Young Adult / High School (16–18 years)

• Author(s): Dusty Miller • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: GeneralMany books have described victims of rape and battering, but scant attention has been paid to another form of harm increasingly common among women...

• Author(s): Thomas Edward Gass | Bruce C. Vladeck • Publisher: ILR Press • Publisher Imprint: ILR Press • BISAC: Nursing - Home & Community Care"At present nursing homes are designed... like outmoded zoos. Residents are kept in small rooms, ...

• Author(s): Ian Cutler • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General Cynicism began as a school of philosophy that was largely inspired by Socrates and often decried by popular commentators as...

• Author(s): Alan J. Levine • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military - Korean War Often referred to as "The Forgotten War," the Korean War was the only post-World War II combat between ma...

• Author(s): Craig Alan Smith • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General In the history of the U.S. Supreme Court, Associate Justice Charles Evans Whittaker (1957-1962) merited several disti...

• Author(s): Alfonso J. García Osuna • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Literary The beginning of the golden age of Spanish literature and the particular socio-political circumstances of ear...

• Author(s): John Funnell • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General "Thanks for the Memory." "Swinging on a Star." "The Way You Look Tonight." Three great and popular standards of th...

• Author(s): Sebastiaan Pompe • Publisher: Southeast Asia Program Publications • Publisher Imprint: Southeast Asia Program Publications • BISAC: Asia - Southeast AsiaSince the fall of Indonesian president Suharto, a major focus of the country's r...

• Author(s): John Ruedy • Publisher: Indiana University Press (Ips) • Publisher Imprint: Indiana University Press (Ips) • BISAC: Africa - NorthPraise for the first edition: "[E]ssential reading for Maghreb specialists as well as for anyone intere...

• Author(s): Peter J. Katzenstein • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: International Relations - GeneralObserving the dramatic shift in world politics since the end of the Cold War, Peter J....

• Author(s): Brian Lockman | Don Sarvey • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General Although there are different opinions about where cable television actually began, a great deal of the inge...

• Author(s): Richard D. Woods • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Reference This is the definitive bibliography of autobiographical writings on Mexico. The book incorporates works by Mexicans...

• Author(s): Sally K. Fairfax | Lauren Gwin | Mary Ann King • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Environmental Conservation & Protection - GeneralBuying land to conserve it is not a recent phenomenon. Buying Nature c...

• Author(s): David Couzens Hoy • Publisher: Bradford Book • Publisher Imprint: Bradford Book • BISAC: History & Surveys - GeneralThis book serves as both an introduction to the concept of resistance in poststructuralist thought and an origina...

• Author(s): Stuart Oderman • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General Fatty Arbuckle's career came to a sudden halt amidst allegations that he raped and caused the death of a young s...

• Author(s): Mary Rose Barrington | M. D. Ian Stevenson | Zofia Weaver • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General Many people around the world accept the possibility of telepathy or clairvoy...

• Author(s): Ronald G. Ehrenberg • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: HigherPublic concern over sharp increases in undergraduate tuition has led many to question why colleges and universitie...

• Author(s): H. a. Maxson • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General "The sonnet is the strictest form I have behaved in, and only then by pretending it wasn't a sonnet," Frost once wrote to...

• Author(s): Thomas J. Shimeld • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Entertainment & Performing Arts - General "Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? . . . The Shadow knows!" And ...

• Author(s): Nate Garrelts • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Video & Electronic In recent years, computer technology has permeated all aspects of life--not just work and education, but ...

• Author(s): Andrew Mertha • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Intellectual Property - GeneralChina is by far the world's leading producer of pirated goods--from films and books to clothing...

• Author(s): Ethan Kleinberg • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: History & Surveys - ModernWhen we think of Heidegger's influence in France, we tend to focus on such contemporary thinke...

• Author(s): Charles R. Bambach • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: PoliticalDespite a flood of recent works on Martin Heidegger and Nazism, there has been no sustained investigation of the...

• Author(s): Andrew Valls • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: History & Surveys - ModernIs modern philosophy racist? Do such canonical philosophers as Descartes, Hobbes, Leibniz, Spinoz...

• Author(s): Vincent Mosco • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Social Aspects - GeneralInterpreting the myths of the digital age: why we believed in the power of cyberspace to open up a new world.The digital era promise...

• Author(s): Andrew Valls • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: History & Surveys - ModernIs modern philosophy racist? Do such canonical philosophers as Descartes, Hobbes, Leibniz, Spinoz...

• Author(s): Arthur P. Molella | Joyce Bedi • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Environmental ScienceEssays by historians and practioners on how invention can benefit the environment.This ambitious book describes the ma...

• Author(s): Thomas Princen • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Public Policy - Economic PolicyWhat if modern society put a priority on the material security of its citizens and the ecological integrity of its resource ...

• Author(s): Michael J. Levin • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Europe - ItalyHistorians have long held that during the decades from the end of the Habsburg-Valois Wars in 1559 until the ...

