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SPACE, TIME, AND ORGANIZED CRIME

ALAN A. BLOCK

Most research on organized crime reveals only a limited sense of its history. Our understanding suffers as a result. Space, Time, and Organized Crime shows how arguments about the sources, consequences, and extent of crime are distorted as a consequence of crude empiricism. Originally published in Europe in 1991 as Perspectives on Organizing Crime, this book is a timely blend o...

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A SECOND CHANCE

JUDGE FREDERIC BLOCK

A sitting federal judge’s lively and provocative recounting of six cases, to make the argument for revisiting overly punitive sentences Murderous mafia capos. The police officer who brutalized Abner Louima. A purveyor of child pornography. These are some of the defendants to have come before U.S. District Court Judge Frederic Block to ask for reductions in their prison sentence...

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INTERVIEWS IN APPLIED LINGUISTICS

DAVID BLOCK

This book is a personal reflection on research interviews. Written as an autobiography, it invites the reader to accompany the author on his personal journey of over three decades of research carried out on a range of topics in a range of contexts. It mixes academic genres, moving back and forth between life-story telling and more standard academic writing. This book has been w...

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BANNERS OF LONGING

ED BLOCK

Banners of Longing is a collection of sixty-four reflective and religious poems divided into four categories: Seasons, Sinners, Personae, and Meditations. These poems will move, console, inspire, and enlighten the reader prepared to appreciate religious and reflective verse. The poems in this collection examine everyday experiences, events, and perceptions in the light of faith...

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BANNERS OF LONGING

ED BLOCK

Banners of Longing is a collection of sixty-four reflective and religious poems divided into four categories: Seasons, Sinners, Personae, and Meditations. These poems will move, console, inspire, and enlighten the reader prepared to appreciate religious and reflective verse. The poems in this collection examine everyday experiences, events, and perceptions in the light of faith...

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OCCUPIED READING

ALAN A. BLOCK

Today's growing national concern about education centers on the paramount importance of teaching reading and writing. This volume offers a rigorous examination of reading and the pedagogy of reading critically. The book examines the crucial role of reading in the education of the child for the year 2000 and explores the history of reading and readers in America while surveying ...

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DISCURSIVE DISRUPTION, POPULIST COMMUNICATION AND DEMOCRACY

ELENA BLOCK

In Discursive Disruption, Populist Communication and Democracy, Elena Block explores the links between declining democratic discourses, populist communication, and reflects on the communicative and moral dimensions of populism. Block proposes the concept of discursive disruption to help to identify, analyze and understand the disruptive power of populist speech, turning to the ...

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MYSTICISM IN THE THEATER

TOM BLOCK

Mysticism in the Theater introduces theater makers to the power and possibility of using historical mystical ideas to influence all aspects of a production. Historical mysticism represents ideas developed by recognized spiritual thinkers in all religions and time periods: individuals who stilled their ego, and perceived the unity of all, hidden within the apparent multiplicity ...

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INNOVATIONS AND CHALLENGES IN IDENTITY RESEARCH

DAVID BLOCK

Innovations and Challenges in Identity Research examines established and emergent issues within identity research. This innovative book adopts a disciplinary transcendent approach, drawing on a range of social science, humanities and human science disciplines on the way to a detailed consideration of: the history of identity as a construct the components of a poststructuralist/...

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UNIT OPERATIONS IN WINERY, BREWERY, AND DISTILLERY DESIGN

DAVID E. BLOCK / KONRAD V. MILLER

Unit Operations in Winery, Brewery, and Distillery Design focuses on process design for wineries, breweries, and distilleries; and fills the need for a title that focuses on the challenges inherent to specifying and building alcoholic beverage production facilities. This text walks through the process flow of grapes to wine, grain to beer, and wine and beer to distilled spirits...

