Sapphira Gail is dead.What's worse, she's in Pandemonia, cast down to the worst part of this hellscape by a terrifying, mercurial goddess who determines the fate of every being. Sapphira knows she doesn't belong in Pandemonia. So she plans to escape, confront the goddess, and return across the veil, back to the land of the living, to find the person responsible for her death.But the journey is treacherous - Sapphira must travel the Path of the Damned, following it through e...

What am I Questions, Word Riddles, Puzzles, Games, Math Problems, Tricky Questions and Brain Teasers for KidsThis book consists of the best riddles of all time. These riddles are categorized to optimize your attention and reasoning capabilities. As you go along the book, riddles become tougher and more complicated. The easiest riddles are on the first chapter to warm you up. They are followed by the best 'what am I?' riddles and 'what is it?' riddles. These should ...

Bystander Intervention in Bullying and Peer Victimization offers a clear, research-based roadmap for understanding and promoting bystander action in bullying and peer victimization situations. Drawing on decades of scholarship, the authors examine bullying as a group process, the psychological steps behind intervention, and the risks and benefits of defending peers.Central to the book is the five-step Bystander Intervention Model, adapted from social psych...

This Element investigates the process of executive aggrandizement to identify factors associated with democratic resilience. We focus on five democracies that showed resilience in the face of incumbent-led autocratization. To understand how these cases survived, we pair them with similar cases where incumbents successfully dismantled democracy from within. Through structured focused comparisons, our inductive exercise provides insights into how the process of executive aggrandizement unfol...

Written in the style and format of the "New York Times" bestseller "The Official Handbook of the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy," this expose is full of fresh reporting, devastating quotes, scandalous stories, funny sidebars, and forgotten but telling incidents from Hillary's past.

A comprehensive resource on what lockdown drills are, why they are necessary, and how best to conduct them.The first book to offer a comprehensive examination of lockdown drills in K–12 schools, Lockdown Drills balances research findings with practical applications and implications. Schildkraut and Nickerson, school safety experts with complementary backgrounds in criminology and school psychology, review the historical precedents for lockdown drills, dist...

In the more than 30 years since the drug court model transformed the criminal justice landscape, problem-solving courts have expanded their reach beyond criminogenic needs. They now address demographic similarities (e.g., veterans courts, tribal wellness courts, community courts) and offense characteristics (e.g., prostitution courts, sex offender courts). The rapid expansion of problem-solving courts to meet many different individuals suggests this template is appropriate and adaptable to...

South Writ Large: Stories from the Global South is an anthology of personal essays, articles, poetry, and artwork that explores the culture of the U.S. South and its extensive connections to other regions of the world. The collection is composed of articles published over the past ten years in the online magazine South Writ Large, which examines the changing South in its symbolic and psychological complexity to stimulate conversation about the culture of the South at home...

The Varieties of Democracy project (V-Dem) pioneered new ways to conceptualize and measure democracy, producing a multidimensional and disaggregated data set on democracy around the world that is now widely used by researchers, activists, and governments. Why Democracies Develop and Decline draws on this data to present a comprehensive overview and rigorous empirical tests of the factors that contribute to democratization and democratic decline, looking at economic, social, institutional, ...

Meet Ashley: New Age Teacher, Clinician, and Proud Rainbow Wiccan speaking her truth outloud. A woman who has endured trauma and abuse, yet managed to find a way through. Join Ashley as she recounts the darkets parts of her life and how the hard road of the Wounded Healer led her to metaphysical gifts, a grateful heart, and a passion to help all humans discover and reclaim their own beautiful strength. Enjoy the interesting journey from clueless about her own self to a Queer that loves her...

In the decades before the Revolution, Americans and Britons shared an imperial approach to helping those in need during times of disaster and hardship. They worked together on charitable ventures designed to strengthen the British empire, and ordinary men and women made donations for faraway members of the British community. Growing up in this world of connections, future activists from the British Isles, North America, and the West Indies developed expansive outlooks and transatlantic tie...

This book guides parents from the initial “I want to go to drama school’ conversation, through to their child’s first day. This light-hearted but invaluable guide is a must for any parent who wants to help and support their child in achieving their dream of getting into drama school. Chapters include:DRAMA SCHOOL AUDITIONSPERSONAL STATEMENTSTHE AUDITION PROCESSRECALLS, INTERVIEWS & OFFERS...