The University of Alabama Press
As the scholarly publishing arm of the university, The University of Alabama Press serves as an agent in the advancement of learning and the dissemination of scholarship. The Press applies the highest standards to all phases of publishing including acquisitions, editorial, production, and marketing.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.
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Hugo Black
The Alabama Years
University of Alabama Press
A political biography, probing the labyrinth of Alabama politics in an effort to discover what forces, other than his own, shaped Hugo Black and set him upon the road to the Court
- Copyright year: 1982
Literature at the Barricades
The American Writer in the 1930s
Edited by Ralph F. Bogardus and Fred Hobson
University of Alabama Press
This collection captures the sense—at times the ordeal—of the 1930s literary experience in America. Fourteen essayists deal with the experience of being a writer in a time of overwhelming economic depression and political ferment, and thereby illuminate the social, political, intellectual, and aesthetic problems and pressures that characterized the experience of American writers and influenced their works.
- Copyright year: 1982
My Father More or Less
University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2
Deals with the confrontation between an aggrieved 18 year old boy and his estranged novelist-turned-screenwriter father
Winnebago Mysteries and Other Stories
By Moira Crone
University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2
Fresh writings about women, love, and strength
- Copyright year: 1982
History of Metals in Colonial America
University of Alabama Press
In the struggle to create an indigenous industry, in the efforts to encourage and support the work of metals craftsmen, in the defiance of British attempts to regulate manufacturing of metals, the colonial society developed a metals technology that became the basis for future industrial growth.
- Copyright year: 1981
Four Roses in Three Acts
University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2
It is Paris and the Twenties again and Gertrude Stein and Ernest Hemingway are much alive.
- Copyright year: 1981
New Public Administration
University of Alabama Press
This book is generally about public administration and particularly about new public administration, a product of the turbulent late 1960s and the 1970s.
- Copyright year: 1980
The Reptiles and Amphibians of Alabama
University of Alabama Press
The only comprehensive book about the state's 182 species and subspecies of snakes, lizards, turtles, frogs, and salamanders
- Copyright year: 1980
Romaniote Penitential Poetry
Edited by Leon J. Weinberger
University of Alabama Press
A collection of Penitential poems for the Days of Awe that bears eloquent witness to a once-flourishing Romaniote presence in the Balkan states during early Byzantine times
- Copyright year: 1980
Chez Charlotte and Emily
University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2
- Copyright year: 1979
Rope Dances
By David Porush
University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2
Many strangenesses may be found in this rare and rarefied collection, rendered in a powerful and careful prose
- Copyright year: 1979
Emergency Exit
University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2
People in a town in Connecticut that have just passed a law requiring all men to carry all women across all thresholds at all times
Meningitis
University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2
An extraordinary collection from the Ukrainian émigré writer Tarnawsky.
- Copyright year: 1978
The Scalawag In Alabama Politics, 1865–1881
University of Alabama Press
- Copyright year: 1977
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The Year of the Hangman
University of Alabama Press
A detailed study of the British invasion from Canada during the War of Independence
- Copyright year: 1977
Statements 2
New Fiction
Edited by Jonathan Baumbach and Peter Spielberg
University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2
Brings together fiction of wide-ranging visions and styles
Moving Parts
By Steve Katz
University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2
Explore the four Moving Parts through which obsession exfoliates identity
- Copyright year: 1977
Amateur People
University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2
A book capable of making us change the ways we like to think of ourselves
- Copyright year: 1977
Temporary Sanity
By Thomas Glynn
University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2
Explores a fictional county where the desperation of dirt farming produces a mind that questions not just the limits of sanity, but indeed its rightful continent
- Copyright year: 1976
Comatose Kids
University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2
A 93-year old European Doktor kidnaps two hopeless cases from their hospitals and attempts to cure them by convincing them that they are long-lost lovers
- Copyright year: 1976
Aesthetics from Classical Greece to the Present
University of Alabama Press
Seeks to bring present-day philosophy principles into the history of aesthetics
- Copyright year: 1975
American Public Administration
Past, Present, Future
Edited by Frederick C. Mosher
University of Alabama Press
A seminal collection of essays, addressing such questions as the evolving roles of civil servants, the education and training of civil servants, and the ways to balance civil servants’ expertise with respect for democratic governance
- Copyright year: 1975
The Secret Table
By Mark Mirsky
University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2
Two novellas of young men embracing a mystical past
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