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In What Is a Book? David Kirby addresses the making and consuming of literature by redefining the four components of the act of reading: writer, reade...
Poems
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...
In comical and complex poems, David Kirby examines our extraordinarily human condition through the lens of our ordinary daily lives. These keenly obse...
Shamu and the Dark Side of Killer Whales in Captivity
From the New York Times bestselling author of Evidence of Harm and Animal Factory—a groundbreaking scientific thriller that exposes the dark side of...
An up-to-date political, social and economic history of Finland from medieval times to the present. David Kirby traces the evolution of Finland's dist...
The Baltic World 1492-1772
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 Europe...
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...
The Birth of Rock 'n' Roll
A brilliant new biography of the extraordinary, outrageous performer who helped open the floodgates of Rock 'n' Roll. In June, 2007, Little Richard's ...
Mercury in Vaccines and the Autism Epidemic: A Medical Controversy
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 coin...
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An erudite, fast-talking, visionary, myth-busting black comedy of the afterlife narrated by a hopeful non-believer....
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More Than This, like David Kirby's previous acclaimed collections, is shot through with the roadhouse fervor of early rock 'n' roll. Yet these rollick...
Exploring the themes of the human relationship with the marine environment and the ways in which the peoples of Northern Europe have experienced and e...
Praise for David Kirby "Kirby is exuberant, irrepressible, maniacal and remarkably entertaining.... Okay, let me just say it: he is a wonderful poet."...
How Police and Government Are Trampling Our Liberties—and How to Take Them Back
A revealing book about how government, law enforcement, and bureaucratic interests are seizing our property, our children, our savings, and our fundam...
How Bill Hewlett and I Built Our Company
Much more personal than standard corporate histories, David Packard's The HP Way provides insights into managing and motivating people and inspiration...
Three Poems
The Looming Threat of Industrial Pig, Dairy, and Poultry Farms to Humans and the Environment
Swine flu. Bird flu. Unusual concentrations of cancer and other diseases. Massive fish kills from flesh-eating parasites. Recalls of meats, vegetables...
Johnny Cash, the Mafia, Shakespeare, Drum Music, St. Teresa of Avila, and 17 Other Colossal Topics of Conversation
In Ultra-Talk, David Kirby poses a simple question: What makes a cultural phenomenon truly great? Exploring a wide variety of "king-sized cultural mon...
New and Selected Poems
Poems, 1983–2023
The Winter Dance Party lays out, not someone’s entire life, but that person’s life as a poet. This enthralling, career-spanning book by the Nation...
Selected Early Poems
"Previously uncollected poem by David Kirby plus generous selections from his three first books, Sarah Bernhardt's Leg, Saving the Young Man of Vienna...
Dimension, Multiplicity, and Homological Methods
Winner of the 1987 Brittingham Prize in Poetry...
An Introductory Framework
Neither, strictly, a critical analysis nor a biography, this study can be considered a biography of a career, an examination of the external events an...
Or, Foreign Influences on American Fiction Through Henry James : Essays and Bibliographies
Monism and Quietism in Western Culture
The Charms and Dangers of Social Immaturity
This study examines social immaturity in American culture, describing both its charms and the dangers implicit in the inadequacy of manliness. It argu...
A Master Painter of Marine and Coastal Watercolours
Charts Hardy's life and artistic career....
Hope Amid Hardship
A poignant portrait of a decade of transformative change, chronicling how ordinary Britons confronted crisis, braved misfortune and found their place ...
This work presents a comprehensive treatment of the entire construction materials management process, examining the many cost tradeoffs between materi...
Help Me, Information is propelled by the speed and motion of the poems that define earlier acclaimed books by David Kirby, poems that move the way the...