Young Adult / High School (16–18 years)

• Author(s): John M. Curatola • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - World War II - General Right after World War II, the United States felt secure in its atomic monopoly....

• Author(s): Ralph R. Frerichs • Publisher: ILR Press • Publisher Imprint: ILR Press • BISAC: EpidemiologyIn October 2010, nine months after the massive earthquake that devastated Haiti, a second disaster began to unfold--soon to become the world...

• Author(s): Vera Schiff | Jeff McLaughlin • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Modern - 20th Century - Holocaust Originally constructed in the 18th century as a military barracks by Austrian ...

• Author(s): Gene C. Armistead • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877) Horses and mules served during the Civil War in greater number and suffered mor...

• Author(s): Jerry Vermilye • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General Buster Crabbe's chief claim to fame, aside from his Olympic gold medal (for the 400-meter freestyle event in 193...

• Author(s): Paul Fryer • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General This collection of new essays explores the many ways in which composers have been depicted in film and what audience...

• Author(s): Michael Bryan Doc Rock Kelly • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Genres & Styles - Rock Did the Beatles originate the Beatle haircut? boots? collarless jackets? No. Did they ...

• Author(s): Wyatt Prunty • Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press • Publisher Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press • BISAC: American - GeneralIn his ninth collection of poems, Wyatt Prunty explores the comic and lyric intersection of the r...

• Author(s): Jean Anderson | Carolina Miranda | Barbara Pezzotti • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Mystery & Detective Fiction Written from a multicultural and interdisciplinary perspec...

• Author(s): Stephen Knight • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Mystery & Detective Fiction Australian crime fiction has grown from the country's origins as an 18th-century English prison...

• Author(s): Todd Snyder • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Regional Studies In this work the various ways that social, economic, and cultural factors influence the identities and educationa...

• Author(s): Neil Hollander • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military - World War I Most histories of World War I revolve around gruesome battles, ribboned generals and feats of military h...

• Author(s): Nickolas Haydock | E. L. Risden • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism Why did the most read work in English literature go without cinematic adaptatio...

• Author(s): Eugene Raikhel • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: NeurologyCritics of narcology--as addiction medicine is called in Russia--decry it as being "backward," hopelessly behind con...

• Author(s): Nicholas L. Miller • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Security (National & International)This is an intense and meticulously sourced study on the topic of nuclear weapons ...

• Author(s): Michael G. Cornelius • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - History & Criticism Spartacus, the Thracian gladiator turned rebel leader, endures as a near-mythic hero...

• Author(s): Rich Blevins • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History The exemplar of the major league slugging shortstop before either Honus Wagner or Lou Boudreau, Ed McKean spen...

• Author(s): Jamil Khoury | Michael Malek Najjar | Corey Pond • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Middle Eastern A bold and singular collection of six plays by Arab and Jewish playwrights exp...

• Author(s): Elsa A. Nystrom • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General This book covers Joan Newton Cuneo's life, and her roles (from 1905 to 1915) as the premier female racer in the United...

• Author(s): Geok Goh • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: Asia - Southeast AsiaThe recorded history of precolonial Burmese empire and the modern state of Myanmar starts ...

• Author(s): Jose Rizal | Charles Derbyshire • Publisher: Digireads.com • Publisher Imprint: Digireads.com • BISAC: LiteraryAt the center of "Noli Me Tangere (Touch Me Not)" by Philippine national hero José Rizal is the conflict against Spanish c...

• Author(s): James Summerville • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Murder - General Late on the afternoon of November 9, 1908, five shots rang out from the corner of Seventh and Union in down...

• Author(s): Anthony Trollope • Publisher: Palala Press • Publisher Imprint: Palala Press • BISAC: GeneralThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This...

• Author(s): Derek R. Sweet | Donald E. Palumbo | III Sullivan C. W. • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism Speculative science fiction, with its underlying socio-...

• Author(s): David Sim • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: United States - 19th CenturyIn the mid-nineteenth century the Irish question--the governance of the island of Ireland--demanded at...

• Author(s): Constance Brittain Bouchard • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Europe - MedievalIn high medieval France, men and women saw the world around them as the product of tensions bet...

• Author(s): Robert F. Fischer • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military - Vietnam War Playing trumpet in the 9th Infantry Division Band should have been a safe assignment but the Viet Con...

• Author(s): Andres Wirkmaa • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - General With the aim of providing anyone interested in baseball scorekeeping everything he or she needs to perform t...

• Author(s): Sandra A. Moulton | Elaine A. Moore • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Diseases - Heart Hypertension, or high blood pressure, is a common chronic disease affecting people of dif...

• Author(s): James A. Cosby • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Genres & Styles - Rock Rock music today is universal and its popular history is well known. Yet few know how and why it rea...

• Author(s): Jeremy Lehrman • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - General From its colorful beginnings more than a century ago, baseball's annual Most Valuable Player Award has becom...

