • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Women AuthorsDrawing on narratological and feminist theory, Susan Sniader Lanser explores patterns of narration in a wi...

• Author(s): Tobin Siebers • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Business EthicsTobin Siebers asserts that literary criticism is essentially a form of ethics. The Ethics of Criticism investig...

• Author(s): Barbara Spackman • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: LGBTBarbara Spackman here examines the ways in which decadent writers adopted the language of physiological illness and alt...

• Author(s): Paul B. Armstrong • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Modern - 20th CenturyThe Challenge of Bewilderment treats the epistemology of representation in major works by Henry James...

• Author(s): Joan Anderson Ashford • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Books & Reading The literary field of ecocriticism appraises texts from the perspective of the natural world, its bi...

• Author(s): Scott C. Beardsley • Publisher: University of Virginia Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Virginia Press • BISAC: LeadershipA revolution has been taking place in the ranks of higher education. University and college presidents-...

• Author(s): Malcolm Sheppard • Publisher: Green Ronin Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Green Ronin Publishing • BISAC: Role Playing & FantasyModern AGE roleplaying game allows you to shape the setting to suit your stylewhether its gritty acti...

• Author(s): Jean-Noel Bassior • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - History & Criticism Before Star Trek, there was Space Patrol. Science fiction television has its roots in t...

• Author(s): Wesley A. Kort • Publisher: University of Virginia Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Virginia Press • BISAC: PhilosophyGiven its affinity with questions of identity, autobiography offers a way into the interior space between a...

• Author(s): Louisa Ellen Stein | Kristina Busse • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - History & Criticism The critically-acclaimed BBC television series Sherlock (2010- ) re-e...

• Author(s): Bruce Morgan • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History In 1972, the Philadelphia Phillies experienced one of their worst seasons in franchise history, finishing with...

• Author(s): Cary Utterberg • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Chess The meeting of Louis Charles Mahe de la Bourdonnais and Alexander McDonnell at London's Westminster Chess Club in 1834 wa...

• Author(s): Mark Knowles • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Dance - Tap The language of tap dancing is as rich and varied as that of any art, and different choreographers, teachers and perf...

• Author(s): Haig Bosmajian • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General For over 2000 years, book burners have laid their torches to millions of books condemned as heretical, blasphemous, imm...

• Author(s): Michael Z. Newman • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Video & ElectronicThe cultural contradictions of early video games: a medium for family fun (but mainly for middle-class boys), an improvement over ...

• Author(s): Donald Dewey • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Boxing Without Ray Arcel (1899-1994), the 20th century world of boxing would have been markedly different. The credibility of it ...

• Author(s): Deidre M. Pike • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General This book takes an ecrocritical approach to analytical readings of animated feature films, short subjects and te...

• Author(s): Brian S. Montgomery • Publisher: Brian Montgomery • Publisher Imprint: Brian Montgomery • BISAC: Action & Adventure - GeneralDegsy Hay may have put his violent childhood behind him and fought his way out of a life on the streets ...

• Author(s): E. R. Johnson • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Aviation - General This book provides a concise historical survey of the various types of aircraft used by the United States Arm...

• Author(s): Jim Cox • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Radio - General Before television, radio was the sole source of simultaneous mass entertainment in America. The medium served as launc...

• Author(s): Christopher Douglas • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Subjects & Themes - ReligionThe rise of the Christian Right took many writers and literary critics by surprise, trai...

• Author(s): Don M. Fox • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military - World War II By January 1945, Nazi Germany's defeat seemed inevitable yet much fighting remained. The shortest way home ...

• Author(s): Louis J. Palmer • Publisher: McFarland and Company, Inc. • Publisher Imprint: McFarland and Company, Inc. • BISAC: Encyclopedias This updated encyclopedia provides ready information on all aspects of capital punishment in America. It...

• Author(s): Bud Hannings • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military - General Although the American Revolution ended in 1783, tensions between the United States and Britain over disruption...

• Author(s): Graham Webb • Publisher: McFarland and Company, Inc. • Publisher Imprint: McFarland and Company, Inc. • BISAC: Film - ReferenceShort subject films have a long history in American cinemas. These could be anywhere from 2 to 40 minutes ...

• Author(s): Arne K. Lang • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Boxing During the early years of the 20th century, San Francisco promoters served up boxing's grandest spectacles. On February 22...

• Author(s): Elaine Fox • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: PersonalityA leading experimental neuroscientist shows how we can brighten our outlooks on life by rewiring our brains.

• Author(s): Hillel I. Millgram • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Biblical Studies - Old Testament - General This book is a reader-friendly treatment of the Joseph story--one of the most po...

