Stage properties are an often-ignored aspect of theatrical productions, in part because their usage is meant to be seamlessly integrated into the performance instead of a focal point for the audience.  The contributors illuminate many aspects of this largely ignored yet crucial part of the theatre.

The Southwestern Indian Polytechnic Institute (SIPI) is a self-described National American Indian Community College in Albuquerque, New Mexico that is operated by the Bureau of Indian Affairs, an agency of the U.S. government that has overseen and managed the relationship between the government and American Indian tribes. This book looks at the Institute in detail.

The author's first book-length work of fiction that is as familiar as childhook yet beguilingly surreal. This book conjures an elegant labyrinth of time, space, and memory, in which a wavering self, a self on the verge of becoming nothing, seeks a safe haven from the throes of near-religious ecstasy.

A wildly inventive and visually rich collage of twelve interconnected narratives, one for each month of the year, all pertaining to notions of travel--through time, space, narrative, and death

In Translating Modernism Ronald Berman continues his career-long study of the ways that intellectual and philosophical ideas informed and transformed the work of America’s major modernist writers.

Philip Henry Gosse's detailed watercolors of Alabama's native insects and plants represent a landmark in the annals of American natural history. Offered for the first time are the complete full-color illustrations from Gosse's Entomologia Alabamensis, along with a biographical essay placing Gosse's work in the context of his long and fruitful life.

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.

A stunning collection of stories that reveal wondrous play and surreal humor

The book to settle all bets! A lively illustrated history of the University of Alabama football teams that have dominated college football and ranked consistently among the best in the nation and now with 13 national championships to its credit. This updated National Championship Edition contains two new chapters to cover the dark days at the beginning of the 21st century and the dawn of the Nick Saban era.

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.

An investigation into the culture and mythology of baseball, a study of its limits and failures, and an invitation to remake the game in a more democratic way

Recollections of War Times is a dramatically improved edition of William A. “Gus” McClendon’s memoir of his service in the 15th Alabama Infantry.

An innovative presentation of the best columns and photographs derived from Davenport’s popular column of the same title in Alabama Heritage magazine. Readers of the magazine have come to relish his artful and often witty descriptions of common species encountered in the Alabama outdoors. The book is designed to be much more than a mere collection of entertaining essays; it is also an educational tool—a means of instructing and encouraging readers in the art of keeping a nature journal for themselves.

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.

Taming Alabama focuses on persons and groups who sought to bring about reforms in the political, legal, and social worlds of Alabama.

This guidebook of historic iron-production sites is designed to give the reader a factual and illuminating look at the people and events that shaped Birmingham into one of America’s leading steel centers. Heavily illustrated in color and historical black-and-white photographs, it can be used while visiting parks or read as a coherent volume before or after a visit.

This standard account of one of the most controversial wars in which Americans have fought is again available, with introductory materials and a bibliography revised to reflect the advances in scholarship since the 1969 edition.

Charles Weeks explores the diplomacy of Spanish colonial officials in New Orleans and Natchez in order to establish posts on the Mississippi River and Tombigbee rivers in the early 1790s.

Fanatical Schemes is a study of proslavery rhetoric in the 1830s.

The first collection of critical essays on Maus, the searing account of one Holocaust survivor's experiences rendered in comic book form.

When originally published in German in 1924, this volume was hailed as the first modern, comprehensive archaeological overview of an emerging area of the world, now known as the Caribbean islands.   Sven Loven decided to update and reissue the work in English, which he thought to be the future international language of scholarship. This work is a classic, with enduring interpretations, broad geographic range, and an eager audience.

This work is a state-of-the-art, data-rich study of excavations undertaken at the Moundville site in west central Alabama, one of the largest and most complex of the mound sites of pre-contact North America.

“In this excellent study of Alabama politics, Hackney deftly analyzes the leadership, following, and essential character of Populism and Progressivism during the period from 1890 to 1910.” – Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science

Pyschological anthropology is a vital area of contemporary social science, and one of the field's most important and innovative thinkers is Melford E. Spiro. This volume brings together sixteen essays that review Spiro's theoretical insights and extend them into new areas. The essays center on several general problems: In what ways is it meaningful to speak of a social act as having "functions"? What elements and processes of human personality are universal, and why? What is the relationship between religion and personality? Why? What are the pyschological underpinnings of social manipulation?

The architect of the successful air strategy which led to Allied victory

To Come to the Land makes available in English a vast body of research,
previously available only in Hebrew, on the early history of the land now
known as Israel.

From Quarry to Cornfield provides an innovative model for examining the technology of hoe production and its contribution to the
agriculture of Mississippian communities.

Katherine Anne Porter Remembered is a collection of reminiscences and memoirs by contemporaries, friends, and associates of Porter offering a revealing and intimate portrait of the elusive and complex American writer.

In this collection of fifteen essays, archaeologists and ethnographers explore the material record of food and its consumption as social practice.

The South As It Is is a prophetic account of the recently defeated South at the beginning of Reconstruction.

A moving story of German Jews saved by the firebombing of Dresden.

Illustrates a modalities approach to the study of publics

Hassler manages to bring the reader to the front without much delay and the action gets right to the point. Common among other 1st Day books in regards to Gettysburg are sometimes boring biographies of people involved. This book is a rather quick study of the general events that played out on July 1st, 1863.

When the western Allies moved to consolidate their areas of control in occupied Germany, the USSR responded by cutting off land access to West Berlin, holding over two million residents of that city hostage in an aggressive act of brinkmanship. General William Henry Tunner was given a task that seemed doomed to failure—to supply a major city by air with everything it needed to survive from food to a winter’s supply of coal—and made it a brilliant success, astonishing the world in a major public relations defeat for the Soviets, and demonstrating the unexpected capacity of air fleets in a postwar world.

Juxtaposing barbarity and whimsy, Brian Conn’s The Fixed Stars is a novel that has the tenor of a contemporary fable with nearly the same dreamlike logic.

The essays in this collection illuminate both the processes of change and the negative reactions that they frequently elicited