Young Adult / High School (16–18 years)

• Author(s): Noah Heringman • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: PoetryWhy are rocks and landforms so prominent in British Romantic poetry? Why, for example, does Shelley choose a mountain a...

• Author(s): Charles C. Sharpe • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Criminology Fraud committed against the elderly has reached epidemic proportions, and the problem will only worsen as a larg...

• Author(s): Gary D. Allinson • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: LogicReviews of the first edition-- "Allinson promises a comprehensive synthesis... that integrates analysis of political, ...

• Author(s): Cynthia Burack • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Feminism & Feminist TheoryGroup identifications famously pose the problem of destructive rhetoric and action against othe...

• Author(s): Jeffrey W. Taliaferro • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: International Relations - GeneralGreat powers often initiate risky military and diplomatic inventions in far-off, peri...

• Author(s): Thomas E. Van Hyning • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History Since its inception in 1938, the Liga de Beisbol Professional de Puerto Rico has launched the careers ...

• Author(s): Robert M. Fishman • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialBuilding on one of sociology's core ideas--that social ties can shape collective outco...

• Author(s): Michael Cody • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Media Studies From 1803 to 1807, Charles Brockden Brown served as editor and chief contributor to the Literary Magazine, and Amer...

• Author(s): Robert W. Cohen • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History The New York Yankees' history is filled with great achievements, outstanding performances, and unprecedente...

• Author(s): Leslie Norton • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General The great Russian choreographer Leonide Massine was the most important figure in modernist ballet in the 1930s, known fo...

• Author(s): Theodore R. Weeks • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: Eastern Europe - GeneralBefore the mid-nineteenth century, Jews in the Polish lands led lives quite se...

• Author(s): Judith Pascoe • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: General"This book is... a romantic history of romantic collecting. It takes seriously, and by necessity shares, the tendency o...

• Author(s): Clyde T. McCants • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Genres & Styles - Opera Every opera tells a story, but sometimes the creation of an opera makes a pretty fascinating tale...

• Author(s): Elizabeth Cullen Dunn • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Development - Economic DevelopmentThe transition from socialism in Eastern Europe is not an isolated event, but part o...

• Author(s): John C. Skipper • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History On September 29, 1945, the Chicago Cubs' fireball pitcher Paul Erickson threw a curve ball to Tommy O'Brien...

• Author(s): Walter Lamble • Publisher: Indiana University Press (Ips) • Publisher Imprint: Indiana University Press (Ips) • BISAC: Reference"This book comes from a very fine music educator with exceptional experience, who has common sense and a ...

• Author(s): Tom Lutz • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: American - RegionalIn a major statement on the relation of art and politics in America, Tom Lutz identifies a consistent ethos at t...

• Author(s): James A. Vlasich • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Cultural & Social Aspects This work brings together 16 of the best presentations on sport from the conferences of the Pop...

• Author(s): Nghia M. Vo • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Asia - Southeast Asia The biggest diaspora in Vietnamese history occurred between 1975 and 1992, when more than two million people...

• Author(s): Martha Finnemore • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: International Relations - GeneralViolence or the potential for violence is a fact of human existence. Many societies, inclu...

• Author(s): Tamara Loos • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Asia - Southeast AsiaUnlike its Southeast Asian neighbors, Thailand was never colonized by an imperial power. However, Siam (as ...

• Author(s): Carole Chandler Waldrup • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Women's Studies Deborah Franklin was the wife of patriot Benjamin Franklin. She kept his business enterprise going and...

• Author(s): Lawrence Michael Ladutke • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Civil Rights Both academics and diplomats frequently cite postwar El Salvador as an example of successful conflict re...

• Author(s): Roger L. Kemp • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Sociology - Urban Towns and communities across America once revolved around their downtowns. Here people shopped, worked, relaxe...

• Author(s): Les Harding • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Christian Theology - General Christianity abounds with fascinating, little-known trivia. Gas station attendants, for example, enjo...

• Author(s): James H. Patric • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - World War II - General During World War II, James Patric served for two years aboard the destroyer USS ...

• Author(s): Philip L. Otterness • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialBecoming German tells the intriguing story of the largest and earliest mass movement...

• Author(s): Suzy Anger • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: English, Irish, Scottish, WelshSuzy Anger investigates the relationship of Victorian interpretation to the ways in which literary...

• Author(s): Karen S. Oberhauser | Michelle J. Solensky • Publisher: Comstock Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Comstock Publishing • BISAC: Life Sciences - Zoology - EntomologyThe knowledge of citizen scientists, biologists, and naturalists inform...

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

• Author(s): Robert J. Lentz • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Entertainment & Performing Arts Lee Marvin did not receive his first starring film role until he was 40, but in three shor...

