David Kennedy: 81 books

In this provocative and timely book, David Kennedy explores what can go awry when we put our humanitarian yearnings into action on a global scale--and what we can do in response. Rooted in Kennedy's own experience in numerous humanitarian efforts, the book examines campaigns for human rights,...

A World of Struggle reveals the role of expert knowledge in our political and economic life. As politicians, citizens, and experts engage one another on a technocratic terrain of irresolvable argument and uncertain knowledge, a world of astonishing inequality and injustice is born. In this...

Examining a wide range of ekphrastic poems, David Kennedy argues that contemporary British poets writing out of both mainstream and avant-garde traditions challenge established critical models of ekphrasis with work that is more complex than representational or counter-representational responses to...

Modern war is law pursued by other means. Once a bit player in military conflict, law now shapes the institutional, logistical, and physical landscape of war. At the same time, law has become a political and ethical vocabulary for marking legitimate power and justifiable death. As a result, the battlespace...

Jack Madison was a young mentally handicapped man in Colonial America in the 1690's during the infamous Salem Witch Trials. He was already on the run for a murder that he had committed back in England. Once the hysteria of the Salem Witch hunts started, a young boy came up missing. During the...

Your retirement is fast approaching. It should be a time of celebration, but you have more questions than answers. Will you struggle to fill your days with meaningful activities? Will you lose your sense of identity and purpose? Will you outlive your money? The combination of longer life expectancies,...

Some people will call Wicca a Religion or a cult. But in reality it is neither. I would like to think of Wicca as a family on the journey together to find the true Love and light. The Book of Wicca is a roadmap onto your inner being on a lifelong quest of living that Love and Light. We...

The search for Caylee made front-page headlines when news broke of two-year-old Caylee Anthony's disappearance from her home in Orlando Florida in mid-July 2008. Caylee’s own mother, Casey Anthony stepped into the national spotlight after the suspicious disappearance of her daughter. As her...

Before there was a trial for O.J. Simpson, Jodi Arias, or Amanda Knox, there was Erik and Lyle Menendez. It was the first trial that was televised and America couldn't get enough. They wanted all the gory details of the murders and as far as the public were concerned, the juicer the better. The...

When it comes to America's most famous and notorious criminals, no legend has been larger than real life than that of the robber duo Bonnie and Clyde. The murderous lovers found each other in the slums of Depression-era Dallas and embarked on a wild crime and killing spree - so why is it their...

When Hillsborough County Sheriff's Deputy Lance Knotts' wife, Tampa Police Officer Kasey Knotts, dies in the line of duty, he loses not only the love of his life but also the mother to their two-year-old son Jacob. But like all law enforcement officers, Kasey wrote her, "Open When"...

Grief and mourning are generally considered to be private, yet universal instincts. But in a media age of televised funerals and visible bereavement, elegies are increasingly significant and open to public scrutiny. Providing an overview of the history of the term and the different ways in which it...

The search for Caylee made front-page headlines when news broke of two-year-old Caylee Anthony's disappearance from her home in Orlando Florida in mid-July 2008. Caylee's own mother, Casey Anthony stepped into the national spotlight after the suspicious disappearance of her daughter. As her...

This book offers an original Marxist critique of the European football business. It argues that the Marxist account of the difference between profits and surplus value is crucial to an understanding of the fluid and contradictory nature of the commodification of football. Section one analyses the...