Young Adult / High School (16–18 years)

• Author(s): Mark Thompson • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - World War II - General A former Harvard professor of decision science and game theory draws on those disc...

• Author(s): Charles Dickens • Publisher: Digireads.com • Publisher Imprint: Digireads.com • BISAC: ClassicsRegarded by Charles Dickens as his best novel upon publication, "Martin Chuzzlewit" relates a tale of familial selfishness and eventual mo...

• Author(s): Kayla Ann • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Science Fiction & Fantasy For 21st-century young adults struggling for personal autonomy in a society that often demands complia...

• Author(s): James M. McCaffrey • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - 19th Century This is the story of the Spanish-American War, told not from the perspective of generals, poli...

• Author(s): Jason J. Cruz • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Sports Barbaric. Savage. Violent. Words often used by critics to describe the sport of mixed martial arts. To this can be added ...

• Author(s): Aubrey Malone • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - Direction & Production Punctilious to a fault, Sidney Lumet favored intense rehearsal, which enabled him to bring in...

• Author(s): Bob Luke • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Business Captain Isaac "Ike" Emerson, riding high on the international success of his patent, Bromo-Seltzer, lived a storied life of ...

• Author(s): Catherine Gomes | Brenda S. a. Yeoh • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialThis book uses digital ethnography to study cr...

• Author(s): Tim Rooney • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Coaching - Basketball When John Beilein arrived at University of Michigan in 2007, the once-proud men's basketball program was adri...

• Author(s): Randy Laist • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General For thirty years, the twin towers of the World Trade Center soared above the New York City skyline, eventually beco...

• Author(s): Alec Worley • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism The warlocks and ghosts of fantasy film haunt our popular culture, but the genre has too long been ...

• Author(s): Harry Waldman • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism From 1933 until America's entry into World War II in 1941, nearly 500 Nazi films were shown in Am...

• Author(s): Steven J. Ericson • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Asia - JapanWith a new look at the 1880s financial reforms in Japan, Steven J. Ericson's Financial Stabilization in Meiji ...

• Author(s): Dean W. Holt • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military - General This updated edition of the 1992 reference work ("exhaustive...fascinating"--Library Journal) contains compreh...

• Author(s): Chelsey L. Kivland • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialHow do people improvise political communities in the face of state collapse--and at w...

• Author(s): Robert Kelz • Publisher: Cornell University Press and Cornell Universi • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press and Cornell Universi • BISAC: European - GermanFollowing World War II, German antifascists and nationalists in Bueno...

• Author(s): Susan Greenhalgh | Li Zhang • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Development - Economic DevelopmentCan Science and Technology Save China? assesses the intimate connections betwe...

• Author(s): Chelsey L. Kivland • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialHow do people improvise political communities in the face of state collapse--and at w...

• Author(s): Benjamin Franklin Martin • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: Subjects & Themes - GeneralIn the late 1930s and early 1940s, Roger Martin du Gard was one ...

• Author(s): Alfarabi | Charles E. Butterworth • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: PoliticalButterworth richly deserves to be congratulated for providing advanced students and scholars with...

• Author(s): Susan Greenhalgh | Li Zhang • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Development - Economic DevelopmentCan Science and Technology Save China? assesses the intimate connections betwe...

• Author(s): Sara E. Lewis • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialSpacious Minds argues that resilience is not a mere absence of suffering. Sara E. Lewis's ...

• Author(s): Robert Kelz • Publisher: Cornell University Press and Cornell Universi • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press and Cornell Universi • BISAC: European - GermanFollowing World War II, German antifascists and nationalists in Bueno...

• Author(s): Ralph | Sheera | Stephanie Olinga-Shannon • Publisher: Southeast Asia Program Publications • Publisher Imprint: Southeast Asia Program Publications • BISAC: Asia - Southeast AsiaFifty Years in the Karen Revolution in Burma is about c...

• Author(s): Jeanne Marie Christie • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - Civil War After more than three years of grim fighting, General Ulysses Grant had a plan to end the Civi...

• Author(s): Rich Marazzi • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Football - General Chronicling Yale football from its 1872 inception to the present, this volume offers a comprehensive coverage ...

• Author(s): Brian E. Crim • Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press • Publisher Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - World War II - GeneralA gripping history of one of the United States' most controversial Co...

• Author(s): Yuko Kurahashi • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Theater - History & Criticism This first-ever biography exploring the life of Ping Chong (1946), successful avant-garde art...

• Author(s): William Edward Moneyhun • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Australia & New Zealand - General Today's New Zealand is an emerging paradigm for successful cultural relations. A...

• Author(s): Steven Keslowitz • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - Genres - Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror This critical examination of two dystopian television series--Bla...

• Author(s): Alan I. West • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military - United States Among the top physicians of the Confederacy, Christopher H. Tebault distinguished himself as a surgeon d...

