Young Adult / High School (16–18 years)

• Author(s): Penelope Deutscher • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Feminism & Feminist TheoryThe influential philosopher and theorist Luce Irigaray has been faulted for giving more imp...

• Author(s): Niklas Holzberg | Geoffrey M. Goshgarian • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Ancient and ClassicalThe Roman poet Ovid is enjoying a renaissance. Though relegated to the margins...

• Author(s): Paul Friedland • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Europe - FranceFrom the start of the French Revolution, contemporary observers were struck by the overwhelming theatricality ...

• Author(s): Kerstin Dautenhahn | Chrystopher L. Nehaniv • Publisher: Bradford Book • Publisher Imprint: Bradford Book • BISAC: Intelligence (AI) & SemanticsAn interdisciplinary overview of current research on imitation in animals and artifac...

• Author(s): Doug Gelbert • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - Reference It is often said that the greater Los Angeles area is the largest movie set in the world. Film and television se...

• Author(s): Lynne Viola • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Political Ideologies - Communism, Post-Communism & SocialismResistance has become an important and controversial analytical ...

• Author(s): Penelope Fritzer | Bartholomew Bland • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Humor In many ways, the history of domestic humor writing is also a history of domestic life in the twent...

• Author(s): Ernie Gross • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - General Throughout its history, America has seen incremental improvements in the domestic and social lives of its ...

• Author(s): Maureen R. Waller • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Sociology - Marriage & FamilyAbout one-third of births in the United States occur to unmarried parents. Evidence sugge...

• Author(s): R. Michael Gordon • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Murder - General The Thames Torso Murders have been overshadowed by Jack the Ripper and his crimes, but were just as brutal ...

• Author(s): Wyatt Prunty | John Irwin • Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press • Publisher Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press • BISAC: American - GeneralWyatt Prunty's poems have been described as "quiet, reflective, and of unexpected de...

• Author(s): Tim Hatcher • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Business EthicsAs corporations become increasingly more powerful, their decisions have a larger impact on the social and ecological landscape both domesti...

• Author(s): Vadim Volkov • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Political EconomyEntering the shady world of what he calls "violent entrepreneurship," Vadim Volkov explores the economic uses ...

• Author(s): John Kekes • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Ethics & Moral Philosophy"That the art of life is creative, imaginative, and individual does not mean... that it cannot be ta...

• Author(s): Kevin L. Stoehr • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism Film has become such an underpinning of art and pop culture that its potential for inspiring se...

• Author(s): Timothy Matovina | Gary Riebe-Estrella • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Christianity - Catholic - GeneralHorizons of the Sacred explores the distinctive worldview underlying...

• Author(s): D. H. Lawrence | Lawrence D. H. | Dieter Mehl • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: LiteraryThe thirteen short stories in this volume were written between 1924 and 1928, and ...

• Author(s): Sanford Kwinter • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: GeneralAn exploration of twentieth-century conceptions of time and their relation to artistic form.In Architectures of Time, Sanford Kwinter offers a crit...

• Author(s): Glenn F. Howell • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military Captain Glenn F. Howell kept a detailed account of his activities in China for 62 years. His journals now make up 202...

• Author(s): G. John Ikenberry • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: International Relations - GeneralAmerican power today is without historical precedent, dominating the world system. No oth...

• Author(s): Sarah Streed • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Asia - Southeast Asia On April 17, 1975, after five years of civil war, the Khmer Rouge guerrillas invaded Cambodia's major citie...

• Author(s): Charles Eugene Sumners • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military The average GI in World War II carried a rifle, had military support, was committed to whatever action his uni...

• Author(s): Donald F. Glut • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's classic novel Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus, first published in 1818, s...

• Author(s): Christiane Zivie-Coche | David Lorton • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Ancient - Egypt"Sphinxes are legion in Egypt--what is so special about this one?... We shall take a st...

• Author(s): Alain Joxe | Ames Hodges • Publisher: Semiotext(e) • Publisher Imprint: Semiotext(e) • BISAC: PoliticalIn The Empire of Disorder, Alain Joxe offers the first truly comprehensive analysis of the new world disorder of the twenty-first ...

• Author(s): David Finoli • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History Like virtually every other aspect of American life, baseball was affected by World War II. Many of its players...

• Author(s): James D. Szalontai • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Sports Sal Maglie was a feared and hated pitcher perhaps best known for his vicious knockdown pitches that made batters tre...

• Author(s): Roger B. Salomon • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Gothic & RomanceIn a compact, readable, and accessible book, Roger B. Salomon explores the nature of horror in literatu...

• Author(s): Brenda Shaffer • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Middle East - GeneralThe Azerbaijani people have been divided between Iran and the former Soviet republic of Azerbaijan for more than 150 years, yet they h...

