David Block: 14 books
Pastime Lost
The Humble, Original, and Now Completely Forgotten Game of English Baseball
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2019
Long before baseball became America’s national pastime, English citizens of all ages, genders, and classes of society were playing a game called baseball. It had the same basic elements as modern American baseball, such as pitching and striking the ball, running bases, and fielding, but was played...
by David Block
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2013
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...
Repartir y comparar
La enseñanza de la división entera en la escuela primaria
Language: Spanish
Release Date: September 15, 2015
La enseñanza de la división entera en la escuela primaria y condiciones didácticas que favorecen su aprendizaje en el aula. Este libro pretende que los maestros de educación básica accedan a un conocimiento más amplio y profundo de las condiciones que puedan favorecer el aprendizaje de la división...
by David Block, John Gray, Marnie Holborow
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
This book explores neoliberalism – a view of the world that puts the market at its centre- from the perspective of applied linguistics.
Neoliberalism and Applied Linguistics argues that while applied linguistics has become more interdisciplinary in orientation, it has ignored or downplayed...
by David Block
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2014
Second Language Identities examines how identity is an issue in different second language learning contexts. It begins with a detailed presentation of what has become a popular approach to identity in the social sciences (including applied linguistics) today, one that is inspired in poststructuralist...
Traffic Planning in China - Need for and possibility of integrated traffic planning in the People's Republic of China
Need for and possibility of integrated traffic planning in the People's Republic of China
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2007
Research Paper (undergraduate) from the year 2007 in the subject Geography / Earth Science - Demographics, Urban Management, Planning, Technical University of Berlin, 45 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: Due to the constantly high rate at which the economy of the People's Republic...
Political Economy and Sociolinguistics
Neoliberalism, Inequality and Social Class
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2018
This book explores how political economy intersects with sociolinguistics, specifically how neoliberalism, inequality and social class mediate language in society issues. After the preface, in which the author sets the scene for the content of the book, Chapter 1 is an extensive, though selective,...
¿Al doble le toca el doble?
La enseñanza de la proporcionalidad en la educación básica
Language: Spanish
Release Date: September 15, 2015
Brinda al maestro elementos que le permiten la comprensión de la noción de proporcionalidad directa y un conocimiento sobre cuestiones centrales para enseñarlas: diversidad de problemas, procedimientos para resolverlos, variables didácticas, vínculos con otras nociones, entre otras. La serie...
Blockheads!
Essays on Ned Block's Philosophy of Mind and Consciousness
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2019
New essays on the philosophy of Ned Block, with substantive and wide-ranging responses by Block.
Perhaps more than any other philosopher of mind, Ned Block synthesizes philosophical and scientific approaches to the mind; he is unique in moving back and forth across this divide, doing so with...
The Killing Spirit
An Anthology of Murder of Hire
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 1998
Chilling works of literary noir: “Hopler has tracked down a remarkable number of hit-man stories by a remarkable collection of authors.” —New York Press
This unique collection of writings about hired killers includes stories, screenplays, and even poems—plus an appendix listing hit-man...
How Beautiful the Ordinary
Twelve Stories of Identity
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
A girl thought to be a boy steals her sister's skirt, while a boy thought to be a girl refuses to wear a cornflower blue dress. One boy's love of a soldier leads to the death of a stranger. The present takes a bittersweet journey into the past when a man revisits the summer school where he had "an...
Psychos
Serial Killers, Depraved Madmen, and the Criminally Insane
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2012
This collection of thirty-eight terrifying tales of serial killers at large, written by the great masters of the genre, plumbs the horrifying depths of a deranged mind and the forces of evil that compel a human being to murder, gruesomely and methodically, over and over again.
From Hannibal...
When Your Parent Moves In
Every Adult Child's Guide to Living with an Aging Parent
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2009
So you thought youÆd never have to live with Mom again? Think again. As the population ages, elderly parents everywhere are moving in with their childrenùand changing everything. Making roomùphysically, emotionally, and financiallyùfor an elderly parent can push families to their limits. This...
American Constitutionalism, Marriage, and the Family
Obergefell v. Hodges and U.S. v. Windsor in Context
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2016
This edited volume in American constitutionalism places the Supreme Court’s declaration of same-sex marriage rights in U.S. v. Windsor (2013) and Obergefell v. Hodges (2015) within the context of the Court’s developing understanding of the legal and social status of marriage and the family. Leading...