• Author(s): Heinz Tschachler • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: American Government - General More than two hundred years after his death, George Washington is still often considered the me...

• Author(s): Richard Tuerk • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Children's & Young Adult Literature This work traces the concepts of initiation, transformation and rebirth though Beatrix P...

• Author(s): Caroline Madden • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Genres & Styles - Rock A catalog nearly fifty years in the making, Bruce Springsteen's music remains popular and a frequen...

• Author(s): Doug Risner | Karen Schupp • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Dance - Classical & Ballet The first of its kind, this volume presents research-based fictionalized case studie...

• Author(s): Jim Williams | Ann Williams • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - Revolutionary Period (1775-1800) John Davidson came to the North Carolina back country circa 1751 ...

• Author(s): Natalie Wilson • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Popular Culture Taking in a wide range of film, television, and literature, this volume explores 21st century horror and its mo...

• Author(s): Lou Mougin • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Superheroes When Superman debuted in 1938, he ushered in a string of imitators--Batman, Wonder Woman, Captain Marvel, Captain Amer...

• Author(s): Michele Brittany | Nicholas Diak • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Horror & Supernatural From shambling zombies to Gothic ghosts, horror has entertained thrill-seeking read...

• Author(s): Anne Powers • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Mystery & Detective Fiction Outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare, the works of Agatha Christie stand as some of the most ...

• Author(s): Gaines S. Hubbell | Matthew Wilhelm Kapell • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Video & Electronic What is a videogame? What makes a videogame "good"? If a game is supposed to...

• Author(s): Drew D. Brown • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Sociology of Sports African Americans have made substantial contributions to the sporting world, and vice versa. This wide-rangi...

• Author(s): Matthew A. Crenson | Benjamin Ginsberg • Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press • Publisher Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press • BISAC: Public Affairs & AdministrationOriginally publushed in 2002. In Downsizing Democracy,...

• Author(s): Jason Friedman • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - 20th Century The office of the President of the United States was plagued by scandals in the early 1970s. When ...

• Author(s): Max Longley • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - 19th Century J. Williams Thorne (1816-1897) was an outspoken farmer who spent the first half-century of his remark...

• Author(s): James E. Overmyer • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History Cumberland Posey began his career in 1911 playing outfield for the Homestead Grays, a local black team i...

• Author(s): Paul R. Misencik | Sally E. Misencik • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Indigenous - General In the mid-17th century, the Iroquois Confederacy launched a war for control of the ...

• Author(s): Eloy L. Nuñez | Ernest G. Vendrell • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Caribbean & West Indies - Cuba In 1959, Fidel Castro assumed power in Cuba after overthrowing the gove...

• Author(s): Cait Coker | Donald E. Palumbo | III Sullivan C. W. • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - Genres - Horror The media vampire has roots throughout the world, far beyond the sh...

• Author(s): Cheryl Fair • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Adventurers & Explorers In May 1891, Joe Quigley embarked on a journey north to try his luck prospecting for gold in Alaska. A...

• Author(s): Ginna Moran • Publisher: Sunny Palms Press • Publisher Imprint: Sunny Palms Press • BISAC: Romance - ParanormalThis academy bites...but so do I. I always thought I knew who I was--a dhampir, born a rebel, raised to be the gift to hu...

• Author(s): Heraclitus | G. T. W. Patrick • Publisher: Digireads.com • Publisher Imprint: Digireads.com • BISAC: History & Surveys - Ancient & ClassicalHeraclitus of Ephesus was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher born in approximately 535 ...

• Author(s): Sarah K. L. Wilson | Luciano Fleitas • Publisher: Sarah K. L. Wilson • Publisher Imprint: Sarah K. L. Wilson • BISAC: Fairy Tales & Folklore - GeneralThink you could craft the perfect bargain? From USA Today bestselling author Sa...

• Author(s): Daniel Altman | Fawn Zwickel • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - World War II - General A tough Jewish kid from the Bronx, Dan Altman enlisted in the Army ...

• Author(s): Lucan | Edward Ridley • Publisher: Digireads.com • Publisher Imprint: Digireads.com • BISAC: Ancient & ClassicalThe great Roman poet Lucan is considered one of the most important Latin Poets of all time. His masterful epic "Phars...

• Author(s): Brian Martin • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History At six-feet-six, the hulking Martin Leo Boutilier (1872-1944) was hard to miss. Yet the many books written abo...

• Author(s): David L. Porter • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military - Vietnam War As a first lieutenant in the 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment, U.S. Army pilot David Porter was section le...

• Author(s): John Arquilla • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - World War II - General The factors leading to the defeat of the Axis Powers in World War II have been deb...

• Author(s): Sebastián Hurtado-Torres • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: United States - 20th CenturyIn this novel take on diplomatic history, Sebastián Hurtado-Torres examines the involve...

• Author(s): Michael C. Hawkins • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: United States - 20th CenturySemi-Civilized offers a concise, revealing, and analytically penetrating ...