Implementation Science: A Playbook for Instructional Leaders offers a practical approach to driving sustainable, impactful change in educational settings. Grounded in research-to-practice methodology, this essential guide is designed for district and school instructional leaders committed to elevating student outcomes through strategic, evidence-informed decisions. Dr. Carlson draws on decades of experience in teaching, leadership, curriculum development, and literacy research to ...

On February 22, 2026, the most wanted man in the Western Hemisphere took his final breath in a Mexican Army helicopter somewhere over the mountains of Jalisco.For nearly two decades, Nemesio Rubén Oseguera Cervantes — known to the world as El Mencho — ran the most powerful and feared criminal organization on earth. He built the Jalisco New Generation Cartel from nothing, turning a fractured regional drug operation into a twelve-billion-dollar empire...

On February 22, 2026, the most wanted man in the Western Hemisphere took his final breath in a Mexican Army helicopter somewhere over the mountains of Jalisco.For nearly two decades, Nemesio Rubén Oseguera Cervantes — known to the world as El Mencho — ran the most powerful and feared criminal organization on earth. He built the Jalisco New Generation Cartel from nothing, turning a fractured regional drug operation into a twelve-billion-dollar empire...

Welcome to Lake Nevermore, the adult summer camp where magic, mischief, and witch wine are all parts of becoming a full-fledged witch.Gwen Morales didn’t believe in magic… until she accidentally turned her ex boyfriend into a toad. Now, she’s being sent to witchy summer camp to hone her craft and keep the toad population down. However, being a city girl causes friction with the small-town coven and she decides to cut and run. But when her attempted escape gets her lost, she’s saved...

Welcome to Lake Nevermore, the adult summer camp where magic, mischief, and witch wine are all parts of becoming a full-fledged witch.Gwen Morales didn’t believe in magic… until she accidentally turned her ex boyfriend into a toad. Now, she’s being sent to witchy summer camp to hone her craft and keep the toad population down. However, being a city girl causes friction with the small-town coven and she decides to cut and run. But when her attempted escape gets her lost, she’s saved...

Meet Roy Held in this beautiful coming of age novel set in the hectic wartime era of 1917. As a student at Indiana University, Roy and his fellow classmates face the challenges of family, career, romance, and the imminent threat of military service as the United States joins World War I. Roy encounters the love of his life, Pearl Hoffman. But looming danger of war overseas and a much closer draw of a femme fatale, Rose of Sharon, push him to face choices that shape his destiny, defining his c...

This up-to-date introduction to Griffiths' theory of period maps and period domains focusses on algebraic, group-theoretic and differential geometric aspects. Starting with an explanation of Griffiths' basic theory, the authors go on to introduce spectral sequences and Koszul complexes that are used to derive results about cycles on higher-dimensional algebraic varieties such as the Noether–Lefschetz theorem and Nori's theorem. They explain differential geometric methods, leading up to pro...

This is a highly accessible, comprehensive introduction to item response theory (IRT) models and their use in various aspects of assessment/testing. The book employs a mixture of graphics and simulated data sets to ease the reader into the material and covers the basics required to obtain a solid grounding in IRT.Written in an easily accessible way that assumes little mathematical knowledge, Carlson presents detailed descriptions of several commonly used IRT models, including those...

Welcome to Lake Nevermore, the adult summer camp where magic, mischief, and witch wine are all parts of becoming a full-fledged witch.Gwen Morales didn’t believe in magic… until she accidentally turned her ex boyfriend into a toad. Now, she’s being sent to witchy summer camp to hone her craft and keep the toad population down. However, being a city girl causes friction with the small-town coven and she decides to cut and run. But when her attempted escape gets her lost, she’s saved...

Welcome to Lake Nevermore, the adult summer camp where magic, mischief, and witch wine are all parts of becoming a full-fledged witch.Gwen Morales didn’t believe in magic… until she accidentally turned her ex boyfriend into a toad. Now, she’s being sent to witchy summer camp to hone her craft and keep the toad population down. However, being a city girl causes friction with the small-town coven and she decides to cut and run. But when her attempted escape gets her lost, she’s saved...

Welcome to Lake Nevermore, the adult summer camp where magic, mischief, and witch wine are all parts of becoming a full-fledged witch.Gwen Morales didn’t believe in magic… until she accidentally turned her ex boyfriend into a toad. Now, she’s being sent to witchy summer camp to hone her craft and keep the toad population down. However, being a city girl causes friction with the small-town coven and she decides to cut and run. But when her attempted escape gets her lost, she’s saved...

The writings of J. B. Bury, on subjects ranging from ancient Greece to the 19th-century papacy, are at once scholarly and accessible to the layman. This work covers the period from the beginning of the Roman Empire until Gibbon begins; from Augustus through Marcus Aurelius and the Antoinine Emperors.