Young Adult / High School (16–18 years)

• Author(s): Valerie Estelle Frankel • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Comics & Graphic Novels A great deal of scholarship has focused on Joss Whedon's television and film work, which i...

• Author(s): Glenn Reynolds • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism In recent decades historians and film scholars have intensified their study of colonial cinema i...

• Author(s): Hermann Hesse • Publisher: Digireads.com • Publisher Imprint: Digireads.com • BISAC: Religious - GeneralThe title of this novel is a combination of two Sanskrit words, "siddha," which is defined as "achieved," and "artha" which is de...

• Author(s): Mary Shelley | Walter Scott • Publisher: Digireads.com • Publisher Imprint: Digireads.com • BISAC: ClassicsMary Shelley's "Frankenstein" is the story of Victor Frankenstein, a young scientist who through a strangely unorthodox experi...

• Author(s): Daniel Wickberg • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialWhy do modern Americans believe in something called a sense of humor and how did they co...

• Author(s): Edward S. Sears • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Olympics & Paralympics Beginning with prehumans running down prey, this book describes how ancient, medieval and modern ru...

• Author(s): Hannah Appel | Arthur Mason | Michael Watts • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & Social"Oil is a fairy tale, and, like every fairy tale, is a bit o...

• Author(s): Angela J. Hattery | Earl Smith • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: DiscriminationFrom teen pregnancy to athletics, myths about African American families a...

• Author(s): Brigid Starkey | Mark A. Boyer | Jonathan Wilkenfeld • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: International Relations - GeneralThis hands-on text provides an e...

• Author(s): Jennifer Bowers Bahney • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: World - General While on honeymoon in Vienna in June of 1998, at the height of the tourist season, Gerald Daniel Blanch...

• Author(s): James B. Murphy • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General They were almost The Pendletones--after the Pendleton wool shirts favored on chilly nights at the beach--then The Surf...

• Author(s): Kevin Desmond • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General In the latter half of the 19th century, Gustave Pierre Trouve, a modest but brilliant Parisian electrical engineer, conc...

• Author(s): Francis Hutcheson • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Ethics & Moral PhilosophyOften described as the father of the Scottish Enlightenment, Francis Hutcheson (1694-1746...

• Author(s): Matthew Edwards • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism Seventy years after the nuclear attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan is still dealing with ...

• Author(s): Nicholas P. Greco • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General As an artist, David Bowie was widely considered a "chameleon," shedding one persona to create another and thus stayi...

• Author(s): Bill Mesce • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - History & Criticism There are two ages in the history of television: before HBO and after HBO. Before the launch o...

• Author(s): Grace Barnes • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Theater - History & Criticism Audiences for musical theater are predominantly women, yet shows are frequently created and pro...

• Author(s): Kristina Horton • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - General Union organizer and balladeer Ella May became a martyr for workers nationwide when she was murdered on...

• Author(s): Anthony J. Nocella | Richard J. White | Erika Cudworth • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Public Policy - Environmental Policy Building upon anarchist critiques of racism, sexis...

• Author(s): Brenda S. Gardenour Walter • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology The witch, the vampire and the werewolf endure in modern horror. T...

• Author(s): Kristen L. Geaman • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Comics & Graphic Novels Dick Grayson--alter-ego of the original Robin of Batman comics--has gone through various changes...

• Author(s): Russ S. Moxley • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General People yearn for leaders who are authentic, who show their own face and not a game face, who find and use their voice i...

• Author(s): Thad Mumau • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History The 1960 Pittsburgh Pirates were a special team--team being the operative word. There were no superstars, althou...

• Author(s): Allen H. Mesch • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877) From West Point to Fort Donelson, General Charles Ferguson Smith was a soldier's s...

• Author(s): William J. Fanning • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military - General Death rays! Absurd idea peddled by con artists and amateurs and promoted by a sensationalist press? Not ...

• Author(s): Sharony Green • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: United States - 19th CenturyIt is generally recognized that antebellum interracial relationships were "not...

• Author(s): Mark McEntire • Publisher: Fortress Press • Publisher Imprint: Fortress Press • BISAC: Biblical Studies - Old TestamentIn Portraits of a Mature God, Mark McEntire traced the narrative development of the divine character in the Old Te...

• Author(s): Jerusha McCormack | John G. Blair • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: Regional StudiesThis innovative book introduces China on its own terms by explaining...

• Author(s): Darragh Greene | Kate Roddy • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Comics & Graphic Novels Superheroes are enjoying a cultural resurgence, dominating the box office and breaking...

• Author(s): Al Sandine • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military - General In 1519, a few hundred Europeans led by Hernan Cortes sailed from Cuba to the Mexican mainland, where they encou...

• Author(s): Orvin Lee Shiflett • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General William Terry Couch (1901-1988) began his four-decade publishing career building the University of North Carolina P...

