John Block: 18 books
Holy Monsters, Sacred Grotesques
Monstrosity and Religion in Europe and the United States
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2018
Holy Monsters, Sacred Grotesques examines the intersection of religion and monstrosity in a variety of different time periods in the hopes of addressing two gaps in scholarship within the field of monster studies. The first part of the volume—running from the medieval to the Early Modern period—focuses...
by John Block
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
An intriguing, motivated book explores skipping ropeits history, its health benefits and the good ol ditties we used to sing! Grab a rope, or just skip in place; jump with joy in your heart and bring enthusiasm to your life. Restore your self-confidence, encourage the inner you as you gain strength...
The Wife-Swap Report
John Warren Wells on Human Behavior, #3
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2015
Some years ago, Lawrence Block wrote a successful series of books on various aspects of human sexual behavior. This volume is an examination, through a single detailed case history, of a marriage given over to the exchange of sexual partners.
This was John Warren Wells' first book for Dell,...
Versatile Ladies
John Warren Wells on Human Behavior, #1
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2015
Some years ago, Lawrence Block wrote a successful series of books on various aspects of human sexual behavior. This volume is an examination, through case histories and interviews, of female bisexuality.
One of this book's six versatile ladies sums it up like this:
"When we first...
Florida Happens
Tales of Mystery, Mayhem, and Suspense from the Sunshine State
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2018
When it comes to Florida, no crime is too unusual and no criminal too peculiar to be impossible. Florida is the one state where fiction has to catch up to the headlines, and the contributors to FLORIDA HAPPENS: Tales of Murder, Mayhem, and Suspense from The Sunshine State do not hold back!
Edited...
Different Strokes
John Warren Wells on Human Behavior
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2018
In the early 1970s, with Deep Throat and The Devil in Miss Jones rewriting film history, John Warren Wells hired on to write the script for a high-quality pornographic movie. Originally published by Dell, Different Strokes includes the remarkable script he delivered, the production diary he kept,...
USA Noir
Best of the Akashic Noir Series
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2013
"All the heavy hitters...came out for USA Noir...an important anthology of stories shrewdly culled by Johnny Temple."
--New York Times Book Review (Editors' Choice)
One of Zoom Street Magazine's Favorite Books of 2014
Indie Books Roundup #1 Pick, Barnes & Noble Book Blog
Included...
An Other Kingdom
Departing the Consumer Culture
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
Our seduction into beliefs in competition, scarcity, and acquisition are producing too many casualties. We need to depart a kingdom that creates isolation, polarized debate, an exhausted planet, and violence that comes with the will to empire. The abbreviation of this empire is called a consumer culture.
We...
The Abundant Community
Awakening the Power of Families and Neighborhoods
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2010
" We need our neighbors and community to stay healthy, produce jobs, raise our children, and care for those on the margin. Institutions and professional services have reached their limit of their ability to help us. The consumer society tells us that we are insufficient and that we must purchase...
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...
by Dean Wesley Smith, John J. Ordover, Paula M. Block
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2004
Our seventh anthology features original Star Trek®, Star Trek: The Next Generation®, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine®, Star Trek: Voyager®, and Star Trek: Enterprise stories written by Star Trek fans, for Star Trek fans!
Featuring new stories by new writers and a few contest veterans, Strange New...
by Dean Wesley Smith, John J. Ordover, Paula M. Block
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2003
In the sixth year of its ongoing mission, the Strange New Worlds writing competition has once again sought out exciting new voices and imaginations among Star Trek's vast galaxy of fans. After scanning countless submissions for signs of style and originality, the judges are proud to report that the...
by Paula M. Block, John J. Ordover, Dean Wesley Smith
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2000
Back by popular demand! Our second anthology featuring original Star Trek, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, and Star Trek: Voyager stories written by Star Trek fans, for Star Trek fans!
Our first Strange New Worlds competition drew thousands of submissions and Strange...
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...
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