As usual, we’ve had a wonderful experience at the ALA midwinter meeting!
Category: Body & Mind
New Releases for January 30: Shakespeare, Cooperstown, Litvak, Craniosynostosis, Academic Forger
Sir Henry Neville, Alias William Shakespeare: Authorship Evidence in the History Plays by Mark Bradbeer
The Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture, 2013–2014 by William M. Simons
Anatole Litvak: The Life and Films by Michelangelo Capua
Beyond the Grip of Craniosynostosis: An Inside View of Life Touched by the Congenital Skull Deformity by Kase D. Johnstun
Papers for Pay: Confessions of an Academic Forger by Jeffrey Alfred Ruth
Weekly Deal: Disability Studies
This week, through January 1, 2015, get 20% off the following disability studies titles when you enter the coupon code DISABILITY:
The Deaf Community in America: History in the Making
Public Health in Appalachia: Essays from the Clinic and the Field
Deaf and Hearing Siblings in Conversation
Their Greatest Victory: 24 Athletes Who Overcame Disease, Disability and Injury
Different Bodies: Essays on Disability in Film and Television
A Child of Sanitariums: A Memoir of Tuberculosis Survival and Lifelong Disability
Diversity in Disney Films: Critical Essays on Race, Ethnicity, Gender, Sexuality and Disability
Art Centers: American Studios and Galleries for Artists with Developmental or Mental Disabilities
Movement: A Memoir of Disability, Cancer, and the Holocaust
Demons of the Body and Mind: Essays on Disability in Gothic Literature
Beating the Breaks: Major League Ballplayers Who Overcame Disabilities
Voices of the Oral Deaf: Fourteen Role Models Speak Out
Multiple Sclerosis Through History and Human Life
Weekly Deal: Psi
This week, we’re highlighting our large (and growing!) line of serious books about psi and parapsychological phenomena. Through January 25th, 2015, get 20% off the following books when you enter the coupon code PSI!
Evidence for Psi: Thirteen Empirical Research Reports
The Survival Hypothesis: Essays on Mediumship
Reimagining the Soul: Afterlife in the Age of Matter
Anomalous Cognition: Remote Viewing Research and Theory
The Nature of Mind: Parapsychology and the Role of Consciousness in the Physical World
Advances in Parapsychological Research 9
The Invisible Picture: A Study of Psychic Experiences
An Introduction to the Psychology of Paranormal Belief and Experience
J.B. Rhine: On the Frontiers of Science
Mind-Matter Interaction: A Review of Historical Reports, Theory and Research
Anomalous Experiences: Essays from Parapsychological and Psychological Perspectives
European Cases of the Reincarnation Type
Persons, Souls and Death: A Philosophical Investigation of an Afterlife
Hauntings and Poltergeists: Multidisciplinary Perspectives
An Introduction to Parapsychology, 5th ed.
The Conscious Mind and the Material World: On Psi, the Soul and the Self
The Survival of Human Consciousness: Essays on the Possibility of Life After Death
Psychics, Sensitives and Somnambules: A Biographical Dictionary with Bibliographies
Consciousness Studies: Cross-Cultural Perspectives
A World in a Grain of Sand: The Clairvoyance of Stefan Ossowiecki
Is There Life After Death?: An Examination of the Empirical Evidence
Parapsychology in the Twenty-First Century: Essays on the Future of Psychical Research
Parapsychology, Philosophy and the Mind: Essays Honoring John Beloff
Basic Research in Parapsychology, 2d ed.
Children Who Remember Previous Lives: A Question of Reincarnation, rev. ed.
New Releases for November 11: Namibian War, Psi, War on Sex, Baseball, Neuroscience
The Namibian War of Independence, 1966–1989: Diplomatic, Economic and Military Campaigns by Richard Dale
Evidence for Psi: Thirteen Empirical Research Reports by Damien Broderick
The War on Sex: Western Repression from the Torah to Victoria by Chad Denton
Baseball’s Great Hispanic Pitchers: Seventeen Aces from the Major, Negro and Latin American Leagues by Lou Hernández
Neuroscience in Science Fiction Films by Sharon Packer, M.D.
