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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Paganism - Christianity - Judaism

A Confession of Faith

By Max Brod; Introduction by Eric Gottgetreu; Translated by William Wolfe
University of Alabama Press

Now remembered primarily as Franz Kafta's friend and literary executor, Max Brod was an accomplishered thinker and writer in his own right. In this volume, he considers the nature and differences between Judaism and Christianity, addressing some of the most perplexing questions at the heart of human existence.
 

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Theatre History Studies 2010, Vol. 30

University of Alabama Press

To mark the thirtieth anniversary of the Theatre History Studies journal, editor Rhona Justice-Malloy and the Mid-America Theatre Conference have collected a special-themed volume covering the past and present of African and African American theatre.

  • Copyright year: 2010
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Pox, Empire, Shackles, and Hides

The Townsend Site, 1670-1715

University of Alabama Press

Examines issues of culture contact and social identity by exploring how the late-seventeenth and early-eighteenth centuries played out in the daily lives of Cherokee households, especially those excavated at the Townsend site in eastern Tennessee
 

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Theatre Symposium, Vol. 18

The Prop's The Thing: Stage Properties Reconsidered

University of Alabama Press

Stage properties are an often-ignored aspect of theatrical productions, in part because their usage is meant to be seamlessly integrated into the performance instead of a focal point for the audience.  The contributors illuminate many aspects of this largely ignored yet crucial part of the theatre.

  • Copyright year: 2010
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Inside the Eagle's Head

An American Indian College

University of Alabama Press

The Southwestern Indian Polytechnic Institute (SIPI) is a self-described National American Indian Community College in Albuquerque, New Mexico that is operated by the Bureau of Indian Affairs, an agency of the U.S. government that has overseen and managed the relationship between the government and American Indian tribes. This book looks at the Institute in detail.

  • Copyright year: 2010
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The Size of the Universe

University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2

The author's first book-length work of fiction that is as familiar as childhook yet beguilingly surreal. This book conjures an elegant labyrinth of time, space, and memory, in which a wavering self, a self on the verge of becoming nothing, seeks a safe haven from the throes of near-religious ecstasy.

  • Copyright year: 2010
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Calendar of Regrets

University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2

A wildly inventive and visually rich collage of twelve interconnected narratives, one for each month of the year, all pertaining to notions of travel--through time, space, narrative, and death

  • Copyright year: 2010
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Translating Modernism

Fitzgerald and Hemingway

University of Alabama Press

In Translating Modernism Ronald Berman continues his career-long study of the ways that intellectual and philosophical ideas informed and transformed the work of America’s major modernist writers.

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Philip Henry Gosse

Science and Art in Letters from Alabama and Entomologia Alabamensis

By Gary R. Mullen and Taylor D. Littleton; Introduction and notes by Edward O. Wilson
University of Alabama Press

Philip Henry Gosse's detailed watercolors of Alabama's native insects and plants represent a landmark in the annals of American natural history. Offered for the first time are the complete full-color illustrations from Gosse's Entomologia Alabamensis, along with a biographical essay placing Gosse's work in the context of his long and fruitful life.

  • Copyright year: 2010
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Fascinating Foods from the Deep South

Favorite Recipes from the University Club of Tuscaloosa, Alabama

University of Alabama Press

This cookbook contains more than 250 mouth-watering recipes from the Old South and prepared at the University Club in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Cookbook collectors and happy cooks everywhere will welcome this popular cookbook that preserves easy recipes.

  • Copyright year: 2010
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