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Product Description: From the New York Times bestselling author of Evidence of Harm and Animal Factory—a groundbreaking scientific thriller that exposes the dark side of SeaWorld, America’s most beloved marine mammal park   Death at SeaWorld centers on the battle with the multimillion-dollar marine park industry over the controversial and even lethal ramifications of keeping killer whales in captivity...read more
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9781250002020 | St Martins Pr, July 17, 2012, cover price $26.99 | About this edition: From the New York Times bestselling author of Evidence of Harm and Animal Factory—a groundbreaking scientific thriller that exposes the dark side of SeaWorld, America’s most beloved marine mammal park   Death at SeaWorld centers on the battle with the multimillion-dollar marine park industry over the controversial and even lethal ramifications of keeping killer whales in captivity.

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Product Description: A brilliant new biography of the extraordinary, outrageous performer who helped open the floodgates of Rock'n'Roll In June, 2007, Little Richard's 1955 Specialty Records single, "Tutti Frutti," topped Mojo magazine's list of "100 Records That Changed the World...read more
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Hardcover:

9780826429650 | Continuum Intl Pub Group, November 2, 2009, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: This book is a concise, evocative, and thoroughly researched study of one of the great rock'n'roll pioneers.

Paperback:

9781441194060 | Reprint edition (Continuum Intl Pub Group, November 3, 2011), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: A brilliant new biography of the extraordinary, outrageous performer who helped open the floodgates of Rock'n'Roll In June, 2007, Little Richard's 1955 Specialty Records single, "Tutti Frutti," topped Mojo magazine's list of "100 Records That Changed the World.

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Product Description: Swine flu. Bird flu. Massive fish kills. Concentrations of cancer and other diseases. Recalls of contaminated meats, fruits, and vegetables.Recent public health crises raise urgent questions about how our animal-derived food is raised and brought to market...read more
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Hardcover:

9780312380588 | 1 edition (St Martins Pr, March 2, 2010), cover price $26.99 | About this edition: Swine flu.

Paperback:

9780312671747 | Griffin, March 15, 2011, cover price $17.99 | About this edition: Swine flu.

CD/Spoken Word:

9781441739704 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, March 2, 2010), cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Swine flu, bird flu, unusual concentrations of cancer, food recalls due to deadly E.
9781441739711 | Mp3 una edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, March 2, 2010), cover price $44.95 | About this edition: Swine flu, bird flu, unusual concentrations of cancer, food recalls due to deadly E.

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Product Description: 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...read more
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9780807137710 | Louisiana State Univ Pr, February 2, 2011, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: 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.

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9780807137727 | Louisiana State Univ Pr, February 2, 2011, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: 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.

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Product Description: 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 School and continuing with both marquee-name poets and newcomers, Seriously Funny ranges from poems that are capsized by their own tomfoolery to those that glow with quiet wit to ones in which a laugh erupts in the midst of terrible darkness...read more
By David Kirby (editor)
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9780820330877 | Univ of Georgia Pr, April 15, 2010, cover price $69.95 | About this edition: Can serious poetry be funny?

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9780820335698 | Univ of Georgia Pr, April 15, 2010, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Can serious poetry be funny?

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Identifies a possible link between thimerosal, a mercury-based preservative used in childhood vaccinations, and rising rates of such developmental disorders as autism and ADD.
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9780312326456 | Reprint edition (Griffin, February 21, 2006), cover price $16.99 | About this edition: Identifies a possible link between thimerosal, a mercury-based preservative used in childhood vaccinations, and rising rates of such developmental disorders as autism and ADD.

Miscellaneous:

9781429906197 | 1 edition (St Martins Pr, April 1, 2010), cover price $9.99

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Product Description: David Kirby’s hilarious, poignant ninth collection of poetry opens with Elvis as Virgil guiding us through the afterlife, imagines where the dead go when they die, what they wear when they get there, and whether Heaven or Hell throws a better party.
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9781882295678, titled "The Temple Gate Called Beautiful" | Alice James Books, April 1, 2008, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: David Kirby’s hilarious, poignant ninth collection of poetry opens with Elvis as Virgil guiding us through the afterlife, imagines where the dead go when they die, what they wear when they get there, and whether Heaven or Hell throws a better party.

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Product Description: 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...read more
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9780820329086 | Univ of Georgia Pr, March 25, 2007, cover price $59.95 | About this edition: In Ultra-Talk, David Kirby poses a simple question: What makes a cultural phenomenon truly great?

Paperback:

9780820329093 | Univ of Georgia Pr, March 25, 2007, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: In Ultra-Talk, David Kirby poses a simple question: What makes a cultural phenomenon truly great?

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Features poems by David Kirby, done in a three-part scheme as the author puts everything together from youth to mixed blessings.
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9780807132142 | Louisiana State Univ Pr, March 1, 2007, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: Features poems by David Kirby, done in a three-part scheme as the author puts everything together from youth to mixed blessings.

Paperback:

9780807132159 | Louisiana State Univ Pr, March 1, 2007, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Features poems by David Kirby, done in a three-part scheme as the author puts everything together from youth to mixed blessings.

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Identifies a possible link between Thimerosal, a mercury-based preservative used in childhood vaccinations, and rising rates of such developmental disorders as autism and ADD, discussing the controversy from the perspectives of affected families, the FDA, drug companies, and Congress. 40,000 first printing.
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9780312326449 | St Martins Pr, April 1, 2005, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: Identifies a possible link between thimerosal, a mercury-based preservative used in childhood vaccinations, and rising rates of such developmental disorders as autism and ADD.

