Just like a second helping at dinner, Tier 2 provides the additional support students need to truly thrive. In Second Helpings, authors Autumn Mosby, Joshua Depoe, and Nicole Dimich offer a practical, actionable guide for designing and implementing effective Tier 2 interventions within a multitiered system of supports. Gain targeted data analysis tools that shift interventions from reactive support to a proactive, responsive system.Grades K–12 teachers can use this book to:...

The Confederate guerrilla cavalry chieftain relates the history of his daredevil command in this memoir. “No other figure of the Civil War became during his lifetime such a storybook legend as John Mosby.”-Edmund Wilson. Southern Classics Series.

Award-winning novelist Katherine Mosby examines the complex landscape of adultery while depicting a woman's unlikely blossoming in the face of war. Lavinia Gibbs defies social convention and family expectations in New York in the 1930s when she breaks off a passionless engagement to a prominent banker. Instead of surrendering to an invisible spinsterhood, Lavinia moves to Paris, where, on the verge of World War II, her sexual and political awakening collide in an unforgettable tale.

An allegorical tale that teaches core lifetime and business management principles through the life story of a monkey named Pete.Meet Pete. As a young monkey growing up on the safe side of The Hedge, he longs for adventure, fame, and fortune, and eventually leaves the security of his home to explore new horizons. Along the way, Pete becomes a husband, a father, and a business leader. New communities, characters and experiences present opportunities to learn managemen...

Using the insights provided by criminology, sociology, psychology, and other disciplines, Terrorism Inside America’s Borders delivers a multi-faceted examination of the issues associated with domestic terrorism. Some of the issues explored include the similarities and differences between terrorism and other criminal activities, the roles that social institutions and social processes play in the creation and prevention of terrorism, the stages involved in the unfolding of a terrorism disast...

The Rebel Yell gathers forty Civil War soldier memoirs into a capacious, often contradictory record of Confederate military experience. Ranging from formal recollection and campaign narrative to cavalry adventure, naval testimony, prison memory, and reflections on defeat, the volume illuminates both battlefield immediacy and the retrospective shaping of war. Accounts of major operations, irregular warfare, command, endurance, and home-front loyalties reveal the variety of literary register...

The West is in decline. Must the love between this man and a woman also decline? Something happens, and he has visions. She continues to visit her old girlfriend. At a Halloween party, he snaps, and cheerfully reveals the secrets, or forecasts the cause of death, of anyone who asks. His visions proven, the government kidnaps him, to use his as an asset to restore the West. They spin him in a giant centrifuge, and record his dreams. But this dreams turn out to be ridiculous sit-coms. What's...

God Save the South: 40+ Memoirs of Defiance gathers a capacious, contentious body of Confederate-era recollection: military narratives, political testimony, diaries, domestic observations, and retrospective defenses of secession. Its varied styles range from battlefield chronicle and naval report to intimate journal writing and polemical memoir. Accounts of campaigns, imprisonment, supply, civilian hardship, and the collapsing home front make the volume valuable not as a unified history, b...

"SOVIET PROSECUTOR: Please don't lecture us on literature."The writing style of dissident Abram Tertz, informed by select literary traditions, took an "insincere" or "excessive" approach to reality that allowed truth to evade a culture of lies.The Stalinist mustache of permission hovers. Gatekeepers require writers to serve the Communist purpose, a doctrine of art codified as Socialist Realism. Tertz famously wrote,". . . I put my hope in a phantasm...

In "Mosby's War Reminiscences," John Singleton Mosby offers a compelling and introspective account of his experiences as a Confederate cavalry officer during the American Civil War. Written with a blend of vivid storytelling and analytical reflection, this memoir delves into the intricacies of guerrilla warfare, the strategic significance of his operations in Virginia, and the personal conflicts faced by soldiers. Mosby employs a first-person narrative style, capturing the dualities of bra...

40 Civil War Memoirs of Confederate Soldiers assembles a capacious and often contentious archive of memory, combining battlefield narrative, campaign recollection, naval experience, cavalry adventure, command perspective, and postwar reflection. Its varied prose ranges from formal military testimony to vivid anecdote and elegiac reminiscence, revealing how Confederate participants fashioned accounts of defeat, loyalty, courage, and loss. Read critically, the volume also exposes the omissio...

Animal World is an explorative adventure of a raccoon in search of social interactions with the goal of making friends. Let us look to see what Mr. Raccoon finds in the forest.