Mark Mullen: 7 books

This book critically examines the link between the language of the Second Amendment and the gun culture in America. Does the Second Amendment guarantee all citizens with the right to own a gun? Is gun control implied in the language used to define the Second Amendment? Are the mentally ill responsible...

Politicians and the media like to tell anyone who will listen that the workplace purposely discriminates against women workers. We are told that female workers earn 79 cents to every dollar that a man earns for doing the exact same work. But is this true? Do companies intentionally pay women less...

Does believing in God require disbelief of science? Does following scientific principles make God obsolete? Is there no place for God and science to coexist in a modern world? When it comes to the creation of the universe, and life in general, you can't have one without the other - at least in terms...

Is humanity out of time on Earth as Stephen Hawkins suggests? Or is global warming just a one-time speed bump in the road for mankind? Either way, the climate is warming. But is man singularly responsible for this? Are there other contributing forces? Understanding Global Warming will explore...

This book seeks to analyse the development of the European Union (EU), which was founded upon the principle of the free movement of capital, goods, services and people in 1957. Its central thesis is that, from a practical and theoretical point of view, such a basis is fundamentally at odds with the...

What I Say: Innovative Poetry by Black Writers in America is the second book in a landmark two-volume anthology that explodes narrow definitions of African American poetry by examining experimental poems often excluded from previous scholarship. The first volume, Every Goodbye Ain’t Gone, covers...

The Winter 2015-16 issue of Ploughshares. Ploughshares is an award-winning journal of new writing. Two out of each year's three issues are guest-edited by prominent writers who explore different personal visions, aesthetics, and literary circles, with the Winter issue staff-edited.   The...