Young Adult / High School (16–18 years)
Filters
Split Adam: Scion Saga Book 2
Calix Leigh-Reign
Paperback
• Author(s): Calix Leigh-Reign • Publisher: Sovareign Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Sovareign Publishing • BISAC: Science Fiction - General⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐AMAZON #1 BESTSELLING SERIES⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐Split Adam flawlessly resumes the Scion Saga Series with Adam strug...
View full detailsEx Libris: Stories of Librarians, Libraries, and Lore
Paula Guran
Paperback
• Author(s): Paula Guran • Publisher: Prime Books • Publisher Imprint: Prime Books • BISAC: Science Fiction - Collections & AnthologiesPortals to all the knowledge in the world, libraries are also created universes of a multitude of imaginati...
View full detailsKubrick's Monolith: The Art and Mystery of 2001: A Space Odyssey
Joe R. Frinzi
Paperback
• Author(s): Joe R. Frinzi • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey is re-examined in a post-millennial context in this heavily researched, h...
View full detailsThe Thinking as Computation: Risks and Strategies
Hector J. Levesque
Paperback
• Author(s): Hector J. Levesque • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Intelligence (AI) & SemanticsStudents explore the idea that thinking is a form of computation by learning to write simple computer programs for tas...
View full detailsMatthew Arnold and English Education: The Poet's Pioneering Advocacy in Middle Class Instruction
Brendan A. Rapple
Paperback
• Author(s): Brendan A. Rapple • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General Poet and critic Matthew Arnold (1822-1888) was a prominent educator. One of Her Majesty's Inspectors of Elementary S...
View full detailsThe Roosevelts and Their Descendants: Portrait of an American Family
F. Martin Harmon
Paperback
• Author(s): F. Martin Harmon • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Presidents & Heads of State Few families have influenced America like the Roosevelts--two presidents from different parti...
View full detailsThe Digital Age Detective: Mysteries in a Changing Landscape of Literacy
Brendan Riley
Paperback
• Author(s): Brendan Riley • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Mystery & Detective Fiction Imagining the figure of the fictional detective as an archetype in the study of modern culture, ...
View full detailsFifty Shades and Popular Culture
Yuya Kiuchi
Paperback
• Author(s): Yuya Kiuchi • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Popular Culture - General Many fans loved Fifty Shades of Grey. Many others loved to hate it. E.L. James' trilogy of novels, and t...
View full detailsKramer Williamson, Sprint Car Legend
Chad Wayne Culver
Paperback
• Author(s): Chad Wayne Culver • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Automotive - General Sprint Car Hall of Famer Kramer Williamson began his 45-year professional career as a grassroots racer ...
View full detailsLotte Reiniger: Pioneer of Film Animation
Whitney Grace
Paperback
• Author(s): Whitney Grace • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Animation (See Also Film - Genres - Animated) For three years during the 1920s, in an attic in Potsdam, a young woman crafted wh...
View full detailsGolden Guard Trilogy: Complete Series
Elise Kova
Hardcover
• Author(s): Elise Kova • Publisher: Silver Wing Press • Publisher Imprint: Silver Wing Press • BISAC: Fantasy - EpicThis *omnibus edition* contains all three books in the Golden Guard Trilogy by USA Today bestselling author Elise Kova.It is all ...
View full detailsGiving Kids a Fair Chance
James J. Heckman
Paperback
• Author(s): James J. Heckman • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Public Policy - Social PolicyA top economist weighs in on one of the most urgent questions of our times: What is the source of inequality and what is the...
View full detailsRecoding Gender: Women's Changing Participation in Computing
Janet Abbate
Paperback
• Author(s): Janet Abbate • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Computer ScienceThe untold history of women and computing: how pioneering women succeeded in a field shaped by gender biases.Today, women earn a relatively l...
View full detailsBeyond the Tragedy in Global Fisheries
D. G. Webster
Paperback
• Author(s): D. G. Webster • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Fisheries & AquacultureAn analysis of how responsive governance has shaped the evolution of global fisheries in cyclical patterns of depletion and rebui...
View full detailsThe Klondike Stampede: As It Appeared to One of the Thousands of Cheechacos Who Participated in the Mad Rush of 1898-1899
Wallis R. Sanborn, III Wallis R. Sanborn
Paperback
• Author(s): Wallis R. Sanborn | III Wallis R. Sanborn • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Personal Memoirs Life was harsh and dangerous for the prospectors of the Klondike Gold Rush of 1898-...
