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  • Spice

    The History of a Temptation (Text Only)

    by 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 ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Die Your Own Death

    Walt Whitman’s Existential Democracy

    by 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 ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

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  • The Abstract Wild

    by 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 ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • The Golden Citadel

    by 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 ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

  • Travels in the Greater Yellowstone

    by 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 ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

  • Audiobook

    12 Years to AI Singularity

    A Harmonious Future with Artificial Intelligence or War

    by Peter Solomon ...
    Narrated by Gabrielle de Cuir, Judy Young, Kirby Heyborne, Susan Hanfield, Jack Turner ...
    Series Audiobook 2 - The Survival & Singularity Chronicles

    Unabridged

    14 hours

    What happens when the artificial intelligence (AI) technology we rely on becomes the greatest threat to human survival?Astrophysicist Stephen Hawking warned: “The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race.”In 12 Years to AI Singularity, Peter Solomon delivers a gripping, near-future epic that follows the humans, sentient robots, and large language models, ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

  • Teewinot

    Climbing and Contemplating the Teton Range

    by 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 ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

  • Infania

    Let's Go Treasure Hunting!

    by 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 ... Read more

    $4.11 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Awakening to Race

    Individualism and Social Consciousness in America

    by Jack Turner ...
    The election of America’s first black president has led many to believe that race is no longer a real obstacle to success and that remaining racial inequality stems largely from the failure of minority groups to take personal responsibility for seeking out opportunities. Often this argument is made in the name of the long tradition of self-reliance and American individualism. In Awakening to Race, ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Uncontested

    by Alyssa Turner ...
    Narrated by Addison Rose, Jack Walters, Adam Riley, B.J. Hunter, Rachel Music, Stephen Ridgewood ...
    Series Audiobook 3 - Unmatched

    Unabridged

    8 hours 23 min

    Their pet has outgrown her collar...Five thrones sit in the playroom beneath the most notorious BDSM club in Paris. Four of the five founders still reign as kings in this kingdom. Only Club Duval has been closed for over a year, and play time is long over.Five kings, and in the absence of one, four have fallen for the same woman. Oleg Balashov and Dr. Henri Gerard have the pleasure of calling her ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    Unmeasured

    by Alyssa Turner ...
    Narrated by Addison Rose, Jack Walters, Adam Riley, Veronica Lacroix ...
    Series Audiobook 1 - Unmatched

    Unabridged

    9 hours 6 min

    SHE’s a good girl, or at least she tries to be.People think Samantha Hunter lives a fairytale life. Only this young, wealthy American in Paris has a secret. If she lets it free, there’s no telling what she’ll do. Being the wild child is one thing. Letting her dark fantasies run wild is quite another. How could she? The better question is…how could she not?HE wears a suit, but he is not entirely ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    The Cowboy's Forbidden Crush

    A Small Town Age-Gap Professor-Student Romance

    by Deborah Garland ...
    Narrated by Isabelle Turner, Jack Calihan ...
    Series Audiobook 1 - Wild Texas Hearts

    Unabridged

    4 hours 5 min

    The rules for professors are simple. Keep your hands off the students.She’s no longer a student, but I’m stuck with her as my summer intern.There’s only so much a man can take. And I never cared for rules anyway.I’m the toughest veterinarian professor at Tatum College. And I want to keep it that way. But a stunning, tough-as-nails city girl, who treats sick cows like a puppy with a cold, has me ... Read more

    $15.00 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus