Young Adult / High School (16–18 years)

• Author(s): Andrew C. Willford | Kenneth M. George • Publisher: Southeast Asia Program Publications • Publisher Imprint: Southeast Asia Program Publications • BISAC: Sociology of ReligionThe essays in Spirited Politics throw light on predicament...

• Author(s): Richard Sorabji • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: History & Surveys - Ancient & ClassicalThis is the first work to draw on the four hundred years of transition from a...

• Author(s): William F. McNeil • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - General Researchers in American anthropology and archaeology from the late seventeenth century to the presen...

• Author(s): Paula Blank • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: DramaShakespeare's poems and plays are rich in reference to "measure, number, and weight," which were the key terms of an early ...

• Author(s): Patrick A. Means • Publisher: Fleming H. Revell Company • Publisher Imprint: Fleming H. Revell Company • BISAC: Christian Life - Men's IssuesThe need to talk honestly about the real issues facing Christian men has never been greater....

• Author(s): Lloyd P. Gerson • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: History & Surveys - Ancient & Classical"Aristotle versus Plato. For a long time that is the angle from which the tal...

• Author(s): Ray B. Browne • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Philosophy, Theory & Social Aspects Academic curricula are being strengthened and enriched through the enlightened realizati...

• Author(s): Kojin Karatani | Sabu Kohso • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: PoliticalKojin Karatani's Transcritique introduces a startlingly new dimension to Immanuel Kant's transcendental critique by using Kant to rea...

• Author(s): Shareen Hertel • Publisher: ILR Press • Publisher Imprint: ILR Press • BISAC: Political AdvocacyU.S. human rights advocacy has long focused on civil and political rights-issues such as torture, censorship, and lack of democratic free...

• Author(s): John F. Moffitt • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Ethnic Studies - American - Hispanic American Studies According to legend, on December 8, 1531, the Virgin Mary appeared to th...

• Author(s): Gordon M. Burghardt | Brian Sutton-Smith • Publisher: Bradford Book • Publisher Imprint: Bradford Book • BISAC: Life Sciences - Zoology - GeneralIn The Genesis of Animal Play, Gordon Burghardt examines the origins and evolution of pl...

• Author(s): Rudy Marzano • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Reference Before the rise of the Brooklyn Dodgers in the 1940s, baseball was a game of white men, cloth caps and concrete walls. ...

• Author(s): Noorhaidi Hasan • Publisher: Southeast Asia Program Publications • Publisher Imprint: Southeast Asia Program Publications • BISAC: Asia - Southeast AsiaAn in-depth study of the militant Islamic Laskar Jihad movement and its links to ...

• Author(s): Paul Kivel • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: Political Ideologies - DemocracyYou Call This a Democracy? is a penetrating and troubling look at how the U...

• Author(s): H. L. Mencken • Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press • Publisher Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press • BISAC: JournalismWith a style that combined biting sarcasm with the "language of the free lunch counter," Henry Louis Men...

• Author(s): George B. Clark • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military - World War II In the island battles of World War II, the United States Marine Corps came into its own. From a force ...

• Author(s): Paul Gompers | Josh Lerner • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Finance - General"This book provides profound and balance insight into what venture capital is all about."In The Venture Capital Cycle, Paul Go...

• Author(s): Kevin Clemens • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Motor Sports - General Now a legend among classic automobile aficionados, Phillip Young is the man generally given credit for st...

• Author(s): W. C. Madden • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History For a dozen years in the 1940s and 1950s, more than 700 women played professional baseball in the All-American...

• Author(s): Angela Franks • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Women's Studies Margaret Sanger, the American birth-control and population-control advocate who founded Planned Parenthood, stan...

• Author(s): Catherine Ciepiela • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Russian & Former Soviet Union"Still, we have the same solitude, the same journeys and searching, and the same favorit...

• Author(s): Robert K. Klepper • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - Guides & Reviews This film reference covers 646 silent motion pictures, starting with Eadweard Muybridge's initia...

• Author(s): Pam Schiller | Pat Phipps • Publisher: Gryphon House • Publisher Imprint: Gryphon House • BISAC: Teaching - Subjects - Reading & Phonics

• Author(s): Richard L. McBane • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History The Akron club's accumulation of talented ballplayers and its success against the best opposition of the ...

• Author(s): James L. Conyers • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Higher Known variously as African studies, black studies, African American studies, Afro-American studies, and Africology, th...

• Author(s): Sarah Kenyon Lischer • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Political AdvocacySince the early 1990s, refugee crises in the Balkans, Central Africa, the Middle East, and West Afric...

• Author(s): Gene A. Plunka • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: American - General Beth Henley's twelve complete plays (three of which have been turned into films) have achieved worldwide pro...

