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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Rhetoric, Through Everyday Things
University of Alabama Press
Rhetoric, Through Everyday Things is the first book-length collection of essays that explore the vibrant materiality of everyday objects in rhetorical theory, practice, and writing. It examines how things such as food, bicycles, and typewriters can influence history and sociality.
- Copyright year: 2016
Bringing Montessori to America
S. S. McClure, Maria Montessori, and the Campaign to Publicize Montessori Education
By Gerald L. Gutek and Patricia A. Gutek
University of Alabama Press
Tells the little known story of the collaboration and clash between the indomitable educator Maria Montessori and the American publisher S. S. McClure over the launch of Montessori education in the United States
- Copyright year: 2016
Theatre Symposium, Vol. 25
Cross-Cultural Dialogue on the Global Stage
Edited by Becky K. Becker; Introduction by Becky K. Becker
University of Alabama Press
Addresses the ways that theatre both shapes cross-cultural dialogue and is itself, in turn, shaped by those forces.
- Copyright year: 2017
A Movement of the People
The Roots of Environmental Education and Advocacy in Alabama
By Katie Lamar Jackson; Foreword by David Mathews
University of Alabama Press
How a grassroots movement led primarily by women shaped Alabama’s environmental consciousness
- Copyright year: 2017
Paradise Field
A Novel in Stories
By Pamela Ryder
University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2
Interconnected stories depicting the last years of a WWII bomber pilot, his relationship with his daughter as both child and adult, and his drift into infirmity and death
- Copyright year: 2017
Glory Hole
University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2
An enthralling, epic tale of the webs of misinformation that saturate, obscure, and complicate the vagaries of day-to-day life in modern America.
- Copyright year: 2017
A Brief Alphabet of Torture
Stories
By Vi Khi Nao
University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2
An unflinching and riveting meditation on the pain that attends every facet of existence—love and sacrifice and intimacy and beauty—a biography of torture
- Copyright year: 2017
Beautiful Politics of Music
Trova in Yucatán, Mexico
University of Alabama Press
An exploration into the history and practice of trova, a genre of music that is the soul of Yucatán
- Copyright year: 2017
Archaeological Remote Sensing in North America
Innovative Techniques for Anthropological Applications
University of Alabama Press
The latest on the rapidly growing use of innovative archaeological remote sensing for anthropological applications in North America
- Copyright year: 2017
1865 Alabama
From Civil War to Uncivil Peace
University of Alabama Press
A fascinating account of the final, pivotal year of the Civil War in Alabama and its effects on Alabama politics today
- Copyright year: 2017
These Rugged Days
Alabama in the Civil War
University of Alabama Press
I couldn’t stop reading it! Bravo!” —Ken Burns, Emmy Award-winning producer and director of The Civil War
- Copyright year: 2017
Mark Twain and Money
Language, Capital, and Culture
Edited by Henry B. Wonham and Lawrence Howe; Introduction by Henry B. Wonham; Other primary creator Lawrence Howe
University of Alabama Press
Explores the importance of economics and prosperity throughout Samuel Clemens’s writing and personal life
- Copyright year: 2017
Grandeur of the Everyday
The Paintings of Dale Kennington
By Dale Kennington; Introduction by Daniel White
University of Alabama Press
A lavishly illustrated overview of the life and work of realist painter Dale Kennington, featuring more than eighty-five of her most renowned works.
- Copyright year: 2017
Sixteen and Counting
The National Championships of Alabama Football
University of Alabama Press
Dramatic accounts of every University of Alabama National Championship football season recounted by noted sports writers, players, and Alabamians.
- Copyright year: 2017
Keep Your Airspeed Up
The Story of a Tuskegee Airman
By Harold H. Brown and Marsha S. Bordner
University of Alabama Press
Inspiring memoir of Colonel Harold H. Brown, one of the 930 original Tuskegee pilots, whose dramatic wartime exploits and postwar professional successes contribute to this extraordinary account.
- Copyright year: 2017
Word Toys
Poetry and Technics
University of Alabama Press
An engaging and thought-provoking volume that speculates on a range of textual works—poetic, novelistic, and programmed—as technical objects
- Copyright year: 2017
Unity in Christ and Country
American Presbyterians in the Revolutionary Era, 1758–1801
University of Alabama Press
Examines the interdenominational pursuits of the American Presbyterian Church from 1758 to 1801
- Copyright year: 2017
Ancient Ocean Crossings
Reconsidering the Case for Contacts with the Pre-Columbian Americas
University of Alabama Press
Paints a compelling picture of impressive pre-Columbian cultures and Old World civilizations that, contrary to many prevailing notions, were not isolated from one another
- Copyright year: 2017
Alabama Wildlife, Volume 5
Edited by Ericha Shelton-Nix
University of Alabama Press
Collects the most recent findings of virtually all experts in the field as of 2012
- Copyright year: 2017
What Democracy Looks Like
The Rhetoric of Social Movements and Counterpublics
Edited by Christina R. Foust, Amy Pason, and Kate Zittlow Rogness; Introduction by Christina R. Foust, Amy Pason, and Kate Zittlow Rogness
University of Alabama Press
A compelling and timely collection that combines two distinct but related theories in rhetoric and communication studies
- Copyright year: 2017
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