Young Adult / High School (16–18 years)

• Author(s): Elizabeth Fowler • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: MedievalChaucer introduces the characters of the Knight and the Prioress in the General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales. B...

• Author(s): Arthur P. J. Mol • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: GlobalizationMany writers either glorify globalization or vilify it, particularly for its destructive environmental effects. In this book environmental s...

• Author(s): Barbara Cutter • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: Women's StudiesWomen accused of murder fascinated nineteenth-century Americans, and spectators crowded in...

• Author(s): James H. Austin • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Neurology - GeneralA personal story of the ways in which persistence, chance, and creativity interact in biomedical research.This first book by the author...

• Author(s): Joseph Margolis • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: History & Surveys - ModernThe Unraveling of Scientism, a companion to Joseph Margolis's Reinventing Pragmatism, follows ...

• Author(s): Glenn A. Knoblock • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - Revolutionary Period (1775-1800) New Hampshire, despite its small size, played a significant role in the Ame...

• Author(s): Peter Messer • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: United States - Revolutionary WarPeter C. Messer demonstrates that a strong sense of a shared past transfor...

• Author(s): Peter Julicher • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: World - General In the Russia of the tsars, people who criticized or questioned the autocratic prerogatives of the sovereign we...

• Author(s): David Dicaire • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General The story of the first roughly half century of jazz is really the story of some of the greatest musicians of all time. S...

• Author(s): Gordon Greb | Mike Adams • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - General Still broadcasting today, the world's first radio station was invented by Charles Herrold in ...

• Author(s): Irene Gammel • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Artists, Architects, PhotographersThe first biography of the enigmatic dadaist known as "the Baroness"--Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven.Elsa von Freytag-Loringh...

• Author(s): Meili Steele • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: United States - 20th CenturyIn Hiding from History, Meili Steele challenges an assumption at the heart of current debates in po...

• Author(s): Jim Bresnahan • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - Civil War What if Douglas instead of Lincoln had won the presidential election of 1860? What if the Confederates...

• Author(s): Sarah Hentges • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism Although the "coming of age" story has been a popular film plot for decades, producers have only ...

• Author(s): Karin Beeler • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Body Art & Tattooing Whether they graphically depict an individual's or a community's beliefs, express the defiance of author...

• Author(s): David Gutzke • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: Industries - Hospitality, Travel & TourismNo self-respecting Victorian lady would enter a British pub, ...

• Author(s): Dean W. Andersen • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military - World War II He was a chemistry student in college on his way home for a visit when news of Pearl Harbor came over...

• Author(s): James R. Keller | Leslie Stratyner • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: LGBT Studies - Gay Studies Television is awash with newly embraced gay and lesbian themes that have crossed...

• Author(s): Peter Carino • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - General The Indiana State University Conference on Baseball in Literature and American Culture has consistently produc...

• Author(s): Hjorleifur Jonsson • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialThailand's hill tribes have been the object of anthropological research, cultural tou...

• Author(s): Harry Goldman • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - Direction & Production Kenneth Strickfaden, innovative genius of illusionary special effects from silent films to the...

• Author(s): Peter O. Koch • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Latin America - Mexico Tracing events from the discovery of the New World through the fall of the Aztec empire in 1521, this boo...

• Author(s): Paul R. McHugh • Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press • Publisher Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press • BISAC: Psychiatry - GeneralFrom strenuous opposition to physician-assisted suicide to a conviction that sex-correction s...

• Author(s): Edward Winter • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Chess Chess has developed such a large body of myth and folklore that sorting fact from fiction is not easy. As with Edward Wint...

• Author(s): Thomas Barthel • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Sports Pepper Martin, the "Wild Horse of the Osage," is most famous for having dominated the October 1931 World Series--stealin...

• Author(s): Nelson Bolan • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Automotive - History With a grandfather who drove a horse car in 1900 and who later had a 25-year career as a chauffeur for a wea...

• Author(s): Peter Garrett • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Gothic & RomanceThe Gothic has long been seen as offering a subversive challenge to the norms of realism. Locating both Go...

• Author(s): Harold Mah • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Europe - FranceFor centuries the histories of France and Germany have been linked in ways productive and destructive, and each na...

• Author(s): Jefferson Cowie | Joseph Heathcott | Barry Bluestone • Publisher: ILR Press • Publisher Imprint: ILR Press • BISAC: Political EconomyThe immediate impact of deindustrialization--the suffering inflicted upon workers, their families, a...

• Author(s): Edmund G. Bansak • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General Cat People (1942) and I Walked with a Zombie (1943) established Val Lewton's hauntingly graceful style where s...

• Author(s): James F. Pastor • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Criminology Today the private security industry employs approximately 1.5 million people and spends over $52 billion annually....

