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  • Il tempo delle spezie

    Storia di una tentazione

    Se la geografia è un metodo per tracciare e ampliare i confini del mondo, la storia delle spezie può diventare una mappa preziosa per scoprire vicende e conoscere bisogni, economie e relazioni tra popoli e continenti. Basti pensare al costo al grammo dello zafferano per intuire l’enorme pregio degli aromi: valutati per secoli a peso d’oro e responsabili di spargimenti di sangue, esploratori e Lesen Sie mehr

    14,99 €

  • Infania

    Let's Go Treasure Hunting!

    von 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 Lesen Sie mehr

    2,69 €

  • Die Your Own Death

    Walt Whitman’s Existential Democracy

    von Jack Turner
    How Walt Whitman’s philosophy of death prepares the soul for freedom and equalityHumans fantasize about immortality. Billionaires dabble in cryonics, politicians build monuments to themselves, and writers donate their papers to libraries. In Die Your Own Death, Jack Turner argues that the quest for immortality—literal or symbolic—is politically destructive. He does so through a meditation on the Lesen Sie mehr

    21,39 €

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  • Spice

    The History of a Temptation (Text Only)

    von Jack Turner
    An essential history of a taste that shaped the world.Spices: for centuries the staple of cuisine, remedies and ritual, they have commanded the highest of prices. To this day, saffron is, per ounce, one of our most expensive commodities. For their sake, fortunes have been made and lost and new worlds discovered. Astoundingly, in the 17th-century more people died for the sake of cloves than in all Lesen Sie mehr

    15,64 €

  • The Golden Citadel

    von 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 Lesen Sie mehr

    2,99 €

  • African American Political Thought

    A Collected History

    Bearbeitet von 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 Lesen Sie mehr

    14,43 €

  • A Political Companion to Henry David Thoreau

    Bearbeitet von Jack Turner
    Serien 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 Lesen Sie mehr

    18,71 €

  • The Abstract Wild

    von 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 Lesen Sie mehr

    15,83 €

  • Traces of an Omnivore

    von 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 Lesen Sie mehr

    29,09 €

  • Travels in the Greater Yellowstone

    von 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 Lesen Sie mehr

    13,69 €

  • Teewinot

    Climbing and Contemplating the Teton Range

    von 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 Lesen Sie mehr

    13,69 €

  • Place of the Wild

    A Wildlands Anthology

    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 Lesen Sie mehr

    Zuvor 27,17 € Jetzt 15,40 €