CONFERENCE: Southeast Regional Institute on Deafness
McFarland is exhibiting at the conference of the Southeast Regional Institute on Deafness this week in Charlotte, North Carolina. Copies of The Deaf Community in America will be on hand along with other titles about disability studies.
Weekly Deal: Nursing
Another Monday, another chance to nurse yourself back into shape with a discount on some good books. Through September 14, 2014, get 20% off the following books when you use the coupon code NURSING!
Vietnam War Nurses: Personal Accounts of 18 Americans
Lingering Fever: A World War II Nurse’s Memoir
Closing the Asylums: Causes and Consequences of the Deinstitutionalization Movement
Florence Nightingale, Feminist
Gulf War Nurses: Personal Accounts of 14 Americans, 1990–1991 and 2003–2010
Caregiver’s Guide: Care for Yourself While You Care for Your Loved Ones
Navy Medicine in Vietnam: Oral Histories from Dien Bien Phu to the Fall of Saigon
The Frontier Nursing Service: America’s First Rural Nurse-Midwife Service and School
Women Pioneers of Medical Research: Biographies of 25 Outstanding Scientists
Healers in World War II: Oral Histories of Medical Corps Personnel
Enduring What Cannot Be Endured: Memoir of a Woman Medical Aide in the Philippines in World War II
Weekly Deal: McFarland Health Topics
This week, through August 17, 2014, get 20% off every title in our McFarland Health Topics series when you enter the coupon code HEALTH!
Advances in Graves’ Disease and Other Hyperthyroid Disorders
Cancer, Autism and Their Epigenetic Roots
You and Your Doctor: A Guide to a Healing Relationship, with Physicians’ Insights
CCSVI as the Cause of Multiple Sclerosis: The Science Behind the Controversial Theory
Living with Insomnia: A Guide to Causes, Effects and Management, with Personal Accounts
Living with Bipolar Disorder: A Handbook for Patients and Their Families
Coping with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder: A Guide for Families, 2d ed.
Caregiver’s Guide: Care for Yourself While You Care for Your Loved Ones
Understanding Multiple Chemical Sensitivity: Causes, Effects, Personal Experiences and Resources
Living with HIV: A Patient’s Guide
Hepatitis: Causes, Treatments and Resources
Autoimmune Diseases and Their Environmental Triggers
Graves’ Disease: A Practical Guide
Living with Multiple Chemical Sensitivity: Narratives of Coping
Fall 2005 New Titles and Fall 2014 New Titles Catalog #TBT
We’re thoroughly enjoying these long summer days but, we’re always looking ahead, too. (And, er, behind.) Check out this awesomely autumnal catalog cover from several years back. Beautiful. And that reminds us, here’s the new fall catalog. Enjoy, folks!
New Releases for July 1: Higgins, Bipolar Disorder, Cancer, Public Health, Pierpoint, Essays
George V. Higgins: The Life and Writings by Erwin H. Ford II
Living with Bipolar Disorder: A Handbook for Patients and Their Families by Karen R. Brock, M.D.
Cancer, Autism and Their Epigenetic Roots by K. John Morrow, Jr.
Public Health in Appalachia: Essays from the Clinic and the Field by Wendy Welch
Robert Pierpoint: A Life at CBS News by Tony Silvia
Mysteries Unlocked: Essays in Honor of Douglas G. Greene by Curtis Evans
CONFERENCE: American Library Association Annual
June 27-30, the American Library Association is gathering in Las Vegas for Annual. We’re still trying to get our book display set up in the exhibit hall, with some “help” from early browsers like Allan Greenburg of Diamond Comic Distributors (pictured). McFarland is in Booth #1423, and our friends at Diamond are in Booth #2015.