View full detailsPlayer Won-Lost Records in Baseball: Measuring Performance in Context
Tom Thress
Paperback
• Author(s): Tom Thress • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - General Baseball analysts often criticize pitcher win-loss records as a poor measure of pitcher performance, as wins are...
View full detailsLibrary World Records, 3d ed.
Godfrey Oswald
Paperback
• Author(s): Godfrey Oswald • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Library & Information Science - General Which are the oldest public libraries in the world? In what years were the first bo...
View full detailsHearing Allah's Call: Preaching and Performance in Indonesian Islam
Julian Millie
Paperback
• Author(s): Julian Millie • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialHearing Allah's Call changes the way we think about Islamic communication. In the city of ...
View full detailsOver the Horizon: Time, Uncertainty, and the Rise of Great Powers
David M. Edelstein
Hardcover
• Author(s): David M. Edelstein • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: History & Theory - GeneralHow do established powers react to growing competitors? The United States currently faces a...
View full detailsBuilding Power from Below: Chilean Workers Take on Walmart
Carolina Bank Muñoz
Paperback
• Author(s): Carolina Bank Muñoz • Publisher: ILR Press • Publisher Imprint: ILR Press • BISAC: Labor & Industrial Relations - GeneralA story that involves as its main players "workers" and "Walmart" does not usually have a happy ending for l...
View full detailsAchieving Access: Professional Movements and the Politics of Health Universalism
Joseph Harris
Paperback
• Author(s): Joseph Harris • Publisher: ILR Press • Publisher Imprint: ILR Press • BISAC: Health PolicyAt a time when the world's wealthiest nations struggle to make health care and medicine available to everyone, why do resource-constrained coun...
View full detailsDoing Double Dutch: The International Circulation of Literature from the Low Countries
Elke Brems, Orsolya Réthelyi, Ton Van Kalmthout
Hardcover
• Author(s): Elke Brems | Orsolya Réthelyi | Ton Van Kalmthout • Publisher: Leuven University Press • Publisher Imprint: Leuven University Press • BISAC: Translating & InterpretingDutch literature is increasingly understood as a network of te...
View full detailsMinoan Earthquakes: Breaking the Myth Through Interdisciplinarity
Simon Jusseret, Manuel Sintubin
Hardcover
• Author(s): Simon Jusseret | Manuel Sintubin • Publisher: Leuven University Press • Publisher Imprint: Leuven University Press • BISAC: ArchaeologyDoes the "Minoan myth" still stand up to scientific scrutiny? Since the work of Sir Arthur Evans a...
View full detailsClub Red: Vacation Travel and the Soviet Dream
Diane P. Koenker
Paperback
• Author(s): Diane P. Koenker • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Russia - GeneralThe Bolsheviks took power in Russia 1917 armed with an ideology centered on the power of the worker. From t...
View full detailsHaunting Encounters: The Ethics of Reading Across Boundaries of Difference
Joanne Lipson Freed
Hardcover
• Author(s): Joanne Lipson Freed • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Semiotics & TheoryActs of cross-cultural reading have ethical consequences. In Haunting Encounters, Joanne Lipson Fr...
View full detailsAn Introduction to U.S. Collective Bargaining and Labor Relations
Harry C. Katz, Thomas A. Kochan, Alexander J. S. Colvin
Hardcover
• Author(s): Harry C. Katz | Thomas A. Kochan | Alexander J. S. Colvin • Publisher: ILR Press • Publisher Imprint: ILR Press • BISAC: Labor & Industrial Relations - GeneralThis comprehensive textbook provides an introduction to collective bar...
View full detailsLiquidation World: On the Art of Living Absently
Alexi Kukuljevic
Paperback
• Author(s): Alexi Kukuljevic • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: History - Contemporary (1945- )An examination of the disoriented subject of modernity: a dissolute figure who makes an makes an object of its absence; fr...
View full detailsBanished to the Great Northern Wilderness: Political Exile and Re-Education in Mao's China
Ning Wang
Paperback
• Author(s): Ning Wang • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Asia - ChinaAfter Mao Zedong's Anti-Rightist Campaign of 1957?58, Chinese intellectuals were subjected to "re-education" by the st...
View full detailsAchieving Access: Professional Movements and the Politics of Health Universalism
Joseph Harris
Hardcover
• Author(s): Joseph Harris • Publisher: ILR Press • Publisher Imprint: ILR Press • BISAC: Health PolicyAt a time when the world's wealthiest nations struggle to make health care and medicine available to everyone, why do resource-constrained coun...
View full detailsHearing Allah's Call: Preaching and Performance in Indonesian Islam
Julian Millie
Hardcover
• Author(s): Julian Millie • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialHearing Allah's Call changes the way we think about Islamic communication. In the city of ...
