Kirby: 517 books
The Biscuit Joint
Poems
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2013
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...
Jujitsu: Basic Techniques of the Gentle Art
Expanded Edition
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2012
Long before Brazilian jiu-jitsu came to the United States, George Kirby wrote a book that would shape America’s understanding of jujitsu for decades to come.
This seminal primer by Black Belt Hall of Fame member George Kirby is the perfect place to begin a journey toward jujitsu mastery....
by Professor David Kirby
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2011
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...
How to Succeed with Specific Learning Difficulties at College and University
A Guide for Students, Educators and Parents
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
For any adult with specific learning difficulties, going to college or university can be a challenge. From study skills to budgeting, from cooking to relationships, Amanda Kirby identifies routes to success in both education and socially. At the heart of How To Succeed with Specific Learning Difficulties...
Jujitsu Figure-4 Locks
Submission Holds of the Gentle Art
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
“Studying a martial art is more than a five-step learning process; it is a life sequence.” – George Kirby
American Ju-Jitsu Association co-founder and jujitsu pioneer George Kirby takes the next step forward with his new book Jujitsu Figure-4 Locks: Submission Holds of the Gentle Art....
Mockingbird Song
Ecological Landscapes of the South
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2009
The American South is generally warmer, wetter, weedier, snakier, and more insect infested and disease prone than other regions of the country. It is alluring to the scientifically and poetically minded alike. With Mockingbird Song, Jack Temple Kirby offers a personal and passionate recounting of...
A Private Life
Fragments, memories, friends
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
'a reflective, generous and eloquent book.' - Sydney Morning Herald
' [A] gracious memoir.' - Weekend Australian
'Michael Kirby writes with great humour and extraordinary warmth.' - Canberra Times
'[A] charming and oddly moving collection of autobiographical excursions.' - Saturday...
Fantasy Nude Photography
Use Lighting, Posing, and Digital Compositing Techniques to Create Amazing Images
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2014
Of the many different types of fine art photography, fantasy nudes are among the more creative and daring. Since we’re dealing in fantasy, anything is possible. It’s not necessary to travel to exotic locales for a shoot or for that matter, limit yourself to locales that exist at all! With a little...
Poquosin
A Study of Rural Landscape and Society
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
Jack Temple Kirby charts the history of the low country between the James River in Virginia and Albemarle Sound in North Carolina. The Algonquian word for this country, which means 'swamp-on-a-hill,' was transliterated as 'poquosin' by seventeenth-century English settlers. Interweaving social, political,...
Quantum Anthropologies
Life at Large
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2013
In Quantum Anthropologies, the renowned feminist theorist Vicki Kirby contends that some of the most provocative aspects of deconstruction have yet to be explored. Deconstruction’s implications have been curtailed by the assumption that issues of textuality and representation are specific to the...
Death on the Beat
Police Officers Killed in the Line of Duty
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
A former member of London’s MP Flying Squad pays tribute to his fellow officers in a gripping and emotional true crime chronicle of duty and sacrifice.
Dick Kirby of London’s Serious Crime Squad shares ten stories of courage spanning fifty years of crime enforcement in the Metropolitan...
by Kirby Paul Anderson, PhD-ABD, MS
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2017
At the moment of each human’s death, a profound change occurs. The pure-white energy of the soul, the energy of God, given by God, begins a journey away from the physical bonds of the blue planet. The journey is the most important process all humans will ever deal with, yet many, many events can,...
Animal Factory
The Looming Threat of Industrial Pig, Dairy, and Poultry Farms to Humans and the Environment
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2010
Swine flu. Bird flu. Unusual concentrations of cancer and other diseases. Massive fish kills from flesh-eating parasites. Recalls of meats, vegetables, and fruits because of deadly E-coli bacterial contamination.
Recent public health crises raise urgent questions about how our animal-derived...
by Michael Kirby
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
This is the remarkable folk autobiography of a small famer, fisherman and poet from from the South Iveragh peninsula of Co. Kerry, part of Ireland's western sea-board, a region bounded by mountains and unique inits cultural inheritance. Kirby's writing combines description with narrative, anecdote...