Alan J Block

Waiting to Inhale - The Politics of Medical Marijuana

Porsche 356, Guide to Do-it-Yourself Restoration has something for all 356 enthusiasts. Author Jim Kellogg covers everything an individual do-it-yourselfer needs to know to transform a rusty project car to a restored classic. The text is primarily focused for the prospective restorer unfamiliar with...

Masters of Paradise: Organized Crime and the Internal Revenue Service in the Bahamas

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 ...

By Alan A. Block - Talmud, Curriculum, and the Practical: Joseph Schwab and the Rabbis

All Is Clouded by Desire: Global Banking, Money Laundering, and International Organized Crime (International and Comparative Criminology)

Before Enron, before Arthur Anderson, and before Worldcom, there was the Bank of New York money laundering scandal, which hit headlines in 1999. Promising to be one of the most important books on international organized crime, money laundering, and the complicity between legitimate and illegitimate ...

I'm «Only» Bleeding: Education as the Practice of Social Violence Against Children (Counterpoints)

I’m Only Bleeding: Education as the Practice of Social Violence Against Children is an examination of the violence that education presently practices on our children. Using a paradigm steeped in object relations theory and its resulting psychoanalytic practice and in recent research in the burgeonin...

Talmud, Curriculum, and The Practical: Joseph Schwab and the Rabbis (Complicated Conversation)

This book explores the seminal curriculum work of Joseph Schwab in the light of a Rabbinic Judaism to which Schwab did not – even, perhaps, could not – refer, but which Alan Block asserts might be central to a fuller understanding of Schwab’s prescriptions for ‘The Practical’. Using the language and...

Symphony #1 in a Minor Key: A Meditation on Time and Place

When instruments are harmoniously joined together, beautiful music ensues. Just as in a classic symphony, life often occurs in phases, or movements. In his creative comparison Symphony #1 in a Minor Key, literary exegete Alan Block shares his philosophies on four movements reflected in his own life,...

East Side-West Side: Organizing Crime in New York 1930-1950

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 perspec...

Masters of Paradise: Organized Crime and the Internal Revenue Service in the Bahamas

All Is Clouded by Desire: Global Banking, Money Laundering, and International Organized Crime

Organizing Crime

Poisoning for Profit: The Mafia and Toxic Waste in America

Historical Approaches to Crime: Research Strategies and Issues

Historical Approaches to Crime: Research Strategies and Issues

The Business of Crime: A Documentary Study of Organized Crime in the American Economy

The Business of Crime: A Documentary Study of Organized Crime in the American Economy