David Kirby: 28 books

Exploring the themes of the human relationship with the marine environment and the ways in which the peoples of Northern Europe have experienced and exploited their seas, this book reveals how human perception of the northern seas has changed over time. Drawing on a wide variety of sources, from Denmark...

The story of the Tetragrammaton, the supposed true name of God,has been hidden from mankind for over two thousand years.This fictional history of 'The Word' is presented here in three distinct sections. The first section finds a group of guardians treasuring the relic from the beginning of time until...

The shocking true story of three delinquent teenagers who decide to leave the violence at home and school in 1970's Essex. They end up squatting in a disused row of Victorian cottages and make friends with a group of diverse and sometimes dangerous adults.The trio discover that running away from home can give them the freedom they seek but has unseen threats.

The story of a woman's life, from her teens in a Polish Death camp, to her retirement in Jaffa Isreal looking back at her life as a trained Killer. A story about revenge, love and acceptance of life's trials. If we are to understand the past and enjoy the future we must all come to terms with death...

The story of a woman and the baggage she has in her head. A chance meeting on a train leads to a journey through space and time which helps her come to terms with the abuse suffered when she was a child. Who was the abuser, her father or aliens from another dimension? Is her subconsciousness using...

Thomas Sandoski is an ordinary Polish farmer in a loving relationship with a beautiful woman, Sarah, on the outskirts of Warsaw. Although they have no children Sarah's sister, Selene, has many and the two families have much contact. We follow their lives through the late 1930's and the terrible events...

An introduction to my work, Boy Out In Africa is the true story of a gay teenager growing up in a turbilant Cape Town during the 1970s. Bouncing from one shag to another he learns about love, life and death and, in the process, is sucked into the fight for political freedom for South Africa's black...

A new era of political power has arrived, one in which the social media forces of Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter indisputably play a larger role in the political process. In this revised and expanded edition of Political Communication: The Manship School Guide, edited by Robert Mann and David D. Perlmutter,...

Fun and learning come together in North Carolina's Amazing Coast, an inviting collection of one hundred short, self-contained features about the flora, fauna, and natural history of that fascinating place where land meets sea. Each page includes a full-color illustration and breezy, fact-filled commentary...

The contributors are an impressive group of philosophers and literary and cultural theorists.

This title was first published in 2003. Since the late 1970s there has been considerable interest in the role of small firms in economic development in general and employment generation in particular. Throughout the developed world, governments have introduced a range of measures to encourage small...

In an increasingly globalized world, place matters more than ever. Nowhere is that more true than in Appalachian studies -- a field which brings scholars, activists, artists, and citizens together around a region to contest misappropriations of resources and power and combat stereotypes of isolation...

Communication and the Work-Life Balancing Act: Intersections across Identities, Genders, and Cultures offers scholarly research related to work-life balance in today’s environment, with a particular focus on the fields of communication and gender studies. The chapters examine the choices, challenges,...

Operation Blunderhead was a unique SOE project to parachute an agent into occupied Estonia in 1942. The central character was an unlikely hero, and his survival owed more to his ability to spin a tale than to any daring qualities. Blunderhead was the only SOE operation in a country that had been incorporated...