Teacher effectiveness is one of the strongest drivers of student learning—and it can be developed. In The High Reliability Teacher, the authors present a structured pathway for educators to systematically develop their instructional practices. The book walks teachers through the HRT program’s three levels, helping them measure student learning more effectively and build expertise that improves classroom outcomes over time. .K–12 teachers and leaders will:...

It is generally recognized that the war in Burma against the Japanese was as fierce as any. The Battle of Kohima was the turning point of this extraordinary campaign and personal accounts of the fighting there are greatly sought after. The author was in the thick of the action and his record is indeed a graphic and moving one. Thereafter he was sent down to Malaya, but when the War ended, he found himself in Indonesia under the most bizarre circumstances. A bitter war of national independe...

By December 1914, it had become clear to even the most optimistic observer that the war would not be over by Christmas. That month brought the first enemy inflicted deaths on the home front, when German warships bombarded three north-east coastal towns; meanwhile, the recently invented aeroplane was being put to fearsome use in raids over the south east. In Europe, Mons, the Marne and Ypres had given a taste of the devastating power of modern warfare – a reality to which t...

Gripping stories of near disaster and survival—and the lessons to be gleaned from them—from the British military’s chief survival instructor.When faced with near death, your survival instincts kick in. Instincts can only take you so far, however; it’s preparation and planning that can make the difference between living and dying. In How to Survive, readers will hear harrowing tales of survival and learn from them. These stories are broken down and studied,...

The Hollow Moon Files – Book Two: The Echo SpiralLegacy lives in the silence between stars. But what happens when that silence begins to answer back?Commander Eli Voss once thought uncovering the truth about the Hollow Moon would bring him peace. Instead, it made him its Guardian—a bridge between human memory and an ancient cosmic intelligence buried beneath the lunar crust. Now, months after stabilizing the fractured consc...

The Clocksmith's War: Book TwoTime has fractured. The past is no longer safe. And the war for history has only just begun.After the cataclysmic sabotage that rewrote the timeline at the end of Book One, rogue clocksmith Ellory Holt finds himself in a world he no longer recognizes. Time engines hum beneath restructured cities, warlords wear the faces of long-dead kings, and ancient alliances have unraveled into chaos. Yet the worst i...

In a world slowly being devoured by a sentient decay known as the Blooming Rot, the boundary between prophecy and infection is dissolving.Eshur is a blind cartographer who maps not the land as it is—but as it once was. With a set of ancient sensory lenses and a memory honed sharper than steel, he walks a dying world where reality rewrites itself, cities collapse into fungus-choked bones, and rusted machines whisper riddles from forgotten gods. But when he finds a map scraw...

In the wake of prophecy's collapse, silence begins to take root.Where the Silence Grows continues the haunting journey begun in Pilgrims of the Blooming Rot, plunging deeper into a surreal, decaying world where memory is fragile, time is no longer linear, and the boundary between life and machine has rusted through.Eshur, a blind cartographer who once mapped vanished cities and unspoken truths, now walks a world remade by the Seed of Rust—a gift and a curs...

Pages of the Vanished: The Archivist's OathBook Two in the "Pages of the Vanished" SeriesIn a world where memories decay faster than history can be recorded, the last archivists serve as both guardians and mourners of what was.When former field scribe Orah is pulled from exile and tasked with recovering the lost Codices of the Bloom, she enters a landscape scarred by time, overgrowth, and something far worse — forgetting itself. Ci...

Collapse VectorNeural Hive – Book TwoRhys Merrow thought he'd escaped the Hive's emotional undertow. But the digital entity born from memory and pain has grown—and it remembers more than just him.As recursive waves ripple across the global mind-link, emotions once isolated begin to leak, infecting systems designed to calculate, not feel. Rhys is drawn back in, forced to confront the entity he helped awaken. But this time, it's not alone....

Common Law, Civil Law, and Colonial Law builds upon the legal historian F.W. Maitland's famous observation that history involves comparison, and that those who ignore every system but their own 'hardly came in sight of the idea of legal history'. The extensive introduction addresses the intellectual challenges posed by comparative approaches to legal history. This is followed by twelve essays derived from papers delivered at the 24th British Legal History Conference. These essays explore p...

No Time to Mourn is a collection of short stories, poems, artwork and photography penned, produced and presented by South Sudanese women. It reflects the lives of the women writers and artists, and at the same time gives voice to the very real lived experiences and lives of every woman of South Sudanese heritage. The ideas and experiences in this book span decades they straddle borders, they cross continents and describe events that are hard to imagine, even with some knowledge of South Su...