• Author(s): David H. Lewis • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Theater - Broadway & Musicals Musicals have been a major part of American theater for many years, and nowhere have they bee...

• Author(s): Shirley Hoover Biggers • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Europe - Great Britain - General The most celebrated authors of England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales are immortalized n...

• Author(s): Janusz Cisek • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military Poland was in ruins after World War I. The fighting front had rolled through some areas more than seven different times,...

• Author(s): Adam Segal • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Industries - Computers & Information TechnologyDuring the economic reforms of the last twenty years, China adopted a wide arr...

• Author(s): Milagros Ricourt | Ruby Danta • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialWhat happens when persons of several Latin American national groups reside...

• Author(s): Carol Mason • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Political AdvocacyHow can those who seek to protect the "right to life" defend assassination in the name of saving lives? Carol ...

• Author(s): Michelangelo Capua • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Entertainment & Performing Arts At the peak of his career in the 1950s, Montgomery Clift was the symbol of a very talen...

• Author(s): Vincent Terrace • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General Superheroes and characters who fight crime by extraordinary means have populated the television airwaves from t...

• Author(s): Alva Noë | Evan Thompson • Publisher: Bradford Book • Publisher Imprint: Bradford Book • BISAC: EpistemologyThe philosophy of perception is a microcosm of the metaphysics of mind. Its central problems--What is perception? What is the...

• Author(s): William Lowell Putnam • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Automotive - History This is the story of one car--a 1911 Stevens-Duryea Model Y "Big Six"--and its famous owner Perciva...

• Author(s): Peter Brigg • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Science Fiction & Fantasy From the 1960s (when the advent of what many call the postmodern style made establishing genres more...

• Author(s): Georges-Claude Guilbert • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Women Madonna has long been accepted as a pop culture icon, but this text postulates a greater cultural importance by ...

• Author(s): Peter L. Rudnytsky • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Movements - PsychoanalysisIn a stunning fusion of literary criticism and intellectual history, Peter L. Rudnytsky explore...

• Author(s): Christopher N. Brooks • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Design, Drafting, Drawing & Presentation Acoustics as a branch of physics involves heavy mathematics, and the practi...

• Author(s): Louise McReynolds • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Russia & the Former Soviet UnionAn athlete becomes a movie star; a waiter rises to manage a chain of nightclubs; a mov...

• Author(s): Herbert Zincke | Scott A. Mills • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military Herbert Zincke was stationed at Clark Field in the Philippines when Japanese aircraft struck there on...

• Author(s): Robert Dale Parker • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: GeneralIn an original, widely researched, and accessibly written book, Robert Dale Parker helps redefine the study of Nat...

• Author(s): Kathryn Temple • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Administrative Law & Regulatory PracticeKathryn Temple argues that eighteenth-century Grub Street scandals involving prin...

• Author(s): Thomas B. Sheridan • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: RoboticsThis reference brings together a variety of theories and technologies that have emerged in a number of fields of application, describing common...

• Author(s): Gary L. Drescher • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Intelligence (AI) & SemanticsMade-Up Minds addresses fundamental questions of learning and concept invention by means of an innovative computer progr...

• Author(s): Cyndy Hendershot • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - 20th Century Not long after the Allied victories in Europe and Japan, America's attention turned from world w...

• Author(s): George McT Kahin | Benedict R. O'g Anderson • Publisher: Southeast Asia Program Publications • Publisher Imprint: Southeast Asia Program Publications • BISAC: Asia - Southeast AsiaProfessor Kahin's classic 1952 study, reprinted for a...

• Author(s): Gordon S. Brown • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Europe - Italy The Normans originally came to Italy and Sicily in the 11th and 12th centuries looking for adventure or a livel...

• Author(s): Edward Diener | Eunkook M. Suh • Publisher: Bradford Book • Publisher Imprint: Bradford Book • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialThe question of what constitutes the good life has been pondered for millennia. Yet only in the...

• Author(s): Wesley Hyatt • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - Guides & Reviews Do you remember the 1959 game show where ABC cancelled a tape featuring a female impersonator (...

• Author(s): Paul J. Niemeyer • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - History & Criticism "Great authors" are increasingly being encountered by general audiences and critics than...

• Author(s): Omer Bartov • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: HolocaustOmer Bartov, a leading scholar of the Wehrmacht and the Holocaust, provides a critical analysis of various recent ways ...

• Author(s): Richard W. Haines • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism The experience of going to the movies, be it a single screen theater, twin, multiplex or driv...

• Author(s): Juman Kubba • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Historical - General Few countries in contemporary times have had more political intrigue, violence and terror than the Iraq of Sa...

• Author(s): William B. Jones • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Critical interest in Robert Louis Stevenson has never been greater. New editions of the autho...