Young Adult / High School (16–18 years)

• Author(s): Marcy Norton • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Agriculture & Food (see also Political Science - Public PoliBefore Columbus's fateful voyage in 1492, no European had ever ...

• Author(s): David Luchuk • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History The 2001-2002 offseason was a tumultuous one for Major League Baseball. The commissioner's move to contract tw...

• Author(s): Moshe Moshkovitz • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - Reference With television programming broadcast worldwide 24/7, the industry needs a common language. Constantly...

• Author(s): Thomas Barthel • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History Until 1947, professional ball players were paid only from opening day to season's end. Even during the seaso...

• Author(s): Christian Marazzi | Michael Hardt • Publisher: Semiotext(e) • Publisher Imprint: Semiotext(e) • BISAC: Economics - TheoryA major theorist in the Italian postfordist movement offers a radical new understanding of the current internati...

• Author(s): Myles W. Jackson • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: HistoryHistorically, music was long classified as both art and science. Aspects of music--from the mathematics of tuning to the music of the celestial sp...

• Author(s): John C. Skipper • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Sports Charles "Dazzy" Vance became known as the strike out king after leading the National League in strikeouts seven years i...

• Author(s): Gerald C. Wood | Andrew Hazucha • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History This collection of 19 essays examine the role of baseball's Cubs in the history and politic...

• Author(s): Wm David Sloan | Jenn Burleson MacKay • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Media Studies In this book, scholars examine the many prevailing arguments about media bias from a non-p...

• Author(s): Jonathan Etter • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - History & Criticism "Quinn Martin was the most innovative and most creative of his kind. He was a man in touch...

• Author(s): Dalia Tsuk Mitchell • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Lawyers & JudgesA major figure in American legal history during the first half of the twentieth century, Felix Solom...

• Author(s): Roy Kinnard | Tony Crnkovich • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Entertainment & Performing Arts - General Widely acclaimed as a horror movie actress, Fay Wray is best rememb...

• Author(s): Heather L. Duda • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism As monsters in popular media have evolved and grown more complex, so have those who take on the...

• Author(s): Hunt Janin • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Europe - Medieval The university is indigenous to Western Europe and is probably the greatest and most enduring achievement of the ...

• Author(s): Gary Coville | Patrick Lucanio • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh The identity of Jack the Ripper has consumed public curiosity since he first to...

• Author(s): Mary Hamer • Publisher: Liverpool University Press • Publisher Imprint: Liverpool University Press • BISAC: History - GeneralCleopatra has been dead for twenty centuries, but her name still resonates in the west. Her story has the st...

• Author(s): Roger L. Kemp • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: American Government - National During the past two decades, many countries in the world have peacefully undergone a transition t...

• Author(s): Andrew C. Garrod | Robert Kilkenny | Christina Gomez • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Cultural & Ethnic Studies - American - Hispanic & Latino StuAmid the flurry of ...

• Author(s): Jess Nevins • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Bibliographies & Indexes Increasing literacy rates and advanced printing technology gave rise to the pulp magazine in the late...

• Author(s): Frank D. Reno • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Europe - Medieval Who was King Arthur? How did the story originate? Through careful research of the many primary documents, a pi...

• Author(s): Gene McCormick • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Horse Racing The world of Thoroughbred horse racing is much more than the glitz-and-glamour Saturday races shown on TV. From Su...

• Author(s): William M. Simons • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - Essays & Writings This anthology gathers selected papers from the 2006 and 2007 meetings of the Cooperstown S...

• Author(s): Werner Troesken • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Environmental ScienceThe history of a long-running environmental catastrophe chronicles the harmful effects of lead pipes and their continued use despite ...

• Author(s): David Parker • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Semiotics & TheoryAll of us take our moral bearings from a conception of the good, or a range of goods, that we consider mo...

• Author(s): Carla Stalling Huntington • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Dance - Modern Tracing the African American dance from the Diaspora to the dance floor, this book covers a social hi...

• Author(s): Kevin Lane Dearinger • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Theater - General Lexington, Kentucky, has been called "the cradle of the legitimate theatre west of the Appalachians" si...

• Author(s): Stephen Nash • Publisher: University of Virginia Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Virginia Press • BISAC: Environmental ScienceMillipedes and Moon Tigers explores those uneasy places where scientific research meets public pol...

• Author(s): Kathleen Low • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Library & Information Science - General What do Casanova, Pope Pius XI, Benjamin Franklin and first lady Laura Bush have in c...

• Author(s): Don Tyler • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General This is a chronology of the most famous songs from the years before rock 'n' roll. The top hits for each year are described,...

• Author(s): Ed Mickelson • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - Essays & Writings During the Golden Age of baseball, as many as 59 minor leagues operated in a single season, and ...

• Author(s): Doug Feldmann • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History In 1953, August A. Busch purchased the St. Louis Cardinals for nearly four million dollars. His dream include...

• Author(s): Tom Weaver • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General The march of the monster movie makers continues in Tom Weaver's ninth book of in-depth interviews with the men and w...

• Author(s): No Kum-Sok | J. Roger Osterholm • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Memoirs On September 21, 1953, U.S. airmen at Kimpo Air Base near Seoul, Korea, were startled to see landing a...

• Author(s): Michael Rossington | Anne Whitehead • Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press • Publisher Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press • BISAC: Semiotics & TheoryTheories of Memory provides a comprehensive introduction to the rapidl...

• Author(s): Kameel B. Nasr • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Middle East - General Historically, terrorism has generally failed as a means to reach a political objective. Most often, terro...

• Author(s): Murray Polner • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Sports Has any sport executive had as many words written about him as Branch Rickey? A one-time catcher, Rickey managed the St. ...

• Author(s): Robin May Schott • Publisher: Indiana University Press • Publisher Imprint: Indiana University Press • BISAC: Ethics & Moral PhilosophyAny glance at the contemporary history of the world shows that the problem of evil is a centra...

• Author(s): Rob Craig • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism Films such as The Naked Witch, Zontar, The Thing From Venus and Mars Needs Women have gained large cu...

• Author(s): Mark Y. Herring • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Library & Information Science - General This work skeptically explores the notion that the internet will soon obviate any ...

• Author(s): Jerry M. Hay • Publisher: Quarry Books • Publisher Imprint: Quarry Books • BISAC: Ecosystems & Habitats - RiversWritten in an engaging, conversational style, Rivers Revealed combines the author's lifelong love of America's waterw...

• Author(s): John Brackett • Publisher: Indiana University Press (Ips) • Publisher Imprint: Indiana University Press (Ips) • BISAC: Individual Composer & MusicianJohn Zorn is one of the most prolific and active American composers/performers w...

• Author(s): Mario Liverani | Zainab Bahrani | Marc Van de Mieroop • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: HistoriographyThe essays included in this volume analyze important historical texts fr...

• Author(s): J. Parker Lamb • Publisher: Indiana University Press • Publisher Imprint: Indiana University Press • BISAC: Engineering (General)The diesel locomotive sent shock waves through rigid corporate cultures and staid government regulators....

• Author(s): Evelyn Savidge Sterne • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: United States - State & Local - New EnglandBy the mid-nineteenth century, Providence, Rhode Island, an early indus...

• Author(s): James Agee | Andrew Hudgins • Publisher: Library of America • Publisher Imprint: Library of America • BISAC: American - GeneralBetter known for writing in a variety of other genres, James Agee always thought of himself as essentially...

• Author(s): Andrew Jainchill • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Europe - FranceIn the wake of the Terror, France's political and intellectual elites set out to refound the Republic and, i...

• Author(s): Alan H. Levy • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Sports Floyd Patterson delivered a number of knockout punches during his Hall of Fame career, but it might have been the fights h...

• Author(s): Rosemarie Skaine • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Women's Studies This book examines the changing roles of Afghani women in the aftermath of the overthrow of the oppressive Ta...

• Author(s): Michele Ruth Gamburd • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & Social"I'm going to break the ashes," yelled one daily drinker to another as their paths ...

• Author(s): Susanna Trnka • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Anthropology - GeneralHow do ordinary people respond when their lives are irrevocably altered by terror and violence? Susanna ...

• Author(s): Paul John Eakin • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Developmental - GeneralAutobiography is naturally regarded as an art of retrospect, but making autobiography is equally part...

• Author(s): Richard Zumkhawala-Cook • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Europe - Great Britain - Scotland Spanning more than 100 years of cultural history, this book examines the ways that r...

• Author(s): Ariel Ducey • Publisher: ILR Press • Publisher Imprint: ILR Press • BISAC: Hospital Administration & CareFrontline health care workers have always been especially vulnerable to the perpetual tides of health care 'reform, ' but in...

• Author(s): Eiko Maruko Siniawer • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Asia - JapanViolence and democracy may seem fundamentally incompatible, but the two have often been intimately and inex...

• Author(s): Norbert Aping • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism The remarkable story behind the planning, development and marketing of Laurel and Hardy's ill-rec...

• Author(s): Niccolo Machiavelli | N. H. Thompson • Publisher: Cosimo Classics • Publisher Imprint: Cosimo Classics • BISAC: Political Process - GeneralIf any book could be called legendary, surely it is this one. Its author, Italian diplomat and...

• Author(s): Cynthia A. Cooper • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Violence in Society How much are today's youth actually influenced by violence in the media? People who would never dispute ...

• Author(s): George B. Clark • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - World War I When the United States entered World War I in 1917, it sent the American Expeditionary Forc...