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.
The Great Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-Century Major League Baseball
The authoritative compendium of facts, statistics, photographs, and analysis that defines baseball in its formative first decades
- Copyright year: 2006
Dynamics of Southwest Prehistory
Emerging from a School of American Research, this work reviews the general status of archaeological knowledge in 9 key regions of the Southwest to examine broader questions of cultural development, which affected the Southwest as a whole, and to consider an overall conceptual model of the prehistoric Southwest after the advent of sedentism.
- Copyright year: 2006
Talking Together
Letters of David Ignatow, 1946-1990
The Origins of Agriculture
An International Perspective
The eight case studies in this book -- each a synthesis of available knowledge about the origins of agriculture in a specific region of the globe -- enable scholars in diverse disciplines to examine humanity's transition to agricultural societies.
- Copyright year: 2006
Priscilla Cooper Tyler and the American Scene, 1816-1889
Elizabeth Tyler Coleman was a great-granddaughter of President John Tyler and a graduate of the University of Alabama and of Swarthmore College. She was the first female faculty member in the English Department at the University of Alabama, where she taught from 1927 to 1962.
Oglethorpe in Perspective
Georgia's Founder after Two Hundred Years
Nine essays that attempt to answer some of the questions that continually surface when Oglethorpe's name is mentioned.
Urbanism in the Preindustrial World
Cross-Cultural Approaches
- Copyright year: 2006
Sing Them Over Again to Me
Hymns and Hymnbooks in America
Hymns and hymnbooks as American historical and cultural icons.
- Copyright year: 2006
The Chattahoochee Chiefdoms
- Copyright year: 2006
Stephen Crane Remembered
- Copyright year: 2006
Urbanism in the Preindustrial World
Cross-Cultural Approaches
- Copyright year: 2006
Origins of the TVA
The Muscle Shoals Controversy, 1920-1932
The basic account of the evolution of public works policy in the early years of the Depression. Listed as a "TVA Cultural Resource" by the TVA itself in their official bibliography of TVA history.
Hitler's Soldier in the U.S. Army
An Unlikely Memoir of World War II
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.
- Copyright year: 2006
Hart Crane
After His Lights
A critical reassessment of the life’s work of a major American poet.
- Copyright year: 2006
Hydroplane
Fictions
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.
Alias Simon Suggs
The Life and Times of Johnson Jones Hooper
A study of realism and folk literature and of the sources and techniques of story-telling
Remote Sensing in Archaeology
An Explicitly North American Perspective
In this volume, eleven archaeologists reveal how the broad application of remote sensing, and especially geophysical techniques, is altering the usual conduct of dirt archaeology. Using case studies that both succeeded and failed, they offer a comprehensive guide to remote sensing techniques on archaeological sites throughout North America. Because this new technology is advancing on a daily basis, the book is accompanied by a CD intended for periodic update that provides additional data and illustrations.
- Copyright year: 2006
Southern Heritage on Display
Public Ritual and Ethnic Diversity within Southern Regionalism
Fishing for Gold
The Story of Alabama's Catfish Industry
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.
- Copyright year: 2006
Elizabeth Manning Hawthorne
A Life in Letters
An annotated selection of unpublished letters by Nathaniel Hawthorne's sister.
- Copyright year: 2006