Turner Publishing Company: 2181 books
Spoken Soul
The Story of Black English
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2007
In Praise of Spoken Soul: The Story of Black English
"Spoken Soul brilliantly fills a huge gap. . . . a delightfully readable introduction to the elegant interweave between the language and its culture."
–Ralph W. Fasold, Georgetown university
"A lively, well-documented...
All the Things You Are
The Life of Tony Bennett
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2011
The first complete biography of singing legend Tony Bennett
Among America's greatest entertainers such as Frank Sinatra, Judy Garland, Ray Charles, and Sammy Davis Jr., Tony Bennett alone is still here and at the top of his game. For the first time, All the Things You Are tells the incredible...
All American
The Rise and Fall of Jim Thorpe
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2008
"All American is riveting and grand-that rare pairing of exquisite writing and unassailable research. Crawford delivers you to an age when iconic titans like Jim Thorpe and Pop Warner marched across the planet, and he is the perfect guide to their enormous triumphs and tragedies. This is epic...
In the Wings
Behind the Scenes at the New York City Ballet
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2010
"Here is New York City Ballet as it really is- the good, the not so good, and the majestically beautiful. It's a true story, and it's told by someone who can honestly claim that he was there."
Size Matters Not
The Extraordinary Life and Career of Warwick Davis
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2011
The life and times of Warwick Davis, star of Ricky Gervais's forthcoming sitcom, Life's Too Short
Actors work their entire careers hoping to achieve the kind of cult movie hero status that Davis achieved at the age of eleven playing Wicket W. Warrick, the lead Ewok in Star Wars: Return of the...
The Undiscovered Paul Robeson
Quest for Freedom, 1939 - 1976
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2009
The eagerly awaited second volume of Paul Robeson Jr.'s acclaimed biography of his father, the legendary singer, actor, and social activist.
The greatest scholar-athlete-performing artist in U.S. history, Paul Robeson was one of the most compelling figures of the twentieth century. In this...
The I-Can't-Chew Cookbook
Delicious Soft Diet Recipes for People with Chewing, Swallowing, and Dry Mouth Disorders
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
When his wife was diagnosed with TMJ (temporomandibular joint) problems and needed surgery, the oral surgeon told Randy Wilson that his wife would need to eat soft foods for six months. The author took this as a challenge and developed 200 meals that were soft, appealing and nutritious. The self-published...
by Scott Simon
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2007
"An extraordinary book . . . invitingly written and brisk."
--Chicago Tribune
"Perhaps no one has ever told the tale [of Robinson's arrival in the major leagues] so well as [Simon] does in this extended essay."
--The Washington Post Book World
"Scott Simon tells...
All You Have to Do is Listen
Music from the Inside Out
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2008
Rob Kapilow has been helping audiences hear more in great music for almost twenty years with his What Makes It Great? series on NPR, at Lincoln Center, and in concert halls throughout the US and Canada. In this book, he gives you a set of tools you can use when listening to any piece of music in order...
A Season of Splendor
The Court of Mrs. Astor in Gilded Age New York
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Journey through the splendor and the excesses of the Gilded Age
"Every aspect of life in the Gilded Age took on deeper, transcendent meaning intended to prove the greatness of America: residences beautified their surroundings; works of art uplifted and were shared with the public; clothing...
Everything Changes
The Insider's Guide to Cancer in Your 20's and 30's
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2009
"By page three of the introduction to Everything Changes, I wanted not only to devour the rest of the book, but I wanted to call Kairol up, get to know her, and (if we weren't both already married) see if I could sleep with her. Then the book got really good. It is, without doubt, the most forthright,...
False Alarm
The Truth about the Epidemic of Fear
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2008
Life today for citizens of the developed world is safer, easier, and healthier than for any other people in history thanks to modern medicine, science, technology, and intelligence. So why is an epidemic of fear sweeping America? The answer, according to nationally renowned health commentator Dr....
Bird Flu
Everything You Need to Know About the Next Pandemic
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2008
"Marc Siegel is an articulate voice of reason in a world beset by hype and hysteria. We would be well advised to listen closely to what he has to say."
-Jerome Groopman, M.D., staff writer, the New Yorker
"Siegel cuts through the hype about the 'deadly' this and the 'lethal'...
The Concord Quartet
Alcott, Emerson, Hawthorne, Thoreau and the Friendship That Freed the American Mind
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2010
"We will walk on our own feet;
we will work with our own hands;
we will speak our own minds."
--Ralph Waldo Emerson, "The American Scholar," 1837
From the start of transcendentalism and America's intellectual renaissance in the 1830s, to the Civil War and beyond,...