• Author(s): Celeste L. Arrington • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Comparative PoliticsGovernment wrongdoing or negligence harms people worldwide, but not all victims are equally effecti...

• Author(s): Michelle D. Argyle | Diane Dalton • Publisher: Mda Books • Publisher Imprint: Mda Books • BISAC: Thrillers & Suspense - GeneralTwo sisters. One drug syndicate. An epic battle to the top.Eighteen year-old Starry is destined to tak...

• Author(s): Ben Bolling | Matthew J. Smith • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Popular Culture - General This collection of 13 new essays employs ethnographic methods to investigate San Dieg...

• Author(s): Mary K. Leigh | Kevin K. Durand • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism The work of Karl Marx is revered in social philosophy, political science and li...

• Author(s): Tina Lee • Publisher: Rutgers University Press • Publisher Imprint: Rutgers University Press • BISAC: Public Policy - Social Services & WelfareInfluenced by news reports of young children brutalized by their parents, most of us s...

• Author(s): Jonathan Silverman | Meghan M. Sweeney • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Schools - Levels - Higher The built and landscaped spaces of colleges and universities radiate and abso...

• Author(s): Kevin Kenny • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Golf - General Set against the background of the Great Depression, this book presents the life of Ralph Guldahl, who for a brief p...

• Author(s): Rudyard Kipling • Publisher: Simon & Brown • Publisher Imprint: Simon & Brown • BISAC: Action & AdventureFirst published in 1897, "Captains Courageous" follows the adventures of Harvey Cheyne, a spoiled, rich young man wh...

• Author(s): Andrew Murray • Publisher: Wilder Publications • Publisher Imprint: Wilder Publications • BISAC: Christian Life - Spiritual GrowthI pray earnestly that our gracious Lord may be pleased to bless this little book, to help those who see...

• Author(s): Gino Di Felice • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Chess This is a continuation of a series of comprehensive chronological reference works listing the results of men's chess comp...

• Author(s): John McHugo • Publisher: Georgetown University Press • Publisher Imprint: Georgetown University Press • BISAC: Islam - HistoryThe 1,400-year-old schism between Sunnis and Shi'is is currently reflected in the destructive struggle for ...

• Author(s): Brian Hannan • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism In the Silent Era, film reissues were a battle between rival studios--every Mary Pickford new rele...

• Author(s): David Venditta • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military - Vietnam War Nicky Venditti, a U.S. Army helicopter pilot with a love of fast cars and practical jokes, went to Vietn...

• Author(s): Alexander Hamilton | James Madison | John Jay • Publisher: Stonewell Press • Publisher Imprint: Stonewell Press • BISAC: History & Theory - GeneralThe Federalist Papers contain some of the greatest political writing of all time. ...

• Author(s): Rebecca A. Umland • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism Unlike such romanticized renegades as Robin Hood and Jesse James, there is another kind of ou...

• Author(s): Baroness Orczy | 1st World Publishing • Publisher: 1st World Publishing • Publisher Imprint: 1st World Publishing • BISAC: ClassicsPurchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downlo...

• Author(s): Amy L. Thompson | Antonio S. Thompson • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Popular Culture - General Part pop culture trope, part hypothetical cataclysm, the zombie apocalypse is ...

• Author(s): William Langland • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Poetry William Langland's 14th-century poem Piers Plowman, a disturbing and often humorous commentary on corruption and greed...

• Author(s): Sarah Kember | Joanna Zylinska • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Media StudiesAn argument for a shift in understanding new media--from a fascination with devices to an examination of the complex processes...

• Author(s): Peter P. Hinks | Stephen Kantrowitz | Leslie A. Lewis • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Freemasonry & Secret SocietiesIn early March 1775, an Irish soldier initiated a do...

• Author(s): William Farina • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Genres & Styles - Pop Vocal The stylistic remnants of cabaret music from Weimar-era Germany are all around us. During the 2...

• Author(s): Romulus Hillsborough • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Asia - Japan Assassination--in Japanese, ansatsu or "dark murder"--was instrumental in the samurai-led revolution known a...

• Author(s): Mary Ellen Snodgrass • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General McFarland Companions to Young Adult Literature American novelist Gary Paulsen is best known for his young adult ...

• Author(s): Lise Hull • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Europe - Great Britain - General Medieval castles were not just showcases for the royal and powerful, they were also the centerpiece...

• Author(s): Katarina Serulus • Publisher: Leuven University Press • Publisher Imprint: Leuven University Press • BISAC: Industrial Design - GeneralIn the postwar era, design became important as a marker of modernity and progress at world fairs a...

• Author(s): Mathew J. Bartkowiak | Yuya Kiuchi • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism Films produced in late 1960s and early 1970s America--along with later films...

• Author(s): Pietro Pucci • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Ancient and ClassicalIn this provocative book, Pietro Pucci explores what he sees as Euripides's revolutionary literary art. Wh...

• Author(s): Edward M. Corrado | Heather Moulaison Sandy • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: Library & Information Science - Archives & Special LibrariesThis n...