Young Adult / High School (16–18 years)

• Author(s): Cates Baldridge • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: World - General During the 16th century, Portugal endeavored to locate the mythical kingdom of Prester John--a Christian natio...

• Author(s): Chetan Deshmane • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General Wallace Stevens' complex poetry often eludes the grasp of the most tenacious reader. This critical text attempts an in...

• Author(s): Deborah M. Coulter-Harris • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Biblical Studies - Old Testament - General Part I of this book begins with a scriptural study of all Sheba reference...

• Author(s): Molly Lawless • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History On August 16, 1920, Yankees pitcher Carl Mays threw a fastball that struck Cleveland Indians shortstop Ray Ch...

• Author(s): Tracy Lee Heavner • Publisher: Scarecrow Press • Publisher Imprint: Scarecrow Press • BISAC: Musical Instruments - WoodwindsModeled on the brilliant approach first formulated by distinguished professor music and master clarinetist Mi...

• Author(s): Philip J. Potter • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Europe - Renaissance During the Renaissance, the monarchy became the dominant ruling power in Europe. It was an era of formid...

• Author(s): Michael C. Howard • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Europe - Medieval While scholars have long documented the migration of people in ancient and medieval times, they have paid ...

• Author(s): Loren E. Stamp • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - World War II - General Captured by the Japanese on Corregidor in 1942, the author, a Navy medic, found h...

• Author(s): Jerome S. Berg • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Radio - History & Criticism Shortwave broadcasting originated in the 1920s, when stations used the new technology to increa...

• Author(s): John G. Raffensperger • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General The history of medicine and surgery is well documented, but this volume offers the first specific exploration of...

• Author(s): James W. Messerschmidt • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: CriminologyIn Gender, Heterosexuality, and Youth Violence, James W. Messerschmidt unravels some...

• Author(s): Andrew E. Derocher | Wayne Lynch • Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press • Publisher Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press • BISAC: Animals - BearsHonorable Mention, 2012 National Outdoor Book AwardsThe polar bear, king of the ...

• Author(s): Charles W. Meister • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - Revolutionary Period (1775-1800) A completely newly researched story of the Constitutional Convention of 17...

• Author(s): J. Frederick Arment • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Violence in Society This guide to nonviolent conflict resolution presents thirty methods of maintaining or achieving peace...

• Author(s): Werner Loewenstein • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Life Sciences - Neuroscience

• Author(s): Jeff Codori • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Entertainment & Performing Arts Colleen Moore (1899-1988) was one of the most popular and beloved stars of the American silent...

• Author(s): Doyle Greene • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Children's Studies This political analysis of teen culture examines the historical and ideological development of American youth ...

• Author(s): Debra D. Chapman • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: World - Caribbean & Latin American In the 1970s political and economic changes to the world order led to an emerging "glo...

• Author(s): Kevin J. Lindenmuth • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General The success of low-budget independent films like The Blair Witch Project and Paranormal Activity have clear...

• Author(s): Rosemary Scanlon McTier • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: American - General During the nineteenth century, insects became a very fashionable subject of study, and the writing ...

• Author(s): Howard Burman • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History This is the story of one of the most dramatic baseball seasons ever, as it stretched both backwards and forwa...

• Author(s): Jeremy L. Caradonna • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Europe - FrancePublic academic prize contests--the concours acad�mique--played a significant role in the intellectual li...

• Author(s): Jonathan L. Friedmann • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Judaism - Rituals & Practice Throughout history, music has been a fixture of Jewish religious life. Musical referenc...

• Author(s): Jessica K. Sklar | Elizabeth S. Sklar • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General Mathematics has maintained a surprising presence in popular media for over a century. In recent ...

• Author(s): Phillip E. Faller • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877) This book contains never before published information, including artillery firi...

• Author(s): Masooda Bano • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Administration - GeneralIslamic schools, or madrasas, have been accused of radicalizing Muslims and participating, either activ...

• Author(s): Joan McGuire Mohr • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Russia & the Former Soviet Union During World War I, a specialized Russian battalion comprised of ethnic Czechs and Czec...

• Author(s): Greg H. Williams • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - World War II - General During World War II, the U.S. Navy swiftly expanded to include an array of vess...

• Author(s): Gene Kerrigan • Publisher: Europa Editions • Publisher Imprint: Europa Editions • BISAC: Mystery & Detective - Police Procedural

• Author(s): Lyn Driggs Cunningham | Jimmy Jones • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: History & Criticism - General Sweet, Hot and Blue gives lives and careers of 124 musicians whose style...

