University Of Alabama Press: 939 books
The Environment for Aging
Interpersonal, Social, and Spatial Contexts
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2015
The nature and consequences of aging depend on its environmental context, and the literature does not treat the various environmental dimensions in an integrated fashion. The authors introduce a general approach to the human ecosystem, highlighting theoretical and empirical issues necessary to an...
Community over Chaos
An Ecological Perspective on Communication Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2015
This ecology of ethics seeks to balance the needs of the individual and those of the various levels of community.
As James A. Mackin, Jr., shows, both modernism and postmodernism have undermined the traditional foundations for ethics. Using an ecological model, however, Community over Chaos...
Soapbox Rebellion
The Hobo Orator Union and the Free Speech Fights of the Industrial Workers of the World, 1909-1916
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
Soapbox Rebellion, a new critical history of the free speech fights of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), illustrates how the lively and colorful soapbox culture of the “Wobblies” generated novel forms of class struggle.
From 1909 to 1916, thousands of IWW members engaged...
Borders of Visibility
Haitian Migrant Women and the Dominican Nation-State
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2017
An anthropological study of Haitian migrant women’s mobility in the Dominican Republic.
Borders of Visibility offers extremely timely insight into the Dominican Republic’s racist treatment of Haitian descendants within its borders. Jennifer L. Shoaff employs multisited feminist research...
And I Said No Lord
A Twenty-One-Year-Old in Mississippi in 1964
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2014
In And I Said No Lord, photographer and writer Joel Katz presents a pictorial chronicle of his travels through the shifting islands of fear and loss, freedom and deliverance that was segregated Mississippi during the Freedom Summer of 1964.
In June 1964, college student Joel Katz boarded a...
Secrecy and Insurgency
Socialities and Knowledge Practices in Guatemala
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2014
Secrecy and Insurgency deals with the experiences of guerrilla combatants of the Fuerzas Armadas Rebeldes (Rebel Armed Forces) in the aftermath of the peace accords signed in December 1996 between the Guatemalan government and guerrilla insurgents.
Drawing on a broad field of contemporary theory,...
by Owen Lindauer, Eleanor Conlin Casella, Deborah L Rotman
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2009
Institutions pervade social life. They express community goals and values by defining the limits of socially acceptable behavior. Institutions are often vested with the resources, authority, and power to enforce the orthodoxy of their time. But institutions are also arenas in which both orthodoxies...
Prehistoric Digital Poetry
An Archaeology of Forms, 1959-1995
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2011
A singular and major historical view of the birth of electronic poetry.
For the last five decades, poets have had a vibrant relationship with computers and digital technology. This book is a documentary study and analytic history of digital poetry that highlights its major practitioners...
by David Ciccoricco
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2008
The marriage of narrative and the computer dates back to the 1980s, with the hypertext experiments of luminaries such as Judy Malloy and Michael Joyce. What has been variously called "hypertext fiction," "literary hypertext," and "hyperfiction" has surely surrendered...
Laying Claim
African American Cultural Memory and Southern Identity
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2016
In Laying Claim: African American Cultural Memory and Southern Identity, Patricia Davis identifies the Civil War as the central narrative around which official depictions of southern culture have been defined. Because that narrative largely excluded African American points of view, the resulting southern...
by José Kozer
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
An English translation from one of Latin America’s most distinguished poets.
José Kozer is one of the most influential contemporary Cuban poets working today. A key figure in the neobaroque movement within contemporary Latin American poetry, he is one of only three Cubans to ever win the Pablo...
Hunt the Devil
A Demonology of US War Culture
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2015
Hunt the Devil is a timely and illuminating exploration of demonic imagery in US war culture. In it, authors Robert L. Ivie and Oscar Giner examine the origins of the Devil figure in the national psyche and review numerous examples from US history of the demonization of America’s perceived opponents....
Scalia v. Scalia
Opportunistic Textualism in Constitutional Interpretation
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2018
An analysis of the discrepancy between the ways Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia argued the Constitution should be interpreted versus how he actually interpreted the law
Antonin Scalia is considered one of the most controversial justices to have been on the United States Supreme Court....
by James B. Stoltman
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
Petrography is the microscopic examination of thin sections of pottery to determine their precise mineralogical composition. In this groundbreaking work, James B. Stoltman applies quantitative as well as qualitative methods to the petrography of Native American ceramics. As explained in Ceramic Petrography...