Books written by David Kirby
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Death at SeaWorld: Shamu and the Dark Side of Killer Whales in Captivity
Naomi Rose's HSUS white paper on killer w hales in captivity is available at w w w .hsi.org/assets/pdfs/orca_w hite_paper.pdf. James McWilliams, “How PETA's law suit against SeaWorld could end factory farming,” Atlantic, ...
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What is a Book?
to quote Wright : Howard's lines are always lodged in a context that has deep roots and wide branches , whereas Wright's float by , like the leaves and birds his eye is constantly drawn to , and can be taken in just as easily .
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Ultra-talk: Johnny Cash, the Mafia, Shakespeare, Drum Music, St. Teresa of Avila, and 17 Other Colossal Topics of Conversation
In The Transformation of American Religion : How We Actually Live Our Faith , Alan Wolfe describes a church service in Los Angeles in which four mud - covered men leap onto a stage and wash themselves off to reveal that each is of a ...
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The House on Boulevard St.: New and Selected Poems
... sweet crude” has gone up, and I think, Light, sweet crude: now there's a nimble turn of phrase, if ever there was one, and then I think of how it was when I went down to New Orleans for my draft physical with my friend Brody Saxon, ...
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Tectonics
Tectonics
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Tectonics: Living with volcanoes and earthquakes
Tectonics: Living with volcanoes and earthquakes
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Get Up, Please: Poems
In comical and complex poems, David Kirby examines our extraordinarily human condition through the lens of our ordinary daily lives.
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Evidence of Harm: Mercury in Vaccines and the Autism Epidemic: A Medical Controversy
Dr. Lucier said that ethylmercury was “slightly less toxic.” But, he added, “the database for ethylmercury is weak, which creates considerable uncertainty in risk assessment. Ethylmercury should be considered equally potent.
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The Baltic World 1772-1993: Europe's Northern Periphery in an Age of Change
Kruus H 1939 C R Jacobson Ja Suomi j'a'iimerelth' Embjoen rarmoille, Helsinki, pp. 183—92. Kruus argues that this visit made Jacobson even more hostile towards the Germans and moderates such as Jannsen, who could find nothing better to ...
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The House of Blue Light: Poems
... the feet-apart stance, the firm overhand grip—though if she picked the right guy, which, by the way, I never thought was her senior boyfriend, a disdainful milksop of a fellow more infatuated with his own bland charms than with the ...
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The Baltic and the North Seas
... havet: Verklighetsuppfattningen bland sjömän i långfartunder segelsjöfartens sista era, Helsingfors, Svenska litteratursällskapet i Finland,1996. Royen, P. van, Bruijn,J.and Lucassen, J.(eds)'Those Emblems of Hell?
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Saving the Young Men of Vienna
... someone plays a raga ; the music is beautiful , just as the Krishna people are pleasant if , with the exception of the Spiritual Master , bland . 24 Dining with the Children of Krishna.
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Operation Blunderhead: The Incredible Adventures of a Double Agent in Nazi-Occupied Europe
What was said and discussed in SOE's offices, meeting places and training stations was undoubtedly far more interesting and revealing that the rather bland, guarded language of official correspondence, which is what a researcher has to ...
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My Twentieth Century: Poems
But my personal favorites always were and always will be the crooners and balladeers , the great soul men in their jewelry and shiny suits : Mr. Solomon Burke , Mr. Chuck Jackson , Mr. Bobby Bland , Mr. Jerry Butler , Mr. Tyrone Davis ...
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Animal Factory: The Looming Threat of Industrial Pig, Dairy, and Poultry Farms to Humans and the Environment
In this thoroughly researched book, Kirby follows three families and communities whose lives are utterly changed by immense neighboring animal farms.
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The Baltic and the North Seas
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 ...
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Little Richard: The Birth 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 early 1950s, nobody gave Little Richard a second glance.
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Seriously Funny: Poems about Love, Death, Religion, Art, Politics, Sex, and Everything Else
Can serious poetry be funny? Chaucer and Shakespeare would say yes, and so do the authors of these 187 poems that address timeless concerns but that also include comic elements.
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Little Richard: The Birth 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 early 1950s, nobody gave Little Richard a second glance.
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The House on Boulevard St: New and Selected Poems
Features poems by David Kirby, done in a three-part scheme as the author puts everything together from youth to mixed blessings.