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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Transatlantic Scots
Edited by Celeste Ray; Foreword by James Hunter
University of Alabama Press
Examines the impact of the Scottish legacy on North American cultures and heritage
Stop the Presses (So I Can Get Off)
Tales from Forty Years of Sports Writing
By Clyde Bolton
University of Alabama Press, Fire Ant Books
A Poetics of Impasse in Modern and Contemporary American Poetry
University of Alabama Press
A noted critic addresses the problem of silence in contemporary experimental poetry
- Copyright year: 2005
What Begins with Bird
Fictions
University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2
What Begins with Bird, by Noy Holland, is both an investigation of family relationships and a sophisticated study of language and rhythm.
Public Works
Short Fiction and a Novella
University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2
The short fictions collected in Public Works explore the extremes of human nature and literary technique.
- Copyright year: 2005
Michael Martone
Fictions
University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2
A giddy exploration of the parts of books nobody ever reads
La Florida del Inca and the Struggle for Social Equality in Colonial Spanish America
University of Alabama Press
A cross-disciplinary view of an important De Soto chronicle.
- Copyright year: 2005
Benjamin Lloyd's Hymn Book
Edited by Joyce H. Cauthen
University of Alabama Press
Primitive Baptist singing traditions in the South
- Copyright year: 2005
The Clays of Alabama
A Planter-Lawyer-Politician Family
University of Alabama Press
The story of a 19th-century aristocratic Alabama family
Ancient Borinquen
Archaeology and Ethnohistory of Native Puerto Rico
Edited by Peter E. Siegel
University of Alabama Press
A comprehensive overview of recent thinking, new data, syntheses, and insights into current Puerto Rican archaeology
Picture Taker
Photographs by Ken Elkins
By Ken Elkins; Foreword by Rick Bragg
University of Alabama Press
This collection of 100 haunting, sometimes humorous, but always deeply honest black-and-white photographs reveals the 42-year career of a master photographer and photojournalist.
- Copyright year: 2005
Our Sisters' Keepers
Nineteenth-Century Benevolence Literature by American Women
Edited by Jill Annette Bergman and Debra Bernardi
University of Alabama Press
Essays on the roles played by women in forming American attitudes about benevolence and poverty relief
- Copyright year: 2005
President Johnson's War On Poverty
Rhetoric and History
University of Alabama Press
Illustrates the interweaving of rhetorical and historical forces in shaping public policy
Dissonance (if you are interested)
University of Alabama Press
Dissonance (if you are interested) consists of Incisive essays on modern poetry and translation by a noted poet, translator, and critic.
Dialogues in Cuban Archaeology
University of Alabama Press
Dialogues in Cuban Archaeology provides a politically and historically informed review of Cuban archaeology, from both American and Cuban perspectives.
- Copyright year: 2005
To the Far Side of Hell
The Battle for Peleliu, 1944
University of Alabama Press, Fire Ant Books
poignant account and analysis of the bloody battle in the Pacific.
To the Far Side of Hell is the story of the World War II battle for the Pacific island of Peleliu in the autumn of 1944.
To the Far Side of Hell is the story of the World War II battle for the Pacific island of Peleliu in the autumn of 1944.
- Copyright year: 2005
The Juan Pardo Expeditions
Exploration of the Carolinas and Tennessee, 1566-1568
By Charles Hudson; Introduction by Paul Hoffman; Afterword by David G. Moore, Robin A. Beck, and American Antiquity
University of Alabama Press
An early Spanish explorer’s account of American Indians.
- Copyright year: 2005
Nathaniel Southgate Shaler and the Culture of American Science
University of Alabama Press
Martin Luther King Jr. and the Sermonic Power of Public Discourse
Edited by Carolyn Calloway-Thomas and John Louis Lucaites
University of Alabama Press
Public Administration and the State
A Postmodern Perspective
University of Alabama Press
A critical examination of public administration's pervasive vision of a powerful state
- Copyright year: 2005
Confederate Navy Chief
Stephen R. Mallory
University of Alabama Press
The book tells of Stephen R. Mallory's support of naval inventions, strategy, and ideas. It also sheds light on the the successes and failures of Jefferson Davis. Durkin gives a well-balanced biography of Mallory and his life in the Confederate navy.
Alabama's Outlaw Sheriff, Stephen S. Renfroe
University of Alabama Press
A vignette of local Southern history
- Copyright year: 2005
This Is Called Moving
A Critical Poetics of Film
By Abigail Child; Foreword by Tom Gunning
University of Alabama Press
Explores how two language systems inform and cross-fertilize the author’s work
- Copyright year: 2005
Solfege, Ear Training, Rhythm, Dictation, and Music Theory
A Comprehensive Course
By Marta Arkossy Ghezzo; Preface by Mel Powell
University of Alabama Press
One of the most highly acclaimed resources for the study of ear training in music education today
- Copyright year: 1993
San Jacinto 1
A Historical Ecological Approach to an Archaic Site in Colombia
University of Alabama Press
A significant work of neotropical archaeology presenting evidence of early hunter-gatherers who produced fiber-tempered ceramics.
- Copyright year: 2005
Rhetorical Women
Roles and Representations
Edited by Hildy Miller and Lillian Bridwell-Bowles
University of Alabama Press
A collection representing a surprisingly varied range of roles or personas women have adopted to be able to speak or write publicly
- Copyright year: 2005
Making Medical Doctors
Science and Medicine at Vanderbilt since Flexner
University of Alabama Press
A study of the union of science and medicine in a particularly illustrative institutional setting
- Copyright year: 1987
Advancing American Art
Painting, Politics, and Cultural Confrontation at Mid-Century
Edited by Taylor D. Littleton and Maltby Sykes
University of Alabama Press, Fire Ant Books
A representative collection of avant-garde American painting from the 1930s and ’40s
- Copyright year: 2005
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