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  • Another River, Another Town

    A Teenage Tank Gunner Comes of Age in Combat--1945

    by John P. Irwin ...
    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 River, Another Town is the story of John P. Irwin, a teenage tank gunner whose idealistic desire to ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

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    Ibn Khaldun

    An Intellectual Biography

    by Robert Irwin ...
    Narrated by John Telfer ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 34 min

    This audiobook narrated by John Telfer gives the definitive account of the life and thought of the medieval Arab genius who wrote the MuqaddimaIbn Khaldun (1332–1406) is generally regarded as the greatest intellectual ever to have appeared in the Arab world--a genius who ranks as one of the world's great minds. Yet the author of the Muqaddima, the most important study of history ever produced in ... Read more

    $18.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • The Jail

    Managing the Underclass in American Society

    by John Irwin ...
    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 argues that rather than controlling the disreputable, jail disorients and degrades these people, ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • The Bear Hunter

    The Search for Rangers' Nine-in-a-Row Heroes

    by John Irwin, Murray Scougall ...
    The Bear Hunter is a unique story of football obsession. Author John Irwin vowed to track down each of the 86 players who featured in the club's nine successive league title triumphs between 1988 and 1997. His obsession took him around the world during seven years of adventures as he turned bear hunter to meet his heroes. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Poetry of Weldon Kees

    Vanishing as Presence

    by John T. Irwin ...
    A study in how a poet’s corpus is remembered after he vanishes.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 Kees had alluded days prior to ... Read more

    $29.49 USD

  • The Politics of EU-China Economic Relations

    An Uneasy Partnership

    by John Farnell, Paul Irwin Crookes ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    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 on the latest research on how each side has emerged from the economic crisis and argues that promising ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Hart Crane's Poetry

    "Appollinaire lived in Paris, I live in Cleveland, Ohio"

    by John T. Irwin ...
    Honorable Mention, Literature, 2012 PROSE Awards, Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division of the Association of American Publishers2012 Outstanding Academic Title, Choice MagazineIn 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 ... Read more

    $33.59 USD

  • Unless the Threat of Death is Behind Them

    Hard-Boiled Fiction and Film Noir

    by John T. Irwin ...
    The noted literary critic delves into the psychology and significance of American hardboiled crime fiction and film noir of the 1930s and '40s.Early in the twentieth century, American crime novelists like Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler put forward a new kind of character: the "hard-boiled" detective, as exemplified by Sam Spade in The Maltese Falcon. Unlike the analytical detectives of ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • And That's That!

    by John Irwin ...
    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 of a large manufacturing concern in South Africa. It is an account also of how that young man ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • American Hieroglyphics

    The Symbol of the Egyptian Hieroglyphics in the American Renaissance

    by John T. Irwin ...
    How the discovery of the Rosetta Stone led to new ways of thinking about language: "A brilliant new interpretation of major 19th-century American writers." —J. Hillis MillerThe 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 ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Lifers

    Seeking Redemption in Prison

    by John Irwin ...
    Series series Criminology and Justice Studies
    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 California correctional institution. The purpose of the book is to take issue with the conventional ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • Teaching from the Thinking Heart

    The Practice of Holistic Education

    Edited by John P. Miller, Michele Irwin, Kelli Nigh ...
    Series series Current Perspectives in Holistic Education
    This book includes papers written by teachers and how they engage holistic education in their classrooms. The papers come from a course taught by Jack Miller at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto entitled The Holistic Curriculum. This is a rich and diverse collection of papers showing how holistic education can be brought into public education despite the ... Read more

    $44.29 USD