Young Adult / High School (16–18 years)

• Author(s): Thomas A. Kochan | Adrienne E. Eaton | Robert B. McKersie • Publisher: ILR Press • Publisher Imprint: ILR Press • BISAC: Health PolicyKaiser Permanente is the largest managed care organization in the country. It also happens to have ...

• Author(s): Hugo Grotius | Symon Patrick • Publisher: Kessinger Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Kessinger Publishing • BISAC: History & Surveys - ModernThe Truth of Christian Religion: In Six Books is a theological work written by Hugo Groti...

• Author(s): Frederick G. Vogel • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism Only one year after the presentation of the first Academy Awards on May 16, 1929, two musica...

• Author(s): Bill Lee • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - General During his playing career, a baseball player's every action on the field is documented--every at bat, every hit, e...

• Author(s): Kim R. Holston • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Entertainment & Performing Arts - General This biography of Susan Hayward, one of Hollywood's leading ladies of the 1940s a...

• Author(s): Fred W. Edmiston • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Music Carleton A. Coon, Sr., and Hoe L. Sanders formed the Coon-Sanders Orchestra in 1919 in Kansas City, Missouri. Three yea...

• Author(s): Darren R. Reid • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - State & Local - South (AL,AR,FL,GA,KY,LA,MS, This is a collection of first-hand accounts that illuminate li...

• Author(s): Donald J. Young • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - World War II - General Fought with obsolete and discarded equipment by an army mostly made up of untrai...

• Author(s): Stanley Turkel • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General The history of post-Civil War Reconstruction wasn't written by the winners. Congress forced Reconstruction on an unrepe...

• Author(s): Stephen B. Goddard • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Aviation - History In their struggle to fly, the Wright brothers were engaged in strife with their own government. Presiden...

• Author(s): Frances H. Casstevens • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - Civil War On November 11, 1862, Brigadier General Thomas Lanier Clingman, despite a lack of formal milit...

• Author(s): Elaine L. Robinson • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General The author argues that Renaissance humanism created a system of bigotry and eroded the practice of Christianity, an...

• Author(s): Joseph Maddrey • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General This chronological survey of major influences on T.S. Eliot's worldview covers the poet's spiritual and intellectual ev...

• Author(s): Marianne Berger Woods • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Women's Studies Although feminist women have existed throughout history, the term "New Woman" wasn't officially coined u...

• Author(s): Bruce G. Hallenbeck • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism Fun and fright have long been partners in the cinema, dating back to the silent film era an...

• Author(s): Ken Wlaschin • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - Guides & Reviews The silent film era was known in part for its cliffhanger serials and air of suspense that kept audie...

• Author(s): Jennifer Hochschild | John Mollenkopf • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Civics & CitizenshipFor immigrants, politics can play a significant role in determining whether an...

• Author(s): Jennifer Hochschild | John Mollenkopf • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Civics & CitizenshipFor immigrants, politics can play a significant role in determining whether an...

• Author(s): Celina Su • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Educational Policy & ReformIn Streetwise for Book Smarts, Celina Su examines the efforts of parents and students who sought to...

• Author(s): Zach Waggoner • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General With videogames now one of the world's most popular diversions, the virtual world has increasing psychological influence...

• Author(s): Margaret Maliszewski-Pickart • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Reference For architects, historians, preservationists, students or homeowners, this richly illustrated two-part ...

• Author(s): Allen W. Wood • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: ReligiousIn Kant's Moral Religion, Allen W. Wood argues that Kant's doctrine of religious belief if consistent with his best c...

• Author(s): Allen W. Wood • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: ReligiousIn Kant's Rational Theology, Allen W. Wood explores Kant's views on the concept of God and on the attempt to demonstr...

• Author(s): Larry Powell • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History A unique approach to the history of a Negro League team: The first half of this book covers the leagues and th...

• Author(s): Maxwell J. Mehlman • Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press • Publisher Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press • BISAC: EthicsFew would question the necessity of artificial limbs for amputees. But what of surgery to lengthen the ...

• Author(s): John Dinan • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Reference From the late 1800s through the first half of the 1900s, pulp magazines--costing a dime and filled with both fiction and ...

• Author(s): Jennifer Clapp | Doris Fuchs • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Industries - AgribusinessExperts examine the ways transnational corporations exercise power over governance of the global food system and the...

• Author(s): Charles Darwin • Publisher: Book Jungle • Publisher Imprint: Book Jungle • BISAC: EmotionsCharles Darwin was a British naturalist whose theory or evolution by natural selection became the basis of modern theories of evolution. Darwin...

• Author(s): Voltaire • Publisher: Kessinger Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Kessinger Publishing • BISAC: European - Italian""Candido: O L'Ottimismo"" ����� un romanzo satirico scritto da Voltaire nel 1759. La storia segue le avventure di Candid...

