Author: David Kirby
Publisher: St. Martin’s Griffi
Keywords: epidemic, medical, controversy, autism, vaccines, harm, mercury, evidence
Number of Pages: 512
Published: 2006-02-21
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0312326459
ISBN-13: 9780312326456

Avoiding hyperbole while writing about a possible medical catastrophe is no easy task, but David Kirby has created a fine balance of investigative and personal detail in Evidence of Harm. Combining stories from the parents of autistic children with reports, speeches and studies from researchers, pediatricians and government officials, he creates a picture that is as terrifying as anything dreamed up by Hitchcock. The topic at hand is determining whether high levels of organic mercury present in an inexpensive preservative used in vaccinations can cause either autism or autism-like symptoms. K

Author: David Kirby
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: concise, histories, cambridge, finland, history
Number of Pages: 362
Published: 2006-07-24
List price: $84.99
ISBN-10: 052183225X
ISBN-13: 9780521832250

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 whose inhabitants still earned a living from farming fifty years ago, but which today is one of the most prosperous members of the European Union. He shows how this small country was able not only to survive in peace and war but also to preserve and develop its own highly distinctive identity, neith

Author: David Kirby
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: concise, histories, cambridge, finland, history
Number of Pages: 362
Published: 2006-07-24
List price: $26.99
ISBN-10: 0521539897
ISBN-13: 9780521539890

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 whose inhabitants still earned a living from farming fifty years ago, but which today is one of the most prosperous members of the European Union. He shows how this small country was able not only to survive in peace and war but also to preserve and develop its own highly distinctive identity, neith

Author: David Kirby
Publisher: St. Martin’s Press
Keywords: poultry, farms, humans, environment, dairy, pig, looming, threat, industrial, factory
Number of Pages: 512
Published: 2010-03-02
List price: $26.99
ISBN-10: 0312380585
ISBN-13: 9780312380588

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 food is raised and brought to market. In Animal Factory, bestselling investigative journalist David Kirby exposes the powerful business and political interests behind large-scale factory farms, and tracks the far-reaching fallout that contaminates our air, land, water, and food.  In this thoroughly re

Author: David Kirby
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Keywords: book
Number of Pages: 200
Published: 2002-11-01
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0820324787
ISBN-13: 9780820324784

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 opinions as products of "real" life as much as academic exercise. Among the ideas animating the book are Kirby’s beliefs that "devotion is more important than dissection" and "practice is more important than theory."Covering an impressive range of writers--from Emerson, Poe, and Melville to Jame

Authors:Kenneth H.Baldwin, David K.Kirby,
Publisher: Duke University Press
Keywords: american, fiction, theme, variations, community, individual
Number of Pages: 239
Published: 1975
List price: $44.95
ISBN-10: 0822303191
ISBN-13: 9780822303190

Authors:Merja-Liisa Hinkkanen, David Kirby,
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: seas, history, north, baltic
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 2000-03-07
List price: $110.00
ISBN-10: 0415132827
ISBN-13: 9780415132824

The Baltic and North Seas are great seafaring regions with rich and varied histories, intricately linked by maritime trade for centuries. Drawing on the enormous variety of maritime experience in the region, this book challenges the assertion that there was a common maritime culture on the shores of these northern seas. In a region suffering tortuous extremes of climate, the rich and varied history is a consequence of the enormous adaptability of its peoples.Commencing with the end of the Ice Age, The Baltic and North Seas includes coverage of the power struggles of the region from the early