Kirk: 845 books
The Dignity of Every Human Being
New Brunswick Artists and Canadian Culture between the Great Depression and the Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2015
“The Dignity of Every Human Being” studies the vibrant New Brunswick artistic community which challenged “the tyranny of the Group of Seven” with socially-engaged realism in the 1930s and 40s. Using extensive archival and documentary research, Kirk Niergarth follows the work of regional artists...
Cuba's Forgotten Decade
How the 1970s Shaped the Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2018
The 1970s have largely been overlooked in scholarly studies of the Cuban Revolution, or, at the very least, dismissed simply as a period of “Sovietization” characterized by widespread bureaucratization, institutionalization, and adherence to Soviet orthodoxy. Consequently, scant research exists...
by Dr. Jerome Kirk, Marc L. Miller
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 1985
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 1985
Kirk and Miller define what is -- and what is not -- qualitative research. They suggest that the use of numbers in the process of recording and analyzing observations is less important than that the research should involve sustained interaction with the people being studied, in their own language...
Standing Soldiers, Kneeling Slaves
Race, War, and Monument in Nineteenth-Century America, New Edition
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2018
The United States began as a slave society, holding millions of Africans and their descendants in bondage, and remained so until a civil war took the lives of a half million soldiers, some once slaves themselves. Standing Soldiers, Kneeling Slaves explores how the history of slavery and its violent...
Reading Hemingway's To Have and Have Not
Glossary and Commentary
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2017
Published in 1937, Ernest Hemingway’s To Have and Have Not is that rare example of a novel whose cultural impact far outweighs its critical reputation. Long criticized for its fragmented form, its ham-fisted approach to politics, and its hard-boiled obsession with cojones, this blistering tale of...
by James Plath, Gail Sinclair, Kirk Curnutt
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2019
From Captain Ahab to Yuri Zhivago, discover the most remarkable characters in fiction.
Huckleberry Finn, Anna Karenina, Harry Potter, Hester Prynne . . . these are just a handful of remarkable characters found in literature, but of course the list is virtually endless! But why ponder which...
La Corte di Cassazione
I progetti e l'architettura del capolavoro di Giuseppe Zanardelli e Guglielmo Calderini
Language: Italian
Release Date: January 3, 2016
"Questo volume che sviluppa ricerche ed approfondimenti sui progetti e sulla realizzazione del Palazzo di Giustizia, sede della Corte di Cassazione, sia al ministro Giuseppe Zanardelli che al progettista Guglielmo Calderini perché, come rammenta Vitruvio nei suoi scritti, l'opera di architettura...
Cruisin' the Fossil Coastline
The Travels of an Artist and a Scientist along the Shores of the Prehistoric Pacific
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2018
In this long-awaited sequel Kirk Johnson and Ray Troll are back on a road trip—driving, flying, and boating their way from Baja, California to northern Alaska in search of the fossil secrets of North America's Pacific coast. They hunt for fossils, visit museums, meet scientists and paleonerds, and...
The Sandwich Years
How to survive when the people in your life need you most
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2016
The Sandwich Years is the heartfelt, inspirational story of the bond between mothers and daughters, and how one woman - through caring for the person she had relied on the most - finally found herself.
Alana Kirk, married with two children and a third on the way, often found herself stretched...
by Kirk Munroe
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2013
The Blue Dragon A TALE OF RECENT ADVENTURE IN CHINA By Kirk Munroe
Snow-shoes and Sledges
A Sequel to "The Fur-Seal's Tooth"
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2019
Snow-shoes and Sledges: A Sequel to "The Fur-Seal's Tooth" written by Kirk Munroe who was an American writer and conservationist. This book was published in 1895. And now republish in ebook format. We believe this work is culturally important in its original archival form. While we strive...
Birthing Bodies in Early Modern France
Stories of Gender and Reproduction
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
The pregnant, birthing, and nurturing body is a recurring topos in early modern French literature. Such bodies, often metaphors for issues and anxieties obtaining to the gendered control of social and political institutions, acquired much of their descriptive power from contemporaneous medical and...
by Kirk Melnikoff
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2018
Elizabethan Publishing and the Makings of Literary Culture explores the influence of the book trade over English literary culture in the decades following incorporation of the Stationers’ Company in 1557. Through an analysis of the often overlooked contributions of bookmen like Thomas Hacket, Richard...
Hammered
Heavy Tales from the Hard-Rock Highway
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
Features exclusive stories and encounters with some of the biggest names in rock and metal, including Guns N'Roses, Ozzy Osbourne, Kiss, Metallica, Motörhead, Queen, Sepultura, Alice Cooper, Judas Priest, Pearl Jam, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Fleetwood Mac & Iron Maiden. As one-time editor of Metal Hammer,...