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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Democracy's Lot
Rhetoric, Publics, and the Places of Invention
By Candice Rai
University of Alabama Press
Traces the communication strategies of various constituencies in a Chicago neighborhood, offering insights into the challenges that beset diverse urban populations and demonstrating persuasively rhetoric’s power to illuminate and resolve charged conflicts
- Copyright year: 2016
The Village on the Plain
Auburn University, 1856–2006
By Dwayne Cox
University of Alabama Press
The Village on the Plain: Auburn University, 1856–2006 tells the story of the founding of Auburn University as a small private college and the tumultuous history of its growth and transformation into the complex institution it is today.
- Copyright year: 2016
Natural Wonders
A Novel
By Angela Woodward; Foreword by Stacey Levine
University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2
Natural Wonders is a novel in the form of a series of lectures about the earth and its prehistory. In it, a grieving widow assembles an idiosyncratic history of the earth’s history based on her understanding and impressions of her deceased husband’s papers.
- Copyright year: 2016
Intimacy
A Novel
University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2
Intimacy is the story of an unnamed narrator ruminating on suicide. He reflects on the origins and significance of his material possessions, and on the seemingly inconsequential moments in his life, while he prepares to carry out his plans.
- Copyright year: 2016
Hex
A Novel
University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2
The debut novel by Sarah Blackman (award-winning author of Mother Box and Other Tales) Hex explores the ways one woman uses language and stories to rebuild her own shattered sense of self.
- Copyright year: 2016
Civil War Alabama
By Christopher Lyle McIlwain; Foreword by G. Ward Hubbs
University of Alabama Press
In fascinating detail, Civil War Alabama reveals the forgotten breadth of political opinions and loyalties among white Alabamians during the antebellum period. The book offers a major reevaluation of Alabama’s secession crisis and path to war and destruction.
Turning the Tide
The University of Alabama in the 1960s
By Earl H. Tilford; Foreword by Jack Drake
University of Alabama Press
Turning the Tide is an institutional and cultural history of a dramatic decade of change at the University of Alabama set against the backdrop of desegregation, the continuing civil rights struggle, and the growing antiwar movement.
The Counterpunch (and Other Horizontal Poems)/El contragolpe (y otros poemas horizontales)
By Juan Carlos Flores; Edited by Kristin Dykstra; Translated by Kristin Dykstra; Introduction by Kristin Dykstra
University of Alabama Press
The Counterpunch (and Other Horizontal Poems) / El contragolpe (y otros poemas horizontales) is a collection of prose poems dedicated to “the poetical resurrection of Alamar,” the neighborhood where Cuban poet Juan Carlos Flores has lived for decades.
- Copyright year: 2016
Heightened Expectations
The Rise of the Human Growth Hormone Industry in America
University of Alabama Press
Heightened Expectations explores the complex relationship between the history of the social stigmatization of short stature in boys and the rise of the multibillion-dollar human growth hormone industry.
- Copyright year: 2016
Dismembering the American Dream
The Life and Fiction of Richard Yates
University of Alabama Press
Dismembering the American Dream offers a detailed study of the fiction of writer Richard Yates, author of Revolutionary Road. His novels and short stories explore mid-twentieth-century middle-class American life.
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