Young Adult / High School (16–18 years)

• Author(s): Grant McCracken • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: ForecastingTrenchantly on point and bursting with insight, anthropologist Grant McCracken shows American corporations how keeping a finger on the puls...

• Author(s): Giles MacDonogh • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Europe - GermanyIn this masterful narrative, acclaimed historian Giles MacDonogh chronicles Adolf Hitler's consolidation of power over the course of o...

• Author(s): Bethany Latham • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General This analysis of how filmmakers have portrayed England's Queen Elizabeth I (1533-1603), and the audience's perce...

• Author(s): Peter Tonguette • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Entertainment & Performing Arts - General Originally arriving in Hollywood to pursue an acting career, James Bridges went ...

• Author(s): Manning Marable • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Ethnic Studies - American - African American & Black StudiesAre the stars of the Civil Rights firmament yesterday's news? In Living Black History ...

• Author(s): R. E. Wycherley • Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLC • Publisher Imprint: Literary Licensing, LLC • BISAC: Ancient - GreeceThe Athenian Agora V3: Literary and Epigraphical Testimonia is a comprehensive reference book compiled by R. E...

• Author(s): E. Lawrence Abel • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Genres & Styles - Military & Marches During the American Civil War, songs united and inspired people on both sides. T...

• Author(s): Ruth Enid Zambrana • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Ethnic Studies - American - Hispanic American StudiesIt is well known that Latinos in the United States bear a disproport...

• Author(s): Roger L. Kemp | Carl J. Stephani • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Sociology - Urban Over the past several decades, numerous planning movements have taken root within the Unite...

• Author(s): Eileen J. Herrmann | Robert M. Dowling • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Theater - General Eugene O'Neill was one of the great American playwrights of the twentieth century. Sp...

• Author(s): Bill Morales • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History In 1960, Major League Baseball reached a crossroads in its history. Facing a challenge from the Continental Ba...

• Author(s): Nathan C. Southern | Jacques Weissgerber | Heather McBrier • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism With films like Les Amants and Le Souffle au coeur, ...

• Author(s): Jack Smiles • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History In 1924, at the age of 27, manager and second baseman Stanley "Bucky" Harris--aka "The Boy Wonder"--led the Was...

• Author(s): Robert M. Browning • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - World War II - General The U.S. merchant marine played a critical, though often overlooked, role in ...

• Author(s): Rogelio Agrasánchez • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism A surge of immigration in the United States in the 1920s coincided with burgeoning developm...

• Author(s): Jim Cox • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Radio - History & Criticism In the days before television, radio was the constant voice in American life. When radio spoke, Americ...

• Author(s): Charles S. Bullock | Dante J. Scala | Daniel C. Reed • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: Political Process - Campaigns & ElectionsIn this new edited v...

• Author(s): William B. Gould • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - General In 1995, William B. Gould IV, then chairman of the National Labor Relations Board, cast the deciding vote ...

• Author(s): Idean Salehyan • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Security (National & International)Rebellion, insurgency, civil war-conflict within a society is customarily treated as a...

• Author(s): Anne Jacobson Schutte • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: MonasticismAn unwilling, desperate nun trapped in the cloister, unable to gain release: such is the image that endures...

• Author(s): William A. Cook • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Sports Most biographies of Jim Thorpe (1888-1953) emphasize his Olympic glory and his remarkable abilities in track and footba...

• Author(s): Tiffany Trotman • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: European - Spanish & Portuguese Despite centuries of Catholic conservatism, Spain stands among the Western countries that ...

• Author(s): Rudyard Kipling • Publisher: Read Books • Publisher Imprint: Read Books • BISAC: GeneralMany of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are r...

• Author(s): Edward P. Kohn • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: United States - 19th CenturyOne of the worst natural disasters in American history, the 1896 New York heat wave killed almost 1,500 people in ten oppre...

• Author(s): C. W. Sullivan | Donald E. Palumbo | III Sullivan C. W. • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Science Fiction & Fantasy Robert A. Heinlein's early, juvenile science fiction nov...

• Author(s): Steffen Hertog • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Public Policy - Economic PolicyIn Princes, Brokers, and Bureaucrats, the most thorough treatment of the political economy of ...

• Author(s): Orfeo Fioretos • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Comparative PoliticsTwentieth-century Europe was an intense laboratory of capitalist experimentation. Confronted with economi...

• Author(s): Lynn R. Williams • Publisher: ILR Press • Publisher Imprint: ILR Press • BISAC: PoliticalLynn Williams remains one of the most influential North American union leaders of the twentieth century. His two terms as president of the Unite...

• Author(s): Scott C. Farquhar • Publisher: Lulu.com • Publisher Imprint: Lulu.com • BISAC: Middle East - Israel & PalestineThis work studies the combat actions in two operations in Lebanon and the Gaza Strip. The writing team focused on the ...