View full detailsThe Development Dance: How Donors and Recipients Negotiate the Delivery of Foreign Aid
Haley J. Swedlund
Hardcover
• Author(s): Haley J. Swedlund • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Political EconomyIn a book full of directly applicable lessons for policymakers, Haley J. Swedlund explores why foreign ai...
View full detailsThe Development Dance: How Donors and Recipients Negotiate the Delivery of Foreign Aid
Haley J. Swedlund
Paperback
• Author(s): Haley J. Swedlund • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Political EconomyIn a book full of directly applicable lessons for policymakers, Haley J. Swedlund explores why foreign ai...
View full detailsThe Age of Netflix: Critical Essays on Streaming Media, Digital Delivery and Instant Access
Cory Barker, Myc Wiatrowski
Paperback
• Author(s): Cory Barker | Myc Wiatrowski • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General In 2016, Netflix--with an already enormous footprint in the United States--expanded its online str...
View full detailsItalian Gothic Horror Films, 1970-1979
Roberto Curti
Paperback
• Author(s): Roberto Curti • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - Genres - Horror Italian Gothic horror films of the 1970s were influenced by the violent giallo movies and adults-only com...
View full detailsThe Ethics of Poker
Todd M. Furman
Paperback
• Author(s): Todd M. Furman • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Card Games - Poker Is it morally permissible to plunder a drunken player at the poker table? In a game of bluffing, are all dec...
View full detailsRise: A Blood Inheritance Novel
M. Ainihi, Allister Thompson
Paperback
• Author(s): M. Ainihi | Allister Thompson • Publisher: Mary Virella • Publisher Imprint: Mary Virella • BISAC: Fantasy - Dark FantasyWhen Amanda Garrett stumbles across a strange artifact in the woods, she has no idea of the dangerous secret it ...
View full detailsPleasure Me
Monica Burns
Paperback
• Author(s): Monica Burns • Publisher: Kathi B Scearce • Publisher Imprint: Kathi B Scearce • BISAC: LiteraryAn inexperienced hero risks everything for the courtesan who steals his heart. "...this book is fantastic. Pleasure Me made my smexy hea...
View full detailsBlack Baseball in New York City: An Illustrated History, 1885-1959
Larry Lester
Paperback
• Author(s): Larry Lester • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History Covering the post-Civil War period through the 1950s, this richly illustrated--300 photographs!--history exami...
View full detailsConnie Mack's First Dynasty: The Philadelphia Athletics, 1910-1914
Lew Freedman
Paperback
• Author(s): Lew Freedman • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History More than a century ago, the Philadelphia Athletics enjoyed a glorious five-season run under legendary manager...
View full detailsConceptual Innovation in Environmental Policy
James Meadowcroft, Daniel J. Fiorino
Paperback
• Author(s): James Meadowcroft | Daniel J. Fiorino • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Public Policy - Environmental PolicyConcepts and their role in the evolution of modern environmental policy, with case studies of el...
View full detailsThe Dangerous God: Christianity and the Soviet Experiment
Dominic Erdozain
Paperback
• Author(s): Dominic Erdozain • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: Russia - GeneralAt the heart of the Soviet experiment was a belief in the impermanence of the human spi...
View full detailsMaigret's World: A Reader's Companion to Simenon's Famous Detective
Murielle Wenger, Stephen Trussel
Paperback
• Author(s): Murielle Wenger | Stephen Trussel • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Mystery & Detective Fiction Georges Simenon's 75 novels and 28 short stories that feature Chief Inspecto...
View full detailsThe Afghanistan Poppy Eradication Campaign: Accounts from the Black Hawk Counter-Narcotics Infantry Kandak Team in Helmand Province
Harry Spiller
Paperback
• Author(s): Harry Spiller • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military - Afghan War (2001-) The 16-man Black Hawk Counter Narcotics Infantry Team served as an advisory and training unit for ...
View full detailsHidden Horrors: Japanese War Crimes in World War II
Yuki Tanaka, John W. Dower
Hardcover
• Author(s): Yuki Tanaka | John W. Dower • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: Asia - JapanThis landmark book documents little-known wartime Japanese atrocities during W...
View full detailsIndustrial Hygiene Simplified: A Guide to Anticipation, Recognition, Evaluation, and Control of Workplace Hazards
Frank R. Spellman
Paperback
• Author(s): Frank R. Spellman • Publisher: Bernan Press • Publisher Imprint: Bernan Press • BISAC: Industrial ManagementIndustrial Hygiene Simplified is ideal for those needing a refresh on industrial hygiene concepts and practices they may not ...