• Author(s): Tanisha M. Fazal • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Security (National & International)In Wars of Law, Tanisha M. Fazal assesses the unintended consequences of the prolife...

• Author(s): Patrick Phillips-Schrock • Publisher: McFarland and Company, Inc. • Publisher Imprint: McFarland and Company, Inc. • BISAC: United States - General Formerly known as the President's House, then the Executive Mansion, and now for a lo...

• Author(s): John R. Shannon • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Musical Instruments - Piano The 17th century was the century of the organ in much the same way the 19th century was the centur...

• Author(s): Hans Renette | Fabrizio Zavatarelli • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Sports Around 1860 a wave of talented youth intensified the Berlin chess scene. Within a short time Bertho...

• Author(s): Bud Hannings • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - Revolutionary Period (1775-1800) From the Battle of Lexington and Concord on 19 April, 1775, up through the reduc...

• Author(s): P. G. Wodehouse • Publisher: Wilder Publications • Publisher Imprint: Wilder Publications • BISAC: Humorous - GeneralHaving failed miserably while working for his uncle, Sam finds himself shipped off to America. He would much rather ...

• Author(s): Michael S. Levy • Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press • Publisher Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press • BISAC: Psychopathology - AddictionAccepting that there is no one-size-fits-all approach to controlling drinking, the la...

• Author(s): Pablo Neruda | Leslie G. Nuñez • Publisher: Entangled Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Entangled Publishing • BISAC: Caribbean & Latin AmericanDiscover the poetry that ignites Grace and Hudson's love story!Body of my woman, persis...

• Author(s): Nghia M. Vo • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Folklore & Mythology Legends are a mirror of the culture that creates them, a revealing lens through which to observe society,...

• Author(s): Zachariah Rush • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General This work analyzes dramatic structures, from Sophocles to Orson Welles and the 21st century cinema, all from the viewpo...

• Author(s): Robert F. O'Neill • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877) This book is an operational and tactical study of cavalry operations in Norther...

• Author(s): Nicholas A. Yanes | Derrais Carter • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Presidents & Heads of State How is Barack Obama represented in popular culture? More than the United St...

• Author(s): Robert M. Dunkerly • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - Revolutionary War Nestled on the banks of the Cape Fear River, Wilmington, North Carolina, remains famous a...

• Author(s): Curtis Evans • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Mystery & Detective Fiction In 1972, in an attempt to elevate the stature of the "crime novel," influential crime writer and ...

• Author(s): Dean Franco • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: American - GeneralIn Race, Rights, and Recognition, Dean J. Franco explores the work of recent Jewish American writers, many of ...

• Author(s): John Phillip Reid • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: Civil ProcedureJohn Phillip Reid is one of the most highly regarded historians of law as it was practi...

• Author(s): Mikhail Chulkov | Matvei Komarov | Nikolai Karamzin • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: Russian & SovietFor those who cannot read the language of the or...

• Author(s): Elizabeth a. Flynn • Publisher: Utah State University Press • Publisher Imprint: Utah State University Press • BISAC: Composition & Creative Writing - GeneralAlthough it is well known in other fields, the concept of "resilience" ...

• Author(s): Roy Kerr • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Sports Buck Ewing (1859-1906) was regarded by contemporaries as the greatest catcher and all-around player of his era. A lifetime .30...

• Author(s): Michael Schellhammer • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - Revolutionary War In the summer of 1779, British general Sir Henry Clinton launched one last attempt to g...

• Author(s): Laurence Raw • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism This biographical dictionary presents a stellar lineup of talented, versatile character actors who...

• Author(s): George Paulson • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General One of the most significant medical and social initiatives of the twentieth century was the demolition of the tradition...

• Author(s): Michael A. Eggleston • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877) The Civil War experience of the 10th Minnesota Volunteer Regiment resembles ...

• Author(s): Frank J. Swetz • Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press • Publisher Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press • BISAC: History & PhilosophyA little bucket, one-third full, is 8 inches deep, and its upper and lower diameters are ...

• Author(s): Evan Torner | William J. White • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Role Playing & Fantasy This collection of all-new essays approaches the topic of immersion as a product of ...

• Author(s): Worth Earlwood Norman • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Cultural & Regional Born into slavery on a Virginia plantation in 1857, James Solomon Russell (1857-1935) rose to be...

• Author(s): Kerry Segrave • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Automotive - History With its decentralized urban areas, pollution, and mostly inadequate public transit systems, America pays a...

• Author(s): Peter Filkins • Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press • Publisher Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press • BISAC: American - GeneralIn the pivotal poem "Marking Time," which appears almost exactly halfway through Peter Filkins's...