• Author(s): Palle B. Petterson • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism The cinematographers and directors who shot film in wilderness areas at the turn of the 19th...

• Author(s): Christopher M. Moreman | Cory James Rushton • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Folklore & Mythology The figure of the zombie is a familiar one in world culture, acting as a ...

• Author(s): Stephen B. Armstrong • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General Here is a comprehensive survey of the film and television career of London-born director Andrew V. McLagle...

• Author(s): Everett Jenkins • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Comparative Religion The major monotheistic religions of the world--Judaism, Christianity and Islam--have certain elements in ...

• Author(s): Billee J. Stallings | Jo-An J. Evans • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Science Fiction & Fantasy Will F. Jenkins, known to science fiction fans by his penname Murray Leinst...

• Author(s): Jason Fisher • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Science Fiction & Fantasy Source criticism--analysis of a writer's source material--has emerged as one of the most popular ap...

• Author(s): George Santayana | Marianne S. Wokeck | Martin A. Coleman • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: History & Surveys - ModernSantayana argues that instinct and imagination are crucial to the emergence of rea...

• Author(s): Spiro Dimolianis • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Historical Jack the Ripper is a gothic tale of Victorian conspiracies, the supernatural, secret societies and the police. Sco...

• Author(s): R. C. Neighbors | Sandy Rankin • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General Through spaceships, aliens, ray guns and other familiar trappings, science fiction uses the futu...

• Author(s): Emmanuel Teitelbaum • Publisher: ILR Press • Publisher Imprint: ILR Press • BISAC: Labor & Industrial Relations - GeneralIn Mobilizing Restraint, Emmanuel Teitelbaum argues that, contrary to conventional wisdom, democracies are b...

• Author(s): Hugh Davis • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Civil RightsHistorians have focused almost entirely on the attempt by southern African Americans to attain equal rights during Re...

• Author(s): Edward J. Carberry • Publisher: Labor and Employment Research Association • Publisher Imprint: Labor and Employment Research Association • BISAC: Labor - GeneralOne of the most persistent and important, but often ignored, trends cont...

• Author(s): John A. Donaldson • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Development - Economic DevelopmentHow can policymakers effectively reduce poverty? Most mainstream economists advocate pro...

• Author(s): Sarosh Kuruvilla | Ching Kwan Lee | Mary E. Gallagher • Publisher: ILR Press • Publisher Imprint: ILR Press • BISAC: Labor & Industrial Relations - GeneralIn the thirty years since the opening of China's economy, China's economic...

• Author(s): Myron J. Smith • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - Civil War While the Monitor and Merrimack are the most famous of the Civil War ironclads, the Confederacy had a...

• Author(s): Simone M. St Pierre • Publisher: McFarland and Company, Inc. • Publisher Imprint: McFarland and Company, Inc. • BISAC: Christian Theology - EcclesiologyAppointed by Pope Paul IV to examine the role of women in the Bible, the Pontific...

• Author(s): Anthony Chemero • Publisher: Bradford Book • Publisher Imprint: Bradford Book • BISAC: Cognitive Psychology & CognitionA proposal for a new way to do cognitive science argues that cognition should be described in terms of agent-e...

• Author(s): Maggie Parke | Natalie Wilson • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: American - General Since the publication of Twilight in 2005, Stephenie Meyer's four-book saga about the torture...

• Author(s): Janice M. Bogstad | Philip E. Kaveny • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism This group of new critical essays offers multidisciplinary analysis of dir...

• Author(s): Ottar G. Draugsvold • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Reference Since its inception, the Nobel Prize for literature has given a very public voice to some of the world's greates...

• Author(s): Lisa Bier • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Water Sports - Swimming & Diving In 1926, Gertrude Ederle became the first female to swim the English Channel--and broke the exi...

• Author(s): Amy Slagle • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: Sociology of ReligionLike many Americans, the Eastern Orthodox converts in this study are participants in wha...

• Author(s): Florian Ebeling | David Lorton | Jan Assmann • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Semiotics & Theory"Perhaps Hermeticism has fascinated so many people precisely because it h...

• Author(s): Bert O. States • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Semiotics & TheoryAre dreams merely odd things that happen to us at night, sometimes pleasant, sometimes terrifying, but ...

• Author(s): Harris M. Lentz • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Political The first half of the 20th century was perhaps the most turbulent in history. Two world wars and numerous smaller co...

• Author(s): J. Bradford DeLong | Stephen S. Cohen • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: International - EconomicsTwo award-winning economists detail how America's declining economic power will reshape its place on th...

• Author(s): Donald H. Wills | Reyburn W. Myers • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - World War II - General D.H. (Herb) Wills fought the Japanese on Bataan, was captured...

• Author(s): Stephen J. Lofgren | Richard W. Stweart | Center of Military History • Publisher: Military Bookshop • Publisher Imprint: Military Bookshop • BISAC: Military - United StatesFull color illustrations throughout. Two days after the Septe...