• Author(s): George C. Kingston • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General Captain James Madison Hood was the real U.S. Consul in the novel Anna and the King of Siam, but before his arrival ...

• Author(s): Nick C. Wilson • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History From 1900 through the 1940s Latino baseball players suffered discrimination, poor accommodations, low pay an...

• Author(s): Vaclav Smil • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: InventionsThe story of how diesel engines and gas turbines, used to power cargo ships and jet airplanes, made today's globally integrated economy possible.The...

• Author(s): John K. Driscoll • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - Civil War In 1845, sparsely populated Florida had been admitted to the United States along with Iowa in an il...

• Author(s): Robert B. Pippin • Publisher: University of Virginia Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Virginia Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismThe crime melodramas of the 1940s known now as film noir shared many formal and thema...

• Author(s): Bob Vanderberg • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History The book follows the colorful career of Frank Lane, who as baseball's busiest general manager during the 195...

• Author(s): Margaret Cruikshank • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: GerontologyMargaret Cruikshank's Learning to Be Old examines what it means to grow old in America ...

• Author(s): Alasdair Roberts • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: United States - 19th CenturyFor a while, it seemed impossible to lose money on real estate. But then the bubble burst. The ...

• Author(s): Peter Ephross | Martin Abramowitz • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History Between 1870 and 2010, 165 Jewish Americans played Major League Baseball. This work prese...

• Author(s): Deborah Weinstein • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Psychotherapy - Couples & FamilyWhile iconic popular images celebrated family life during the 1950s and 1960s, America...

• Author(s): Lauren R. Clay • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Theater - History & CriticismStagestruck traces the making of a vibrant French theater industry between the reign of Loui...

• Author(s): Aya Hirata Kimura • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Health Care DeliveryFor decades, NGOs targeting world hunger focused on ensuring that adequate quantities of food were bei...

• Author(s): Margaret Cruikshank • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: GerontologyMargaret Cruikshank's Learning to Be Old examines what it means to grow old in America ...

• Author(s): Phylis Johnson | Donald Pettit • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - Reference Unlike traditional animation techniques that use specialized 3D animation software, machinima-...

• Author(s): Benton Rain Patterson • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - Civil War Dramatically and authentically, using eyewitness accounts where possible, this book recounts t...

• Author(s): Shannon Wells-Lassagne | Ariane Hudelet • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General Rather than limiting the cinema, as certain French New Wave critics feared, adaptation ...

• Author(s): Burton St John | Kirsten A. Johnson • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Journalism Modern mainstream journalism faces a very real disturbance of its foundational premise that cre...

• Author(s): Carol Smallwood | Kerol Harrod | Vera Gubnitskaia • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Library & Information Science - General It is an exciting time to be a librarian. Advanc...

• Author(s): Theresa St Romain • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Entertainment & Performing Arts Born in Iowa in 1886, Margaret Fischer made her stage debut at the tender age of eight. ...

• Author(s): Tom Arne Midtrød • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Native AmericanIn The Memory of All Ancient Customs, Tom Arne Midtr d examines the complex patterns of diplomatic, politica...

• Author(s): Charlene Fix • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Entertainment & Performing Arts - General The author invites readers to spend time in the pleasure of Harpo's cinematic compa...

• Author(s): Eva Paulino Bueno | María Claudia André • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Caribbean & Latin American Noted scholars of Latin American and Spanish literature here explore th...

• Author(s): Pamela A. Bakker • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Sports - General Helms Hall of Fame's brothers William M. and Andrew B. "June" Rankin lived exciting lives covering sports fo...

• Author(s): John Long • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: RoboticsWhat happens when we let robots play the game of life?BR> The challenge of studying evolution is that the history of life is buried in the past -...

• Author(s): Brett Weiss • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Video & Mobile A follow up to 2007's Classic Home Video Games, 1972-1984, this reference work provides detailed descriptions ...

• Author(s): J. I. Packer | James I. Packer • Publisher: Baker Academic & Brazos Press • Publisher Imprint: Baker Academic & Brazos Press • BISAC: Biblical Studies - New Testament

• Author(s): Gregory A. Boyd • Publisher: Baker Books • Publisher Imprint: Baker Books • BISAC: Christian Theology - ChristologyWhat's special about Oneness Pentecostals?In this penetrating analysis of Oneness theology and practice, Gregory Boyd ...

• Author(s): Valerie Estelle Frankel • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Children's & Young Adult Literature The Harry Potter phenomenon created a surge in reading with a lasting effect o...

• Author(s): Roger L. Kemp • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Philosophy, Theory & Social Aspects This is a timely work on a very dynamic field. It provides more than 40 best practice ca...