Young Adult / High School (16–18 years)

• Author(s): Richard D. E. Burton • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialIn Holy Tears, Holy Blood, Richard D. E. Burton continues his investigation of Cath...

• Author(s): Alfred Emile Cornebise • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - General When Franklin Delano Roosevelt founded the Civilian Conservation Corps in 1933, newspapers rela...

• Author(s): Nancy Upper • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General A professional dancer's career, like a professional athlete's, lasts an average of 10 to 15 years. Once the prime years of...

• Author(s): Jason Paul Collum • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General The women who starred in low-budget cult movies created many memorable experiences for those fans of late nig...

• Author(s): Madelyn Holmes • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Women's Studies This collection of biographies describes twelve women conservationists who helped change the ways Americans int...

• Author(s): Luis de Molina | Alfred J. Freddoso • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: ReligiousLuis de Molina was a leading figure in the remarkable sixteenth-century revival of Scholasticis...

• Author(s): Ernest A. Zitser • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Russia & the Former Soviet UnionIn this richly comparative analysis of late Muscovite and early Imperial court culture,...

• Author(s): Joseph Maddrey • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - Genres - Horror What's weighing on Americans? Look to horror movies for your answer--they're one of the best measures of...

• Author(s): Georg Henrik Von Wright • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions - General"Explanation and Understanding, perhaps von Wright's best-known book, sh...

• Author(s): Andrew McClary • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Parenting - General In early America, most children had only a few toys and parents received advice from family and friends on ...

• Author(s): Anne M. Turner • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Library & Information Science - General The mission of libraries is to meet the information needs of the people they serve-...

• Author(s): Gary Weissman • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: HolocaustFantasies of Witnessing explores how and why those deeply interested in the Holocaust, yet with no direct, familial c...

• Author(s): Patricia A. Adler | Peter Adler • Publisher: ILR Press • Publisher Imprint: ILR Press • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralResorts have become important to American society and its economy; one in eight Americans is now employed by the touris...

• Author(s): Gordon Lafer • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Political Process - Political PartiesJob training has long been promoted as a central policy response to poverty and unemployme...

• Author(s): Ruth Milkman | Kim Voss • Publisher: ILR Press • Publisher Imprint: ILR Press • BISAC: Labor & Industrial Relations - General"In order to recruit new members on a scale that would be required to significantly rebuild union power,...

• Author(s): Yan Sun • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: GeneralIs corruption an inevitable part of the transition to a free-market economy? Yan Sun here examines the ways in which market r...

• Author(s): Boyd Magers | Michael G. Fitzgerald • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - General This collection features a diverse mixture of leading ladies of Westerns, along with ...

• Author(s): Roland H. Worth • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - World War II - General The dramatic events of the Pearl Harbor attack have been covered in detail from ...

• Author(s): Mary Ellen Snodgrass • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Reference Award-winning African-American playwright August Wilson created a cultural chronicle of black America through s...

• Author(s): R. Philip Loy • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General For many, the Westerns of 1930 to 1955 were a defining part of American culture. Those Westerns were one of the v...

• Author(s): Ruth Bienstock Anolik | Douglas L. Howard • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Gothic & Romance Literary use of the Gothic is marked by an anxious encounter with otherness, wi...

• Author(s): Robert W. Smith • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: International Relations - DiplomacyHow did the ideology that inspired the American Revolution and the U....

• Author(s): Choi Byung Wook • Publisher: Southeast Asia Program Publications • Publisher Imprint: Southeast Asia Program Publications • BISAC: Asia - Southeast AsiaThis study of nineteenth-century Vietnam focuses on interactions between the Viet...

• Author(s): Clifton Hood • Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press • Publisher Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press • BISAC: United States - State & Local - Middle AtlanticWhen it first opened on October 27, 1904, the New York City subw...

• Author(s): Seymour Stanton Block • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Historical - General This unconventional biography of Benjamin Franklin, the great American Renaissance man, explores ex...

• Author(s): James R. Briscoe | Susan McClary • Publisher: Indiana University Press (Ips) • Publisher Imprint: Indiana University Press (Ips) • BISAC: History & Criticism - General"In this new edition of Historical Anthology of Music by Women...

• Author(s): Dorothy Kaufmann • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Literary Figures�dith Thomas (1909-1970), a remarkable French woman of letters, was deeply involved in the traumatic upheav...

• Author(s): F. Arant Maginnes • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Entertainment & Performing Arts This is the biography of Thomas Abthorpe Cooper, the first star of the American stage. C...

• Author(s): Bob Carlin • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Genres & Styles - Folk & Traditional String band music is most commonly associated with the mountains of North Carolina and...

• Author(s): James M. O'Toole • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Christianity - History - General"For generations, American Catholics... lived out their faith through countless unremarkabl...