• Author(s): Roger Biles • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: United States - State & Local - Midwest(IA,IL,IN,KS,MI,MN,MOBiles' first-rate primer on the state's hist...

• Author(s): Patrick Maynard • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Techniques - Drawing"If our procedure is to work steadily in the direction of drawing as fine art, rather than (as we so oft...

• Author(s): Daryl G. Press • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Political Process - GeneralCalculating Credibility examines--and ultimately rejects--a fundamental belief held by laypeople a...

• Author(s): Richard C. Rath • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: United States - Colonial Period"My hope is that by attending to sound I have been able to open up parts of these worlds, not...

• Author(s): Marc Raymond Strauss • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Dance - General Prominent dance critic Arlene Croce wrote for The New Yorker during the 1970s, '80s and '90s. Through mor...

• Author(s): Wes Johnson • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General This handbook details the steps the shopper must follow when buying a manufactured home. It offers advice on choosing a de...

• Author(s): Janet Berry Hess • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General The struggle of African nations to achieve independence from colonial rule was a momentous event in world history, an...

• Author(s): Lydia Papadimitriou • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General The Greek film musical was the most popular film genre in Greece in the 1960s. The songs became instant hit...

• Author(s): Peter Burke • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: HistoriographyWhat is the use of social theory to historians, and of history to social theorists? In clear and energetic prose, ...

• Author(s): Thierry Dubost • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: American - General To Eugene O'Neill, the links between man and his surroundings were of prime importance. His characters strug...

• Author(s): Brian Taves • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Literary Figures This critical biography chronicles both the actual travels and the philosophical meanderings of Talbot Mundy, one...

• Author(s): Bruce M. Petty • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - World War II - General More than 16 million Americans served in the military during World War II--and ne...

• Author(s): John Kenneth Muir • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - History & Criticism When the space drama Battlestar Galactica debuted on ABC in 1978, it was expected to be...

• Author(s): Paul R. Robbins • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Dreams Our dreams fascinate us as individuals and as a society. What do surveys report people dream about? How about the dream...

• Author(s): Michael Dow Burkhead • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Criminology For centuries scholars have studied the possible causes of criminal behavior in the hopes of shedding light o...

• Author(s): Roger L. Kemp • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Sociology - Urban Cities and towns across the United States are making concerted efforts to restore nature and increase green sp...

• Author(s): Paul M. Edwards • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military - Korean War In many respects, all wars are alike. All soldiers compete for position and mobility; all forces struggl...

• Author(s): Mary P. Callahan • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Asia - Southeast AsiaThe Burmese army took political power in Burma in 1962 and has ruled the country ever since. The persi...

• Author(s): John Koethe • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Epistemology"The problem of philosophical scepticism is not so much what to say about the view itself (there being a consensus t...

• Author(s): Ronald W. Cox | Daniel Skidmore-Hess • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - General As early as the 1880s, baseball owners and sportswriters were decrying the greediness ...

• Author(s): Clayne R. Jensen | Steven P. Guthrie • Publisher: Human Kinetics Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Human Kinetics Publishers • BISAC: Outdoor SkillsOutdoor Recreation in America is back--fully revised and updated, with significant new ...

• Author(s): Rick Swaine • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History For major league baseball, the decade following Jackie Robinson's 1947 debut was one of slow yet persistent cha...

• Author(s): Quentin R. Skrabec • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Modern - 19th Century Throughout history, the use and workmanship of metal has been closely associated with the very notion...

• Author(s): Thomas L. Dublin | Walter Licht • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: United States - State & Local - Middle AtlanticThe anthracite coal region of Pennsylvania once prospered...

• Author(s): Robert P. Broadwater • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - Civil War The best way to bring an event from the past into vivid life is to see it through the eyes of s...

• Author(s): Carole Chandler Waldrup • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Historical - General John Nance Garner once colorfully described the office of vice president of the United States as ...

• Author(s): Jonas Pontusson • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Public Policy - Social PolicyWhat are the relative merits of the American and European socioeconomic systems? Long-standing ...

• Author(s): Carole Gerster | Laura W. Zlogar • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General From the beginning of the 20th century, Hollywood filmmakers have shaped public beliefs about ...

• Author(s): Richard K. Lyons • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Finance - GeneralHistorically, the fields of exchange-rate economics and microstructure finance have progressed independently of each other. Recent inter...

• Author(s): Eric B. Baum • Publisher: Bradford Book • Publisher Imprint: Bradford Book • BISAC: Mind & BodyIn What Is Thought? Eric Baum proposes a computational explanation of thought. Just as Erwin Schrodinger in his classic 1944 work What...

• Author(s): George C. Papavizas • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Europe - Greece (see also Ancient - Greece) For nearly 130 years, the Greeks, the Bulgarians, and the Yugoslavs have fough...