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Death at Seaworld
Shamu and the Dark Side of Killer Whales in Captivity
Av David Kirby
Häftad, 2013
312 kr
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Death at SeaWorld centres on the battle with the multimillion-dollar marine park industry over the controversial and even lethal ramifications of keeping killer whales in captivity. Following the story of Naomi Rose, a marine biologist and animal advocate at the Humane Society of the U.S., Kirby …
Entrepreneurship
Av David Kirby
Häftad, 2002
757 kr
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The text is concerned with the process of developing entrepreneurship – in society and the economy, people and organisations. Throughout, the learning is reinforced by real-life cases, practical exercises and, importantly, the reader’s own experiences.
Evidence of Harm: Mercury in Vaccines and the Autism Epidemic: A Medical Controversy
Av David Kirby
Häftad, 2011
394 kr
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Animal Factory
Av David Kirby
Häftad, 2011
383 kr
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Swine flu. Bird flu. Massive fish kills and filthy river systems. Recalls of spinach, lettuce, and other vegetables because of E-coli bacteria contamination. Eric Schlosser's classic "Fast Food Nation" revealed how our meat is bred, raised, and brought to market. Now, in "Animal Factory", …
Baltic and the North Seas
Av Merja-Liisa Hinkkanen, David Kirby
Inbunden, 2000
3262 kr
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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 …
Baltic and the North Seas
Av Merja-Liisa Hinkkanen, David Kirby
Häftad, 2014
942 kr
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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 …
A Concise History of Finland
Av David Kirby
Häftad, 2006
376 kr
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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 …
A Concise History of Finland
Av David Kirby
Inbunden, 2006
1559 kr
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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 …
Baltic World 1772-1993
Europe's Northern Periphery in an Age of Change
Av David Kirby
Häftad, 1995
1424 kr
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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
Av David Kirby
Häftad, 1990
972 kr
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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 …
House of Blue Light
Poems
Av David Kirby
Häftad, 2000
268 kr
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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 [Woody Allen] …
Ha-ha
Poems
Av David Kirby
Inbunden, 2003
330 kr
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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 …
Ha-ha
Poems
Av David Kirby
Häftad, 2003
250 kr
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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 …
House on Boulevard St.
New and Selected Poems
Av David Kirby
Häftad, 2007
317 kr
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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; from the latter, a three-part scheme …
Talking About Movies with Jesus
Poems
Av David Kirby
Inbunden, 2011
524 kr
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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 …
Talking About Movies with Jesus
Poems
Av David Kirby
Häftad, 2011
266 kr
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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 …
Biscuit Joint
Poems
Av David Kirby
Inbunden, 2013
330 kr
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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 …
Biscuit Joint
Poems
Av David Kirby
Häftad, 2013
250 kr
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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 …
Get Up, Please
Poems
Av David Kirby
Inbunden, 2016
524 kr
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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 …
Get Up, Please
Poems
Av David Kirby
Häftad, 2016
268 kr
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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 …
More Than This
Poems
Av David Kirby
Inbunden, 2019
524 kr
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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 rollicking poems also contain an oceanic feeling more akin to the great symphonies of Europe than the two-minute singles of Little Richard and other rock …
More Than This
Poems
Av David Kirby
Häftad, 2019
298 kr
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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 rollicking poems also contain an oceanic feeling more akin to the great symphonies of Europe than the two-minute singles of Little Richard and other rock …
Help Me, Information
Poems
Av David Kirby
Häftad, 2021
324 kr
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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 a nice soft landing. Colloquial in tone, balancing …
Help Me, Information
Poems
Av David Kirby
Inbunden, 2021
524 kr
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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 a nice soft landing. Colloquial in tone, balancing …
Winter Dance Party
Poems, 1983-2023
Av David Kirby
Häftad, 2024
445 kr
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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 National Book Award finalist David Kirby is made up mainly of new poems along with a generous number of older ones alternating with one another in nine …
Winter Dance Party
Poems, 1983-2023
Av David Kirby
Inbunden, 2024
785 kr
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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 National Book Award finalist David Kirby is made up mainly of new poems along with a generous number of older ones alternating with one another in nine …
What Is a Book?
Av David Kirby
Häftad, 2002
378 kr
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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, reader, critic, and book. He discusses his students, his work, and his practice as a teacher, writer, critic, and reader, and positions his theories and …
Ultra-Talk
Johnny Cash, The Mafia, Shakespeare, Drum Music, St. Teresa Of Avila, And 17 Other Colossal Topics Of Conversation
Av David Kirby
Häftad, 2007
474 kr
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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. Further, he …
Seriously Funny
Poems About Love, Death, Religion, Art, Politics, Sex, and Everything Else
Inbunden, 2010
1414 kr
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This is an anthology of irreverence and humor in the hands of our best poets. 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. Beginning with the Beats and the New York …