• Author(s): James W. Raab • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military Lloyd Tilghman was a man of distinguished family. His forefathers, men of rank during colonial times, included Matthew ...

• Author(s): Henrik Reeh | John Irons • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Urban & Land Use PlanningVariations on the theme of the ornament in Kracauer's urban writings, suggesting ways in which the subjective can re...

• Author(s): Lisa Shaw | Stephanie Dennison • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General Renewed interest in Latin American film industries has opened a host of paths of scholarly explo...

• Author(s): Mike Malloy • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General Cult film star Lee Van Cleef began his movie career in Hollywood, appearing as evil-eyed villains in such 1950s and...

• Author(s): George K. Zucker • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Jewish - General The Sephardim, a fast-disappearing group of Jews whose ancestors were exiled from the Iberian Peninsula at t...

• Author(s): Lucy Maddox • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Native American StudiesBy the 1890s, white Americans were avid consumers of American Indian cultures. At heavily scripted Wild W...

• Author(s): D. Brian Anderson • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General Titanic scholars contend that the demise of "the unsinkable ship" left more behind than a memory of April 15,...

• Author(s): Frank Schimmelfennig | Ulrich Sedelmeier • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Economic ConditionsIn May 2004, eight former Eastern Bloc countries joined the European Union: the ...

• Author(s): Bob Herzberg • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General In their heyday, pulp westerns were one of America's most popular forms of entertainment. Often selling for less t...

• Author(s): Marla Brooks • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - General The sitcom made its first appearance in January of 1949 with the introduction of television's first family, ...

• Author(s): Carla Benedetti | William J. Hartley • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Semiotics & Theory"Authorialism is like a chronic and progressive disease of modernity. It leads ar...

• Author(s): Martha A. Brozyna • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Gender Studies Perceptions about gender and sexuality have shaped the lives of men and women in every known culture and in e...

• Author(s): William Witney • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General Early in 1937, a young film editor went on-location to St. George, Utah, for the filming of Republic's The Paint...

• Author(s): Shelly Frome • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General Over the years there has been much controversy and confusion about the true nature of The Actors Studio, a secluded works...

• Author(s): Larry Richards • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Reference All films with a predominantly or entirely African American cast or that were about African Americans are detailed he...

• Author(s): Kenneth E. Hall • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877) The relationship between war and religion is nothing new. For millennia, humankin...

• Author(s): Richard F. Bales • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - State & Local - General The Great Chicago Fire of 1871 swallowed up more than three square miles in two d...

• Author(s): Kiki Gounaridou • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Theater - General When a nation wants to reconnect with a sense of national identity, its cultural celebrations, including its...

• Author(s): Charlie Lovett • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Charles Lutwidge Dodgson--known better by his pseudonym, Lewis Carroll--was a 19th century Engl...

• Author(s): Gregory William Mank • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General They had more in common than just a scream, whether they faced Dracula, Frankenstein's Monster, the Mummy,...

• Author(s): Bonnie Noonan • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Women's Studies In the 1950s, science was rapidly advancing, and so were scientific opportunities for women. Modern science fict...

• Author(s): Paul D. Buchanan • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - 20th Century This chronology of significant events affecting race relations in the United States begins with ...

• Author(s): William Roth • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Medical - General As William Roth was taking his first steps, members of his family were caught up in the Nazi Holocaust. At age ...

• Author(s): Ian Whitmarsh • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: ResearchSteadily increasing numbers of Americans have been diagnosed with asthma in recent years, attracting the attention of ...

• Author(s): Roger L. Kemp | Marcia Trotta • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Library & Information Science - General This volume documents the growing trend for cities and towns through...

• Author(s): Adrian Room • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Reference The title of a great musical composition is not always a clear or simple matter. An allusive title, particularly in a fo...

• Author(s): Valerie A. Kivelson • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Russia & the Former Soviet UnionToward the end of the sixteenth century, and throughout the seventeenth, thinking in...

• Author(s): Karen Lang • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Movements - ModernismWriting in 1940, the prominent German art historian Erwin Panofsky asked, "How, then, is it possible to buil...

• Author(s): Mel Van Elteren • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & Social With the current state of foreign affairs, the terms "Americanism" and "Americanization" ...

• Author(s): Robert L. Gale • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Graham Greene was one of England's most daring, most politically and theologically controversia...

• Author(s): Barbara H. Rosenwein • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Europe - MedievalBarbara H. Rosenwein here reassesses the significance of property in the tenth and eleventh centuries,...

• Author(s): Elmo Williams • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Entertainment & Performing Arts - General "Fate has thrown me some interesting curves," says Elmo Williams, the farm boy tur...