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Frederick Turner
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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
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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…
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…
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…
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…
""A Census of the Grasses of New South Wales: Together with a Popular Description of Each Species"" is a comprehensive guide to the grasses of New South Wales, first published…
Rebirth of Value takes as its starting-point the emerging scientific view of the universe as a free, unpredictable, self-ordering evolutionary process in which our own cultural history plays a leading…
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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…
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…
Soldiers by Frederick Turner Two sides. One struggle.Abdul and Darren grow up in the same industrial backwater, each with his own set of problems. For one of them it's racism…
As we approach the new millenium, the moral, intellectual,and spiritual crisis of our time is visible most plainly in the sickness of the arts. The postmodern cultural establishment is philosophically…
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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…
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…
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…
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 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…
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…
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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…
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…
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…
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…
The untold story of Henry Miller’s explosive 1934 novel, banned in America for more than a quarter century
Frederick Jackson Turner
Preface By Louise Phelps Kellogg. With A List Of All His Works.
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A down-at-heel journalist stumbles on the diaries of Judith Campbell Exner, paramour to Sinatra, JFK, and Sam Giancana
