Young Adult / High School (16–18 years)

• Author(s): Cratis D. Williams • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Educators Prior to his death in 1985, Cratis Williams was a leading scholar of and spokesperson for Appalachian life and li...

• Author(s): Kozo Yamamura | Wolfgang Streeck • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: International - EconomicsAfter the devastation of World War II, Germany and Japan built national capitalist...

• Author(s): Ruth Needleman • Publisher: ILR Press • Publisher Imprint: ILR Press • BISAC: Ethnic Studies - American - African American & Black StudiesThousands of African Americans poured into northwest Indiana in the 1920s dreaming of decen...

• Author(s): Brad Stevens • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Entertainment & Performing Arts - General "I just did it, and I probably made more mistakes than the average person who makes...

• Author(s): David Allen Harvey • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: Europe - FranceThe occult sciences have attracted followers and fascinated observers since the middle...

• Author(s): C. S. Rafinesque • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Essays Among American naturalists, C.S. Rafinesque (1783-1840) is second only to Audubon in the popular interest he sustains....

• Author(s): Oscar Pinkus • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military - World War II Many have commented upon Hitler's inexplicable behavior during World War II. He failed to invade England;...

• Author(s): John Louis Digaetani • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Individual Composer & Musician Composer Richard Wagner (1813-1883) likely suffered from a manic-depressive disorder b...

• Author(s): Sharon Hamilton • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Shakespeare The father-daughter relationship was one that Shakespeare explored again and again. His typical pattern featured a...

• Author(s): Alan H. Levy • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Discrimination & Race Relations Many are familiar with Jackie Robinson and the integration of Major League Baseball after all...

• Author(s): Golfo Alexopoulos • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Civil Rights"I served not in defense of the bourgeois order, but only for a crumb of bread since I was burdened with five ...

• Author(s): Martin Le Franc • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Poetry Medieval literature makes it plain that the Battle of the Sexes has been alive and raging since at least the Middle Age...

• Author(s): Jes Battis • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - General The television series Buffy and Angel revolve around radical conceptions of family. Indeed, their coherence de...

• Author(s): Julie H. Kim • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Mystery & Detective Fiction In 1929, Ronald Knox, a prominent member of the English Detection Club, included in his tongue-in...

• Author(s): Fred Stein • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - General From the genesis of baseball in the 1840s, when so-called "kranks" cheered the teams of their choice, fans have ...

• Author(s): Ewald Standop • Publisher: de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter • BISAC: American - GeneralDas altenglische Heldenepos Beowulf entstand wahrscheinlich im 8. Jahrhundert. Es handelt sich um das älteste und einzig vollständig erh...

• Author(s): Kerry Segrave • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Women's Studies During the last 20 years of the 19th century, cigarette smoking was transformed from a lower-class habit to a fa...

• Author(s): Roland H. Worth • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: History A messiah is an individual appointed by God to a specific task of importance, and elevated to a level of far greater a...

• Author(s): John L. Lumley • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Automotive - History Most childhood fascinations are a passing fancy, but something about cars tends to capture the imagination...

• Author(s): Joseph Fornieri • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: United States - Civil WarAt Gettysburg Lincoln resolved that "this nation, under God," would not perish,...

• Author(s): Mark Von Schlegell • Publisher: Semiotext(e) • Publisher Imprint: Semiotext(e) • BISAC: Science Fiction - Apocalyptic & Post-ApocalypticA novel about life under enlightened totalitarianism in the twenty-third century and the effo...

• Author(s): Michael G. Stevens • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism While countless films have been based on fictional characters, a surprising number have also...

• Author(s): Dolores M. Byrnes • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Public Policy - Economic PolicyIn her absorbing ethnography of the everyday practice of public policy, Dolores M. Byrnes f...

• Author(s): Chester M. Biggs • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military - United States Like most foreign troops stationed in China, the United States Marines' mission was to protect the A...

• Author(s): Andres Wirkmaa • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - General Many fans enjoy keeping track of baseball action with easy abbreviations written on simple grids. Serious sc...

• Author(s): Gregory J. Rubinson • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Literature often reflects societal change, but it can also effect change by inspiring peop...

• Author(s): David L. Hoffmann • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Social HistorySoviet official culture underwent a dramatic shift in the mid-1930s, when Stalin and his fellow leaders bega...

• Author(s): Armond Fields • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Entertainment & Performing Arts - General Sophie Tucker appeared in only seven American stage musicals and appeared only twi...

• Author(s): Barbara Eckstein | James A. Throgmorton • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Public Policy - City Planning & Urban DevelopmentStory and Sustainability explores the role of story in planning theory and pr...

• Author(s): Lewis M. Stern • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: International Relations - General Although the hostilities of the Vietnam War ended in 1975, the diplomatic repercussions laste...

• Author(s): William J. Mitchell • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialThe meaning of a message, says William Mitchell, depends on the context of its reception. "Shouting 'fire' in a cr...

• Author(s): Mark Etherington • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Middle East - IraqA former paratrooper in the British Army with extensive experience of conflict and post-conflict manageme...

• Author(s): Alexander Hamilton | James Madison | John Jay • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: United States - Revolutionary WarThe Federalist represents one side of one of the most mom...

• Author(s): Claude H. Nolen • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Ethnic Studies - American - African American & Black Studies This work documents the many roles filled by Southern blacks ...

• Author(s): Nancy Hanway • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Caribbean & Latin American In 2001 Argentina faced its most serious economic crisis in years. At this turbulent time in Argen...

• Author(s): Richard Bogovich | Cheryl Posner • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Genres & Styles - Rock The British rock band The Who has been hailed as the world's greatest live rock an...

• Author(s): Jim Cox • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Radio - History & Criticism Frank and Anne Hummert brought at least 125 separate series to the airwaves. The production dynasty ov...

• Author(s): David Naguib Pellow | Robert J. Brulle • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Environmental ScienceFor almost 30 years, the environmental justice movement (EJM) has challenged the environmental and health ineq...

• Author(s): Robert E. Blobaum • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Eastern Europe - GeneralFrom the Middle Ages until World War II, Poland was host to Europe's largest and most vibrant Jewi...

• Author(s): Cynthia H. Whittaker • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: Russia & the Former Soviet UnionRussian monarchs have long been regarded as majestic and despot...

• Author(s): Robert E. Blobaum • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Eastern Europe - GeneralFrom the Middle Ages until World War II, Poland was host to Europe's largest and most vibrant Jewi...

• Author(s): Susan M. Sterett • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: United States - 19th CenturyIn Public Pensions, Susan M. Sterett traces the legal and constitutional structures underlying ...

• Author(s): Kerry Segrave • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Popular Culture - General The suntan experienced a profound change in the last century. Considered a mark of the lower class for...

• Author(s): Elise Hancock | Robert Kanigel • Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press • Publisher Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press • BISAC: General"I am so proud to be Elise's student. Read this book and I suspect you will be too."--from...

• Author(s): Nancy Forbes • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Computer ScienceHow scientists are using nature as model and metaphor to reinvent computing: a survey of an emerging field.As computers and the tasks they pe...

• Author(s): Günter Seeber • Publisher: de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter • BISAC: Earth Sciences - GeographyThis book covers the entire field of satellite geodesy and is intended to serve as a textbook for advanced undergraduate and gra...

• Author(s): Ken Conca • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Real Estate - GeneralWater is a key component of critical ecosystems, a marketable commodity, a foundation of local communities and cultures, and a powerful mea...

• Author(s): John E. Fisher • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877) Thomas Burr Fisher was one of five brothers who served, between them, in the Fourt...

• Author(s): Larry Gerber • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: Labor & Industrial Relations - GeneralEmbracing individualism and antistatism, the United States tradit...

• Author(s): Jodi Bilinkoff • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Women's StudiesIn early modern Catholic Europe and its colonies priests frequently developed close relationships with pious w...

• Author(s): D. Quentin Miller • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General As the United States' prison population has exploded over the past 30 years, a rich, provocative and ever-increasing...

• Author(s): Bernice M. Murphy • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: American - General Shirley Jackson was one of America's most prominent female writers of the 1950s. Between 1948 and 1965 sh...

• Author(s): Scott Aaron Stine • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - Guides & Reviews Reviews of The Gorehound's Guide to Splatter Films of the 1960s and 1970s: "recommended"--Bookli...

• Author(s): Doug Feldmann • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History With the recent success of the Gas House Gang as backdrop, the National League prepared for the 1935 season. ...

• Author(s): John Edmund Delezen • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Asia - Southeast Asia "We live together under the thick canopy, each searching for the other; the same leeches and mosquit...

• Author(s): Betty Falkenberg • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Literary Else Lasker-Schuler, a pivotal figure in German Expressionism, presided over avant-garde cafe life in pre-World War ...

• Author(s): Howard M. Berlin • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - Reference The first film featuring Charlie Chan, The House Without a Key, appeared in 1925. Forty-seven films and six ...

• Author(s): Mac C. Kirkpatrick | Thomas K. Perry • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Basketball In 1905 Lawrence Peter Hollis went to Springfield, Massachusetts, before beginning his job as ...

• Author(s): Aaron Tornell | Frank Westermann • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Economics - TheoryAnalysis and evidence of how the factors that give rise to boom-bust cycles in fast-growing developing economies also e...