Derek Turner: 8 books

Chet Bright faced the prospect of death on the water many times – during World War II, Korea and Vietnam – but in the end the sea was his savior. The son of a West Texas cowboy, he ran away at seventeen to join the military after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. Aboard a destroyer during World...

Mind Your Own Success is a practical guidebook on how to achieve more out of your life. Following the step by step process outlined in this book, you'll be able to set up your life for both success and happiness. It will help you create the mindset for success, but more importantly show you how you...

In the wake of the paleobiological revolution of the 1970s and 1980s, paleontologists continue to investigate far-reaching questions about how evolution works. Many of those questions have a philosophical dimension. How is macroevolution related to evolutionary changes within populations? Is evolutionary...

Have you ever wondered what Dr. Seuss might have said, had he lived in these modern times?  This book explores our most pressing issues through the rhyming style that Dr. Seuss made famous all those years ago.  From climate change, to overpopulation, to pornography on the Internet, this book covers...

When Carey Winfast, an all-star investigator with the Planetary Police Force is mysteriously murdered, it is up to his friends, one a career traffic cop and the other a mere secretary, to solve the mystery. With alliances uncertain, strange futuristic technology appearing everywhere, nothing is as...

Once merely a footnote in Restoration and eighteenth-century studies and rarely taught, Oroonoko; or, The Royal Slave (1688), by Aphra Behn, is now essential reading for scholars and a classroom favorite. It appears in general surveys and in courses on early modern British writers, postcolonial literature,...

Food and Everyday Life provides a qualitative, interpretive, and interdisciplinary examination of food and food practices and their meanings in the modern world. Edited by Thomas M. Conroy, the book offers a number of complementary approaches and topics around the parameters of the “ordinary, everyday”...

Capitalism and Commerce in Imaginative Literature are committed to treating literary texts with integrity and believe that business should have a larger claim upon people’s literary consciousness. In addition, they all value the important role of literature in dealing with the complexities of a...