Young Adult / High School (16–18 years)

• Author(s): Robert J. Andreach • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Theater - General The dramatic trilogy has been flourishing for some time now in new works and revivals of older works by A...

• Author(s): Snow Wildsmith • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Careers - General This book is for the teenager or young adult who is interested in enlisting in the United States Navy. It wil...

• Author(s): Jenifer Paquette • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Science Fiction & Fantasy Many academics dismiss Stephen King as a mere genre writer, an over-glorified bestseller who ap...

• Author(s): Barbara S. Glass • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Dance - Folk Africans brought as slaves to North America arrived without possessions, but not without culture. The fascinatin...

• Author(s): W. D. Ehrhart • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military A new collection of Bill Ehrhart's essays--25 of them, written between 2002 and 2012 on subjects ranging from the Vietn...

• Author(s): Malcolm MacFarlane | Ken Crossland • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Music Perry Como put aside his career as a barber to become one of the top American crooners of the 20th ce...

• Author(s): Kimberley McMahon-Coleman | Roslyn Weaver • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Popular Culture - General In recent years, shapeshifting characters in literature, film and televisi...

• Author(s): Jack Hurst • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: United States - Civil WarFrom the author of the acclaimed Men of Fire, the next stage of the clash between Union general Ulysses S. Grant and Confederate h...

• Author(s): Kenneth J. Andrien • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: Latin America - South AmericaThe Human Tradition in Colonial Latin America is an anthology of stori...

• Author(s): Rick Albrecht • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General Unlike the generations of coaches that have gone before them, today's coaches are expected not only to teach motor skill...

• Author(s): Jeffrey Michael Laing • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Sports This is the biography of Bud Fowler (ne John Jackson), the first African American to play in organized baseball, ...

• Author(s): Erica J. Seifert • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Presidents & Heads of State "Authenticity," the dominant cultural value of the baby boom generation, became central to pr...

• Author(s): Mark D. Kessler • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Buildings - Public, Commercial & Industrial In the quarter century from San Francisco's devasting fire of 1906 to the begi...

• Author(s): Lawrence J. Epstein • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Jewish Studies This is a thematic survey of American films with significant Jewish content that made an important statemen...

• Author(s): Pamela H. Gravagne • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General The Becoming of Age is an examination of the ways that aging and old age are represented in popular film. Ar...

• Author(s): Françoise Lionnet • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: FeministPassionate allegiances to competing theoretical camps have stifled dialogue among today's literary critics, assert...

• Author(s): Howard E. Covington • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Political Henry E. Frye came of age just as the South was beginning a transformational change. When he graduated from coll...

• Author(s): Moira Davison Reynolds • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General Intended for the general reader with an interest in American history, this book profiles eleven women who made ...

• Author(s): Kerry Segrave • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - General Once the major Hollywood studios got over their loathing of television as an entertainment medium, they mov...

• Author(s): Robin L. Rielly • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - World War II - General As the United States began its campaign against numerous Japanese-held islands i...

• Author(s): Hal Kanter • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - Direction & Production Hal Kanter first came to Hollywood at age 18 to work as the ghost writer for a comic strip. Then ...

• Author(s): Laurent Dubreuil | David Fieni • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: European - FrenchThe relationship between power and language has been a central theme in critical theory for ...

• Author(s): Judy Tzu-Chun Wu • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: United States - 20th CenturyTraveling to Hanoi during the U.S. war in Vietnam was a long and dangerous undertaking. Even th...

• Author(s): Dan Lemay • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General Although much has been written about the 1950s cult film The Searchers, Alan LeMay, the author of the novel upon which the m...

• Author(s): Bruce a. Bergner • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Theater - Stagecraft & Scenography This book analyzes theatre scene design through the powers and characteristics of phys...

• Author(s): Mary Alice M. Hasty | Hazel M. Winfree • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Genealogy & Heraldry It could be said that Davie County, North Carolina, entered the Civil War only...

• Author(s): John Palfrey | Urs Gasser • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Information Technology

• Author(s): Micheal Clodfelter • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military - World War I This volume, with exhaustive on-site research, details America's last major offensive of World War I...

• Author(s): Donna J. Barbie • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Golf - General The essays in this book arise from the premise that Tiger Woods is not simply a phenomenal player but is also a...

• Author(s): Douglas J. Butler • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - Civil War Monuments honoring leaders and victorious armies have been raised throughout history. Following th...