• Author(s): Christel Weiss Brandenburg | Daniel R. Laing • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Historical - General Decades have passed since World War II, yet the myth that all Germans were N...

• Author(s): Harris M. Lentz • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General Though professional wrestlers are usually ignored by sportswriters and entertainment reporters alike, the popularity o...

• Author(s): Mary P. Callahan • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Asia - Southeast AsiaThe Burmese army took political power in Burma in 1962 and has ruled the country ever since. The persi...

• Author(s): Douglas T. Northrop • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Asia - Central AsiaDrawing on extensive research in the archives of Russia and Uzbekistan, Douglas Northrop here reconst...

• Author(s): Marilyn Mayer Culpepper • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Women's Studies Presented here are excerpts from diaries and letters written by Southern women from different walks of...

• Author(s): Piero Gambaccini • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: History Italian medical charlatans, wandering quacks who traded in remedies, accompanied real medicine like a dark shadow dur...

• Author(s): Ronald Fagin | Joseph Y. Halpern | Yoram Moses • Publisher: Bradford Book • Publisher Imprint: Bradford Book • BISAC: GeneralReasoning about knowledge--particularly the knowledge of agents who reason about the world and each other's ...

• Author(s): Carl Watner | Wendy McElroy • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Civil Rights Throughout history, governments have sought more efficient ways to count, tax, allocate, monitor and ...

• Author(s): Jorge Finkielman • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General Argentina fell in love with movies as soon as they were first exhibited in 1896. Even before World War I, Arge...

• Author(s): Richard Godbeer • Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press • Publisher Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press • BISAC: United States - Colonial PeriodIn 1695, John Miller, a clergyman traveling through New York, found it appalling ...

• Author(s): David Cope • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Genres & Styles - ElectronicVirtual Music is about artificial creativity. Focusing on the author's Experiments in Musical Intelligence computer music compo...

• Author(s): Betty Rose Nagle • Publisher: Indiana University Press (Ips) • Publisher Imprint: Indiana University Press (Ips) • BISAC: Ancient & ClassicalPublius Papinius Statius lived from the 40s to the mid-90s C.E. Born in Naples, he was t...

• Author(s): Joseph G. Preston • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History Many of the most powerful trends in baseball today have their roots in the 1970s. Baseball entered that d...

• Author(s): Gordon Payton | Jr. Martin Grams • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Radio - History & Criticism Almost every evening for nine years during the late 1970s and early 1980s, th...

• Author(s): Egil Törnqvist • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Theater - History & Criticism Eugene O'Neill wrote his plays for a theatre in which the playwright would take a central pos...

• Author(s): Eldon Hauck • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Encyclopedias There are 56 capitol structures in the United States and its territories--and this book has 56 entries about all asp...

• Author(s): Thomas K. Perry • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History After the Civil War, the Yankee textile industry began a steady transfer south, bringing with it the tradit...

• Author(s): Alexandra Schwartz | Ed Ruscha • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: American - GeneralAn anthology of writings, interviews, and images by artist Ed Ruscha.Ed Ruscha is among the most innovative artists of th...

• Author(s): Charles K. Armstrong • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Asia - KoreaNorth Korea, despite a shattered economy and a populace suffering from widespread hunger, has outlived repe...

• Author(s): Christopher R. Duncan • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: American - GeneralSoutheast Asian nations have devised a range of development programs that strive to incorporate mino...

• Author(s): Norman Berdichevsky • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Linguistics - Sociolinguistics This study evaluates the importance of language in achieving a sense of national solidarity...

• Author(s): Kristina Bross • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: American - GeneralNative converts to Christianity, dubbed "praying Indians" by seventeenth-century English missionaries, have...

• Author(s): Thomas W. Brucato • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History The retiring of a number to honor a player likely began with the New York Yankees. The Yankees were not t...

• Author(s): Bryan Feuer • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Bibliographies & Indexes Classical Greeks considered the Mycenaean civilization to be the basis of their glorious and heroic h...

• Author(s): Médecins Sans Frontières | Fabrice Weissman • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: International Relations - GeneralDuring the planning stages of military intervention in Iraq, hu...

• Author(s): John R. Bumgarner • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - World War II - General "The grisly procession of dead had grown alarmingly...men who had endured the ...

• Author(s): Don G. Smith • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General Though he was haunted by the shadow of his legendary father and devastated by alcoholism, Lon Chaney, Jr., carved ...

• Author(s): Dorothy Louise Hodgson • Publisher: Indiana University Press (Ips) • Publisher Imprint: Indiana University Press (Ips) • BISAC: Ethnic Studies - American - African American & Black Studies"Once Intrepid Warriors advances a brilli...