• Author(s): Donald M. Nonini • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialHow do class, ethnicity, gender, and politics interact? In what ways do they constitute...

• Author(s): Jeremy Dupertuis Bangs • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - Revolutionary Period (1775-1800) Elkanah Watson (1758-1842) travelled everywhere and associated with ev...

• Author(s): Raymond L. Garthoff | Raymond L. Garthoff • Publisher: Georgetown University Press • Publisher Imprint: Georgetown University Press • BISAC: Security (National & International)During the Cold War, the political leadership of the ...

• Author(s): Jeffrey J. Miller • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Football - General Glenn Scobey "Pop" Warner (1871-1954) stands among the giants of the coaching profession, alongside Knute...

• Author(s): Anita Price Davis | Jimmy S. Emerson • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: History - General As the United States struggled to recover from the Great Depression, 24 towns in Alabam...

• Author(s): William E. Akin • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History The small and midsized cities of western Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia reached their peaks of popula...

• Author(s): Pablo J. Boczkowski | Eugenia Mitchelstein • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: JournalismAn analysis of divergent online news preferences of journalists and consumers and what this means for media and democ...

• Author(s): Illah Reza Nourbakhsh • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: RoboticsA roboticist imagines life with robots that sell us products, drive our cars, even allow us to assume new physical form, and more.With robot...

• Author(s): Alastair Brotchie • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: LiteraryThis long-awaited biography of Alfred Jarry reconstructs a life both "ubuesque" and pataphysical. When Alfred Jarry died in 1907 at the age of t...

• Author(s): Gwen Allen • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: History - Contemporary (1945- )How artists' magazines, in all their ephemerality, materiality, and temporary intensity, challenged mainstream art criticism and...

• Author(s): Malcolm McCullough • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Human-Computer Interaction (HCI)On rediscovering surroundings when information goes everywhere.The world is filling with ever more kinds of media, in e...

• Author(s): Jeffrey Michael Laing • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History The Troy Haymakers were a pioneer baseball team legendary for exploits on and off the field. Formed i...

• Author(s): Gregory B. Graybill • Publisher: Fortress Press • Publisher Imprint: Fortress Press • BISAC: Christian Church - HistoryLong overshadowed by Luther and Calvin, Philipp Melanchthon (14971560) is one of the most important figures in the...

• Author(s): Kenneth S. Kendler | Josef Parnas • Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press • Publisher Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press • BISAC: Psychopathology - General

• Author(s): Leo Graf Tolstoy | Louise Shanks 1855-1939 Maude • Publisher: Palala Press • Publisher Imprint: Palala Press • BISAC: Russian & Former Soviet UnionThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part...

• Author(s): Dennis F. Poindexter • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military - Strategy Carl Von Clausewitz described the purpose of war as "the compulsory submission of the enemy to our wi...

• Author(s): Helen M. Kinsella • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Human RightsSince at least the Middle Ages, the laws of war have distinguished between combatants and civilians under an i...

• Author(s): Joshua Rovner • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Intelligence & EspionageWhat is the role of intelligence agencies in strategy and policy? How do policymakers use (or misu...

• Author(s): Gerald Prenderghast • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military - Vietnam War Britain's peacekeeping role in Southeast Asia after World War II was clear enough but the purpose o...

• Author(s): Kevin Michael Scott • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Comics & Graphic Novels Marvel Comics has an established tradition of addressing relevant real-life issues facing the ...

• Author(s): Bud Moore | Perry Allen Wood • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General One of NASCAR's pioneers, Bud Moore won countless races in the sport's early rough and tumble days. In al...

• Author(s): Washington Irving • Publisher: Palala Press • Publisher Imprint: Palala Press • BISAC: United States - State & Local - GeneralThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge bas...

• Author(s): Jutta Wimmler • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - History & Criticism Why did it seem strange when Battlestar Galactica ended its narrative on a religious note i...

• Author(s): Terry Eagleton • Publisher: University of Virginia Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Virginia Press • BISAC: PhilosophyIn his latest book, Terry Eagleton, one of the most celebrated intellects of our time, considers the least ...

• Author(s): Marie Anchordoguy • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Asia - JapanHow have state policies influenced the development of Japan's telecommunications, computer hardware, computer ...

• Author(s): William Patrick Dean • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Aviation - History The ATL-98 Carvair is a truly unusual aircraft. Converted from 19 C-54 World War II transport planes a...

• Author(s): Adair Landborn • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Dance - General Flamenco dance and bullfighting are parallel arts with shared traditions, performance conventions and vocabular...

• Author(s): Valerie Imbruce • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Agriculture & FoodOn the sidewalks of Manhattan's Chinatown, you can find street vendors and greengrocers selling bright...