McFarland Celebrates 35 Years
On April 1st, 1979, founder Robert McFarland Franklin departed Plainfield, New Jersey, heading south in a Volkswagen bug towing a U-Haul. With wife Cheryl behind the wheel, Robert began company operations on a yellow pad in his lap.
Thirty-five years ago, libraries provided almost the sole market (but a robust one!) for the heavily-researched books that McFarland made its specialty. Over the decades, the company won ever-growing numbers of devoted readers who appreciated the care McFarland and its authors lavished on our books. Our authors, a throng of thousands now, teach us something new every day.
We’re having an open house Friday, June 20, from noon until 5:00. Join us for tours, conversation, punch, finger food, art and books.
Weekly Deal: Chemical Sensitivity
This week, get 20% off the following books about chemical sensitivity when you enter the coupon code SENSITIVITY at checkout!
Chemical and Electrical Hypersensitivity
Understanding Multiple Chemical Sensitivity
Defining Multiple Chemical Sensitivity
Autoimmune Diseases and Their Environmental Triggers
Living with Multiple Chemical Sensitivity
Environmentally Induced Illnesses
CATALOG: New Books Spring 2014
For those that may have missed it the first time around, a PDF copy of the print catalog of Spring 2014 New Books is available here.
Public Library Association Conference 2014
CONFERENCE: American Library Association Midwinter
CATALOG: New Books Spring 2014
Spring is nature’s way of saying, “Let’s read!” Check out our New Books Spring Catalog!
Celebrate 2014 with the best possible gift: books!
Our holiday sale ends today, Dec. 31st, so don’t delay! Best wishes to all from your McFarland friends…happy reading! Enjoy 20% off your order through today. On the McFarland website, use coupon code HOLIDAY in the cart as you are checking out. Or, call toll-free 800-253-2187 (Mon-Fri 8:00am to 4:30pm Eastern Time). http://www.mcfarlandbooks.com/2013/11/holiday-sale/
National Women's Studies Association
Author Sarah Hentges sees her newest book, Women and Fitness in American Culture, hot off the press! And author Pamela Gravagne will be signing copies of her book The Becoming of Age today at 4. Busy, busy at the NWSA conference in Cincy!
New Releases for November 6: Noir, Monarchs, Fitness, Dracula, Urban Planning
Houses of Noir: Dark Visions from Thirteen Film Studios by Ronald Schwartz
Franz Joseph and Elisabeth: The Last Great Monarchs of Austria-Hungary by Karen Owens
Women and Fitness in American Culture by Sarah Hentges
Dracula’s Army: The Dead Travel Fast by Andy Fish
Global Models of Urban Planning: Best Practices Outside the United States by Roger L. Kemp
Holiday Sale!
Happy holidays….happy holidays…while the merry bells keep ringing, enjoy 20% off your purchases through December 31st. McFarland’s customer service elves stand at the ready to help, so get shopping!
On the McFarland website, use coupon code HOLIDAY in the cart as you are checking out. Or, call toll-free 800-253-2187 (Mon-Fri 8:00am to 4:30pm Eastern Time).
New Releases for October 30: Bible, Mexican movies, Fort Henry, Italian Crime, Yankees, Second Takes
Music in the Hebrew Bible: Understanding References in the Torah, Nevi’im and Ketuvim by Jonathan L. Friedmann
Mexican Movies in the United States: A History of the Films, Theaters and Audiences, 1920–1960 by Rogelio Agrasánchez, Jr.
Grant’s River Campaign: Fort Henry to Shiloh by Jack H. Lepa
Italian Crime Filmography, 1968–1980 by Roberto Curti
New York Yankees Home Runs: A Comprehensive Factbook, 1903–2012 by Mitchell S. Soivenski
Second Takes: Remaking Film, Remaking America by Andrew Repasky McElhinney
CONFERENCE: Frankfurt Book Fair
The Frankfurt Book Fair 2013 has concluded, and we’ve been receiving a few photographs from happy readers. Here, Ulrich K. Baues (senior editor at Western Mail and Country Mag) spots a copy of Western Movies: A Guide to 5,105 Feature Films, 2d ed. by Michael R. Pitts in the Eurospan stand.
