Young Adult / High School (16–18 years)

• Author(s): Bryce D. Avery • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Chess This is an historical overview and detailed analysis of American correspondence chess from the 1840s to about 1999. Parti...

• Author(s): Arthur P. Solomon | Allyn I. Freeman • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - General There are many sports-related books about what happens on the playing field, but few a...

• Author(s): Wallis R. Sanborn • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General In song, verse, narrative, and dramatic form, war literature has existed for nearly all of recorded history. Account...

• Author(s): Chekitan S. Dev • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Marketing - GeneralIn recent years the brand has moved squarely into the spotlight as the key to success in the hospitality ...

• Author(s): D. E. Mungello • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: Asia - ChinaFor the Chinese, the drive toward growing political and economic power is part of an ongoin...

• Author(s): Gayle J. Hardy • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General Ranging from such pioneers as Elizabeth Blackwell, Mary L. Bonney, Kate Barnard, Mariana Bracetti, and Amelia Stone Qui...

• Author(s): Tom Hughes • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - State & Local - South (AL,AR,FL,GA,KY,LA,MS, In March 1912, Gene Grace, a young Atlanta businessman, was found ...

• Author(s): Kenneth Von Gunden • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General The five directors studied here embody postmodernism--the erosion of the earlier 20th century distinction between "...

• Author(s): J. Jeremy Wisnewski • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: EssaysWisnewski provides a concise introduction to Heidegger's work through the lens of his best-k...

• Author(s): Monika Kaup • Publisher: University of Virginia Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Virginia Press • BISAC: American - GeneralIn a comparative and interdisciplinary analysis of modern and postmodern literature, film, art, and vi...

• Author(s): Richard Bogovich • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Sports This is the first full-length biography of Kid Nichols (1869-1953), who won 30 or more games a record seven times and ...

• Author(s): Christopher Lazarski • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: PoliticalLord Acton (1834-1902) is often called a historian of liberty. A great historian and polit...

• Author(s): Hiroshi Masuda | Reiko Yamamoto • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: MilitaryGeneral Douglas MacArthur's storied career is inextricably linked to Asia. His father, Arthur, serve...

• Author(s): Michael C. Hawkins • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: Asia - Southeast AsiaMaking Moros offers a unique look at the colonization of Muslim subjects during ...

• Author(s): Jeremy Agnew • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism For many years, movie audiences have carried on a love affair with the American West, believing We...

• Author(s): Jonathan Kirshner • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismBetween 1967 and 1976 a number of extraordinary factors converged to produce an uncommonly a...

• Author(s): Timothy Melley • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: American - GeneralIn December 2010 the U.S. Embassy in Kabul acknowledged that it was providing major funding for thirteen ep...

• Author(s): Christopher B. Chapp • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: United States - 20th CenturyFrom Reagan's regular invocation of America as "a city on a hill" to Obama's use of spiritu...

• Author(s): Tobias Boes • Publisher: Cornell University Press and Cornell Universi • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press and Cornell Universi • BISAC: European - GermanThe Bildungsroman, or "novel of formation," has long led a paradoxica...

• Author(s): J. Jeremy Wisnewski • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: EssaysWisnewski provides a concise introduction to Heidegger's work through the lens of his best-k...

• Author(s): Bob Leszczak • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - Guides & Reviews This book finally casts a spotlight on some short-lived and almost forgotten sitcoms--those whi...

• Author(s): Lawrence S. Katz • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History In 1939, baseball's past ran headlong into its future. As the game celebrated its 100th anniversary with t...

• Author(s): Ronald E. Kates | Warren Tormey • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - General This collection of fresh essays examines the intersection of baseball and social class, poi...

• Author(s): J. W. Williamson • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General This reference work provides production company-written plot synopses or, when a synopsis was not available, t...

• Author(s): Wendy McElroy • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Feminism & Feminist Theory This is a history of the individualist feminism movement and of three prominent publications that...

• Author(s): Phil Ball • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military The author arrived at the Marine Corps Recruit Depot in San Diego ill-prepared for the training and abuse that awaited him ...

• Author(s): Francis J. Gavin • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Security (National & International)We are at a critical juncture in world politics. Nuclear strategy and policy have ri...

• Author(s): Nicholas O. Warner • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General This is a systematically arranged, annotated collection of outstanding literary works dealing with drink. It center...

• Author(s): Guy De Maupassant • Publisher: Baker Press • Publisher Imprint: Baker Press • BISAC: LiteraryThis early work by Guy de Maupassant was originally published in the 1880's. Guy de Maupassant was born in 1850 at the Château de Miromesnil...

• Author(s): Tj Marbell • Publisher: Marbow 246 LLC • Publisher Imprint: Marbow 246 LLC • BISAC: Romance - General

• Author(s): Solomon Northup • Publisher: Quid Pro, LLC • Publisher Imprint: Quid Pro, LLC • BISAC: Personal Memoirs

• Author(s): William Shakespeare • Publisher: Tredition Classics • Publisher Imprint: Tredition Classics • BISAC: GeneralThis book is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS. It contains classical literature works from over two thousand years. Most of the...

• Author(s): William Shakespeare • Publisher: Tredition Classics • Publisher Imprint: Tredition Classics • BISAC: GeneralThis book is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS. It contains classical literature works from over two thousand years. Most of the...

