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  • Spice

    The History of a Temptation

    by Jack Turner ...
    In this brilliant, engrossing work, Jack Turner explores an era—from ancient times through the Renaissance—when what we now consider common condiments were valued in gold and blood.Spices made sour medieval wines palatable, camouflaged the smell of corpses, and served as wedding night aphrodisiacs. Indispensible for cooking, medicine, worship, and the arts of love, they were thought to have ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Infania

    Let's Go Treasure Hunting!

    by Jack Turner ...
    Infania: Let's Go Treasure Hunting is the first in a series of novels all following the same band of oddball criminals that never manage to get anything done without a few bumps and scrapes along the way. Things only get odder when they come across a new cabin boy. What follows is a story filled with action, adventure, and everything in between, except for a well thought out plan. No one really ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • African American Political Thought

    A Collected History

    Edited by Melvin L. Rogers, Jack Turner ...
    African American Political Thought offers an unprecedented philosophical history of thinkers from the African American community and African diaspora who have addressed the central issues of political life: democracy, race, violence, liberation, solidarity, and mass political action. Melvin L. Rogers and Jack Turner have brought together leading scholars to reflect on individual intellectuals from ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Golden Citadel

    by Jack Turner ...
    In the heart of the Sahara, legends speak of a lost city made of gold — The Golden Citadel, where a forgotten king once trapped the power of the sun itself. When former soldier and adventurer Daniel Creed comes into possession of an ancient map, his search for fortune becomes a race against death. Pursued by ruthless treasure hunters and haunted by the desert's secrets, Daniel joins forces with ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • A Political Companion to Henry David Thoreau

    Edited by Jack Turner ...
    Series series Political Companions to Great American Authors
    The writings of Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) have captivated scholars, activists, and ecologists for more than a century. Less attention has been paid, however, to the author's political philosophy and its influence on American public life. Although Thoreau's doctrine of civil disobedience has long since become a touchstone of world history, the greater part of his political legacy has been ... Read more

    $16.39 USD

  • The Abstract Wild

    by Jack Turner ...
    If anything is endangered in America it is our experience of wild nature—gross contact. There is knowledge only the wild can give us, knowledge specific to it, knowledge specific to the experience of it. These are its gifts to us.How wild is wilderness and how wild are our experiences in it, asks Jack Turner in the pages of The Abstract Wild. His answer: not very wild. National parks and even so ... Read more

    $15.89 USD

  • Traces of an Omnivore

    by Paul Shepard ...
    Paul Shepard is one of the most profound and original thinkers of our time. He has helped define the field of human ecology, and has played a vital role in the development of what have come to be known as environmental philosophy, ecophilosophy, and deep ecology -- new ways of thinking about human-environment interactions that ultimately hold great promise for healing the bonds between humans and ... Read more

    $24.49 USD

  • Travels in the Greater Yellowstone

    by Jack Turner ...
    Award-winning nature writer Jack Turner directs his attention to one of America's greatest natural treasures: the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. Comprised of two national parks, three national wildlife refuges, parts of six national forests, and eleven wilderness areas, Greater Yellowstone is a vast array of differing environments and geographies.In a series of essays, Turner explores this ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Teewinot

    Climbing and Contemplating the Teton Range

    by Jack Turner ...
    Jack Turner grew up with an image of the Tetons engraved in his mind. As a young man, he climbed the peaks of this singular range with basic climbing gear friends. Later in life, he led treks in India, Pakistan, Nepal, China, Tibet, and Peru, but he always returned to the mountains of his youth. He continues to climb the Tetons as a guide for Exum Mountain, Guides, the oldest and most prestigious ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Place of the Wild

    A Wildlands Anthology

    by Max Oelschlaeger, John Davis, Kirkpatrick Sale, Margaret Hayes Young, David Abram, Bill McKibben, Monique Miller, Dolores Lachapelle, Terry Tempest Williams, Jay Vest, Jack Turner, Alison Dening, Gary Paul Nabhan, Dave Foreman, Paul Faulstitch, Chris Manes, R. Edward Grumbine, Bill Devall, Gary Snyder, Mollie Matteson, Mitch Friedman, John Haines, Alan Drengson, David Johns, Phyllis Burks, George Wuerthner, James Morrison, Stephanie Mills, Nancy Lord ...
    Where and what is the place of the wild? Is the goal of preserving biodiversity across the landscape of North America compatible with contemporary Western culture?Place of the Wild brings together original essays from an exceptional array of contemporary writers and activists to present in a single volume the most current thinking on the relationship between humans and wilderness. A common thread ... Read more

    Was $26.99 USD Now $12.99 USD

  • Awakening to Race

    Individualism and Social Consciousness in America

    by Jack Turner ...
    The election of America’s first black president has led many to believe that race is no longer a real obstacle to success and that remaining racial inequality stems largely from the failure of minority groups to take personal responsibility for seeking out opportunities. Often this argument is made in the name of the long tradition of self-reliance and American individualism. In Awakening to Race, ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Audiobook

    Good as Dead

    A Novel

    by Susan Walter ...
    Narrated by Kimberly Woods, Suzanne Elise Freeman, Jack Turner, James Anderson Foster, Selah Victor, Seth Podowitz ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 57 min

    It all starts with a promise from a stranger: We’ll take care of everything.Holly Kendrick’s husband is dead. Holly saw it all. In one violent moment, a hit-and-run accident turns Holly’s life upside down. Then a fixer for the high-powered guilty party approaches Holly with an offer she is in no position to refuse. Holly and her daughter, Savannah, will want for nothing, beginning with a luxury ... Read more

    $35.99 USD