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Product Description: The fourth volume of The Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology includes selections from the books shortlisted for the 2004 Griffin Poetry Prizes, chosen by the jurors: Billy Collins (U.S. Poet Laureate 2001-2003), Bill Manhire (New Zealand Poet Laureate), and Phyllis Webb (recipient of the Governor General's Award for poetry), who will also provide an introduction to the book...read more
By Di Brandt (contributor), Leslie Greentree (contributor), Suji Kwock Kim (contributor), David Kirby (contributor), August Kleinzahler (contributor), Anne Simpson (contributor), Louis Simpson (contributor) and Phyllis Webb (editor)
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9780887846991 | House of Anansi Pr, June 1, 2004, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: The fourth volume of The Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology includes selections from the books shortlisted for the 2004 Griffin Poetry Prizes, chosen by the jurors: Billy Collins (U.

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9780914061984 | Orchises Pr, January 1, 2004, cover price $18.95

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Hardcover:

9780807128930 | Louisiana State Univ Pr, October 1, 2003, cover price $22.95

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9780807128947 | Louisiana State Univ Pr, October 1, 2003, cover price $16.95

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Product Description: 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...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780820324418 | Univ of Georgia Pr, November 1, 2002, cover price $59.95 | About this edition: In this study David Kirby addresses the making and consuming of literature by redefining the four components of the act of reading: writer, reader, critic and book.

Paperback:

9780820324784, titled "What Is a Book?" | Univ of Georgia Pr, December 1, 2002, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: In What Is a Book?

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A herd of cows leaves the pasture and boards the train for Paris, donning fancy clothes and touring the city in style before returning home.
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9781563977817 | Reprint edition (Boyds Mills Pr, March 1, 2002), cover price $8.95 | About this edition: A herd of cows leaves the pasture and boards the train for Paris, donning fancy clothes and touring the city in style before returning home.

School and Library:

9781878093110 | Boyds Mills Pr, September 1, 1991, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: A herd of cows leaves the pasture and boards the train for Paris, donning fancy clothes and touring the city in style before returning home

Reinforced:

9780606244121 | Demco Media, September 1, 2002, cover price $17.27 | About this edition: A herd of cows leaves the pasture and boards the train for Paris, donning fancy clothes and touring the city in style before returning home.

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Written by an experienced entrepreneurship researcher, trainer and consultant, this text is about the application of theory to practice.
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9780077098582 | McGraw-Hill Education, July 1, 2002, cover price $71.80 | About this edition: Written by an experienced entrepreneurship researcher, trainer and consultant, this text is about the application of theory to practice.

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9780914061878 | Orchises Pr, October 1, 2001, cover price $45.00

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9780914061885 | Orchises Pr, October 1, 2001, cover price $12.95

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9780807126172 | Louisiana State Univ Pr, November 1, 2000, cover price $16.95

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9780807126165 | Louisiana State Univ Pr, November 1, 2000, cover price $22.50

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9780750621298 | Butterworth-Heinemann, February 1, 2000, cover price $29.95

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Amazon.com Review: Irreverent! That's why I love these poems. They grab the edges of things that aren't "polite " to talk about and shake them until the dust flies. The poems cavort from the "Ode to Languor, " in which the speaker eulogizes his father's lack of Eros for other women and his wife, to "The Physics of Heaven " and "The Physics of Hell " which respectively contain all your beloved dead pets (even the ones you didn't get around to naming) and the boy who lied that he was sick just so he wouldn't have to go to your 12th birthday party (plus all the pets that died due to your neglect)...read more
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9780914061489 | Orchises Pr, July 1, 1995, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Amazon.

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Product Description: This work presents a comprehensive treatment of the entire construction materials management process, examining the many cost tradeoffs between materials functions. It discusses how to manage construction materials efficiently by implementing measures such as data management, Total Quality Management, process control, electronic data interchange, and bar coding...read more
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9780824793609 | Marcel Dekker Inc, March 1, 1995, cover price $170.00 | About this edition: This work presents a comprehensive treatment of the entire construction materials management process, examining the many cost tradeoffs between materials functions.

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Product Description: This text, part of the "Literature and Life" series, provides a study of American novelist and poet Herman Melville (1819-1891), author of works such as "Moby Dick" and "Billy Budd". It gives an account of his life and work, and is complemented by a chronology, bibliography and index...read more
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9780826406088 | Continuum Intl Pub Group, October 1, 1993, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: This text, part of the "Literature and Life" series, provides a study of American novelist and poet Herman Melville (1819-1891), author of works such as "Moby Dick" and "Billy Budd".

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Product Description: Hoofing about at the Louvre, dining at Maxim's, savoring all the glittering sights--when the cows grow tired of the fields, they decide to take a holiday--in Paris! The whimsical humor of the text plus the freewheeling art add up to a very special picture book. Full color.
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9781563970016 | Poster edition (Boyds Mills Pr, September 1, 1991), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Hoofing about at the Louvre, dining at Maxim's, savoring all the glittering sights--when the cows grow tired of the fields, they decide to take a holiday--in Paris!

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Tells the stories of people who faced difficult choices involving marriage, education, work and debt
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9780131556232 | 1 edition (Ellis Horwood Ltd, September 1, 1989), cover price $65.95 | About this edition: Tells the stories of people who faced difficult choices involving marriage, education, work and debt

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