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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Heart of Palms
My Peace Corps Years in Tranquilla
By Meredith W. Cornett; Foreword by Florence Reed
University of Alabama Press
Heart of Palms is a clear-eyed memoir of Peace Corps service in the rural Panamanian village of Tranquilla through the eyes of a young American woman trained as a community forester.
- Copyright year: 2014
List
A Novel
University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2
Vignettes of a middle-class American family told through lists, each reflecting their obsessions, their complaints, their desires, and their humanity.
- Copyright year: 2014
Hum
Stories
By Michelle Richmond; Foreword by Rikki Ducornet
University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2
A new collection of stories by bestselling author Michelle Richmond, Hum presents a cautionary political fable, a celebration of the complexities of marriage, and a meditation on modern-day alienation.
- Copyright year: 2014
Theories of Forgetting
By Lance Olsen
University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2
Theories of Forgetting is concerned with how words matter, the materiality of the page, and how a literary work might react against mass reproduction and textual disembodiment in the digital age.
- Copyright year: 2014
The Island Called Paradise
Cuba in History, Literature, and the Arts
University of Alabama Press
A personal and cultural mediation, Philip D. Beidler’s The Island Called Paradise explores the fascinating ways Cuban history and culture have permeated North American consciousness, and vice versa.
- Copyright year: 2014
The Border Crossed Us
Rhetorics of Borders, Citizenship, and Latina/o Identity
University of Alabama Press
Explores efforts to restrict and expand notions of US citizenship as they relate specifically to the US-Mexico border and Latina/o identity
- Copyright year: 2013
Reading the Difficulties
Dialogues with Contemporary American Innovative Poetry
Edited by Thomas Fink and Judith Halden-Sullivan
University of Alabama Press
The bold essays that make up Reading the Difficulties offer case studies in and strategies for reading innovative poetry.
- Copyright year: 2013
Quince Duncan
Writing Afro-Costa Rican and Caribbean Identity
University of Alabama Press
Quince Duncan is a comprehensive study of the published short stories and novels of Costa Rica’s first novelist of African descent and one of the nation’s most esteemed contemporary writers.
- Copyright year: 2013
Panic Fiction
Women and Antebellum Economic Crisis
By Mary Templin
University of Alabama Press
Panic Fiction explores a unique body of antebellum American women’s writing that illuminates women’s relationships to the marketplace and the links between developing ideologies of domesticity and the formation of an American middle class.
- Copyright year: 2014
Green Gold
Alabama's Forests and Forest Industries
University of Alabama Press
Green Gold is a thorough and valuable compilation of information on Alabama’s timber and forest products industry, the largest manufacturing industry in the state.
- Copyright year: 2014
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