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Fascinating Foods from the Deep South

Favorite Recipes from the University Club of Tuscaloosa, Alabama

University of Alabama Press

This cookbook contains more than 250 mouth-watering recipes from the Old South and prepared at the University Club in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Cookbook collectors and happy cooks everywhere will welcome this popular cookbook that preserves easy recipes.

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Creekside

An Archaeological Novel

University of Alabama Press, Fire Ant Books

Creekside takes two partially interwoven story lines and linkes artifact and place, ancestors and descendants, the present and the past, and inspires the reader to explore the personal connections between them all in fresh and vital ways.

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Speak Truth to Power

The Story of Charles Patrick, a Civil Rights Pioneer

University of Alabama Press, Fire Ant Books

Speak Truth to Power tells the story of Charles Patrick’s quest for justice in segregated Alabama on the eve of the Civil Rights movement and represents a telling instance of the growing determination of African Americans to be treated fairly, part of the broadening and deepening stream of resolve that led to the widespread activism of the Civil Rights movement.

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Spirit Wind

University of Alabama Press, Fire Ant Books

A coming-of-age story set in the isolated, murky swamps of Louisiana.

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Winged Defense

The Development and Possibilities of Modern Air Power--Economic and Military

University of Alabama Press, Fire Ant Books

This book is the basis for airpower doctrine in the US, and demonstrates  how forward looking Gen Mitchell was even though the technology for conducting air operations was in its infancy  when it was written.  It is essential reading for anyone concerned with airpower history or aerospace doctrine.

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Nancy Batson Crews

Alabama's First Lady of Flight

University of Alabama Press, Fire Ant Books

A riveting oral history/biography of a pioneering woman aviator.

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The Very Worst Road

Travellers' Accounts of Crossing Alabama's Old Creek Indian Territory, 1820-1847

University of Alabama Press

The Very Worst Road contains sixteen contemporary accounts by travelers who reached Alabama along what was known as the “Old Federal Road,” more a network of paths than a single road, that ran from Columbus and points south in Georgia for more or less due west into central Alabama and to where the confluence of the Tallapoosa and Coosa Rivers forms the Alabama River.

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East of Time

University of Alabama Press, Fire Ant Books

The setting is Lodz, Poland, in the years between the author's childhood and early maturity, a period overtaken by the cataclysmic events of the 1930s and early 1940s. The narrative approach presents a powerful personal testament and reflects the determination of an entire community to remain human in the face of its greatest peril, even at the last frontier of life. East of Time received the 2006 New South Wales Premier's Award for the Best Book of Non-Fiction and was short-listed for the 2006 Australian Literary Society's Gold Medal and the South Australia Arts Festival Award for Innovation in Literature.

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Hitler's Soldier in the U.S. Army

An Unlikely Memoir of World War II

University of Alabama Press, Fire Ant Books

Born into landed Prussian nobility, Werner H. Von Rosenstiel lived the largely predictable life of his class until two great changes intersected to forever alter his worldview:  he attended college in Ohio for a year, and the Nazis came to power in Germany.  Von Rosenstiel was drafted into the Wehrmacht, the German army, and had finished his legal education when tthe rising tide of Nazi madness and his affection for an American girl in Cincinnati brought him to resolve to leave Gernmany and return to the United States.

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Fishing for Gold

The Story of Alabama's Catfish Industry

University of Alabama Press, Fire Ant Books

With a wonderful ear for dialogue and in flowing narrative style, Karni Perez weaves together oral histories collected from early hatchery owners, catfish farmers, processors, and researchers to recount the important contributions made by Alabamians to the channel catfish industry.

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To the Far Side of Hell

The Battle for Peleliu, 1944

University of Alabama Press, Fire Ant Books

 poignant account and analysis of the bloody battle in the Pacific.

To the Far Side of Hell
is the story of the World War II battle for the Pacific island of Peleliu in the autumn of 1944.

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Old Mobile Archaeology

University of Alabama Press, Fire Ant Books

Archaeological excavations since 1989 have uncovered exciting evidence of the original townsite of Mobile, first capital of the Louisiana colony, and remnants of the colony's port on Dauphin Island.

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When Good Men Do Nothing

The Assassination Of Albert Patterson

University of Alabama Press, Fire Ant Books

A provocative telling of "The Phenix City Story."

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Let Us Now Praise Famous Women

A Memoir

University of Alabama Press, Fire Ant Books

An affectionate, humorous account of small town Alabama during the civil rights era.

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The Battle for Alabama's Wilderness

Saving the Great Gymnasiums of Nature

University of Alabama Press, Fire Ant Books

Traces the development of Alabama's environmental movement from its beginnings with the establishment of The Alabama Conservancy in the late 1960s and early '70s to the preservation efforts of present-day activist groups

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