Books by William Turner

Who are queers and what do they want? Beginning with such questions, this book traces the roots of queer theory to the growing awareness that few of us precisely fit standard categories for sexual and gender identity. It shows how Michel Foucault's work contributed to feminists' investigations into the ways that power relates to identity.

This vintage book contains an accessible and comprehensive guide to growing melons, with information on common pitfalls, pests, fertilisation, feeding, harvesting, and much more. Written in clear, plain language and full of useful tips and interesting information, this guide is ideal for anyone with an interest in growing melons, and it would make for a great addition to collections of fruit growing literature. The chapters of this book include: 'Soil - Raising Young Plants', 'Muskmelon - Sutton's Emerald Gem', 'Soil', 'Raising Young Plants', 'Melon Culture', 'Planting', 'Setting The Fruit', 'Watering', 'Feeding', 'Gathering the Fruit', 'Insects and Mildew', 'Varieties', 'Melon Superb', 'Gathering the Fruit', etcetera. Many antiquarian books like this are becoming increasingly hard-to-come-by and expensive, and it is with this in mind that we are republishing this antiquarian volume now in an affordable, modern edition - complete with a new prefatory introduction on fruit growing.

William Turner (c.1509-68) was an English naturalist, physician and Protestant reformer. First published in 1903, this book presents the complete text of Turner's groundbreaking 1544 work on birds, Avium praecipuarum, quarum apud Plinium et Aristotelem mentio est, brevis et succincta historia. A facing-page English translation is included with the original Latin versio.