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.
Democracy and America's War on Terror
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 Concise Elementary Grammar of the Sanskrit Language
A standard course book for students of linguistics.
To Command the Sky
The Battle for Air Superiority Over Germany, 1942-1944
To Command the Sky is a scholarly record of the fight for domination of the skies over western Europe during World War II.
- Copyright year: 2006
Popular Errors
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
Alabama and the Movement That Changed America
Cradle of Freedom puts a human face on the story of the black American struggle for equality in Alabama during the 1960s.
- Copyright year: 2006
The Book of Portraiture
A Novel
The irrepressible impulse to picture ourselves, and how, through this picturing, we continually re-create what it means to be human
- Copyright year: 2006
Oscar W. Underwood
A Political Biography
Winner of the Alabama Historical Association’s James F. Sulzby Award for the best book on Alabama history
John Steinbeck Goes to War
The Moon is Down as Propaganda
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.
- Copyright year: 2005
Extensions of the Burkeian System
Light on the Path
The Anthropology and History of the Southeastern Indians
Social history of the native peoples of the American South, bridging prehistory and history
- Copyright year: 2006
Hunting for Hides
Deerskins, Status, and Cultural Change in the Protohistoric Appalachians
- Copyright year: 2006
National Socialism and Gypsies in Austria
Kenneth Burke and Contemporary European Thought
Rhetoric in Transition
George William Featherstonhaugh
The First U.S. Government Geologist
"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
- Copyright year: 1988
Every Goodbye Ain't Gone
An Anthology of Innovative Poetry by African Americans
Showcases brilliant and experimental work in African American poetry.
Argumentation Theory and the Rhetoric of Assent
Nietzsche's Kisses
A Novel
A surprising, vivid, complex experience of Nietzsche's final hours.
- Copyright year: 2006
Tsewa's Gift
Magic and Meaning in an Amazonian Society
"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
- Copyright year: 1986
Dividing Lines
Municipal Politics and the Struggle for Civil Rights in Montgomery, Birmingham, and Selma
- Copyright year: 2002
The Flush Times of Alabama and Mississippi
A Series of Sketches
A true classic of American humor.
- Copyright year: 2006