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  • A Concise History of Finland by Kirby, David
    David Kirby

    A Concise History of Finland

    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...
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  • A Concise History of Finland by Kirby, David
    David Kirby

    A Concise History of Finland

    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...
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  • Animal Factory: The Looming Threat of Industrial Pig, Dairy, and Poultry Farms to Humans and the Environment by Kirby, David
    David Kirby

    Animal Factory: The Looming Threat of Industrial Pig, Dairy, and Poultry Farms to Humans and the Environment

    Swine flu. Bird flu. Massive fish kills. Concentrations of cancer and other diseases. Recalls of contaminated meats, fruits, and vegetables. Recent public health crises raise urgent questions about how our animal-derived food is raised and brought to market. In Animal Factory, bestselling investigative journalist...
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  • Crossroad: Artist, Audience, and the Making of American Music by Kirby, David
    David Kirby

    Crossroad: Artist, Audience, and the Making of American Music

    From John Henry and "The House of the Rising Sun" to Elvis, the Beatles, Nirvana, and the turntable revolution, David Kirby traces the complex relationship between artist, audience, time, and place in the making of America's rich musical tradition.Author: David KirbyISBN-10: 1941561020ISBN-13: 9781941561027Publisher: New...
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  • Death at Seaworld: Shamu and the Dark Side of Killer Whales in Captivity by Kirby, David
    David Kirby

    Death at Seaworld: 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 SeaWorld, America's most beloved marine mammal park Death at SeaWorld centers on the battle with the multimillion-dollar marine park industry over...
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  • Evidence of Harm: Mercury in Vaccines and the Autism Epidemic: A Medical Controversy by Kirby, David
    David Kirby

    Evidence of Harm: 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 coincided with the addition of several new shots to the nation's already crowded vaccination schedule, grouped together...
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  • Get Up, Please: Poems by Kirby, David
    David Kirby

    Get Up, Please: Poems

    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...
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  • Get Up, Please: Poems by Kirby, David
    David Kirby

    Get Up, Please: Poems

    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...
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  • Help Me, Information: Poems by Kirby, David
    David Kirby

    Help Me, Information: Poems

    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 mind does on a good day, puddle-jumping from one topic to another and then coming in for...
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  • Help Me, Information: Poems by Kirby, David
    David Kirby

    Help Me, Information: Poems

    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 mind does on a good day, puddle-jumping from one topic to another and then coming in for...
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  • Little Richard by Kirby, David
    David Kirby

    Little Richard

    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 the...
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  • Little Richard: The Birth of Rock 'n' Roll by Kirby, David
    David Kirby

    Little Richard: 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 1955 Specialty Records single, "Tutti Frutti," topped Mojo magazine's list of "100 Records That Changed the World." But back in the...
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  • More Than This: Poems by Kirby, David
    David Kirby

    More Than This: Poems

    More Than This, like David Kirby's previous acclaimed collections, is shot through with the roadhouse fervor of early rock 'n' roll. Yet these rollicking poems also contain an oceanic feeling more akin to the great symphonies of Europe than the two-minute singles of Little...
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  • More Than This: Poems by Kirby, David
    David Kirby

    More Than This: Poems

    More Than This, like David Kirby's previous acclaimed collections, is shot through with the roadhouse fervor of early rock 'n' roll. Yet these rollicking poems also contain an oceanic feeling more akin to the great symphonies of Europe than the two-minute singles of Little...
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  • Saving the Young Men of Vienna by Kirby, David
    David Kirby

    Saving the Young Men of Vienna

    Winner of the 1987 Brittingham Prize in PoetryAuthor: David KirbyISBN-10: 0299112241ISBN-13: 9780299112240Publisher: University of Wisconsin PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/15/1987Pages: 82Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.39lbsSize: 9.12h x 5.08w x 0.34d
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  • Talking about Movies with Jesus: Poems by Kirby, David
    David Kirby

    Talking about Movies with Jesus: Poems

    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...
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  • Talking about Movies with Jesus: Poems by Kirby, David
    David Kirby

    Talking about Movies with Jesus: Poems

    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...
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  • The Biscuit Joint by Kirby, David
    David Kirby

    The Biscuit Joint

    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 and,...
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  • The Ha-Ha: Poems by Kirby, David
    David Kirby

    The Ha-Ha: 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's lawn, but at an agreeable distance and with none of the malodorous unsightliness that...
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  • The House of Blue Light by Kirby, David
    David Kirby

    The House of Blue Light

    The House of Blue Light is the second collection of autobiographical "memory poems" by Catholic-school-boy-gone-bad-turned-poet-made-good David Kirby, a stand-up comic of verse if ever there was one: "in Stardust Memories . . . these wise space aliens who visit Earth . . . tell...
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  • The House on Boulevard St.: New and Selected Poems by Kirby, David
    David Kirby

    The House on Boulevard St.: New and Selected Poems

    The poems in The House on Boulevard St. were written within earshot of David Kirby's Old World masters, Shakespeare and Dante. From the former, Kirby takes the compositional method of organizing not only the whole book but also each separate section as a dream;...
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  • The Temple Gate Called Beautiful by Kirby, David
    David Kirby

    The Temple Gate Called Beautiful

    David Kirby's hilarious, poignant ninth collection of poetry opens with Elvis as Virgil guiding us through the afterlife, imagines where the dead go when they die, what they wear when they get there, and whether Heaven or Hell throws a better party.Author: David KirbyISBN-10:...
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  • Ultra-Talk: Johnny Cash, the Mafia, Shakespeare, Drum Music, St. Teresa of Avila, and 17 Other Colossal Topics of Conversation by Kirby, David
    David Kirby

    Ultra-Talk: 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 monuments," Kirby argues that one qualification for greatness is that a phenomenon be embraced by both the elite and the general public....
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  • Upper East Bride by Kirby, David
    David Kirby

    Upper East Bride

    OUR BOOK OF THE YEAR - "Upper East Bride" by best selling author David Kirby. A must read, original comedy, satire and humor. Rave reviews. - Artisan Book Reviews, 2021 Love, Life and Loss in High Society New York. A Comedy of (Bad) Manners...
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  • What is a Book? by Kirby, David
    David Kirby

    What is a Book?

    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, reader, critic, and book. He discusses his students, his work, and his practice as a teacher, writer, critic, and...
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