Practical, effective, evidence-based reading interventions that change students' livesEssentials of Assessing, Preventing, and Overcoming Reading Difficulties is a practical, accessible, in-depth guide to reading assessment and intervention. It provides a detailed discussion of the nature and causes of reading difficulties, which will help develop the knowledge and confidence needed to accurately assess why a student is struggling. Readers will learn a fra...

Practical, effective, evidence-based reading interventions that change students' livesEssentials of Understanding and Assessing Reading Difficulties is a practical, accessible, in-depth guide to reading assessment and intervention. It provides a detailed discussion of the nature and causes of reading difficulties, which will help develop the knowledge and confidence needed to accurately assess why a student is struggling. Readers will learn a fram...

Enjoy this anthology of Neo-Gothic fiction inspired by the imagination of Edgar Allan Poe.  Winner of the Paris Book Festival Award – Best anthology of the yearNominated for a Bram Stoker Award – Superior Achievement in an Anthology"Make sure your belt is done up good and tight when you read nEvermore!. It's very embarrassing to have your...

The six volumes in the Black Wings series, from which these "Best of" tales are selected, stand as a monument to H. P. Lovecraft's incalculable and unassailable influence on contemporary weird fiction, and so the time seemed right for a retrospective volume that exhibits the choicest items from the series. The task of selection was not a simple or straightforward one, for every tale in the series had some claim to be chosen; let it then be said that this volume does not contain necessarily...

Modern lives seem littered with expiration dates. Packaging tells us when our food will go bad; when we can expect appliances to cease functioning; when contracts for the internet finish! But as annoying as these small expiration dates are, they fade to nothing compared to the larger events: when a species goes extinct; when a body of water evaporates, or dies because the PH balance alters; when giant icebergs break apart and glaciers melt forever, threatening the ecosystem of this planet....

Experience the shadowy side of Canadian speculative fiction...Tesseracts Thirteen: Chilling Tales From the Great White North uses the mysterious and bewitching volume number thirteen as the editors’ “raison d’être” to select the innovative, thought provoking and disturbing fiction found in this anthology.Unique to this twenty-plus year Canadian literary legacy, Tesseracts Thirteen features 23 Science Fiction, fantasy and horror writers chosen by award-winning editors Nancy ...

GEISTER! GRUSEL! GÄNSEHAUT! Catwoman wird von grausigen Albträumen geplagt, seit sie einen verfluchten Diamanten gestohlen hat, Wonder Woman muss sich gegen ihre untote Mutter zur Wehr setzen, der Pinguin engagiert einen Geisterdetektiv, weil er von Erscheinungen heimgesucht wird, und Batman wird in ein Labor gerufen, in dem Genexperimente an Pflanzen durchgeführt wurden – mit fatalen Folgen. Das sind nur vier der acht unheimlichen Kurzgeschichten in diesem bluttriefenden Horrorband für Fr...

L’UNIVERSO DC… METTE I BRIVIDI! Catwoman è tormentata da incubi raccapriccianti da quando ha rubato un diamante maledetto, Wonder Woman deve difendersi dalla madre non morta, il Pinguino ingaggia un detective specializzato in fantasmi perché è perseguitato da apparizioni e Batman viene chiamato in un laboratorio dove sono stati condotti esperimenti genetici sulle piante, con conseguenze fatali. Questi sono solo quattro soggetti degli otto racconti inquietanti contenuti in questo sanguinoso...

95 Theses on the Reformation of Football: Disputation on the Power and Efficacy of Glocal Football Governance is a timely call for reform, protesting corruption in the beautiful game from local to global.

A perfect blend of medical drama and spiritual insight, Gray Matter is a fascinating account of Dr. David Levy’s decision to begin asking his patients if he could pray for them before surgery. Some are thrilled. Some are skeptical. Some are hostile, and some are quite literally transformed by the request.Each chapter focuses on a specific case, opening with a detailed description of the patient’s diagnosis and the procedure that will need to be performed, followed by the p...

This book of essays, written in honour of Professor David Trubek, explores many of the themes which he has himself written about, most notably the emergence of a global critical discourse on law and its application to global governance. As law becomes ever more implicated in global governance and as processes related to and driven by globalisation transform legal systems at all levels, it is important that critical traditions in law adapt to the changing legal order and problématique. The ...

A perfect blend of medical drama and spiritual insight, Gray Matter is a fascinating account of Dr. David Levy's decision to begin asking his patients if he could pray for them before surgery. Some are thrilled. Some are skeptical. Some are hostile, and some are quite literally transformed by the request.Each chapter focuses on a specific case, opening with a detailed description of the patient's diagnosis and the procedure that will need to be performed, followed by the pr...