University Of Alabama Press: 939 books
A Presidential Civil Service
FDR's Liaison Office for Personnel Management
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2016
A Presidential Civil Service offers a comprehensive and definitive study of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s Liaison Office for Personnel Management (LOPM). Established in 1939 following the release of Roosevelt’s Brownlow Committee report, LOPM became a key milestone in the evolution of...
by Richard Jefferies
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2009
By the Early Holocene (10,000 to 8,000 B.P.), small wandering bands of Archaic hunter-gatherers began to annually follow the same hunting trails, basing their temporary camps on seasonal conditions and the presence of food. The Pleistocene glaciers had receded by this time, making food more plentiful...
by Victor A. Thompson
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2016
Modern Organization is a classic text of organization development that addresses the complications that occur in power structures within which workers with specialized skills are managed by superiors without those skills. Thompson is interested in exploring and righting the creative tensions between...
by Ronald Berman
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2017
***A 2018 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title
A study of the philosophical, intellectual, and political influences on the artistic creations of Fitzgerald and key early American modernist writers***
F. Scott Fitzgerald and the American Scene continues Ronald Berman’s lifelong study of...
This Is Called Moving
A Critical Poetics of Film
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2011
Writings on film from an award-winning filmmaker and poet.
As the writer, director, producer, and cinematographer of almost all her 30 films, videos, and shorts, Abigail Child has been recognized as a major and influential practitioner of experimental cinema since the early 1970s. Hallmarks...
The Victory Album
Reflections on the Good Life after the Good War
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2013
In these essays, a combination of personal remembrance and broad-stroke cultural history, Philip Beidler addresses the culture and politics of post–WWII America: the national blindness toward the Holocaust and a rising China, the canker of McCarthyism, ascendant cultures of hard smoking and heavy...
Sounding Real
Musicality and American Fiction at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2013
Examining American realist fiction as it was informed and shaped by the music of the period, Sounding Real sheds new light on the profound musical and cultural change at the turn of the twentieth century.
Sounding Real by Cristina L. Ruotolo examines landmark changes in American musical...
Making Camp
Rhetorics of Transgression in U.S. Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2009
Making Camp examines the rhetoric and conventions of “camp” in contemporary popular culture and the ways it both subverts and is co-opted by mainstream ideology and discourse, especially as it pertains to issues of gender and sexuality.
Camp has long been aligned with gay male...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2014
Readers of Mark Twain seldom doubt his genius, but defining that genius and locating its source continue to challenge students of American literature. Equally elusive is an explanation of the intriguing phenomenon of Twain as a mythic figure, both shaper and embodier of an American mythos. Perhaps...
Canons by Consensus
Critical Trends and American Literature Anthologies
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2011
Scholars have long noted the role that college literary anthologies play in the rising and falling reputations of American authors. Canons by Consensus examines this classroom fixture in detail to challenge and correct a number of assumptions about the development of the literary canon throughout...
A Place of Our Own
The Rise of Reform Jewish Camping
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2011
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The history of educational summer camps in American Reform Judaism. Reform Judaism is not the only religious community in America to make the summer camp experience a vital part of a faith community's effort to impart its values...
Enduring Motives
The Archaeology of Tradition and Religion in Native America
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2012
Normal0falsefalsefalseEN-USX-NONEX-NONEMicrosoftInternetExplorer4Enduring Motives examines tradition and religious beliefs as they are expressed in landscape, the built environment, visual symbols, stories, and ritual.
Bringing together archaeologists and Native American experts,...
Bioarchaeology of the American Southeast
Approaches to Bridging Health and Identity in the Past
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2018
A timely update on the state of bioarchaeological research, offering contributions to the archaeology, prehistory, and history of the southeastern United States.
Building on the 1991 publication What Mean These Bones? Studies in Southeastern Bioarchaeology, this new edited collection from Shannon...
Paganism - Christianity - Judaism
A Confession of Faith
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2010
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...