University Alabama Press imprint: 831 books
by Charles Arthur Willard
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2015
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The thesis of this book is that argument is not a kind of logic but a kind of communication—conversation based on disagreement. Claims about the epistemic and political effects of argument get their authority not from logic but from their “fit...
by Patricia Samford
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2011
Enslaved Africans and their descendants comprised a significant portion of colonial Virginia populations, with most living on rural slave quarters adjacent to the agricultural fields in which they labored. Archaeological excavations into these home sites have provided unique windows into the daily...
by Charles F. Abel, Arthur J. Sementelli
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2007
Justice and Administration is an ambitious effort to grapple with justice as a theoretical component of the practice of public administration, yet with sufficient theoretical power to be meaningful in philosophy, political studies, and sociology.
The time is ripe for such an effort,...
Comparing Public Bureaucracies
Problems of Theory and Method
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2012
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The comparative study of public policy once promised to make major contributions to our understanding of government. Much of that promise now appears unfulfilled. What accounts for this decline in intellectual fortunes and change in intellectual...
by Clarke E. Cochran
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2016
Character, Community, and Politics revives or redefines a number of fundamental but neglected ideas. Chief among them are commitment, community, responsibility, and character, concepts that scholar of public administrator Clark E. Cochran deftly develops and illuminates through an exploration of...
What Are Stem Cells?
Definitions at the Intersection of Science and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2011
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In recent years political, religious, and scientific communities have engaged in an ethical debate regarding the development of and research on embryonic stem cells. Does the manipulation of embryonic stem cells destroy human...
Trial Balance
The Collected Short Stories of William March
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2013
The Collected Short Stories of William March
Central America, 1821-1871
Liberalism before Liberal Reform
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2015
Central America and its ill-fated federation (1824-1839) are often viewed as the archetype of the “anarchy” of early independent Spanish America. This book consists of two interralted essays dealing with the economic, social, and political changes that took place in Central...
More Than Bread
Ethnography of a Soup Kitchen
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2010
More Than Bread examines life in the dining room of the Tabernacle Soup Kitchen, located in Middle City in a New England state. What happens when one hundred guests, which include single mothers, drug addicts, alcoholics, the mentally ill, and the chronically unemployed, representing diverse age groups...
The Darkness of the Present
Poetics, Anachronism, and the Anomaly
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2012
The Darkness of the Present includes essays that collectivelyinvestigate the roles of anomaly and anachronism as they work to unsettle commonplace notions of the “contemporary” in the field of poetics.
In the eleven essays of The Darkness of the Present, poet and critic Steve...
Black, White, and Huckleberry Finn
Re-imagining the American Dream
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2013
This consequential book takes a hard, systematic look at the depiction of blacks, whites, and race relations in Mark Twain's classic novel, raising questions about its canonical status in American literature.
Huckleberry Finn, one of the most widely taught novels in American literature, has...
Show Us How You Do It
Marshall Keeble and the Rise of Black Churches of Christ in the United States, 1914-1968
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2010
Marshall Keeble (1878–1968) was the premier evangelist in black Churches of Christ from 1931 until his death in 1968. Born and reared in middle Tennessee, Keeble came under the influence of Preston Taylor, Samuel Womack, and Alexander Campbell, as well as the social influence of Booker T. Washington....
Chronicle of a Failure Foretold
The Peace Process of Columbian President Andres Pastrana
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2011
Charts the progress and failure of Colombian President Andrés Pastrana’s efforts to bring an end to sixty years of civil war.
The civil war in Colombia has waxed and waned for almost sixty years with shifting goals, programs, and tactics among the contending parties and with bursts of appalling...
Presumptions and Burdens of Proof
An Anthology of Argumentation and the Law
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2019
An anthology of the most important historical sources, classical and modern, on the subjects of presumptions and burdens of proof
In the last fifty years, the study of argumentation has become one of the most exciting intellectual crossroads in the modern academy. Two of the most central concepts...