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.

A critical reassessment of the life’s work of a major American poet.

Hydroplane is a story collection filled with the urgency of erotic obsession. Its breathless voices, palpable in their desire, are propelled by monomania, rushing from one preoccupation into another: a garage, a painting class, a basketball game, boys. Their words take on kinetic force, an almost headlong momentum, as though, while reading, one were picking up speed, veering out of control. The past returns. Rumination are continuous. A stranger at a bus stop is indistinguishable from the narrator's deceased grandfather; party guests turn ghoulish, festivities merge with nightmares.

A study of realism and folk literature and of the sources and techniques of story-telling

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.

An annotated selection of unpublished letters by Nathaniel Hawthorne's sister.

Democracy and America's War on Terror brings the rhetorical dimension of democracy to bear on American culture in the divisive age of terrorism.

It will be of interest to public policymakers and informed general readers as well as students and scholars in the fields of rhetoric, political theory/philosophy, democratic theory, U.S. foreign relations/policy, war and peace studies, terrorism, and cultural studies.

A standard course book for students of linguistics.

To Command the Sky is a scholarly record of the fight for domination of the skies over western Europe during World War II.

Laurent Joubert was an important figure in the medical world of the French Renaissance. Born in 1529, he became a doctor at age 29 and shortly thereafter was appointed personal physician to Catherine de Medici and later became physician to three French monarchs.

Cradle of Freedom puts a human face on the story of the black American struggle for equality in Alabama during the 1960s.

The irrepressible impulse to picture ourselves, and how, through this picturing, we continually re-create what it means to be human

Winner of the Alabama Historical Association’s James F. Sulzby Award for the best book on Alabama history

The fascinating story of The Moon is Down's publishing history, how it was received by audiences around the world, and its effect in the war against Fascism.

Social history of the native peoples of the American South, bridging prehistory and history

"U.S. historians can read this book with considerable profit for the details it offers; general readers can enjoy it as a straightforward and informative biography."
—Choice

Showcases brilliant and experimental work in African American poetry.

A surprising, vivid, complex experience of Nietzsche's final hours.

 "A well-written and carefully crafted account of Aguaruna magic and its practical applications [that] diverges from more traditional approaches by focusing not only on the symbolic realm of magic but also on the instrumental intent."

--American Anthropologist

A true classic of American humor.

A classic volume on the early study of American Indians.

Boeckmann links character, literary genre, and science, revealing how major literary works both contributed to and disrupted the construction of race in turn-of-the-century America.

Accessible translation of a French language classic.

The Cultural Prison brings a new dimension to the study of prisoners and punishment by focusing on how the punishment of American offenders is represented and shaped in the mass media through public arguments.

Perilous Missions is William M. Leary's detailed operational history of  the USA's Civil Air Transport (CAT), taking it through its many forms and uses in Asian conflicts.

Three trailblazers for education reform in the Sunbelt South.

"In about 1615 an anonymous Jew from Prague composed a short Hebrew chronicle to recount 'the expulsions, miracles, and other occurrences befalling [the Jews] in Prague and the other lands of our long exile.' Abraham David discovered the manuscript [and] added glosses, historical notes, and an introduction. . . . The chronicle, with its brief annual entries, is not a continuous narrative, but does give a feeling of immediacy, like a newspaper."
—Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry