**28 speeches and reflections from Indigenous leaders around the worldWisdom for our times, nourishment for our collective, and a pathway forward toward sustainable, interconnected futures**Indigenous worldviews, and the knowledge they confer, are critical for human survival and the wellbeing of future generations. Wahinkpe Topa (Four Arrows) and Darcia Narvaez present and discuss 28 powerful excerpted passages from Indigenous leaders, including Mourning Dove, Robin Wall Ki...

A collection of fun and thought-provoking short stories that center faeries of varying genders and cultures, described by Kirkus Reviews as "a tantalizing taste of trickery and enchantment!"There’s something to be said for starting your first day in faerie boarding school, for chasing a faerie through Chang’an during the Tang Dynasty, for searching for the missing part of your throuple who may have run away with a faerie prince, fo...

In "The Life and Work of George Louis Le Sage," John Playfair meticulously crafts a biography that intricately weaves the scientific achievements and personal philosophy of the lesser-known Swiss physicist and inventor, George Louis Le Sage. Playfair's literary style is characterized by its clarity and rigor, reflecting the Enlightenment ideals of reason and empirical evidence. The book not only illuminates Le Sage's pioneering theories, such as the concept of gravitation through the mediu...

Support colleagues, inspire collaboration, and drive impactful school improvement.Designed for instructional coaches, grade-level leaders, subject coordinators, and team leaders, Teachers Who Lead highlights proven strategies to enhance teaching practices, foster collaboration, and impact student learning on a broader scale.Drawing from the latest research on teacher leadership, school improvement, and real-world experienc...

Mixing urban and high fantasy, the third Streets of Maradaine novel follows the crew of outlaws led by the Rynax brothers as they struggle to save Holver Alley from new threats.An uneasy calm has filled the neighborhood of North Seleth, as the survivors of the Holver Alley fire return to normal, honest lives. But Asti and Verci Rynax and the rest of the Holver Alley Crew know the peace won't last. Josie Holt, once an ally to the Rynaxes, is now working her own agen...

Bringing together the expertise of top evaluation leaders from around the world, The SAGE International Handbook of Educational Evaluationaddressesmethods and applications in the field, particularly as they relate to policy- and decision-making in an era of globalization. The comprehensive collection of articles in the Handbook compels readers to consider globalization influences on educational evaluation within distinct genres or families of evaluation ap...

The role of a lifetime comes with a fake relationship that feels all too real.Billionaire playboy Mateo deLuca has never met a challenge he couldn't handle—until he agrees to be the fake boyfriend of actress Gemma Reynolds.Gemma’s wild public persona is threatening her career, and the role of a lifetime is slipping through her fingers. Desperate to prove her stability, she persuades Mateo to help her save her reputation. But as their staged romance sparks r...

A Crash Course in Statistics is a short introduction to key statistical methods including descriptive statistics, one-way and two-way ANOVA, the t-test, and Chi Square. Each of the five chapters provides an overview of each method, and then walks readers through a relevant example, using SPSS to highlight how to run the statistics and how to write up the results in APA style. Each chapter ends with a self-quiz so that readers can assess their understanding of each...

A single mom. A wounded veteran.How can Kaedon Powell say no to a woman five thousand miles away from her daughter?He’s had enough responsibility to last a lifetime, so when the eight-year-old next door asks for help, he’s reluctant to step in, especially since her grandmother doesn’t like him on sight. But the girl’s mother is in Germany as part of her tour. As a vet, he knows what it means to be military. He steps up.Neurosurgical nurse Holly Mill...

Her fight is fierce. Her love, unbreakable.It’s the word no one wants to hear. Cancer. For Celia Milbourne, the diagnosis shatters her world in an instant, sending icy dread coursing through her veins and lodging in her heart like unmovable stone. But she refuses to let fear define her. She has a daughter who needs her—and a life still worth fighting for.Determined to wage war against ovarian cancer, Celia must balance grueling treatments w...

This book brings together expert opinions from scientists to consider the evidence for climate change and its impacts on ticks and tick-borne infections. It considers what is meant by 'climate change', how effective climate models are in relation to ecosystems, and provides predictions for changes in climate at global, regional and local scales relevant for ticks and tick-borne infections. It examines changes to tick distribution and the evidence that climate change is responsible. The eff...

The world has fallen out of energetic balance. In the Deep South there is a remedy that is both powerful and dangerous—witches.At the peak of summer, Nina is living a fast-paced life in New York City. But when the earth's gravitational pull activates a gene—making her and a few others capable of magic—she is called to duty in southern Louisiana to lead a coven of witches and restore balance to the world through magic. By autumn, witches are turning up dead and she has but one choic...