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North Carolina's Amazing Coast
Fun and learning come together in North Carolinas Amazing Coast, an inviting collection of one hundred short, self-contained features about the flora, fauna, and natural history of …
Biscuit Joint
Praise for David Kirby "e;Kirby is exuberant, irrepressible, maniacal and remarkably entertaining.... Okay, let me just say it: he is a wonderful poet."e; -- Steve Kowit, …
Lab Coats in Hollywood
How science consultants make movie science plausible, in films ranging from 2001: A Space Odyssey to Finding Nemo.Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey, released in 1968, is …
Baltic World 1772-1993
This eagerly-awaited sequel shares the characteristics of its distinguished predecessor -- wide geographical and chronological span; expert mingling of political, social and …
Get Up, Please
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 …
Ha-ha
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 …
Small Firms and Economic Development in Developed and Transition Economies
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 …
Operation Blunderhead
In the autumn of 1942, British Special Operations Executive agent Ronald Sydney Seth was parachuted into German occupied Estonia, supposedly to carry out acts of sabotage against …
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 …
Rumbling Beneath
Will the six graduate students at the mysterious Academy successfully battle the powers of darkness bent on crushing them?In Book One of the Jack Sutherington series, Jack has no …
Help Me, Information
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, …
More Than This
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 …