Young Adult / High School (16–18 years)

• Author(s): Diane C. Kachmar • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - Guides & Reviews Over his 30-plus-year acting career, Roy Scheider has redefined America's idea of a leading man, ...

• Author(s): Gary Berkovich • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Artists, Architects, Photographers In this memoir, architect Gary Berkovich describes life growing up Jewish in the Soviet Unio...

• Author(s): Abraham Kupersmith • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: American - General This work explores the psychological insights and theories of Mark Twain and Sigmund Freud. Though at fi...

• Author(s): Alex Wright • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: World - GeneralSpanning disciplines from evolutionary theory and cultural anthropology to the history of books, libraries, and c...

• Author(s): Philip J. Potter • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Historical - General This biographical history tells the story of 31 Gothic monarchs who fought in the crusades, enforced the...

• Author(s): Kerry Segrave • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Dermatology Each year, men spend an enormous amount of time and money searching for a cure to male pattern baldness. Numerous ps...

• Author(s): Ken Wlaschin • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General Musical accompaniment was an important feature of the early moviegoing experience. The quality of a musical score ...

• Author(s): Robert A. Simonsen • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military - General Most Marine and Navy Corpsmen who have seen active combat have, at one time or another, experienced a cl...

• Author(s): Roger L. Kemp • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General Droughts, global warming and rising infrastructure costs have brought new attention to water as both an urban planning a...

• Author(s): Donald R. Jermann • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military - General One of the darkest days in United States history since Valley Forge was August 30, 1862. On this date the...

• Author(s): Gil Bogen • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History In 1945 the most famous curse in sports was placed on the Chicago Cubs when Bill Sianis and his goat were ejected...

• Author(s): Lionel W. McKenzie | Tapan Mitra | Kazuo Nishimura • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Economics - TheoryInfluential neoclassical economist Lionel McKenzie has made major contributions to postwar economic t...

• Author(s): Ronald G. Ehrenberg | Charlotte V. Kuh • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: HigherAmerican colleges and universities simultaneously face large numbers of faculty retirements and...

• Author(s): Ted Olson • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General One of the most admired and influential authors to work in and write about Appalachia, James Still excelled in every genre o...

• Author(s): Roy Liebman • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General Hundreds of musical groups have appeared in at least one film from 1929 through 1970. This is a reference book devo...

• Author(s): E. J. Fleming • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General Paul Bern, known throughout the movie business as "Hollywood's Father Confessor," earned a reputation for being a loyal ...

• Author(s): Roz Diane Lasker | John A. Guidry • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Sociology - Urban In recent years, the rapidly growing field of community participation has promised to give...

• Author(s): Albert Abramson • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television & Video No other technological innovation can be cited whose impact on the fabric of daily living has been as p...

• Author(s): William Stewart • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General This biographical dictionary provides information on 322 men and women who have made or are making significant contrib...

• Author(s): Gregory J. Tully • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - General Covering nine teams from Divisions I, II and III, NAIA, and junior college, this book provides a view of c...

• Author(s): Hervé Dumont • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General This work brings to readers of English a comprehensive and engaging treatment of one of America's greatest, if lar...

• Author(s): Larry Clinton Thompson • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: World - General In 1900 in China a peasant movement known as the Boxers rose up and tried to destroy its Western oppres...

• Author(s): Emilie M. Hafner-Burton • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Human RightsPreferential trade agreements have become common ways to protect or restrict access to national markets ...

• Author(s): Amy L. Deuink | Marianne Seiler • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General This is a practical guide written by two professionals with real-world experience establishing a libra...

• Author(s): Kevin G. Quinn • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General Though Americans spend more than $25 billion a year on sports and sporting events, this book argues that the influence ...

• Author(s): Shelly Frome • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - Screenwriting This guide for screenwriters and those interested in the screenwriting process has important information on ...

• Author(s): Roy Liebman • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - Reference Garbo talked, Gilbert self-destructed and Chaplin refused--that's about all many people know about silent film ac...

• Author(s): Roy Liebman • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Entertainment & Performing Arts - General In 1922, an early association of film publicists known as the Western Associated Mot...

• Author(s): Sanford R. Silverburg • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Essays This collection of thirteen essays explains and analyzes the conflict between the Government of Israel and the Pa...

• Author(s): Richard N. Stichler | Robert Hauptman • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Ethics & Moral Philosophy Leaders in the emerging field of information ethics discuss five topics: f...

• Author(s): Jean-Denis G. G. Lepage • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - World War II - General One of the most significant innovations in modern warfare has been the a...

