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  • Titanic: The Voyage, Real Life Stories, and Legacy (A Narrative History of Ambition, Class, and the Night the Sea Took the Unsinkable Ship)

    by John Turner ...
    His illustrated history explains how the ships were designed, built, operated, remembered, and explored. It includes authentic historical photographs, technical illustrations, ship comparisons, survivor-based accounts, glossary explanations, and accessible background context for readers who want to understand the story beyond the legend.Written in clear and engaging language, this book is suitable ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Brigham Young

    by John G. Turner ...
    Brigham Young was a rough-hewn New York craftsman whose impoverished life was electrified by the Mormon faith. Turner provides a fully realized portrait of this spiritual prophet, viewed by followers as a protector and by opponents as a heretic. His pioneering faith made a deep imprint on tens of thousands of lives in the American Mountain West. ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • British Aircraft of World War II

    by John Frayn Turner ...
    This unique book, now republished, was the first of its kind to be published on British aircraft of the Second World War. Aviation enthusiasts and aero-modellers can see British aircraft as they really were, through magnificently reproduced colour photographs. Each of the forty-nine types of aircraft is accompanied by a brief 'biography' together with tables of the most important marks and their ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Joseph Smith

    The Rise and Fall of an American Prophet

    by John G. Turner ...
    Narrated by David Colacci ...

    Unabridged

    17 hours 17 min

    Joseph Smith Jr. (1805–1844) was one of the most successful and controversial religious leaders of nineteenth-century America, publishing the Book of Mormon and starting what would become the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He built temples, founded a city-state in Illinois, ran for president, and married more than thirty women. This self-made prophet thrilled his followers with his ... Read more

    $30.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Restricted Environmental Stimulation

    Theoretical and Empirical Developments in Flotation REST

    Edited by Peter Suedfeld, John W. Jr. Turner, Thomas H. Fine ...
    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    Previously reported results of sensory-deprivation experiences, of which flotation REST is an instance, were dramatic, generally negative and ultimately unreliable. This book offers controlled systematic research on the effects of flotation REST. The papers in this collection were chosen from those presented at the first three international conferences on REST and fall into several categories. The ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Boom and Bust

    A Global History of Financial Bubbles

    by William Quinn, John D. Turner ...
    Why do stock and housing markets sometimes experience amazing booms followed by massive busts and why is this happening more and more frequently? In order to answer these questions, William Quinn and John D. Turner take us on a riveting ride through the history of financial bubbles, visiting, among other places, Paris and London in 1720, Latin America in the 1820s, Melbourne in the 1880s, New York ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • The Mormon Jesus

    A Biography

    by John G. Turner ...
    The nineteenth-century Mormon prophet Joseph Smith published a new scripture dominated by the figure of Jesus Christ, dictated revelations presented as the words of the Christian savior, spoke of encountering Jesus in visions, and told his followers that their messiah and king would soon return to the earth. From the author of the definitive life of Brigham Young comes a biography of the Mormon ... Read more

    $29.59 USD

  • Killing the Buddha on the Appalachian Trail

    Walking On through Self-Doubt and Aging

    by John Turner ...
    JOHN TURNER is a member of the Georgia Appalachian Trail Club board of directors, a Trail Ambassador, a maintainer of a short section of the A.T., and editor of the club’s flagship publication, the Georgia Mountaineer Quarterly. Turner began his career in journalism as a reporter first for the Macon Telegraph and then the Atlanta Journal. He lives, writes, and hikes in the mountains of North ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Rock and Popular Music

    Politics, Policies, Institutions

    Edited by Tony Bennett, Simon Frith, Larry Grossberg, John Shepherd, Graeme Turner ...
    Series series Culture: Policy and Politics
    Rock and Popular Music examines the relations between the policies and institutions which regulate contemporary popular music and the political debates, contradictions and struggles in which those musics are involved.International in its scope and conception, this innovative collection explores the reasons for and ways in which governments have sought either to support or prohibit popular music in ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • The State And The School

    An International Perspective

    Edited by John Turner ...
    There was once agreement that education was too important to be left to politicians; now the view is that education is too important to be left to teachers. Whereas the curriculum and syllabus were previously the concern of the professionals, the government now distrusts these professionals. This has resulted in the Secretary for State assuming massive powers in a series of Education Acts, and ... Read more

    $69.99 USD

  • Labour and Business in Modern Britain

    Edited by Charles Harvey, John Turner ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Industrial Relations
    Labour and Business in Modern Britain (1989) examines the history of labour relations in British business using important empirical research. The study of ‘labour process’ and the dynamics of the labour market are key, and each chapter stands alone as an investigation of an important episode, an important industry, or an important theoretical question refracted through an historical problem. ... Read more

    $43.99 USD

  • Out of Obscurity

    Mormonism since 1945

    Edited by Patrick Q. Mason, John G. Turner ...
    In the years since 1945, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has grown rapidly in terms of both numbers and public prominence. Mormonism is no longer merely a home-grown American religion, confined to the Intermountain West; instead, it has captured the attention of political pundits, Broadway audiences, and prospective converts around the world. While most scholarship on Mormonism ... Read more

    $44.09 USD