New Releases for October 8: Milwaukee, Graves' Disease, Arabic Language
Building Milwaukee City Hall: The Political, Legal and Construction Battles by Dennis Pajot
Advances in Graves’ Disease and Other Hyperthyroid Disorders by Elaine A. Moore
A Cultural History of the Arabic Language by Sharron Gu
New Releases for September 23: Tony Curtis, Manassas/Bull Run, Latin America, Billy the Kid
The Defiant One: A Biography of Tony Curtis by Aubrey Malone
Different Bodies: Essays on Disability in Film and Television by Marja Evelyn Mogk
Thirteen Months at Manassas/Bull Run: The Two Battles and the Confederate and Union Occupations by Don Johnson
Wars of Latin America, 1982–2013: The Path to Peace by René De La Pedraja
Billy the Kid on Film, 1911–2012 by Johnny D. Boggs
Author and Sociologist Robert Bartholomew on Mass Hysteria in Schools
The Atlantic Monthly magazine ran a major article about recent outbreaks of mass hysteria in two United States schools apparently spread by Facebook. McFarland author and sociologist Robert Bartholomew, who lends his expertise to the article, “is is not surprised by the outbreak in the slightest.” Go here for the full article.
Books authored and coauthored by Robert Bartholomew:
Mass Hysteria in Schools: A Worldwide History Since 1566
The Martians Have Landed! A History of Media-Driven Panics and Hoaxes
New Releases for September 4: Korea, Mud of Khe Sanh, Parapsychological Research, Sar Wars, Christmas
One Korea: A Proposal for Peace by Shepherd Iverson
Stained with the Mud of Khe Sanh: A Marine’s Letters from Vietnam, 1966–1967 by Rodger Jacobs
Advances in Parapsychological Research 9 by Stanley Krippner, Adam J. Rock, Julie Beischel, Harris L. Friedman, Cheryl L. Fracasso
The Star Wars Heresies: Interpreting the Themes, Symbols and Philosophies of Episodes I, II and III by Paul F. McDonald
The Christmas Encyclopedia, 3d ed. by William D. Crump
Weekly Deal: Chemical Sensitivity
CATALOG: New Books Fall 2013
The fall 2013 new titles catalog has been mailed to subscribers. View a PDF copy here.
CONFERENCE: Wrapping up ALA Annual 2013
Richard Armstrong
Richard Armstrong, author of Mourning Films: A Critical Study of Loss and Grieving in Cinema, will be giving a lecture at the Childhood Bereavement Network in London on Thursday, May 2, 20013.
New Releases for April 25: Postage Stamps, Heroes, Obituaries 2012, Girls Transforming
The United States as Depicted on Its Postage Stamps by Steve Rajtar
Too Young the Heroes: A World War II Marine’s Account of Facing a Veteran Enemy at Guadalcanal, the Solomons and Okinawa by George Lince
Obituaries in the Performing Arts, 2012 by Harris M. Lentz III
The Becoming of Age: Cinematic Visions of Mind, Body and Identity in Later Life by Pamela H. Gravagne
Girls Transforming: Invisibility and Age-Shifting in Children’s Fantasy Fiction Since the 1970s by Sanna Lehtonen
New Releases for April 24: George Cukor, Vietnam, Bible, Silas Deane
George Cukor: A Critical Study and Filmography by James Bernardoni
Vietnam at 24 Frames a Second: A Critical and Thematic Analysis of 360 Films About the Vietnam War by Jeremy M. Devine
The Text of the Bible: Its Path Through History and to the People by David S. New
Silas Deane, Revolutionary War Diplomat and Politician by Milton C. Van Vlack
London Book Fair Concludes
DC-Area McFarland Authors at International Day of the Book
Several Washington, DC, McFarland authors are participating in the International Day of the Book. The festival will be held April 21 in historic old town Kensington, Maryland.
