David Kirby: 28 books
The Biscuit Joint
Poems
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2013
Praise for David Kirby
"Kirby is exuberant, irrepressible, maniacal and remarkably entertaining.... Okay, let me just say it: he is a wonderful poet." -- Steve Kowit, San Diego Union-Tribune
"Kirby's voice and matter (teaching, literature, traveling, rock 'n' roll, everyday bozohood) are utterly personal...
by Professor David Kirby
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2011
Celebrated poet David Kirby says that when he was a boy he wanted to run away and join the circus but never found one he liked, so he invented his own. Many of the poems in his dazzling new collection, Talking about Movies with Jesus, suggest his personal carnival is still a work in progress.
Much...
The Ha-ha
Poems
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2003
A feature of English landscape architecture, a ha-ha is a wall at the bottom of a ditch; its purpose is to allow the presence of cows and sheep on one's lawn, but at an agreeable distance and with none of the malodorous unsightliness that proximity would bring. Similarly, The Ha-Ha, the latest offering...
Animal Factory
The Looming Threat of Industrial Pig, Dairy, and Poultry Farms to Humans and the Environment
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2010
Swine flu. Bird flu. Unusual concentrations of cancer and other diseases. Massive fish kills from flesh-eating parasites. Recalls of meats, vegetables, and fruits because of deadly E-coli bacterial contamination.
Recent public health crises raise urgent questions about how our animal-derived...
Little Richard
The Birth of Rock 'n' Roll
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
A brilliant new biography of the extraordinary, outrageous performer who helped open the floodgates of Rock 'n' Roll. In June, 2007, Little Richard's 1955 Specialty Records single, "Tutti Frutti," topped Mojo magazine's list of "100 Records That Changed the World." But back in...
Get Up, Please
Poems
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2016
In comical and complex poems, David Kirby examines our extraordinarily human condition through the lens of our ordinary daily lives. These keenly observant poems range from the streets of India, Russia, Turkey, and Port Arthur, Texas, to the imaginations of fellow poets Keats and Rilke, and to ruminations...
Death at SeaWorld
Shamu and the Dark Side of Killer Whales in Captivity
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2012
From the New York Times bestselling author of Evidence of Harm and *Animal Factory—*a groundbreaking scientific thriller that exposes the dark side of SeaWorld, America's most beloved marine mammal park
Death at SeaWorld centers on the battle with the multimillion-dollar marine park industry...
Evidence of Harm
Mercury in Vaccines and the Autism Epidemic: A Medical Controversy
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
In the 1990s reported autism cases among American children began spiking, from about 1 in 10,000 in 1987 to a shocking 1 in 166 today. This trend coincided with the addition of several new shots to the nation's already crowded vaccination schedule, grouped together and given soon after birth or in...
by David Kirby
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2006
Few countries in Europe have undergone such rapid social, political and economic changes as Finland has during the last fifty years. David Kirby here sets out the fascinating history of this northern country, for centuries on the east-west divide of Europe, a country not blessed by nature, most of...
When They Come for You
How Police and Government Are Trampling Our Liberties - and How to Take Them Back
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2019
A revealing book about how government, law enforcement, and bureaucratic interests are seizing our property, our children, our savings, and our fundamental American rights—and how to fight back.
Liberty and justice for all is the bedrock of American democracy, but has America betrayed our...
The Baltic World 1772-1993
Europe's Northern Periphery in an Age of Change
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
This eagerly-awaited sequel shares the characteristics of its distinguished predecessor -- wide geographical and chronological span; expert mingling of political, social and economic history; and Dr Kirby's ability to keep the separate national threads of his account from tangling as he weaves them...
Northern Europe in the Early Modern Period
The Baltic World 1492-1772
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
This is the first in a sequence of books which explores the history of The Baltic World and Northern Europe. In this period, Sweden was a major European power, occupying a central position in international politics. Her rise and decline, and the passing of regional hegemony to the new powers of Russia...
The House on Boulevard St.
New and Selected Poems
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2007
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