• Author(s): Loren R. Graham • Publisher: Indiana University Press (Ips) • Publisher Imprint: Indiana University Press (Ips) • BISAC: Russia - General"Graham has brilliantly encapsulated and interwoven the major features of Soviet and post-Soviet...

• Author(s): David H. Lewis • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Theater - History & Criticism The return to New York in 2002 of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Flower Drum Song--with a totally ...

• Author(s): Michael Klossner • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General From the early days of the movies, "cavemen" have been a popular subject for filmmakers--not surprisingly, sin...

• Author(s): L. Mara Dodge • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: Non-ClassifiableProstitutes, shoplifters, vagrants, murderesses--Dodge tracks the history of such "imprope...

• Author(s): Sylvia Coats • Publisher: Indiana University Press • Publisher Imprint: Indiana University Press • BISAC: Musical Instruments - Piano & KeyboardThinking as You Play focuses on how to teach, not what to teach. Sylvia Coats gives p...

• Author(s): Mary Turner Stille • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Animals - Mammals This handbook is a reference for goat keepers. Valuable to beginners and veteran keepers, it offers helpf...

• Author(s): Janice Fine • Publisher: ILR Press • Publisher Imprint: ILR Press • BISAC: Labor & Industrial Relations - GeneralLow-wage workers in the United States face obstacles including racial and ethnic discrimination, a pervasive lack of...

• Author(s): Fyodor Dostoyevsky • Publisher: Kessinger Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Kessinger Publishing • BISAC: Short Stories (single author)The Grand Inquisitor is a philosophical novel written by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. It is a part of his lar...

• Author(s): Xenophon | Robert C. Bartlett • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: History & Surveys - Ancient & ClassicalThis book presents translations of three dialogues Xenophon dev...

• Author(s): Pamela M. Lee • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: History - 20th & 21st CenturyAn examination of the pervasive anxiety about and fixation with time seen in 1960s art.In the 1960s art fell out of time; b...

• Author(s): Kazuo Yagami • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Historical - General The blame for a country's mistakes often falls on its leaders. In some cases, however, a leader's greatest m...

• Author(s): Susan Boynton • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Europe - MedievalDuring the eleventh and early twelfth centuries, the imperial abbey of Farfa was one of the most powerful ins...

• Author(s): Laada Bilaniuk • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Russia - GeneralDuring the controversial 2004 elections that led to the "Orange Revolution" in Ukraine, cultural and linguist...

• Author(s): W. C. Madden • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Automotive - History While Elwood Haynes and the Apperson brothers are not as well known as Henry Ford, Ransom Olds and other fam...

• Author(s): Nora M. Dimitrova • Publisher: American School of Classical Studies at Athen • Publisher Imprint: American School of Classical Studies at Athen • BISAC: ArchaeologyAs one of the most famous religious centers in the Aegean, the island...

• Author(s): Alice Jane Lippson | Robert L. Lippson • Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press • Publisher Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press • BISAC: Marine LifeLife in the Chesapeake Bay is the most important book ever published on Americ...

• Author(s): Gary A. Smith • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - Reference There has been a tremendous amount of renewed interest in the output of Britain's Hammer Films. But there remai...

• Author(s): Patricia Marks • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Letters The romantic notion of the Cockney, the shrewd and slangy common man coming from nowhere and surviving by his wits, is ...

• Author(s): John Louis Digaetani • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Genres & Styles - Opera Once tainted by association with Hitler and Nazism, Richard Wagner's work has experienced an ...

• Author(s): Charles F. Faber | Richard B. Faber • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History On September 10, 1934, grizzled reliever Burleigh Grimes helped the Pittsburgh Pirates ...

• Author(s): Kerry Segrave • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - 20th Century Hippocrates, one of history's earliest known physicians, once asserted, "Walking is man's best medi...

• Author(s): Ésaïe Toïngar • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Historical - General Recent years have found much of Africa to be a land of turmoil and revolution. Distress in the Sudan and co...

• Author(s): Brent Kelley • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Sports In the mid-1940s, the post-war United States was a prosperous country, and baseball had its own share of this prosperity. ...

• Author(s): Saul S. Friedman • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Middle East - General As the birthplace of three principal religions, the Middle East is holy to 15 million Jews, 2 billion C...

• Author(s): Eric Greene • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - Guides & Reviews How do political conflicts shape popular culture? This book explores that question by analyzing how th...

• Author(s): Joel Stein | Julie Silver | Elizabeth Pegg Frates • Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press • Publisher Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press • BISAC: Diseases - Nervous System (incl. Brain)If you or someone you love has had a st...

• Author(s): Henry Mark Holzer | Erika Holzer • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Asia - Southeast Asia Jane Fonda's visit to Hanoi in July 1972 and her pro-North Vietnamese, anti-American co...