Tania Heller, M.D., is a board-certified pediatrician and the medical director of the Washington Center for Eating Disorders and Adolescent Obesity in Bethesda, Maryland. Her books include: You and Your Doctor: A Guide to a Healing Relationship, with Physicians’ Insights, Overweight: A Handbook for Teens and Parents, Eating Disorders: A Handbook for Teens, Families and Teachers and Pregnant! What Can I Do?: A Guide for Teenagers.
Brett L. Abrams is an archivist with the National Archives and Records Administration in Washington, D.C. His books include: Capital Sporting Grounds: A History of Stadium and Ballpark Construction in Washington, D.C. and Hollywood Bohemians: Transgressive Sexuality and the Selling of the Movieland Dream.
Joe Sergi is a senior litigation counsel in a US government agency, and is a member of the adjunct faculty at George Mason University School of Law. He writes regularly about the history of comics and censorship for the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund. He is the editor of the graphic novel anthology Great Zombies in History and the author of the forthcoming Comic Book Law.
New Releases for April 12: Smallpox
Smallpox: A History by S.L. Kotar
Scientifically known as Variola major, the deadliest form of smallpox has plagued mankind since “time immemorial.” This text chronicles the worldwide effects of the killer disease, with particular emphasis on the 19th and 20th centuries, including the devastations of the “speckled disease” during great armed conflicts. Specific attention is paid to the development and utilization of Dr. Edward Jenner’s vaccination, chronicling the anti-vaccination movement, the evolving concept of compulsory vaccination and the global march toward eradication. Legal and moral challenges, the National Vaccine Institute, the treatment of American Indians and African Americans, immigrants, the often bloody quarantine battles, germ warfare, superstitions and home remedies are addressed from the historical perspectives of those who lived through and those who died of this scourge.
Association of College and Research Libraries Conference
Daily Deal: 20% off Growing Up with a Schizophrenic Mother
An estimated two to three million people in the United States today were raised by a schizophrenic parent. Brown and Roberts offer a unique book based on interviews with over forty adult children of mothers diagnosed as schizophrenic. Such topics as the isolation their family felt, their chaotic home environments, their present relationships with their mothers, and the lost potential of mother and child are covered. Their stories are fascinating and provide important information to both the mental health community and the lay public.
On March 11th, get 20% off Growing Up with a Schizophrenic Mother when you enter the coupon code SCHIZOPHRENIC. This discount will be applied in the shopping cart prior to checkout.
Every weekday, McFarland offers one title at 20% off the list price. Check back every day and follow us on Facebook, Google+ and Twitter for more Daily Deals!
New Releases for March 7: Pilgrimage, Doctor Who, Baseball's Cold Cases
Daily Deal: 20% off The Body in Psychotherapy
“impressive…excellent”—The Psychotherapist
“highly detailed…excellent”—Contemporary Psychology
On March 5th, get 20% off The Body in Psychotherapy when you enter the coupon code PSYCHOTHERAPY. This discount will be applied in the shopping cart prior to checkout.
Every weekday, McFarland offers one title at 20% off the list price. Check back every day and follow us on Facebook, Google+ and Twitter for more Daily Deals!
Daily Deal: 20% off Children Who Remember Previous Lives
excellent…offers us a fascinating and compelling book with the distinct potential for profoundly changing our way of understanding the nature of human existence and death. Standard reading for any person who wishes to be regarded as literate and educated”—Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research
On January 14th, get 20% off Children Who Remember Previous Lives when you enter the coupon code CHILDREN. This discount will be applied in the shopping cart prior to checkout.
Every weekday, McFarland offers one title at 20% off the list price. Check back every day and follow us on Facebook, Google+ and Twitter for more Daily Deals!
CATALOG: New Books Spring 2013
Just in time for the Spring season, here is the latest Spring 2013 Catalog.
Media Hoaxes: How Far Is Too Far?
