Welcome to Hell, all ye damned and demented. As a demon living in Hell, Blaze has heard these words every Arrival Day, when the sinful humes are sent from Judgment to be punished for their sins. But when she finally becomes old enough to herd the weak and pathetic-looking creatures into the Arrival Station where they will be branded and assigned to their eternal torment, a freak accident with a celestial being sends her down a path that will make her question everything she's ever...

Welcome to Hell, all ye damned and demented. As a demon living in Hell, Blaze has heard these words every Arrival Day, when the sinful humes are sent from Judgment to be punished for their sins. But when she finally becomes old enough to herd the weak and pathetic-looking creatures into the Arrival Station where they will be branded and assigned to their eternal torment, a freak accident with a celestial being sends her down a path that will make her question everything she's ever...

The HOPE Teacher Rating Scale is designed to help guide teachers in identifying gifted students for programming. It is unique in several ways. First, it is short, with only 11 items that measure academic and social/affective components of giftedness, making it easy to use. Second, it is invariant when used to identify students from low-income and culturally diverse families. Third, it can be used across grade levels, K-12. Finally, local norms ensure that the data are relevant to the speci...

This volume advances scholarly understanding of English Catholicism in the early modern period through a series of interlocking essays on single family: the Throckmortons of Coughton Court, Warwickshire, whose experience over several centuries encapsulates key themes in the history of the Catholic gentry. Despite their persistent adherence to Catholicism, in no sense did the Throckmortons inhabit a 'recusant bubble'. Family members regularly played leading roles on the national political s...

In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic brought the world to its knees. When we weren’t sheltering in place, we were advised to wear masks, wash our hands, and practice social distancing. We watched in horror as medical personnel worked around the clock to care for the sick and dying. Businesses were shuttered, travel stopped, workers were furloughed, and markets dropped. And people continued to die.Amid all this uncertainty, writers and artists from around the world continued to create com...

“Gentry and Ouellette are cannonballing into the reading research pool, they’re making waves, and these waves are moving the field of reading forward.” - From the foreward by Mark Weakland, Super SpellersThe past two decades have brought giant leaps in our understanding of how the brain works. But these discoveries—and all their exciting implications—have yet to make their way into most classrooms.With the concise and readable Brain Words: How the Science of Re...