• Author(s): Stephen J. Mullin | Richard A. Seigel • Publisher: Comstock Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Comstock Publishing • BISAC: Animals - Reptiles & AmphibiansDestruction of habitat due to urban sprawl, pollution, and deforestation has ...

• Author(s): Melvin E. Matthews • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General This book demonstrates how horror films of the 1930s and 1940s reflected specific events and personalities o...

• Author(s): Lawrence M. Denton • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - Civil War While Abraham Lincoln was taking center stage in a divided country, a political rival-turned-ally...

• Author(s): Amer Faris • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military "I was a prisoner before the war; I am no freer now after the war." This memoir of an Iraqi soldier writing under a pseudo...

• Author(s): James Joyce • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military - Vietnam War "In 1963 ... there was no way I could have known, sitting in a classroom on that beautiful campus in Ohio, ...

• Author(s): Jon Abbott • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - General The face of 1980s television was shaped by a man who stayed behind the scenes. Stephen Cannell's reluctant whi...

• Author(s): Warren Hope | Kim Holston • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General Theories stating that plays attributed to Shakespeare were in fact written by other authors have existed for...

• Author(s): Maynard Brichford • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Football - General Bob Zuppke was head football coach at the University of Illinois from 1912 to 1941, a period that saw two...

• Author(s): Jamal R. Nassar • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: Law EnforcementThis incisive text casts a clear light on globalization and terrorism as Jamal R. Nassa...

• Author(s): Mercy Otis Warren • Publisher: Kessinger Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Kessinger Publishing • BISAC: General""History Of The Rise, Progress, And Termination Of The American Revolution V3"" is a book written by Mercy Otis Warren in ...

• Author(s): Mercy Otis Warren • Publisher: Kessinger Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Kessinger Publishing • BISAC: United States - Revolutionary Period (1775-1800)""History Of The Rise, Progress, And Termination Of The American Revolution V3"" i...

• Author(s): Elwood Watson • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism With essays ranging in topic from the films of Neil LaBute to the sexual politics of Major League...

• Author(s): Kerry Segrave • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - 19th Century The case of Lizzy Borden stands out in the history of sensational criminal cases, but she was not t...

• Author(s): Patricia Roberts Clark • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Native American Scholars have long worked to identify the names of tribes and other groupings in the Americas, a task m...

• Author(s): Adrian Room • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Reference This new type of geographical dictionary lists past and present alternate names of more than 7,000 places. It focuses pa...

• Author(s): James A. Pritchett • Publisher: University of Virginia Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Virginia Press • BISAC: Africa - GeneralBreaking away from traditional ethnographic accounts often limited by theoretical frameworks and ...

• Author(s): Barry Swanton | Jay-Dell Mah • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General In an era when black baseball players had limited playing prospects in the United States, they found a mo...

• Author(s): Gregory D. Koblentz • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Security (National & International)"Biological weapons are widely feared, yet rarely used. Biological weapons were t...

• Author(s): Constance Brittain Bouchard • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Christianity - History - GeneralIn Sword, Miter, and Cloister, Constance Brittain Bouchard provides a fresh pers...

• Author(s): David Baber • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Entertainment & Performing Arts - General This unique work profiles the private lives and careers of 32 American game show hos...

• Author(s): Carol Mason • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: FinanceIn Reading Appalachia from Left to Right, Carol Mason examines the legacies of a pivotal 1974 curriculum dispute in West ...

• Author(s): William H. Hughes | John T. Walkup • Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press • Publisher Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press • BISAC: Parenting - GeneralThis guide offers parents fresh perspectives and simple skills to encourag...

• Author(s): David H. Brendel • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Psychiatry - GeneralA new patient-centered approach to psychiatry that aims to resolve the field's conceptual tension between science and humanism by dra...

• Author(s): Carl Senior | Tamara Russell | Michael S. Gazzaniga • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: NeuroscienceExperts discuss the wide variety of investigative tools available to cognitive neuroscience, including tra...

• Author(s): George Ansbro • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Entertainment & Performing Arts - General On Friday, May 18, 1934, radio columns in the New York press announced that Bert P...

• Author(s): R. Michael Gordon • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Murder - General Body snatchers and grave robbers were the stuff of Victorian lore, but two real-life culprits took the crim...

• Author(s): John Louis Digaetani • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General Designed as a companion volume to 2006's Inside the Ring, which focused on the four operas comprising Richard Wa...

• Author(s): John Gosling | Howard Koch • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General The 1938 Orson Welles broadcast of The War of the Worlds was a landmark in the history of entertainm...

• Author(s): Thomas Aiello • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: Linguistics - SociolinguisticsThis book is a gem, and its reprinting highlights the contributions of one o...

• Author(s): Chris Coulter • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Women's StudiesDuring the war in Sierra Leone (1991-2002), members of various rebel movements kidnapped thousands of girls and...