A hospital nurse was recently the victim of a hoax call from an Australian radio station concerning Prince William’s pregnant wife, Catherine. Reports are that the nurse has apparently committed suicide.
The radio show has apologized for the call, saying it “was done with light-hearted intentions.”
History is replete with examples of hoaxes perpetrated via newspapers, radio, television and the internet. How far is too far with media hoaxes? Sociologist Robert Bartholomew and Skeptical Inquirer deputy editor Benjamin Radford ask and attempt to answer this question in The Martians Have Landed! A History of Media-Driven Panics and Hoaxes.
Daily Deal: 20% off Dying to Please
On November 27th, get 20% off Dying to Please when you enter the coupon code ANOREXIA. This discount will be applied in the shopping cart prior to checkout.
Every weekday, McFarland offers one title at 20% off the list price. Check back every day and follow us on Facebook, Google+ and Twitter for more Daily Deals!
New Releases for Nov. 2: Stoppard, Sex, Sitcoms, Vivisection Debate
Tom Stoppard: Bucking the Postmodern by Daniel Keith Jernigan
The Sex Is Out of This World: Essays on the Carnal Side of Science Fiction by Sherry Ginn
Single Season Sitcoms, 1948–1979: A Complete Guide by Bob Leszczak
The Victorian Vivisection Debate: Frances Power Cobbe, Experimental Science and the “Claims of Brutes” by Theodore G. Obenchain
Lingering Fever is Now Available!
Lingering Fever: A World War II Nurse’s Memoir by LaVonne Telshaw Camp
Based, in part, on letters she wrote to her parents, this is the poignant story of one nurse’s experience in World War II and how her service changed her life forever.
“a wonderful picture of the living conditions at an evacuation hospital in the jungle…. [Camp] writes colorfully about the Chinese patients, Army life, and her impressions of the setting and the culture…a welcome addition to the collection of works on women’s experiences in World War II”—H-Net Review
Encyclopedia of Alzheimer’s Disease
Encyclopedia of Alzheimer’s Disease: With Directories of Research, Treatment and Care Facilities by Elaine A. Moore was covered recently in the September issue of Library Journal.
“This book fills a niche that none of the hundreds of other Alzheimer’s titles cover.”—Library Journal
Daily Deal: 20% off Children’s Surgery
On August 24-26th, get 20% off Children’s Surgery when you enter the coupon code SURGERY (discount will applied in the shopping cart prior to checkout).
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Newly Published Book for August 8
New book today, Aspects of Consciousness: Essays on Physics, Death and the Mind by Ingrid Fredriksson, a work centered on the nature of the human mind, the afterlife, dimensions and space.
Newly Published Books for August 1
Three new books today, Freudian Fadeout: The Failings of Psychoanalysis in Film Criticism by Orij Ouweneel, Sherlock Holmes for the 21st Century: Essays on New Adaptations by Lynnette Porter, and The Carnegie Boys: The Lieutenants of Andrew Carnegie that Changed the World by Quentin R. Skrabec.
Newly Published Books for July 31
Three new books today! Hermione Granger Saves the World: Essays on the Feminist Heroine of Hogwarts by Christopher E. Bell, Contemporary Dance in Cuba: Tecnica Cubana as Revolutionary Movement by Suki John and Teaching English as a Second Language: Giving New Learners an Everyday Grammar by Richard McGarry.
Newly Published Book for June 28
New book out today, presenting an exploration of Autogenic Training.
Caregiver’s Guide: Care for Yourself While You Care for Your Loved Ones
Sharon E. Hohler will be interviewing with ADVANCE for Nurses (an online news magazine for nurses) next week about her book Caregiver’s Guide: Care for Yourself While You Care for Your Loved Ones.
Introduction to the Psychology of Paranormal Belief and Experience
Author Tony Jinks (An Introduction to the Psychology of Paranormal Belief and Experience) will be speaking about his work at the Australian Institute of Parapsychological Research, Inc. (Melbourne) at 7 pm.