• Author(s): Chad Rector • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Civics & CitizenshipWhy would states ever give up their independence to join federations? While federation can provide more ...

• Author(s): Chad Rector • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Civics & CitizenshipWhy would states ever give up their independence to join federations? While federation can provide more ...

• Author(s): Caroline Hughes • Publisher: Southeast Asia Program Publications • Publisher Imprint: Southeast Asia Program Publications • BISAC: International Relations - GeneralDependent Communities investigates the political situations in contem...

• Author(s): Ben A. Minteer • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Environmental Conservation & Protection - GeneralA study of the pragmatic roots of American environmentalism--as seen in the work of Liberty Hyde Baile...

• Author(s): Susan A. Martinelli-Fernandez | Lori Baker-Sperry | Heather McIlvaine-Newsad • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Abortion & Birth Control This book examines issues surroundin...

• Author(s): Brian Patrick Duggan • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Dogs - Breeds One of the oldest known breeds of domesticated dogs, the Saluki traveled throughout the Middle East with de...

• Author(s): Alexander Thompson • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: History & Theory - GeneralWhen President George W. Bush launched an invasion of Iraq in March of 2003, he did so with...

• Author(s): John McCarthy • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: Public Policy - City Planning & Urban DevelopmentProgressive Era city planners are best known for gran...

• Author(s): Leslie Stratyner | James R. Keller • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - History & Criticism No American television show of the past decade has been vilified as ha...

• Author(s): Ann-Christina L. Knudsen • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Industries - GeneralIn 2007 the farm subsidies of the European Union's Common Agricultural Policy took over 40 perc...

• Author(s): Daniel Sidorick • Publisher: ILR Press • Publisher Imprint: ILR Press • BISAC: Labor & Industrial Relations - GeneralCorporations often move factories to areas where production costs, notably labor, taxes, and regulations, are sh...

• Author(s): Harry Spiller • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - World War II - General These accounts describe the battle and POW experiences of twelve American military...

• Author(s): Babak Elahi • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General This critical study traces the connections between the rising economic importance of the garment industry and the advent o...

• Author(s): Robert G. Weiner • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General For more than 60 years, Captain America was one of Marvel Comics' flagship characters, representing truth, strength, ...

• Author(s): John Carver Edwards • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General The six pioneers profiled here were promising graduates of the Wright Brothers' School of Aviation, which flourish...

• Author(s): David Lebeaux • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralAn exploration of the architecture of the grammar, where conditions apply, and the nature of the lexical/functional split.This concise ...

• Author(s): Larry G. Eggleston • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - Civil War When the Civil War broke out, women answered the call for help. They broke away from their tradit...

• Author(s): Michelle Heffner Hayes • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Dance - Folk This analytical history traces representations of flamenco dance in Spain and abroad from the twentieth ce...

• Author(s): Judith Brown • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: English, Irish, Scottish, WelshGlamour is an alluring but elusive concept. We most readily associate it with fashion, industria...

• Author(s): Fred K. Carr • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Intellectual Property - Patent This work first provides a general overview of the U.S. patent system, covering such issues as the...

• Author(s): Kerry Segrave • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - General Though the history of tipping can be traced to the Middle Ages, the practice did not become widespread u...

• Author(s): David Garrett Izzo | Maria Orban • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General One of the best known and most widely read of early African American writers, Charles W. Chesnutt pub...

• Author(s): Roger L. Kemp • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Public Policy - City Planning & Urban Development Throughout the United States, community development is increasingly focuse...

• Author(s): Beth Ellis | Douglas C. Daly | Leo J. Hickey • Publisher: Comstock Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Comstock Publishing • BISAC: Life Sciences - BotanyPublished in Association with the New York Botanical GardenThe Manual of Leaf Archi...

• Author(s): Victoria R. Rumble • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: History As cooking advanced from simply placing wild grains, seeds, or meat in or near a fire to following some vague notio...

• Author(s): Karolyn Kinane | Michael A. Ryan • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Folklore & Mythology The idea of the complete annihilation of all life is a powerful and culturally unive...

• Author(s): Judith P. Saunders • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General Beneath the polished surface of the genteel environments delineated in Wharton's fiction, characters are competing ...

• Author(s): Thomas A. Kochan | Adrienne E. Eaton | Robert B. McKersie • Publisher: ILR Press • Publisher Imprint: ILR Press • BISAC: Hospital Administration & CareKaiser Permanente is the largest managed care organization in the country. It ...