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FOUNDERS AND ORGANIZATIONAL DEVELOPMENT

STEPHEN BLOCK / KATRINA MILLER-STEVENS

Founders and Organizational Development: The Etiology and Theory of Founder’s Syndrome is designed to help today’s researchers, faculty, students and practitioners become familiar with the etiology and dynamics of Founder’s Syndrome as an organizational condition challenging nonprofit/nongovernmental, social enterprise, and for-profit and publicly traded organizations. The book...

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EUROPEANIZATION AND TERRITORIAL POLITICS IN SMALL EUROPEAN UNITARY STATES

NADIA E. BROWN / RAY BLOCK JR. / CHRISTOPHER STOUT

The book addresses the impact of the European Union (EU) on subnational mobilization in small unitary states. Located at the intersection of contributions from the literatures on multilevel governance and Europeanization, this book offers a new theoretical framework to account for state rescaling processes in small unitary states. By means of a comparative analysis of eight sma...

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THE POLITICS OF PROTEST

NADIA E. BROWN / RAY BLOCK JR. / CHRISTOPHER STOUT

This collection provides a deep engagement with the political implication of Black Lives Matter. This book covers a broad range of topics using a variety of methods and epistemological approaches. In the twenty-first century, the killings of Black Americans have sparked a movement to end the brutality against Black bodies. In 2013, #BlackLivesMatter would become a movement-buil...

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THE SECRET LIFE OF ENGLISH-MEDIUM INSTRUCTION IN HIGHER EDUCATION

DAVID BLOCK / SARAH KHAN

This volume explores the inner-workings of English-medium instruction (EMI) in higher education (HE) at two universities. After an introductory chapter that sets the scene and provides an essential background, there are four empirically based chapters that draw on data collected from a range of sources at two universities in Catalonia. This includes interviews, audio/video reco...

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THE VISUAL STORY

BRUCE BLOCK

This updated edition of a best-selling classic shows you how to structure your visuals as carefully as a writer structures a story or composers structure their music. The Visual Story teaches you how to design and control the structure of your production using the basic visual components of space, line, shape, tone, color, movement, and rhythm. You can use these components to e...

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MASTERS OF PARADISE

ALAN BLOCK

This is the story of organized crime's penetration of the islands and the corruption of its high officials during the time The Bahamas become politically independent of Great Britain. It describes secret U.S. Internal Revenue Service operations aimed at American criminals involved in Bahamian-based tax scams and similar crimes. Block paints a devastating picture of a symbiotic ...

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FINDING HOPE IN THE TURBULENT CLASSROOM

ALAN A. BLOCK

This book explores the practical and psychological factors that regulate teaching and learning in the classroom, and illustrates how hope and creativity may arise out of unforeseen, non-standard, or turbulent conditions. Written at the intersection of curriculum theory and psychoanalysis, this volume offers an original pedagogical stance that seeks to ameliorate the impact of t...

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CASE STUDIES IN ADAPTED PHYSICAL EDUCATION

SAMUEL HODGE / NATHAN MURATA / MARTIN BLOCK / LAUREN LIEBERMAN

Covering self-contained adapted physical education classes, general physical education programs, and youth sports and community recreation, this book presents a series of case studies of teaching individuals of varied ability and disability in physical activity settings. Outlining realistic scenarios, it encourages an interactive, problem-solving teaching and learning style and...

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THE BUSINESS OF CRIME

ALAN A BLOCK

Members of organized crime syndicates have gained control of key businesses and trade unions through their strategic positions as arbiters of labor-management conflicts and as dispensers of illegal credit. They are managing important sectors of the contemporary marketplace, engaging in activities far more significant than the vice enterprises usually associated with criminal ac...

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WHAT HAPPENED THAT NIGHT

SANDRA BLOCK

She doesn't remember that night. But she will never be the same. One moment, Dahlia is a successful Harvard student; the next, she wakes up from a party, the victim of a brutal assault. Her life veers into a tailspin, and what's worse — her memory of the attack has been ripped away, leaving a cold rage in its wayke. Now, years later, Dahlia is a tattooed paralegal suffering fro...

