From a small town in Louisiana, a little boy has grown up to now be a grandfather. After surviving a deadly surgical procedure at five years of age, being born to senior parents, suffering the loss of his dad at twelve years of age, learning things the hard way in life, watching the passing of six brothers and sisters, and achieving a successful career that required living in many cities and many different areas of the USA, with so many cultural differences, David reveals his thoughts, und...

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 written with several aims in mind. First, it aims to present the author’s perspective on research interviews...

Innovations and Challenges in Identity Research examines established and emergent issues within identity research.This innovative book adopts a disciplinary transcendentapproach, 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 constructthe components of a poststructuralist/social constructivist approach to identity

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 thought and is associated with the work of authors such as Anthony Giddens, Zygmunt Bauman, Chris Weedon, Judith Butler and Stuart Hall.It then examines how in early SLA resea...

In this incisive and timely book, David Block analyses populist discourse and homes in on 'diagonalism' – the subtle migration of left-wing commentators toward right-wing positions on pandemic policies, free speech and immigration. The text provides a vivid insight into today's fractured political arena, where progressive voices are increasingly aligning with far-right narratives.In this post-truth world, we see how emotions trump facts and spectacle dominates substance. The attent...

"A devastating attack upon the dominance of atheism in science today."Giovanni Fazio, Senior Physicist, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for AstrophysicsThe debate over the ultimate source of truth in our world often pits science against faith.In fact, some high-profile scientists today would have us abandon God entirely as a source of truth about the universe.In this book, two professional astronomers push back against this notion, arguin...

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 recordings of classes, audio logs produced by both lecturers and students, policy documents, students’ written work, a...

Air Traffic Control is one of the most misunderstood occupations in the world, and yet it effects anyone that has ever...or will ever fly in an aircraft. This book tells it all. you will never look to the sky in the same way again.

What if our financial system were organized to the benefit of the many rather than simply empowering the few? Robert Hockett and Fred Block argue that an entirely different financial system is both desirable and possible. They outline concrete steps that could get us there. Financial systems move the worlds savings from investment to investment, chasing the highest rates of return. They run on profit. But what if investment went to the enterprises or institutions that provided things that ...

A collection of legal short stories featuring works by Lawrence Block, Lia Matera, Richard North Patterson, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and others.In this collection of courtroom mysteries, the legal profession is put on the stand by some of the finest mystery writers, both classic and contemporary, such as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Lawrence Block, and Richard North Patterson. From an unusual lawyer with unusual methods, to a conniving attorney who gets the fate he so ri...

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 with a soft ball on a smaller playing field and, instead of a bat, the ball was typically struck by the palm of the hand. There is no doubt, however, that this simpler English version of baseball...

Winner of the Seymour Medal from the Society for American Baseball ResearchWinner of the North American Society for Sport History Book AwardNamed a 2005 Choice Outstanding Academic TitleNamed a 2025Choice Outstanding Academic TitleWhen Baseball before We Knew It was first published in 2005, it shatter...