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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Truman Capote's Southern Years, 25th Anniversary Edition
Stories from a Monroeville Cousin
By Marianne M. Moates; Foreword by Ralph F. Voss
University of Alabama Press
Celebrates Marianne M. Moates’s insightful and detailed account of Truman Capote’s early childhood in Alabama as recounted by his cousin Jennings Faulk Carter
- Copyright year: 2014
Tracing Southern Storytelling in Black and White
University of Alabama Press
Explores how both black and white southern writers such as Joel Chandler Harris, Charles Chesnutt, Zora Neale Hurston, William Faulkner, Eudora Welty, Ralph Ellison, Ellen Douglas, and Ernest Gaines have employed oral storytelling in literature
- Copyright year: 2014
The Punitive Imagination
Law, Justice, and Responsibility
University of Alabama Press
Presents a thought-provoking collection of five essays that explore the purposes and meanings of legal punishment in the United States, both culturally and socially
- Copyright year: 2014
Stepping Into Zion
Hatzaad Harishon, Black Jews, and the Remaking of Jewish Identity
University of Alabama Press
Considers the question “Who is a Jew?”— a critical rhetorical issue with far-reaching consequences for Jews and non-Jews alike
- Copyright year: 2014
The Observable Characteristics of Organisms
Stories
University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2
Ryan MacDonald’s debut collection of short fiction includes “The Observable Characteristics of Organisms,” which won the 2012 American Short(er) Fiction Prize.
- Copyright year: 2014
Helen Keller Really Lived
A Novel
University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2
The newest novel by Elisabeth Sheffield, the award-winning author of Gone and Fort Da
- Copyright year: 2014
Freshwater Mussels of Florida
University of Alabama Press
Freshwater Mussels of Florida is the only comprehensive, illustrated encyclopedia of all recorded species of mussels in the state of Florida.
- Copyright year: 2014
Fourteen Stories, None of Them Are Yours
A Novel
University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2
Luke B. Goebel’s Fourteen Stories, None of Them Are Yours is the winner of the FC2 Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Prize.
- Copyright year: 2014
Conceiving Normalcy
Rhetoric, Law, and the Double Binds of Infertility
University of Alabama Press
This ground-breaking rhetorical analysis examines a 1987 Massachusetts law affecting infertility treatment and the cultural context that makes such a law possible
American Culture, Canons, and the Case of Elizabeth Stoddard
Edited by Robert McClure Smith and Ellen Weinauer
University of Alabama Press
Reconsiders the centrality of a remarkable American writer of the ante- and postbellum periods
- Copyright year: 2003
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