Young Adult / High School (16–18 years)

• Author(s): Michael Eric Dyson • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Minority StudiesWhether chronicling the class conflict in the African-American community or exposing the failings of the government response in the...

• Author(s): Timothy S. Good • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - 19th Century The Lincoln-Douglas senatorial debates of 1858 marked a significant crossroads in the political c...

• Author(s): Scott MacFarlane • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General The Hippie movement of the 1960s helped change modern societal attitudes toward ethnic and cultural diversity, enviro...

• Author(s): Gerhardt B. Thamm • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military "As a 15-year-old boy I fought briefly in a war. My fight was neither noble nor heroic. I saw the horrors that no 1...

• Author(s): Hans Thiel • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - World War II - General On September 25, 1944, Hitler attempted to shore up his faltering forces by creating ...

• Author(s): James D. Hardy • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - Essays & Writings While moments come and go, and popular trends are created only to be consumed and replaced, a ...

• Author(s): Miriam Solomon • Publisher: Bradford Book • Publisher Imprint: Bradford Book • BISAC: Philosophy & Social AspectsFor the last forty years, two claims have been at the core of disputes about scientific change: that scientists reas...

• Author(s): Ruth M. J. Byrne • Publisher: Bradford Book • Publisher Imprint: Bradford Book • BISAC: Creative AbilityThe human imagination remains one of the last uncharted terrains of the mind. This accessible and original monograph explores a c...

• Author(s): David K. Frasier • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General From Jack Henry Abbott, who stabbed a waiter through the heart for not allowing him to use the toilet, to the "Zodiac...

• Author(s): Teri L. Caraway • Publisher: ILR Press • Publisher Imprint: ILR Press • BISAC: Women's StudiesDespite the massive influx of women into the labor force as a result of globalization, the gender inqualities at work have remained largely...

• Author(s): Mary Ellen Snodgrass • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Women Authors With novels like Ellen Foster and A Virtuous Woman, award-winning writer Kaye Gibbons has gained both criti...

• Author(s): Jean-Denis G. G. Lepage • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military Science This volume presents a cross-section of the most common transport vehicles produced and used by the G...

• Author(s): Paul R. Robbins • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Self-Management - Stress Management The dynamics of 21st century life have created a social environment full of stressful situ...

• Author(s): Roger L. Kemp • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Public Policy - City Planning & Urban Development Local officials are making investment decisions to enhance the quality of ...

• Author(s): Paul B. Newman • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Europe - Medieval Dangerous and difficult for both mother and child--what was the birth experience like in the Middle Ages? Dep...

• Author(s): Roger L. Kemp • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Automotive - General Americans for years have treated the automobile as a form of freedom. People can now live in the country an...

• Author(s): Ronald J. Sider • Publisher: Baker Books • Publisher Imprint: Baker Books • BISAC: Christian Living - Social IssuesJust Generosity calls Christians to examine their priorities and their pocketbooks in the face of a scandalous tendenc...

• Author(s): Wendy Warwick White • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Entertainment & Performing Arts - General Vaudeville, burlesque, Shakespeare, baseball--in the course of his career, F...

• Author(s): Songsuk Susan Hahn • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: History & Surveys - Modern"Everything is contradictory," Hegel declares in Science of Logic. In this analysis of one ...

• Author(s): Sara Beam • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Europe - FranceBawdy satirical plays--many starring law clerks and seminarians--savaged corrupt officials and royal policies in fi...

• Author(s): Siva Vaidhyanathan | Carolyn T. de la Pena • Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press • Publisher Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press • BISAC: HistoryScholars working among an array of "technologies" and "Americas" were invited ...

• Author(s): Branden W. Joseph • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Individual Artists - GeneralAn examination of the artistic development of Robert Rauschenberg, focusing on his relationship with John Cage and his role ...

• Author(s): Barry Morse | Anthony Wynn | Robert E. Wood • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Entertainment & Performing Arts - General His resume of roles includes Macbeth, Cyrano de Berg...

• Author(s): Rainer H. Goetz • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Spanish The Spanish language has a long and rich history, from its prehistoric roots to its position today as the mother tongu...

• Author(s): Kerry Segrave • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General Although female lawbreakers in the late 19th and early 20th centuries were rarely considered dangerous criminals, there ...

• Author(s): Jerome S. Berg • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Radio - History & Criticism As radio developed in the early 1920s, the focus for most people was the AM band and stations s...

• Author(s): Caitrin Lynch • Publisher: ILR Press • Publisher Imprint: ILR Press • BISAC: Labor & Industrial Relations - GeneralWhen a government program brought garment factories to rural Sri Lanka, women workers found themselves caught betw...

• Author(s): Ned Block • Publisher: Bradford Book • Publisher Imprint: Bradford Book • BISAC: GeneralThis volume of Ned Block's writings collects his papers on consciousness, functionalism, and representationism. A number of these papers treat th...

• Author(s): Hal Erickson • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - History & Criticism H.R. Pufnstuf, Lidsville, Sigmund and the Sea Monsters, Land of the Lost: For a generation o...

