University of Pittsburgh Press

  • Private Domain

    Taylor explores aspects of himself that have affected his work. He delves into the creation of Aureole and From Sea to Shining Sea, from their initial inception to the ways…

    $33.95
  • Prodigal Son

    A leading advocate for the arts in America and recent recipient of the 1997 National Medal of the Arts, the 1997 Kennedy Center Honors, and the George Abbott Carbonell Award…

    $31.95
  • Protest, Policy, and the Problem of Violence against Women

    Violence against women is one of the most insidious social ills facing the world today. Yet governmental response is inconsistent, ranging from dismissal to aggressive implementation of policies and programs…

    $35.95
  • Provincial Landscapes

    The closed nature of the Soviet Union, combined with the West’s intellectual paradigm of Communist totalitarianism prior to the 1970s, have led to a one-dimensional view of Soviet history, both…

    $55.00
  • Queen for a Day

    “Duhamel is an entertainer, as her new, retrospective collection confirms. . . . Throughout the book, each poem is utterly engaging, as hard to abandon as a chapter in a…

    $17.00
  • Readings On Laws Of Nature

    As a subject of inquiry, laws of nature exist in the overlap between metaphysics and the philosophy of science. Over the past three decades, this area of study has…

    $37.95
  • Realism And Pragmatic Epistemology

    An examination of philosophical realism from the standpoint of pragmatic epistemology, this book addresses the core idea of Rescher’s work in epistemology: that functional and pragmatic concerns exert a controlling…

    $37.95
  • Reclaiming Rhetorica

    Women’s contribution to rhetoric throughout Western history, like so many other aspects of women’s experience, has yet to be fully explored.  In pathbreaking discussions ranging from ancient Greece, though the…

    $35.95
  • Red Atom

    In the 1950s, Soviet nuclear scientists and leaders imagined a stunning future when giant reactors would generate energy quickly and cheaply, nuclear engines would power cars, ships, and airplanes, and…

    $37.95
  • Rockin Las Americas

    Every nation in the Americas—from indigenous Peru to revolutionary Cuba—has been touched by the cultural and musical impact of rock. Rockin’ Las Américas is the first book to explore the…

    $37.95
  • Round My Way

    ‘Round My Way centers around the journal writing of three inner-city youth and shares their daily struggles to speak within and across social institutions such as school, family, and community….

    $22.95
  • Samuel Rosenberg

    Samuel Rosenberg was an influential Pittsburgh-based painter and art instructor.  In this biography Barbara Jones tells the story of his life, accompanied by almost ninety reproductions of the artist’s work….

    $46.00