UAP has won numerous awards for its publications over the years and has developed a solid list of titles in archaeology, public administration, and several areas of literature and history. With a staff of 17, the Press publishes between 80 to 85 books a year and has a backlist of approximately 1,800 titles in print.
American Indians and the Market Economy, 1775-1850
- Copyright year: 2011
Beyond the Blockade
New Currents in Cuban Archaeology
Builds on dialogues opened in recent years between Cuban archaeologists, whose work has long been carried out behind closed doors, and their international colleagues
- Copyright year: 2011
Twilight of a Golden Age
Selected Poems of Abraham Ibn Ezra
The House of My Sojourn
Rhetoric, Women, and the Question of Authority
Envisions the relationship between women and rhetoric as a house: a structure erected in ancient Greece by men that, historically, has made room for women but has also denied them the authority and agency to speak from within
- Copyright year: 2010
Once They Had a Country
Two Teenage Refugees in the Second World War
Once They Had a Country conveys well what it was like to establish a new life in a foreign country--over and over again and in constant fear for one's life. The book draws from a remarkable set of primary source materials, including letters, telegrams, and police records to relate the story of two teenage refugees during World War II.
- Copyright year: 2010
Paganism - Christianity - Judaism
A Confession of Faith
Now remembered primarily as Franz Kafta's friend and literary executor, Max Brod was an accomplishered thinker and writer in his own right. In this volume, he considers the nature and differences between Judaism and Christianity, addressing some of the most perplexing questions at the heart of human existence.
Theatre History Studies 2010, Vol. 30
To mark the thirtieth anniversary of the Theatre History Studies journal, editor Rhona Justice-Malloy and the Mid-America Theatre Conference have collected a special-themed volume covering the past and present of African and African American theatre.
- Copyright year: 2010
Pox, Empire, Shackles, and Hides
The Townsend Site, 1670-1715
Theatre Symposium, Vol. 18
The Prop's The Thing: Stage Properties Reconsidered
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.
- Copyright year: 2010
Inside the Eagle's Head
An American Indian College
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.
- Copyright year: 2010
The Size of the Universe
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.
- Copyright year: 2010
Calendar of Regrets
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
- Copyright year: 2010
Translating Modernism
Fitzgerald and Hemingway
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
Science and Art in Letters from Alabama and Entomologia Alabamensis
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.
- Copyright year: 2010
Fascinating Foods from the Deep South
Favorite Recipes from the University Club of Tuscaloosa, Alabama
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.
- Copyright year: 2010
Museum of the Weird
A stunning collection of stories that reveal wondrous play and surreal humor
- Copyright year: 2010
The Crimson Tide
The Official Illustrated History of Alabama Football, National Championship Edition
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.
- Copyright year: 2010
Creekside
An Archaeological Novel
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.
- Copyright year: 2010
Baseball and Rhetorics of Purity
The National Pastime and American Identity During the War on Terror
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
- Copyright year: 2010
Recollections of War Times
By An Old Veteran while under Stonewall Jackson and Lieutenant General James Longstreet
Recollections of War Times is a dramatically improved edition of William A. “Gus” McClendon’s memoir of his service in the 15th Alabama Infantry.
- Copyright year: 2010