• Author(s): Jonas Prida • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Science Fiction & Fantasy Robert E. Howard penned a series of fantasy stories in 1932 featuring Conan, a hulking warrior from ...

• Author(s): Lisa Doris Alexander • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - Essays & Writings This book analyzes how sportswriters have discussed issues of race, ethnicity, nationali...

• Author(s): Charles Kenny • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Development - Economic DevelopmentAs the income gap between developed and developing nations grows, so grows the cacophony of voices claiming that the q...

• Author(s): John Hagel | John Seely Brown | Lang Davison • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Organizational DevelopmentIn a radical break with the past, information now flows like water, and we must learn how to ta...

• Author(s): Kai A. Olsen • Publisher: Scarecrow Press • Publisher Imprint: Scarecrow Press • BISAC: Information TechnologyHow Information Technology Is Conquering the World focuses on the interface between the technologies and the real world in ...

• Author(s): William Shakespeare • Publisher: Tredition Classics • Publisher Imprint: Tredition Classics • BISAC: GeneralThis book (hardcover) is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS. It contains classical literature works from over two thousand years....

• Author(s): William Shakespeare • Publisher: Tredition Classics • Publisher Imprint: Tredition Classics • BISAC: GeneralThis book (hardcover) is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS. It contains classical literature works from over two thousand years....

• Author(s): William Shakespeare • Publisher: Tredition Classics • Publisher Imprint: Tredition Classics • BISAC: GeneralThis book (hardcover) is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS. It contains classical literature works from over two thousand years....

• Author(s): Drew Eisenhauer | Brenda Murphy • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General The new essays in this collection, on such diverse writers as Eugene O'Neill, Susan Glaspell, Thornton...

• Author(s): Hermann Hesse • Publisher: Serenity Publishers, LLC • Publisher Imprint: Serenity Publishers, LLC • BISAC: Buddhism - GeneralFrom A to Z, the Penguin Drop Caps series collects 26 unique hardcovers--featuring cover art by Jessica Hisc...

• Author(s): John Virtue • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military - World War II This is the first detailed account of the 5,000 black troops who were reluctantly sent north by the United...

• Author(s): Bradford B. Taliaferro • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Biblical Reference - Dictionaries & Encyclopedias This encyclopedia is the first book to identify, explain and cate...

• Author(s): Kenneth E. Burchett • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - Civil War The Battle of Carthage, Missouri, was the first full-scale land battle of the Civil War. Governo...

• Author(s): Diane Monroe Smith • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - Civil War This book follows the men of the 5th Corps and the Army of the Potomac through the Wilderness, Sp...

• Author(s): Alyssa R. Gonzalez-Dehass | Patricia P. Willems • Publisher: R & L Education • Publisher Imprint: R & L Education • BISAC: Educational PsychologyTheories in Educational Psychology's purpose is to introduce readers to the pion...

• Author(s): Louise McReynolds • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Murder - GeneralHow a society defines crimes and prosecutes criminals illuminates its cultural values, social norms, and p...

• Author(s): Jill Ann Harrison • Publisher: ILR Press • Publisher Imprint: ILR Press • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralOver the past several decades, shrimp has transformed from a luxury food to a kitchen staple. While shrimp-loving consumers have bene...

• Author(s): Per Olov Enquist • Publisher: Overlook Press • Publisher Imprint: Overlook Press • BISAC: Historical - RenaissanceThis masterful historical novel, an international bestseller, pulls readers into the dramatic and turbulent world of a ...

• Author(s): Peter Rothbart • Publisher: Scarecrow Press • Publisher Imprint: Scarecrow Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismIn The Synergy of Film and Music: Sight and Sound in Five Hollywood Films, Peter Rothbart examines a handful of m...

• Author(s): Johnson Cheu • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism Although its early films featured racial caricatures and exclusively Caucasian heroines, Disney ha...

• Author(s): Hermann Hesse • Publisher: Watchmaker Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Watchmaker Publishing • BISAC: ClassicsAn unabridged edition of Herman Hesse' 1922 classic -

• Author(s): Yoshiko M. Herrera • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: International Relations - TreatiesAs international institutions multiply and more governments sign on to standardized way...

• Author(s): Mary Shelley | Wollstonecraft Godwin Shelley Mary • Publisher: Wilder Publications • Publisher Imprint: Wilder Publications • BISAC: ClassicsMary Shelley's Frankenstein is both a frightening gothic horror story and a science fiction ...

• Author(s): Fyodor Dostoevksy • Publisher: Ardis Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Ardis Publishers • BISAC: ClassicsFyodor Dostoyevsky's darkly humorous tale offers a biting social commentary on the political, social, and economic themes prevaili...

• Author(s): Peter Moskos • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: PenologyPrisons impose tremendous costs, yet they're easily ignored. Criminals -- even low-level nonviolent offenders -- enter our dysfunctional criminal...

• Author(s): Carlen LaVigne • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Science Fiction & Fantasy This analysis of cyberpunk science fiction written between 1981 and 2003 positions women's cyberp...

• Author(s): Scott Lewellen • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - General This oral history of television sitcom writing offers the perspectives of 22 of the best and most prolific...