Books Archive - University of Pittsburgh Press

The Necessity of Certain Behaviors

Winner of the 2011 Drue Heinz Literature Prize

Told in precise, evocative prose that skewers the heart of the matter time after time, these memorable stories view and illuminate the human condition from a compelling, funny and entirely original perspective.

The Animal Who Writes

A Posthumanist Composition

By Marilyn M. Cooper

Writing as a Social Practice and Embodied Behavior

Writing Architectural History

Evidence and Narrative in the Twenty-First Century

By Aggregate Architectural History Collaborative

Draws Attention to the Role of Subjectivity, Internal Tensions in Historical Practice, and the Politics Underlying Every Architectural Story

Development Design

Hotels and Politics in the Hispanic Caribbean

By Erica Morawski

A new addition to the Pitt Latin American Studies series

What God in the Kingdom of Bastards

Poems

By Brian Gyamfi

Poems by Brian Gyamfi

The Same Man

Poems

By Bobby Elliott

Winner of the 2025 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize

Immigrants, Brokers, and Literacy as Affinity

By Ligia A. Mihut

A new addition to the Pitt Composition, Literacy and Culture series

Liberty’s Double-Edged Sword

The Liberum Veto and the Destruction of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth

By Catherine McKenna

How the earliest and largest republic in Europe was brought crashing down by political leaders who cynically took advantage of very civil liberties they should have defended.