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  • The Thirdspace Movement Model

    Connecting Movement with Social Justice

    by Betty A. Block, Kanae Haneishi ...
    Scholars from around the world reevaluated their crafts and came to the same conclusion: There is a way to build spaces that can lead to a socially just world through the vehicle of movement. In Part I, you will be guided through physical space, the philosophical underpinnings of the model, and how to integrate both with your existing physical education curriculum. Brian Culp's chapter discusses ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Anxious Am I?

    A Pseudo-Memoir with Some Fiction and a Bit of Truth

    by Alan A. Block ...
    Following a lifetime rooted in family, schools, culture, and psychotherapy, provoked by the query of a daughter concerning the presence of anxiety in my life, this memoir pursues the presence of anxiety in life and seeks in some context for the concerns with which the author has lived for three-quarters of a century. In the reflections from these situations and influences, he works his way back to ... Read more

    $15.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Great Answers, Great Questions For Your Job Interview, 2nd Edition

    by Jay A. Block, Michael Betrus ...
    The classic guide to acing any interview—updated with critical skills for networking, video interviewing, and researching companiesGreat Answers, Great Questions For Your Job Interview prepares you to answer the trickiest questions and make yourself stand out from the competition. From pre-interview research to follow-up calls, the authors walk you through every step of the process and provide ... Read more

    $11.09 USD

  • Space, Time, and Organized Crime

    by 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 of history, criticism ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • 101 Best Ways to Land a Job in Troubled Times

    by Jay A. Block ...
    THE PROVEN FIVE-STEP STRATEGY FOR FINDING THE JOB OF YOUR DREAMS!“If you are serious about landing a quality job quickly in today’s job market, this book will practically guarantee your success.”–Bob Burg, bestselling author of Endless Referrals and The Go-Giver“Jay Block has taken his place as one of the career coaching industry’s most innovative thinkers and contributors.”—Frank X. Fox, ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

  • Occupied Reading

    Critical Foundations for an Ecological Theory

    by Alan A. Block ...
    Series series Critical Education Practice
    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 the attendant ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Democracy and the History of Political Thought

    by J. David Alvis, Timothy Burns, Mark Blitz, Stephen A. Block, Daniel E. Burns, Patrick N. Cain, Adam M. Carrington, David Clinton, Steven Forde0, Jerome C. Foss1, Douglas Kries2, Sara MacDonald3, William Mathie4, David K. Nichols5, Mary P. Nichols6, Alexander Orwin7, Arlene W. Saxonhouse8, Denise Schaeffer9, Susan Meld Shell0, Sean D. Sutton1, Ann Ward2, Lee Ward3, Catherine H. Zuckert4 ...
    This volume provides a fresh perspective on current democratic theory and practice by recovering the rich evaluations of democracy in the history of political thought. Each author addresses a single thinker’s reflections on the virtues and defects of democracy and the relationship between democracy and other regimes. Together, these essays explore the tensions within the democratic way of life ... Read more

    $45.39 USD

  • Remembering Rosie

    Memories of a Wisconsin Farm Girl

    by Nadine A. Block ...
    Remembering Rosie is about Block's childhood on a Wisconsin dairy farm in the mid-twentieth century. Growing up on the homestead with her parents and siblings was often idyllic. Still, it never stopped Block from dreaming of making a different life for herself despite many obstacles she'd face in trying to leave the land her German great-grandparents settled in the 1880s.Block and her siblings ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Future of Bluefin Tunas

    Ecology, Fisheries Management, and Conservation

    Edited by Barbara A. Block ...
    The most thorough and current account of scientific research on bluefin tunas—the largest, most sought-after tunas in the worldBluefin tunas are dominant keystone predators known for their impressive size, strength, endurance, and speed. Electronic tags have revealed that they can dive to great depths (over 6000 feet) and migrate vast distances—from frigid subpolar seas to warm tropical waters—for ... Read more

    $104.99 USD

  • Cognitive Models of Psychological Time

    Edited by 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 the processing of ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • The Organized Criminal Activities of the Bank of Credit and Commerce International: Essays and Documentation

    In memoriam David Whitby

    Edited by A. Block ...
    face. As myoid boss when I joined the discout market - who had worked as a "bond-salesman" on Wall Street during the "Great Crash" of 1929, through the Credit Anstalt crash, and served in British military intelligence during the Second World War - always used to say: "Remember! The telephone is not a secure instrument. " During the 1960s, foreign banks had flooded into London in pursuit of ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • The Business Of Crime

    A Documentary Study Of Organized Crime In The American Economy

    by 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 activity. Difficult to ... Read more

    $67.99 USD