Mark Irwin: 7 books

Murder, shipwrecks, running from the law and aBeautiful woman. This is the world of Bobby Rafferty. Bobby Rafferty has escaped with his daughter fromunjust Canadian custody and fled to a safe haven in Mexico.Once there, he finds work with unscrupulous marinesalvagers and unwittingly becomes...

Murder, shipwrecks, running from the law and a beautiful woman. This is the world of Bobby Rafferty. Bobby Rafferty has escaped with his daughter from unjust Canadian custody and fled to a safe haven in Mexico. Once there, he finds work with unscrupulous marine salvagers and unwittingly becomes an accomplice...

**“Writers like T.C. Boyle and Cory Doctorow contributed to this surreal anthology of short stories that riff on our modern surveillance culture.” —**Entertainment Weekly With contributions from Etgar Keret, T.C. Boyle, Robert Coover, Aimee Bender, Jim Shepard, Alissa Nutting, Charles...

Monster: Distortion, Abstraction, and Originality in Contemporary American Poetry argues that memorable and resonant poetry often distorts form, image, concept, and notions of truth and metaphor. Discussing how changes in electronic communication and artificial notions of landscape have impacted form...

Th3K1ng0fK1ng5Tommy is a teen genius who dominates the online world of Call of Duty (COD).In reality, the brilliant but nerdy Tommy is a constant target for schoolyard bullies. That is until the new kid, the athletic Ethan comes to town; a kid who’s dead Grandfather talks to Tommy and guides him...

This unconventional and lighthearted introduction to the ideas of the major Western philosophers examines The Simpsons - TV’s favorite animated family. The authors look beyond the jokes, the crudeness, the attacks on society - and see a clever display of irony, social criticism, and philosophical...

Plato's Euthyrphro, Apology, and Crito portray Socrates' words and deeds during his trial for disbelieving in the Gods of Athens and corrupting the Athenian youth, and constitute a defense of the man Socrates and of his way of life, the philosophic life. The twelve essays in the volume, written by...