• Author(s): Rita Elizabeth Rippetoe • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Mystery & Detective Fiction The hard-bitten PI with a bottle of bourbon in his desk drawer--it's an image as old a...

• Author(s): D. J. Haycock • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - World War II - General On August 14, 1942, Chief of Staff George C. Marshall appointed General Dwight D. ...

• Author(s): Fran Grace • Publisher: Indiana University Press • Publisher Imprint: Indiana University Press • BISAC: Women"A needed and welcome account of Carry Nation's story . . . deserves the highest praise." --Journal of American History"Admi...

• Author(s): Herve Moulin • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Economics - TheoryThe concept of fair division is as old as civil society itself. Aristotle's "equal treatment of equals" was the first step toward a formal ...

• Author(s): George L. Williams • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: World - General The papacy has often resembled a secular European monarchy more than a divinely inspired institution. Roman...

• Author(s): Stephanie Luce • Publisher: ILR Press • Publisher Imprint: ILR Press • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralThe living wage movement is considered by many to be the most interesting grassroots enterprise to emerge since the civil rights movemen...

• Author(s): Kathryn A. Sikkink • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Human Rights"Nowhere did two understandings of U.S. identity--human rights and anticommunism--come more in conflict with ...

• Author(s): Frederic O. Sargent • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Ethnic Studies - American - African American & Black Studies From the Supreme Court's decision of Brown v. Board of Ed...

• Author(s): Mary Ellen Snodgrass • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Reference In the mid-1980s, Amy Tan was a successful but unhappy corporate speechwriter. By the end of the decade, she wa...

• Author(s): Mary Ellen Snodgrass • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Women Authors Barbara Kingsolver--a writer of fiction, documentary, verse and essay--supports entertaining stories with p...

• Author(s): Joan Copjec • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Ethics & Moral PhilosophyA psychoanalytic and philosophical exploration of sublimation as a key term in Jacques Lacan's theories of ethics and feminine se...

• Author(s): Georges Didi-Huberman | Alisa Hartz • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Psychopathology - GeneralThe first English-language publication of a classic French book on the relationship between the development o...

• Author(s): Jennifer E. Spreng • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Women's Studies In 1991, the people of Ireland elected Mary Robinson, a women's rights crusader who supported legalized bir...

• Author(s): G. Richard McKelvey • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Reference The basic elements of baseball remain essentially the same as they were when the first professional game was pla...

• Author(s): Carolyn J. Dean • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: HolocaustWhen we are confronted with images of and memoirs from the Holocaust and subsequent cases of vast cruelty and suffe...

• Author(s): Jr. Demaree Robert W. | Allen F. Ohmes | Don V. Moses • Publisher: Indiana University Press (Ips) • Publisher Imprint: Indiana University Press (Ips) • BISAC: ReferenceFace to Face with Orchestra and Chorus is a crucial guide for cho...

• Author(s): Laura C. Hammond • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialHow do communities grapple with the challenges of reconstruction after conflicts? In on...

• Author(s): Maryann Barakso • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Women's StudiesBoasting more than five hundred thousand contributing members and five hundred chapters nationwide, the Natio...

• Author(s): Michael Barnett | Martha Finnemore • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: GlobalizationRules for the World provides an innovative perspective on the behavior of international orga...

• Author(s): Stephen A. Kallis • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Radio - General During the horror and conflict of World War II, a fictional radio character named Captain Midnight stormed h...

• Author(s): William A. Cook • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Reference Waite Hoyt was much more than a baseball player. A multi-faceted, sometimes troubled man, Hoyt was a vaudevillian, a...

• Author(s): Anna Stong Bourgeois • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Music While much has been written over the years about male blues singers of the first half of the 20th century, little a...

• Author(s): Craig Allen Cleve • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - General More than 5000 major and minor league baseball players left the baseball diamond to serve in the military...

• Author(s): Joseph Dorinson | William Pencak • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General Paul Robeson was born April 9, 1898, in Princeton, New Jersey, the son of an escaped slave. He rose t...

• Author(s): John F. Moffitt • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Reference Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571-1610) has long been recognized as one of the great innovators in the history...

• Author(s): Tom Weaver • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General Tom Weaver's classic fifth volume of interviews is now back in print. Originally published as It Came from Weaver Fi...

• Author(s): Michael P. Dipaolo • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - Direction & Production When someone offered Michael DiPaolo $5,000 to help make a Digital Video horror film, he ...

• Author(s): Peter Ludlow | Yujin Nagasawa | Daniel Stoljar • Publisher: MIT Press (MA) • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press (MA) • BISAC: Mind & BodyIn Frank Jackson's famous thought experiment, Mary is confined to a black-and-white room and educa...

• Author(s): Craig Hart • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - General From Martha Washington to Laura Bush, the wife of each U.S. president has found her place in history, often...