University of Pittsburgh Press

  • Blessing the House

    Jim Daniels’ Blessing the House visits the sites of domestic faith – Catholic schools, sex and marriage, childbirth – in an attempt to witness a world worth believing in.  In…

    $17.00
  • Blue Like The Heavens

    “Never obscure or self-consciously ‘poetical,’ and very often amusing, Gildner’s lines are sure to provide multiple shocks (and laughs) of recognition, as he retraces choice patches all over the American…

    $17.00
  • Bone Wars

    Winner of the 2002 Spur Award for Best Western Nonfiction – Contemporary Less than one hundred years ago, Diplodocus carnegii—named after industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie—was the most famous dinosaur…

    $20.00
  • Boneshaker

    “There is a school of poetry where the poems have content, where they  communicate, where beauty is not forgotten. It is about work, family, and the lost towns. Grief. Jan…

    $17.00
  • Brave Disguises

    “It is very rare that a poet is able to meld the poetry of the body and the poetry of the mind. I believe Jacobik has done so in Brave…

    $17.00
  • Bread Or Bullets

    The first thoroughly documented history of organized labor in nineteenth-century Cuba, this work focuses on how urban laborers joined together in collective action during the transition from slave to free…

    $35.95
  • Breaker

    Set in northeastern Pennsylvania, Breaker is the story of fourteen-year-old Pat McFarlane, his rebellious older brother Cal, his ambitious sister Annie, and of Mam, whose fierce pride holds the family…

    $11.95
  • Bring Your Legs With You

    Winner of the Drue Heinz Literature Prize, this set of interconnected stories center around a retired prize fighter living in Las Vegas.  The characters are as unforgettable and intriguing as…

    $24.95
  • Buck Fever

    Every fall close to one million hunters enter Pennsylvania’s forests and mountains in quest of the white-tailed deer.  Some are seeking sport and companionship; others are stocking their larders for…

    $31.95
  • Bureaucrats, Politics And the Environment

    The bureaucracy in the United States has a hand in almost all aspects of our lives, from the water we drink to the parts in our cars. For a force…

    $32.95
  • By Invitation Only

    Steven Schier examines the shift in U.S. politics to activation—the political variant of niche marketing. This method encourages only a strategically selected few to get involved, resulting in a decline…

    $35.95
  • Captivity

    What are the forces that cause us to strike out and harm each other?  Captivity explores the way in which the individual is held hostage by society; how the forces…

    $17.00