Turner: 2042 books

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Teewinot

A Year in the Teton Range

by Jack Turner
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2001

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...
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Public Confidence in Criminal Justice

A History and Critique

by Elizabeth R. Turner
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2017

In this book, Liz Turner argues that survey methods have gained an unwarranted and unhealthy level of dominance when it comes to understanding how the public views the criminal justice system. The focus on measuring public confidence in criminal justice by researchers, politicians and criminal justice...
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by Turner Publishing Turner Publishing
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017

The history of Russell Fork River Basin Area, KY. Also included are the buildings, churches, families, schools and people. Many photographs.
Book cover of A Dream Come True
by Jeryn Turner
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2017

A Dream Come True by Jeryn Alise Turner dives into the deep aspects of one of the most important relationships a woman can have; the one with her mother. The setting of this book is Peru, a mecca of spirituality, and involves a time traveler experience. This book portrays the strong spirit of women...
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The Green Marble

Earth System Science and Global Sustainability

by David Turner
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018

Humans have difficulty thinking at the global scale. Yet as we come to understand our planet as a single, interconnected, complex system and encounter compelling evidence of human impact on Earth’s climate and biosphere, the need for a truly global effort is increasingly urgent. In this concise...
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Even the Women Must Fight

Memories of War from North Vietnam

by Karen Gottschang Turner
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2008

Even the Women Must Fight "Karen Turner and Phan Thanh Hao have brought scholarship and compassion to a long-neglected aspect of the Vietnam War--the contributions of Vietnamese women to the independence struggle of their nation and the terrible price they paid for their courage and patriotism."--Neil...
Book cover of Renegade: Henry Miller and the Making of "Tropic of Cancer"
by Frederick Turner
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2012

Though branded as pornography for its graphic language and explicit sexuality, Henry Miller’s Tropic of Cancer is far more than a work that tested American censorship laws. In this riveting book, published to coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of Tropic of Cancer's initial U.S. release, Frederick...
Book cover of Your Table of Creation
by Mark R. Turner
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017

This is an inspirational read about the creative process which can be supplemented by the printed, art journal style coloring book of the same title. Many people create and produce without giving time and place to all the aspects of their projects, such as thorough pre-production, or final release....
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The Congo Wars

Conflict, Myth and Reality

by Doctor Thomas Turner
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010

Since 1996 war has raged in the Congo while the world has looked away. Waves of armed conflict and atrocities against civilians have resulted in over three million casualties, making this one of the bloodiest yet least understood conflicts of recent times. In The Congo Wars Thomas Turner provides...
Book cover of Religious Syncretism in Brazil: Catholicism, Evangelicalism and Candomblé
by Neil Turner
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2011

Research Paper (postgraduate) from the year 2011 in the subject Ethnology / Cultural Anthropology, grade: Fieldwork, Denver Institute of Urban Studies (-), language: English, abstract: ABSTRACT What follows is an attempt to examine cultural factors, not by arranging abstracted entities into unified...
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This Is Not a Peace Pipe

Towards a Critical Indigenous Philosophy

by Dale Turner
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2006

How can indigenous people best assert their legal and political distinctiveness? In This is Not a Peace Pipe, Dale Turner explores indigenous intellectual culture and its relationship to, and within, the dominant Euro-American culture. He contends that indigenous intellectuals need to engage the legal...
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British Generals in the War of 1812

High Command in the Canadas

by Wesley B. Turner
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 1999

In British Generals in the War of 1812 Wesley Turner takes a fresh look at five British Generals - Sir George Prevost, Isaac Brock, Roger Sheaffe, Baron Francis de Rottenburg, and Gordon Drummond - who held the highest civil and military command in the Canadas. He considers their formative experiences...
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by Nina Turner
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2016

Using historic and personal anecdotes, Grandma's Bones provides authentic wisdom laced with abundant charm.Nina Turner's grandma was born in 1913. She was a five-foot tall spitfire born in the South. Although she was small in stature, she was big on keeping it real. Grandma's...
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The Literary Mind

The Origins of Thought and Language

by Mark Turner
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 1998

We usually consider literary thinking to be peripheral and dispensable, an activity for specialists: poets, prophets, lunatics, and babysitters. Certainly we do not think it is the basis of the mind. We think of stories and parables from Aesop's Fables or The Thousand and One Nights, for example,...
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