View full detailsAfrican American Hospitals in North Carolina: 39 Institutional Histories, 1880-1967
Phoebe Ann Pollitt
Paperback
• Author(s): Phoebe Ann Pollitt • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - General Untold thousands of black North Carolinians suffered or died during the...
View full detailsClint Eastwood's Cinema of Trauma: Essays on PTSD in the Director's Films
Charles R. Hamilton, Allen H. Redmon
Paperback
• Author(s): Charles R. Hamilton | Allen H. Redmon • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - Direction & Production Throughout his directorial career, Clint Eastwood's movies have presen...
View full detailsCity of Forests, City of Farms: Sustainability Planning for New York City's Nature
Lindsay K. Campbell
Hardcover
• Author(s): Lindsay K. Campbell • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Natural ResourcesCity of Forests, City of Farms is a history of recent urban forestry and agriculture policy and program...
View full detailsA Class of Their Own: The Düsseldorf School of Photography
Maren Polte
Paperback
• Author(s): Maren Polte • Publisher: Leuven University Press • Publisher Imprint: Leuven University Press • BISAC: HistoryThe 'Düsseldorf School' has become a household name in the art world for one of the most successful and influential strains...
View full detailsRural Radicals: Righteous Rage in the American Grain
Catherine McNicol Stock
Paperback
• Author(s): Catherine McNicol Stock • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Political Ideologies - RadicalismThrough its history, populism has meant hope and progress, as well as hate and a de...
View full detailsSinglewide: Chasing the American Dream in a Rural Trailer Park
Sonya Salamon, Katherine Mactavish
Paperback
• Author(s): Sonya Salamon | Katherine Mactavish • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialIn Singlewide, Sonya Salamon and Katherine MacTavish explore the rol...
View full detailsThe Lord's Radio: Gospel Music Broadcasting and the Making of Evangelical Culture, 1920-1960
Mark Ward
Paperback
• Author(s): Mark Ward • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Christian Living - Spiritual Growth Evangelical Christianity--the faith professed by one in four Americans--exerts an enormous influ...
View full detailsBesieged Leningrad: Aesthetic Responses to Urban Disaster
Polina Barskova
Paperback
• Author(s): Polina Barskova • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: Russia - GeneralDuring the 872 days of the Siege of Leningrad (September 1941 to January 1944), the city...
View full detailsDeaf in the USSR: Marginality, Community, and Soviet Identity, 1917-1991
Claire L. Shaw
Hardcover
• Author(s): Claire L. Shaw • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Russia - GeneralIn Deaf in the USSR, Claire L. Shaw asks what it meant to be deaf in a culture that was founded on a radicall...
View full detailsSinglewide: Chasing the American Dream in a Rural Trailer Park
Sonya Salamon, Katherine Mactavish
Hardcover
• Author(s): Sonya Salamon | Katherine Mactavish • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialIn Singlewide, Sonya Salamon and Katherine MacTavish explore the rol...
View full detailsChildren with Specific Language Impairment, Second Edition
Laurence B. Leonard
Paperback
• Author(s): Laurence B. Leonard • Publisher: Bradford Book • Publisher Imprint: Bradford Book • BISAC: SpeechThe landmark reference in the field, completely updated: a comprehensive treatment of a disorder that is more prevalent than autism.Chil...
View full detailsA World of Chess: Its Development and Variations Through Centuries and Civilizations
Jean-Louis Cazaux, Rick Knowlton
Paperback
• Author(s): Jean-Louis Cazaux | Rick Knowlton • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Chess With more than 400 illustrations, and detailed maps, this immense and deeply researched account of the...
View full detailsResistance to the Spanish-American and Philippine Wars: Anti-Imperialism and the Role of the Press, 1895-1902
Charles Quince
Paperback
• Author(s): Charles Quince • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General Following the sinking of the USS Maine in Havana Harbor in 1898, pro-war arguments in the American press led public opi...
View full detailsCharles Sweeny, the Man Who Inspired Hemingway
Charley Roberts, Charles P. Hess
Paperback
• Author(s): Charley Roberts | Charles P. Hess • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General Charles Sweeny (1882-1963) was the heir to a fortune. Renouncing a life of comfort, he became a warr...
View full detailsClassic Movie Fight Scenes: 75 Years of Bare Knuckle Brawls, 1914-1989
Gene Freese
Paperback
• Author(s): Gene Freese • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General Both brawls and elaborate martial arts have kept movie audiences on the edges of their seats since cinema began. Bu...
View full details