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Carl Becker
A Dusty Tomes Audio BookIn Cooperation with Spoken Realms
Frederick Jackson Turner by Carl Becker. John Stambaugh Professor of History at Cornell University. Extracted from American Masters of Social Science…
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Apocalypse is a major new poetic work that addresses the global anxieties, emerging technologies, and spiritual yearnings of our time. Addressing humanity’s capacity for creation, destruction, rebirth, and redemption, Apocalypse…
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing’s Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because…
With the roaring twenties still in full swing and the seemingly endless horizons of jazz, wealth, power, and black market booze still unfolding, Bix Beiderbecke–self-taught musician–flames across the sky in…
Tells a story about the meaning of a human life in the strange new world that is emerging today. After an initial sonnet that presents the existential challenge of the…
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe…
In this groundbreaking interdisciplinary work, Frederick Turner presents a new theory of aesthetics based on the argument that beauty is an objective reality in the universe. He identifies the experience…
Apocalypse is a major new work of poetry that addresses the global anxieties, emerging technologies, and spiritual yearnings of our time. Addressing humanity’s capacity for creation, destruction, rebirth, and redemption…
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
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Turner’s guide to and description of Philadelphia’s new city hall or public buildings the largest and grandest structure in the world This book, Guide to and description of Philadelphia’s new…
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high…
Set four hundred years in the future, Frederick Turner’s epic poem, The New World, celebrates American culture in A.D. 2376. As the book opens, the nation-state has been fragmented and…
In his biography of John Muir (1838-1914), Frederick Turner, captures the legendary scale of the life of an American icon who was an immigrant, inventor, botanist, and founder of the…
Narrated by George Coe, an aged veteran of New Mexico’s Lincoln County War but now a devout painter of village churches, The Kid and Me tells what it felt like…
Epic does many things. Among others, it defines the nature of the human storyteller; recalls the creation of the world and of the human race; describes the paradoxical role of…
There is widespread belief that the world’s religions con- tradict each other
There is widespread belief that the world’s religions contradict each other. It follows that if one religion is true, the others must be false - an assumption that implies, and…
An interdisciplinary scholar, devotee of the classics, and leading practitioner of Expansive Poetry, Frederick Turner asks in the introduction to Hadean Eclogues, Suppose there could be a poetry, even a…
This study, drawing from Shakespeare’s texts, presents a lexicon of common words as well as a variety of familiar familial and cultural situations in an economic context. The author demonstrates…
I just plain loved In the Land of Temple Caves. Frederick Turner makes a compelling case for civility organized in response to culture-shaping art as our most ancient source of…
The untold story of Henry Miller’s explosive 1934 novel, banned in America for more than a quarter century
First published in 1980, Beyond Geography continues to influence its readers. This new edition, prepared for the Columbus quincentennial, includes a new introduction by T.H. Watkins and a new preface…
Originally published in 1988, Genesis was the first major work of fiction that addressed the idea of terraforming Mars. It not only suggested the idea, but provided a feasible solution…
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger PublishingA AcentsAcentsa A-Acentsa Acentss Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and…
A down-at-heel journalist stumbles on the diaries of Judith Campbell Exner, paramour to Sinatra, JFK, and Sam Giancana
Frederick Turner Jackson
The story of a rich woman Bertha, who falls in love with a peasant named Edward, marries him with a thousand wishes, but soon realizes that he loves his wife…
Frederick Jackson Turner
This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to…
Joanna Dee Das,Joseph Tendier
Turner’s much-anthologized 1893 essay argues that the vast western frontier shaped the modern American character-and the course of US history. Interacting with both the wilderness and Native Americans, settlers on…
A concise anthology of the finest Hungarian poetry, masterpieces of Hungarian literature, ranging from the 14th century to the present, in translations that are beautiful English poems in their own…
Jack Parsons,Frederick Turner
Originally published in 2011 by Hudson Hills Press and now available through George F. Thompson Publishing!
How does a photographer learn to see? How does he create his own visual language-as unique as a fingerprint and as inimitable as the voice of a great writer?
Gjeke Marinaj
Frederick Turner, a prizewinning Anglo-American poet, critic, and translator, has translated this generous collection of Gjeke Marinaj's major poems into English with the close collaboration of the poet himself
This 1893 survey ranks among the most important books about the impact of frontier life on U.S. society. It examines the frontier’s role in promoting self-reliance, independence, democracy, immigration, and…
Frederick John Turner
Fred was unaware of the poverty he was exposed to while he was growing up. As far as he was concerned, this was normal. His mom, Irene, a single mother…
