David Bowker: 8 books

Struggling author BILLY DYE accepts a commission to ghost the memoirs of Manchester gang boss Malcolm Priest. But Priest soon wearies of Billy and his big mouth and orders his execution. The hitman, RAWHEAD, turns out to be a schoolfriend Billy hasn’t seen for twenty years. So he spares Billy’s...

Mark is a mild-mannered twenty-three-year-old bookseller who makes endless lists about stupid things. His life changes when he reestablishes contact with his old girlfriend, Caro. At seventeen, Caro was an implausibly sexy, promiscuous, druggy big-mouth. Six years later, she's exactly the same and...

"If the varying tones of gritty crime procedural, black comedy and gothic grand guignol sometimes clash, readers (those with strong stomachs, anyway) will be having too much fun to care." - Publishers Weekly Manchester, England. Death stalks these streets in the form of a hired killer...

HOW TO BE BAD: A NOVEL MARK is a 28 year old bookseller who is in constant touch with his feelings. His whole identity is based on being a pleasant, non-threatening metrosexual who drinks in moderation, respects women and makes endless lists about stupid things. Although outwardly a modern...

For struggling author Billy Dye, ghost writing the memoirs of Manchester gangster Malcolm Priest seems like a great way to make a quick buck, but when Priest tires of the wry writer he hires a vicious hitman to take him out. When the assassin--named Rawhead--turns out to be a schoolfriend he hasn't...

Episodes in the history of data, from early modern math problems to today's inescapable “dataveillance,” that demonstrate the dependence of data on culture. We live in the era of Big Data, with storage and transmission capacity measured not just in terabytes but in petabytes (where peta-...

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...

Over the past several decades, colleges and universities in the United States and United Kingdom have made significant commitments to increasing diversity, most notably regarding race and gender. The result has not, however, been an amelioration of conflict over matters of difference. Instead, there...