John Irwin: 18 books
The Jail
Managing the Underclass in American Society
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2013
Combining extensive interviews with his own experience as an inmate, John Irwin constructs a powerful and graphic description of the big-city jail. Unlike prisons, which incarcerate convicted felons, jails primarily confine arrested persons not yet charged or convicted of any serious crime. Irwin...
The Bear Hunter
The Search for Rangers' Nine-in-a-Row Heroes
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
The Bear Hunter is the fascinating and unlikely seven-year story of one football fan's devotion to his team. In 2009, John Irwin began a mission to track down every one of the 86 players who featured in Rangers' nine league title wins between 1988 and 1997 and have them sign his favourite strip. From...
Lifers
Seeking Redemption in Prison
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2010
John Irwin writes about prisons from an unusual academic perspective. Before receiving a Ph.D. in sociology, he served five years in a California state penitentiary for armed robbery. This is his sixth book on imprisonment – an ethnography of prisoners who have served more than twenty years in a...
by John Irwin
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
A fresh Sharon Stone approach. This book is your ultimate resource for Sharon Stone. Here you will find the most up-to-date 186 Success Facts, Information, and much more.In easy to read chapters, with extensive references and links to get you to know all there is to know about Sharon Stone's Early...
by John Irwin
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2016
This book is one mans story of engineering and mountaineering. It is an inspirational account of how one young man built his life from very modest beginningswith little money or education, joining the adult world as an apprentice engineer, going on to academic distinction and a great career as a director...
Hart Crane's Poetry
"Appollinaire lived in Paris, I live in Cleveland, Ohio"
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2011
In one of his letters Hart Crane wrote, "Appollinaire lived in Paris, I live in Cleveland, Ohio," comparing—misspelling and all—the great French poet’s cosmopolitan roots to his own more modest ones in the midwestern United States. Rebelling against the notion that his work should...
F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Fiction
"An Almost Theatrical Innocence"
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2014
"Fitzgerald’s work has always deeply moved me," writes John T. Irwin. "And this is as true now as it was fifty years ago when I first picked up The Great Gatsby. I can still remember the occasions when I first read each of his novels; remember the time, place, and mood of those early...
The Poetry of Weldon Kees
Vanishing as Presence
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Weldon Kees is one of those fascinating people of whom you’ve likely never heard. Most intriguingly, he disappeared without a trace on July 18, 1955. Police found his 1954 Plymouth Savoy abandoned on the north side of the Golden Gate Bridge one day later. The keys were still in the ignition. Though...
Another River, Another Town
A Teenage Tank Gunner Comes of Age in Combat--1945
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2013
Many narrative accounts of men in combat during World War II have conveyed the horrors and emotions of warfare. However, not many reveal in such an intimate way the struggle of innocent youth to adapt to the primitive code of “kill or be killed,” to transform from lads into combat soldiers.
Another...
American Hieroglyphics
The Symbol of the Egyptian Hieroglyphics in the American Renaissance
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
The discovery of the Rosetta Stone and the subsequent decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphics captured the imaginations of nineteenth-century American writers and provided a focal point for their speculations on the relationships between sign, symbol, language, and meaning. Through fresh readings of...
A Gathering Darkness
Thirteen Classic English Ghost Stories
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2016
Thirteen Victorian and Edwardian ghost stories that send chills up the spine and create an atmosphere sure to make the reader turn on an extra light and push up the back of their armchair against the wall.
Set amidst crumbling, ill-maintained churches and imposing cathedrals, on desolate coastland,...
by John Law, Kalpana Shankar, David Hakken
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2016
The fourth edition of an authoritative overview, with all new chapters that capture the state of the art in a rapidly growing field.
Science and Technology Studies (STS) is a flourishing interdisciplinary field that examines the transformative power of science and technology to arrange and...
The Politics of EU-China Economic Relations
An Uneasy Partnership
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2016
This book examines the political factors in the economic relationship between the European Union and China that help to explain the apparent stalling of the EU-China strategic partnership in policy terms. Written by two specialists with long experience of EU-China relations, this new volume draws...
The Intellectual Adventure of Ancient Man
An Essay of Speculative Thought in the Ancient Near East
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2013
The people in ancient times the phenomenal world was teeming with life; the thunderclap, the sudden shadow, the unknown and eerie clearing in the wood, all were living things. This unabridged edition traces the fascinating history of thought from the pre-scientific, personal concept of a "humanized"...
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