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EAST SIDE-WEST SIDE

WILLIAM GRAHAM SUMMER / ALAN BLOCK

Based on primary source documents, this historical study establishes the interconnections between private violence and political, social, and economic life in New York from 1930-1950. By describing and analyzing both the social world and social system of organized crime, Block provides a new perspective, one based on racial and ethnic stereotypes. The book provides a penetratin...

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ROUTLEDGE REVIVALS: TRADE, TRAVEL AND EXPLORATION IN THE MIDDLE AGES (2000)

JOHN BLOCK FRIEDMAN

First published in 2000, Trade, Travel, and Exploration: An Encyclopedia covers the people, places, technologies, and intellectual concepts that contributed to trade, travel and exploration during the Middle Ages, from the years C.E. 525 to 1492. This comprehensive reference work contains entries on a large number of subjects, including familiar topics such as the voyages of Co...

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THE MINDFULNESS-INFORMED EDUCATOR

JENNIFER BLOCK-LERNER

The Mindfulness-Informed Educator moves a growing body of evidence related to the efficacy of mindfulness- and acceptance-based approaches to the context of higher education, suggesting ways to foster psychological flexibility within and outside of the classroom. In the book, professionals across education and psychotherapy will find best practices for teaching, treating, resea...

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STATE OF INNOVATION

FRED L. BLOCK / MATTHEW R. KELLER

The worst economic crisis since the Great Depression has generated a fundamental re-evaluation of the free-market policies that have dominated American politics for three decades. State of Innovation brings together critical essays looking at the 'innovation industry' in the context of the current crisis. The book shows how government programs and policies have underpinned tec...

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POLITICAL COMMUNICATION AND LEADERSHIP

ELENA BLOCK

The long-lasting hegemonic rule of President Hugo Chávez not only involved significant rearrangements in the control of political power in Venezuela but also shifts in the way its citizens constructed, connected and interacted with politics. In this book, Elena Block explores the political communication style developed by Chávez to transmit his ideologies and engage with his pu...

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DESIGNING EVOLVABLE WEB APIS WITH ASP.NET

GLENN BLOCK / PABLO CIBRARO / PEDRO FELIX / HOWARD DIERKING / DARREL MILLER

Design and build Web APIs for a broad range of clients—including browsers and mobile devices—that can adapt to change over time. This practical, hands-on guide takes you through the theory and tools you need to build evolvable HTTP services with Microsoft’s ASP.NET Web API framework. In the process, you’ll learn how design and implement a real-world Web API. Ideal for experienc...

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LIVES THROUGH TIME

J. BLOCK

First published in 1983. The theme of this study is the importance of studying personality development and personality change in a differentiated way, of identifying and understanding the alternative paths along which people evolve over time. The time is adolescence, with its implications for the life that is later led. And the method is longitudinal. an approach that can respo...

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PRESURGICAL PSYCHOLOGICAL SCREENING IN CHRONIC PAIN SYNDROMES

ANDREW R. BLOCK

Pain is an unfortunate daily experience for many individuals. Chronic pain -- lasting six or more months -- is suffered by approximately 30% of the population in the United States. These individuals wake up, function during the day and go to sleep, trying to keep pain at a minimum while, at the same time, maintaining some quality of life. They may make frequent visits to the do...

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COGNITIVE MODELS OF PSYCHOLOGICAL TIME

RICHARD A. BLOCK

This volume critically reviews cognitive models of psychological time in order to clarify and enrich what is known about the temporal aspects of cognitive processes. Concentrating on how adult humans experience, remember, and construct time, chapters survey recent work on such topics as mental representations of time, timing in movement sequences, time and timing in music, and ...

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SOCIAL CLASS IN APPLIED LINGUISTICS

DAVID BLOCK

In this ground breaking new book David Block proposes a new working definition of social class in applied linguistics. Traditionally, research on language and identity has focused on aspects such as race, ethnicity, nationality, gender, religion and sexuality. Political economy, and social class, as an identity inscription, have been undervalued. This book argues that increasin...

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