• Author(s): Richard A. Fariña | Sergio F. Vizcaíno | Gerry de Iuliis • Publisher: Indiana University Press • Publisher Imprint: Indiana University Press • BISAC: Dinosaurs & Prehistoric CreaturesMore than 10,000 years ago spectacularly large...

• Author(s): Myron J. Smith • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877) In the most detailed history ever of Union warships on the western waters of the C...

• Author(s): Andrea Kirchknopf • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General The 19th century has become especially relevant for the present--as one can see from, for example, large-scale adapt...

• Author(s): Frank Joseph Rowe • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Aviation - History Its maneuverability impresses pilots and laymen alike. Its design, which makes it capable of extreme cont...

• Author(s): Carl H. Moore • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Aviation - General "This is the story of my experiences with the medium bomber designated by the Army as a B-26 and named by the...

• Author(s): Milton C. Van Vlack • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - Revolutionary Period (1775-1800) Silas Deane was the victim of one of the most vicious character assassina...

• Author(s): Michael Gough • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Aviation - General Three years after American raceplanes failed dismally in the most important air race of 1920, a French magazi...

• Author(s): Cary O'Dell • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - General Long dismissed as ciphers, sycophants and "Stepford Wives," women characters of primetime television during t...

• Author(s): Warren N. Wilbert • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - General The shutout--a game in which a team prevents its opponent from scoring--remains relatively rare. Of the r...

• Author(s): David H. Benzing • Publisher: Comstock Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Comstock Publishing • BISAC: Life Sciences - BotanyOften growing far above the ground, "air plants" (or epiphytes) defy many of our common perceptions about plant...

• Author(s): Tomas Larsson • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Public Policy - Economic PolicyDomestic and international development strategies often focus on private ownership as a crucial...

• Author(s): Charles F. Faber | Richard B. Faber • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Presidents & Heads of State This is a revision and an updating of the first edition, published in 2000...

• Author(s): Ronald Gatty • Publisher: Southeast Asia Program Publications • Publisher Imprint: Southeast Asia Program Publications • BISAC: DictionariesThe Southeast Asia Program, Cornell University, recommends Ronald Gatty's Fijian-English Dict...

• Author(s): Robert Michael Bobb Cotter • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - Guides & Reviews This filmography (including television and music video appearances) chronicles the care...

• Author(s): Terrence R. Wandtke • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Comics & Graphic Novels For decades, scholars have been making the connection between the design of the superhero stor...

• Author(s): Charlie Bevis • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Sports This first book-length biography of Jimmy Collins examines the life of an intensely private, business-oriented ballplayer...

• Author(s): Ellen Grabiner | Donald E. Palumbo | III Sullivan C. W. • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism In the blockbuster film Avatar, science fiction and the...

• Author(s): J. Ryan Parker • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism Sherwood Pictures is the filmmaking ministry of Sherwood Baptist Church in Albany, Georgia, and ...

• Author(s): R. Michael Wilson • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - State & Local - West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT Since colonial days, administration of the death penalty--w...

• Author(s): Franklin F. Webb | Ricky L. Cox • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - State & Local - General From the time of early settlement in Virginia, water-powered mills...

• Author(s): Laura Laxton • Publisher: Gryphon House • Publisher Imprint: Gryphon House • BISAC: Animals - General

• Author(s): Walter Lord | Scott S. Sheads • Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press • Publisher Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press • BISAC: Military - United StatesIn the summer of 1814, enemy naval and ground forces made a coordinated as...

• Author(s): Bryan L. Yeatter • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Football - General This is a comprehensive reference work covering Joe Namath's entire professional football career, followin...

• Author(s): Wesley J. O'Brien • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Instruction & Study - Theory The book explores ways in which combat film scores interact collaboratively with other film...

• Author(s): Julie M. Hauer • Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press • Publisher Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press • BISAC: Home CareGlobal impairment of the central nervous system, whether stable or progressive, is often called severe n...

• Author(s): Zach Waggoner • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Video & Electronic This edited collection of new essays is devoted to the terminology used in the fields of videogame theory...

• Author(s): Richard Dean Burns • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: International Relations - Arms ControlWritten in an engaging and accessible manner, The Evolution o...

• Author(s): Lan Dong • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Comics & Graphic Novels The essays in this collection discuss how comics and graphic narratives can be useful primary texts and l...