• Author(s): Frank Dikötter | Ian Brown • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: World - GeneralPrisons are on the increase from the United States to China, as ever-larger proportions of humanit...

• Author(s): Jackson Brooks • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Automotive - General A small business owner and lifelong lover of classic sports cars, Jackson Brooks began in the early 1960s ...

• Author(s): Russell O. Wright • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - General This chronology explores the development of housing in the United States from the arrival of the fir...

• Author(s): Harold J. Goldberg • Publisher: Indiana University Press • Publisher Imprint: Indiana University Press • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - World War II - GeneralIn June 1944 the attention of the nation was riveted on events unfolding in ...

• Author(s): James Bachner • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Historical - General Born in Berlin in 1922, James Bachner was a German Jew during the darkest days of the Third Reich. Once a h...

• Author(s): Henry H. Bauer • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: AIDS & HIV Thanks to enormous funding for educational programs, the whole world "knows" that HIV causes AIDS. But is what w...

• Author(s): Grant Hayter-Menzies • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Entertainment & Performing Arts - General Charlotte Greenwood never intended to become a comedienne, but she was unfa...

• Author(s): William Farina • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Presidents & Heads of State On May 3, 1861, Illinois Governor Richard Yates appointed a Mexican War veteran with Democratic...

• Author(s): Douglas M. Stokes • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Psychic Phenomena - General What makes us who we are? From a scientific viewpoint, any individual's existence is improbable ...

• Author(s): Everett Aaker • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - Reference Modeled after the Mack V. Wright 1920 film version, the 1949 western television series The Lone Ranger ma...

• Author(s): Caroline Winterer • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Women's StudiesIn The Mirror of Antiquity, Caroline Winterer uncovers the lost world of American women's classicism during...

• Author(s): James F. Clements | Jared Diamond | Anthony W. White • Publisher: Comstock Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Comstock Publishing • BISAC: Birdwatching GuidesBirds have long held a unique dual role as a model group for scientists and as...

• Author(s): Ángel Sahuquillo • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: LGBT Spain in the twentieth century gave birth to an array of astounding artistic and literary talent, including the passiona...

• Author(s): Don Glut • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism In 1953, a nine-year-old boy watched a prehistoric film called Beast From 20,000 Fathoms featuring the...

• Author(s): Murray Leff • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military After he arrived in Europe with the 35th Infantry Division, Murray Leff traded his cigarette ration for a 35mm camera. By...

• Author(s): Tony Silvia • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History This narrative contains the documentation and interpretation of two imaginative pastimes (radio and baseball) a...

• Author(s): Mark Gradstein | Kai A. Konrad • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Development - Economic DevelopmentExperts address "the development puzzle"--unprecedented growth coupled with unequal distribution of that ...

• Author(s): Theodore K. Rabb • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Europe - GeneralThere is little debate that the Renaissance began at the end of the fourteenth century. Its end, though, is much more difficult to pi...

• Author(s): Adrian Room • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Dictionaries This reference dictionary provides a user-friendly pronunciation guide for over 12,000 placenames worldwide. Avoiding...

• Author(s): Susan C. Staub • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh The essays in this book examine the ideology of motherhood in British and American literature f...

• Author(s): Warren N. Wilbert • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History In 1901, Charles Comiskey and Ban Johnson launched a brazen challenge to the National League's supremacy....

• Author(s): Gary Westfahl | Donald E. Palumbo | III Sullivan C. W. • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Science Fiction & Fantasy An examination of science fiction editor and author Hugo ...

• Author(s): Michael J. Mortlock • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - World War I This work is an extensive analysis of the 1915 British landing at Suvla Bay, one of the...

• Author(s): Leslie Norton | Frederic Franklin • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Entertainment & Performing Arts - General With a ballet career spanning well over eight decades, legenda...

• Author(s): Anne M. Turner • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Library & Information Science - General The cataloging department insists that an unreasonable number of books be replaced....

• Author(s): David Dicaire • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Music This book focuses on 50 of the most important entertainers in the history of country music, from its beginnings in the fol...

• Author(s): Richard B. Freeman | Peter Boxall | Peter Haynes • Publisher: ILR Press • Publisher Imprint: ILR Press • BISAC: Labor & Industrial Relations - GeneralThis book brings together research in the United States, Canada, the United Kin...

• Author(s): Jo Baim • Publisher: Indiana University Press • Publisher Imprint: Indiana University Press • BISAC: Dance - GeneralIn Tango: Creation of a Cultural Icon Jo Baim dispels common stereotypes of the tango and tells the real story behind...

• Author(s): Kevin Narizny • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Political EconomyA nation's grand strategy rarely serves the best interests of all its citizens. Instead, every strategic choi...

• Author(s): John Billheimer • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - Essays & Writings Most baseball fans know what links Fred Merkle, Fred Snodgrass, Mickey Owen and Bill Buckner....

• Author(s): Rudyard Kipling | Rudyard Kipling • Publisher: Book Jungle • Publisher Imprint: Book Jungle • BISAC: World - GeneralJoseph Rudyard Kipling (December 30, 1865 - January 18, 1936) was an English author and poet, born in India, and best...