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  • Spice

    The History of a Temptation (Text Only)

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $196 MXN

  • Infania

    Let's Go Treasure Hunting!

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $51 MXN o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Spice

    The History of a Temptation

    de Jack Turner ...
    In this brilliant, engrossing work, Jack Turner explores an era—from ancient times through the Renaissance—when what we now consider common condiments were valued in gold and blood.Spices made sour medieval wines palatable, camouflaged the smell of corpses, and served as wedding night aphrodisiacs. Indispensible for cooking, medicine, worship, and the arts of love, they were thought to have ... Leer más

    $232 MXN

  • Die Your Own Death

    Walt Whitman’s Existential Democracy

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $309 MXN

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  • The Golden Citadel

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $65 MXN

  • African American Political Thought

    A Collected History

    Edición de 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 ... Leer más

    $211 MXN o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • A Political Companion to Henry David Thoreau

    Edición de Jack Turner ...
    Series 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 ... Leer más

    $281 MXN

  • The Abstract Wild

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $272 MXN

  • Traces of an Omnivore

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $421 MXN

  • Travels in the Greater Yellowstone

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $176 MXN

  • Teewinot

    Climbing and Contemplating the Teton Range

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $193 MXN

  • 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 ... Leer más

    Antes $490 MXN Ahora $223 MXN